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Quote III “I think President Biden, politically, is as dead as fried chicken. He can now quit, he can be replaced — let me just finish my thought,” Kennedy said as McEnany began to respond. “Or he can run and lose. You can’t successfully run for president of the United States when your campaign slogan is, ‘I’m only senile some of the time,’ as one commentator pointed out today.” Sen John Kennedy (R-LA)
As usual the CoW were difficult to choose, let alone narrow down to place in tonight's ONT.
No wonder why "they" can't have nice beaches.
Coastguard tries to 'ban' digging holes! Families at popular Cornwall beach ordered to stop great British summer tradition after 8ft trench had to be filled in by a digger Locals near Padstow in Cornwall told HM Coastguard to 'get a grip' over move
Even libs know a good state to be in when it comes to finances and taxes.
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The laughs just keep coming regarding EVs. ***SNORT-SNORT***
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RIP Tom Fowler.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)When the media talks about the "surprise win by the left", what they are talking about is the leftist coalition. This is 3 or 4 aligned parties that include socialists, communists, and greens.
Then you have the establishment that is Macron's party and 2 others that are "centrist" that currently form the government.
Finally you have Le Pen's party RN, who is aligned with another two parties, one of which is barely on the map, maybe 10 seats.
The results today are:
Left - 182 seats
Centrist - 163 seats
Right - 143 seats
Sounds bad, correct?
But if you dig into the details, the situation is a bit different. The guy making all the noise today, demanding he take power immediately is Melenchon of the France Unbowed party. But they only won 74 seats.
In contrast, the "losers" today, RN, won 125 seats, making it the largest single party in parliament.
The problem is that you need 289 seats to form a majority, and no single bloc got there. Supposedly Macron has to choose a prime minister from the largest receiver of votes, but does that mean the leftist bloc?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:16 PM (5p7BC)
Yee Haw, good evening folks.
https://tinyurl.com/3mhmepuc
65 Bringing new meaning to balls of steel:_ blaster
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 10:16 PM (Y2CFz)
They make him cue cards with pictures of his podium so he knows where to walk and where to stand.
And he still screws that up.
https://tinyurl.com/4ue7j5hx
IMAGES
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 10:16 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 07, 2024 10:16 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 10:16 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 10:16 PM (U6iLH)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2024 10:16 PM (XYrRT)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 07, 2024 10:16 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:17 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 10:17 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:17 PM (QSrLX)
In contrast, the "losers" today, RN, won 125 seats, making it the largest single party in parliament.
The problem is that you need 289 seats to form a majority, and no single bloc got there. Supposedly Macron has to choose a prime minister from the largest receiver of votes, but does that mean the leftist bloc? Macron has said in the past that he won't choose Melenchon, and to me his claim seems a little suspect. He is the largest party from the largest bloc, but he doesn't represent the largest party.
Anyway, expect some chaos, but don't expect the leftist agenda to get implemented in France just yet. RN should have enough power to grind things to a halt until the Presidential election in 2027.
Finally, I saw a map that I am not sure is correct. But it showed that RN won in every part of France, except Paris. There aren't even tiny pockets. France is one big blue RN bloc, with Paris in the middle. They kind of regional divide is going to cause a lot of friction.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:18 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:18 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 10:18 PM (Y2CFz)
Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at July 07, 2024 10:20 PM (OGo8+)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:18 PM (5p7BC)
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Sounds familiar.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 10:20 PM (Y2CFz)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:20 PM (v6JzV)
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Britain appears to be serious about its First Law of Holes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 10:21 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 10:21 PM (RIvkX)
Your terms are acceptable.
Posted by: I AM at July 07, 2024 10:21 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 07, 2024 10:21 PM (hOUT3)
Thanks for the insight into the French Dip
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 07, 2024 10:21 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:21 PM (QSrLX)
Yep - if they are going to boot Biden from the ticket, this is the week to do it.
The one good aspect of the British and French elections is that it will reinforce the belief of the Biden's that Joe will win, if he just stands strong and refuses to drop out.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:22 PM (uxCna)
Love the new gray/white look of the place too.
That photo up top is priceless! Someone was a very good boy!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 07, 2024 10:22 PM (U3L4U)
Still in hospital but may escape tomorrow. Intestinal block resolved w/o surgery. So, good.
Back soon
Posted by: mindful webworker - thankful at July 07, 2024 10:22 PM (ksYqL)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:22 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 07, 2024 10:23 PM (6gW4D)
Yeah, I saw a claim that RN won every department in France but Paris.
Interesting seeing all the Democrats here celebrating that a Communist Jew-hating political party is now the biggest political party in France.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:24 PM (uxCna)
Still in hospital but may escape tomorrow. Intestinal block resolved w/o surgery. So, good.
Back soon
Posted by: mindful webworker - thankful at July 07, 2024 10:22 PM (ksYqL)
Happy blessings!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 07, 2024 10:24 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: mindful webworker
STAND BACK EVERYONE!!! SAVE YOURSELF!!
jk - so glad you are on the mend.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2024 10:24 PM (XYrRT)
This is becoming increasingly common - in Hungary, Orban loses Budapest by a wide margin and wins in the rest of the country.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (uxCna)
Back soon
Posted by: mindful webworker
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Very good news. Glad you avoided surgery.
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (41CYW)
How you say 'Dominion Voting Systems' in French?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (hOUT3)
Back soon
Posted by: mindful webworker - thankful at July 07, 2024 10:22 PM (ksYqL)
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Here's to a successful and complete blowout. NURSES, TAKE COVER!
*clink*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (kbyy+)
Sitting around waiting for Beryl to make landfall early Monday morning. The dogs are all up here in the house. Hoping we get through it without getting our hair mussed too badly.
When one of the local weather guys last week said it was 3300 miles away from Houston I knee we were going to get hit.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (v6JzV)
That's pretty dead
Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened
If you don't vote for fried chicken, you ain't black!!
Posted by: J. Robinette Biden at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (DgGvY)
Maybe just a bit.
https://tinyurl.com/5c77t85j
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: mindful webworker
STAND BACK EVERYONE!!! SAVE YOURSELF!!
jk - so glad you are on the mend.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2024 10:24 PM (XYrRT)
LOL - that poor monkey trying to put the cork back in. [just the punchline]
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Doof at July 07, 2024 10:26 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
Perhaps the ancient idea of city-states should make a comeback.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2024 10:26 PM (XYrRT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 10:26 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 10:26 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:26 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2024 10:26 PM (XYrRT)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 07, 2024 10:26 PM (QGaXH)
Still in hospital but may escape tomorrow. Intestinal block resolved w/o surgery. So, good.
Back soon
Posted by: mindful webworker - thankful at July 07, 2024
This is posit e news! Yay!
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 10:26 PM (QzINz)
Back soon
Posted by: mindful webworker - thankful at July 07, 2024 10:22 PM (ksYqL)
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Praise God! Prayers answered!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 07, 2024 10:26 PM (U3L4U)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 07, 2024 10:27 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 07, 2024 10:27 PM (tmPIh)
Sitting around waiting for Beryl to make landfall early Monday morning. The dogs are all up here in the house. Hoping we get through it without getting our hair mussed too badly.
When one of the local weather guys last week said it was 3300 miles away from Houston I knee we were going to get hit.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (1Nxff)
Prayers up for you folks in TX in the path of Beryl
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 07, 2024 10:27 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2024 10:27 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 10:27 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:27 PM (v6JzV)
I don't think you understand politics.
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at July 07, 2024 10:27 PM (klJTj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2024 10:28 PM (1Nxff)
Axios reports that "sh*t is going to hit the fan" tomorrow when Congress reconvenes and Dems start talking to each other about the effect Biden's having on their own races.
Meanwhile, CNN says that the party's congressional caucus meeting on Tuesday will likely be a turning point; a lot of Dems who haven't yet spoken out publicly (Jerry Nadler being one example) will do so in the caucus.
At least according to these reports, a major faction in the party is now determined not only to get Biden out, but get him out by Friday.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:28 PM (jGGMD)
The only way replacing him works is if he goes along and I just don't see that happening.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 10:28 PM (vJiyU)
Worst blowout I've ever seen! Honest to God.
Posted by: Red Adair at July 07, 2024 10:28 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024 10:28 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:28 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Musik Kal at July 07, 2024 10:28 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 10:29 PM (LkLld)
Stay Strong, Joe!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:30 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 10:30 PM (QzINz)
Looks like an interesting idea... Until you think about things like steering and braking.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 07, 2024 10:30 PM (klJTj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 10:30 PM (63Dwl)
Includes Nadler and Raskin. Schiff also went public today.
Meanwhile the people pressuring Biden to stay in are Jill and Hunter.
Democrats are worried about getting killed in their races by Dementia Joe.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:30 PM (5p7BC)
PARIS UPDATE:
It's 2 AM, and the police are still intervening.
There has been significant vandalism and graffiti tonight. Taxpayers will bear the cost.
Alexandra Lavoie @ThevoiceAlexa 15m
PARIS: The moment French riot police shoot tear gas in the streets of Paris to clear out protesters.
The far-left popular front won over Marine Le Pen and now Antifa have been smashing windows of businesses in celebration.
Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo 6h
Paris — Chaotic scenes in the city center as masked leftist rioters and Antifa are running through the streets to celebrate the socialist and communist coalition electoral win. An explosive device goes off at the Place de la République.
Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray 2h
Paris is completely out of control, almost two hours past midnight.
Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby 3h
The victory rally for the new French government has more Palestinian flags than French flags.
Billboard Chris @BillboardChris 54m
Not a French flag in sight.
Ryan Gerritsen @ryangerritsen 1h
You can tell how proud the far-left in France are of their Country by the amount of French flags you see 🙄
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 10:30 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 10:30 PM (vJiyU)
Any excuse for the commies/socialists/lefties to riot.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 10:30 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: mindful webworker - thankful at July 07, 2024
Here's hoping you are out of the hospital tomorrow.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 07, 2024 10:31 PM (QXQ4l)
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Yoo hoo! Oh, boys!
Posted by: St. Helena at July 07, 2024 10:31 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:31 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Highlander at July 07, 2024 10:31 PM (kRhM/)
While clearing the overgrown lawn, Spencer discovered a severely injured cat hidden deep in the grass. The cat had an infected abscess under its arm and was unable to move.
Cats have arms?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 10:31 PM (63Dwl)
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ME, BUSTERS?
I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE, AND JOE IS GOING TO CARRY 48 STATES!
Posted by: DOCTOR Jill Biden! at July 07, 2024 10:31 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 07, 2024 10:31 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 10:31 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 07, 2024 10:27 PM (QXQ4l)
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Amen!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 07, 2024 10:32 PM (U3L4U)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Agreed.
Posted by: Highlander at July 07, 2024 10:32 PM (kRhM/)
The Libertarian Party of Colorado has formally endorsed Robert F Kennedy Jr over the LP candidate Chase Oliver. Apparently this is a big FU to the Pragmatists who managed to nominate Oliver as the national LP Presidential candidate
“As part of this partnership, the Libertarian Party of Colorado will place the Kennedy/Shanahan ticket on the Colorado state ballot for president and vice president,” the party said in a statement. “This move reflects our commitment to offering voters a choice that transcends the traditional partisan divide and promotes individual liberty, personal responsibility, and limited government.”
News article: https://tinyurl.com/yc4ed55f
This is their Twitter announcement
https://tinyurl.com/2eafju7w
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:32 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Whatever at July 07, 2024 10:32 PM (YhBdy)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 07, 2024 10:25 PM (hOUT3)
I haven't seen credible claims of voter fraud in that sense (yet).
What's actually happened--and I noted this last Monday--is the open collaboration between Macron's "centrist" faction and the far-Left New Popular Front, one throwing its votes to the other in a given constituency (based on which had the best chance of winning) to prevent the National Rally candidate from getting a majority.
They're relying mostly on gaming the system against Le Pen and company. As usual.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:32 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Doof at July 07, 2024 10:32 PM (RFPHU)
Looks like an interesting idea... Until you think about things like steering and braking.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 07, 2024 10:30 PM (klJTj)
Damn the details, full speed ahead
Posted by: President of Acme Products at July 07, 2024 10:32 PM (QXQ4l)
Ridiculous. She is nothing like David Duke and her party had a fantastic performance in the election.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 10:32 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: A Man on a White Horse at July 07, 2024 10:33 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:33 PM (v6JzV)
Le Pen's name in France is like David Duke in the US. If that woman cares about France's future, she'll drop out of politics. Of course France would go the suicide option.
Posted by: Highlander
They tell me Trump is worse than Hitler.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 10:33 PM (63Dwl)
Yeah, I'm sure there's a French version of Jeb! waiting to take over.
Le Pen's party significantly increased the number of seats it holds in Parliament over the last election - just not enough for a majority.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:34 PM (uxCna)
Well, you might need two. Jill might have go after him, but down a much longer flight.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 10:34 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 10:34 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:34 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: DOKTOR Jill Biden at July 07, 2024 10:35 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:34 PM (5p7BC)
Let them eat the bugs!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 07, 2024 10:35 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:30 PM (5p7BC)
It's worth noting Jim Clyburn canceled his scheduled appearance on the Sunday morning talk shows this weekend.
It could be that he's also dialing back his support for Biden, which would be a *very* big deal. It could also be that he's still in Biden's corner and doesn't want to be asked questions about his mental state.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:35 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 07, 2024 10:35 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Doof at July 07, 2024 10:36 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 10:21 PM (kbyy+)
damned straight
https://youtu.be/bAIbvlobWDM
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:36 PM (D7oie)
But, evidently you can graduate from school without being able to speak clear English. And her husband is actually dumber than even that.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 10:36 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
And Steiner is on his way, too.
Posted by: MustacheGuy45 at July 07, 2024 10:36 PM (6if7h)
Many happy pickleball games!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:36 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Doof at July 07, 2024 10:32 PM (RFPHU)
I'm still waiting for our sunrise duel!
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:37 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024 10:37 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 10:37 PM (pgG81)
Posted by: A Cut Above The Rest at July 07, 2024 10:37 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 07, 2024 10:37 PM (lO6qr)
Posted by: Dr. T
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They've playing this game so long, they have a name for it, cordon sanitaire.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:38 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 07, 2024 10:27 PM (tmPIh)
I thought they took turns between republics and King/emperors?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:38 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
Maybe a return of the Gilet Jaunes? They definitely spooked Macron before.
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 07, 2024 10:38 PM (tmPIh)
I'm sure that will work out well in the long run...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:38 PM (uxCna)
https://tinyurl.com/2t5brcj9
Biden is done. I only wish Democrats would keep him on the ballot.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 10:38 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 10:39 PM (aYD2Z)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 10:39 PM (vJiyU)
At least according to these reports, a major faction in the party is now determined not only to get Biden out, but get him out by Friday.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:28 PM (jGGMD)
But won't t his impair Biden's ability to respond to the landfall of Beryl, and efficient deployment of FEMA elements?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:39 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 07, 2024 10:27 PM (tmPIh)
I thought they took turns between republics and King/emperors?
More like a caliphate
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 07, 2024 10:39 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 10:39 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 07, 2024 10:39 PM (sAmhv)
The 73-year-old mayor of Limoges (population c. 135,000) was beaten up by far-left activists when he tried to make them put out a fire they had started while celebrating their "victory".
But remember, it's the French Right that's fascist.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:39 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 07, 2024 10:40 PM (MKRY4)
This is all funnier than shit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 10:40 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 10:40 PM (AWrpC)
Of course the Left is also antisemitic, but the left always gets away with this
Posted by: Highlander at July 07, 2024 10:40 PM (kRhM/)
Posted by: Dr Jill at July 07, 2024 10:41 PM (S6ArX)
A delegation of prominent Democrats:
"Mr. President, we have met, and we have concluded that you need to withdraw from the ticket for the good of the country and the party."
Joe Biden:
"Fuck you."
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:41 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 07, 2024 10:41 PM (JrYM1)
Paris — Leftist rioters set bicycles and property on fire to celebrate their election win over Marine Le Pen's party.
Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo 4h
Paris — As Antifa are rioting, they've left messages and death threats behind celebrating the communist/socialist/green coalition bloc electoral win. "Thank you to all the comrades," reads one message. "Jordan [National Rally co-leader], you're dead!"
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My BF to illustrate FL Dave's point.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 10:41 PM (Jh5b+)
I'm sure that will work out well in the long run...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:38 PM (uxCna)
Nothing like cutting one's dick off to spite one's face or something like that.
I'm sure a Commie led France will be a wonderful success.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 07, 2024 10:41 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:41 PM (v6JzV)
My guess is this week you will see outlandish polls where Trump wins 50 states with Biden at the top of the ticket. Anything to push Biden out.
Even Biden knows the media is gaslighting everyone 24-7
Posted by: Highlander at July 07, 2024 10:42 PM (kRhM/)
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024 10:42 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2024 10:42 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 07, 2024 10:43 PM (JrYM1)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:32 PM (jGGMD)
comme toujours
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:43 PM (D7oie)
Le Pen's party won every single district other the Paris. Every single one.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 10:43 PM (LkLld)
Many happy pickleball games!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:36 PM (v6JzV)
Yay, I got noticed! Thought I was on the naughty list for some reason.
Hope you're doing well. I have indeed been active on the PBall court. Had to get some new shoes today. My 3rd pair in just over a year. Perhaps I play too often??
Posted by: Doof at July 07, 2024 10:43 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 07, 2024 10:38 PM (tmPIh)
Or maybe a return of the Guillotine? Roll a few tumbrels about the streets, just to get their attention.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 10:43 PM (6if7h)
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 07, 2024 10:27 PM (tmPIh)
I doubt it. Macron and his fellow technocrats get more value out of continuing the Fifth Republic and its legitimacy (such as it is), and I don't think the RN has either the will or the organizational capacity to overthrow it.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:43 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Dr Jill
I accept your terms.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2024 10:44 PM (XYrRT)
And Marine Le Pen kicked her father out of the party for that - nine years ago.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:44 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 10:44 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 10:44 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Kindltot
It did seem to work that way after 1789 but WWII and the Vichy Regime seemed to have thrown them off their game. On the other hand, Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, recognized by many as the legitimate heir to the French throne, is alive and well, so...
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 07, 2024 10:44 PM (tmPIh)
I hadn't heard that massive convoys of manure were headed for DC. Do they have suitable wind farms for all that manure?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 07, 2024 10:44 PM (VNX3d)
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Posted by: JackStraw
==
A loss is still a loss.
The Left controls France. Voters had a choice and they rejected the Right.
I dont like it either.
Posted by: Highlander at July 07, 2024 10:45 PM (kRhM/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
The Mighty Casey has struck out?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2024 10:45 PM (XYrRT)
It is your destiny.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 07, 2024 10:35 PM (6gW4D)
***
Congrats! You win the post #100 award. Pick up your prize on the way out.
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 10:45 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 07, 2024 10:41 PM (QXQ4l)
Breathtaking, even.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 07, 2024 10:45 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 10:32 PM (LkLld)
The MFM is telling everyone She is a nazi and a racist and will drag France back to the days when they ate snails.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:45 PM (D7oie)
Many happy pickleball games!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:36 PM (v6JzV)
Yay, I got noticed! Thought I was on the naughty list for some reason.
Hope you're doing well. I have indeed been active on the PBall court. Had to get some new shoes today. My 3rd pair in just over a year. Perhaps I play too often??
Posted by: Doof at July 07, 2024 10:43 PM (RFPHU)
Either that or a frugal man who hates to spend money on footwear.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 07, 2024 10:45 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:28 PM (jGGMD)
But, out of what? The White House or the 2024 race?
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 10:46 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:46 PM (uxCna)
Includes Nadler and Raskin. Schiff also went public today.
Meanwhile the people pressuring Biden to stay in are Jill and Hunter.
Democrats are worried about getting killed in their races by Dementia Joe.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
Don't worry James Enos Clyburn will bring the Black vote!
/s
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 10:46 PM (U6iLH)
Posted by: Long Way From Dingle at July 07, 2024 10:46 PM (V5BDR)
great to see you! Sending gentle hugs.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07
In a throw back to earlier, I was laughing hysterically at
The potatoes are cooking
The chair is on the wall
The spider is in the roomba.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 10:46 PM (p4NUW)
That theory founders on the fact that the party not only managed to seriously expand its bloc in the legislature even with the center-left collusion, but even made huge gains in non-metropolitan France: the Caribbean, Indian Ocean islands, French Polynesia, etc. All notable for their non-white populations.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:47 PM (jGGMD)
There is an answer to what goes into the boxes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2024 10:48 PM (u82oZ)
That's one of their problems - hard to explain that Biden isn't competent to run for President, but should remain President for six more months.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:48 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: GWB
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If out of race but still in office it will be hilarious to see how the media twists and contorts to explain how that is ok.
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 10:48 PM (41CYW)
But, out of what? The White House or the 2024 race?
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 10:46 PM (AWrpC)
__________
If Joe drops out of the race because he's gaga, it's not unreasonable to ask whether in that case he's too gaga to be President.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2024 10:48 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 10:38 PM (uxCna)
Like Britain, Macron is now trying to form a government to run the French General Assembly with a coalition that hates every other party within the coalition.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:48 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:45 PM (D7oie)
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Pollsters say the capper was when the French media retailed a false rumor that under LePen, all Frenchmen would be required to shower daily, by law.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 10:48 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: Some Rat
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He does have to go along with it. If he refuses, they are SOL. He won the primaries and the delegates are bound to him. They have to vote for him first round, and then he is the nominee, nothing they can do about it.
The only option they have if he resigns is for Kamala to take over. Even if she does, it is too late to get her on the ballot in WI and NV. The WI supreme court will probably make up some new law, but per state law the only legal candidate is Biden.
Nevada will go to Trump by default.
They have to make it happen this week, because soon the window in other states close as well. Going to be really hard to win an election when you don't even have a candidate on the ballot.
I think all the Hollywood types don't understand the ballot access laws, they are so blinded by TDS and polls that they don't see they are going to make it worse.
I still think that Jeffries is figuring Biden or Harris is going to lose, so try to limit the damage and take advantage of the fact that Trump is more popular than Republicans. Get people to split tickets.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:49 PM (5p7BC)
No, it's not Jeb.
Do you even understand how French elections work?
Do you know what Macron and the communists did to insure that they would dilute the vote to make sure Le Pen's party would not take power? Do you think the shit we have been seeing in the US from the globalists, kind of an important word, only happen in the US?
You either don't understand what happened in the UK and France in the recent elections or you are a Moby.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 10:49 PM (LkLld)
The chair is on the wall
The spider is in the roomba.
Posted by: Piper
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Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 10:50 PM (iZbyp)
Hmmmm, deep fried gibbon.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 10:39 PM (vJiyU)
Yep, forget that sous vide, deep fried is the only way to go.
Works for M&M's too.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 07, 2024 10:50 PM (lO6qr)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2024 10:51 PM (bqBJF)
I'm sure a Commie led France will be a wonderful success.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 07, 2024 10:41 PM (QXQ4l)
Trust me, France has been run by commies before now.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:51 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 10:45 PM (IQ6Gq)
It's a Major Award! I'd like to thank each and every one of you, the little people, who made this possible.
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, ....
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 07, 2024 10:51 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:28 PM (jGGMD)
But, out of what? The White House or the 2024 race?
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 10:46 PM (AWrpC)
Good question.
My guess is they probably want him to resign ASAP, but will settle for him dropping his re-election bid.
Biden (and/or Jill and Hunter) will presumably respond by vowing to stay in the race, and f*ck them if they don't like it.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:51 PM (jGGMD)
Of course they are going to try to cheat as much as possible first. But clearly Dem leadership isn't confident that will work.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:51 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:52 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: DOCTOR Jill Biden! at July 07, 2024 10:31 PM (uxCna)
Serious consideration: what if the left does NOT deploy its vote "gathering" operation with Biden still on the ballot and let him lose BIGLY? Just because they are pissed at Jill and Hunter for keeping him in the running? Might they do that?
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 10:52 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 10:52 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 10:52 PM (IQ6Gq)
Dave in FL - thank you for the info on the French election. Still too depressing for words.
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 07, 2024 10:53 PM (n3DL0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 10:48 PM (kbyy+)
Zut alors!
Posted by: Pierre at July 07, 2024 10:53 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 10:54 PM (aYD2Z)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 07, 2024 10:45 PM (QXQ4l)
Money spent on footwear means less available for bourbon and beer
Posted by: Doof at July 07, 2024 10:54 PM (RFPHU)
Are you living in an alternate time line?
So 3rd place is "winning"?
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"According to the Interior Ministry, the leftist coalition has taken the most seats in parliament, with at least 181. Macron’s centrists have more than 160 seats. Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally have 143 seats after leading in the first round."
Posted by: Highlander at July 07, 2024 10:54 PM (kRhM/)
Posted by: Al Gore at July 07, 2024 10:54 PM (pIfcn)
Do you know what Macron and the communists did to insure that they would dilute the vote to make sure Le Pen's party would not take power? Do you think the shit we have been seeing in the US from the globalists, kind of an important word, only happen in the US?
You either don't understand what happened in the UK and France in the recent elections or you are a Moby.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 10:49 PM (LkLld)
It's also worth noting that (as Dave in Fla pointed out) no one party is going to have a majority, the New Popular Front being a coalition of several leftist parties which, historically, have not gotten along very well.
There's a non-zero chance this whole thing falls apart and France could have a new round of legislative elections as early as next year.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:54 PM (jGGMD)
Dems: Announce you are no longer running.
Brandon: Make me!
The 25th would take the cabinet a while and meanwhile no Dem is 'their guy'.
I'm going to have to have a liver transplant!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 10:55 PM (U6iLH)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 10:31 PM (QzINz)
FIFY
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 10:55 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Highlander at July 07, 2024 10:55 PM (kRhM/)
Posted by: Al Gore at July 07, 2024 10:54 PM (pIfcn
You're pregnant ?😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2024 10:56 PM (bqBJF)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 10:57 PM (pgG81)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 10:57 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Long Way From Dingle at July 07, 2024 10:46 PM (V5BDR)
He got to see prime Barbara Bach in the alltogether, live and in person.. That's got to count for a lot.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 07, 2024 10:57 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 10:58 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:52 PM (QSrLX)
***
Do the Hokey Pokey and turn yourself around. That's what it's all about.
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 10:58 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Punching Bag at July 07, 2024 10:58 PM (V5BDR)
>>>Well, it's a bit too late for that!
Posted by: pookysgirl, hashtag winning at July 07, 2024 10:58 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 10:59 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Highlander at July 07, 2024 10:54 PM (kRhM/)
Oooooh. Do you have a pie chartt?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:59 PM (D7oie)
This is all funnier than shit.
Posted by: Cicero
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Remember the confident predictions that Joe just had to get over the ridiculously low bar to catapult past Trump in the polls?
Good times.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:59 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 07, 2024 10:59 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 10:59 PM (iZbyp)
Cats have arms?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
When you were a kid, you never tried to put a doll dress on a cat, did you? Anyway, the dang tail was always a problem.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 07, 2024 11:00 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Punching Bag
They are the party of petey buttyplug, so taking it up the ass is accepted and embraced.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 11:00 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 11:01 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 11:01 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 11:01 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Dead From Neck Up at July 07, 2024 11:02 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: scampydog
What a goddam shitshow. This kinda shit is funny, when it happens to other countries. Fuck every last one of these democrats to hell.
At this point, they're prolly holding the 25th amendment over his head. Leave the race and you can still have pudding and afternoon naps in the White House, or leave the race and the White House. Hunter better hope that pardon is signed before the 25th is invoked and in a safe place. Either way, let's hope he over-celebrates or over-drowns his emotions...
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 07, 2024 11:02 PM (yN7Zy)
Posted by: Highlander
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Please see post 1. RN has the largest number of seats in parliament.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:03 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Highlander at July 07, 2024 10:55 PM (kRhM/)
You do know that an argument doesn't mean merely taking an opposite position to get people to react, you actually have to have supporting fact to sustain your position. What that is called is "base contradiction" and honestly is a diagnostic symptom of oppositional defiant disorder
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 11:03 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2024 11:03 PM (0mkKR)
Posted by: scampydog
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Perhaps they've discovered they like the power and the ability to persecute their enemies more than the $$$?
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 11:03 PM (iZbyp)
Oh how I love the complexity of this trap they built for themselves!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 11:03 PM (pgG81)
I think that is a big part of what is happening but I also think Kamala is a huge part of this equation.
She was a DEI appointment as everyone knows and that idiocy is a core part of the modern leftist movement. And she is completely unelectable. If anything she is worse than a brain impaired Biden.
If Joe had a reasonable VP this decision would have happened already. As incredible as it sounds Harris is a worse option than Biden and they know it.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 11:04 PM (LkLld)
Jotatoe is the new "Old Buck" Buchanon
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 07, 2024 11:04 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 11:04 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 11:04 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: s
You have been reading my comments since biden got into office?
What biden wants is a guarantee they get to have the bribe $ and not get charged with anything, without biden having to pardon everybody dow to his grand kids
Posted by: N at July 07, 2024 11:04 PM (8XibL)
Oh how I love the complexity of this trap they built for themselves!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 11:03 PM (pgG81
Might be worth it.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 11:05 PM (QSrLX)
His dignity is gone so why bother with the charade.
Posted by: N at July 07, 2024 11:05 PM (8XibL)
"Tammie, who is Shorten’s third wife..."
I'm sure you NEVER saw that one coming! Who could have? It's like totally out of character.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 11:06 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: N at July 07, 2024 11:07 PM (8XibL)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 11:07 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 11:07 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: Shorten at July 07, 2024 11:08 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: scampydog
according to some big legal brains, the Supreme Court decision on executive immunity pretty much IS a get out of free card for Biden, unless they can get him on something that was totally not part of his duties as President, or OKd by him.
I say again, someone is going to be the scapegoat this cockup and I will put money down that the cost of Biden going quietly into the night with Hunter's full pardon will be DOCTOR Jill
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 11:08 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 10:39 PM (aYD2Z)
Dr Jill looks nothing like Mae West. And that's before we get to the slipcover dresses.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 11:08 PM (AWrpC)
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Hey, WTAF?
Posted by: Bette Davis at July 07, 2024 11:10 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: N at July 07, 2024 11:10 PM (8XibL)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 11:03 PM (pgG81)
There is a Constitutional pathway to follow but the Dems have demonstrated a willingness to do what they want to do and say Eff You...sue us.
This is heading us into new territory.
Now with assholes like Jefferies shooting his mouth off, this could get ugly.
Be ready.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 11:10 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 11:10 PM (v6JzV)
His motivation is really holding onto pardon power until they wrap up the IRS trial for Hunter. Then he can pardon Hunter to reduce the risk for Hunter flipping on him.
Ironically, the immunity decision is probably going to help Biden.
Joe Biden has never cared about anyone but himself, why would he start now?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:10 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Kindltot
But the Frogs love l'escargot, non? Especially with garlic butter or wine, with some thyme and parsley intermingled.
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 07, 2024 11:10 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: raimondo at July 07, 2024 11:04 PM (NNHh0)
sure, I bet they would relish getting an illegal order like that, especially since they got nearly wiped out because Vice President Biden broke their cover and blabbed their status to the world while they were on a mission
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 11:11 PM (D7oie)
Biden attended a black church this morning, presumably partly to prove he was still mentally competent.
Things did not go as planned.
https://tinyurl.com/29m5bfsj
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 11:11 PM (jGGMD)
The reason so many House and Senate members are talking about taking Joe out is that he is going to be a huge drag on down ballot races. Theirs.
Politicians care about one thing more than anything else, keeping their jobs. If Biden stays on the ballot many of them are going home.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 11:11 PM (LkLld)
D'Jill and Hunter had better get their a$$e$ in gear and get that stack of pardons for members of their crime family signed and stored safely away.
Once Jotatoe blows a circuit breaker while trying to satisfy their fervent desire to stay in office, their opportunity to score pardons is OVER.
The blowback from having a mass of pardons come out will simply be a feculent feast for Jotatoe's successor to have to choke down.
Could not happen to nicer people.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 07, 2024 11:11 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 07, 2024 11:10 PM (v6JzV)
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A woman like that, you never get pasta.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 11:11 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: N
We'll just have to get bragg to bring him up on some state charges.
(I just crack me up.)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 11:12 PM (vJiyU)
Biden attended a black church this morning, presumably partly to prove he was still mentally competent.
Things did not go as planned.
https://tinyurl.com/29m5bfsj
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 11:11 PM (jGGMD)
Did he see the light?
Posted by: Jake Blues at July 07, 2024 11:12 PM (6gW4D)
His motivation is really holding onto pardon power until they wrap up the IRS trial for Hunter. Then he can pardon Hunter to reduce the risk for Hunter flipping on him.
Ironically, the immunity decision is probably going to help Biden.
Joe Biden has never cared about anyone but himself, why would he start now?
He wants his $ , otherwise he would give his party the same finger he gave reade
Posted by: N at July 07, 2024 11:12 PM (8XibL)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:13 PM (5p7BC)
Things did not go as planned.
https://tinyurl.com/29m5bfsj
Posted by: Dr. T
Did he see the light?
Posted by: Jake Blues
He was no ways tard.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2024 11:13 PM (XYrRT)
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 07, 2024 11:10 PM (tmPIh)[/i[
No, now proper Frenchmen like hummus and doner kabobs, and things made out of goat.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 11:13 PM (D7oie)
Things did not go as planned.
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So no respect for America's first black female VP then?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 11:13 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 07, 2024 11:13 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 11:04 PM (LkLld)
I agree, and that’s why I’m certain that 25th Amendment procedure is out of the question. The process of applying the 25th would permanently destroy Kamala’s standing among Democrats, while simultaneously making her the incumbent and a lock for the nomination, because time will have run out. It’s a nightmare scenario for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 11:14 PM (pgG81)
His dignity is gone so why bother with the charade.
Posted by: N
.................................
Not just his dignity. He's just a rotted meat puppet at this point.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 07, 2024 11:15 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Mike Dukakis at July 07, 2024 11:15 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
And that will not happen!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 11:16 PM (U6iLH)
*cackles*
Posted by: Hillary! at July 07, 2024 11:16 PM (VavZF)
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There are some similarities; she liked wrestlers in tandem.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 11:16 PM (Y2CFz)
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 11:16 PM (W+kMI)
Things did not go as planned.
https://tinyurl.com/29m5bfsj
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 11:11 PM (jGGMD)
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Hey Black Pastor...feel pandered to yet?
So you got the President into your church. I wonder if you let God in?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 11:17 PM (W/lyH)
These are, respectively, the senior Democratic members of the House Judiciary, Veterans Affairs, Administration, and Armed Services Committees.
Again, this makes it sound like a major revolt is in the works.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 11:17 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: N at July 07, 2024 11:17 PM (8XibL)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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He's still convinced he's in charge and doing a bang up job, not to mention the only one who can bring down the Bad Orange Man.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 11:17 PM (iZbyp)
They aren't going to all just turn on a dime and lockstep to following Kamala.
Good chance that this will be the push that puts Trump over 50% nationally.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:17 PM (5p7BC)
I'm convinced that if the US ever left NATO the Germans and the French would be at war within six months.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
I was already sold on leaving it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 11:17 PM (63Dwl)
Axios reports that "sh*t is going to hit the fan" tomorrow when Congress reconvenes and Dems start talking to each other about the effect Biden's having on their own races.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 10:28 PM (jGGMD)
Promises, promises, promises...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 07, 2024 11:18 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 11:18 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Sybil Rights Icon at July 07, 2024 11:18 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 11:16 PM (W+kMI)
She'll recover and feel much better after a brief retreat to the spa in Stepford.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 07, 2024 11:18 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:19 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: s
Convince him otherwise
Posted by: N at July 07, 2024 11:19 PM (8XibL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2024 11:20 PM (3h8JG)
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 11:20 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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The press breaking cover surprised me a bit. Not full on knives but not fully the protect Joe racket either.
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 11:20 PM (41CYW)
Awww, that wouldn’t be sour grapes from Jill Biden, would it?
Radio Station of course says it was for Not Living Up to their Standards. (Which no one at that station has ever lived up to before)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 11:20 PM (pgG81)
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He's still convinced he's in charge and doing a bang up job, not to mention the only one who can bring down the Bad Orange Man.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 11:17 PM (iZbyp)
No doubt in my mind. If Coach had put me in, we would have won State.
Posted by: Brandon at July 07, 2024 11:21 PM (VavZF)
Posted by: Count de Monet
And returns sporting two fashionable forehead scars.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 11:21 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:19 PM (5p7BC)
Really? Interesting.
Jeffries seems to have been very noncommittal so far. My guess is he's waiting for the caucus meeting on Tuesday.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 11:21 PM (jGGMD)
Why even bother , if you do that he has to remember the questions and answers
Posted by: N at July 07, 2024 11:22 PM (8XibL)
A Philadelphia radio station has cut ties with its host after she revealed that Joe Biden’s campaign team sent a list of pre-approved questions prior to an interview with the president.
Sara Lomax, the president and CEO of WURD Radio, posted a statement to the company's website on Sunday announcing that the station and radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders had “mutually agreed to part ways”.
On Saturday, Lawful-Sanders told CNN that four of the questions she asked Biden were provided to her by his team.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 11:22 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:22 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 11:23 PM (aYD2Z)
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 11:16 PM (W+kMI)
A long nap. In a mental hospital. With no visitors.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 11:23 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2024 10:48 PM (1Nxff)
And there you've hit the nugget of the problem....
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 11:23 PM (AWrpC)
Way too often the left is assumed to have super powers that make the unbeatable. They are just another in an endless line of corrupt mobs that will inevitably walk themselves into a box canyon no matter how much power they control. They just did.
Trump is about as flawed a candidate as we have ever had other than a few unique traits. He's got an assload of money, he's much smarter than people give him credit, he's obviously not corrupt and he will never stop fighting. Not ever.
The old saw about just showing up being 90% of winning is not completely accurate, particularly in politics. Fight is huge. Trump will never stop fighting.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 11:24 PM (LkLld)
I don't know what he's like as a Senator but he does come out with some funny comments.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2024 11:25 PM (r9Uan)
Axios is dropping "insider" bombshells 3 times a day.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:25 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: N at July 07, 2024 11:25 PM (8XibL)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
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Well, ace called off the Carnival Cruise.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 11:25 PM (Y2CFz)
Things did not go as planned.
https://tinyurl.com/29m5bfsj
Posted by: Dr. T
If I woke up and found myself surrounded by persons of color, wearing strange costumes, singing in an unknown language, and had no idea how I got into the situation, I'd probably look that lost too.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 11:26 PM (6if7h)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:49 PM (5p7BC)
I think they also believe the steal can overcome whatever difficulties Slow Joe encounters. They might not see it as The Steal, but it's those things they're counting on.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 11:26 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 10:34 PM (5p7BC)
Let them eat the bugs!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 07, 2024 10:35 PM (hOUT3)
yes...let zem eet ze bugzzzz....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 07, 2024 11:26 PM (QGaXH)
11 days ago, if you told me we would be here. I would have called you insane.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
Life comes at you fast sometimes.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 11:26 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: runner at July 07, 2024 11:26 PM (V13WU)
Axios is dropping "insider" bombshells 3 times a day.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:25 PM (5p7BC)
They should have read their Godfather. Never let anyone know there's a division in the Family.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 11:27 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Muppets Aren't Hiring at July 07, 2024 11:27 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: GWB
Nobody is going to try to do.that for biden now
Posted by: N at July 07, 2024 11:27 PM (8XibL)
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litter, because Olympics. perfect timing. the only thing missing is transport/rail/air strikes to make it perfect
Posted by: runner at July 07, 2024 11:28 PM (V13WU)
Call us.
Posted by: Libman Mops at July 07, 2024 11:29 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 11:29 PM (pgG81)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 11:29 PM (jGGMD)
Things did not go as planned.
https://tinyurl.com/29m5bfsj
Posted by: Dr. T
If I woke up and found myself surrounded by persons of color, wearing strange costumes, singing in an unknown language, and had no idea how I got into the situation, I'd probably look that lost too.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy .
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That was the most unsingingest Black church I've ever heard.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 11:29 PM (Y2CFz)
Posted by: runner
SNORT!! Oh my, completely forgot about that moose bash showing up.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 11:29 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 11:04 PM (LkLld)
I agree, and that’s why I’m certain that 25th Amendment procedure is out of the question. The process of applying the 25th would permanently destroy Kamala’s standing among Democrats, while simultaneously making her the incumbent and a lock for the nomination, because time will have run out. It’s a nightmare scenario for them.
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If it's a nightmare, then the Donks have earned it. I hope they take the full Lovecraft roller coaster through the whole mess. But I think something is going to go down because the Congresscritters are getting worried that Puddinhead's negative ratings are going to spill over into THEIR races and the rest of the down ticket. The idea of Trump not only winning but getting a full downticket spread to lock him into Andy Jackson levels of "f**k you D.C." must have them sweating like crazy.
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 11:30 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Muppets Aren't Hiring
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Mouth piece.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 11:31 PM (Y2CFz)
Tomorrow will be interesting, no matter how it goes.
I am rooting for chaos.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:31 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Muppets Aren't Hiring at July 07, 2024 11:27 PM (V5BDR)
Someone with her qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.
Posted by: Dr. Peter Venkman at July 07, 2024 11:32 PM (6gW4D)
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You've never ordered KFC that's been sitting under the heat lamps for 2 hours, have you? It might be original, it might be crispy or grilled, but it's dead, definitely dead.
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 11:32 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Muppets Aren't Hiring at July 07, 2024 11:27 PM (V5BDR)
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She could play Danny Zuko in the new DEI staging of Grease.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 11:33 PM (kbyy+)
The idea that France rejected Le Pen because she is the French version of David Duke is stupid.
>>@DavidSacks
>>Yes they voted, but for a reduced set of choices. Macron conspired with NFP to drop 200 candidates from the ballot, ensuring RN won the 3rd most seats even though it had the highest % of the vote. It may have been legal but let’s not pretend “just voting” produced this result.
Look at the link for vote totals.
https://tinyurl.com/28asf5fj
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 11:33 PM (LkLld)
Tomorrow will be interesting, no matter how it goes.
I am rooting for chaos.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:31 PM (5p7BC)
Chaos, with "mostly peaceful" fire and explosions.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2024 11:33 PM (VavZF)
I hope you're right! Your lips to God's ear.
By nature, I take counsel of my fears. Wish it were otherwise.
I fear that substituting Kamala for Biden might create a braindead rally for the FIRST! Black! Woman!
We should never lose sight of the fact that Trump isn't popular-- he has a "low ceiling," as they say in the NFL, & he's probably already there.
Biden staying in the race sounds 2 good 2 b twue*.
*Blazing Saddles. "Is it twue what they say about you people? (sound of zipper) Oh! It's twue! It's twue!"
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 11:33 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 11:36 PM (kbyy+)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 11:36 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 07, 2024 11:36 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:31 PM (5p7BC)
How many fist fights do you think? Nothing says Congressional Collegiality like a fist fight between two seventy year olds.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 11:38 PM (D7oie)
The chair is on the wall
The spider is in the roomba.
Posted by: Piper
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Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 10:50 PM (iZbyp)
So we storm the beaches tomorrow?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 07, 2024 11:39 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 11:40 PM (aYD2Z)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 11:42 PM (kbyy+)
Trump routinely draws thousands to huge rallies. He is getting record amounts of donations from small donors, normal people, as well as getting huge dollars from mega donors including former Democrat donors.
The idea that Trump is unpopular comes from the same media that said Trump was Putin's bitch.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 11:44 PM (LkLld)
"Chaos" has served up: Robespierre; Bonaparte; Lenin; Mao; & Pol Pot, among others; (probably missing a few)*
* (Hitler doesn't make the cut because the Weimar Republic wasn't "chaos" in the same sense as the other ones on my list.)
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 11:45 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Highlander at July 07, 2024 10:54 PM (kRhM/)
Oooooh. Do you have a pie chartt?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:59 PM (D7oie)
Venn Diagram?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 07, 2024 11:45 PM (QGaXH)
How many fist fights do you think? Nothing says Congressional Collegiality like a fist fight between two seventy year olds.
Posted by: Kindltot
What about a cane fight?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 11:45 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 11:46 PM (6if7h)
309 With the ongoing palace coup, no one is talking much about the border invasion, the crime explosion, the left's war on Jews, the cratering economy, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza/Israel, or either candidate's proposed policies for the next Administration.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 07, 2024 11:36 PM (qUkBO)
On the plus side, they seem to have given up on the idea of overthrowing Netanyahu’s government.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 11:46 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 11:47 PM (m9KMd)
John has a long mustache.
Joe has a full diaper.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 07, 2024 10:59 PM (VNX3d)
I knew it! The invasion is tomorrow! Where's my helmet?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 07, 2024 11:47 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 11:40 PM (aYD2Z)
I don't see what incentive there is to leave.
They cheated their way into office, and there's no reason to abandon an unfair race in general, or in this case in particular being that other Dems aren't really any more popular.
Everyone has known that Joe is a turnip for a long time. Only two types were unwilling to acknowledge it: liars and people who wanted to be lied to. The debate wasn't a revelation, it was an op.
Posted by: All Of Our Politics Is A Very Dumb Game Of Pretend at July 07, 2024 11:48 PM (ho+Wf)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 07, 2024 11:48 PM (+jrYw)
Disagree profoundly.
"The idea" comes from years of polling data. Trump's JA (job approval) has never been much better than Biden's JA. Better, yes, but not much.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 11:48 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Will they be dragged out by the shoulders, the feet, or in straight jackets? My vote in by the feet, in straight jackets.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 07, 2024 11:48 PM (VNX3d)
it is ripe for exploitation by very bad people, who see chaos as opportunity
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 11:49 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 11:46 PM (6if7h)
Whazzzzzup?
Posted by: Ayatollah Khamenei at July 07, 2024 11:50 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Tangled Web at July 07, 2024 11:51 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 07, 2024 11:51 PM (oe5jS)
If you said kLImAtE ChaNGe and the BADORANGEMAN!!, well done. AP came the same #SCIENCE conclusion.
https://shorturl.at/CjOS2
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at July 07, 2024 11:52 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 11:52 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Jen the original
Oh right. I forgot about that.
https://youtu.be/5Ioiag30eAI?si=KW_Dhd6DB_WyrobU
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at July 07, 2024 11:53 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Jen the original
Oh right. I forgot about that.
https://youtu.be/5Ioiag30eAI?si=KW_Dhd6DB_WyrobU
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at July 07, 2024 11:53 PM (sAmhv)
To the barricades!
Posted by: Mostly Peaceful Protestor at July 07, 2024 11:54 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Jmel at July 07, 2024 11:55 PM (bVhJi)
Posted by: Nelson Muntz at July 07, 2024 11:55 PM (6if7h)
Posted by: Jen the original
Oh right. I forgot about that.
Posted by: Puddleglum
I can't wait for the Break Dancing and Flag Football competitions!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2024 11:57 PM (XYrRT)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:59 PM (D7oie)
He probably tilts more towards Venn diagrams.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 11:57 PM (/tezc)
>>"The idea" comes from years of polling data. Trump's JA (job approval) has never been much better than Biden's JA. Better, yes, but not much.
You just made my point.
In 2020 Trump got more votes than any sitting president in US history. Even more the Chocolate Jesus. And nobody was cheating for Trump.
Stop looking at media polls and look at what you can see with your own eyes. Trump drew thousands to his rally in Chesapeake, VA after the rally. Virginia is the home of the swamp and I have been told he has no chance to win.
Biden drew maybe 100 in his "home state" of Pennsylvania the other day.
But if you want to believe only polls.
>>Perhaps most troubling for Biden: 51% of respondents said they now approve of Trump's job performance when he was president from 2017 to 2021, compared to 41% who said they approve of Biden's current job performance.
https://tinyurl.com/mr49jkpc
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 11:58 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Future Olympic Break Dancer at July 07, 2024 11:58 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: WTF at July 07, 2024 11:59 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Jen the original
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I can see a running joke or two coming out of this.
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 11:59 PM (41CYW)
If you said kLImAtE ChaNGe and the BADORANGEMAN!!, well done. AP came the same #SCIENCE conclusion.
https://shorturl.at/CjOS2
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at July 07, 2024 11:52 PM (sAmhv)
He took us out of the Paris Accords, and he said 'pussy'.
QED.
Posted by: Pittsburgh Tribune at July 07, 2024 11:59 PM (VavZF)
Posted by: Muppets Aren't Hiring at July 07, 2024 11:27 PM (V5BDR)
She'll be on MSDNC or whatever before the sound of the helicopter carrying Joe away fades....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 08, 2024 12:00 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: torabora at July 08, 2024 12:00 AM (Gfelq)
https://shorturl.at/CjOS2
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at July 07, 2024 11:52 PM (sAmhv)
He took us out of the Paris Accords, and he said 'pussy'.
QED.
Posted by: Pittsburgh Tribune at July 07, 2024 11:59 PM (VavZF)
He puts ketchup on steak. Pairs it with Diet Coke. He's simply a barbarian!
Posted by: Epicurean Snob at July 08, 2024 12:02 AM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at July 08, 2024 12:03 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 07, 2024 11:36 PM (qUkBO)
Ah! so their plan is working you say?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 08, 2024 12:03 AM (QGaXH)
A. Attack each other.
B. Get on their phones and ask for additional instructions.
C. Join forces to burn and loot the nearest retail establishments.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 08, 2024 12:07 AM (6if7h)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 08, 2024 12:09 AM (+jrYw)
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It's to the benefit of the Democrats, since the regime really can't stand on their record concerning all of the above. However, the DNC can take no comfort from that because the slow motion coup just shows how corrupt and morally bankrupt they've become to the general public. Besides, we all know Trump's policy plan is "undo what Biden has done as much as possible and work towards MAGA some more."
Posted by: exdem13 at July 08, 2024 12:10 AM (W+kMI)
They're going to enjoy Sharia law.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 08, 2024 12:09 AM (+jrYw)
Leftists always end up fighting each other.
Posted by: WTF at July 08, 2024 12:10 AM (SHMXB)
Posted by: polynikes at July 08, 2024 12:11 AM (SHMXB)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2024 12:13 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: PaleRider at July 08, 2024 12:14 AM (wTs+0)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 08, 2024 12:15 AM (TDvv2)
So do "conservatives".
Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2024 12:13 AM (LkLld)
Violently fighting each other.
Posted by: polynikes at July 08, 2024 12:15 AM (SHMXB)
Please enlighten me.
No joke...what is the rule of the Sock?
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 08, 2024 12:15 AM (TDvv2)
Gotta be prelaw to know the rule of the sock.
Posted by: It's like the rule against perpetuities but different at July 08, 2024 12:18 AM (lfIv5)
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Oh, that's right! Almost forgot about that. Oh dear, what a potential for spectacle completely unrelated to athletics! We should make a betting pool for:
1. Left-wing French political strike/riot.
2. Right-wing French political strike/riot.
3. Choose options 1 or two, and add a centrist counter-strike/riot.
4. Muslim political riot.
5. Muslim terrorist attack on the Olympic village or events.
6. Muslims randomly attack Olympic tourists and/or athletes, because they can. Muslim riots when the government is forced to send the police in afterwards.
7. A "transwoman" wins a medal, and that causes a riot.
Posted by: exdem13 at July 08, 2024 12:19 AM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Don Black at July 08, 2024 12:20 AM (/7KEl)
3 cases on my Sunday shift today.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 08, 2024 12:20 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 08, 2024 12:20 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: N at July 07, 2024 11:05 PM (8XibL)
Because it's not about him, really. He is close to not ever remembering. It's Dr Jill (and evidently Hunter) trying to milk the last possible bit out of this grift. And probably avoiding prison, too. Joe will maybe ask where his wife is once in a while, during his ice cream break, but I don't think he's the one grasping at the Presidency most of the time. (Don't get me wrong, he possibly IS grasping at it in his lessening lucid moments.)
Posted by: GWB at July 08, 2024 12:22 AM (AWrpC)
3 cases on my Sunday shift today.
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Here we go again.
Posted by: exdem13 at July 08, 2024 12:22 AM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Bette Davis at July 07, 2024 11:10 PM (kbyy+)
Sorry, Bette. I apologize sincerely.
Posted by: GWB at July 08, 2024 12:24 AM (AWrpC)
348 I'm looking forward to an Astroturfed group of "Keep Biden" protesters bumping into a similar group of " Dump Biden" protesters.”
One of the greatest “Night Court” episodes was when Judge Harry had to adjudicate a dispute that occurred at a local convention, where a violent brawl had broken out between Star Trek: TOS fans, and Star Trek: Next Gen fans.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2024 12:25 AM (S6gqv)
-Kennedy's assassination
-Martin Luther King's assassination
-LBJ announces he's not running
-Moon landing
-Nixon resigningl
It feels like another one's coming, but I wish it would wait. I want the Bidens to burn in hell for eternity, but wish to see Trump spank his diapered ass first this November.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 08, 2024 12:26 AM (VSQdY)
Posted by: exdem13 at July 08, 2024 12:19 AM (W+kMI)
8 A trans-woman doesn't win a medal and that causes a riot....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 08, 2024 12:27 AM (QGaXH)
A SOCK is the MASK of ZORRO... or BATMAN...or the SKIMASK of the PERP trying to disrupt the ONT for the pleasure of creating discontent at the displeasure of the other posters.
Time for some wine.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 08, 2024 12:29 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 08, 2024 12:29 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 08, 2024 12:29 AM (XeU6L)
And if there were a terrorist threat somewhere... we're now officially into season something of 24 territory.
Posted by: GWB at July 08, 2024 12:30 AM (AWrpC)
-Kennedy's assassination
-Martin Luther King's assassination
-LBJ announces he's not running
-Moon landing
-Nixon resigningl
It feels like another one's coming, but I wish it would wait. I want the Bidens to burn in hell for eternity, but wish to see Trump spank his diapered ass first this November.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 08, 2024 12:26 AM (VSQdY)
Of your list I vaguely remember being allowed to stay up late and watch the moon landing.
As for Nixon, we were just sitting down to dinner and the TV in the other room announced 'A Special Report'. My dad called out to my mom - look - he's gonna resign. I thought 'oh yeah, right' (I was 14?). And what do you know - the old man, and not for the first nor last time, turned out to be right.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 08, 2024 12:32 AM (QGaXH)
Your other nurse here reporting a bit of a spike in POS. (+) COVID Cases at my Urgent Care in Tarzana Commiefornia.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing mild symptoms, his office announced Sunday, but his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, has tested negative and remains asymptomatic.
Emhoff spokesperson Liza Acevedo said in a statement that the second gentleman “is fully vaccinated and three times boosted” and that he is “currently asymptomatic, continuing to work remotely, and remaining away from others at home.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 08, 2024 12:32 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 08, 2024 12:29 AM (D7oie)
The brine is the heat exchange medium. Keeps the dangerous and expensive refrigerants confined to a single machine space.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 08, 2024 12:33 AM (/tezc)
Please enlighten me.
No joke...what is the rule of the Sock?
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 08, 2024 12:15 AM (TDvv2)
Gotta be prelaw to know the rule of the sock.
Posted by: It's like the rule against perpetuities but different at July 08, 2024 12:18 AM (lfIv5)
Well... there was...
Sockit to me...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2024 12:33 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 08, 2024 12:33 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 11:26 PM (6if7h)
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Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/YQsYE6KubF4
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 08, 2024 12:34 AM (q8LR6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
That poor man has to stay away from kamala Harris. How will he ever survive?
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 08, 2024 12:36 AM (k0Wyd)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 08, 2024 12:36 AM (63Dwl)
Emhoff spokesperson Liza Acevedo said in a statement that the second gentleman “is fully vaccinated and three times boosted” and that he is “currently asymptomatic, continuing to work remotely, and remaining away from others at home.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 08, 2024 12:32 AM (63Dwl)
Good thing all those shots kept him from getting the Coof, eh? Oh, wait...
I was at a community dinner in town tonight, in support of 150 workers who have been laid off because of a fire in the pork packing plant where they worked. Several hundred people, including Koreans and many Filipinos, and nary a Coof mask to be seen. Warmed the cockles of my heart-shaped space.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 08, 2024 12:36 AM (/tezc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
That poor man has to stay away from kamala Harris. How will he ever survive?
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 08, 2024 12:36 AM (k0Wyd)
So, 4 'Vaccine' shots and he still gets covid...
Vaccine... you keepa usin dat word, I done think it means what you think it means...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 08, 2024 12:36 AM (xaFKb)
I always loved how Dick & Martin would chuckle just after Goldie shouted that in her bikini and covered in day glow paint.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 08, 2024 12:37 AM (TDvv2)
I'm no expert, but since nobody is stepping up, I'll attempt an explanation for my fellow commiefornian.
A 'sock' as it were, is when someone makes a post and also changes their name, usually to something relevant to the post. For example: Were I to comment about Biden's campaign prospects, for example, by writing 'He's dead Jim' and change my nic to 'Dr. McCoy', I would be using a sock.
Note your nic (name) stays changed unless you repost using another name, hence you see people posting 'off sock' lest they forget to change their name back, as I have done.
In the above example one would subsequently post 'off Star Trek TOS sock' under one's usual name or nic.
Hope this helps.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 08, 2024 12:38 AM (QGaXH)
So, in your view, Trump has room to grow his JA?
Seriously?
Trump is not an acquired taste. (I say that as a Trump donor since 2016 & ever since).
I try to keep it real.
Posted by: mnw at July 08, 2024 12:38 AM (NLIak)
Emhoff spokesperson Liza Acevedo said in a statement that the second gentleman “is fully vaccinated and three times boosted” and that he is “currently asymptomatic, continuing to work remotely, and remaining away from others at home.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
She also tested negative for higher brain function, humanity, and empathy.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 08, 2024 12:39 AM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Don Black at July 08, 2024 12:39 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 08, 2024 12:42 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Dan at July 08, 2024 12:42 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 08, 2024 12:44 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: guy who thinks his palms might have lycanthropy at July 08, 2024 12:45 AM (lfIv5)
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 08, 2024 12:44 AM (tmPIh)
Andddd schtupid!
Posted by: Guy in WW2 German Helmet smoking a cigarette at July 08, 2024 12:45 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 08, 2024 12:47 AM (6if7h)
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 08, 2024 12:50 AM (tmPIh)
Of course.
Stop believing the bulllshit of the moronic media.
I just gave you proof that his approval rating his job approval rating has grown in media polls to 51%. And that's in the leftwing USA Today media poll.
Now your turn, what do you think is going to happen in the next 5 months to make it go down? Do you see Joe's brain getting better? Kamala actually not being a horrific joke?
If you voted for Trump then you know his record. I'm pretty confident people will look even fonder at that over the next few months when they see the alternative.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2024 12:55 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2024 12:56 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Tangled Web at July 07, 2024 11:51 PM (V5BDR)
**********
This is where house cats come into play. They loved to ride on Roombas, and once the spiders come out, to attack them simply because they're cats.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 08, 2024 12:57 AM (sjfNX)
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 08, 2024 12:50 AM (tmPIh)
and a minor addendum to the minor addendum....the nic or 'sock' may change but the letters/numbers in parenthesis seem to be unique to the user...so a give-away to who the actual puppeteer is.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 08, 2024 12:58 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Skip at July 08, 2024 01:01 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Excellent point - I can't remember, was it Ace or was it Jeff Goldstein who exposed Greenwald's sock-puppeteering?
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 08, 2024 01:02 AM (tmPIh)
Thanks for the nice ONT, MH.
I can't help but think Bezos moved to Miami so Mrs B could have access to better plastic surgeons...
And Spencer @ SB Mowing is a good guy. He has a wildly popular (2M+ subs) YT channel.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 08, 2024 01:03 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Tuna at July 08, 2024 01:03 AM (oaGWv)
It is very not cool to "sock" as an actual poster here, unless you make it very funny and very obvious it's not really them. (For an inside joke, for example.) The socking of an actual poster is why the hashes were implemented by Pixy - so you could tell them from the real person.
Posted by: GWB at July 08, 2024 01:03 AM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie
So true - I have never met a cat who didn't love to chow down on spiders. Other arachnids or insects - meh. But spiders - absolutely.
Posted by: John Drake Turns Now West Toward The Sea Of Azov at July 08, 2024 01:05 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 08, 2024 01:15 AM (r5tfK)
39/54
That's Trump's fav/unfav rating per RCP's most recent avg of all polls. Check my work, if you like. 39-54!
Biden's is worse, but try not to make out that Donald Trump is more popular than the Risen Christ. He ain't.
(And again, before I'm accused of being a "DEM troll!," I've been donating to Trump for 8 years-- until my eyes bleed.)
Posted by: mnw at July 08, 2024 01:17 AM (NLIak)
I replaced the ballast in one of the 2-lamp 48" fixtures over my workbench, and now I have light in the middle again. Old ballast was toast, alright.
And I am about half-way through the engine swap on Dixon mower #1. Old, dead Kawasaki engine is off it, and external accessories like starter and alternator are on the new block, and it is about ready to go in the frame.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 08, 2024 01:18 AM (/tezc)
Posted by: The DC version of "Clue!" at July 08, 2024 01:18 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: mnw at July 08, 2024 01:17 AM (NLIak)
You are not a DEM troll, but you can be the sort of guy, who, if he finds a silver lining, knits a cloud around it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 08, 2024 01:20 AM (/tezc)
Posted by: mnw at July 08, 2024 01:20 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: mnw at July 08, 2024 01:22 AM (NLIak)
Love ya Horde....The Colors are still flying with the 500 watt light this night.
Just cuz...
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 08, 2024 01:26 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Epicurean Snob at July 08, 2024 12:02 AM (6gW4D)
It's not that Trump puts ketchup on his steak, it's that he puts ketchup on his well-done steak.
There's somethin' jus' not right 'bout that man.
Posted by: RickZ at July 08, 2024 01:28 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 08, 2024 01:18 AM (/tezc)
Truly amazing, sir. Wish I lived near you.
Today I managed to finally get the garage clean enough to get one (smallish) car inside - for the first time since we did a huge interior remodel back in the time of Covid.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 08, 2024 01:29 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Multipurpose recycled footware at July 08, 2024 01:32 AM (+jrYw)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at July 08, 2024 01:36 AM (WvGHv)
I never said you were a Democrat troll or anything of the kind. I also think you give away your objectivity when say idiotic things like accusing anyone who disagrees with your analysis by accusing them of believing Trump is Jesus. Ace made that mistake by accusing anyone who supported Trump over DeSantis and that didn't work out so well.
Although I do like the Trump cult robe.
Trump was winning the RCP average of polls you noted before the debate. In other words, he was beating Biden and every other potential Democrat handily as I'm sure you know. As I noted, Trump's job approval has since risen in the USA Today job approval rating. It might not have shifted the entire RCP average yet but I bet other polls will help.
So where is your evidence that any Democrat will poll better? Do you have those RCP averages? I mean the RCP polls are entirely made up of leftwing media influenced voters so surely that will be easy for you to produce.
I'll wait here.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 08, 2024 01:38 AM (LkLld)
Today I managed to finally get the garage clean enough to get one (smallish) car inside - for the first time since we did a huge interior remodel back in the time of Covid.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 08, 2024 01:29 AM (QGaXH)
The light plant was apparently built in the 1940's. It's a Briggs and Stratton model ZZP engine. Even the flywheel shroud is cast iron. And the doggone thing started with one tug on the rope today. Blows a lot of fumes out the crankcase vent, too. New rings would probably cure that. But it's going to be given to a museum, and I doubt they will ever want to run it at all. But I had fun playing with it. Scrounged it out of the town dump for nothing, a decade ago or more.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 08, 2024 01:43 AM (/tezc)
Gun Thread: Katana Komplete Edition!
FUNdamentals
So how are things going at the range? Do you feel like you are making measurable progress? Are you stuck in a rut? If so, how do you know? What system of measurement are you using to gauge progress? You can focus on fundamentals and still have fun at the range. As a matter of fact I would argue that it's quite a bit more funner when you have a methodology in place to measure your progress over time. After all, you're paying for the range time and ammunition, why not realize a tangible benefit as a return on your investment? Why not enjoy seeing results of hard work?
Katana Komplete!
WeaselKatana - Before
So, I finally have your wakizashi completed! In the final pictures, you can see the kissaki (point) and the burnishing have been finished. Sorry it's been a few days since the last photos, but the home stretch proved very difficult and took a few extra days to complete. This blade is what is known as a bit "tired". That is a Japanese sword blade that has been polished down over the centuries to the point where some of the features have been worn away or some of the core steel or interior welds may be loose or showing. I guarantee that when you are 300-400 years old, you will probably be a bit worse for wear as well. In the case of this blade, the biggest problem proved to be the kissaki (point). It had been ground down to the point where it was very thin and not particularly well shaped. Unfortunately the lack of metal meant that we pretty much had to go with what was there with only moderate room for improvement of the shape. Since the point had been ground down, the boshi (temper line around the point), had been completely ground off. This is actually very common in older blades. Most of the Kamakura era (1185-1333) tachi that you might see in the finest museums in Japan will have the temper line gone from around the point. With your blade, it literally faded right off the bottom edge of the point. Luckily, I happen to be exceptionally good at using some very fancy stone work to create a fake boshi, one that will fool most professional collectors. Finally, there was a karasuguchi. This is a crack right at the tip of the point. These are very tricky to work with because it makes the last millimeter of the point want to flake off with any type of mishandling. Given what I had to work with the final results are extremely good. This is important because the kissaki is considered "the face" of the sword. The final step you will notice to have been completed in this last round of photos is the burnishing. The upper surfaces, shinogi-ji and mune, of a properly polished Japanese sword are burnished. This is where super hard steel burnishing blades and needles are used to compress the steel and close the pores in the surface. This is what gives the shinogi-ji and mune its distinctive mirror like surface and also imparts some degree of rust resistance. It is tricky trying to create a mirror surface my rubbing steel on steel. The burnishing tools used, migaki-bo, are generally hand forged and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. To facilitate the burnishing process, a very fine lubricating powder called ibota is used. It comes from the waxy excretion of a large cidada-like insect! Burnishing is one area where bad or amateur polishers can be easily identified, because they either have very bad and scratchy burnishing or they don't actually burnish at all.First I want to share some photos of the blade showing the state of affairs before I sent it to Dave.
I should have the blade back from Dave in a week or so, but even the pictures of the finished product are stunning. Quite frankly I did not know what to expect, but this exceeds my wildest expectations whatever they were. Given it's original condition I think I was hoping to simply stop the rust and maybe make it a little shiny, but this thing belongs on the damn Art Thread. I can only imagine what it's going to look like in person. My plans for the blade? I'm going to have a display case made and put it on the mantle to enjoy. I am not a sword collector, but I very much appreciate fine work and history. It would look cool on display if it had been made last week, but the age and history and connection to my dad make it absolutely priceless to me. Learning just a little bit, really only scratching the surface, about these blades has been tremendously interesting and something I plan to continue. Finally, many thanks to my togishi and new pal Dave Hofhine. Honestly I had a lot of choices when deciding what to do with the blade, and it was Dave's philosophy on restoring these treasures that sealed the deal. From Dave's website:
I always take a minimalist approach to foundation polishing, always considering the long term well being of the sword as primary. From the most humble and worn out blade to swords of significant historic and artistic merit, I always approach with the attitude of "wanting to do something great", the first question always being, what would I want done if it was mine.I absolutely 1000% agree with this. Maybe even 1005% agree with this, and the results speak for themselves. I am so glad I waited the three years to percolate to the top of the wait list and have Dave do the work. I am often guilty of making profoundly moronic decisions, but in this case, I think I very definitely made the right call. Thank you, Dave. What do all y'all think?
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Well this little fella looks like fun!
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You say you could use some rain?
A lancero is a classic cigar size, long and skinny, usually something like 6 X 43. It's a vitola that (in the normal form) emphasizes the wrapper leaf and its flavors (without violating an AOSHQ no-math rule, just consider the volume of filler vs. the amount of wrapper, as a cigar gets longer and skinnier). Well, Alec Bradley's sense of ironic humor served them well when they named the Texas Lancero - a 7 X 70 monster (insert saying about the size of things in Texas here). A handsome medium brown Nicaraguan wrapper encases filler leaf from Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua. It's fairly dense (though not heavy in the hand), burns slowly and mostly with a good even burn line. It's got a very pleasant flavor profile - I get mostly just a very nice tobacco sweetness, though other reviewers (of course) get more, and the buddy who gifted them to me always talks about the citrus note. It's on the mild end of the mild-medium category, and just easy smokin'. Set aside a few hours when you light it up, as it will last hours - but it's perfect for when you're inspecting brass, resizing brass, polishing silverware, or just doing nothing and relaxing. I can see Weasel burning this stick down on the farm-o when he's engaged in 9mm forestry, or driving his tractor, or shooting. The Texas Lancero's available online for around $7-8.Excellent, rhomboid! Thank you!
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: BifBewalski at July 07, 2024 07:00 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 07:00 PM (fwDg9)
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Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 07:01 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:01 PM (IFNME)
Posted by: BifBewalski at July 07, 2024 07:02 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 07:03 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 07, 2024 07:05 PM (MKEsG)
I now have a hand made glass walking cane my dad's father made. When I was a kid my mom used it for a play it got broke. It is not at least back in one piece but not quite the same.
Protect it
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 07:06 PM (fwDg9)
Congratulations, on a very nice museum piece. I love the idea of having it out where you can look at it and enjoy it too.
Met a decendant of G. Washington, yes that G. Washington, and got to hold his no shite real life m1835 saber carried by his ancestor in the war of Northern Aggression. Very cool weapon.
Weighed a ton too.
He used it to cut the Army birthday cake a few weeks ago here in North Alabama.
Posted by: BifBewalski at July 07, 2024 07:06 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 07:07 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 07:08 PM (Jh5b+)
The katana looks gorgeous Weasel!!!
I bet when you receive it back the pictures Dave took of it will not have done it justice.
I see lots of white cotton gloves in your future when you go to handle it.
Now on to me.
No range report. I did take a look at my rifle scope and managed to crank the elevation down much further.
Plan is to take it to the range next weekend and get the puppy zeroed again. And of course I will bring my pistol with me and get a few shots down range for her.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 07, 2024 07:10 PM (0XVad)
Who knew that cicadas (or at least their genus) could be useful?
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 07:10 PM (v23vE)
I haven't been to the range in over year. It just can't be helped right now. I'd really like to find a nice carry gun, though, and get proficient with it. None of our firearms are good for concealed carry.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 07:10 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 07:10 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 07:11 PM (fwDg9)
And here, the Fat Electrician shares his thoughts on the Davy Crockett.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbBHHTaZgA
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 07:11 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 07:12 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 07, 2024 07:13 PM (u73oe)
What do all y'all think?
I think Dave did, in fact, do something great for your katana. That's incredible work.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 07:14 PM (v23vE)
https://tinyurl.com/2v4v9zzy
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 07:15 PM (Jh5b+)
no new guns / ammo
iow: nuffin
nice sword, Weasel!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 07, 2024 07:15 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 07:15 PM (xpCR0)
We leave next Sunday morning to drive to Ohio for the spawns National competition. She will be shooting on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th in the morning between 9-12ish. She shoots pistol on Friday and rifle on Saturday.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 07:15 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 07:10 PM (OX9vb)
Have you given any thought about what factors go into your choice of a carry gun and what your priorities among them are? Once you decide what things are important to you in making a decision, sorting through the bewildering array of choices out there should become significantly easier.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 07:16 PM (yRXSd)
Did a little more organic tree farming yesterday. I acquired a machete to assist in the farming. It's not quite as nice as weasel's katana. But sourced from the same place. Well, kinda. Japan, China, basically the same place, right?
Anyway, I used it to defeat many bushes and small trees. And sra blaster went all Colombian with it. On bushes and small trees, of course.
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:16 PM (IFNME)
I will not besmirch it nor you with old turns of phrase such as “gay blade”.
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 07:17 PM (nCaYE)
3 grunts, a Jeep and a nuclear bazooka. What could possibly go wrong? LOL
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 07, 2024 07:17 PM (0XVad)
Posted by: Retired, thank God! at July 07, 2024 07:17 PM (9BIt9)
I'm gonna catch hell from the HOA if I don't get this yard mowed soon.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 07:17 PM (/y8xj)
I haven't been to the range in over year. It just can't be helped right now. I'd really like to find a nice carry gun, though, and get proficient with it. None of our firearms are good for concealed carry.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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I can identify on lack of range time for the last two years. Parental units dying and going downhill along with my health problems plus retirement made it very difficult.
Figure out the location of where you want to holster it first, then select the firearm for the carry position. Nowadays, lots of good choices but pick a firearm that is essentially dehorned (no hard edges) for both easy holstering/presentation and concealable for yourself in your holster carry location.
For carry, simpler is better and a bit bigger is better than smaller as far as shootability.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:18 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 07:18 PM (OX9vb)
Says a lot of good things about you.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:19 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 07, 2024 07:20 PM (mH6SG)
Will be sending positive thoughts next weekend. Hope Spawn does well and has fun!!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 07, 2024 07:20 PM (0XVad)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 07:20 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 07, 2024 07:17 PM
I know, right? 😂
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 07:20 PM (aCj1E)
It's called Sig Connect. I guess you can use it without a Sig, but you have to sign up with Sig to use it.
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:20 PM (IFNME)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 07:21 PM (xpCR0)
Well done.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 07:21 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 07:21 PM (nCaYE)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 07:22 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 07:15 PM
Going to Perry?
Best of luck, and may the wind be in her favor!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 07:22 PM (aCj1E)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 07:23 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 07:21 PM
Weasel San >>>>> Red Green San.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 07:24 PM (aCj1E)
Posted by: Ben Had
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No, I just get frustrated when he hurts me. He doesn't mean to, he's just a puppy. He is getting better. Going to get him fixed in September.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 07:24 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: blaster
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Using a machete for brush cutting is tough work. Take a look at a Ditch Bank Blade (large hook billed 16 inch blade on a medium length handle. Easier on the back to use for brush cutting and pretty easy to resharpen as needed. Works great on snake beheadings at a safe distance as well.
Nowadays, power brush mowers were the tool for me until my arthritic joints got the best of me.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:24 PM (/0X3E)
Hopefully, spawn does well!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 07:24 PM (tT6L1)
If you tried to use the Davy Crockett for the role it was intended for (stop the Russian armored hordes blowing through the Fulda and Hof Gaps), the maximum range given the terrain would often put the crew within the blast radius of the warhead. I understand that the when the Davy Crockett was decommissioned, the US Army recycled the warheads into the "backpack nukes" for the old 12E MOS (Atomic Demolitions Specialist).
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 07:25 PM (yRXSd)
They decommed the launcher system which left them these small warheads. So they said, here's an idea, let's strap them onto parachutists.
No. Really.
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:25 PM (IFNME)
Barrel length on that Benelli M4?
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 07:25 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 07:25 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 07:21 PM
Dunno, Weasel seems like a birch bark and electrical tape kinda guy.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 07, 2024 07:26 PM (0XVad)
D'Jill IS Madame Mao!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 07, 2024 07:26 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:26 PM (IFNME)
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 07:21 PM (nCaYE)
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I may have a storage mounting (shira-saya) made for it at some point down the road, but that'll involve shipping it to California with the associated risks in transit. For now, I will just display it as-is and oil it regularly.
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 07:26 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 07:22 PM (PZo5T)
We might need an impromptu Central Ohio MoMe!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 07:27 PM (v23vE)
Weasel, thanks for the gub thread and the Katana story, it is very cool. I will try to take it easy on the compliments, as I don't want to be called teacher's pet or have spitwads shot at me.
Early in the thread and already such cool info...Katana is complete, source of printable targets, cicada secretions, meeting a descendant of George Freaking Washington, vending machine ammo...oh man. Oh, and zoom meetings...arrggghhh
I'll probably be a sporadic poster; that's one of the big reasons why I've lurked for so long. But the good thing is that there is no punch clock here...as far as I know.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 07, 2024 07:27 PM (NMT5x)
She generally identifies as a Jamaican which is not surprising considering the racial politics of NYC.
Posted by: Jamaica at July 07, 2024 07:27 PM (dKbuD)
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:28 PM (IFNME)
Fireworks hat dude set himself off in the community across the street from one of the Walmarts that we shop at.
Rednecks, explosives and alcohol/
What could possibly go wrong.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:28 PM (a1415)
I think you found just the right guy to restore your sword. Now to find the right case. Do they make them dehumidified or nitrogen filled or something like that?
Posted by: Guy who makes croutons from toenail clippings at July 07, 2024 07:28 PM (vFG9F)
Shipping a weapon to California? Even though it is a blade I would hesitate sending anything to Commiefornia.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 07, 2024 07:29 PM (0XVad)
We are in uncharted waters now, and self defense should be moved way up the priority chart.
You definitely want/need time to get acquainted with concealed carry so that it is part of your everyday routine.
And then practice, practice, practice. Drawing from concealment, moving off the X, mag changes, etc.
As Zod would say, “Do it. Do it now.”
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 07:29 PM (nCaYE)
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024 07:30 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 07:30 PM (JwHpX)
BTW, I sorta miss the sci-fi movie postings.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 07, 2024 07:31 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 07:31 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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Appendix carry is a fast and increasingly popular choice for some. Just make sure that your choice has no sharp edges at the back of the firearm/grip area.
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Some pretty good semi auto choices in single stack 9mm's that are out of vogue right now but a good single stack with 8-10 rounds plus an extra mag is still good medicine for most social situations. Then you get the more popular double stack that add a bit of thickness in return for more capacity.
Personally, I went to an XDS 9mm single stack because of the passive grip safety plus the trigger blocking one. Nicely dehorned and pretty inexpensive 8 and 9 round magazines plus the one in the chamber. The 9 round has a small grip extender that can make it more shootable but at the price of a little less concealment value.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:32 PM (/0X3E)
https://tinyurl.com/3mhmepuc
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:28 PM (IFNME)
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Holy crap!! I even double checked the date - nope, not April 1.
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 07:33 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Guy who makes croutons from toenail clippings at July 07, 2024 07:28 PM (vFG9F)
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I found a couple of places that make very nice custom trophy cases and will likely go that route. My understanding is a light coat of a special oil once a month or so will keep it in good shape.
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 07:33 PM (JwHpX)
Spent last week at the farm and got in a lot of range time. Sweated gallons, but fun, nonetheless. I focused on shooting my Tisas Stingray, a 9mm Commander-size 1911 that has become one of my favorite guns. Weasel, I sent you a write up on it in case you ever are at a loss for content on a Sunday night.
Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at July 07, 2024 07:34 PM (UJAYZ)
* squints at nic *
* squints at sheet *
* makes checkmark *
Yeah, no pressure. Make yourself at home.
* squints at sheet again *
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 07:34 PM (/y8xj)
The original P365 has 12+1 9mm (well 10+1 with the flush fit mag) which is a lot of bullets for a little pistol.
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:35 PM (IFNME)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 07:23 PM (OX9vb)
Do try before you buy. You need to accept that in order to make gains in one area, you'll have to make sacrifices in others. As for getting both power and light weight in the same gun, I know personally that shooting .357 Magnum from a Colt Python snub nose (made of steel) is a very unpleasant experience that usually leads to solid misses and poor follow up shots. See my submission to the thread on a 3" barreled example from last year. For an extreme, S&W has a J-Frame that's not only chambered in .357, but is also made of titanium, so it's super light. I'm told that the recoil shooting that thing is extremely unpleasant and a painful experience because it really beats up your wrists.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 07:35 PM (yRXSd)
First the 1,000 yard one point for every hit on a 10" steel disc. Massive failure on my part. Normally, I should put at least 1 round on 10" target. 0 for 10 proves me wrong. On the other hand, much more experienced shooters had just as much trouble as I did, though, we did have one guy pull 4 out of 10. But, this is also a guy who'll pull 5 in the X ring at 1,000 yards at our other match. Yeah, we've got two 1,000 yard ranges in our AO.
I did okay on the 500 yard KYL as the wind wasn't nearly as impossible to read as it was at 1,000 yards. Middle of the pack on that particular challenge. (KYL Know Your Limits. Steel, 5 targets, 12 shots, 2 Minutes, large to small and if you've still rounds keep shooting at the small target. 2" target. My last shot knocked if off the rack, which was amusing)
What fascinated me, though, was the guy shooting 300 PRC. Holy smokes is that a round. 215 grain bullet @ 2,900 fps. I didn't believe it until I looked up the specs. He got 1 on the 1,000 yard target, by the way. Shot lights out on the KYL, however.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 07:36 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 07:37 PM (PZo5T)
I have lit small piles and it flashes, so sure it will work.
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 07:37 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:28 PM (a1415)
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In my former AO, we'd call that, "Wednesday.'
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 07:38 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: blaster
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Sig makes a nice product and I have two of the older models but for whatever reason, their newer P 320's and 365's polymers leave me cold. Lots of folks love them though.
During the 00's, I carried a single stack P225 that was one of the most accurate pistols that I have ever owned. Problem with carrying it now is replacing worn magazines--my stash of mags for the 225 are worth more than the firearm itself because unobtanium.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:38 PM (/0X3E)
Weasel, that is an unbelievably beautiful sword. Dave is a master. Enjoy gazing at it on your mantle (sans duct tape)
Range time today: I actually had the best day I've ever had at the range. Finally achieved the consistency that has alluded me. Thank you Nurse, the advice re shoulders and core proved to be the difference. And Fundamentals, of course. I even won the end of session competition!
Posted by: Grateful at July 07, 2024 07:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Congratulations!!
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 07:40 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 07:25 PM (PZo5T)
Standard barrel length is 18.5 inches. There are short-barreled models (14 inches, I think) out there, but these require you to pay the NFA tax for a short barreled shotgun. These also give you only five rounds vs. the seven in the standard barrel length model I have.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 07:40 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 07:42 PM (yRXSd)
We finally got MP4 to the range yesterday.
I'll let him share his thoughts, but I think we may have a new convert to the Way of the Gub.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 07:43 PM (aCj1E)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 07:37 PM (PZo5T)
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Amen. Applies broadly.
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 07:43 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ed L
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This is excellent advice that I strongly endorse.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:43 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 07:43 PM (JwHpX)
I wouldn't pull the panic button. Go to the range. Try several pistols. Maybe even a revolver or two. Take notes. Go home.
Go to the range again. Try the top three you liked last time. Take more notes. Go home.
Go to the range again. This time bring your belly band or corset. Try your top two. Holster them (unloaded ). Walk around. See how they feel against your body. Take more notes. Go home.
Read all your notes. Make your decision. Then seriously consider your purchase.
It's an investment. Not an impulse.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 07:43 PM (lkWvj)
Flying from MCO to IAD, got to go in the "Additional services" line and bypass the long line, and then get escorted to the TSA scanner. Easy peasy. However, at baggage claim at IAD it took...a while...waiting for them to bring the case out.
If I were conspiracy-minded, I would say that United is trying to discourage travelling with firearms at IAD....
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:44 PM (IFNME)
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 07:44 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 07:45 PM (lkWvj)
Once you have it back is there anything you need to do to protect it and keep the shine besides the display case?
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 07:45 PM (zudum)
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2024 07:46 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 07:46 PM (IQ6Gq)
It's an investment. Not an impulse.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 07:43 PM (lkWvj)
Oh, sure. You could do it that way, too.
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:46 PM (IFNME)
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 07:45 PM (zudum)
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Choji oil and white cotton gloves.
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 07:46 PM (JwHpX)
Aluminum frame, with a (guessed) weight of around a pound. Trigger felt ~9 to 10 lbs (it's DA only), and very smooth. I didn't fire for record, but keeping 6 shots on a 5" steel at 10 yards was a piece of cake. Recoil is very mild.
Looking at the ballistics, it's very comparable to the 642 in .38 Special, but the .32 Mag is more shootable.
I was impressed, and am thinking of getting one.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 07:48 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 07:48 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:38 PM (/0X3E)
Same thing for the H&K P7. I bought one last year (featured on the thread), but in order to get more magazines, I had to get another P7 that came w/ four magazines.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 07:48 PM (yRXSd)
This! we called that tool a Brush Axe, and I still use mine.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 07, 2024 07:48 PM (MKEsG)
The carrier had darned well better not lose the package. This is just amazing. You must be over the moon.
Posted by: Splunge at July 07, 2024 07:49 PM (hmKaK)
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:49 PM (IFNME)
Posted by: javems
Ouch. Feel better soon. I have seen a few customized press knobs including repurposed gearshift or phenolic pool ball types along with a bunch of wood types. Couple of ebay online stores sell different bling and accessories (often 3d printed) for reloading presses nowadays to extend function and to personalize the presses.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:50 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:46 PM (IFNME)
***
And always buy two of everything. (Blaster doctrine)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 07:50 PM (IQ6Gq)
I also noticed this last match I need to do a better job of getting behind the rifle. I've got everything set up so if I'm sitting where I should, the cheek weld and eye relief hit naturally with no effort on my part.
I might also add, the 1,000 yard target, the wind was variable and there really wasn't a good way to read it. I tried mirage, nothing. And, the wind changed direction enough the round was moving right or left, depending on the wind. Guy shooting the 300 PRC had the same problem and he was shooting a much heavier and faster bullet than I was.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 07:51 PM (tT6L1)
Nowadays, power brush mowers were the tool for me until my arthritic joints got the best of me.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:24 PM (/0X3E)
An opportunity to acquire new tools? Noted. Looks like it could be very useful.
The main thing I figured out is that I WILL be hiring a forestry mulcher.
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:51 PM (IFNME)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 07:52 PM (OX9vb)
I agree with Nurse's advice. I tried different guns for months (courtesy of the DMV MGC), and then purchased with eventual CC in mind. I went with a Sig P365X Macro, and absolutely love it. I should be ready for CC by the fall, so happy to let you know what I think of it then.
Posted by: Grateful at July 07, 2024 07:52 PM (IQ6Gq)
Just one thing about them though--if empty brass and ammo is available--grab it right now as it is a niche cartridge prone to long droughts in appearance.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:52 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: andycanuck
But, they are just a reflection of their former selves.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 07:53 PM (U6iLH)
Admired my now legal again pistol with a brace.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 07:53 PM (5p7BC)
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Thank you! Yep, I'm pretty happy with the results. David Hofhine has a well earned reputation for doing amazing work and remember he does everything by himself by hand. I'm very fortunate to have had him work on my katana.
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 07:53 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 07:15 PM (xpCR0)
I sent the article on that to Weasel mid-week. He was obviously so happy about that sword he neglected his email.
The part I found interesting was the "AI" facial recognition part of the machine. You put your ID in and it matches you to the ID so you can buy the ammo. (It's an age verification bit.) If we coulf bring back some sanity to who can buy ammo, and get rid of that part, vending machine ammo is really cool.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 07:53 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 07:43 PM (lkWvj)
What Nurse said.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 07:53 PM (yRXSd)
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I am shocked I tell you...SHOCKED
Posted by: Grateful at July 07, 2024 07:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 07:53 PM (5p7BC)
The Bee had an article about how many had washed ashore after the ruling....
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:54 PM (IFNME)
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He had to shoot the bear -- the bear had a pistol!
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 07:54 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 07:54 PM (AWrpC)
Bringing new meaning to balls of steel:
https://tinyurl.com/3mhmepuc
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:28 PM (IFNME)
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Holy crap!! I even double checked the date - nope, not April 1.
Posted by: TRex
Slim Pickens
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 07:54 PM (63Dwl)
seriously, all props for your enterprise and pluck in pushing that project forward.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 07, 2024 07:55 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: andycanuck
But, they are just a reflection of their former selves.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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Polish replacement workers aren't as good today as a long time ago.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 07:56 PM (Jh5b+)
The main thing I figured out is that I WILL be hiring a forestry mulcher.
Posted by: blaster
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I've clean up brush with a variety of handtools over the years and the ditch blade is a peach. You can basically use a baseball slugger approach at the bigger brush and it is easier on the arms and back than using a machete for a long period. Plus, as I said, good snake killer.
40 volt or higher battery hedge trimmers are also the bomb and you can even get them with extensible reach poles. Acts like a handheld scythe mower against brush up to 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter. Again putting you at a safe distance from nasty snakes.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:56 PM (/0X3E)
Who knew that cicadas (or at least their genus) could be useful?
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 07:10 PM (v23vE)
I guess I'm ok with using insect poo to polish swords. But I'm still not eating the bugs!
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 07:57 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: PacosMojo at July 07, 2024 07:58 PM (31KuY)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 07:10 PM (OX9vb)
What are your preferences? Revolver, striker, DA, SA?
Is affordability a concern?
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 07:58 PM (AWrpC)
if I'm gonna be facial-identified, tied to my card-info, and processed across the length & breadth of the intertubes, no thanks.
I'll keep on buying ammo for cash at the LGS.
I want a machine that will punch out a box of 22LR for 19 quarters dropped down the slot.
yeah, lol good f'in luck with that, f me. *spit*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 07, 2024 08:00 PM (MKEsG)
https://shorturl.at/icwdt
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 08:01 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: PacosMojo
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Pix and a writeup of your gubs and results would be nice for the thread. Haven't paid much attention to newer AR 10 wildcats but .375 would make a big hole even if subsonic.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:01 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2024 08:02 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2024 08:02 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 08:02 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2024 08:02 PM (8sMut)
I think it's a decent trade-off.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 08:03 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 07, 2024 08:03 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:04 PM (PZo5T)
And the gardening is all starting to come in. If it gets sporty real soon, gonna need you guys to cover me while I get the peaches and tomatoes and green beans canned. K, thanx.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 08:04 PM (OX9vb)
Not exciting perhaps but this is the most I have done with my guns in the past week.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2024 08:05 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:04 PM (PZo5T)
TEXAS!
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 08:05 PM (IFNME)
Lin-duh, that's pretty close to how I envision Ed L's collection....
Posted by: Grateful at July 07, 2024 08:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 08:06 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 08:07 PM (IQ6Gq)
whig's caution in comment 115 is right. Get the brass, magnum or long, whenever you can. MidwayUSA is out of stock on both right now. Eventually, Starline (my preferred brass for reloading) will make another run but no telling when.
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 08:07 PM (zudum)
If that comes through I am likely going to have some firarms spend in there.
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 08:07 PM (IFNME)
However, Normalcy Bias is a thing. Everything goes along fine. Until it doesn’t. Better to be on the correct side of the curve. Even if it involves buying more than one gun.
Yep. That’s the ticket!
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 08:07 PM (nCaYE)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 08:06 PM (tT6L1)
F**kin' A, there will be peach pie.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 08:07 PM (OX9vb)
I hate the original handle on the RC. You have to pivot the ball in your hand and/or flex your wrist to the extreme on each down stroke. I replaced it with a roller handle from Inline Fabrication.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 08:08 PM (/y8xj)
I think it's a decent trade-off.
Posted by: blake
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Most stores have cameras on registers anyway--even gun stores for security purposes. If the po po want to get that sales information, they will get it whether from your lgs or the big box or a vending machine.
I've quit worrying about the listicles simply because of teh duncepack effect. The more data they collect, the less usable and less actionable any of it becomes. Note that decades of CCTV footage in the UK haven't made one dent stopping the increase of crime countrywide. Just means more bureaucrats watching CCTV for a job. Add AI to it and you get a real mess.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:08 PM (/0X3E)
If you can make it to TX, I'm sure you'll have plenty of examples to test drive.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 08:08 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 08:08 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:44 PM (IFNME)
Fortunately it is well inside VA. I was always leery about traveling with firearms through DCA because it is that much closer to DC.
Also they may not have people who know what they are doing when firearms are declared, given where they are at. In TX I have had no problems, nor in other states I have flown to with firearms, like FL.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2024 08:09 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: lin-duh
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Sounds like the safe room in the movie Tremors.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:09 PM (/0X3E)
Unfortunately it is located in the wrong place. Going to have to spend some time to figure things out.
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 08:09 PM (IFNME)
Posted by: Grateful
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Sounds about right. I've just never seen something like that irl before. It was awesome!
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:09 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 08:09 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 07, 2024 08:10 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 08:10 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 07:28 PM (IFNME)
Guy taping fireworks to head.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:28 PM (a1415)
Right next to each other in comments....
See, this right here is the essence of America. The guys who survive the stuff in the second comment go on to be involved in the stuff in the first comment. And then we laud them for their bravery. 'merica!
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 08:10 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 08:10 PM (Jh5b+)
Will do. And yes, a 400 gr bullet at 1,000 fps still packs a punch when you limit the range to 150 yards or so.
Posted by: PacosMojo at July 07, 2024 08:10 PM (31KuY)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 08:07 PM (OX9vb)
***
And there was much rejoicing. 'murica!
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 08:11 PM (IQ6Gq)
It was only fair, since a bear ate Beau in Afghanistan.
Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at July 07, 2024 08:13 PM (UJAYZ)
Posted by: PacosMojo
Probably hits about like a modern smallbore smokeless version of teh old 45/70 blackpowder calvary load.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:13 PM (/0X3E)
Just one thing about them though--if empty brass and ammo is available--grab it right now as it is a niche cartridge prone to long droughts in appearance.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 07:52 PM
Yah, I don't *need* another caliber to reload for.
That being said, I've been looking at the ballistics, and getting more and more impressed. Probably not as a primary, but as a BUG, or an 'arm a friend' piece. If I decide to get one, attempting to lay in components will precede the acquisition.Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 08:14 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 08:15 PM (UdzhC)
Unfortunately it is located in the wrong place. Going to have to spend some time to figure things out.
Posted by: blaster
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Sand filled tires make a good backstop and sidescreening barriers if that helps. Just don't shoot them with tracers or blow em up with Tannerite. Good sound reduction as well.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:15 PM (/0X3E)
He didn't happen to have a strange resemblance to Alex Keaton's dad, did he?
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 08:15 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Grateful
Room dimensions are too small for Ed L's.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 08:16 PM (U6iLH)
to GWB, for the advice re cutting the foam and the plexi under the top foam.
I now feel almost professional at the range!
Posted by: Grateful at July 07, 2024 08:17 PM (IQ6Gq)
Will bluebell be conducting the initial tameshigiri?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 08:17 PM (UdzhC)
Remember, NFA Class III firearms are an INVESTMENT. That fact that they're fun to shoot is side benefit. Also, the new electronic fingerprint format means that you can now pick up a Class III firearm in just a couple of months instead of the one year plus they used to take.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 08:18 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2024 07:46 PM (8I4hW)
YIKES! Glad you're all right in the long run. Did you replace the press? Or just the handle?
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 08:18 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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Absolutely correct....
Posted by: Grateful at July 07, 2024 08:19 PM (IQ6Gq)
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bluebell gets to do whatever she wants to do!
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 08:20 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: andycanuck
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Suzuki makes the Katana
Posted by: From about that Time at July 07, 2024 08:21 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 08:21 PM (aYD2Z)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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I have a feeling this guy was kicking himself for not making the room bigger. It was packed with ALL the stuff he owned. If he moved the ammo out he could probably fit more guns 🤣😂🤗
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:21 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
I have 32 S&W Longs and a 32-20 so prepped to add a 32 H&R Magnum. But, when the ammo was around, the guns weren't. When the guns were available no ammo.
Charter also makes a 32 H&R in their Professional Line that appears pretty nice and of course 32 Long is available right now.
32 Long is a fun low recoil and blast round that is actually better than 22 LR for teaching someone to fire a revolver. Less stiff trigger pull due to not having to dent a rim to ignite. I bought a 1906 Police Positive model with a bulge in the barrel but actually found a 6 inch replacement barrel of that exact same transition year that was unbulged to fix the revolver. Fun little revolver now to shoot and probably what I will take on the next range trip in the near future to reacquaint myself at the range.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:21 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 08:22 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 08:23 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 08:02 PM (IQ6Gq)
Well, I've now seen it on the internet, so it must be true.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 08:23 PM (AWrpC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbBHHTaZgA
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 07:11 PM (Wnv9h)
I don't think it would necessarily be lethal to the crew that fired it. They know what's going downrange, and have a couple of seconds to take cover behind a berm, or a massive vehicle, or in a trench. Enough cover will shelter them from the blast and the prompt radiation. Whatever fallout occurs may ultimately get them, or not, depending on the wind.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 08:24 PM (+JXHE)
Posted by: lin-duh
That's funny as everything *always* takes up more space than we planned for around here.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 08:24 PM (U6iLH)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 07, 2024 08:26 PM (QPjUO)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:26 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 08:23 PM (yRXSd)
Thanks, Ed. I’m going to try that line on Mrs. Red.
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 08:26 PM (nCaYE)
SG Ammo has both 32 S&W Long and 32 H&R Magnum in stock as of a couple of minutes ago.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 08:27 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 08:28 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 07, 2024 08:28 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 08:28 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 07:26 PM (JwHpX)
Could you take a mold off the tang of the blade using silicone molding putty, and send that off to a handgrip craftsman to make a grip to suit?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 08:28 PM (+JXHE)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:26 PM
I noticed that, as well. It's as if a voice was suddenly silenced.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 08:29 PM (UdzhC)
"I wish I had bought a smaller gun safe."
-- Nobody, Ever
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 08:29 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 07, 2024 08:29 PM (QPjUO)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 08:04 PM (OX9vb)
I'm there!
Those preferences are what you will be figuring out by following all the "try it out" advice whig and others are dishing out. Some people like a hammer locked back, some prefer striker fired. Some just like a revolver better (they have pros and cons as carry tools). With a revolver, some want hammerless, some like a hammer.
Don't let people tell you as an absolute "You need a big gun" or "You need a small gun" or "You need to shoot this caliber" or "Never carry that kind of gun." Make them explain to you the why of what they're claiming, and to make it applicable to YOU. Make them explain why that gun would be a problem to conceal or to shoot for you.
And, mostly, try them out and you might find one that you end up saying, "Oh yeah, that's the gun for me."
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 08:30 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:30 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 08:30 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 08:28 PM (+JXHE)
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I suppose that I could but since I'm not going to be doing kung-fu shit with it, don't see the benefit. The age and character and makers marks are on the tang portion of the blade.
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 08:31 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 07, 2024 08:32 PM (QPjUO)
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If not Ed L,, then Blaster? He has his own mini Sig store...
Posted by: Grateful at July 07, 2024 08:32 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 08:33 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Surprised you didn't add used panties to that list!
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:33 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 08:31 PM
All you have to do is figure out how to smuggle it into County. bluebell will be doing the samurai stuff with it for you.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 08:35 PM (UdzhC)
Ummmm, ever thought of buying a .22 TCM piece? I have some ammo I could let you have....
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 08:36 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 07, 2024 08:36 PM (QPjUO)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 07, 2024 08:32 PM (QPjUO)
My ramen-munching youngest just returned from a trip to Japan, and a highlight was his search for the ramen vending machine featured in the pre-trip brief. He never found it, but he did pick up a number of varieties in the stores they visited.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 08:36 PM (v23vE)
No MCX's for me. Nothing against the platform, though. All that $$ went to H&K and B&T instead.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 08:37 PM (yRXSd)
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That would be an interesting question for the chicks on social media.
If you were alone and trapped deep in the woods, would you rather encounter a bear or Hunter Biden?
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 08:37 PM (jYXO2)
SG Ammo has both 32 S&W Long and 32 H&R Magnum in stock as of a couple of minutes ago.
Posted by: Ed L
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Thanks Ed L. I need a couple of boxes of 32 Long as I can't get to my reloading bench right now. Still cleaning up basement from the end of renovations and the influx of stuff from cleaning out parental homes. Wife is out of town dealing with her dad's property and I just got back from a long delayed trip to gather up the last remnants of my parent's finances, photoalbums, books, memorabilia, etc.
Going to digitize the old family photos and put them out to the relatives along with other memorabilia as I am the family historian for my wife's and my family.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:37 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 07, 2024 08:38 PM (QPjUO)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Think AIM Surplus had some Prvi Garand 200 round packs on sale at around one buck per round.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:39 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 08:36 PM
No, I can't say I have. (Off to DDG it.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 08:39 PM (UdzhC)
I read that the newer version of the Contender and rifle would likely be the first offerings sometime next year. I assume they won't go back to the muzzleloaders which is too bad since they were tack drivers and well built.
Contenders are versatile because once you have the frame it can accommodate any of their barrels to change calibers. Want to go from 22lr to 44 magnum, just swap out the barrels which is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a whole new gun. Contenders are a reloader's dream. And being single shot they are economical since you don't burn through ammo so fast. I like single shot firearms, in case that wasn't obvious.
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 08:39 PM (zudum)
Whig,
Being the family historian for families is such an important role....hopefully generations down the line will appreciate having those photos and memorabilia. I know we do...
Posted by: Grateful at July 07, 2024 08:41 PM (IQ6Gq)
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If you don't know about them there are $50-$100 or so handheld stick scanners that write straight to an SD card. Quality of life wise they're great because you can do other things like watch Once Upon a Time in the West or read the HQ while you put photos in one side and they auto-feed/scan and require nothing else from you until you're ready to move them to a PC.
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 08:41 PM (jYXO2)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 07:26 PM (JwHpX)
Doggone it! I think we just had a tiny earthquake here. My office chair began rocking side to side gently while I was sitting here placidly reading the thread.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 08:42 PM (8u3VD)
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 08:39 PM (zudum)
Looks at pile of 25 round AR 10 mags.
Looks at pile of empty .308 brass.
Ponders.
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 08:42 PM (nCaYE)
My dad spent the last few years of his life digitizing all of the old pictures he'd taken over the years, organizing them, and adding captions for them on a spreadsheet. I'm glad he did that because if he didn't, my brother and I would have no idea who or what was in the pictures.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 08:42 PM (yRXSd)
Yes, but be aware that "cheaper" is not necessarily the same thing as "cheap." Most Contender and Encore barrels run in the $300+ range even on the secondary market.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 08:43 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 07, 2024 08:44 PM (QPjUO)
Love Letter to My Family
https://tinyurl.com/2gwphuse
It provides an all-in-one place for you to list important numbers, accounts, assets, policies, etc. for your family to easily find when you die.
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 08:44 PM (jYXO2)
Both GWB and Nurse have some good advice up there. Fortunately, firearms right now are pretty fair priced and ammo is available so no need to panic buy right now.
For a carry firearm (versus one left in the house for bumps in the night), it needs to be a combination of factors personal to you for it to be the right one. Also if it turns out to be a frog instead of Prince Charming, there are a lot of other frogs in the pound likely to be your prince of protection.
I would, however, consider something like a 380 ACP as the bottom floor for a carry gun due to ammo availability and modern design. You have a lot more choices in 9mm nowadays and it is a more potent cartridge for self defense.
In revolvers, hard to beat a plain 38 Special capable of shooting +p ammo and I would recommend at least a 3 inch barrel on it.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:46 PM (/0X3E)
Thanks for the weekly thread, as always!
Posted by: 496 at July 07, 2024 08:46 PM (BSGSn)
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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Am I carrying a 9mm or a .460?
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 08:46 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 08:47 PM (41CYW)
https://tinyurl.com/2gwphuse
It provides an all-in-one place for you to list important numbers, accounts, assets, policies, etc. for your family to easily find when you die.
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 08:44 PM (jYXO2)
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Good advice. PDF file with fill-in-the-blanks.
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 08:47 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Come back to AZ before you're swallowed into the permafrost!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 08:48 PM (U6iLH)
AJ Fernandez Last Call maduro here, very tasty. Finally we’re “stuck” in our perfect summer weather pattern, so late afternoon on the porch is beautiful.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 07, 2024 08:48 PM (QPjUO)
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 08:37 PM (jYXO2)
"That would depend on the caliber I'm carrying."
/'ettes
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 08:48 PM (AWrpC)
And, mostly, try them out and you might find one that you end up saying, "Oh yeah, that's the gun for me."
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 08:30 PM (AWrpC)
This is true. Your firearm is one on the most serious decisions you will ever make because of who you protect.
Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2024 08:49 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:49 PM (PZo5T)
A Gun Trust is your friend. Keeps the guns out of probate and out of public knowledge.
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 08:50 PM (nCaYE)
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I'll add one thing to this from my personal experience: I have a couple of .38s and really like them, and the titanium one is my boat / snake gun that goes out with me anytime I'm fishing or on the water. Absolutely one of my favorite pistols.
That said, I'd advise against a titanium short barreled .38 as your first "real" carry gun. That light weight and super concealability is nice, but you won't practice with it as much as you should because it will be snappy and borderline unpleasant to shoot, and you might even develop bad habits from anticipating the harshness of firing it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 08:51 PM (jYXO2)
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Old standby Drew Estate Factory Smoke!
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 08:51 PM (RG6z4)
Being the family historian for families is such an important role....hopefully generations down the line will appreciate having those photos and memorabilia. I know we do...
Posted by: Grateful
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I've posted some of the really old ones to ancestry so that at least some people have an idea what their ancestors looked like. But now I have the remaining 15 or so photo albums plus a whole box of loose memorabilia of family trips, etc. gone by.
Most of the photo albums that I have to scan now involve my cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. from family get togethers and trips gone by. I only have about two albums of really old 1870's to 1930's photos to scan. Have to dig through tax files though as my mother is in memory care and fading to perhaps skilled nursing care so I have to evaluate whether or not to sell commercial property for her to sustain her care. Gets complicated when selling a depreciated asset as far as cap gains taxes expected.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 08:52 PM (/0X3E)
Thompson Center is back.
Posted by: TeeJ at July 07, 2024 08:53 PM (xZpzx)
Agree w/ getting a 3" barrel for shooting .38 Special +P ammo. The extra barrel length, smaller muzzle flash and blast are worth the tradeoff in concealability. 3" would a minimum for .357, but I wouldn't recommend .357 ammo for a novice shooter using a snubbie.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 08:53 PM (yRXSd)
Agreed. No idea what the new frames and barrels will cost when they appear. Since I get sticker shock every time I see the cost of new guns these days, 300 bucks or so seems reasonable for a new caliber. (As you can guess, I rarely buy new guns.)
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 08:53 PM (zudum)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:54 PM (PZo5T)
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I just hold the phone farther away and/or walk over to the window for better light.
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 08:55 PM (jYXO2)
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 08:39 PM (zudum)
I think the duelists used some tricked out Contenders in the last John Wick movie.
Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at July 07, 2024 08:56 PM (UJAYZ)
I understand Hi-Point fits a certain market, and I think that's great. If I was hard up for cash and wanted protection I'd be all over this gun. But my old arthritic hands really took a beating and I was yearning for my 1911 by the end.
Posted by: 496 at July 07, 2024 08:56 PM (4Gqld)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 07, 2024 08:56 PM (szKLp)
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I just hold the phone farther away and/or walk over to the window for better light.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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I meant an actual physical photo not a digital one.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:56 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 08:56 PM (8u3VD)
Posted by: TeeJ at July 07, 2024 08:57 PM (xZpzx)
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Ha. I was just joking about my eyesight, but I bet that's more common than you'd think.
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 08:59 PM (jYXO2)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:56 PM (PZo5T)
I thought he misunderstood you at first, but now I think he's saying he has the opposite problem--trying an analog solution for a digital problem. 😄
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 08:59 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 08:56 PM
To be fair, it is one of the reasons the .45-70 is such a sporting cartridge.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 08:59 PM (UdzhC)
A Gun Trust is your friend. Keeps the guns out of probate and out of public knowledge.
Posted by: RI Red
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True, in most states, try to avoid probate period if possible by liquidating real property. Easier to handle a cd with beneficiaries than a 1957 Chevy in probate or grannies house.
Some states have an expedited small estate process that can help resolve issues.
Re gun trusts, two types but you will be named and fingerprinted now if you are on one. One is the share ownership of single item something like a NFA item like a suppressor.
The second is a slightly more complicated venture but allows more freedom in sharing firearms among its trustees and it is the titular owner of the firearms.
Get good legal advice if you plan to set up either one. But, it can avoid a lot of hassles in transferring firearms to loved ones.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:00 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at July 07, 2024 09:00 PM (4TAOz)
It's an "Expert Grade," and has been re-barreled and has a nice new or well-taken-care-of stock. I have ammo (for the Garand! not that powerful stuff) on the way, as well as snap-cps and a book, and I'm going to order a GI (reproduction) sling and bayonet. Clips are... out of stock everywhere, but I will order as soon as possible.
So, a trip to NC is in order. Going to try and take my son and introduce him to the beauty that is the M-1 Garand.
CMP never did send me an email or anything, telling me it was on its way. But on the 3rd the money magically disappeared from my account, and I got a text from FedEx saying a signature would be required. I mailed my forms on 1 May, so just over 2 months.
If you want one and don't have one (or more) you'd best order soon.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:00 PM (AWrpC)
Didn't see the movie but that sounds cool. I recall one of the Matt Helm books, probably from the early 70s, where the bad guy was using a Contender which few people had heard of at that time.
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 09:01 PM (zudum)
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I meant an actual physical photo not a digital one.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:56 PM
Given the few 'rons here over 29 probably looked at a Playboy or two in their youth, I'm guessing yes.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:01 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 08:46 PM (iZbyp)
LOL. I hadn't read this far when I typed my response.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:02 PM (AWrpC)
That said, I'd advise against a titanium short barreled .38 as your first "real" carry gun. That light weight and super concealability is nice, but you won't practice with it as much as you should because it will be snappy and borderline unpleasant to shoot, and you might even develop bad habits from anticipating the harshness of firing it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 08:51 PM (jYXO2)
Guns ... boats ... a bad combination ...
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:02 PM (v23vE)
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Heck, that little titanium .38 is so light it probably floats.
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 09:03 PM (jYXO2)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 08:46 PM
Given cataloging grimores is one of your professional duties, have you not considered the magical property of AND?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:04 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 08:53 PM (yRXSd)
How about out of a derringer? Heh.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:04 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 08:04 PM (PZo5T)
TEXAS!
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 08:05 PM (IFNME)
Hmmm - makes notes for lottery dream house plans
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 07, 2024 09:04 PM (n3DL0)
Are there any decent gun shows in your area? I don't know about where you live, but there's a guy at the Chantilly gun show who usually has M1 Garand clips made of plastic for sale. The vintage steel clips aren't as common as they used to be.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:04 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 09:05 PM (jYXO2)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:04 PM
But do they go 'ting'?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:06 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:04 PM
But do they go 'ting'?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:06 PM (UdzhC)
Snik!
Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2024 09:07 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:07 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:08 PM (UdzhC)
Email me at the address in the nic with a postal address and I'll send you a handful. This offer is good for any Moron/ette.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 09:08 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:04 PM (yRXSd)
How are they gonna 'PING!' if they're made of plastic! /look of horror/
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:08 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:09 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:07 PM (v23vE)
271 C'mon, folks. Pick it up. We need to keep Weasel-san out of the dog house. He already deployed the PowerPoint of The Flowchart of Blame last week. It won't work with Ace a second time.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:08 PM (UdzhC)
I am ... honored to be of one Horde Mind with Duncanthrax!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:10 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:09 PM
I wish I could have snubbed it.
Posted by: zombie Abraham Lincoln at July 07, 2024 09:11 PM (UdzhC)
Would you please send me an email, so I can ask you a question - or two? Thanks!
Posted by: Grateful at July 07, 2024 09:11 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:11 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Excellent point. I doubt I could conceal a .460, but it can go in a pack. Ready for bears AND Bidens. However, I'm also too old to attract Bidens, which is a point decidedly in favor of gray hair and wrinkles.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 09:12 PM (iZbyp)
Email sent. Thank you much. Let me know how to compensate.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:12 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Ben Had
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It's an ATF op.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 09:12 PM (Y2CFz)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:08 PM (UdzhC)
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I'm doing my part!
Posted by: Starship Troopers at July 07, 2024 09:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Can he blame Ace for not positioning him for success?
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 09:14 PM (iZbyp)
Received. I'll get them in the mail this week. Drop something in Ace's tip jar if you feel inclined.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 09:14 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:10 PM
The honor is mine, Sir!
Posted by: zombie Abraham Lincoln at July 07, 2024 09:14 PM (UdzhC)
Isn't a derringer the ultimate snubbie?
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:09 PM (yRXSd)
And you've seen (and heard) it fire a .357. Hoo boy. But it is a handy Danger Close weapon when you've got nothing else to carry for some reason.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:14 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:15 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 09:14 PM (iZbyp)
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Great point! I'm the victim here!
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:15 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 09:14 PM (/y8xj)
***
You're a good man.
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 09:16 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:11 PM (JwHpX)
I was busy and missed the whole food thread today. Doing my part for Weasel!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 09:16 PM (OX9vb)
Maybe not, but they will allow you to shoot if you don't have any steel clips handy.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:16 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 09:16 PM (OX9vb)
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Thank you!
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:17 PM (JwHpX)
If you want one and don't have one (or more) you'd best order soon.
Posted by: GWB
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Cool report and congrats.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:17 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Grateful at July 07, 2024 09:17 PM (IQ6Gq)
https://tinyurl.com/3mhmepuc
Posted by: blaster
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Lot of talk about suitcase nukes around, '01, 02, '03.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 09:17 PM (Y2CFz)
It would be handy to know that if you're in a really bad situation and you fire all of your ammo at bad guys, you can just step over (preferably they're behind cover), stick in your ID and a CC and get 20 more rounds to continue the fight.
I'm picturing this in a Lethal Weapon Goes to Texas type movie....
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:17 PM (AWrpC)
And of course, you can single load without a clip. And maybe learn the origin of "Garand Thumb."
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 09:19 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 09:14 PM (/y8xj)
I will do so.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:19 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:19 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 09:19 PM (IQ6Gq)
SiD, S&W has snub nose models for BOTH the .460 and .500 Magnum available. Concealable hand cannons/man stoppers are out there if you want/need them.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:19 PM (yRXSd)
Joe I rarely go above 52 ring gauge (toro), the TX Lanceros were a gift, but they are tasty and I actually do burn them when doing brass processing, yard work, etc. Great for such chores.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 07, 2024 09:20 PM (QPjUO)
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:21 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 09:21 PM (xpCR0)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 09:14 PM
Well, given the near-unity probability of Ace not being at his emotional best at 0700 hrs EDT on a Monday morning, since he had to roll out no later than 0657 hours to groom his pelt before the Zoom call, blaming Ace *to* Ace would be certainly be a bold strategy.
Does Weasel have the steely nerves or desperation such a strategy would require?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:21 PM (UdzhC)
Thank you!!
Appreciate all y'all being here and hope to see you next Sunday. Glad you enjoyed the katana story!
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:21 PM (JwHpX)
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Congrats!! That is awesome!
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 09:22 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:17 PM (AWrpC)
Wasn't it AL and OK? TX isn't quite there yet.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:22 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 09:22 PM (jYXO2)
Appreciate all y'all being here and hope to see you next Sunday. Glad you enjoyed the katana story!
Posted by: Weasel
Thanks back at you.
The katana is beautiful and the story has been entertaining.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 09:23 PM (U6iLH)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:23 PM (yRXSd)
Now off to price bead blasters. No reason, really ...
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:24 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Moron Robbie
Basically a gun trust can be set up for a whole family to allow joint access to the firearms in the trust. To do that, each 'trustee' that handles the trust's firearms must pass the std. NIC background check and probably separate state checks in unfree states. For the most part, ordinary firearm purchases can be added to the trust once it exists pretty easily. NFA items though it is best for the trust itself to acquire and hold title. People don't realize it but an deceased individual with an NFA item has something that most individuals themselves cannot even touch legally once they are deceased. You often have to either have the police confiscated it for who knows what or somehow get it to a licensed FFL dealer that can handle NFA items and/or destroy it.
For something like a .22 LR suppressor, the problem can be greater in expense than the suppressor itself is worth.
Probate law itself is difficult enough and varies widely among the states. Gun trusts allow you to bypass that nasty process.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:24 PM (/0X3E)
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He had to shoot the bear -- the bear had a pistol!
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 07:54 PM (Jh5b+)
So it was “bear”ing arms?
I’ll show myself out.
Posted by: Arch Stanton at July 07, 2024 09:25 PM (/zgDt)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 09:21 PM (xpCR0)
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For Sparta!
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 09:25 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Doesn't need one. Weasel Ninja has a katana and Ace has seen Kill Bill.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:25 PM (/0X3E)
Those new stocks on the Expert Grade are tight. I had a hell of a time getting the trigger guard clipped back down. Whig advised whacking it with a rubber mallet which scared the heck out of me but did the trick.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 09:25 PM (/y8xj)
I for one would like to see it decked out with Hogue grips.
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 09:25 PM (nCaYE)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:25 PM (/0X3E)
AmmoGarand.com has some WWII clips in stock. I got my WWII clips there, but use my new production clips most of the time.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 07, 2024 09:26 PM (QPjUO)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 09:26 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 09:27 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:27 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:28 PM (UdzhC)
Turnbull Restoration does this kind of work, but it's definitely not cheap. If you're trying to restore a 100+ year old firearm to the way it used to look, they're one of the best out there. Just bring a lot of patience along with a very thick, well padded checkbook.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:28 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: Oddbob
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To be honest, I was scared the first time I whacked a beautiful 308 Garand of my FIL from the CMP. Did it anyway and got the darn thing dismounted. Had some loose small gravel in the action somehow that was making the noise he heard.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:28 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:25 PM (/0X3E)
Same -- even at the cost of the thread's total comment count. I kinda enjoy the politics-free zone that Weasel has established.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:28 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 09:29 PM (nCaYE)
I’ll show myself out.
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Even worse, there's a longarm manufacturer here named Kodiak Defence.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 09:30 PM (Jh5b+)
https://tinyurl.com/3mhmepuc
Posted by: blaster
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I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places
I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 09:30 PM (Y2CFz)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:25 PM (/0X3E)
Same -- even at the cost of the thread's total comment count. I kinda enjoy the politics-free zone that Weasel has established.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:28 PM (v23vE)
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Yes. This. Mucho thank you to Weasel and the horde for this little corner of the interweb.
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 09:30 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 07, 2024 09:30 PM (QPjUO)
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Dave polished the blade for the current Guinness Book record holder in an event such as you describe. Details in his website.
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:30 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: Archer at July 07, 2024 09:31 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: Ed L
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Yowza. I was too chicken to shoot J's .460 with an 8 (?) inch barrel. Hard pass.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 09:31 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2024 09:32 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:32 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:28 PM (yRXSd)
Sadly, I don't have any candidates for restoration (somehow being several states away when it came time to divide up the family arsenal meant that I got the shaft). I just find the bead-blasting and bluing process fascinating.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:32 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 09:34 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Not an expert on accurizing Garands but loose trigger guards are believed to affect accuracy negatively and unpredictably if you are shooting at the top of your game.
Me, I prefer the old stocks with history than spanking new ones. My FIL, however, liked purty guns looking like new and was disgusted by much of the shooter grade milsurp types.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:34 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 09:31 PM
Pfft. Kittens compared to a 12 ga. shotgun.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:34 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: TheOsprey at July 07, 2024 09:34 PM (461qR)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 09:36 PM (Wnv9h)
I've thought of having them -- because there's no one else I would trust -- restore my granddad's Colt Bisley that was shown on the gun thread a few years ago. But I'd have to wait for everyone in the family of my father's generation to pass before I did because they would hate me for touching it.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 09:37 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy
Rust and fire bluing can be done at home fairly cheaply as far as resources---it does require time and practice to make it good though. Rust is better for whole guns, fire bluing is done on individual pieces like straw bluing a trigger or hammer.
A lot of the secret is in the prep work including polishing, etc. before you get to the bluing. Caustic bluing is a pain in the ass and deals with hazardous chemicals. Parkerizing is easy enough and tough finish when combined with paint for firearms or even automotive engine paints.
Brownells is a good source for all things bluing, painting, and finishing firearms.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:38 PM (/0X3E)
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My pleasure, RMBS. Thanks for being here!
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:38 PM (JwHpX)
John Candy
Posted by: Archer at July 07, 2024 09:31 PM
"Everybody up here act like they never saw a black man before...why should the bear be different?"
- Sidney Poitier
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 09:39 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:30 PM
Impressive! I suspected there might be a special polish for an attempt like that.
You made a good choice (but you know that).
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:39 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: Oddbob
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Colt Bisley has been on my want list for a while.
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 09:39 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:24 PM (v23vE)
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Never had one, but always thought it would be nice to have one for random blasting/cleaning jobs.
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 09:39 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 09:31 PM (iZbyp)
If you shot blanks, it should be like a flash-bang grenade going off in the attacker's face. It's got to have some redeeming features, right?
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:40 PM (yRXSd)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:40 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: TheOsprey
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Kind of a boutique weapon which I have fired once via a guy at the range. Disliked the trigger pull but it is designed specifically for Close Quarter Battle not hunting, etc. purposes. By all accounts, good enough for social work if you need one.
Expect high prices on mags, parts, etc. which might or might not bother you.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:40 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 09:40 PM (Jh5b+)
DILIT is turning into Nurse R. She was irked at some woodpeckers recently and wanted to deploy her .22 Glock 44. Both Junior and I said, “Don’t shoot at the house or up in the air!” Rule 4!
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 09:42 PM (nCaYE)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:44 PM (JwHpX)
DILIT is turning into Nurse R. She was irked at some woodpeckers recently and wanted to deploy her .22 Glock 44. Both Junior and I said, “Don’t shoot at the house or up in the air!” Rule 4!
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 09:42 PM (nCaYE)
Except Nurse would have given the safety briefing first.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:44 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: screaming in digital
You are smart. If you really need a .460 handgun, I am glad people can buy one. With the possible exception of grizzly territory or bringing down a moose, fairly useless for even most handgun hunting in the lower 48.
A guy on Ammoland has a running tally of handguns versus bears and for the most part, it is the same as conflicts with criminal humans--the first rule is to have a gun (his investigation discounts bear spray as being as effective btw).
His findings indicate if you get up to a 40 S&W, a 357 Magnum, or a good ole 45 ACP, it will turn the tide against most bear attacks in the more civilized areas of the US and is probably overkill for panthers/cougars, etc.
Not surprisingly, most of those rounds are pretty decent human critter repellants as well.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:45 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 09:46 PM (nCaYE)
Posted by: TRex at July 07, 2024 09:47 PM (IQ6Gq)
Steyr AUGs are now mostly a collectors' piece. As whig said, expect to pay collector's prices for the guns and its accessories.
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:48 PM (yRXSd)
A nuke the size of the Davy Crockett is primarily a radiation weapon; its fatal radiation radius far exceeds the thermal and blast radius. It was designed to kill enemy infantry and tank crews within about 1/4 mile.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 07, 2024 09:48 PM (CecP5)
Posted by: andycanuck
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Usually numrich aka gunparts dot com also has SMLE stripper clips and did ship to Canada last time I checked. Some of their SMLE clips come with ammo bandoliers if you want to be tacticool WWII style.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:49 PM (/0X3E)
I told her she might want a slightly larger caliber than .22.
Posted by: RI Red at July 07, 2024 09:49 PM (nCaYE)
Posted by: whig
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I hope someday to hike in grizzly and moose country again but would probably not go alone like I used to. For now, just have to worry about black bears or meth heads.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 09:50 PM (iZbyp)
Also, thanks Weasel for another fine Gub Thread!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:50 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 09:53 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 07, 2024 09:53 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 07, 2024 09:50 PM (v23vE)
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Thanks to all for being such a fun group. You really are the reason I do this. Y'all are the best!
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 09:54 PM (JwHpX)
Putting a .308 bullet and sticking it into the throat of a 5.56 causes rifle rapid disassembly sequence aka kablooey.
You can have the same problems with other ammo if not careful. For example, shotguns--standard colors for shotgun cartridges are done in part to keep from firing the wrong gauge ammo in them.
Be careful out there folks.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:54 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 07, 2024 09:54 PM (1wPZ8)
Couldn’t/wouldn’t say what he did in Germany.
My imagination assigned him to a nuclear escort group.
Maybe he got to carry a Davy Crockett.
Posted by: Goatweed at July 07, 2024 09:56 PM (KRyeA)
Thanks, Weasel-san, for a great thread (again).
And thanks to the Horde for the conversation.
*PING!*
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:57 PM (AWrpC)
I told her she might want a slightly larger caliber than .22.
Posted by: RI Red
IF you have a home defense issue, you use the handgun to get to the shotgun. I would personally start at a 40 or 45 in her case. Shotguns are the best medicine for an angry bear and if deployed properly with slugs, even a 20 gauge is pretty stout medicine for a grizzly. A 20 gauge firing slugs is equivalent in firepower to two 44 magnum shells fired in a handgun simultaneously.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:57 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:58 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 09:58 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 07, 2024 09:58 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Ed L at July 07, 2024 09:22 PM (yRXSd)
But Buc-ees! So there's hope!
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:59 PM (AWrpC)
Expect high prices on mags, parts, etc. which might or might not bother you.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:40 PM (/0X3E)
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Thanks whig. Heard the triggers are stiff but that is normal for bullpups although there are apparently kits out there from a number of mfr's that will improve it. They make it with two different stock packages, one that takes the original Austrian "waffle" mags or one that will take STANAG/AR mags. Downside to the AR mag version is you can't do the conversion for lefthanders. I've never had a chance to fire one...need to see if there is a local range that has one as a rental.
Posted by: TheOsprey at July 07, 2024 09:59 PM (461qR)
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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A simple firearm trust works for avoiding probate on common firearms. For any NFA item, it is more a mandatory thing to avoid legal issues involving transfers among people in the trust and avoiding probate headaches along with the ATF.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:59 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 10:02 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: TheOsprey
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As Ed L said, they are collectible but there are several other bullpups out there that are more modern and cheaper to play with. KelTec has one in .308 I think and then the Israeli design is also being sold here now in semi auto.
If length bothers you and you like to hunt, 300 Blackout in an AR pistol set up for suppressed shooting is a honey. Parts, barrels, and magazines are dirt cheap due to all the legal folderol involving the illegal ATF pistol brace regs that are now defunct.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:03 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 09:58 PM (AWrpC)
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Love it!
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 10:05 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:09 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 07, 2024 10:10 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:11 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:11 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 10:12 PM (U6iLH)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:13 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:15 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Rick Perry at July 07, 2024 10:15 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:16 PM (QSrLX)
*ping*
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 10:16 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 10:16 PM (QSrLX)
0 results.
I are disappoint.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 09:58 PM
We're going to have to give him shit about this tomorrow.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 10:34 PM (Wnv9h)
Thank you Weasel fo another great gun thread
Posted by: Coelacanth at July 07, 2024 10:46 PM (dV400)
Food Thread: Beef! Cheese! What lese Do We Need Except Bourbon?
Americans Don't Seem To Want Plant-Based Burgers From McDonald's I know...I know...shocking! When I go to McDonald's it is to get something quick so I can get back into the car and get where I am going. The last time I ate there was on the way back from NH a few weeks ago. And I was quite pleased with the meal! Two breakfast sandwiches from their "Cheapskate" menu...about $4 total, and it took about two minutes from the time I walked into the restaurant until I walked out. And the damned things were hot! I don't want some highly processed, virtue-signalling mess of a fake burger that probably costs more, is from dubious sources, and is a pale reflection of the real thing. I hope all of these companies fail spectacularly, and I hope that the investment firms that pumped a lot of money into them are burned, and are suspicious of that sort of silliness for the next few generations. American agriculture is efficient, and has no problem producing enough protein for us and a lot of the rest of the world. We don't need fake meat. If you want to be a vegetarian...have at it! Just eat the soy beans and rice and yams and tree bark on their own, but don't plague me with your virtue-signalling nonsense. [Hat Tip: Lizzy]
Insanely Delicious Whipped Ricotta balanced by an insanely irritating internet recipe affectation. It's as obnoxious as those links to funny photos but you have to click through to each one. I never bother....do you? Anyway, fresh ricotta (I like Anne Burrell's recipe) is easy to make, and blending it with tasty stuff such as honey and pistachios and maybe some herbs makes perfect sense. it reminds me of something that our neighbors brought over last night...they called it "Crack Cheese," and it tasted great! Sadly, they didn't tell us what was in it...I obviously didn't pour enough booze.
- 1 large red onion, halved, then thin-sliced
- 1 cup cider vinegar
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons Kosher salt
- 2-3 garlic cloves (crushed)
- Dill seeds to taste (I use 1-2 teaspoons)
Everybody knows that the inflation data being puked out by our pathetic and incompetent (and lying) government are nonsense. Yeah...that's it. I'm just pissed...I realized that onions...ONIONS! have doubled in price.
Good butter, and Flap Meat...whatever the hell that is...just send it, Broccolini that isn't $6/bunch, garlic...lots of garlic!, well-marbled hanger steaks and elk chops to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. Who are those poor deluded souls who shake their Manhattans? These are the same people who drink fine bourbon with coke, and probably shake red wine with ice too. My and the world's patience has run out. Shaken Manhattans henceforth will be banished to the land of Long Island Ice Teas and Frozen Strawberry Margaritas. And yes, I used to demand fancy bourbon, but let's face it, $1,200 for a bottle of bourbon is just stupid, insulting, and a ghastly affront to most people's palates and wallets. I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 04:00 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (zHw5S)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 04:02 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 07, 2024 04:05 PM (zHw5S)
Pierogies are very high on my list of comfort foods.
Although when I was a kid I called them vereniki.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 07, 2024 04:05 PM (3Kpp6)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 04:06 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: mrp at July 07, 2024 04:09 PM (rj6Yv)
As an aside, the smoker's been in the sun all day. I checked the interior temp... 135 and it's not even on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 04:09 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:10 PM (bFId9)
Pierogies are very high on my list of comfort foods.
Although when I was a kid I called them vereniki.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 07, 2024 04:05 PM (3Kpp6)
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A friend of mine did barrel racing. When she got married she rode up on a horse, in a gorgeous wedding dress, to Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy. And spent the reception with a wad of chew in her mouth.
Food related: my All Clad nonstick pans were getting pretty jacked up, so I bought some Greenpans a couple of weeks ago. So far, they are awesome.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 04:11 PM (js+sc)
Cover, turn heat down. Wait.
After about an hour or so, remove all ingredients, make gravy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 04:11 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 04:11 PM (5p7BC)
Also very good rye.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:12 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 04:09 PM (Q4IgG)
Think of all the money you’ll save getting to smoking temperature.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 07, 2024 04:12 PM (zHw5S)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 04:13 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2024 04:14 PM (QNSds)
Are those the "As Seen on TV" green pans? TV pitch channels have an amazing array of cookware. Probably all of 'em out of the same Chinee factory, too.
Comes with recipe book: "101 Ways to Wok Your Dog".
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 04:14 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 04:16 PM (CDGpN)
Not sure I'm falling for it, but if true that is an impressive hamburger vat.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 07, 2024 04:16 PM (MeG8a)
He's weird that way. I've seen him kick huge contracts out the door for disrespecting him, and take a liking to some upstart with a product they're passionate about and put it in a high traffic spot Coca Cola would literally murder to get.
It's an eccentric bunch.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:17 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 04:17 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 07, 2024 04:17 PM (sJHOI)
Thus ensuring that a McD's patty in Indiana tastes the same as one in CA, TX, MD or wherever.
When your grind is representative of every known cattle region and herd, well, it's all gonna average out.
Except in New Guinea, where FJB claims it's gonna taste like McUncle.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 04:19 PM (e6UQI)
Discount fresh salmon filet (got a whole side for $4.35/lb b/c it's dated tomorrow - yeah, 2.6 lbs is getting eaten tonight) topped with pesto.
Salad Bag
Aldi's Raspberries and Strawberries
Chicken Bacon Racon flatbread for the boy, with tastes for the others (except me) - also 50% off
I also bought their 10 for $10 burgers for $5 for tomorrow's dinner...and in a splurge bought their chili lime chicken breast for $3.29/lb (full price, but the other things were cheap, so under $10/dinner protein was fine)...
I actually threw out a produce item for the 1st time in a year this week as we battled illness, and now folks are finally getting appetites and health back (it's why we shopped today, when it's usually Friday or Saturday)...I got sick last Sunday night and felt fully human today for the 1st time...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 04:20 PM (exHjb)
Comes with recipe book: "101 Ways to Wok Your Dog".
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 04:14 PM (e6UQI)
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I got them at Williams Sonoma and they said they were made in Italy, but knowing me, I probably got screwed. 😁
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 04:20 PM (js+sc)
Posted by: Pete Bog
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Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 04:16 PM
Possibly the mascot of Washington State or BYU, or a shout-out to women out prowling to get the 'mrrrroooowww' on?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 04:21 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:21 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: JHP2 at July 07, 2024 04:22 PM (UIvnv)
I hope that practice isn't widespread, but it probably is.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 07, 2024 04:22 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 04:22 PM (xCA6C)
From a 1983 cookbook by Australian Jo Ann Shirley, the “Wonderful Ways to Prepare…” series. This one is “biscuits and cookies”, which I bought because I thought it’d be neat to have a bunch of Australian biscuit recipes. Which was stupid, because I know that in the commonwealth biscuits is just another word for what we’d call cookies, c.f. “digestive biscuits”, one of the most dangerous things I can buy when I’m overseas or in a grocery that stocks from explicitly foreign suppliers.
But they were good, and the rest of the cookies look interesting, too.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 07, 2024 04:24 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 04:24 PM (63Dwl)
If so, we will pivot to fish tacos!
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 04:24 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 04:22 PM
No dog. Would not eat.
Posted by: Barky Soetoro at July 07, 2024 04:25 PM (UdzhC)
Big Mac no cheese or McDouble no cheese (I have a price I will pay for two crappy thin burgers - so that's how I decide)
Small fry with sweet and sour
Apple bag
Tap water
That's my travel meal - they sometimes will also give me a hot water cup for my green tea, so I have no complaints for the arches (except price - but that's everywhere thanks to ol' Joe)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 04:25 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Hope Solo at July 07, 2024 04:26 PM (1FWWQ)
Adding anything afterward like vegetables is completely superfluous and unnecessary.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 04:27 PM (KO+0G)
If so, we will pivot to fish tacos!
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 04:24 PM (p4NUW)
Can't lose either way!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 04:27 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Kathy Griffin at July 07, 2024 04:27 PM (cHOHf)
GOPe lives in France, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 04:27 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 04:13 PM (tT6L1)
Nice!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 04:28 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 04:28 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 04:28 PM (p4NUW)
The regions and herds they buy from might change, but to the retail customer, the flavor never changes.
Same at the distilleries. The Master Blenders at (for example), determine exactly which of the OLD barrels of Beam get mixed into the new, hot-batch out of the stills... thus ensuring the same flavor, bottle to bottle, year after year.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 04:28 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 07, 2024 04:29 PM (uHd5d)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 07, 2024 04:29 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 04:11 PM (js+sc)
I finally coughed up for a Hexclad Dutch oven. (It was still outrageously expensive on sale.)
Cooking Italian, the Dutch oven is probably the pan I use most, so I could (sort of) justify the expense.
It arrived yesterday, and I still have to season it but I'm curious how it compares to the Calphalon one I've been using for a few years.
Posted by: jix at July 07, 2024 04:30 PM (VghtP)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 04:25 PM (exHjb)
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They're currently advertising medium size drinks for "only" $2.29. It was only a year or two ago that their summer special was any size drink for 99 cents.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 04:30 PM (js+sc)
Adding anything afterward like vegetables is completely superfluous and unnecessary.
Wrong!
The perfect sandwich must also include mustard (but never mayo), butter lettuce, and onions of some variety. While superfluous, other ingredients can be added depending on the eater's nasal health at the time.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 04:30 PM (xCA6C)
Paper towels from Uzbekistan, taco shells from Belize just the craziest sources. They took care of us too, we had to close overnight for the first time in 40 years; but the store was open for employees, we got first crack at incoming loads when there were hundreds of people lined up outside the store in the morning.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:30 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: Cora Segal at July 07, 2024 04:31 PM (UdzhC)
Huh, who would have thought "swill" had such a precise definition.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 04:32 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:32 PM (bFId9)
??????????
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 04:16 PM (CDGpN)
Washington State University, the pride of the PAC2 was the home of CBD’s wagyu dinner.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 07, 2024 04:32 PM (zHw5S)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 07, 2024 04:33 PM (1FWWQ)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 04:30 PM (js+sc)
Yeah, I haven't bought a separate drink in years.
My kids know I buy food and not drinks...the only time they get drinks are if the deal includes them and it's cheaper to get the drink than go without...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 04:33 PM (exHjb)
Wendy's has been making a run.
The Sausage Egg McMuffin has been the best fast food breakfast sandwich for so long.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 04:33 PM (KO+0G)
Posted by: TC at July 07, 2024 04:34 PM (cHOHf)
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 04:35 PM (zhWvq)
This recipe uses boneless chuck roast and it is one of my favorite ways to eat it.
2 to 3 pounds boneless chuck roast
2 tablespoons Adobe seasoning
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
Combine all spices in a bowl. Cut beef into 2 to 3 in chunks and dip them into the spice blend, covering all sides. Put 3/4 cup water in the bottom of a crockpot, add beef chunks and let cook covered for 6 hours on low. After 6 hours shred beef with a fork in the crockpot. Then let the beef cook in the juices for another hour.
The beef is spicy but not hot spicy. The beef can be used in hard taco shells, soft tortillas, any way you want to eat it. Use whatever toppings you like.
Posted by: four seasons at July 07, 2024 04:35 PM (//riP)
Posted by: Lena Dunham at July 07, 2024 04:36 PM (1FWWQ)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:36 PM (bFId9)
I hereby must withdraw my praise of Kroger's house brand "MAYO".
They seem to have changed vendors or suppliers. The label is the same design, but a slightly lighter hue of blue in the printing.
And the glop inside the jar tastes like mouldy carboard would, if mouldy cardboard was to be sold as an edibile condiment.
Back to square one. Hellman's has a bit too much citrus "tang". Dukes is hella smooth, but also hella bland.
Gotta find that happy medium out there in an as yet undiscovered brand.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 04:37 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Lena Dunham at July 07, 2024 04:38 PM (1FWWQ)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
Miracle Whip! I absolutely hate the taste of mayonnaise.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 04:39 PM (oaGWv)
Thanks for including the pickled red onions recipe. I love that kind of thing. They go great on a baked potato or a bratwurst (if I don't have kraut on there first).
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 04:40 PM (zudum)
Gotta find that happy medium out there in an as yet undiscovered brand.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024
This is because mayonnaise is gross, Jim. It looks gross, it tastes gross. It’s gross. The only mayo I would eat is my mom’s homemade with artichokes.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 04:40 PM (p4NUW)
My office gets deliveries of Meeting Food that always includes bags of condiments. That's where I get mayo, from the hundreds of packets in a bin in the Shared Refrigerator.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:40 PM (bFId9)
There is some real crap mayo out there.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 07, 2024 04:40 PM (qZEuM)
The founders and VC and PE investment firms made out like bandits. Billions. Beyond Meat was valued at over $15 billion at one time. It was all a big pump and dump scheme. When the truth was revealed and the stock cratered, the early investors had already sold at sky-high valuations. They laughed all the way to the bank. They are now busy dreaming up their next “silly” scheme to fleece stupid later investors.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 07, 2024 04:41 PM (NSkH6)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 04:43 PM (KO+0G)
Posted by: huerfano at July 07, 2024 04:43 PM (VGOMa)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 04:43 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:43 PM (bFId9)
Also used steeped coffee grounds with brown sugar and vanilla to make a coffee liquor. I'll add rum after 6 to 8 hours of steeping. (A little chemistry says the temps here mean I could shorten the steeping time; but, I'll go 6 hours.)
Oh, and I want that chuck roast!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 04:45 PM (JhIYV)
There is a restaurant here in town where I know for a fact I can get a real rare steak.
It won't be inexpensive.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:45 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 07, 2024 04:45 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:47 PM (bFId9)
Think I’ll drag out a couple of locally produced steaks for dinner.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 07, 2024 04:47 PM (zHw5S)
Anyway, an onion and a half, a good size can of mushrooms, a pepper, a shredded carrot, can of whole toms, can of dice, couple of cubes of tomato paste, a couple of tablespoons of crushed hot peppers. Will have with a couple of hot Italian sausages over rice or pasta when I get my fill of the smell of it cooking.
Posted by: From about that Time at July 07, 2024 04:47 PM (4780s)
I use evaporated milk to make mayonnaise as needed; it also means that I can adjust the citrus and the spices to the salad. My basic recipe is:
¼ tsp salt; ¼ tsp smoked paprika; ¼ tsp dry mustard; pinch of pepper; pinch of cayenne; 3 tbsp evaporated milk; ½ cup salad oil; 4 tsp lemon juice.
Mix the spices in a bowl. Whisk in the milk. Very gradually whisk in the salad oil, beating until smooth each time. Whisk in the lemon juice until smooth and thick.
It’s great with roast potato salad, although a lot of that is because of the smoked paprika.
I got this from an old (1940) pamphlet from the Pet Milk company. I like egg-based mayonnaise, too, but one egg makes too much for me and it’s harder to emulsify than the Pet Milk version.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 07, 2024 04:47 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Jordan61
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Doesn't All Clad have a lifetime warranty on their nonstick pans? I have some and that was one of the reasons I paid the premium for them.
None of the HEB's around me have the cut marrow bones. Now I have to buy the dog version and they cost 50% more. They are for Buckley but the human version were cheaper so I try to buy them.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 04:48 PM (PZo5T)
So, when no one wants to eat b/c of sore throats, there is nothing easier and better than taking a campbell's condensed tomato soup (normal version - I think it's still their 1950's recipe) and using Trader Joe's beef bone broth as the dilution agent. Add in some nutritional yeast (or parm if dairy is your thing), and cover protein, vitamins, some calories, and drinkable warmth that you might actually eat in one go.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 04:49 PM (exHjb)
I am unable, for my entire life, to properly hard boil an egg. I have decided it is one of those things, like finishing plaster walls, to which I am unsuited.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:43 PM
13 minutes boiling time - nothing less. Then into ice water until eggs are close to 32 degrees F. It takes quite some time, maybe half an hour. Eggs are the eighth wonder in the world when it comes to retaining heat.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 04:49 PM (RKVpM)
??????????
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 04:16 PM (CDGpN)
Washington State University, the pride of the PAC2 was the home of CBD’s wagyu dinner.
Posted by: Pete Bog
You don't need to mansplain.
I'm just wondering why, as a fellow Husky, you're rooting for the Cougs?
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 04:50 PM (1DWAs)
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 04:50 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 04:50 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:52 PM (bFId9)
Anyway, an onion and a half, a good size can of mushrooms, a pepper, a shredded carrot, can of whole toms, can of dice, couple of cubes of tomato paste, a couple of tablespoons of crushed hot peppers. Will have with a couple of hot Italian sausages over rice or pasta when I get my fill of the smell of it cooking.
Posted by: From about that Time at July 07, 2024 04:47 PM (4780s)
Yum!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 04:52 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Emmie at July 07, 2024 04:52 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: JHP2 at July 07, 2024 04:22 PM (UIvnv)
In the late 70s I worked for corporate in a few Boston area stores. Breakfast was still the biggest challenge to manage, since it was new.
To this day, I think it was the hardest job I had, trying to keep 16-year-olds productive for most of their shift, and trying to figure out who was likely to be smoking a joint in the dumpster enclosure instead of cleaning the parking lot.
Which reminds me of a funny story from that era. We went up to Boston for a concert, and I was hoping to run into someone I knew - Boston Common area had a likelihood of things like that happening.
And I did - it was an Aqualung who often raided the trash cans in the parking lot in the Roslindale McD's for remnants.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 04:53 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:53 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 07, 2024 04:53 PM (qZEuM)
When I was in college I had two cooking utensils in my dorm room: an air popper for popcorn, and an electric hot water pot, I think, that I used exclusively for Campbell’s tomato soup.
Buttered popcorn and tomato soup is a pretty good meal.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 07, 2024 04:53 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:55 PM (bFId9)
Buttered popcorn and tomato soup is a pretty good meal.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 07, 2024 04:53 PM (EXyHK)
Not the iron and ironing board for grilled cheese, instead?
I usually make homemade croutons (from chopped Safeway French bakery bread, olive oil, and seasonings) to top my tomato soup...but illness means no effort.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 04:55 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: LenNeal
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I could do that easily.... if I were remodeling..... and had money. I think I could sell one of my kids 🤔
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 04:56 PM (PZo5T)
Philly cheese steak tonight from local pizza/steak joint which changed ownership recently after 30 plus years under the same owner. Still excellent. Wife reports a lotta kids around the register and taking orders so probably family owned.
Once upon a time in America.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 04:56 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04
Do you have an air fryer? Put them on a wire rack, cook at 300 for 8 minutes for soft boiled, 13 for hard boiled.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 04:58 PM (p4NUW)
Then ten minutes at full boil.
Then a cooling period of in cold water until ready to eat.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 04:58 PM (KO+0G)
If I’d thought about it, I probably would have!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 07, 2024 04:59 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Moki at July 07, 2024 05:00 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: LenNeal
Pretty sure my crappy townhome kitchen would cost $30K+ to just redo everything in the same uber-low-end it is...which is why it's the one big project I haven't done...
If I do it ever, it's gonna be all about function, lack of maintenance, and easiness...if I ever do it...
PS - It doesn't help that I'd need both electrical and plumbing permits before I'd start, so that's the 1st $1K flushed for nothing...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:00 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Kathy at July 07, 2024 05:00 PM (p69D5)
Four reasons. Mixed marriage. Cougar Gold Cheese, cosmic Crisp Apples and WSU Wagyu.
And the observation that in the insanity sweepstakes defining higher education these days WSU is running way behind our esteemed Alma mater which is consumed by political stupidity. Must be something in the Palouse winters that prevents the formation of ideas like chicks with dicks.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 07, 2024 05:01 PM (zHw5S)
If hard boiled eggs is too much work then I'm sure I'm dealing with a communist who is going to put me in a camp and make hard boiled eggs for him/her/they.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 05:01 PM (RKVpM)
I did it all myself and the only reason it went that high was my now ex wife squawking she wanted this here and that there.
It's a nice kitchen.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:01 PM (bFId9)
You can only have 2 of those.
Fast and cheap won't be good.
Cheap and good won't be fast.
Fast and good won't be cheap.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 07, 2024 05:02 PM (MeG8a)
Perhaps this will be the catalyst to fire them all and privatize liquor sales. I'll drink to that. Oh. Wait. Damn.
Posted by: Fozzy at July 07, 2024 05:02 PM (rVI/O)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04:52 PM (bFId
You are lucky to find that. There is a guy that makes copper pans and he will re tin them. I watched a video of him making pans and it was fascinating.
https://youtu.be/mTztlpAcips?si=tBzkGuxI1e2U8G0I
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 07, 2024 05:02 PM (uHd5d)
Posted by: Chuck Schumer at July 07, 2024 05:03 PM (Mig/N)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:03 PM (KO+0G)
Just Crack the eggs and heat them in a pan and put them on toast, that's what I do. This whole 13 minutes, dump in ice water, WTF
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:03 PM (bFId9)
Then ten minutes at full boil.
'Amazing Race' had some contest once where the contestants had to hard boil eggs. Everyone who boiled them in less then 13 minutes the judges rejected as too runny.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 05:04 PM (RKVpM)
I did it all myself and the only reason it went that high was my now ex wife squawking she wanted this here and that there.
It's a nice kitchen.
Posted by: LenNeal at
Have you looked at just counters recently?
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 05:04 PM (p4NUW)
I know about fast, good, and cheap.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 07, 2024 05:04 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 05:05 PM (oaGWv)
I did Careful and Slow which is how said ex wife got stainless steel countertops.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:06 PM (bFId9)
I have a recipe for real sourdough baguettes that my French teacher gave me in high school. The starter is made from grated potatoes. I've never actually completed it, but somehow through thousands of miles of moving, I've hung onto it for over 50 years. I think it deserves some serious thought.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:06 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 07, 2024 05:07 PM (NSkH6)
Posted by: LenNeal and Monty Python at July 07, 2024 05:08 PM (bFId9)
However...
There are still some gems out there, usually one-off owned places, where the owners still care. The Carnivore outside Fort Leonard Wood in St. Robert, MO, is an example. Owned by an Army WO, which is low-key and fabulous. Highly-recommended, if you happen to be along the I-44 corridor.
And yes, they do actual 'blue rare'. Ask me how I know.
Posted by: goatexchange at July 07, 2024 05:08 PM (PxlMs)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 05:09 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:09 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 05:04 PM (RKVpM)
They weren't doing it right.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:10 PM (KO+0G)
Everything explained by School Lunch Lady, I suggest not using this highly regarded chef matron as a role model for anything edible beyond feeding 8 year old boys who will eat bugs on a dare.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:10 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:09 PM (5p7BC)
Depends if you can tangently link it to food...or just add food thoughts after...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:10 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 05:11 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:11 PM (KO+0G)
However..."
Never had a bad steak at J.Gilbert's in Columbus, OH.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 05:12 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:11 PM (KO+0G)
Technically, it needs food relation even over 100...but if it's French, that's not hard...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:12 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:13 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 07, 2024 05:14 PM (NSkH6)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 07, 2024 05:14 PM (9cG39)
If someone can not make hard boiled eggs then they cannot make deviled eggs. Sprinkled with paprika, parsley, and a touch of Old Bay.
I can't imagine a picnic event without deviled eggs. Unless it involves gunfire and gangs of newcomers. Civilized people eat deviled eggs and spend the time to prepare them carefully and avoid giving their guests salmonella.
I mean, look at Joe Biden. This is a guy who has suffered a lifetime of undercooked hard boiled eggs.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 05:14 PM (RKVpM)
I have a recipe for real sourdough baguettes that my French teacher gave me in high school. The starter is made from grated potatoes. I've never actually completed it, but somehow through thousands of miles of moving, I've hung onto it for over 50 years. I think it deserves some serious thought.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024
I'd love to hear about it if you do it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 07, 2024 05:14 PM (uHd5d)
Hahaha
Now he's stuck, he has to sharpen YOUR kitchen knives to justify the expense! He better do a good job.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:15 PM (bFId9)
Finally got a few things together and made tacos dorados. Now that's what I'm talking about!
I'm experimenting with the last of the filling and some of the corn tortillas. I softened the tortillas in beef and bacon fat on the warm griddle and filled them with the beef/cheese blend and folded them. Then I placed them flat in a baggie in the freezer. I want to see if I can premake a big batch and pull them out of the freezer and toast them in a skillet, either with the fat already on the tortillas or with a dollop from my bacon grease jar.
Let's see ... it would be too good to be true for my experiment to produce perfect tacos. I predict that the tortillas will not hold together like they do when fresh. Either that, or the tortillas will have moisture in the wrong place and not brown properly, or the filling will not get hot enough by the time the tortillas are toasted.
Posted by: Emmie at July 07, 2024 05:15 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 07, 2024 04:53 PM (EXyHK)
We used to drop the popcorn into the soup, like croutons.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:15 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 05:15 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Archimedes
Bud tastes the same all over the world and there are a lot places it is brewed.
Matching the flavor profile with all the different waters is a real skill.
(Even if it is a megaswill there are really skilled brewmasters doing the work.)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 05:15 PM (U6iLH)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 05:11 PM (PZo5T)
My knives are never sharp enough for a tomato so I gave up and use a bread knife.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 07, 2024 05:16 PM (uHd5d)
Zoom call with Dem leadership happened today.
Nadler, Takano, Smith, and Morelle are calling for Biden to drop out.
Himer, Beyer, and Raskin are expressing skepticism Biden can win.
My personal feeling is that Jeffries wants Biden gone. With Biden off the top of the ticket, they have a chance to take the House. Jeffries is on record that if Dems take the House, they will not certify Trump if he wins.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:16 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Mr. Ray
Technically the weekend threads try to be somewhat content specific.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 05:17 PM (/di7g)
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=2XXWGjHtGOg
I simplified the process so that far fewer pans were required.
Posted by: Emmie at July 07, 2024 05:17 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 04
Eggs in large pot with plentiful water. Bring to a rolling boil. Remove from heat and replace cover. Let stand for 13 minutes, then dump the hot water and run cold water over, as needed, until cool.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:18 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 05:18 PM (/di7g)
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 07, 2024 05:14 PM (NSkH6)
I will say on ordering steak...I had to get allergy meals on Royal Caribbean 2 months ago. I got a lot of steaks. All medium rare (and the filet rare). They were all perfectly cooked and well done. No sauces covering up issues with the steaks b/c allergy, so they stood on their own as well-cooked steaks.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:18 PM (exHjb)
Joe Biden has so much salmonella coursing through his brain the Pacific Northwest is considering knocking down some dams to ease their seasonal migration.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 05:19 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:19 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:16 PM (5p7BC)
Wha-? What about "our precious democracy"?
Posted by: Emmie at July 07, 2024 05:19 PM (Sf2cq)
Let's see ... it would be too good to be true for my experiment to produce perfect tacos. I predict that the tortillas will not hold together like they do when fresh. Either that, or the tortillas will have moisture in the wrong place and not brown properly, or the filling will not get hot enough by the time the tortillas are toasted.
Posted by: Emmie at July 07, 2024 05:15 PM (Sf2cq)
Did you do it when the filling was cold or hot? I'd imagine hot filling would release moisture as it cooled, so it wouldn't be crisp. But if it was cold, you have a chance...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:20 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:19 PM (bFId9)
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Because they're good?
Posted by: Captain Obvious makes deviled eggs that are world-famous in Portland at July 07, 2024 05:20 PM (3Fz6p)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:21 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:21 PM (KO+0G)
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 07, 2024 05:14 PM (NSkH6)
I will say on ordering steak...I had to get allergy meals on Royal Caribbean 2 months ago. I got a lot of steaks. All medium rare (and the filet rare). They were all perfectly cooked and well done. No sauces covering up issues with the steaks b/c allergy, so they stood on their own as well-cooked steaks.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:18 PM (exHjb)
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The food on cruises is generally high quality, at least in the restaurants where you order at the table. (Those buffet tables for the steerage crowd can be nasty and like pigs at a trough.) For many people, the food and booze are the main reasons to go on a cruise.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 07, 2024 05:22 PM (NSkH6)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 05:04 PM (p4NUW)
We chose 2 granite slabs when we built this house, and have the same stuff in the kitchen and both bathrooms.
Publius has excellent taste!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:22 PM (w6EFb)
Zoom call with Dem leadership happened today.
Nadler, Takano, Smith, and Morelle are calling for Biden to drop out.
Himer, Beyer, and Raskin are expressing skepticism Biden can win.
My personal feeling is that Jeffries wants Biden gone. With Biden off the top of the ticket, they have a chance to take the House. Jeffries is on record that if Dems take the House, they will not certify Trump if he wins.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:16 PM (5p7BC)
So, Dems are still "stewing" b/c Biden's making a mess in the kitchen...and steaming about not being able to make their perfect meal b/c he destroyed the place...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:23 PM (exHjb)
Which is possible, since my taste buds really haven't rebounded since getting covid...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 07, 2024 05:25 PM (MeG8a)
"I do not give FREE BJ's !!!!!!!! They are $5K a piece towards my campaign for POTUS !!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Kunalota harris at July 07, 2024 05:25 PM (/1UO6)
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My favorite knife for slicing tomatoes is RADA's TOMATO SLICER (made in USA) ...
Posted by: Kathy at July 07, 2024 05:25 PM (p69D5)
Posted by: Bigsmith at July 07, 2024 05:26 PM (MrBsC)
Yuck. It was a pain in the ass to clean."
Some season the banneton. I don't, I just use the linen liner. Seasoning looks like work.
How to season: https://tinyurl.com/4b7849dz
I have a boule headed to the oven in minutes.
Nice looking loaf CBD
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2024 05:26 PM (8I4hW)
And, she HAD to have cabinets, 'with doors', when I told her why not integrated custom shelves with heavy canvas curtains.
Just couldn't see the vision.
Had to look like other women's kitchens or OH NO, her house was trash and Self Esteem
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:26 PM (bFId9)
Their meat is always good. But that was a surprise....
Posted by: Stateless at July 07, 2024 05:26 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 07, 2024 05:22 PM (NSkH6)
Yeah, I couldn't eat at buffets b/c RCCL considers all their food contaminated. When I went to their Solarium Buffet, their Hooked chef (who I'd talked to 10 minutes before to preorder for the next day the one extra paid lunch meal we boughts), walked me around the buffet, asked what I wanted, and then made me the best dang meal of my trip. Even better than my steaks (they were really good - the fish was AMAZING)...I had no chicken all trip b/c apparently, poultry was too hard to make allergy safe but steak and seafood was easy. Go figure!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:26 PM (exHjb)
I got 4 of my knives sharpened... they are the most used. The other 20 or so are out of luck...
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 05:26 PM (PZo5T)
I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m a fan of Wilders in Joplin. I like to stop there on the drive from Texas to Michigan.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 07, 2024 05:27 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 07, 2024 05:27 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:28 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 05:11 PM
*fistbump*
If my knives can't shave hair off my hand, they're too dull. I hate dull knives.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 05:28 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:23 PM (exHjb)
*******
Yes, it seems Brandon is making a dogs breakfast out of the situation. No grilling for me tonight because its finally raining!!!!
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 07, 2024 05:28 PM (9cG39)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 05:11 PM (PZo5T)
I pierce the skin with the tip of my knife where I'm going to slice. That usually works well.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:29 PM (w6EFb)
With Biden off the top of the ticket, they have a chance to take the House.
Doubtful in a low (D) voter turnout year. I mean the (D)'s are really going to stand in line for another four years of a shit sandwich?
In my state, in Philly, sure they don't show up someone votes for them. But I don't see it being nearly enough. There would have to be a Guinness certified new world record in fraud.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 05:29 PM (RKVpM)
My dad talks about using popcorn as breakfast cereal. He claims to have enjoyed it, but doesn’t do it anymore, sticking to commercial breakfast cereal. I’ve made a homemade cereal mix that uses roughly-ground popcorn as one of its ingredients, and it is good.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 07, 2024 05:29 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 07, 2024 05:14 PM (uHd5d)
I'll be sure to report, if I actually do it. I'll be watching a few videos on the shaping of baguettes, because that's an important aspect.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 05:31 PM (cWNll)
I remember I asked about oysters for my pre-order. And he said maybe. I show up the next day for the lunch and he says "how about mussels" and I say "great" (knowing that oysters were now out - it's what's not said) - it was the best mussel dish I've ever had...and my whole family helped me finish the whole thing b/c it was amazing.
It wasn't the "on menu" item b/c that wasn't possible...but I'd love to know what he did...garlic, herbs, wine were the base (with some heat from something) if I was guessing...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:31 PM (exHjb)
I just popped some chocolate chip cookies into the oven...
It will soon smell delicious around here...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 05:31 PM (BpYfr)
That is dangerous.
Sharpen your knives.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:31 PM (bFId9)
That is the potential constitutional crisis noone is talking about.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:32 PM (KO+0G)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 07, 2024 05:32 PM (IG4Id)
https://tinyurl.com/45ms48xu
Posted by: Kathy at July 07, 2024 05:32 PM (p69D5)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 05:32 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 05:31 PM (cWNll)
You mean, are the French Fried?
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:33 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 05:33 PM (RIvkX)
Shed cat claws. I was at work and got stabbed in the perineum and dug a cat claw out of my underpants.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:34 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
Now that'll start a country wide food fight.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 05:35 PM (U6iLH)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 05:31 PM (cWNll)
France and Europe are so far gone that I don't think many of us care.
But what are your thoughts?
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:36 PM (KO+0G)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 05:33 PM (RIvkX)
Yum!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:37 PM (exHjb)
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Not a fan of serrated knives for anything other than bread. I'm a bit of a knife snob. I have nice knives. Even my kids are starting to appreciate them after going to friends houses and using other people's knives.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 05:37 PM (PZo5T)
On a rare occasion The Kid and myself agree: either do chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven or let them go crispy.
I anticipate disagreement but, as I state, rare agreement.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:37 PM (bFId9)
French food sucks, I'm never changing my mind on that.
Stand on any intersection in Paris. There is a cafe on all 4 corners. The menu is identical, and the food is terrible.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:39 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:34 PM
My eyes watered just reading that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 05:39 PM (Wnv9h)
This food thread about knives influenced me to start bringing my own cooking knives internationally when I travel. I thought it sounded stupid but then recalled all the shitty tools in apartments and when checking bags, I now bring my own knives.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:40 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 07, 2024 05:40 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:40 PM (KO+0G)
Even a pulled pork sandwich I got at some walkup deep in a neighborhood was excellent.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:40 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 07, 2024 05:40 PM (szKLp)
It will end in tears.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 05:41 PM (cWNll)
This food thread about knives influenced me to start bringing my own cooking knives internationally when I travel. I thought it sounded stupid but then recalled all the shitty tools in apartments and when checking bags, I now bring my own knives.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:40 PM (bFId9)
I ALWAYS bring my knife and 1 cutting board when I travel by car...not sure how you get a chef's knife on a plane (and cruise ships won't let you bring them on board)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:41 PM (exHjb)
Told the owner that too. She didn't look surprised.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:42 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 05:43 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:43 PM (KO+0G)
Told the owner that too. She didn't look surprised.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:42 PM (5p7BC)
I think French food is better when had not in France...they seem to export anyone who can actually cook...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:43 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:19 PM (bFId9)
You don't think Baptists make deviled eggs? One of the first things I had to do for MiL. It was a nice recipe, with drizzled avocado oil on top.
And I got the plate to go with it. As an ex-Catholic, I never had to make deviled eggs.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:44 PM (w6EFb)
Hissy Fit had HUGE claws for such a 6 pound little shit, one measures 3/8". Like a little leopard and she'd shed them all over. That one got into the wash.
There's a little jar of hundreds of her claws in the kitchen, it's insane. Little ball of razor wire.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:44 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 07, 2024 05:14 PM (uHd5d)
I'll be sure to report, if I actually do it. I'll be watching a few videos on the shaping of baguettes, because that's an important aspect.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:31 PM (w6EFb)
I have plans to make sourdough but I never do.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 07, 2024 05:45 PM (oaoUQ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Good luck!
I've had some real *winners* years ago. I hope they have improved, actually they'd be out of business if they hadn't improved.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 05:45 PM (U6iLH)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:18 PM (w6EFb)
That's Alton Brown's method from Good Eats, which I used to use but had frequent problems with the shells sticking to the membrane sticking to the eggs. Found another method from America's Test Kitchen that works just as well for timing the yolk, but (at least for me) has the additional benefit that the shells never stick.
Bring your water to a boil, then add the room temp eggs. (Sometimes one will pop, but that's because it already had a hairline crack.) Bring water back to a boil, then remove from heat and let stand for 15 minutes. Chill under running cold water and peel when cooled.
Posted by: HTL at July 07, 2024 05:45 PM (xchKo)
EW that is nothing like croutons
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:21 PM (bFId9)
Of course not - they were chewy.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:46 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2024 05:26 PM (8I4hW)
Thanks! I get a kick out of making sourdough boules. I don't even use a recipe any more. I just wing it, and it works!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 05:46 PM (d9fT1)
RN is poised to have the most seats at around 120, out of the 12 parties with seats.
Going to wait for the dust to settle, but I suspect the Communists are claiming a victory that they don't actually have.
Or the exit polls I saw turn out to be completely wrong, so we will see.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:46 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 05:09 PM
A Tormek?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 05:47 PM (UdzhC)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
Does the new Congress take over before Jan 20 th?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 05:47 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:47 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 07, 2024 05:45 PM (oaoUQ)
That's a lament we all have.
Maybe some day.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:48 PM (KO+0G)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:23 PM (exHjb)
Ah, cleverly working in food analogies...
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:48 PM (w6EFb)
It's going to be a coalition government, but as long as Le Pen isn't President the media consider it a huge victory for all right-minded people.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 05:48 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: It's me donna
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Yes, Jan 6th or 7th I think.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:49 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: It's me donna
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Yes, Jan 6th or 7th I think.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:49 PM (5p7BC)
Bummer
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 05:49 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 05:51 PM (bFId9)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 04:11 PM (js+sc)
My wife rode down from the house on the back of an ATV, but there was no other quick way to get her down from the house to the wedding site in the pasture. A lot of women were jealous I know
We had a potluck, I provided the main dish, and everyone else got to bring the sides
Our third anniversary is in three days!
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 05:51 PM (D7oie)
They do make a good breakfast with black coffee.
Posted by: From about that Time at July 07, 2024 05:52 PM (4780s)
For chewy texture use unsalted butter.
For crispy texture use plain Crisco.
Posted by: Kathy at July 07, 2024 05:52 PM (p69D5)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 05:52 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:53 PM (KO+0G)
They do make a good breakfast with black coffee.
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So do stale brownies.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 05:53 PM (Q4IgG)
Our third anniversary is in three days!
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 05:51 PM (D7oie)
******
Congratulations. May you both be blessed with a long and happy together.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 07, 2024 05:54 PM (9cG39)
Go Cougs!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 05:54 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:39 PM (5p7BC)
This place is special. Kind of a hole in the wall place (no website). They specialize in Gratins of all kinds. Best food I've ever had in France, except for some home cooks.
Good location
Le Bistro des Augustins
45 Quai des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2024 05:54 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 05:53 PM (Q4IgG)
Most brownies are stale no matter how fresh. It's a tough dessert to make really well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 05:54 PM (d9fT1)
They come out tasting a bit like capers.
My Daikon and red globe radishes all bolted, so I have to find a use for them, I save seed, but there is far too much seed there.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 05:55 PM (D7oie)
Ok
I can remember, seems not that long ago, that one or two open threads would get cooked up to go with the weekend threads.
Posted by: TeeJ at July 07, 2024 05:55 PM (xZpzx)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 05:48 PM (d9fT1)
An insanely left/commie coalition, tactically controlled by the Islamist parties.
I am expecting old fashioned French street fighting, especially outside the three big metro areas, where NR is the dominate choice.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 05:55 PM (cWNll)
For chewy texture use unsalted butter.
For crispy texture use plain Crisco.
Posted by: Kathy at July 07, 2024 05:52 PM (p69D5)
Best recipe I found was from the Doubletree hotel.. It does have some oatmeal in it.. Everyone loves them
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 05:55 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 05:56 PM (W/lyH)
Up until a few days ago the media considered Joe on top of his game. The only people doing as bad as Joe in the eyes of the public is the media.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 05:56 PM (LkLld)
A really nice machine but $$$$. Woodcraft has one called Worx that uses a horizontal glass plate with stick on abrasives that looks interesting and about half the cost of a Tormek. I'm still using a diamond plate and water stones.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 05:57 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 05:56 PM (LkLld)
They knew better
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 05:57 PM (IyPmt)
Sure they did. They know better about what just happened in France and the UK. They are lying as usual.
But their base of drooling idiots wasn't supposed to know that. They are starting to doubt.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 05:58 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 05:58 PM (KO+0G)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 05:59 PM (cWNll)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 05:53 PM (Q4IgG)
Most brownies are stale no matter how fresh. It's a tough dessert to make really well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 05:54 PM (d9fT1)
Ummm, what brownies are you all eating? You must like those "cakey" ones...
ALWAYS do fudgy...and ALWAYS err to the side of undercooking vs overcooking...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:59 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:59 PM (exHjb)
There is iron in your words of brownies.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 05:59 PM (cWNll)
Posted by: Kindltot
Congrats and hope you have many more!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 06:00 PM (U6iLH)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 06:00 PM (cWNll)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 07, 2024 05:45 PM (oaoUQ)
We can nag each other every Sunday afternoon : )
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 06:00 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:59 PM (exHjb)
I agree If you want cake make a cake
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 06:00 PM (IyPmt)
Start with room-temperature eggs (using cold eggs directly from the refrigerator increases the chances of the shell cracking during the boiling process) ... Start with cold water before boiling, end with cold water after boiling, and allow boiled eggs to completely cool before attempting to remove shells (adding ice cubes to the post-cooking water shortens the cooling down time) ... The number of eggs in the cooking pot will affect the amount of time required to fully cook the egg yolks in the center of the egg (another good reason for starting with room-temperature eggs) ... And if you don't rush the cool-down time, the cooked egg whites will pull away from the inside of the egg shell, making it easier to peel.
Posted by: Kathy at July 07, 2024 06:01 PM (p69D5)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 06:00 PM (cWNll)
Almost like pudding - just cooked enough...
I have blondies in my kitchen...I make them the same way as brownies...so good!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 06:01 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 06:02 PM (cWNll)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 05:59 PM (exHjb)
I agree If you want cake make a cake
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 06:00 PM (IyPmt)
That's right - b/c cake is airy and light...cakey brownies are dense bricks...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 06:02 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 07, 2024 05:45 PM (oaoUQ)
We can nag each other every Sunday afternoon : )
Posted by: Miley
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I use to make sourdough but let the starter die. Never got around to making a new one.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 06:02 PM (PZo5T)
He thanked the people of Philadelphia for helping him win his Senate races.
The radio host that they gave the questions to was fired.
Axios got copies of his event briefing book, they include 8x10 pictures of the route to the stage to keep him from getting lost.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 06:02 PM (5p7BC)
I like it to lava out.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 06:02 PM (cWNll)
Okay, that's a little under even for me
...Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 06:02 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 06:02 PM (exHjb)
Mrs928's brownies have so much oil in them that they can't dry out, just sort of crisp on the edges.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 06:03 PM (cWNll)
I love a good thick slice of it with butter.
Sadly, none in the house right now
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 06:03 PM (5p7BC)
Our third anniversary is in three days!
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 05:51 PM (D7oie)
Congratulations! If J and I ever get married, talking about anniversaries will be so funny because we have been together so long, just not married. Because I am a freak. Which y’all already know.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 06:04 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 06:04 PM (KO+0G)
I like it to lava out.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 06:02 PM (cWNl
I make triple chocolate brownies.. Cholate chips and frosted..
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 06:04 PM (IyPmt)
45 Quai des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2024 05:54 PM (8I4hW)
That's just to the west of one of my favorite restaurants in Paris...Atelier Maitre Albert.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 06:04 PM (d9fT1)
Take eggs from water and place them in a bowl of cold water with ice. Let them sit for at least 10 minutes, longer is better.
Easy peasy.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 06:05 PM (LkLld)
So true.
https://tinyurl.com/3245t97s
h/t Biden's Dog from the this morning's Tech Thread
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 07, 2024 06:06 PM (eMsaN)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 06:06 PM (d9fT1)
Which also keeps the yolks yellow
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 06:06 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: lin-duh
You don't *have* to start your starter yourself.
These people give starter away for the cost of a return envelop (you can send money if you'd like).
https://carlsfriends.net/source.html
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 06:06 PM (U6iLH)
I like it to lava out.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 06:02 PM (cWNl
I make triple chocolate brownies.. Cholate chips and frosted..
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 06:04 PM (IyPmt)
You know, I make a ton of brownie variations, but I don't really frost them ever.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 06:07 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 07, 2024 04:47 PM (EXyHK)
I will try your recipe, but I find it fairly simple to make egg mayonnaise using my blender. I also suggest folding in the black pepper by hand when you get a good emulsification worked up, I have had trouble in the past mixing black pepper in from the beginning
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 06:07 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 06:07 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 06:07 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 06:07 PM (RIvkX)
Neat please
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 06:08 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 06:09 PM (KO+0G)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 06:07 PM (RIvkX)
That's soft-boiled.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 06:09 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: HTL at July 07, 2024 05:45 PM (xchKo)
I'll try that - I hate hard boiled eggs with moon craters.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 06:11 PM (w6EFb)
I've been told that hard water can be a cause of the green ring. I've been making them this way for years, good for long boat trips, and I don't a ring.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 06:12 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: logprof at July 07, 2024 06:12 PM (9Icev)
And the observation that in the insanity sweepstakes defining higher education these days WSU is running way behind our esteemed Alma mater which is consumed by political stupidity. Must be something in the Palouse winters that prevents the formation of ideas like chicks with dicks.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 07, 2024 05:01 PM (zHw5S)
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WSU sits on a very big hill and most of the dorms are at the bottom. The winters are cold and snow is common. As a consequence it is difficult for the social grievance group of the week to generate a lot of action. When the weather finally gets better, most of the students are more interested in catching some rays and beer.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 06:13 PM (W/lyH)
Even a pulled pork sandwich I got at some walkup deep in a neighborhood was excellent.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:40 PM (5p7BC)
Was there mid April. Ashamed to say I had pasta carbonara 5 nights in a row. Best sandwich, maybe the best ever, was at a
place called "All' Antico Vinao". They had them all over, including Florence where, I think, they originated. To go only.
https://www.allanticovinaio.com/
Best hamburger ever was at a little place in Sorrento.
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2024 06:13 PM (8I4hW)
45 Quai des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2024 05:54 PM (8I4hW)
That's just to the west of one of my favorite restaurants in Paris...Atelier Maitre Albert.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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This is good luck/timing. Both are 10-15 mins from where scampywife and I will be staying in Sept. Miklos also referred Caveau de la huchette for live music. Taking notes from the Horde.
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 06:14 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 05:06 PM (w6EFb)
try saving back two cups of the water you boil your potatoes in to make mashed potatoes. Use that to start your sponge when it cools. In my experience it makes the dough rise faster, and the bread to be softer.
Another thing to do is to add in 1/8 cup of instant potato flakes.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 06:15 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 06:15 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 06:09 PM (exHjb)
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They're softly-boiled!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 06:17 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Diogenes
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Several of my friends attended WSU. Running joke about the hills was you could tell a freshman from a senior by the size of their calves.
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 06:18 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 07, 2024 06:19 PM (qZEuM)
Mrs. F. has been purchasing these $5 "mystery" bags from local bakeries and just walked in with a half dozen giant cookies.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 06:19 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Emmie at July 07, 2024 05:19 PM (Sf2cq)
"nudging" to manipulate you into making the right decision is a specialty of the Progressives. If nudging doesn't work they are perfectly happy to burn down your house and hang a felony charge on you so you can't ever vote wrong, again.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 06:19 PM (D7oie)
I've been told that hard water can be a cause of the green ring. I've been making them this way for years, good for long boat trips, and I don't a ring.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 06:12 PM
What I've read is the ice bath removes chance of ring. Not sure if ice is required but rapid cool down is the thing. My 50 degree well water just made a nice half dozen. Wife is finishing the filling. Fishing tomorrow. Less people, more fish.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 06:20 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 07, 2024 06:20 PM (szKLp)
Posted by: RokShox at July 07, 2024 06:21 PM (2ztDM)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 06:23 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 06:23 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 07, 2024 06:24 PM (luaqR)
Never at any of the chains.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 06:25 PM (KO+0G)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 06:25 PM (w6EFb)
Thanks for the food thread CBD.
I saved your red onion recipe and will try it soon.
No bread baking here for a bit as temps will be over 115F all week and I don't want to punish the heat pump (and the electric bill) by baking.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 06:26 PM (U6iLH)
In my state, in Philly, sure they don't show up someone votes for them. But I don't see it being nearly enough. There would have to be a Guinness certified new world record in fraud.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 05:29 PM (RKVpM)
For what its worth, the Libertarian Party of Colorado just endorsed RFK Jr over their own presidential candidate, Chase Oliver.
I have no idea if this is due to an excess of enthusiasm by the the radicals in the LPCO or a big FU to the Pragmatist wing of the party that nominated Oliver. There is a saying that goes: If you want to predict the future in a contentious and confusing world, choose the most amusing outcome. This amuses me more than any other outcome, and I did not have it on my Bingo card.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 06:26 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 06:25 PM (w6EFb)
That sounds good.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 06:26 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 07, 2024 06:26 PM (luaqR)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 06:26 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 06:27 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 06:23 PM
*sets alarm for 6:59*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 06:28 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 06:28 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 06:28 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 06:04 PM (pZEOD)
Have a potluck. Invite the family, it is more fun that seeing them at the funerals. Now please imagine that I have spoken to you like a Dutch Uncle on this subject
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 06:28 PM (D7oie)
Bacon!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 07, 2024 06:24 PM (luaqR)
Potatoes.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 06:29 PM (KO+0G)
Bacon!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 07, 2024 06:24 PM (luaqR)
Potatoes.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 06:29 PM (KO+0G)
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SpaghettiOs
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 06:30 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 06:30 PM
You're just trolling the Food Thread now.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 06:31 PM (Wnv9h)
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And running up the comment count!
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 06:31 PM (JwHpX)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 06:31 PM
We'll hook you up in the Gub Thread.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 06:32 PM (Wnv9h)
In 1958, as she settled in to her new digs in West Hollywood, an attractive woman introduced herself and asked Big Mamma if she liked baseball. Being a relative newcomer from Sweden, Big Mamma had to confess that she knew little about the sport. The woman introduced herself as Carol Jean Zimmer and that's how Big Mamma got to see every Dodger home game played during their inaugural season in LA. Rest in peace, big mamma, and thanks for the great stories...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 07, 2024 06:35 PM (szKLp)
Thanks CBD for the food thread, and all your threads actually. Ok, butt kissing out of the way.
My gas grill has been dying and limping along, and I've been wanting a flat top griddle (i.e. Blackstone) but i don't want two appliances on my deck, so I bought a somewhat cheap Charbroil 6 burner grill and a separate flat-top from Steelmade. I don't know if it was here or somewhere else that I heard of them, but it is a heavy duty piece of steel. Very nice, so hopefully it will work as good as it looks/feels.
I'm in the process of seasoning both the cast iron grates of the grill, and the flat top.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 07, 2024 06:35 PM (NMT5x)
Never at any of the chains.
Fuddrucker's was the only chain place that could do medium rare and only some of the stores.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 06:39 PM (/y8xj)
Well welcome to the thread
Somewhere here have a flat griddle could put on grill, haven't thought of that
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 06:39 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 06:40 PM (KO+0G)
Mom had half of her McCrispy. I had the other half. It was good.
Almost $20 Canadian, btw...
Posted by: Stateless at July 07, 2024 06:41 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 06:14 PM (41CYW)
I;m jealous. Get the "Paisan" at the gratin place. I would go every spring and fall if I could. Just getting tough to get around. Airports are a living hell nowdays.
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2024 06:42 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 06:48 PM (41CYW)
Last year my brother hosted a party for his grandson and had to cook several dozen burgers. He did it on his flat top. Made the same size ball of ground beef, then used a press to flatten them out. All the same size for easy cooking so no guess work of which ones cooked faster or slower. They were excellent.
Yeah if you've got a griddle laying around, try it on the grill!
Obligatory: Almost $20 Canadian...same as in town?
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 07, 2024 06:49 PM (NMT5x)
It used to be their calling-card.
Fresh, hot and consistent.
They went down hill when they lost that.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 06:49 PM (KO+0G)
Just know seasoning takes time.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 06:40 PM (KO+0G)
...and a couple pounds of bacon,,,not that there's anything wrong with that...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 07, 2024 06:49 PM (szKLp)
Last month been not getting food for baking, house is hot enough not to add a oven
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 06:50 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 07, 2024 06:24 PM (luaqR)
Bacon is axiomatic.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 06:50 PM (d9fT1)
They couldn't maintain the standards the company was built on.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 06:53 PM (KO+0G)
Made in the USA and they tell you to use bacon! win win
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 07, 2024 06:54 PM (NMT5x)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 07, 2024 06:35 PM (szKLp)
Back when athletes were human beings!
That's a great story...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 06:54 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 07, 2024 06:53 PM (KO+0G)
Si
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 06:54 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2024 06:54 PM (LHPAg)
Would say it's "too hot to broil indoors" but, hey, we're already broiling. Even indoors!
Anyhoo-- will surely broil outdoors, both tails and the cook: it's only 102 now, but likely hotter by dinnertime.
Posted by: JQ at July 07, 2024 06:55 PM (njWTi)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 06:55 PM (fwDg9)
I'm in the process of seasoning both the cast iron grates of the grill, and the flat top.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 07, 2024 06:35 PM (NMT5x)
Butt kissing is a never-ending thing...
I find that the grates get too hot to keep the seasoning, and I just keep them nice and clean.
And...I think "de-lurkificationing" is the correct term.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 06:57 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 06:58 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at July 07, 2024 06:58 PM (55boN)
Thanks for reading and commenting and de-lurkifying!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 06:58 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 07, 2024 06:58 PM (szKLp)
Posted by: JQ at July 07, 2024 07:00 PM (njWTi)
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Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 07:26 PM (63Dwl)
Those frogs are fast as lightning.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 07:26 PM (63Dwl)
It was a little bit frightening..
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2024 08:10 PM (cWNll)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at July 07, 2024 08:28 PM (65qo6)
Posted by: Otto Zilch at July 07, 2024 10:38 PM (dFTyy)
First-World Problems...
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 02:00 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 02:01 PM (1y1PF)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 02:01 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 02:02 PM (1y1PF)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 02:02 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:04 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:05 PM (p4NUW)
You'll never guess what happened next.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 02:05 PM (Q4IgG)
Plastic covers are a must! Hookers have terrible muscle control and pesky rundown is inevitable...
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Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)
Burn the house down? Or just throw away the couch, the cushions, and maybe the rug just to be safe.
You're really just an appeaser. The correct answer is hunt down every goose and duck, and destroy them! Include swans because they're assholes. You may rule over a desert, but by God, it's YOUR desert!
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 02:07 PM (xCA6C)
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Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 02:07 PM (fwDg9)
Great. So your expensive clothes are marinating in tar.
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Posted by: Your insufferable sister in law at July 07, 2024 02:08 PM (dg+HA)
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Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)
I always found painting contractors to be just plain flaky. I attribute it to years of inhaling paint solvent fumes.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (Lvojk)
Posted by: Halfhand at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (xdrSQ)
Posted by: Madge at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Hunter Bidet at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (IvSLs)
Don't get me started. Whether your gay black hooker dies or not, you get schiff all over the place.
Just an easy wipe up! Unless you gotta get rid of the body, I mean, but that's why it's good to have the ops guys on speed dial.
Posted by: Adam Schifforbrains at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 07, 2024 02:11 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (7Z4GG)
I was giddy over my first grown-up furniture purchase, a NEW couch from Ethan Allen. I thought it was so luxe. In about a year, feathers were sticking through it. I took it to a local upholsterer's shop (they exist) and the lady told me they could make some super-fine inner liners to prevent the poke-through. I said fine, but while we're here, isn't a year in premature degradation of product? She made a vomit face and said Don't even get me started on what's happened to quality nowadays.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Look On the Sunny Side at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Adam Schifforbrains at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (qgNVD)
FWP. A dead hooker to dispose of and your EV is low on charge.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (Lvojk)
It was a weird time.
Posted by: 496 at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (8I99k)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)
Before I sold my house last year, the biggest issue was getting it painted. What I learned is, some contractors don't want the job, so as you suggest, they don't return your calls, or like mine did, they give you an outrageous estimate, so you won't call them back.
Or they lowball you, and are so unreliable, if you end up finding a decent guy, you end up paying him to clean up the mess left behind by the lowballer, so the total cost is roughly what the overpriced estimate would have been months earlier.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:14 PM (qgNVD)
It was a weird time.
Posted by: 496 at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (8I99k)
My grandmother did this. And underneath that carpet was the most amazing hardwood floors. Her house was a time capsule. I wish I could have bought it.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:14 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Quality Is Job 1 at July 07, 2024 02:14 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)
I always found painting contractors to be just plain flaky. I attribute it to years of inhaling paint solvent fumes.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (Lvojk)
Many times, contractors bail when they don't think your project is big enough/expensive enough to be worth it.
Ask me how I, who live in a townhome, know...
PS - I had a 1st world success, and got a gorgeous roof/gutters/downspout (last 2 thrown in free b/c guy wanted pics to sell) done in 2 days from meeting to contract completion (contract Tuesday, work done Thursday). Maybe I could have saved $500 if I went the estimate and bring a ton of folks here...but I had a crew looking for work on sunny days b/c there's been so many in June/July here. And 10 years for them to show up and tell me if they screwed it up (50 year warranty, but I know that part is worthless - the 10 years less so)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:15 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:04 PM (V5BDR)
I went to school with Tommy Addeo of bakery fame.
Do you remember Randazzo's Fish Market?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 02:15 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: They're not bad at July 07, 2024 02:15 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 07
It better get back into the roomba!
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:16 PM (p4NUW)
I had one of those parents are out of town, party at my place parties in high school. Got way bigger than I had planned, even that girl from a different high school you didn't know showed up.
A couple friends helped me clean up and get rid of all the bottles and cans. Other than the ones some chucklehead decided to put in the wall oven.
That was a costly omission on my part.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 02:16 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 02:07 PM (fwDg9)
Had a grandma who had all of her upholstered furniture covered. Then she died, but she died fulfilled in the knowledge that beneath the plastic, her furniture was like new.
I always wondered what she was saving it for.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:16 PM (guGkK)
So, you get an extra 10k. You spent 5k getting the job done and interest rates went up another quarter of a percent making it harder to sell.
Get all your shit out. Mop the floors. Clean the bathrooms. Vacuum the carpet. Close the door.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (7Z4GG)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (Lvojk)
I don't know how any respectable hooker killer gets away with it these days. Your cell phone is tracking you, your vehicle is tracking you... red light cameras are tracking you...
The fact so many of them get away with it is evidence how shoddy police work really is, unless you practically hand them your semen to test against the dead girl's clothing.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (qgNVD)
Maybe I should have saved all this for the pet thread.
Posted by: Tom Perry at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (MX0bI)
So what do we do about this feather-jabbing problem? Try Very Expensive Sofas, like the Cloud from RH, or things you get at estate sales? Is there a satisfactory foam alternative? A stuffing that doesn't sink? We need real answers, not the disappointing compromises we've been accepting for far too long.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I remember the Fish Market, but it was my boss who lived in that neighborhood. I lived in Riverdale (Bronx) then.
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Look On the Sunny Side at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (V5BDR)
Men of the past would relax on the couch wearing nothing but a cotton (because it's summer) union suit, wool trousers, a shirt, vest, and a waistcoat. No mere feather would penetrate that.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (Lvojk)
So, you get an extra 10k. You spent 5k getting the job done and interest rates went up another quarter of a percent making it harder to sell.
Get all your shit out. Mop the floors. Clean the bathrooms. Vacuum the carpet. Close the door.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (7Z4GG)
If the house is in decent shape, the math is exactly the opposite of what you suggest. Not doing $10K worth of painting/carpeting/windows (or whatever, the type and amount varies of course) will cost you $20K in the sale price.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:20 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 07, 2024 02:21 PM (mH6SG)
If the house is in decent shape, the math is exactly the opposite of what you suggest. Not doing $10K worth of painting/carpeting/windows (or whatever, the type and amount varies of course) will cost you $20K in the sale price.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:20 PM (qgNVD)
Ok, not exactly the opposite, but the math was worth it.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:22 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Look On the Sunny Side at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (V5BDR)
Shackleton's crew would have sneered at the idea of being poked by a feather.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:22 PM (guGkK)
So, you get an extra 10k. You spent 5k getting the job done and interest rates went up another quarter of a percent making it harder to sell.
Get all your shit out. Mop the floors. Clean the bathrooms. Vacuum the carpet. Close the door.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (7Z4GG)
Depends on your house price in this environment - I can tell you no one buying townhomes/conods is buying and stripping them. They are reaching just to buy the townhomes, so they'd love move-in ready b/c they have no money left to fix anything.
I know when I bought my townhome, I was happy it was move-in ready. I repainted a total of 4 walls in the home (all in bedrooms as accent walls so everything wasn't tan), and left it 15 years til last year's large paint job (which we did ourselves)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:22 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 07, 2024 02:23 PM (dB8SF)
It's never the house.
It's where the house is.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (/7KEl)
Some Troll.
My FWP today is moving enough stuff around in my shop to make room for my drum set and kid proofing it so the grands can come out here and play.
Quad runner project is going to the dump. I found a better one a couple of months ago.
Further into the drum set is combining the two sets, one electronic, one acoustic. First though I have to build an 8'x8'x8" riser with a four gang outlet in it.
I probably should get to work before it hits 10,000 F in here.
Posted by: Reforger at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (lCaJd)
I'm a comfort over style guy, and I have cats, so I just don't see the point of expensive furniture. Is it comfortable? When the cats tear it up, can I just replace it without breaking the bank?
That's all that matters.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (V5BDR)
That's where my family lived when I was born.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: jimmymcnulty at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (6Qw2E)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 07, 2024 02:23 PM (dB8SF)
Le Pen always gets the same percent...there was no way she was ever getting a majority...consider her the reverse-Bernie of France.
I told my spouse this was coming, and he didn't believe me.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:25 PM (exHjb)
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My Mom was classy. She had slipcovers made in the exact same fabric as the furniture. Why I'll never know.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:25 PM (3ImbR)
Imma call BS. A vest is a waistcoat. I suppose someone, somewhere, wore two of them, but it's certainly not common.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 02:25 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (V5BDR)
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That's where my family lived when I was born.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (d9fT1)
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Ahoy there mateys!
I was born in Manhattan, but my first apartment was on 259th Street, across from Van Cortlandt.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 07, 2024 02:23 PM (dB8SF)
Everything was arrayed against the people outside Paris. Of course the left was going to win. They have an Olympics coming up, they can't have muzzie and yoot rioters in the streets.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (qgNVD)
Who in the Hell decided fingernail clippers had to be chromed? That makes them slippery and hard to hold and sure as God made little green apples, when you go to cut a nail, it slips and bends the nail back.
And this hurts a lot more than some wimpy little feather poking through your shorts.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (Z8Yh2)
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:25 PM (3ImbR)
Sed quis tegit opercula?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (YIxO9)
It's never the house.
It's where the house is.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024
I used to stage houses for selling in college and you would be stunned at the difference it makes in terms of time on market and selling price. You want people to walk in and picture themselves living there immediately. Neutrals, no personal pictures up, tables set, closet with most of the items out and what is left is displayed and organized. Pantries carefully set up.
It’s truly so the buyer feels like the could live there but it’s hard as hades for the seller to actually live there.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:29 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 02:30 PM (aCj1E)
And this hurts a lot more than some wimpy little feather poking through your shorts.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (W/lyH)
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got me a really nice set of nail clippers, matte black. Get a good grip on them and they look expensive. I hide it from my family so they won't disappear.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at July 07, 2024 02:31 PM (hZc6Q)
Staging makes sense when even average tract homes are priced out at well above $1 million. In my area, staging is the rule rather than the exception.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:31 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (Lvojk)
My dad wore a suit to church on Sunday. Otherwise, he wasn't "relaxing" on a couch in the damn thing. He came home from working his ass off all day, in a t-shirt and loose pants, he'd collapse into the couch and often be asleep before Walter Cronkite was finished lying to the nation.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:31 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 07, 2024 02:31 PM (Z8Yh2)
You have fingernail clippers? I mean, a tool whose entire function is to clip fingernails? Excuse me, your majesty. We had to use a meat cleaver, and let me tell you, you knew when your aim was off.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 02:32 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: ZooomZooom at July 07, 2024 02:32 PM (rfnUk)
The people who bought it immediately repainted everything. Don't know how the weird paint affected the sales price--but it certainly didn't help.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 07, 2024 02:32 PM (FEVMW)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:29 PM (p4NUW)
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When we were looking at houses my go to thought was "would I want to have Thanksgiving here".
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 07, 2024 02:33 PM (CQ8KO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (guGkK)
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Hah! Latin IV. Spent entire Senior year translating The Aeneid. Nuns know their way around cruel and unusual punishment.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:33 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:34 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:34 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:29 PM (p4NUW)
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I had someone come in and stage my last house before an open house. The place looked incredible - like a Mediterranean villa. It truly never looked like that before.
Not sure how they did it, but the transformation was amazing.
Posted by: 496 at July 07, 2024 02:35 PM (kOTaV)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:34 PM (xjTDL)
Easy-peasy.
But that sonofabitch sure isn't going back in the box.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 02:35 PM (W/lyH)
The people who bought it immediately repainted everything. Don't know how the weird paint affected the sales price--but it certainly didn't help.
That's the reason my wife and I ended up with our very nice house. The previous owner had hideous taste; the whole thing was an optic assault. However, it wasn't my first rodeo, and I knew all that could be fixed. We were at the limit of what we could pay, so fortunately, we didn't need an escalator clause or any of that nonsense.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 02:36 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:29 PM (p4NUW)
We were going to do some staging, but sorta ran out of time (since the painting took so long). Took about a month to sell, and that was probably longer than it could have.
I'm going to be buying later this year, and keep selfishly hoping interest rates come down, and prices start to burst their bubbles.
Both would mean the country is is bad shape, but at this point I don't much care.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:36 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:33 PM (3ImbR)
That Virgil knew his cacas all right.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:36 PM (guGkK)
Last house I bought in MA the real estate agent made the appointment very time specific. We had to be at the house at the assigned time, she was adamant about it.
Seemed a bit weird but whatever. Got to the house and the whole place smelled of cookies. Fresh baked, right out of the oven chocolate chip cookies to be specific.
We had pretty much already decided to buy the house but that closed the sale. Yes, it was a cheap trick but it worked.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (LkLld)
You'll never guess what happened next.
Posted by: Martini Farmer"
The plastic covers were removed and used as ice bins to keep the kegs cold? That would make perfect sense to any enterprising teenager.
Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (GKq2S)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:39 PM (xjTDL)
Staging makes sense when even average tract homes are priced out at well above $1 million. In my area, staging is the rule rather than the exception.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07
My problem is I default to a staged look. Decorators are driven by looking good and functionality. Stagers don’t give a rip about functionality.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:39 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: 4thewin at July 07, 2024 02:40 PM (37cEZ)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 07, 2024 02:32 PM (FEVMW)
Yeah, we had my house painted off white. Trying to more or less match the rest of the color scheme, it leaned toward a brown on the white scale.
The biggest reason various potential buyers gave for why they didn't want the house was the lack of room for RV parking.
Yeesh, people.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:40 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:41 PM (Lvojk)
Posted by: Remember Flaming Seeds? at July 07, 2024 02:41 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: The Chrysler Cordoba at July 07, 2024 02:42 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:34 PM (/7KEl)
FWP: So, we are also exchanging our cheap, broken, old living room furniture, which I thought would be pricey, but Value City Furniture came through (my spouse was surprised, but I guess when you can't afford food, no one buys furniture, unless it's Target/Walmart/Ikea quality)...BUT, they no longer will take your old furniture. That was a change from the last time I bought from them - said it's liability-related or something. So, I have another contractor coming the day before delivery to take my old couch and 1.5 loveseat (replaced with 1 couch and 2 reclining seats coming)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:42 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (LkLld)
Any time I was looking at a house, and it smelled of cookies, all I could think of is it was hiding the smell of dog shit.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:43 PM (qgNVD)
Then sold it.
Talk about flipping... they made a lot off it and bought a place in Pebble Beach.
I has teh sadz I didn't think of that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 02:43 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:39 PM (p4NUW)
Yep. How does a real person do anything productive in a "home office" when the room contains a fancy carved wooden table and a high-backed chair, with a couple of accent pieces arranged in the corner?
But it does make the room look big.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:43 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (JwHpX)
There will be no Outdoor FARTing between the hours of sunrise to sunset when heat is at the most extreme.
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (rcLES)
If I could have gotten up and showered before my parents got home I would have gotten away with one of the most epic end of school year parties ever.
Instead I spent the whole summer grounded and lost my car for the next year.
Posted by: Reforger at July 07, 2024 02:45 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:41 PM (Lvojk)
Oh yeah, that too. Your fake smell of cookies and flowers is masking the cig smell.
I'm not buying a house that smells too good.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:45 PM (qgNVD)
My folks just used them when expecting company.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 07, 2024 02:45 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: Bunter Hidet at July 07, 2024 02:45 PM (0ZYe2)
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 07, 2024 02:47 PM (rcLES)
some years ago I had a big club chair I needed to get rid of. This county makes it hard to get rid of stuff. So I disassembled the chair with a crowbar and a saw and put the pieces in one of the dumpsters in the neighborhood.
Tell me I can't throw something away....
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:47 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 02:49 PM (lOjKE)
The French voted for the communists whose leader detests "native French". Fuck em
Posted by: enough BS at July 07, 2024 02:49 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (xjTDL)
We looked at a house once, it was being offered around $200K less than their original asking price when they put it on the market.
Foundation problems. We had all the documentation, of everything that had been done to mitigate the problem, and on paper it looked like the problem was more or less solved.
Until we went to look at it, and saw the foundation wall.... eh... no.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:50 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:42 PM (exHjb)
Would your want your new furniture to be delivered from a truck that had previously hauled off furniture that was infested with bedbugs, mold, Yucatan Blood Spiders, and Honduran Bird-Killer roaches? Would you like to be the delivery guys handling such?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:52 PM (Lvojk)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 07, 2024 02:45 PM (cOq4q)
We're not slobs, for 364 days of the year we leave the furniture bare, but when YOU come over.....
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:52 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024
When we sold our house before moving here, I baked cookies and put them on a decorative platter as we were running out the door. We sold it in less than 24 hours for more than we asked and cash. Now the market and location were huge drivers, not just the cookies. But I pretend the cookies were the final nudge. 😂
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:54 PM (p4NUW)
some years ago I had a big club chair I needed to get rid of. This county makes it hard to get rid of stuff. So I disassembled the chair with a crowbar and a saw and put the pieces in one of the dumpsters in the neighborhood.
Tell me I can't throw something away....
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:47 PM (/7KEl)
Since I'll be starting treatment in a few months (or less, depending what the doc says next month), time is important...so I preferred giving the spouse a break and letting some other guys come and take it. My spouse is performing admirable shuttle and cleaning services along with his full time job, instead (he doesn't really do "big tool" things, nor am I helping him carry a 3 person sleeper couch)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:55 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:55 PM (/7KEl)
The people who bought it immediately repainted everything. Don't know how the weird paint affected the sales price--but it certainly didn't help.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey
The place I bought had some really bizarre colors. The dining room was some pumpkin color, and a north facing bedroom was a twilight purple. In broad daylight you needed multiple lights on to see across the room. It took four coats to light that room.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 02:55 PM (mJOpC)
I'm a comfort over style guy, and I have cats, so I just don't see the point of expensive furniture. Is it comfortable? When the cats tear it up, can I just replace it without breaking the bank?
That's all that matters.
Posted by: BurtTC
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I'm right where you are and I don't buy expensive stuff anymore. I won't unless I become a multimillionaire. But I have to admit, I get sick of my junk. Just ugly junk that doesn't satisfy the eye or respect civilized sensibilities.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:56 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July
Will last forever and look better with age, too. Unless you have my cats, in which case they will look like you sent them through the garbage disposal in a month.
They have destroyed my “pet proof” fabric Crate and Barrel couch. But they don’t seem to mess with velvet, so I am looking for a velvet slip covered couch now.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:57 PM (p4NUW)
Who in the Hell decided fingernail clippers had to be chromed?
Posted by: Diogenes
I had a hand in it.
Posted by: FUCKING TETANUS at July 07, 2024 02:59 PM (IG4Id)
We had pretty much already decided to buy the house but that closed the sale. Yes, it was a cheap trick but it worked.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (LkLld)
We once toured a home where they burned the cookies right before the Open House. The smell did not entice us to purchase.
Posted by: Ann at July 07, 2024 03:00 PM (4neFu)
Local NPR article titled " ... a former astronaut discusses being stuck in space" astronaut Terry Virts explains that they aren't out of fuel, that the fuel isn't leaking anymore and there's no emergency and they aren't stuck in space.
"In fact, they've actually declared that if there were an emergency, they could jump in the capsule, close the hatch, and come back to Earth." (then, why don't they do that?)
He also says that this is a Certification Mission. In other words, if that piece of crap makes it back to earth in one piece with astronauts alive it will be certified by NASA as a viable space craft.
https://shorturl.at/mEZjY
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:00 PM (B4c1t)
Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2024 03:00 PM (P/fUq)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:01 PM (B4c1t)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July
Will last forever and look better with age, too. Unless you have my cats, in which case they will look like you sent them through the garbage disposal in a month.
They have destroyed my “pet proof” fabric Crate and Barrel couch. But they don’t seem to mess with velvet, so I am looking for a velvet slip covered couch now.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:57 PM (p4NUW)
I admit, when I bought my recliners, my thoughts were less on aesthetics (they look nice, but others looked nicer) but on "could I sleep in the chair if I'm nauseous from treatment" and "can I sit in this chair for hours without killing my butt/back"...there was one set in the whole store I said yes to those questions (and I sat on every one). Spouse was not quite as picky. It did make for an easy decision-making experience (yes, I've walked out of stores if my butt and back didn't like anything...and I refuse couches with detachable backs/pillows - who does that)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:01 PM (exHjb)
I'm right where you are and I don't buy expensive stuff anymore. I won't unless I become a multimillionaire. But I have to admit, I get sick of my junk. Just ugly junk that doesn't satisfy the eye or respect civilized sensibilities.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07
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If it’s a solid color, you can change your whole look with pillows. We get down on Target, but they have some really cool home accessories where just swapping a few things here and there can make a huge difference. Tell me what your couch looks like.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:01 PM (p4NUW)
Daughter and family are bailing out of California. They are moving here. They have no money and zero credit. We do not have room for a family of 4. So now we have to decide what to do with/for them.
Housing is always an issue...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:03 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:03 PM (p4NUW)
It was encased in plastic.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 03:04 PM (RIvkX)
With the results in Britain, France, and Poland earlier, it does seem that Europe is bent on civilizational suicide.
The new Polish government is removing crucifixes from all public buildings, just to show you how things are going.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 03:04 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 03:04 PM (xjTDL)
There will be no Outdoor FARTing between the hours of sunrise to sunset when heat is at the most extreme.
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (rcLES)
But there will be an exception for Members of Congress, right?
Posted by: Eric Swalwell at July 07, 2024 03:05 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:03 PM (Q4IgG)
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But in the detergent commercial grandpa is happy to do laundry for 8 people.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 03:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 03:06 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 03:06 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: BurtTC
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Prices and costs vary but new paint and carpet costs will be more than recovered by the sale price. Also the convenience of a quicker sale.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:07 PM (B4c1t)
Posted by: Nova Local at July
I am hoping your treatment is successful and as easy as possible on you.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:07 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 03:08 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 07, 2024 03:08 PM (Cus5s)
Your purchasing criteria is extremely valid. Nothing at all wrong with that!
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:03 PM (p4NUW)
Funny enough, I didn't look at price til the end. Spouse did...and was surprised how nice what we got was vs how expensive some of the other stuff was that I just vetoed straight up...
Sometimes, it's b/c of height (we aren't 6 foot people, but more height challenged), sometimes it's too narrow or too wide...and I decided consoles in couches are also the devil (let's get this disgusting AND make you lean one way into hard wood, so you only have one nice way to sit)...
I got the couch reclining and the chairs reclining (I like recliners and kid broke my current one - thus, as much reclining as possible in the set, so something will always recline for me - they now know I'll have a "declared" chair, but I might break mine) - and I felt good with feet on the floor and without...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:08 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024
If they need to stay with you a bit, charge them some rent, put it into a savings account and give it back to them when they move out find.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:09 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 03:09 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:09 PM (fwDg9)
The new Polish government is removing crucifixes from all public buildings, just to show you how things are going.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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What tf did the current government do to provoke people into voting for such extremist, anti-Polish lefties?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 03:10 PM (lCaJd)
Daughter and family are bailing out of California. They are moving here. They have no money and zero credit. We do not have room for a family of 4. So now we have to decide what to do with/for them.
Housing is always an issue...
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Buy a nice used travel trailer for them to stay in until they get settled.
It will allow them the privacy they need during this unfortunate time.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:10 PM (B4c1t)
Nova Local, I didn't know about your medical situation and I'm sorry to hear it. Best of luck on your treatment and recovery.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 03:11 PM (lCaJd)
Just thinking out loud. Could you provide child care while your daughter looks for a job? Sounds as if you & your extended family are going to have to extemporize for awhile. I'm sure time will improve things, if the whole family forms a plan & commits to it. Good luck!
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:13 PM (NLIak)
Buy a nice used travel trailer for them to stay in until they get settled.
It will allow them the privacy they need during this unfortunate time.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03
But still charge them rent so they stay used to paying and budgeting for this expense while you create a savings cushion, even a small one, for them.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:13 PM (p4NUW)
I am hoping your treatment is successful and as easy as possible on you.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:07 PM (p4NUW)
Well, it will be 1st (of likely many), so it's gonna be SOP here. I now seem to have a combo of Mantle Cell Lymphoma with atypical CLL. So, you say that sounds sucky. Well, I already had the worst/rarest type of CLL, so adding MCL pretty much keeps all the same suck (life span, treatment path, etc) - I had 15 chromosomal changes in cancer cells on a (really expensive) cytogenics test done, so you just decide - somehow, I must be an X-Man b/c one chromosomal change can be devastating and here I still am...I also think I'm submitting the results to Guinness (b/c they got to the point, they didn't even identify a few, which may mean alien DNA). Doc and I get to talk them next month, so, it's not an emergency, but may make treatment quite the rollercoaster...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:13 PM (exHjb)
Trump lied.... Inflation was caused by Trump..... Economy is great..... Global Warming is the most dangerous threat..
Vote for Joe Biden.
Trump lied.... Inflation was caused by Trump..... Economy is great..... Global Warming is the most dangerous threat..
Vote for Joe Biden.
Repeat until you pull the lever for my puppet Joe Biden...
Posted by: Barry O at July 07, 2024 03:14 PM (qpLSv)
When governments stay in power for too long, they get flabby and corrupt.
Also, the EU was withholding billions in payments to Poland and Hungary to force a change of government (the EU is still withholding money to Hungary).
Even so, it's hard to believe that a majority of Poles voted for a government that explicitly was going to accept hundreds of thousands of "migrants", given what is happening to Western Europe.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 03:14 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Nova Local at
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I knew it! You are way too creative to be a mere human.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:15 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
If they claim to be Black or Illegal, they can have a zero down mortgage with no credit, and a car loan too!
Posted by: Just Sayin at July 07, 2024 03:15 PM (0ZYe2)
Nova Local, I didn't know about your medical situation and I'm sorry to hear it. Best of luck on your treatment and recovery.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 03:11 PM (lCaJd)
Thanks - it's been 4 years now, and by the numbers, there's no way I shouldn't have been treated by 7 months...so I've already had a good run.
Overall survival is supposed to be 4-9 years, but I plan on blowing that to smithereens, too. I mean, I've got 4 years done with no treatment...so what's 2 cancers with no cure vs 1...just same old, same old...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:16 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:16 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:17 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 03:17 PM (AWrpC)
Even a mobile home park with rentals is $$. Influx of illegals and the big EV battery plant is causing a shortage of "affordable" housing.
And we simply do not have space for a family of 4 regardless how dire their situation.
We're looking at options. Including sending them to our place in WV which is sub-optimal as the daughter has a job here in KY. But that might be the solution, if only for a couple months.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:17 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (ZtgZZ)
Perhaps a social friend.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (NLIak)
We once looked at a house that had a Casablanca- themed mural in the basement. And by "in the basement" I mean this mofo started at three walls at the top of the stairs and encompassed ALL of the basement walls. There were lots of palm trees, a Bogey silhouette and a monkey holding a margarita.
My husband told me that if we bought the house he would INSIST on keeping that monkey up on the wall.
You would think then, naturally, that this would have become "that Casablanca mural house" when referring to this house. However, the room that the teenage boy of the selling family inhabited smelled like a thousand unwashed jockstraps had been stuffed inside a high school gym locker and left to molder over summer vacation.
Ten years later when we refer to that house it is always "the house that had that room that smelled like balls."
Posted by: Ravenmother at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (oiHdz)
Posted by: Nova Local at
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I knew it! You are way too creative to be a mere human.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:15 PM (p4NUW)
It's either that, or they got bored after change #13...I mean I got both the words "additional material" on a few chromosomes and "1-2 more chromosomal changes" on the document...I'm on a health board, and they were kinda floored - but said, it shouldn't actually change much b/c the treatment is the treatment and it should (hopefully) kill off all the crazy cells and let the few normal ones get back to shining...til we rinse, repeat, and do again over and over...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:19 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 07, 2024 03:19 PM (ZDrQf)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:19 PM (fwDg9)
If they get carried away on what you need to do get a second opinion.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:20 PM (B4c1t)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:16 PM (/7KEl)
Thanks! It is why we are getting the "must do" home stuff done now...roof caving in or leaking (when it was failing) or me with nowhere to sit by a bathroom were two big issues.
The roof being done in 2 days was a godsend b/c I thought it would take months and effort to get done. As I told the spouse, time is money for me, and taking no time was so worth it...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:21 PM (exHjb)
Joe Biden was a senator from Delaware.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 03:21 PM (LkLld)
Yes! Happens quite often when I've been working in the garden (also, the spearheads of pine straw).
Posted by: Paco at July 07, 2024 03:22 PM (njExo)
Joe Biden was a senator from Delaware.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 03:21 PM (LkLld)
He was probably right.. Cheat vote from Penn
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:22 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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This. I have an incredibly well built house, but it's all dated. Wallpaper is fading, kitchen counters and cabinets all custom built, but formica......
Clear out my shit and go when the time comes.
Posted by: From about that Time at July 07, 2024 03:22 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (xpCR0)
If they get carried away on what you need to do get a second opinion.
Posted by: Braenyard at July
They can also recommend a few stagers. All of my projects came from listing agents.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (HOREe)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:57 PM (p4NUW)
One Kings Lane has quite a few. They get pricey but sofas in general are pricey these days.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (RIvkX)
The new government's allegiance is to the EU, not to Poland.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 03:24 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Delaware is really close to Pennsylvania, gotta give the old man that
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:24 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024
They have one that I love on my short list. It’s not slipcovered, but it’s gorgeous.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:24 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (RIvkX)
Thanks!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:24 PM (exHjb)
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I misunderstood. Thought you had acreage.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (B4c1t)
Oh my! That would leave a lasting, negative impression.
There is a claim that people no longer smell their home (bad odors in particular). Sounds like that place was a perfect example.
I wonder what it eventually sold for in relation to the listing price?
Posted by: Ann at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (4neFu)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (IyPmt)
Must vote for Biden
Must vote for Biden
Repeat until you fill out your fake mail in ballot.....
Posted by: Barry O at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (Mig/N)
Posted by: Paco at July 07, 2024 03:27 PM (njExo)
Posted by: Counting Pennies, Here at July 07, 2024 03:28 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:24 PM (exHjb)
Prayers from me too
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (IyPmt)
Thanks!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:28 PM (exHjb)
Find an empty place near your house and squat it. It is apparently impossible to squatters out now.
Posted by: Just Sayin at July 07, 2024 03:28 PM (0ZYe2)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 07, 2024 03:28 PM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:56 PM (lCaJd)
I know moving can't keep being the solution, but this will be the fourth time we've moved in 5 years, and every time I get quite the satisfaction out of getting rid of stuff.
You'd think I would learn not to buy/bring in more clutter, but so far, that's what I do. I don't have a sofa right now, and the chairs I have are not coming with us to the next destination (don't tell them, they don't know it yet).
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 03:29 PM (gKarl)
Posted by: Counting Pennies, Here
No Ethan Allen Store near you?
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 03:29 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Counting Pennies, Here at July 07, 2024 03:28 PM (V5BDR)
Not sure how good his furniture is, he is really old
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 07, 2024 03:30 PM (WF/xn)
Rats are a bonus. The Master said I could have them.
Posted by: Renfield at July 07, 2024 03:30 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:32 PM (evvc2)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:32 PM (evvc2)
Have ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:33 PM (IyPmt)
Trump: I want the truth!
Jill: You can't handle the truth you MAGA Hating Lying Sack of Cow Dung !
Trump you are a felon, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by transgenders with pride flags. Who's gonna do it? You? You, MAGA Trump? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom because Joe is Clueless. You weep for people murdered by illegals, and you curse the the Gay Pride Movement. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know -- that innocent American Women being raped and murdered death, while tragic, probably saves Joe's Job, and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves Obama's Legacy.
Posted by: Jill Biden at July 07, 2024 03:33 PM (Mig/N)
Perhaps a social friend.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (NLIak)
Maybe Parkinson's is just his cover, and his main hustle is all the coke that keeps coming into the building?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (gKarl)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (/7KEl)
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70s? From family photos, I would say at least the 50s.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (a7ECP)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:32 PM (evvc2)
Have ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:33 PM (IyPmt)
About to?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (gKarl)
As predicted the left and right rallied together to screw le Pen out of victory.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:35 PM (evvc2)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:35 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 07, 2024 03:30 PM (WF/xn)
And dead. I don't imagine that helps the smell.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 03:36 PM (gKarl)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:36 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (a7ECP)
All my furniture is 50 's /60's except the bed and couch No plastic on it
I have a thing for mid-century
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:36 PM (IyPmt)
Next we'll find out CBD has a problem with the lump created by a pea under the mattress.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:38 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Ann at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (4neFu)
It was back during the buyer's market of 2015, and it was a foreclosure I think? You could definitely tell the sellers were NOT trying to sell that thing. All the other houses we looked at had been clean/orderly. But not Nutsack Manor, trash everywhere, dirty dishes in the sink etc. I am sure it finally sold but definitely at a discount.
Today's market they'd probably get over asking lol.
Posted by: Ravenmother at July 07, 2024 03:39 PM (oiHdz)
Perhaps a social friend.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (NLIak)
Maybe Parkinson's is just his cover, and his main hustle is all the coke that keeps coming into the building?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (gKarl)
It probably is a cover...many hematologist oncologists "specialize" in one form of blood cancer, but they can easily handle almost all of them. Who better to bring in than a cancer doctor that specializes in "Parkinson's", but is a premier neurologist...so, handling other degenerative neurology issues are probably also a cakewalk to him, while they all deny Biden has Parkinson's (b/c he doesn't)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:39 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:35 PM (evvc2)
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Gosh, I seem to recall that happening in another country that is importing a bunch of third world diseases ridden criminals. Give me a moment to recall the name, it's on the top of my tongue....
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:40 PM (tT6L1)
Nose blind.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 07, 2024 03:40 PM (qZEuM)
North Carolina still has a lot of show rooms and furniture malls. And, it is inexpensive in comparison to other stores while still offering items made in the United States.
We went back there several times, including a few years ago when we moved to Florida and "covid" made it impossible to purchase new furniture without a year long wait. We had just moved to Florida and given away a lot of furniture up in NYS that we knew would not fit our new abode.
Something to consider if you are close to North Carolina, or need enough furnishings that a flight and hotel stay added into the cost still makes the discount NC purchases worthwhile.
Posted by: Ann at July 07, 2024 03:41 PM (4neFu)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:38 PM (tT6L1)
You just don't understand!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (2xB3Z)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (evvc2)
catch you la
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (d9fT1)
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I believe we do, princess.
(this really won't end well, will it?)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:43 PM (tT6L1)
Bring back DDT. Kill them all, extinction level event.
I'll miss fried chicken.
Posted by: Next2Nothing at July 07, 2024 03:44 PM (tA1/w)
I have a thing for mid-century
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024
I love mid mod! I have a pristine Kent Coffey walnut bedroom set. Footboard, headboard, 2 dressers, boomerang mirror, original boomerang hardware, even the original rails, both side tables. All in storage. Our last house was a Cinderella ranch, so we had a lot of mid mid going on.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:44 PM (p4NUW)
But then I remembered that I don't live in the Valley of the Sunstroke anymore and that I don't have to wait until November to open that window.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 03:46 PM (dZVON)
Perhaps a social friend.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (NLIak)
I'm thinking Park 'N Sons decorators. Doc Jill was looking at some swatches.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 03:48 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 03:46 PM (dZVON)
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So what if the temps get so high they shut down Sky Harbor, right?
I lived in Gilbert for three years. Unreal how hot it got during the summer.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:48 PM (tT6L1)
I've got a bunch of exit polls here showing Le Pen will win the most seats and picked up at least 40 in parliament.
But none of the "blocks" of left, center (current govt), or right have the 289 needed to have a majority.
Macron's party is going lose about 50 seats.
But reports are that the communists are claiming victory and demanding Macron step down.
So I dunno.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 03:48 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:32 PM (evvc2)
Have ?
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They haven't any already yet?
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 03:49 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
Oh yeah. We had a lime green plastic parsons end table in our first apartment. I thought it was very stylish. LOL
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 03:49 PM (oaGWv)
And the dude who was supposed to measure the dishwasher space was missing, was canceled when I asked a dimwit customer service about it (cancel first, ask questions later), and rescheduled for July 3.
The plumber did the dishwasher job, saved me 50 bucks, and gave me more cupboard space because he didn't run the hoses diagonally through it.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 07, 2024 03:50 PM (ZXHti)
Posted by: azjaeger at July 07, 2024 03:51 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 03:51 PM (xpCR0)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 "
Mid-century is nice.
Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2024 03:51 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Braenyard
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We do. 5 acres. But an RV isn't really a suitable, long term solution. We figure it will be "a while" until they've got themselves on some solid footing (jobs, finances, etc.) So something they can either fix up (like a mobile home perhaps) or rent within a budget.
We're more than happy to help them out, but they made some really poor decisions prior to realizing they're totally fucked staying in CA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:51 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:48 PM (tT6L1)
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Went to visit my sister in Queen Creek in mid-September last year. Holy shit I am never doing that again.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 03:52 PM (js+sc)
At least you did the smart thing and got the hell out. Took me 20 years to fix that mistake on my part.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 03:53 PM (dZVON)
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How about furniture with towels and old blankets to protect it from cat hair? Darn shedding season....or maybe it just shed from feline mistemper?
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 03:53 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:55 PM (fwDg9)
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Having a Cooper's Hawk or Red-Shouldered Hawk move into your neighborhood might solve a few problems. Just saying. Do you know a falconer or someone from State F&W?
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 03:55 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 03
Wow!
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:56 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2024 03:56 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:55 PM (fwDg9)
Ask Edith Wilson how not true that is...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:57 PM (exHjb)
Went to visit my sister in Queen Creek in mid-September last year. Holy shit I am never doing that again.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 03:52 PM (js+sc)
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Things are usually cooling off a bit by then. Probably only 105 or so, during the day.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:58 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: azjaeger at July 07, 2024 03:58 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 07, 2024 03:58 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 03:53 PM (dZVON)
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Bakersfield, CA, 110 during the summer. But, I met my wife there, so, it worked out. We're both thrilled to be back in AZ.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:59 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 "
Mid-century is nice.
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Mid-century is the style of the future. It's establishing the look of the New Frontier!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsRpNFXL67c
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 03:59 PM (W+kMI)
We're more than happy to help them out, but they made some really poor decisions prior to realizing they're totally fucked staying in CA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:51 PM (Q4IgG)
I'd have them rent, and "gift" them the 1st 2-3 months of rent and the deposits. At that point, money will be coming in, and they should get back on their feet themselves. You can always pay for grandkid stuff so they don't suffer b/c of the parents (so sports fees, dance classes, etc)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:59 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 03:59 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Jmel at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (bVhJi)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:58 PM (tT6L1)
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It's supposed to be over 100 here for two days next week and everyone is losing their shit, calling it an "extreme heat event." Cracks me up.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (js+sc)
Posted by: Piper at July 07,
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Auntie Foo Foo, staged a house for me. She turned a drab so so into an inviting, wonderful place. (I thought the drapes looked like they belonged in a hore house). All of the accessories were bought at the Dollar Store and Walmart. It was the choice, the colors, and the placement that made all the difference.
Yes staging can be very important. I sold it within two weeks.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 04:04 PM (B4c1t)
Parts of AZ are more liveable than others. Just depends on your attitude and your altitude.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 04:04 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (js+sc)
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I was a weather wuss growing. Lived on the coast in CA. Cold night was 45 hot was 85. We thought we were dying of the heat when it hit 85. After graduation, I moved to MN. After a couple of decades in MN, I was cured of weather wussiness. The upper Midwest is not for the faint of heart.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 04:05 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 04:04 PM (dZVON)
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Heh, We hit Bullhead City last year early summer and when we left our house, it was nice, maybe 95 or so, It was 115 in Bullhead.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 04:07 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Ha! Maybe he'll find some Vols this summer.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 04:09 PM (B4c1t)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
Vive Le Pen
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 04:15 PM (B4c1t)
Posted by: Edward at July 07, 2024 04:32 PM (93DJn)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 04:36 PM (PZo5T)
"Typically nasty weather...what did you THINK i said???"
Posted by: birdog at July 07, 2024 04:45 PM (+Fkyb)
Posted by: Outside of Life at July 07, 2024 04:55 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Edward at July 07, 2024 04:58 PM (93DJn)
Nadler, Takano, Smith, and Morelle are calling for Biden to drop out.
Himer, Beyer, and Raskin are expressing skepticism Biden can win.
My personal feeling is that Jeffries wants Biden gone. With Biden off the top of the ticket, they have a chance to take the House.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:13 PM (5p7BC)
Damn Dems...they need a new muppet now that this ones sticks and strings started showing toooo much to maintain the suspension of disbelief. When we were young Carlie McCarthy seemed real...enough...for comedy. There are 2 generations that grew up with Sesame Street muppets as their full time, daily Role models, more a part of their lives in many ways than grandparents, cousins, neighbors...even parents. And more real, if you think it's real for your formative years, it's easy later to get sold into the charade.
Posted by: birdog at July 07, 2024 05:37 PM (+Fkyb)
Posted by: TXMarko at July 07, 2024 09:44 PM (7flhA)
It's The Same Old Story From The Republican Party: Lots Of Talk But Very Little Action
The Democrats do many things well, and one of those things is grassroots organizing. They slither their slimy tentacles everywhere, because that's how to win elections.
Republicans eye liberal bastion with polls saying Granite State is brittle for DemocratsWhile New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Christopher Ager told the Washington Examiner that New Hampshire is “definitely a battleground state after the debate — you can feel the momentum shifting in favor of President Trump,” Republicans have their work cut out for them. With wins in every presidential race in New Hampshire since before 9/11, Democrats hold a significant infrastructural advantage over the GOP. The Biden campaign has 14 offices across the state. The Trump campaign has only one field office.
And the Republican party has fine-tuned its ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory! New Hampshire is in play, and these bumbling idiots can't manage to spend a few million bucks for the real opportunity to pick up four electoral votes? And don't sneer at four electoral votes...I have Donald Trump at 268 firm votes! I know...math! This isn't rocket surgery. Just open a few offices, create a GOTV system (the template exists), and get NH voters to the polls. The issues are clear, so there won't be much work involved; just the basic stuff that the Democrat party does well, and the Republicans avoid, because it isn't as much fun as going to cocktail parties. We are our own worst enemy!
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(Jump to bottom of comments)And you've noticed, they seem to have chosen the "To Die" end of the deal.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 12:08 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 07, 2024 12:08 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: BifBewalski at July 07, 2024 12:12 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 12:13 PM (fwDg9)
I don't know from English politics, but I know that accurately describes the Republicans. Don't tell me they're the party of smaller government, national defense, law and order, and all the rest of that.
Nobody believes the Republican Party stands for anything anymore, other than graft and keeping their own jobs.
The only reason they MIGHT defeat the Democrats this year is if enough people genuinely decide they don't want Democrats. That's it.
Win this election? Whatever. This party will F it up, accomplishing nothing of any value.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:13 PM (B3xLp)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 12:13 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Itchin' and Scratchin' at July 07, 2024 12:14 PM (V5BDR)
Not true! The party paid for Bloody Marys and Mimosas this morning at the Dockside in Harbor Springs!
Posted by: Auspex at July 07, 2024 12:14 PM (j4U/Z)
Eff 'em.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 12:14 PM (W/lyH)
The memo has gone out, however - the Left is going to be completely fixated on "Project 2025" this week, to try to distract from the planned backstabbing going on in the political campaign.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 12:14 PM (uxCna)
Yea, about all that...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 12:15 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 07, 2024 12:15 PM (+jrYw)
Yea, about all that...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 12:15 PM (Q4IgG)
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Isn't Soros' gang of DAs going around and arresting all the GOP lawyers?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 12:16 PM (W/lyH)
And you've noticed, they seem to have chosen the "To Die" end of the deal.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 12:08 PM (e6UQI)
Ever see a photo of yourself, and realize the person the photo is getting old? We walk around with these images of ourselves in our heads, that might have matched a reality from perhaps decades ago. But that's not us anymore.
Same with states. New Hampster was a thing once. It isn't anymore.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:17 PM (B3xLp)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 07, 2024 12:17 PM (VNX3d)
The GOP is very comfortable being losers. It's what they do.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
The Washington Generals always receive a paycheck.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 12:20 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 12:14 PM (uxCna)
I read a whole damn article about that, and I still have no idea what it is, but apparently it's the greatest threat since J6. Or Charlottesville, or that 17 year old with a rifle, or they kids who scalped the Indian on the Capitol steps, or a white hispanic with a gun, or.....
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:20 PM (B3xLp)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 07, 2024 12:20 PM (+jrYw)
*looks at Forever Dem Majority in Olympia*
I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps they are on to something there...?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 12:21 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 07, 2024 12:22 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 07, 2024 12:17 PM (VNX3d)
Thirty-six percent of the vote, sixty-four percent of the seats.
Democrasah!
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:22 PM (B3xLp)
*looks at Forever Dem Majority in Olympia*
I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps they are on to something there...?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 12:21 PM (W/lyH)
Which will be worse, the riots in Shitcago during the DNC convention, or Paris during the Ozempics.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:24 PM (B3xLp)
And lose. As planned.
All this predicated on Trump being out of the picture. If he's able to run then all that bullshit I just typed is just bullshit. Either way...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 12:24 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: enough BS at July 07, 2024 12:24 PM (2NXcZ)
* throw the flag, I'll take the penalty *
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 07, 2024 12:26 PM (+jrYw)
Remember them? Part of the small group of "conservatives" who are funded by the Left, in order to pretend that there is substantial opposition to Trump in the Republican party. Goldberg is funded by Pierre Omidyar, and McArdle by the Washington Post.
They're nervous about demanding that Biden withdraw, because the Party Line mandated by their masters might change, so they spend their time demanding that Trump withdraw.
Goldberg offered up some weak criticism of Trump's conviction in New York - the other cases against Trump are perfectly valid, of course, but this one case is so weak that it makes all the other valid cases look bad.
Hard to believe that eight years ago these people were viewed as legitimate conservative intellectuals, before they were thrown on the ash heap of history by opposing Trump.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 12:26 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: enough BS at July 07, 2024 12:24 PM (2NXcZ)
In DC you get better offices, if your party is the majority.
So there's that.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:26 PM (B3xLp)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:27 PM (R6aKb)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 12:27 PM (/7KEl)
No such thing as a "firm vote". Hillary Clinton campaign learned that hard lesson in 2016 with regards to long-time blue voting states of Pennsylvania (24 years), Wisconsin (28 years) and Michigan (24 years). Not to mention Arizona was solid red since 1952 (save for 1996 election) until it was stolen by the Deep State in 2020. And the Governor election in 2022.
Every state should be considered a battleground state. Don't assume any state is safe. Because with the Deep State cheating machine and the massive amount of illegal alien ballots sitting out there, no state is safe.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 07, 2024 12:27 PM (P5BPp)
Probably not enough, the state organizations need to be cleaned out just as much as the rest of the swamp.
However, very serious work is going on to get new voters registered and get them to vote. PA is quietly turning red, Bucks County is less than 500 voters away from flipping.
Michigan registration work is coupled with a mechanism to ensure they also turn out to vote.
While fretting over NH is correct regarding the local party, it has never been on the campaign radar.
Trump sits at a solid 268 right now. He wins by winning any of the following: NE-2, ME, NH, VA, WI, MI, or PA.
And yes, they are going to cheat like hell to try to beat him. But they need 5 times as many fake ballots this time (488% actually). So we will see. Can they do it? Maybe, but it will be a lot harder.
And if they can cheat to that level successfully, then registering voters in NH was never going to matter.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:27 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 07, 2024 12:27 PM (SuNbA)
Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2024 12:27 PM (GUOwU)
They're going to abolish Social Security, eliminate the Federal civil service (horrors), and I saw one tweet claiming that Project 2025 will require that women carry "period passports" that the cops can demand at any time to check to see if they are pregnant or not (to keep them from getting abortions, of course).
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 12:29 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 12:26 PM (uxCna)
And before that, George Will and Bill Kristol were respected. And before that, Bill Buckley, a CIA operative his whole professional life, dominated so-called conservative media.
You start to get the impression it's always been a lie.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:30 PM (B3xLp)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 07, 2024 12:30 PM (wBaIH)
See for example: Migration, Illegal
Posted by: Common Tater at July 07, 2024 12:30 PM (9mQ3m)
Posted by: Ripley
Same.
Plus RFK Jr is getting 5-10%. That’s will collapse to the typical 1-2% every 3rd party candidate gets. Most of the people who say they’re voting RFK will come back to vote Biden.
I think this race is a coin toss right now. Add in the chest and Biden is winning.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:31 PM (R6aKb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 12:31 PM (aYD2Z)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 12:31 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 12:32 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:32 PM (R6aKb)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 07, 2024 12:33 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 12:29 PM (uxCna)
Sounds like an op. Like glowies on J6, Feebers hatching a plot to kidnap Frau Whitmer, and everything else these clowns do. Make it so outrageous, it helps the left.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:33 PM (B3xLp)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 12:33 PM (IyPmt)
But YMMV.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:33 PM (5p7BC)
They’re trotting out that shit again. 2012 Redux.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:34 PM (R6aKb)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 07, 2024 12:26 PM (+jrYw)
You have a discerning and intelligent granddaughter!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 12:34 PM (d9fT1)
Shame on you for showing any optimism.. I kid... I am slowly becoming less pessimistic...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 12:34 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:35 PM (a7ECP)
Still we persist, with just enough success to keep us at it. It's to the benefit of this most exceptional country that I'm SO very proud of. That at least will never change.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 07, 2024 12:35 PM (hKoQL)
Probably not enough, the state organizations need to be cleaned out just as much as the rest of the swamp.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:27 PM (5p7BC)
I saw an article the other day, the Missouri slate of delegates was tossed out, because of convention rules and stuff.
Now, I have no idea whether the article was accurate or not, but one set of delegates is now ineligible, and another set is going to be sent to the RNC convention. I believe the set being sent is more Gope, and the one deemed invalid were more radicals, seeking to do things differently.
Who are the good guys/bad guys? I have no idea, but on the surface the whole thing smells funny to me.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:36 PM (B3xLp)
Another site to visit, where you can see a map based on differing numbers from differing polls is 270towin dot com.
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 12:37 PM (rjJqk)
The "Patriot Front" was marching through Nashville yesterday.
The usual collection of fit young men in matching uniforms, and being transported to and from the event in the back of big UHaul trucks (which is completely illegal, of course, but somehow the local cops did nothing).
And the Establishment Media doesn't make the slightest effort to doxx the participants, or figure out where the "Patriot Front's" funding is coming from.
It's very odd...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 12:37 PM (uxCna)
You're in Israel are you not or did I get that completely wrong ? If so how goes the war there.. Don't hear much about it anymore... Ignore this if I got this wrong... Won't be the first time...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 12:37 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 12:37 PM (Q4IgG)
But YMMV.
Posted by: Dave
Who is freaking out? It’s pundits and media people. It’s not insiders who know the election is “fortified”. The pundits believe elections are fair. In a far election yes there would be reason to freak out.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:37 PM (R6aKb)
The Democrats have been organized for years. The Republicans have not given a shit about organizing for years. With Romney McDaniel being ousted back in March I would hope the new leadership would do just that.
Is that happening? I do not know
Maybe there is to much rot that needs to be gotten out of the party at both the State and National level.
CBD is correct, the party needs to get off its ass and actually start working to reach voters and get them excited to get out and vote.
Maybe the party should have an office in each county and two or more in cities. And this should be done in every State. And until it is against the law to have mail in voting the Republicans should embrace ballot harvesting. We need to out do everything the Democrats do.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 07, 2024 12:38 PM (0XVad)
The 1-2 punch of Proposal 2 (passed 60-40 in 2022) combined with SB 605 to fortify elections in the state means Michigan is fortified for the Democrat candidates for the foreseeable future.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 07, 2024 12:39 PM (P5BPp)
Once bitten twice shy
The Democrats are going insane because they remember 2016, where the polls told them that they were certain to win, and yet somehow Trump won anyway.
They are afraid that will happen again.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 12:39 PM (uxCna)
7/7/2024 : Trump +3.3
This Day In History: July 7, 2020: Biden +8.7 | July 7, 2016: Clinton +4.7
Just providing information. Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:40 PM (5p7BC)
Or let Sundowner stay until the Convention
I see no way he is nomination as result of the Convention
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 12:40 PM (fwDg9)
I guess they all returned to their roots as socialists.
Posted by: p-squared at July 07, 2024 12:41 PM (i3SWt)
Dems constantly put in a lot of effort in Texas. It has t worked yet but they make an effort. They’re trying to flip Montana. Again, hasn’t been successful but they’re building an infrastructure for the future.
The GOP does none of this. Always fighting the last war.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:41 PM (R6aKb)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 12:37 PM (IyPmt)
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You got it right. Here I am, at home in Jerusalem.
The situation is lousy. We keep on not completing the job in Gaza and losing and maiming our soldiers in the process.
Up north, Hizballah fires dozens or hundreds of rockets and we target a few specific buildings or 1 or 2 Hizballah terrorists at a time in teensy weensy pincer actions.
Just pathetic.
You can get a general view of the daily events here but they're leaving out the politics and the feelings of the masses:
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:41 PM (a7ECP)
Or let Sundowner stay until the Convention
I see no way he is nomination as result of the Convention
It is very difficult to remove Biden without Biden's consent, and Biden isn't going to consent.
That's what makes it so amusing.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 12:41 PM (uxCna)
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:41 PM (a7ECP)
Thanks
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 12:42 PM (IyPmt)
But YMMV.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:33 PM (5p7BC)
I tend to agree, on the surface the people who live and die by partisan politics are terrified this is going to be a disaster for them. Meanwhile, the Deep State is strategizing on how to contain Trump during his four years.
The Republican operatives are being mobilized to make sure Trump can do as little damage as possible, and no doubt cooking up whatever nonsense they can to make sure in '28 that Gope is back in charge.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:42 PM (mkRXj)
Posted by: The ARC of History!"
Would that be anything like the covid restrictions that kept millions from working, traveling, shopping, going to the doctor, going to parks, going out to eat, going to funerals, going to holiday gatherings.... Because I was told all those things were fine and reasonable if the govt. said it was necessary.
Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2024 12:42 PM (GUOwU)
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260 David Axelrod - "He's not winning this race ... It's more likely that he'll lose by a landslide than win narrowly."
Posted by: Dave in Fla
281 Shannon Bream: "Our team spent days reaching out to dozens of law makers, Biden advocates, and allies, but not a single guest was willing or able to come on to defend Joe Biden."
Posted by: Dave in Fla
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:43 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:44 PM (R6aKb)
Posted by: The ARC of History
You have to give it to them, their imaginations are on fire.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 12:44 PM (pZEOD)
Their fear is that Trump is running so far ahead that the cheat system may not work.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 12:44 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:45 PM (a7ECP)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 12:45 PM (aYD2Z)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:45 PM (R6aKb)
I won't waste words when I state FUCK 'EM.
After voting for Trump this November, I could give a shit less if the GOP wins so much as the local Dog Catcher.
Good Losers is what Republicans want to be. As long as they keep getting that sweet lobby cash and can string the Rubes along with Gowdy-like promises they never will keep, why should they change?
Go President Trump and to hell with the Republican Party.
Posted by: Tracy at July 07, 2024 12:46 PM (aVDPw)
The Democrats are going insane because they remember 2016, where the polls told them that they were certain to win, and yet somehow Trump won anyway.
I followed only one poll that year, the LA Times three day tracking poll. Hillary was ahead a small amount up until the bollard of doom took her out. Three days later Trump was ahead and stayed ahead to the end.
In 2020 the LA Times decided not to have the same poll. But every poll I looked at carefully and normalized to the correct % of (R)'s and (D)'s showed Trump slightly ahead. Without normalizing he was behind. It made the cheat more possible that way.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 12:46 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:37 PM (R6aKb)
The Joy Reid types claim to be talking to insiders, and there's good enough reason to believe she is. I don't think she's smart enough to be doing some kind of operation, where she's pretending to freak out, or reporting those insiders are also freaking out. I think they are indeed, freaking out.
But again, those "insiders" are only so far inside. The real power structure will go on, independent of who occupies the White House, and who has the bigger offices and gavels in the Capitol.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:47 PM (mkRXj)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 12:47 PM (pgG81)
He is the Obama's spokesman in the press, doesn't say a thing that isn't approved by them.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:48 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:48 PM (a7ECP)
Posted by: Ripley
Can you not with the facts? 😂
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 12:49 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 12:49 PM (B4c1t)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 12:47 PM (pgG81)
Interesting, Britain's vote is an example of why we need to take back the party and not burn it for a 3rd party...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 12:49 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 12:50 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 12:50 PM (pgG81)
https://tinyurl.com/399vrv73
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:48 PM (a7ECP)
Next you'll deny Patriot Front...
I'm sorry, is it getting brighter in here?
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 12:50 PM (exHjb)
Dems constantly put in a lot of effort in Texas. It has t worked yet but they make an effort.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:41 PM
Deep State has a realistic shot to flip Texas in November. And you can be sure they will be using all the illegal alien ballots they have been importing over the past 3 years to try to do it.
This is a state the GOP won by 22% in 2000 (1.365mil votes) and 23% (1.7mil) in 2004. Deep State cut that to 6% (631k) in 2020.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 07, 2024 12:51 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 07, 2024 12:51 PM (UOC/b)
Just last week the WI Supreme Court said ballot drop boxes can be put anywhere. It used to be drop boxes could only be on state property. Now it can be in someone’s front yard. This kind of thing doesn’t just happen. It’s planned and co-ordinated.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:51 PM (R6aKb)
Posted by: CBD at 12:05 PM
Please tell me whyyyyyy
My car is in the front yard
I'm sleeping with my clothes on
Came in through the window (last night)
And you're gone, gone
Posted by: can we forget about the things pookysgirl said when she was drunk at July 07, 2024 12:51 PM (dtlDP)
in American politics, one side or the other is always 'taking (something) back'
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 12:51 PM (/7KEl)
The situation is lousy. We keep on not completing the job in Gaza and losing and maiming our soldiers in the process.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:41 PM (a7ECP)
There are people claiming it's impossible to defeat Hamas, and if the Israelis decide to attack Hezbollah, the whole country could go up in flames.
Are they correct? Hell if I know, but these are not people who hate Israel, they are analysts who believe the IDF is incapable of winning, and the whole of the nation might be destroyed.
Be safe. There's a target on your back.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:51 PM (mkRXj)
The great anti communist principle that restrained the grafting bastards of the GOP in office became no more after Reagan and the GOP rapidly pivoted to invade the world, invite the world politics which a) pissed off the Reagan Democrats who went home with Billy Clinton, b) destroyed the domestic industrial base in order to destroy unions and pad corporate profits/donors, and c) destroyed the guardrails around the financial industry for corporate interest leading to a decade of industry failures after the repeal of Glass Steagall and rapid consolidation of the telecom, broadcast, and media companies into oligopolies.
Essentially the GOP became Tory like in the idea that the better classes should restrain the hoi polloi (and not coincidentally bleed them dry) for fun, power, and profit. So the GOP politicians and campaigns could not speak of their real policies but instead engaged in penny ante politics and relied upon base voters and depressing the turnout via negative advertising.
The Dems did the same until Kerry lost in 2004.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 12:52 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 07, 2024 12:51 PM (UOC/b)
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Se my comment 50. The RNC is infested.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:52 PM (a7ECP)
But it's just an assumption.
I think it's more likely the Democrats (with some level of GOP support) will cheat.
How does one figure that into polling?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 12:52 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:44 PM (R6aKb)
Well, if the GOP in NH cannot be assed to do the GOTV thing, Trump should simply set up his own GOTV organization. Call it "Team Trump, Granite State", and open a bunch of storefront offices. It's a small State, and Trump's campaign his deep pockets.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 12:53 PM (433OD)
Posted by: Tom Servo"
They are using the same ones issued for the Charlotteville Unite the Right rally.
Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2024 12:53 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 12:52 PM (Q4IgG)
By the amount of cheating it would take this time.. Dave went through the numbers last week
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 12:53 PM (IyPmt)
https://tinyurl.com/399vrv73
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:48 PM (a7ECP)
I saw the list of policy claims leftists are circulating. Half are state level policies, not federal. Another quarter are just ridiculous fantasies (use the military to crush domestic protests). The last quarter are actually good ideas that leftists think are bad (promote oil drilling in Alaska).
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 12:54 PM (pgG81)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 07, 2024 12:54 PM (UOC/b)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:51 PM (mkRXj)
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Partially. Gaza could have been destroyed within days of Oct. 7. The fault is with the gubbermint but especially with the progressives who occupy the upper echelons of the IDF.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:55 PM (a7ECP)
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at July 07, 2024 12:55 PM (JTvrd)
"It is time to stop fucking around. If the Convicted Felon wins, we lose our Democracy. Joe Biden has effectively served US with honor, decency, and dignity. It's time for Joe Biden to step down."
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:55 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 12:56 PM (IyPmt)
does Israel have The Bomb?
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 12:56 PM (/7KEl)
This is a state the GOP won by 22% in 2000 (1.365mil votes) and 23% (1.7mil) in 2004. Deep State cut that to 6% (631k) in 2020.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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Actually that blue project took a shell below the waterline very recently as motor voter lawsuit despite the desperate attempts of the GOP SoS to prevent it is going forward to purge the rolls.
Lots of those non existent buggers on the rolls are heading toward extinction plus Paxon getting off and CCJ justices going into well deserved retirement makes the legal environment more hostile to cheaters.
Don't take counsel of your fears. The Vichy Bush GOP types are losing power in Texas even in the rare case where they won and Rove has become a curse word among the GOP base making his support for a GOPe candidate likely to cause defeat rather than victory.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 12:56 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 12:50 PM (pgG81)
Since the Patriot Front is a black op, seems to me the proper counter is a counter black op. Details left to the imagination of the reader.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 12:57 PM (433OD)
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 12:57 PM (rjJqk)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 07, 2024 12:57 PM (43xH1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 12:52 PM (Q4IgG)
By the amount of cheating it would take this time.. Dave went through the numbers last week
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 12:53 PM (IyPmt)
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Ahh... I'll have to look for that. I wasn't on the blog much last week as I was out of town.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 12:57 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 12:57 PM (433OD)
Black ops have an unlimited and untraceable money supply - hard to run a counter to that...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 12:58 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: pookysgirl, with your essential trivia at July 07, 2024 12:58 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:58 PM (R6aKb)
Posted by: It's me donna
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I posted the math yesterday, let me dig it up.
Going to keep saying, I don't in a million years think the Dems won't cheat to the absolute maximum. All I am saying is that it will take a lot for to be successful this time, because they have more ground to make up.
Be back with the numbers in a bit.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:59 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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On both GOTV and Voter integrity, the GOP party officials, state officeholders like SoS and AGs, and campaign staff have shown themselves to be collaborationists with the Dems in order to preserve grafting opportunities.
Best to do as you advise and FDR btw did something similar post 1932 in order to bypass obstructionist fellow party members not on board with his agenda.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 12:59 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:59 PM (a7ECP)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 07, 2024 12:59 PM (9mQ3m)
Posted by: Tom Servo"
They are using the same ones issued for the Charlotteville Unite the Right rally.
Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2024 12:53 PM (GUOwU)
It's a shame there isn't any video of the people planting the fake bombs on J6. We might have been able to notice a pattern.
Oh well.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:59 PM (Cp+5w)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:58 PM (R6aKb)
Didn't they also toss about 1/3 of RNC staff? I think they were working on that "personnel is policy" plan...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 01:00 PM (exHjb)
Also today read Sundowner's July 1 speech of the Supreme Court decision that Sundowner says makes Trump a king.
That speech is as made is a sci-fi novel what they think Jan 6 was a full rebellion and has no reality in it.
But that was Sundowner's speech to the country.
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 01:00 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 12:56 PM (/7KEl
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I'm sitting on it.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 01:01 PM (a7ECP)
The proof that the polls I dug down into and normalized were correct was when Hillary Clinton a week before the election advised Joe Biden not to be 'too quick to concede'.
They knew the polls were optimistic for Joe and 'Plan B' would take some time that night to produce the 'Goldilocks' number. Not too many, not too few, but 'just' enough.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 01:01 PM (RKVpM)
Black ops have an unlimited and untraceable money supply - hard to run a counter to that...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 12:58 PM (exHjb)
DoD auditors just called, said there's 400 billion dollars unaccounted for in the defense budget, but they have no idea what you're talking about.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:01 PM (Cp+5w)
Now, it's Trump that's ahead in the polls, and they have a candidate that is even less physically capable of campaigning than Hillary, who has no intention of withdrawing.
If Trump gets a majority of the popular vote, it's game over.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 01:01 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 01:00 PM (exHjb)
If that is true, then that’s good. Maybe they really are serious. Time will tell.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 01:01 PM (R6aKb)
That tends to lend itself to being, ahem, a massive "political organ."
While the uniparty Rs are no different, the actual mom 'n pop conservatives are NOT. By extension of not liking or wanting burdensome governmental overhead, we don't particularly like perpetual initiatives that never end.
Look at Tea Party from the Obama years. If we had the liberal mindset, that would still be a thing. We'd still have rallies and candidate forums. But the people that keep an organization without a direct defined mission going forever and ever aren't particularly conservative, are they....
Posted by: reason at July 07, 2024 01:01 PM (CbdM6)
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 07, 2024 01:02 PM (WYStd)
And Jill Biden is hysterical. To her, I say C U Next Tuesday.
Posted by: Wally at July 07, 2024 01:02 PM (9Uj9K)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 12:58 PM (exHjb)
Well, by "counter black op", I was hinting at something not necessarily legal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:02 PM (433OD)
Posted by: another guy
Difficult argument to make that Biden is unfit to run for reelection but yet still able to govern the US. Introduces questions the Dems (and probably a lot of the GOP) don't want answered in Who Governs the US. The House Intel Chair is in particular a vile supporter of the IC and responsible for killing off bipartisan reforms of FISA. Nasty critter in office that his constituents should get rid of.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:03 PM (/0X3E)
162 Well did some math, sorry.
We know that conservative estimate is that 2.5M fraudulent votes were cast for Biden in 2020. We know this through polling, when asking who people voted for. There are a lot of missing votes in the population.
Vote total in 2020
Biden 81,283,501
Trump 74,223,975
With an extra 2.5M votes and the 4.5% popular vote advantage, he was able to win by a bare 46,000 votes in key states.
Estimates are that there will be at least 5% new voters in 2024 (highly skewed toward Trump).
This means the vote total in 2024, given no changes, will be 160,657,850.
Trump's national lead is roughly 6% going by the post debate polls. This means that if everything were fair, the following total votes would occur
Biden 75,509,189
Trump 85,148,660
Biden needs an extra 3% on top to compensate for all the useless votes he gets in CA and NY. So he needs to get to 87,703,120 to have a chance to eek out another 46,000 vote miracle. This all assumes that no one tries to stop them in any meaningful way.
So Biden need 12,193,931 fake votes to make up ground. That is 9,693,931 more fake votes than 2020, or a 488% increase.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 03
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:03 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 01:03 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:58 PM (R6aKb)
Didn't they also toss about 1/3 of RNC staff? I think they were working on that "personnel is policy" plan...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 01:00 PM (exHjb)
It's not unlike the Trump White House though, you can replace a bunch of them, but as long as they're still in there, they know where all the knobs and controls are, better than the newcomers do, and they know how to keep the newcomers from finding out... and they have a hand in selecting the newcomers too, so they repoopulate the departments with more of their kind, because you don't know who is and who isn't, but they do.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:03 PM (Cp+5w)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at July 07, 2024 01:05 PM (55boN)
Posted by: Defenestratus
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NE Republicanism more or less died by contagion of immigrants from Mass.
Part of self neutralization though was the destruction of the manufacturing and agriculture economy in NE leading to blue industries being the primary source of wealth in the area.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:05 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:05 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 01:06 PM (rjJqk)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 01:06 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 12:54 PM (pgG81)
Over the last month, I've really wished I still had my ex-Twitter account. Because I keep seeing Leftists screeching about "Christian Nationalism" and I want to ask them, "Where are you getting this? Show me where it's being OFFICALLY put forward as a policy." I'm sure there will be a bunch of "connections" and "allusions" that require pushpins and string, but I pay attention to the conservative movement and I'm not seeing it being pushed as anything official.
Posted by: pookysgirl notes that it's easy to whip one side into a frenzy at July 07, 2024 01:07 PM (dtlDP)
132 110 Just imagine the spectacle should the unthinkable come to pass for DC. What if Biden withdraws from the race but remains in office until the end of his term?
LBJ did it. Didn’t work out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 01:08 PM (pgG81)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 01:08 PM (aYD2Z)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 01:09 PM (a7ECP)
"It is time to stop fucking around. If the Convicted Felon wins, we lose our Democracy. Joe Biden has effectively served US with honor, decency, and dignity. It's time for Joe Biden to step down."
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:55 PM (5p7BC)
Go fuck yourself, Rob. With a flaming pineapple, wrapped in barbed wire. Sideways. No lube. Mental midget.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 07, 2024 01:10 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:05 PM (/0X3E)
Funny you mention that.
Just got an email saying that the local family strawberry farm is shutting down after 51 years in business up here in Southern Maine.
Couldn't have been due to the local moral righteous brigade outlawing pesticides... never....
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 07, 2024 01:10 PM (WYStd)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:03 PM (5p7BC)
Biden has a black voter problem. This vid should end him... if enough people see it.
https://tinyurl.com/4yjxdxvu
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:10 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:11 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 01:11 PM (a7ECP)
Posted by: Eeyore at July 07, 2024 01:11 PM (1bNHn)
U-Haul gives the federal government a 50% discount.
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 01:12 PM (rjJqk)
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Contested Democrat national convention. In Chicago. Maybe the hippies plan on beating up the cops this time.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 07, 2024 01:13 PM (9mQ3m)
The MO GOP convention contest, & subsequent squabble, is a tempest in a teapot.
Two competing sets of GOP delegates, both for Trump, fighting to attend a convention at which the outcome is already certain.
This kind of thing sometimes happens in states where the GOP has the luxury of fighting over nothing, because the GOP controls everything already. Something similar has been happening in KS for a number of years.
The next GOP Gov of MO looks to be even MORE conservative than Parson is, btw. I have my ballot & am still undecided. The CD where I vote is also open. I don't know any actual GOP voter in MO who cares about the little catfight at the convention. I'm sure there are a few. Most people are unaware it even happened.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 01:13 PM (NLIak)
https://tinyurl.com/4yjxdxvu
Posted by: BurtTC at July
Trump should find that girl and give her a front row, VIP seat at his next event. And call out the white hag that was giving her a hard time for good measure. Her face was crushed.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:13 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:15 PM (5p7BC)
https://tinyurl.com/4yjxdxvu
Posted by: BurtTC at July
Trump should find that girl and give her a front row, VIP seat at his next event. And call out the white hag that was giving her a hard time for good measure. Her face was crushed.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:13 PM (p4NUW)
Sadly, I would expect that girl is still going to vote for Democrats the rest of her life.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:16 PM (qgNVD)
I'm glad Biden basically stroked out, but we dont exactly have a well oiled machine at the top of the ticket.
Posted by: Highlander at July 07, 2024 01:16 PM (kRhM/)
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 01:12 PM (rjJqk)
Having been married to a Government Purchase Card holder, I can actually believe this.
Posted by: pookysgirl knows that Buying American is harder than it looks at July 07, 2024 01:16 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: pookysgirl notes that it's easy to
Lots of string, lots of pushpins, some going in circles.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:17 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 01:17 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:15 PM (5p7BC)
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Grooming
On a Sunday afternoon.
https://tinyurl.com/y2rh365w
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 01:17 PM (a7ECP)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:58 PM (R6aKb)
Didn't they also toss about 1/3 of RNC staff? I think they were working on that "personnel is policy" plan...
Posted by: Nova Local
Lara more or less dumped the RNC legal and campaign staffers wholesale so the cuts are disproportionately directed at the Dem collaborationist elements in the RNC. The co-chair with Lara brought in a former DeSantis Superpac staffer as head of RNC legal. He turned out to be a guy that was very friendly with Marc Elias who is key in Dem cheating lawfare. He got dumped shortly after when the news came out in March or so.
These are the sorts of people that need to be dumped hard and excluded from future office and service with the GOP.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:17 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 07, 2024 01:17 PM (9mQ3m)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:16 PM (qgNVD)
Wouldn't hurt to try (kindly) to turn her. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:18 PM (433OD)
I have always been amazed by how, unlike any other protest group I’ve ever seen, the Patriot Front guys all manage to wear the exact same government issued shoes.
Posted by: Tom Servo
I could use some new shoes. Do they have an online store?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 01:18 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 01:18 PM (rjJqk)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 07, 2024 01:19 PM (9mQ3m)
Sununu was one of the most vocal NeverTrumper politicians during the primary. The state GOP needs an enema.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 01:20 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 01:20 PM (xpCR0)
Posted by: Archer at July 07, 2024 01:20 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 01:06 PM (fwDg9)
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Somebody got a photo of one guy when he stupidly took his face covering off.
He was identified as a Georgetown polisci major with a LinkedIn profile where he says he wants to work for the Feds.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 07, 2024 01:20 PM (iqPkc)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07
You may be right, but it opulent hurt to at least try. She is young, it wouldn’t hurt to expose to her to a group that isn’t going to wag their finger in her face.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:21 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Highlander
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Most of the blame attends to the regular GOP assholes in campaign positions and the RNC (other party organizations as well). The GOP as a party since the 30's has always been a hierarchical elitist graft fest for get along go along types.
The Dems have had that problem in the past with their own party namely from the 80's to Obama, and before FDR.
The major solution is to go around those official party organizations as much as possible because they are literally dog shit assholes that get paid whether they win or lose. Floating independent committees for specific tasks allow for rapid dumping of dead wood placeholders and traitors and can be disbanded as needed quickly.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:21 PM (/0X3E)
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unless God tells him not to
Joe's words
"Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God."
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 01:21 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Wait. Do I have that right? at July 07, 2024 01:22 PM (dg+HA)
"Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God."
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07
It feels like the Lord has all but sent an email.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:22 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: JackStraw
Sununu's father and his assholish tendencies helped do in GHWB and gave us the great David Souter---pseudo conservative justice. His son certainly lives up to the Sununu brand of Vichy politics that is about as popular as getting the clap.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:23 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 01:18 PM (rjJqk)
They have enough blackmail stuff on Schiff, he does what he's told. So the only question is, who's telling him to say what he says.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:23 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Wait. Do I have that right?
Gives new meaning to a Les sununu moniker.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:23 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:24 PM (p4NUW)
I wonder how long before the stories start coming out of the White House about Jill tossing lamps around? True or not, at this stage of the end game character (or lack of) assassination is to be expected.
More popcorn.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 01:24 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:16 PM (qgNVD)
Wouldn't hurt to try (kindly) to turn her. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:18 PM (433OD)
Hopefully Team Trump is on it. I wouldn't trust anyone else, it would come off as disingenuous, and likely backfire.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:25 PM (qgNVD)
I wonder how long before the stories start coming out of the White House about Jill tossing lamps around? True or not, at this stage of the end game character (or lack of) assassination is to be expected.
More popcorn.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07
I wonder why Biden got the facelift and Jill didn’t.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:25 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 07, 2024 01:25 PM (9mQ3m)
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unless God tells him not to
Joe's words
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There’s a Babylon Bee headline right there. “God Visits Biden To Ask Him To Resign, Biden Has Him Arrested For Trespassing”
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 01:25 PM (rjJqk)
Posted by: BurtTC
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Intelligence community.
Now think about the implications of that.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:26 PM (5p7BC)
Dateline: Thurmont, Maryland. A half dozen local electrical contractors have been pressed into service to install a number of lightning rods on the various buildings of the presidential retreat center on Cacoctin mountain.
Posted by: Not Really The News at July 07, 2024 01:26 PM (dg+HA)
The fact that Mark Warner, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has let leak out that he is trying to organize a group of Senators to tell Joe it's time to go is a pretty big clue. Schiff also worked with the intel community to try and take Trump down.
Politicians come and go, the swamp does not.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 01:26 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: mnw
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The Danforth coalition should frankly be taken out and imprisoned for what they tried to do with Ranked Choice voting implementation.
Danforth and his ilk in Missouri politics are as vicious as they are stupid and should be forced to join their true party which are the Dems. Their problem is they would have to take the back of the bus in that coalition and be humiliated on a continuing basis by people they secretly deem inferior.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:27 PM (/0X3E)
The black problem for Dems is real?
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 01:27 PM (R6aKb)
The Dems have been more unified. But we are seeing strain in their coalition. You can't assume the same "enthusiasm" for Biden. They have to be motivated to make the cheat happen.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 01:28 PM (xjTDL)
Now think about the implications of that.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:26 PM
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Pushpin at 51 signatories, pushpin to Patriot front, string to J6…. Hey…why are all these in straight lines and not crisscrossed all over the place?
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:28 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:23 PM (/0X3E)
Sununu looks like he could be one of those fourth generation pols, like the Kennedys, who have multiple rape allegations, and/or teenage girls he murdered and got away with.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:29 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: GOP, AoS Defeatists at July 07, 2024 01:29 PM (rQwsY)
The rare exception to the rule was Nunes and Asshole Pualie Ryan made sure Nunes was frozen out power wise.
Frankly most, if not all of those assholes, have willingly violated the Constitution and their oaths of office and deserve impoverishment and lengthy prison stays in a Supermax.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:30 PM (/0X3E)
*Going to need more red yarn and pushpins*
Posted by: Conspiracy Theorists at July 07, 2024 01:30 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:30 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Wally at July 07, 2024 01:30 PM (9Uj9K)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 01:30 PM (R6aKb)
Back to political commentary.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:30 PM (p4NUW)
I remember when following the NBA used to be pure escapist fun.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2024 01:31 PM (rQwsY)
It wasn't rape rape.
Posted by: All Wheel Drive Sununu at July 07, 2024 01:31 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: BurtTC
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Intelligence community.
Now think about the implications of that.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:26 PM (5p7BC)
I think the "intelligence community" is more fractured than it's ever been, and if so my moment of white pilling comes from the possibility different factions might start engaging in revealing the secrets they have on each other.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:32 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 07, 2024 01:32 PM (9mQ3m)
Experts agree that most spiders captured by a Roomba will hatch their eggs in the device within minutes. Due to climate change these spiders will reach puberty within hours.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 01:33 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: BurtTC
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3rd or 4th generation Arab descent from Lebanon I think. Cultural tendencies to praise and hug you up front while prepping the knife to stab you in the back.
Politics and culture in the former Ottoman Empire was a blood sport of treachery and grabbing the gold while the opportunity was there.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:33 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Biden is Finished
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It is. Over sampled poll I was looking at on the 4th shows a very conservative 18% going to Trump.
The problem the GOP has is no infrastructure to make sure those votes get cast.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:33 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Conspiracy Theorists at July 07, 2024 01:30 PM (dg+HA)
And a bigger corkboard.
Posted by: pookysgirl, paraphrasing Jaws at July 07, 2024 01:34 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 01:34 PM (R6aKb)
Posted by: Wally at July 07, 2024 01:30 PM (9Uj9K)
Except in Joe's case, it will be Satan explaining things to him.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:34 PM (qgNVD)
Before the election is official.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 01:35 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 01:35 PM (rjJqk)
Posted by: Wally at July 07, 2024 01:35 PM (9Uj9K)
The problem the GOP has is no infrastructure to make sure those votes get cast.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:33 PM
The left, in cooperation with black churches, has a 'souls to the polls' program that pays the black minister a per head reward for each person on the bus.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 01:36 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: BurtTC
I don't. The recent FISA extension which is even worse than the original law is a case in point. At one time, it looked as if we would get a warrant provision or no extension. Then suddenly we get an extension AND a much more extensive power for the IC to demand any provider to snitch on their customers warrant free even down to the internet cafe types.
Monstrous assholes running the IC wanting both power and wealth by hoovering up information hurting average people and running ops that destroy lives like Epstein in the name of national security. I spit on them and their ilk.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:36 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 07, 2024 01:36 PM (hwLGC)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 07, 2024 01:36 PM (iqPkc)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:37 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 01:37 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 01:33 PM (RKVpM)
What's worse, they get into the housing of the device, and those eggs will keep hatching over and over and over, generations of new spiders, living off the skin and food particles you sweep up into their waiting mouths, with each new pass of the cleaner.
Best to throw out the machine, get a broom and dustpan.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:38 PM (qgNVD)
This is a state the GOP won by 22% in 2000 (1.365mil votes) and 23% (1.7mil) in 2004. Deep State cut that to 6% (631k) in 2020.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 07, 2024 12:51 PM (P5BPp)
Hey, defeatist.
You are aware that in 2000 TX was electing a popular Gov to the WH and that accounts for the 22%?
I can’t come in here without looking at your doom and gloom whiny defeatism on this state. With your attitude, I may as well stay home in Nov and
1) pout and
2) whine, which is what you constantly do.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2024 01:38 PM (rQwsY)
I like the political equivalent of MAD or 'Mutual Assured Destruction' when it involves leftists.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 01:39 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 01:40 PM (aYD2Z)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 01:34 PM (R6aKb)
So much gobbledygook, so little time. Things like this make me hate the word “empower”. With a passion.
I’m old enough to remember when the NBA was fun to watch.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2024 01:41 PM (rQwsY)
+++Looks up "Immiserated" in handy copy of Funk & Wagnalls dictionary+++
Posted by: Slow reader at July 07, 2024 01:41 PM (dg+HA)
Monstrous assholes running the IC wanting both power and wealth by hoovering up information hurting average people and running ops that destroy lives like Epstein in the name of national security. I spit on them and their ilk.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:36 PM (/0X3E)
That's one of the reasons I won't use Alexa or Siri. People tell me I have nothing to worry about. And my answer is "You're right. Until you're not."
Once you come up on their radar screen, everything you've ever uttered or written will be used against you. Hell, this post could be one of those.
Yes, I am paranoid. Because our opposition are monsters.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 07, 2024 01:41 PM (hwLGC)
Posted by: Chairborne!
Because the smarter ones in the IC are well aware that openly flaunting fraud usually results in that particular regime swirling the toilet bowl in short fashion. Simply put, you have to have minimal consent of the governed even in somewhere like the late Soviet Union. We are not the Norks, nor E. Germany reliant on outsider Soviets to do dirty work in repressing the population.
Note that even in E. Germany, as nasty of a cruel police state government as has existed on Earth, it fell rapidly once the external oppressing forces were no long a threat (aka Russians). Ditto for the Baltic Republics, etc.
People are not potatoes, not all cultures are equal, and results vary significantly because of those bedrock facts of humanity.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:41 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2024 01:41 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 01:12 PM (rjJqk)
Having been married to a Government Purchase Card holder, I can actually believe this.
Actually, federal purchasing requirements dictate the vendors you can use, so yeah. Like good little bureaucrats, I'm sure they are following federal acquisition regulations.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 07, 2024 01:41 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:36 PM (/0X3E)
I start with the assumption that no cabal of crooks is as cohesive at it looks from the outside. There are always factions, and always one group or another looking to take down the power.
The VISA thing was passed because of who is blackmailing Mike Johnson. I have to think these are not the exact same people who are blackmailing Adam Schiff.
We know the kinds of crimes Schiff has perpetrated, we can only speculate on what they have on Johnson.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:42 PM (qgNVD)
Pastor: "I don't know why it is that you want to make an issue of the President and his condition with stammering..."
The he prays: "God, use our President, use his experience, use his handicaps..."
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 01:42 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: They're unburdened by what has been at July 07, 2024 01:42 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 01:42 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: National Science Foundation at July 07, 2024 01:43 PM (V5BDR)
It's New Hampshire, that's an office every other mile down the road.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 01:44 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July
😬
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:44 PM (pZEOD)
Once you come up on their radar screen, everything you've ever uttered or written will be used against you. Hell, this post could be one of those.
Yes, I am paranoid. Because our opposition are monsters.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 07, 2024 01:41 PM (hwLGC)
I start with the assumption they could have the goods on any of us, and the fact they haven't broken down our doors and shot our dogs is some of us just aren't important enough to do that... yet.
And by "goods" I mean anything. If the "worst" thing you've ever done is pick your nose on camera, they'll just plant the kiddie pron on your machine. If they need to.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:45 PM (qgNVD)
I'm sure young black NBA fans will be excited to turn out the vote for Biden. Or Kamala if it comes to that.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 01:45 PM (xjTDL)
It's New Hampshire, that's an office every other mile down the road
So, Dollar General?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 01:45 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 01:33 PM (RKVpM)
What's worse, they get into the housing of the device, and those eggs will keep hatching over and over and over, generations of new spiders, living off the skin and food particles you sweep up into their waiting mouths, with each new pass of the cleaner.
Best to throw out the machine, get a broom and dustpan.
Posted by: BurtTC at
Evacuate the house and nuke it from space.
It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 01:45 PM (tQrL+)
Posted by: Wally at July 07, 2024 01:46 PM (9Uj9K)
Across the nation, there are millions of young people who are newly eligible to vote in 2024
Every four years we are told the youth vote is going to be big, REALLY BIG!
But has it ever been?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 01:46 PM (63Dwl)
Yes, I am paranoid. Because our opposition are monsters.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!
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If you have vulnerable leverage points like finances, a job, children, etc. then it is a reasonable precaution. However, in a past life, I dealt with large datasets and databases and setting them up to run. Most of what you hear from the media is hype about their capabilities--they can work backward to go after one individual but it doesn't work well on either prediction nor prevention of mass events.
Like the IC using criminal means to get to people, easy to target a known individual--generally not worth the trouble to go after everyone and actually disruptive to the system due to limits of people, money, and bureaucratic failure syndrome.
A lot of the Stasi time was built compiling masses of population dossiers and even about ten percent of the population as informants or so. It failed to save the regime even while even the KGB praised the Stasi efficiency.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:46 PM (/0X3E)
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I go back and forth between "I'm insignificant enough not to draw their attention" and "I'm just the sort of powerless person they could easily destroy and no one would notice"
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 01:47 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 01:48 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: National Science Foundation at July 07, 2024 01:43 PM (V5BDR)
What we know is, Roombas are the safest machines evah built. You can run them all day long, and as long as you get boosted with new softwaah every two months, you'll be fine.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a Big Vacuum conference to attend.
Posted by: Tony Iamscience at July 07, 2024 01:49 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Wally
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The Dem offices are more there for fraud purposes than anything else and are related to voter registration and voter harvesting of ballots more than actual GOTV in a traditional sense. Essentially Get Out The Ballots instead of actual live voters. NH has same day voter registration as voting day which is what those offices are involved with.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:49 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: phydeaux at July 07, 2024 01:49 PM (MunRT)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 01:49 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07
I always think if they are monitoring us, the guy assigned to me spends a lot of time banging his head against the wall because I post things like “my roomba just ate a spider.” It’s the least I can do for the cause, really.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 01:50 PM (pZEOD)
not just that but it has colleges and those out of state student are for sure going to shift the native vote to the left
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 07, 2024 01:50 PM (s3qiR)
Back to political commentary.
Posted by: Piper
You know it's popping out thousands of baby spiders inside that Roomba as we speak don't you?
Posted by: Aviator at July 07, 2024 01:50 PM (HQ9Sl)
Once you come up on their radar screen, everything you've ever uttered or written will be used against you. Hell, this post could be one of those.
Yes, I am paranoid. Because our opposition are monsters.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 07, 2024 01:41 PM (hwLGC)
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Funny thing about Siri, if I chat about new skis, or a new set of golf clubs, I am hit with ads on social media right away. But talk about buying a new pistol and...crickets.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 01:52 PM (W/lyH)
The cost of living around here is hurting a lot of people but none more than young people. This area relies heavily on the service economy and tourism and it is very common to see signs these days saying business operating hours are being altered because of lack of help. Those jobs primarily went to young people.
Was speaking yesterday with my buddy who lives in the Keys and he says it's even worse down there. The debate helped expose what we have all known about Biden for years but the reality is he was already polling behind Trump before the debate and that is because he has an awful record across the board.
It's funny hearing Democrats now saying things like "Joe has been a great president but .... blah, blah, blah". No he hasn't been a great president. His approval rating is the lowest of any president in the modern polling era.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 01:52 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 01:47 PM (iZbyp)
That's the question, isn't it? How arbitrary is it, do they do this all the time, arrest people for these crimes, and while they're screaming up and down they didn't do it, we all just shake our heads and say "oh wow, I never would have suspected Ted."
What if Ted didn't actually do anything?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:52 PM (qgNVD)
Experts agree that due to climate change the ratio of spiders to humans will be 100 to 1 in their favor in the next three years.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 01:53 PM (RKVpM)
Alexa, where can I buy a moss-covered three-handled family gradunza?
Posted by: Theodore Geisel at July 07, 2024 01:54 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Arnie Arachnoid at July 07, 2024 01:55 PM (V5BDR)
Vermont = hipsters
New Hampshire = cranks and eccentrics
Maine = weirdos and hermits
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 01:55 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip
Problem is that our court system in every state including blue ones has precedents that dictate vote results beyond the number of actual registered voters is prima facie proof of fraud and subject to court jurisdiction.
Repeating 2020 trick is harder to do now without the massive influx of ballots and the Covid hysteria. The courts have eviscerated the public health powers used to aid the cheat in 2020 by subsequent decisions and Trump has a roadmap of exactly how the cheat was carried out in 2020.
Predicting the future is hard but adopting the all or nothing approach is counterproductive and demoralizing which is some of the recent new nics purpose. Demoralization ops have long been applied to politics and military matters.
Moral is--We win, they lose because truth ultimately defeats lies and we will conquer on the basis of truth/logos.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 01:55 PM (/0X3E)
This job sucks.
Posted by: patriot front guy at July 07, 2024 01:55 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 01:52 PM (W/lyH)
We went out of town last weekend. Booked a hotel on one website, and I'm now inundated by ads and emails from other booking entities... and telling me to book my next trip to the exact same area we visited.
How do all the rest of you know? I searched through DDG, which claims its searches are private.
Sure. Sure they are.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:56 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Piper
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If NSA Bob saw me doing battle with the snake last week, he'd take me off the list, after he stopped laughing.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 01:56 PM (iZbyp)
I store my extra urethra spiders in Dad's desk!
I like the furry ones best, they tickle when they go in and out!
Posted by: Hunter Bidet at July 07, 2024 01:57 PM (0ZYe2)
Posted by: BurtTC
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Ted is fine. It's Todd you have to watch. F'in Todd.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 01:57 PM (iZbyp)
It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.
Posted by: Yogi Berra at July 07, 2024 01:57 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 01:58 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Arnie Arachnoid at July 07, 2024 01:55 PM (V5BDR)
We get king snakes around here, and king snakes are cool looking and harmless. But there was a dead baby snake in the house last year. No no, we can't have that.
This year I hadn't seen any snakes, until Friday, when there was a dead baby snake on the driveway.
Where are your brothers and sisters, little guy?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:58 PM (qgNVD)
I doubt anyone here rises to the level the IC is interested in.
For now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 01:59 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 07, 2024 01:59 PM (XeU6L)
How do all the rest of you know? I searched through DDG, which claims its searches are private.
Sure. Sure they are.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:56 PM
Maybe, maybe not. I suspect that others apps running at the same time in other tabs can tell what you're typing elsewhere. Just a wild guess based on nothing other then an un-diagnosed case of late stage paranoia aka reality.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 01:59 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 07, 2024 02:00 PM (XeU6L)
One of the reasons their regime failed is because there was a powerful power in opposition - the US - that finally collapsed their protector - the USSR. That opposition power doesn't exist anymore. In fact, we've become them.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 07, 2024 02:00 PM (hwLGC)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 01:58 PM (/7KEl)
The chair is against the wall.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 02:00 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 01:58 PM (/7KEl)
The chair is against the wall.
Posted by: Diogenes
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The spider is in the Roomba.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 02:01 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 02:01 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Piper
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If NSA Bob saw me doing battle with the snake last week, he'd take me off the list, after he stopped laughing.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 01:56 PM (iZbyp)
Honestly, I have tried to limit the amount of posting on this webzine I do from the work pooter. I could easily see someone monitoring that, and some of the things I say... well, I'm not exactly breaking news, but it's obvious some of the sources of my info are not acceptable to the regime.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:01 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 02:01 PM (rjJqk)
If NSA Bob saw me doing battle with the snake last week, he'd take me off the list, after he stopped laughing.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07
Watch out for those Christian Nationalists! They are organized and lethal! Or not. 🤪
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:02 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: BurtTC
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True enough as far as it goes but essentially for us, the IC is a black box--we may know the titular 'leaders' but not the consultants, the contractors, political operatives, pols, and oligarchs giving them power and sustenance. My guess is both the financial and tech industries are heavily represented along with telecom and defense so there are some differences between those patrons of the Spy State.
The KGB and GRU had significant differences in emphasis and approach and amusingly the KGB were regarded as the softies. However, within those agencies there were factions supporting and opposing what Gorbachev eventually did regarding upsetting the reactionary and dying Brezhnev regime for reform from within.
Xi and the phantom brittle ChiCom hierarchy is facing similar issues or even the Mafia Commission.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 02:03 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 01:53 PM (RKVpM)
I don't think AtC is gonna like this
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 07, 2024 02:03 PM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Piper
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I identify as Mostly Harmless
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 02:03 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: another guy
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400-500 million or so fingerprints actually obscure more than they reveal. Basically the same as the massive CCTV experiment in UK has found regarding images. It can help resolve a crime once committed (but is not definitive) but rarely if ever prevents one.
Essentially it is a level of analysis program. I can take a magnifying glass and concentrate enough sunlight on an ant to fry his ass. But it takes time, effort, and resources. That same tactic does not work on an anthill and a large enough solar apparatus to fry the anthill might just kill enough of them on the surface as to move to another location when the sun goes down.
Eventually history is an example of failed regimes where the rulers mistook their status as permanent. They can cause a lot of damage like a falling tree but ultimately they go down as well.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 02:07 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: another guy at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (rjJqk)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!
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Unpopular to note, we didn't do much of anything when the wall fell other than rhetoric. It was primarily because the E. German regime was not regarded by its own citizens as legitimate.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: another guy
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It can but you can easily defeat a lot of the tactics if you really want to find out how. See EFF dot org for the latest in privacy tips.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 02:10 PM (/0X3E)
I doubt anyone here rises to the level the IC is interested in.
For now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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The IC are probably using AI models to do just that. The funny thing is that AI models turn out shit products once fed real data other than training data. But, the contractors and the agency want a bigger budget and AI is the way of the future versus hiring grubby human informants. They do the same management by fad to their own people that they subject the rest of us to.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Diogenes
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The spider is in the Roomba.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 02:01 PM
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 02:15 PM (aCj1E)
Posted by: Diogenes
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The spider is in the Roomba.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 02:01 PM
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 02:15 PM (aCj1E)
Wound my heart
With a monotonous
Languor.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 07, 2024 02:38 PM (K6DGR)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 07, 2024 02:40 PM (K6DGR)
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 03:35 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Ig at July 07, 2024 03:56 PM (RG/KJ)
Posted by: JHP2 at July 07, 2024 04:24 PM (UIvnv)
Half of the population of NH is in two adjacent counties, Hillsborough and Rockingham. The whole state is not very large, physically.
So what's the big deal about only having one field office? Maybe the Dems are just being Dems - wasting a lot of money on useless bureaucracy, to employ their cronies.
You have about the best candidate imaginable vs the absolute worst. The only way to lose the state is via election fraud, so if they have a way to address that - even a LITTLE bit better, and they DO - they're set.
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 07, 2024 05:12 PM (hOOi9)
Posted by: BentOuttaRound at July 07, 2024 08:52 PM (echFL)
NH is not Dem. We have a Republican majority in the state House and Senate (barely) and a Republican governor. We are one of the most free states in the nation and a bastion in extremely liberal New England. It's a constant fight to keep it that way. The exception is that all our representatives at the federal level are Dem. That is in large part because there are boatloads of outside money from all kinds of lib groups sent into this state to elect liberal candidates. Stop wining and complaining and do something to contribute. Geesh.
Posted by: GraniteLady at July 07, 2024 09:31 PM (SEshB)
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 07-07-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
PIC NOTE
As bookshelf arrangements go, this one is pretty neat. I like the *idea* of shelving my books like this, but I suspect the reality is not as much fun. Where is the ladder to get to the books on the top shelf? How are the books sorted, organized, cataloged? And there are "gaps" along the sides of the shelves where books won't fit, so you'd have to find some filler knickknacks to complete the space. Still, it's visually interesting...
LITERARY VS. GENRE FICTION
(This has happened to me more than once and as recently as this past week. Fortunately, the Kindle app solves this problem.)
Comment: Does advertising really work anymore? We are so inundated with ads that it's possible our brain just filters them out. Or the ads insinuate themselves into our brain subconsciously, so we don't even notice that we are picking out brands at the supermarket determined by the ads we've viewed.
A History of Advertising by Stephane Pincas and Marc Loiseau. The book declared "this book explores legendary campaigns and brands of advertising's modern history... You will find the picture of the camel that originated the Camel cigarette pack, some of the very first Coca-Cola ads, and even see how artworks by masters such as Picasso and Magritte have been used in advertising." It was definitely an interesting read. Kub, the world's first mass marketed meat concentrate appeared in Picasso's Landscape with Posters in 1912. The book insists that's the source of calling Picasso's work, Cubism. A poster for a hair tonic, Dada, led to art in the style of the poster being called Dadaism. The most intriguing part of the book was a little illustration showing that all ad agencies are owned by the same conglomerate, Publicis Group. Talk about an octopus. If you're interested in the history of advertising, I'd say it's a good starter book. Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2024 09:00 AM (0eaVi)
Comment: "I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big." -- Donald J. Trump There's no question that President Trump is a man with big ideas. Unfortunately, the government he led is still filled with small-minded idiots. We'll see if he's able to implement any of his big ideas during his second term, assuming he's allowed to have one.
the book I am currently reading is Trump's The Art of the Deal, which is about making million dollar bets on being able to build, manage and profit off of building projects in some of the most expensive places in the world, and why Trump thought it was a good idea. Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2024 10:18 AM (D7oie)
Comment: This is still one of the most terrifying books I've ever read, if only because of how prescient it is. I read it at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2021. The eerie similarities to the totalitarian control in that novel vs. the totalitarian control exhibited by our government at that time was just weird. More Moron-recommended reading material can be found HERE! (1000+ Moron-recommended books!)
I finally finished C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength. It's funny that others have mentioned mass market paperbacks and tiny print because that was the case with the Space Trilogy set I purchased. I was too stubborn to go out and buy a better copy, thus spending $ on something I already owned, so I grumbled and kept reading. Then the story became so engaging that I didn't notice the small print and I could not put it down. I could go on and on about what a great story THS is and how well C.S. Lewis understands and portrays human nature. I'm glad I made the effort to read all three books in the series as I'm not sure I would really have appreciated THS as much as I did. Posted by: KatieFloyd at June 30, 2024 11:06 AM (EO0H2)
(100% less fabulous than the current season on television.)
Disclaimer: No Morons were harmed in the making of this Sunday Morning Book Thread. Members of the New Race are banned from the Sunday Morning Book Thread (Victor's orders).
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at July 07, 2024 09:00 AM (wwf+q)
Posted by: Auspex at July 07, 2024 09:01 AM (j4U/Z)
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Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 09:05 AM (zctuX)
I've read 52 books so far this year. To be honest, most were brain candy...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 07, 2024 09:06 AM (U3L4U)
I can't really decide what to read next. Nothing is holding my interest past a few pages right now.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 09:06 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at July 07, 2024 09:06 AM (wwf+q)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 09:06 AM (FEZee)
I'm reading the first in Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden magic/PI series, Storm Front. A lot of fun so far. The cover illustration of Harry in his duster (and with a tall straight black fedora) makes me think of Hugh Jackman in the role. Since the first of the X-Men movies with Jackman as Wolverine didn't appear until 2000, the year this book came out, I don't know if Butcher could have had HJ in mind when he wrote the novel in the late '90s. But I might not be surprised.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:06 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 09:07 AM (OX9vb)
I'm up to the part where the US is testing H-bombs, and the deepstate* knives are out for Oppenheimer and anybody else who questions the wisdom of stockpiling thermonuclear weapons
*I believe the deepstate was born at the end of WWII
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 09:07 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Glenn Mackett at July 07, 2024 09:08 AM (rGaN8)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024 09:08 AM (p/isN)
what distinguishes literature from "just a story"?
- good writing should be obvious, but defining good writing is like defining good wine
-- the subject matter: relationships and/or the eternal things of the world
Posted by: yara at July 07, 2024 09:08 AM (jwDtS)
I'd say it's a case of the Mondays, but, well...
Unread Simenons beckon.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 07, 2024 09:08 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 09:09 AM (zctuX)
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at July 07, 2024
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I describe it to people as "Imagine the Seinfeld characters as professional thieves and con artists." The series is a delight. From what I've read, Westlake was starting The Hot Rock, the first in the series, as one of his grim Parker the pro thief crime novels. But, he said, "It kept coming out funny."
And I know Dortmunder is described as a rather small dour man. But Robert Redford's comic style -- nobody does comic exasperation better -- was perfect as Dortmunder in that film. Plus you had George Segal and Ron Leibman, and a script by William Goldman. Hard to go wrong.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:10 AM (omVj0)
Set in Vegas and L.A., it's one the author's stand-alones, not featuring his Harry Bosch or Mickey Haller characters. This one's all-criminals.
I really like crime novels set in Vegas. Anybody know of some good ones?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 07, 2024 09:11 AM (ZtgZZ)
I should've added that "just stories" worth reading need to be well written too. I read a story last week which wasn't well written.
Posted by: yara at July 07, 2024 09:11 AM (jwDtS)
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Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 09:11 AM (dg+HA)
You have been warned.
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 09:11 AM (zudum)
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at July 07, 2024 09:00 AM
Congratulations! They say you always remember your first.
Now go for a first on the ONT, known as the Primus Noctus.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2024 09:12 AM (TTO0Z)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs
Crichton really captures the spirit of the left in the book.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 09:13 AM (zctuX)
- good writing should be obvious, but defining good writing is like defining good wine
-- the subject matter: relationships and/or the eternal things of the world
Posted by: yara at July 07, 2024
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And what distinguishes a soap opera from drama? In my view, in a drama the characters are just doing the best they can in the situations they find themselves in. Soap operas, I think, usually feature someone who is doing evil or horribly mischievous things just for power, or the fun of it, of watching people squirm. I dunno; I've watched few soap operas in my time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:13 AM (omVj0)
We’re studying the seven churches in Revelations in church. No surprise we’re Laodicea.
Posted by: Jmel at July 07, 2024 09:13 AM (bVhJi)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 07, 2024 09:14 AM (XjtdB)
Thank you Perfessor for the book thread.
I had to put down A Distant Mirror. Just lost interest. Felt like I was reading just to read.
Haven't commited to what comes off the stack next.
Being as my brain is now a blob of mush over that stupid D&D game I started playing on the grands Xbox I might do the Icewind Dale trilogy (stupid game won't let me go there yet) again. Been probably 30 years since I read those.
Posted by: Reforger at July 07, 2024 09:14 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 07, 2024 09:14 AM (PXvVL)
Posted by: Glenn Mackett at July 07, 2024 09:14 AM (rGaN8)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 09:15 AM (zctuX)
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Hmm. In the course of earning an MA in art history, the versions I learned were:
1. Cubism was named (derisively) after the cubic shapes in early work by Georges Braque and Picasso.
2. Dada was named by stabbing a dictionary with a knife, the point being found through the word "dada," a colloquialism for a rocking-horse.
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at July 07, 2024 09:15 AM (wwf+q)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 07, 2024
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William Goldman had one called Edged Weapons, also called Heat. It became a film with Burt Reynolds, I think.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:15 AM (omVj0)
I realized I kept reaching for a highlighter to note many passages and this was a library book. I broke down and bought my own copy.
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 09:17 AM (zudum)
One thing I learned after looking it up was that the Surprise was not only a real ship, it suppressed the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history (the Hermione, in 1797).
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 09:17 AM (jGGMD)
Rollicking Space Opera, with starship chase scenes.
Lots of menace for our heroes to overcome.
Underlying this adventure is consistent world building, some good character development and arcs (in the villains). Behind the putative villains are the true bad guys, manipulating the Universe for no good.
The writing is so rich, I can only reread it every decade or more. Like all sugar and fat in the middle of a keto diet.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2024 09:17 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at July 07, 2024 09:00 AM (wwf+q)
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Yowza!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 09:18 AM (RIvkX)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2024 09:18 AM (u82oZ)
Interesting that we have chicken authors - It's always Christianity or Christ himself as a topic. Why not try Mohammedanism? Lots of juicy stuff there: war, cruelty, barbarism, pedophilia, sodomy, bestiality. Enough? There is more .....!
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparement c'est barbare at July 07, 2024 09:18 AM (qfLjt)
I haven't (yet) read the next few books in the series, but I own four of the last five. Was going to use inter-library loan to get the earlier ones, but it's being revamped and won't resume operations until September. Considering that it was supposed to restart in May ... we'll see.
Westlake's "regulars" at the bar make me laugh out loud.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024 09:19 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 07, 2024 09:19 AM (U3L4U)
Not sure what to pick up next. I may switch back to my other C.S., that is C.S. Harris, with #11 of the St Cyr series.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 09:20 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:13 AM (omVj0)
Also, soap operas rely on an evil twin surfacing at least once a year.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 09:20 AM (jGGMD)
I think brad thor did examine some aspects in the first commandment
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 07, 2024 09:20 AM (PXvVL)
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 09:21 AM (zudum)
Posted by: sinalco at July 07, 2024 09:22 AM (yODqO)
A Distant Mirror was quite good, but what I took away is a highly successful man and his fate.
Sir de Coucy had everything a person could want in life. It appeared he rarely ever failed. Then, on a campaign, his sound advice was over-ridden by less skilled superior officers. The new plan was a disaster, and he was captured.
Sir de Coucy had limited coping skills with adversity, and he died quickly thereafter. Maybe he lacked true resilience, which is forged by overcoming failure.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2024 09:22 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 07, 2024 09:23 AM (78a2H)
I haven't (yet) read the next few books in the series, but I own four of the last five. Was going to use inter-library loan to get the earlier ones, but it's being revamped and won't resume operations until September. Considering that it was supposed to restart in May ... we'll see.
Westlake's "regulars" at the bar make me laugh out loud.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024
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The second novel is called Bank Shot and involves a plan by Dortmunder & Co. to steal . . . an entire bank. There is also another, later entry with the greatest title: What's the Worst That Could Happen?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:24 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024
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I'd forgotten that. You won't find that in a real drama.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:25 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 09:20 AM (jGGMD)
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Conventional drama has a story arc. Soap operas have story arcs that never actually end - they go on as long as the show, which often requires characters being radically transformed, assumed dead, actually dead, and so on.
There's also the episodic format and season cliff-hanger, which breaks it up. These are what set them apart from other types of storytelling.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 09:25 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 07, 2024 09:26 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 09:20 AM (jGGMD)
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Conventional drama has a story arc. Soap operas have story arcs that never actually end - they go on as long as the show, which often requires characters being radically transformed, assumed dead, actually dead, and so on.
There's also the episodic format and season cliff-hanger, which breaks it up. These are what set them apart from other types of storytelling.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 09:25 AM (llXky)
That’s it! The Biden we see is the good! The evil one stays out of sight.
Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2024 09:28 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 07, 2024 09:30 AM (PXvVL)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024 09:30 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: sinalco
The show is bad. I watched the first two seasons and decided there's no way I'm watching anymore. Great costumes though. LOL
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 09:30 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 09:30 AM (zudum)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 07, 2024 09:30 AM (PXvVL)
There's also the episodic format and season cliff-hanger, which breaks it up. These are what set them apart from other types of storytelling.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 09:25 AM (llXky)
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This is a pretty accurate description of the Legend of Drizzt novels by R.A. Salvatore. They started out as conventional fantasy novels, but have very much evolved into a long-running literary soap opera.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 09:31 AM (BpYfr)
It is a well-researched book, and I will give it 5 stars because this is a very obscure topic and the book contributes significant information. However, the editing is sub-par, particularly in the fact that Jowett keeps putting "puppet" in scare quotes. This is appropriate at the introduction, but after that, the modifier is tedious. We get it, we know Manchukuo was a puppet state. Don't keep reminding us!
There are also some strange turns of phrase and sentence constructions that I had to read twice to figure out what the author meant.
I incorporated Jowett's earlier work on China into Walls of Men, and there is a short Osprey book on the same topic for those interested in a less detailed treatment.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 09:31 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 07, 2024 09:31 AM (78a2H)
There's also the episodic format and season cliff-hanger, which breaks it up. These are what set them apart from other types of storytelling.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024
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Well, I was thinking more about novels that are described as soap operas -- the kind of things Sidney Sheldon and Nora Roberts produced -- as opposed to a real drama. But what you say is true of TV, for sure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:32 AM (omVj0)
If you like Westlake in non-humorous mode, there's the Parker series (also all on Kindle). But there are plenty of stand-alones as well, and of these The Ax is a must for any Westlake fan. And for Book threaders, his later title The Hook should be in your to-be-read pile; think Strangers on a Train meets the book business.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 07, 2024 09:33 AM (q3u5l)
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You outta write something up for Weasel and the gub thread sorta black powder for beginners.
I have a few blackpowder muzzle loaders and a couple of military black powder era rifles but due to living in suburbia, few places near me to shoot them outdoors (no range would allow me to shoot them indoors, I am sure). So my practical experience with them is much less than my book experience on those firearms.
Sharing some of that would be very useful even the minor tips like static electricity avoidance and whether Goex is still a going concern.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:35 AM (/0X3E)
Huzzah. I am happy for you. You go, girl.
Soap operas were called that, of course, because of their first sponsors. If Kub and Oxo had been in there swinging, we'd have meat operas. Some of us may have seen one or two of those.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 07, 2024 09:35 AM (zdLoL)
The art of sales prefers that the customer walks into your shop with the intent to buy, not that a salesman has to persuade a warm call. Edward Bernays showed us the way through propaganda.
For the three frogs, "Bud"... "Weiss" ... "Er" to work, it must become part of the popular Now culture. With "Diversity" and a valueless culture, that is all but impossible to hit that critical mass. Marketing must be fragmented. You can't say that you want your product to appeal to a new fringe group without understanding that you will alienate the Converted (ref: Bud Light)
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Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 07, 2024 09:35 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 07, 2024 09:23 AM (78a2H)
Alternate history makes me queasy, too. I am not sure which I find more repellent--alternate history or time travel.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 09:36 AM (OX9vb)
While everyone thinks of China as having two sides (KMT vs CCP), the KMT had several splinter groups who broke away to side with Japan (but still fought the Communists). Jowett does a good job of explaining this and also how soldiers in Chinese culture are considered nothing more than uniformed bandits - because that is often what they were.
There is also an exploration of how Nationalist troops may have been ordered to defect in order to preserve their combat capability against the Communists, who always were the greater threat.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 09:37 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 07, 2024 09:20 AM (jGGMD)
Space operas let you find new problems to solve. I point to the "Bob and Nikki" books by Jerry Boyd. Now up to #48, there is always a new system to explore, with lots of new friends to meet and old enemies lurking in the background.
It may not be great literature, but I like it.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 09:38 AM (Lvojk)
Sir de Coucy had everything a person could want in life. It appeared he rarely ever failed. Then, on a campaign, his sound advice was over-ridden by less skilled superior officers. The new plan was a disaster, and he was captured.
Sir de Coucy had limited coping skills with adversity, and he died quickly thereafter. Maybe he lacked true resilience, which is forged by overcoming failure.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Nothing is certain in life which is a hard lesson to learn.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:38 AM (/0X3E)
He logs the stories all from historical records of hurricanes over the previous couple millennia, which would serve up a huge refutation to the climate screamers of today.
It wasn't even known they were circular until maybe the late 1800s.
Before the storm, Galveston was a Texas port of great importance, more so than Houston. The storm ruined the city and killed over 8,000. Erased and gone, it never recovered. Proportionally, it dwarfed what Katrina did to New Orleans.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 07, 2024 09:39 AM (ZtgZZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2024 09:18 AM
I'm doing my goodest.
Posted by: Joey B. at July 07, 2024 09:40 AM (NlwkK)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 07, 2024
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Westlake, Lawrence Block, and several other up-and-coming writers knew each other well in NYC during the early Sixties when they were getting their start. Block has done some lighthearted crime/detective stories, such as his Bernie Rhodenbarr series. Bernie is a pro thief -- think Alexander Mundy without the glamour or spying -- who often gets himself in hot water in the middle of a heist y finding a murder, and has to solve it to clear himself.
Block also did some comic parodies of the Nero Wolfe series, the Chip Harrison books.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:40 AM (omVj0)
I managed to go the entire month of June without buying a single book! It was my small act of defiance against a month that was getting obnoxious. Plus, it allowed me to make a serious dent in my to-be-read pile. If I did that for another 11 months, I might actually reach the point where I've read most of the books on my shelf.
Alas, that is not to be. I just put in an order for three new sword-and-sorcery comics. Because I love sword and sorcery, and I need to encourage the comic book publishers produce more works in the genre. Anyways, one book is by a writer I know and trust, so I'm excited about that on. Another book is by a writer I don't know, but I've heard good things about the series. The last book is from a writer I actively distrust, but who clearly has a passion for the genre, so I'm giving it a shot, just because I'm desperate for reading material. I'm hoping for the best, even if I'm not expecting it...
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 07, 2024 09:41 AM (Lhaco)
The new cool is subconscious "presuation". A concept where a subtle meme is embedded into your target culture such where you think about it but don't know why.
Have you ever been talking about X, a topic that you never really talk about, then because you know that you rarely if ever talk about it are spooked when an advertisement for X or something in the family of X appears in your browser or a push advertising on a mobile app?
You are so spooked by it that you swear that covert entities are listening in to your conversations and are tailoring ads just for you. Its very likely that you are responding to Presuation where an idea was placed into your head at the subconscious level and it surfaced in a conversation, because you have been manipulated into thinking about it, which then nudges you into buying that product or service and you go to the sales floor ready to buy, not ready to be manipulated by a salesman.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 07, 2024 09:41 AM (rHxhM)
Last night I learned that Malcolm Guite some years ago narrated Chesterton's "Ballad of the White Horse" and it is available as a free download. I am thrilled. Guite, in addition to being a wonderful poet, has the ability to bring narratives and poems alive with his readings and insights. I haven't had a chance to listen yet but will this week.
The downloads can be found on Guite's Wordpress dot com site. Look for his October 10, 2011 post.
I should find out if there is a way to create a CD from the downloads. The laptop doesn't have a CD drive, dammit!
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 09:41 AM (zudum)
1. Cubism was named (derisively) after the cubic shapes in early work by Georges Braque and Picasso.
2. Dada was named by stabbing a dictionary with a knife, the point being found through the word "dada," a colloquialism for a rocking-horse.
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at July 07, 2024 09:15 AM (wwf+q)
Ok, Wolfus stuff done. Werewife, that's what the author said. I have no idea if it's true, but you can see the paintings mentioned, and Kub and Dada were, or are, products advertised around the time cubism and dada were getting started. Plausible, but not necessarily true.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 09:41 AM (0eaVi)
However, some -- 1990s X-Men, I mean you -- never get around to resolving some stories. We had to wait years to learn Gambit's great dark secret. It couldn't have matched the buildup, and it didn't.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024 09:41 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 07, 2024 09:31 AM (78a2H)
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I'm not an expert, but many years ago, it was customary at my job for everyone to eat lunch in the break room and watch The Young and the Restless. I don't know why, it was that way when I got there.
A classic device to stretch the series is to add a new character who goes around stirring things up, forcing the established ones to react, which in turn creates new plot lines. Kind of like a new villain in comics, but in soaps they can be more nuanced.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 09:42 AM (llXky)
Dude gets killed in the Second Korean War, but he's turned into a cyborg with a thing called "The Imperative" in his skull by a rich asshole working for the US government. He regains consciousness, which is NOT supposed to happen, and he also has some kind of demon inside his head called "Red Man" that drives him to increasing acts of violence. He retains enough of his humanity that he only kills evil people, but he's swiftly going off the rails mentally and physicall. He escapes the government program and is hunted relentlessly as he tries to find a fix for his predicament.
Pretty good story, which is a prequel to Fox's "Ember War" military sci-fi series. The billionaire who creates the protagonist in Battleborne/Red Man has secret knowledge that an alien race is going to lay waste to Earth in the future, and he's desperately trying to create weapons systems to fight them. He's evil and uses up a lot of people to do so, but he's trying to save Earth. The Ember War series is a very good read.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 07, 2024 09:43 AM (/RHNq)
This is the art of AI in marketing. This is the automation of what Edward Bernays perfected by having the culture be willing to pay more for junk meat (bacon) than in a USDA Prime steak.
AI is able to do all of that presuation and pepper your link experience, your searches and soon, the AI generated content that will replace usual articles and blogs that nudge you into thinking about a product or service you really weren't interested in before.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 07, 2024 09:44 AM (rHxhM)
The cover illustrations "offered endless variations on recurring motifs, namely crimson-lipped females in lingerie, granite-jawed tough guys, blazing .45s, rumpled bedsheets, neon-lit hotel rooms, a blue-gray haze of cigarette smoke, alleyways and street corners at permanent midnight."
The titles alone are worth a perusal, never mind the covers:
Twelve Chinamen and a Woman (it was tastefully reworded from "Chink")
"Leg-Art" Virgin
Musk, Hashish, and Blood
Office Sinner
Lady, Don't Die on My Doorstep
Sucker Bait
Swamp Hoyden
Hitch-Hike Hussy
Women's Barracks
For me, the funniest shit is the artistic license used in illustrating classics by, say, Orwell, with the Ashcan School hotties in pencil skirts and bullet bras.
The Beats got exposure because Ginsberg's psych ward buddy had an uncle at Ace and the friend became a sort of literary agent to Burroughs, Kerouac, et Al.
LOL, Ginsberg called the Ace Doubles "69s".
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 07, 2024 09:44 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Warlordism was largely extinguished in the West after Westphalia and the advent of the nation state. It is perhaps possible that it will return given that globalism has severely damaged the nation state in favor of the global universal one.
Faith in something bigger is necessary for young men (and now women) to die for the cause. Otherwise, it all becomes a business arrangement.
Just for curiousity, have you ever read H. Beam Piper's fictional Lord Kalvan of Otherwhere book.
He integrates in a most amusing fashion his love for antique firearms and the lessons taught by Sir Charles Oman in his series of books. You might enjoy it.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:45 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: PabloD at July 07, 2024 09:45 AM (iFWPe)
Perf, the author does speak about that. I think that's why they started targeting certain demographics with certain products and styles. Constant bombardment of ads makes people ignore them.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 09:45 AM (0eaVi)
Space operas let you find new problems to solve. I point to the "Bob and Nikki" books by Jerry Boyd. Now up to #48, there is always a new system to explore, with lots of new friends to meet and old enemies lurking in the background.
It may not be great literature, but I like it.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024
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A stand-alone novel or short story depicts the most important moment in the protagonist's life -- the biggest decision he will ever make or crisis he will have to face. A book series or TV series can't do that the same way, or it would descend into melodrama. There may be critical adventures along the way -- Ellery Queen's crisis of confidence in the late Forties novels, Capt. Kirk's decision whether to save Edith Keeler -- but a series either depicts lesser adventures (though they should still be important), or has a non-series "guest" character who suffers the most important moment in his life.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:45 AM (omVj0)
One Westlake I'd like to see available for Kindle is Adios Scheherazade. It's about a guy under contract to deliver yet another soft-core novel and he just can't bring himself to write the stuff any more. Read it years ago; as with so many I find plot details blurred now, but as I recall it was funny as hell.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 07, 2024 09:47 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2024 09:22 AM (u82oZ)
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Just living in the 14th Century required resiliency at a level few people today possess. Lots of ways to drop dead back then, regardless of your emotional stability.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 09:47 AM (llXky)
It’s brilliant. It’s a real team book, and told in I think the phrase is epistolary form via diaries, doctors’ notes, news clippings circling into the true horror of what is happening to these women.
The hard part is that so much of it has since become standard. I’m pretty sure we know a lot more going in than readers of its era, because it was so deservedly successful.
It is hard to believe that the same author wrote Lair of the White Worm.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 07, 2024 09:47 AM (EXyHK)
I really enjoyed it but the ending...there wasn't one. The guy just kind of stopped writing leaving everything hanging.
The author is a very good story teller.
I highly recommend it.
Posted by: pawn at July 07, 2024 09:48 AM (QB+5g)
The Beats got exposure because Ginsberg's psych ward buddy had an uncle at Ace and the friend became a sort of literary agent to Burroughs, Kerouac, et Al.
LOL, Ginsberg called the Ace Doubles "69s".
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 07, 2024
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I'd extend that golden age of paperback pulp into the mid- to late Sixties. Signet and other houses were still using partly-clad, sexy women on their covers to sell books (even if they had little titillation in them) as late as the early Seventies.
The Ace Doubles, that makes sense. The two halves were reversed; you read one, then turned it 180 degrees for the second one.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:48 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 09:49 AM (PZo5T)
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You outta read Pixy Misa's thread a bit more. AI has a lot less going for it than believed and the serious limitations are baked into the cake of LLM models.
In other words, it is today's block chain fad and like that, it is driving a huge bubble in the market (look at NVIDIA's grossly excessive valuation for example) all based on the idea that corporations can somehow translate gobs of information via AI processors into something useful using probability theory to predict patterns using tokens.
Essentially it is big data run amuck and the problem with that is that it actually conceals as much as it reveals.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:50 AM (/0X3E)
Hi whig,
That's a thought. I've touched on BP topics in the comments over the years. I'm hardly an expert but know how to shoot BP guns safely and maintain them. I'll ask Weasel if he would like a fuller treatment at some point. There are a few of us on the gub thread who enjoy muzzleloading for various reasons.
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 09:50 AM (zudum)
I don't read those kind of books, Perf. But, let me guess. The secret knowledge is Jesus was a space alien, or was gay, or was married, or wasn't really on the cross. Or, he was a gay space alien who got Mary Mag pregnant, then abandoned her. Because of that, she became a lesbian and was the true head of the church. Is that about right?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 09:50 AM (0eaVi)
A Cossack was held captive in a Tartar camp, and would sure to die at their hands, unless another Cossack was able to single-handedly rescue him. Fortunately, our rescuer had two things going for him: he had a keepsake from his time campaigning in Europe, a set of bagpipes, and he had just downed an entire bottle of corn brandy (it's bad luck to uncork a bottle and not finish it, don't you know) so he was willing to try any plan, no matter how crazy! So, he spooked the Tartars by playing the bagpipes at various places just outside the village (it was night, so they couldn't see what was making the spooky music) and then snuck in to free the captive while most of the troops were out looking for the ghostly-piper.
The kicker of the story is that our hero had been so drunk during the rescue that by morning he couldn't remember any of it, as was confused when others sung his praises!
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 07, 2024 09:51 AM (Lhaco)
and Thank you, Perfessor, as always.
I think I gave Larson's "The Demon of Unrest" a fair trial before ditching it. This pained me, because I am a huge Larson fan.
This one is slow, too highly detailed, and - this is an odd adjective- prissy. Or 'preachy' might be better.
I think this is a case of writing for a cause- he tips us off in the preface comparing J6 to Fort Sumter. That rarely produces a good book.
I'm on a Caryll Houselander, a long admired author, kick at the moment. I have finished the collected letters and the new bio by Mary Frances Coady and am reading 'Guilt'. This last is very timely, as it explains a lot about why people may be driven to do what they do. It was published in 1950, and of course things have only gotten worse since.
If you're not familiar with Houselander (1901-1954), she was an English artist and author, who specialized in Catholic spirituality. She was an eccentric, whose own struggles made her a counselor for others in the same boat.
Posted by: sal at July 07, 2024 09:52 AM (y7DxH)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 09:45 AM (0eaVi)
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Of course it works, but it has to be done well and it can also backfire (Hi, Bud Light!).
The Most Interesting Man in the world campaign was genius-level, and I even tried the beer.
Today much of it is just trying to maintain customer loyalty and move market share at the margins.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 09:53 AM (llXky)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 09:50 AM (0eaVi)
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None of those are remotely close. It's a combination of a couple of different ideas, but when you examine them too closely, they fall apart rather fast.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 09:53 AM (BpYfr)
You are so spooked by it that you swear that covert entities are listening in to your conversations and are tailoring ads just for you. Its very likely that you are responding to Presuation where an idea was placed into your head at the subconscious level and it surfaced in a conversation, because you have been manipulated into thinking about it, which then nudges you into buying that product or service and you go to the sales floor ready to buy, not ready to be manipulated by a salesman.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
We used to play a game at lunch, where my colleagues and I would decide on some topic to discuss, the more arcane the better. Then we would measure how many of us would receive and ad about a product related to the subject, and how long it would take. It was impressive.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 09:53 AM (zctuX)
I no longer buy current comics other than Girl Genius, although I understand that Chuck Dixon is still active. I don't want to support known political opponents, which means I never may finish Kurt Busiek's Astro City.
My comics purchases are confined to reprint TCs, mostly Marvel's Epic volumes.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024 09:54 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: PabloD at July 07, 2024 09:56 AM (iFWPe)
Also reading Fail/Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It's an account of a computer glitch that starts world war III, and was published in 1962. Through the puffery of west coast academics, there are some interesting truths that I don't think they intended to relate, much like Whedon's firefly.
Posted by: Moki at July 07, 2024 09:56 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 09:25 AM (llXky)
Another "so-on"- children aging a decade in a season.
Posted by: sal at July 07, 2024 09:57 AM (y7DxH)
A very good detective novel, full of twists and unexpected developments, and dry bits of prose, like
"she took hold of both ankles and heaved, and Maurice came out sliding; the loose briquesttes beneath him acting upon the roller principle known to the builders of stonehenge. Giselle, with a squeak of joy, seized one ankle and the two girls towed Maurice along the passage into the kitchen with his head bumping behind him."
Hambledon books are always fun, but often melancholy
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 09:57 AM (D7oie)
What happened to the Book Thread?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 09:57 AM (Lvojk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:24 AM (omVj0)
Ah, the George C Scott movie. The Bank Shot.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 09:57 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 07, 2024 09:44 AM (kpS4V)
That looks like it's right up my alley. Going to check the library.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 09:58 AM (OX9vb)
Book 1 introduces our main character: a member of the Winged Husars who deserts and rides to the wild east (modern Ukraine) to join the Cossacks. We're supposed to believe he deserts because he's sick of the senseless killing (in a Poland vs Russia war) but then has no qualms about killing his former comrades and mentor when they come after him for his betrayal. So, killing strangers in the context of war; breaks our heroes spirit. Killing friends that are angry at him; he can live with himself.
Why is this guy our hero? Am I supposed to like him just because he gets the most screentime? Book 2 doesn't start much better...
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 07, 2024 09:59 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Moki at July 07, 2024
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Not sure I've ever read that, though I oddly remember it being serialized in The Saturday Evening Post when I was a kid. (Pretty sure on that, anyway.) The film version w/ Henry Fonda was in B & W, stark, and intense.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:59 AM (omVj0)
It's surprising how often you read books about military men, where their advice on how to fight and win wars is ignored. I can imagine what he would say about our current military.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 09:59 AM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024
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Ah, the George C Scott movie. The Bank Shot.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024
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Scott is not my idea of Dortmunder, but he could be funny on occasion.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 10:00 AM (omVj0)
Moorcock later expanded the novella into a full novel, but the shorter version is a better read, and I think Moorcock won a Nebula for the short version.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 07, 2024 10:01 AM (q3u5l)
Faith in something bigger is necessary for young men (and now women) to die for the cause. Otherwise, it all becomes a business arrangement.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:45 AM (/0X3E)
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I would say that warlordism wasn't eliminated so much as institutionalized. The Peace of Westphalia established that the dream of a universal Christian empire in Western Europe was dead, dead, dead. There would be no reunification.
No, I'm not aware of the book, but thanks for the recommendation.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:02 AM (llXky)
Latest I been here in a long time.
Finished the excellent history Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
Started Waterloo Casualties by Paul L Dawson, he is going over the events by orders and dispaches
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 10:02 AM (fwDg9)
My comics purchases are confined to reprint TCs, mostly Marvel's Epic volumes.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024
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Dixon, I think, is active at Vox Day's Arkhaven Press. They have "Arktoons" coming out at regular intervals, and Dixon did an adaptation of the film he loved as a boy, Gorgo.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 10:03 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Castle Guy
Back in the '70s we read a Western called "The Cowboy and the Cossack". Cossacks are dispatched to the West to oversee the cowboys bringing a prize herd to Russia. It was quite good, as I recall. Would have made a great movie
Posted by: sal at July 07, 2024 10:03 AM (y7DxH)
Having read Willy Ley's much larger book, Rockets, Missiles, and Space (multiple times) I think Ley, who was also a VfR member, who left Germany before the war and wound up writing articles for Analog, Ley is a better writer.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:04 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2024 10:04 AM (SYsni)
Posted by: JTB at July 07, 2024 10:05 AM (zudum)
It's surprising how often you read books about military men, where their advice on how to fight and win wars is ignored. I can imagine what he would say about our current military.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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You bring an interesting point to the table that I have not considered and good reasons that neither generals nor their politicians can fully be trusted. Few generals, perhaps De Gaulle or a Cromwell or a Dwight Eisenhower are both politically astute and competent in military matters.
Trump's problem in part in office was that he thought the current crop of generals/admirals he appointed were professional when instead they were politicians in military suits doing what they thought best without civilian interference.
Lincoln had a similar issue with his generals.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:05 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 10:05 AM (xjTDL)
https://tinyurl.com/mpf7y98x
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 10:05 AM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 07, 2024 10:06 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 10:06 AM (fwDg9)
The Destroyer series doesn't start to click until the fourth book, "Mafia Fix," but by "Kill or CURE," (No. 11, I think), it shifts into high gear and keeps on rolling.
I stopped buying them in the 50s when I realized I was buying but not reading because I was devoting more time to comics.
I'm not ready to break up my collections.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024 10:07 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 09:59 AM (xjTDL)
Smedley Butler wrote "War is a Racket." I was quite surprised that a major USMC installation on Okinawa is named after him.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 10:07 AM (Lvojk)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 07, 2024 10:08 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 07, 2024 10:01 AM (q3u5l)
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While vintage sci-fi does have some interesting elements, the consistent condescension regarding faith is deeply annoying. It gets worse when you find out how many of these respected authors were vile people.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:08 AM (llXky)
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I have a special fondness for Ley's book but have not read it in years. For recent books on the subject, I found that A Man Called Flight (about Chris Kraft and the MSC) was an excellent book about the actual competent NASA that existed at one time.
Too bad that no one has really done a biography on Robert Gilruth who was an unsung hero at NASA and ameliorated some of the Von Braun crew's worst impulses.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:08 AM (/0X3E)
The storm ruined the city and killed over 8,000. Erased and gone, it never recovered. Proportionally, it dwarfed what Katrina did to New Orleans.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 07, 2024 09:39 AM (ZtgZZ)
My maternal grandfather and his family survived the storm as a young boy. They had postcards of the destruction, which were horrific.
It's an excellent book and set the template for his other works.
Posted by: sal at July 07, 2024 10:09 AM (y7DxH)
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Not very believable IMHO.
Starting with this Archduke guy having to take three or four wrong turns in the car before the assassin shoots him! Needless suspense undoubtedly just added to make the book more marketable to film and TV types.
And the "Black Hand"?! He might just as well have called them "KAOS"!
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 10:10 AM (Jh5b+)
Vietnam is military incompetence on full display. I'm going to read his son's autobiography when it gets here. I read it many years ago. He served in Vietnam and was horribly injured.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 10:11 AM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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He was an interesting character. However, his controversial term as Philadelphia Police Commissioner indicated that the fit between him and competent management of civilian affairs was beyond him.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:11 AM (/0X3E)
Book 2 starts with an adventurer asking his lady-adventurer friend to marry him, because they love each! And she flips out because she sees marriage as a cage, and won't even listen when the adventurer tries to clarify that he isn't asking her to be a housewife. She just continues with her hysterical tirade, cries, and runs away...
The guy who admitted his love, he's the villain of the book. The hysterical girl, the female lead. The opening scene was flashback, and we are left to assume that between the flashback and the main story our spurned lover developed into a horrible person. I'm not saying that can't happen, buy why let that happen off-screen? Why start the story by showing the 'hero' wrong the 'villain?' Especially when the author is signaling that the villain is beyond reconciling.
Between this and the start of book 1, it makes me not want to cheer for the heroes. I'm not sure I can't continue with this series: I may be desperate for material in this genre, but I'm not reading something where I'm hoping to see the heroes get their comeuppance...
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 07, 2024 10:12 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 10:13 AM (PZo5T)
Lincoln had a similar issue with his generals.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:05 AM (/0X3E)
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I disagree. Lincoln's problem was that there was no one in the US Army who had exercised command authority at the levels now required. Winfield Scott was still alive, but just barely. So he was largely starting from scratch, promoting junior officers to corps commands, and because the military is constitutionally subordinate to the civilian, lots of political colonels were created (some of whom did quite well).
Trump is dealing with a military system that devalues actual combat experience and elevates academic credentials, leaving us with a high command looking like GM's upper management. They don't win wars so much as manage them, and no one is ever, every removed for incompetence. Sex? Sure, but the entire culture is about CYA and avoiding accountability.
Actual fighting commanders never make it past O-6.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:14 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 10:14 AM (xjTDL)
That is one theater I haven't read as much on.
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 10:14 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 07, 2024 09:26 AM (78a2H)
My wife watches the Korean ones.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:14 AM (D7oie)
Take over his identity and be a kindly sort of progressive man without having to worry about all that mystical miraculous stuff such doing miracles or rising from the dead ?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2024 10:15 AM (dDdkK)
Posted by: Mr Gaga
That is a great book that captures the destruction. I saw a documentary a few weeks ago on how they subsequently built the seawall, and used dredges to lift the island ten feet, and jacked up the surviving buildings. Some of the larger buildings were not lifted, so they now have basements.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 10:16 AM (/zVu4)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 09:53 AM (BpYfr)
More like Gnostic stuff?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 10:16 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 10:16 AM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2024 10:17 AM (SR29e)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 10:06 AM (fwDg9)
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A lot of American military histories tend to end with the Battle of the Bulge. Most people have no idea that we took more casualties in Germany than outside of it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:17 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 10:17 AM (5zRhj)
Posted by: Goober at July 07, 2024 10:17 AM (aA6YN)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Vietnam is an example why many of the Founders hated the idea of a standing army. Eventually political leaders will employ that army other than to defend the homeland.
Ironically, you have less problems maintaining a strong navy (and by implication air or space) force and a small expeditionary Marine force. Lacking an army in place, it makes it very difficult to engage in land wars of choice.
The original conception of NATO itself was more a treaty organization to preserve the peace than permanent US army prepositioned in Europe. That conception was in part based on the idea that nukes only could prevent the Red Army from moving West and no troops were needed. Korea and the Soviet firing off nukes resulted in the scramble to rearm W. Germany and put boots on the ground permanently in Euroland.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:18 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2024 10:18 AM (SR29e)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 10:16 AM (0eaVi)
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*Very* Gnostic. One of the organizations is called the Gnostic Observatines. They are supposedly the "good" guys but it's always more complicated...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 10:19 AM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 10:00 AM (omVj0)
I didn't notice the connection before between the book and movie, because Scott's character isn't Dortmunder. It's Walter Ballentine.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 10:19 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 10:20 AM (5zRhj)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 10:11 AM (xjTDL)
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It was also political incompetence on an epic scale. Anyone with a passing knowledge of Chinese history would have understood that both Korea and Vietnam were tributary states and would never be allowed to remain under foreign control without a fight.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:20 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 10:20 AM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2024 10:21 AM (SR29e)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Indianola was a city southwest of Galveston on the coast, and was competing with Galveston to be the primary Texas port. After two hurricanes, all that is left is a historical marker.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 10:22 AM (/zVu4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2024 10:22 AM (dDdkK)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 10:23 AM (xjTDL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2024 10:23 AM (dDdkK)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I take your point but part of the issue with Lincoln is that he deferred to his generals. His generals were more familiar with politicking and fighting Indians (in a few cases Mexicans at a junior level). Many of the new generals in Lincoln's army did not get there by merit but by politics and Congressional patrons.
Jefferson Davis had a similar problem with some of his generals as well which was made worse because of the purported confederal provisioning by Southern States of military forces.
Political generals by and large are a contradiction of terms regarding military competence and political savvy. Few have both in history.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:24 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Tom Servo
We have been watching and looking forward to it for a few days. We need the rain. It is just moving faster than predicted.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 10:24 AM (/zVu4)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 10:20 AM (5zRhj)
Yes. They used what they had, which was telephones and telegraphs. The operators who stayed at their posts, some of whom died, were heroes.
Posted by: sal at July 07, 2024 10:25 AM (y7DxH)
Posted by: John F. MacMichael at July 07, 2024 10:25 AM (jjfDF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2024 10:25 AM (SR29e)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 10:25 AM (fwDg9)
I'm reading the owner's manual for a Toyota 4Runner.
Indulge me, professer, and fellow hordemates.
Retirement draweth nigh. Since my spouse and I no longer play house together, and there's really no reason for me to stay, I've decided to take five years and slowly see this country. I'm going to sell the house and am already on my way to becoming a minimalist.
I plan to camp my way through the United States. Eventually I'll buy a small camper.
I want to explore (at my own pace) and listen to people's stories. I want to wake up every morning listening to crickets, whether they be in Arkansas, Oregon, Montana or Maine and sup on Spam, Ramen, and bottled water.
But mainly I want to think, read, and write. However, you can't think until you've observed. And having observed, you can then write.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 10:26 AM (dg+HA)
I'm no Steinbeck. And there won't be a Charley. But this SUV from the good people of Toyota will be my version of Rocinante. And I need to know it intimately because it will be for the most part my home.
I am thankful for the HQ. I anticipate becoming even more engaged as this transition unfolds. It serves as a creative outlet.
It is part of my "little platoon." I hope to be able to make all MoMes.
So, yeah. It's the tip of a much larger iceberg, but my reading right now is a vehicle owner's manual.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 10:26 AM (dg+HA)
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Yes, he was a 'reformer' although I don't know how far that would have been by our modern standards.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 10:26 AM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd”
The hell you say.
Posted by: George Armstrong Custer at July 07, 2024 10:27 AM (o33NW)
That was the English model, troops were deployed to the colonies but never many kept at home. They learned that the hard way after allowing Oliver Cromwell to build a huge standing army. It was recent enough inhistory that our founders remembered that lesson as well.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 10:27 AM (5zRhj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2024 10:28 AM (SR29e)
Thank you, Perfessor, for another great Book Thread. I’m flattered that my recommendation of That Hideous Strength was featured. The story is chilling. The control of the media didn’t surprise me - I was a child in Boston in the 1970’s and saw first hand the difference between reality and what was shown on the news and printed in the Boston Globe. The way in which Mark, the sociology professor, was drawn in through career ambition and a desire to align himself with the powerful was the most frightening . He was somewhat naive in the beginning and the manipulation he was subjected to was masterful. His inner dialog in which he bargains with his conscience was also enlightening. I can see the potential for myself, and probably most people I know, to be drawn in through various vulnerabilities in our character to do and support things we hate. It has given me much food for thought.
Posted by: KatieFloyd at July 07, 2024 10:28 AM (PScXa)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024
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Looks like they renamed all the characters for some odd reason.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 10:28 AM (omVj0)
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A very sad book plus government cover up of its failures.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 10:29 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: BignJames at July 07, 2024 10:29 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 10:31 AM (fwDg9)
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About twenty years after WWII, you began to see some criticism of the Unconditional Surrender demands by Roosevelt. That contributed to the death toll later in Germany but at the same time might have prevented a future WWIII involving Germany again.
The Armistice in WWI arguably allowed the Germans to claim later they did not lose that war but were betrayed by its politicians. This set the stage for Not Sees to gain power.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:31 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Emmie at July 07, 2024 10:32 AM (Sf2cq)
Ah, yes - the Queen City of the Gulf - lasted a bare fifty years. Besides the historical marker, there are a number of holiday homes, all raised on tall pilings.
There was also a double-walled ice house, to store ice boated in from New England. After the second hurricane, the owners raised the ice house - which was still standing - off the foundations and brought it by barge inland, and re-sited it. It was used as a family home, and IIRC, is still standing.
As for the great 1900 hurricane, there may have been 12,000 casualties overall, as the storm tide went far, far inland, and there was no one left alive to report the missing.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at July 07, 2024 10:32 AM (Ew3fm)
The other easily found book on BP cartridges is Frank Barnes' Cartridges of the World, which doesn't really have load data, but it does have correct dimensions for the obsolete brass and bullets.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:33 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 07, 2024 09:39 AM (ZtgZZ)
A few years ago I was going through the early exploration of America/The Carribean, and I seem to recall about 4 instances of the entire expeditiary fleet getting wiped out by a hurricane. Yeah, I'm sure they didn't know the warning signs back then, but, still, that's a of extreme weather to run into...
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 07, 2024 10:33 AM (Lhaco)
Stephenson had comstock in cryptonicon as a manque the war was a feint to conduct the great yamamoto treasure hunt
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 07, 2024 10:34 AM (PXvVL)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 10:34 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at July 07, 2024
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And people wonder why I want to move far, far inland. Farther than a storm tide can reach.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 10:34 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 10:37 AM (5zRhj)
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We followed that pattern, more or less, until WWI and WWII put the permanent kibosh on it.
We will probably have to return to it in some form simply because we have run out of money to do everything unless you want to reinstitute a draft.
Personnel costs including retirees have eaten the military budget at the same time that consolidation in the weapons industry has led to much higher cost and more delayed weapon systems.
The coming birth dearth throughout the world is also going to have to be figured out because big wars might result in national extinction by sacrificing the young.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:37 AM (/0X3E)
Is this accurate this deserving a second reading? Note--I'm not by any means knowledgeable on the subject but it truly caught my curiosity.
Comments?
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 07, 2024 10:37 AM (hKoQL)
If memory serves, film rights to some of the books were sold but not rights to the character. So Parker would be named Porter or something else. Point Blank, The Outfit, The Split, Payback, Slayground... from Westlake's books, but the lead character was never called Parker. Ah, showbiz.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 07, 2024 10:37 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 10:34 AM (omVj0)
Not me...I'm @ 787'.
Posted by: BignJames at July 07, 2024 10:38 AM (AwYPR)
Look into teardrop trailers. Easy to tow. I bought a 2017 T@g but there are other brands that might suit you. I like them because they have simple systems, no black or greywater holding tanks. Vistabules are the high end ones. Lots of deals on these right now too.
Be aware that living full time in a trailer causes a lot of wear and tends to damage the floors.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 10:38 AM (xjTDL)
keep us posted, QuarterTwenty, as this sounds like a great adventure.
Posted by: sal at July 07, 2024 10:39 AM (y7DxH)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:31 AM (/0X3E)
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The problem with that argument was that the total mobilization society went through could not accept anything less than total victory. The Allies had to agree to that condition because the suffering of the British and Soviet peoples required it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:40 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024 09:41 AM (p/isN)
I first picked up an actual comic book in the middle of the Onslaught storyline. Yes, it was big and messy and hard to follow...But it was the payoff to the 'someone betrayed the X-Men' storyline that The Animated Series has introduced, but never resolved. At the time I sort assumed that some storylines were never meant to be resolved (that being one of them) and was thrilled to be in the middle of said resolution! And that's why I have nostalgia for an event that most comic fans disdain...
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 07, 2024 10:41 AM (Lhaco)
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It's at archive.org for a preview...
https://tinyurl.com/32zdc326
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 10:42 AM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: BignJames at July 07, 2024
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I'd like to live at 8-10 times that elevation.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 10:42 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: John F. MacMichael at July 07, 2024 10:43 AM (jjfDF)
New York Post
@nypost
America may soon be subjected to the country’s first DEI president: Kamala Harris
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 10:43 AM (L/fGl)
My old Mausers and a Springfield Trapdoor in the past were shot with smokeless Trailboss loads. I have only shot blackpowder in my percussive rifles and frankly did not particularly enjoy the fumes nor smoke due to problematic lungs. Used 777 as a substitute for the most part.
I am interested in flintlocks, matchlocks, and wheel locks mainly due to their mechanical function and the future evolution aspect. But haven't had the time nor inclination to buy any of the replicas due to lack of range time for serious purposes.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:43 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2024 10:15 AM (dDdkK)
Moorcock was not notably religious, nor was he a believer, and he developed the anti-hero genre, which is quite cynical in its worldview.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:43 AM (D7oie)
Because of Perfesser PimpSquirrel lastvwerk, I listened to Dean Koontz's The Darkest Evening of the Year - the one about a golden retriever. So good. Almost needed a hankie.
Thanks!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 07, 2024 10:45 AM (Ka3bZ)
https://tinyurl.com/32zdc326
Posted by: andycanuck
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Thanks for the link Andycanuck. I will take a gander at it this week and probably shop for a copy on Ebay.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:46 AM (/0X3E)
@nypost
America may soon be subjected to the country’s first DEI president: Kamala Harris
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 10:43 AM (L/fGl)
If we need more punishment, that's exactly what we'll get.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 10:47 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 10:48 AM (fwDg9)
Look into teardrop trailers. Easy to tow. I bought a 2017 T@g but there are other brands that might suit you. I like them because they have simple systems, no black or greywater holding tanks. Vistabules are the high end ones. Lots of deals on these right now too.
Be aware that living full time in a trailer causes a lot of wear and tends to damage the floors.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024
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I'm glad to see they still make the old-style truck camper that fits into the bed of a pickup and overhangs the roof of the truck cab.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 10:49 AM (omVj0)
The challenge with listening to a difficult book like this while driving is that it's easy to tune out.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 07, 2024 10:50 AM (JLq/1)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 07, 2024 10:50 AM (q3u5l)
Westlake would not allow filmmakers to use the names of his characters. Late in his life, he permitted Parker on screen.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024 10:51 AM (p/isN)
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There are [used] Amazon copies I saw as well and two at a site called thriftbooks.com -- maybe we'll get the last two there?
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 10:51 AM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 07, 2024 10:33 AM (Lhaco)
speaking of such things, I had a chance to buy the entire run of the Hayklut Society's Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation at Bob's Books in Lincoln City last week. I did not have the $400 on hand to buy it though.
I will regret this as much as I regret missing both chances to pick up the Hoover translation of Agricola's De Re Metalica.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:52 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Roosevelt did it personally and arguably it was a strategic blunder. I don't think public opinion in the US had much to do with it but rather Roosevelt trying to plump up Stalin due to Stalin's suspicion of a separate peace. At the Casablanca Conference, Roosevelt issued the unconditional demand publicly which more or less forced Churchill to grudgingly accept it. The intel people (Brits and Dulles at least) were horrified as it made it much for difficult for them recruit new spies among disaffected Germans and made internal coup leadership in Germany half hearted.
It was a tradeoff but fans of unconditional surrender need to admit that it probably lengthened the war and cost casualties then in order to avoid casualties in the future.
Governments in particular have a hard time admitting tradeoffs post hoc due to fear of regime instability. I disagree with that policy.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:52 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 07, 2024 10:53 AM (4780s)
Biden Announces 5 Actions to Address Extreme Weather in U.S.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 10:54 AM (L/fGl)
Personnel costs including retirees have eaten the military budget at the same time that consolidation in the weapons industry has led to much higher cost and more delayed weapon systems.
The coming birth dearth throughout the world is also going to have to be figured out because big wars might result in national extinction by sacrificing the young.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:37 AM (/0X3E)
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The US should reduce the Army to 100,000 regulars and back it up with a million reservists kept in varying degrees of readiness. This would be enough to intervene in a natural disaster, but too small to fight a war of choice absent mobilization, which would create needed public debate.
The Navy should be boosted, and the Air Force reserve component built up with a corresponding reduction in active duty (reserve pilots often get more flight hours due to their day jobs).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:54 AM (llXky)
Posted by: andycanuck
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Heh. I have a couple of Canadian firearms--a Long Branch No. 4 , No. 1* that I adore and a 1905 Ross that I have to finish restoring. Had an issue in removal of a barrel from the receiver and put it on the backshelf years ago. Now that I am retired, I may take another crack at it.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:54 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024 09:54 AM (p/isN)
From a writer I trust: "Unbreakable Red Sonja" written by Jim Zub. Zub has written some Conan the Barbarian books, and he even did an hour-long interview with Midnight's Edge (the YouTube channel) to promote his Conan work. Apparently he had to push back against his publisher (Marvel, at the time) to be able to talk publicly with M.E..
From a new author: "Red Sonja: His Master's Voice" by Torunn Gronbekk. At the very least, it can't be worse than the previous Red Sonja main-series writer, the abominable Mark Russel.
From the author I actively distrust: "The Hunger and the Dusk" by G Willow Wilson. Wilson was one of Marvel's favorites when they were going full SJW in 2016 or so. But, this book is all-new, not part of an existing franchise, so Wilson clearly cares enough about the genre to create a story from scratch. So I've decided to take a gamble..
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 07, 2024 10:55 AM (Lhaco)
The Navy should be boosted, and the Air Force reserve component built up with a corresponding reduction in active duty (reserve pilots often get more flight hours due to their day jobs).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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You should be Sec of Defense (I really prefer to go back to Sec. of War because of its truthyness quotient is higher).
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:56 AM (/0X3E)
A comment more suited to the gun thread but what the heck, the topic has been broached.
I am currently semi-obsessed (as in "keep thinking about t but not quite ready to whip out the credit card") with the idea of a Colt Walker replica with a .45 ACP conversion cylinder and loading 200 gr RNs or SWCs with Pyrodex.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 10:56 AM (/y8xj)
Governments in particular have a hard time admitting tradeoffs post hoc due to fear of regime instability. I disagree with that policy.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:52 AM (/0X3E)
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The problem with this argument is that no one ever offers an alternative to compare it with. How would the settlement work? A fracture in the Grand Alliance might have extended the war further, or left Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan intact, ready for a rematch.
So yes, the costs of the policy must be accepted, but fans of a negotiated settlement also need to explain what they thought would work and why.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:57 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 10:57 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: BignJames at July 07, 2024 10:58 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: birdog at July 07, 2024 10:59 AM (+Fkyb)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:56 AM (/0X3E)
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I'm tanned, rested and ready!
This proposal has been floating around for a while. The Army won't have it because there would be less general officer billets and of course the weapons contractors love a huge land army.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:59 AM (llXky)
@nypost
America may soon be subjected to the country’s first DEI president: Kamala Harris
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 10:43 AM (L/fGl)
Would she though? Would she?
That phony intellectual lightweight was elected, mostly because enough people want to prove they weren't rayciss... only to have accusations of rayciss ramping up to levels never seen before.
DEI means never being about to say you're sorry enough.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:00 AM (ie/z9)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 07, 2024 11:00 AM (PXvVL)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 10:03 AM (omVj0)
Dixon is also working for Erik July (youtuber/musician turned publisher) in his Ripperverse comics. Super-heroes in a new universe, published only as graphic novels (not monthly books).
The only Dixon book out so far is Aphacore: A trio of heroes officially sanctioned by the police, who thus have to follow police-esque procedures. It's pretty decent. There are more confirmed Dixon titles on the horizon.
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 07, 2024 11:01 AM (Lhaco)
DEI means never being about to say you're sorry enough.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:00 AM (ie/z9)
I suspect Kamala was the price the Pelosi faction demanded for supporting Biden. He needed California's electoral votes.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 11:02 AM (D7oie)
Overslept so a bit late.
Still reading Brooks People of the Book. As my reading is limited to when I am at the pool, I have progressed but still have a put a third to go.
Also reading Patricia Briggs new werewolf book Winter Lost. Vmom warned about some DEI stuff but except for a brief scene in the beginning, I don't see it. Still really like the main characters but story line is just meandering along.
I think some of these prolific paranormal writers are running out of steam. It's kind of sad because they have created living breathing actors that you want to read but they have run out of ideas on how to challenge them.
I think that's why I was taken with Galbraith's Strike and Robin. Fresh actors that I wanted more of.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 07, 2024 11:02 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: sal at July 07, 2024 10:03 AM (y7DxH)
Was that a novel? A series? I may have to keep an eye out for it...
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 07, 2024 11:02 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 11:03 AM (L/fGl)
I classify the GEW 88 Commission rifle as technically blackpowder but far easier to shoot with conventional smokeless cartridges downloaded due to age of the piece.
My Lebel 1886/93 is basically a blackpowder design of the Gras upbuilt for multiple cartridges and smokeless smaller caliber ammo.
I quit acquiring much after about 2016 or so simply as I ran out of space, out of health, and as prices escalated, out of money. At the end of the day, you can only shoot so many of them and I was interested more in the specific firing mechanisms of the older ones that I restored than shooting them much.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:04 AM (/0X3E)
But mainly I want to think, read, and write. However, you can't think until you've observed. And having observed, you can then write.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 10:26 AM (dg+HA)
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Best of luck to you and your proposed journey. See Blue Highways….a favorite book of mine. Good health and happiness in your travels.
Thanks for the book thread Perfessor.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 07, 2024 11:04 AM (LSnl3)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:59 AM (llXky)
IIRC, the US armed forces now have 43 four-star generals and admirals for a 1 million man force. We fought WWII, with 7 million men, with four.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 11:06 AM (Lvojk)
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Oh, it was the civilian model you have. I thought you had one of the military versions.
The YT videos I've seen of the target version are pretty cool.
Good luck on the restoration.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 11:06 AM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 10:43 AM (/0X3E)
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I bought a kit gun from a pawn shop years ago for $25. Percussion cap muzzle loader. It's fun to shoot and easy to deal with.
When I retired from the military, a friend got my a Remington six-shooter replica, and I haven't gotten around to taking out to play. The biggest reason is the time investment vs smokeless and the existence of multiple projects that simply have higher priorities (sighting in deer gun, fixing the eternal mag well problem of the FR-7 and now trying to figure out why my Zhong Zheng Mauser keyholes only some of the time).
But it's there, and waiting, and I'm looking forward to getting into it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 11:06 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 11:02 AM (D7oie)
Once he promised a black woman, he really only had two choices.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:07 AM (ie/z9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
At some point, it doesn't matter what the bureaucracies want--finances will be reset because either interest payments on debt eat all spending up; the US repudiates its debt which requires a massive reset to where taxes equal spending (because loans are prohibitive), or you end up in monetizing the debt to the extent that the dollar (including pay and bennies to the perfumed pampered Princes of the Pentagon) becomes worthless.
Austerity is a cruel mistress but the muse of policy invention.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:08 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 11:06 AM (Lvojk)
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It is no accident that the worst SecDef in American history is a retired Lt. Gen. He makes McNamara look like Clausewitz.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 11:08 AM (llXky)
@nypost
America may soon be subjected to the country’s first DEI president: Kamala Harris
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 10:43 AM (L/fGl)
This is certainly what the media wing of the Party seems to want. I read that item in the sidebar. It's hilarious watching them, both left and "right" begging and berating Jill Brandon to clear the path for Veep Throat.
This country is such a joke. It's amazing it still exists, even if just on paper.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2024 11:09 AM (0FoWg)
It was a novel.
And speaking of '60s cover art- the Travis McGee series had many attractive ladies on the covers, iircc.
Posted by: sal at July 07, 2024 11:09 AM (y7DxH)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:08 AM (/0X3E)
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Yes, we will do the right thing only after all other options have been tried.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 11:09 AM (llXky)
https://tinyurl.com/4asmfw7u
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:10 AM (ie/z9)
Posted by: who knew at July 07, 2024 11:11 AM (4I7VG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 11:11 AM (5zRhj)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 07, 2024 11:12 AM (hKoQL)
But it's there, and waiting, and I'm looking forward to getting into it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Your Mauser may have bore damage close to the muzzle or perhaps a damaged crown. Sometimes a fix is counterboring if you want to shoot it.
I seem to remember a discussion of problems with the FR-7 mag issue and part of it was that the contractor did not account for subtle differences between the 7.62 and the original 7x57 Mauser one. I think it had to do with the angle of the loading ramp on the receiver that was not quite optimum. Vague memories of someone fixing the problem perhaps with a alteration/change of the trigger guard. A discussion post on Gunboards or milsurps dot com might be where I saw it.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:13 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2024 11:09 AM (0FoWg)
If nooks didn't exist, we'd have already been conquered.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:13 AM (ie/z9)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA
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Peace of conscience is always more important always than money. We forget that sometimes.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:14 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 07, 2024 11:12 AM (hKoQL)
Never. That was the right thing to do.
Posted by: Reforger at July 07, 2024 11:14 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: callsign claymore at July 07, 2024 11:14 AM (k3Kxu)
Last Ship Home and In Search of Forever are compilations of his work, from book covers to movie posters and record albums. For a while I was really into this sort of thing, and naturally had Pictures by Tolkien as well as John Berkey's Painted Space.
I bought Matthews' books because when I was in college I bought one of his posters, "Terrestrial Voyager" which showed a cool ship on wheels in a desert. This vision haunted me for years and was finally able to incorporate it into Scorpion's Pass, which is basically Jane Austen's Dune. Huge ships on rollers! Regency romances!
That book started as a Valentine's gift for my wife and it went beyond the shorty story I was planning for. A most happy coincidence.
I do love art books, though - nice to flip through. I should get them out again.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 11:15 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 11:16 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 07, 2024 11:16 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:08 AM
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Which is why a particular story by JG Ballard is so astonishing, running so hard against the grain of his own oeuvre and the field itself as it does. Not sure of the title, but I checked the ToC of his mammoth Collected Stories, and it's probably "The Greatest Television Show on Earth," in which an attempt is made, via time travel, to create that very thing. The event chosen by the producers is the Splitting of the Sea in Exodus....
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at July 07, 2024 11:17 AM (wwf+q)
Posted by: Wenda at July 07, 2024 11:17 AM (4GhzG)
Good on ya, sir. I couldn't enjoy having something if I knew that I had taken advantage of someone to have it.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 11:19 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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It is almost universal that politicians cannot admit mistakes--partly because of ego but also because mistakes become a useful club by their political rivals.
In reality though, I think the public would be better served by admissions of mistakes and action to rectify them. Instead, the pols and bureaucrats try to hide the mistakes and stonewall. Media used to try to bring sunlight to the public of problems if only to sell advertising but has essentially become a propaganda press.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:19 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 07, 2024 11:16 AM (2NHgQ)
Of my nephews, we've had 3 altogether who served. Don't think any of the rest of them ever considered it. Two are past their service time, one just went in. Doing all the combat training stuff, and everyone is so proud of him.
If he's not dead in the next couple years, or court martialed out for not being DEI enough, it'll be a minor miracle.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:19 AM (EF7Aq)
TDS Or Stupid?: Bette Midler Suggests Biden Arrest Republicans, Allow FBI To Use Deadly Force To Regain Democrat House Majority
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 11:20 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2024 11:21 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at July 07, 2024 11:22 AM (zudum)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 11:19 AM (/y8xj)
I think yard sales are mostly about getting rid of stuff. An estate sale would be different, I guess, but either way the person is happy to be rid of it.
Whenever I'm scaling down on anything, I give it away. Money means jack squat when it comes to such decisions, I'm just not going to put that much effort into finding out what something is worth, only to make sure I don't get "cheated" by someone who wants something I don't.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:22 AM (EF7Aq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 11:20 AM (L/fGl)
I keep getting her confused with Joy Behar....separated at birth?
Posted by: BignJames at July 07, 2024 11:24 AM (AwYPR)
Is there anything that is really “Just a story?” Every piece I read touches me and changes me in some way, even if I decide it is dreck. I suppose maybe this is less so with “brain candy” and might be why I love it and need it so much. It’s like a vacation for my brain.
Posted by: KatieFloyd at July 07, 2024 11:24 AM (rNYOk)
TDS Or Stupid?: Bette Midler Suggests Biden Arrest Republicans, Allow FBI To Use Deadly Force To Regain Democrat House Majority
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 11:20 AM (L/fGl)
To save our democracy. Some other bint has been actress was calling for Biden to kill Trump... due to presidential immunity.
TDS is ramping up. We ain't seen nothin' yet.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:24 AM (EF7Aq)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 11:26 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: BignJames at July 07, 2024 11:24 AM (AwYPR)
Bette Middling had singing talent. Behar sucked dick to get slots at comedy clubs.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:26 AM (EF7Aq)
But mainly I want to think, read, and write. However, you can't think until you've observed. And having observed, you can then write.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
There are some of us up here in the PNW who would take joy in showing you our part of the country. Our history. Our beaches and mountains and forests.
Contact a cob for my email if you wish.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 11:27 AM (ReKWQ)
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Both. But the Stupid came first.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 11:26 AM (/y8xj)
Sharon Stone also poked her head out of whatever hole it's been in. Used to be, she'd f**k a President on the LA airport tarmac to show her support, now she's making TicToc vids in her car, with her turkey neck waddling at the camera.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:28 AM (EF7Aq)
Some of the other material on conversions may be in some old gunsmith books that I have. I will take a look next week for that.
One suggestion is that you make sure the mag follower has been altered for the 308. There are some slight differences that I remember that the Spanish had to do on the follower for the conversion. Might be worth checking ebay for it from the mass of Samco Global conversions of Guardia 1893 conversions floating around out there.
Some folks on cartridge alterations have had success adopting straight line followers (which can actually be 3d printed now) instead of the staggered Mauser mag to maximize capacity.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:29 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 11:30 AM (uAy3h)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 11:30 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 07, 2024 11:31 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Reforger
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Hope you are well Reforger, saw teh prayer list and may you have rapid success in your search.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:31 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2024 11:32 AM (X5r0P)
Posted by: sal at July 07, 2024
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Many if not all done by Robert McGinnis, who also illustrated many other Gold Medal paperbacks and not a few movie posters like Thunderball and How to Steal a Million. His work is astonishing.
The Signet editions of the James Bond paperbacks from the early to the mid-'60s usually had an image of a good-looking woman from the story on the cover -- Jill Masterton painted in gold on the cover of Goldfinger, Tiffany Case in black bra and panties on Diamonds Are Forever, etc. Not all of them; Live and Let Die had Mr. Big, and From Russia With Love had a clothed Tatiana with Bond holding his gun. But they did have a lot.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 11:32 AM (omVj0)
Mrs.DIG picked up a three inch D-ring binder containing a college textbook about Organic Chemistry, along with a law book about constitutional law, costing a grand total of fifty cents.
(The local used bookstore has a "fifty cent bag" deal - stuff the bag with books from a specific section for a half a buck.)
Although I am an engineer (electrical), I never took organic chemistry. Started thumbing through it, and valence bonds are slowly coming back to me.
Plus, D-ring binders are like $14.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 07, 2024 11:33 AM (ufFY8)
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It's from the "the Supreme Court will allow Trump to kill anyone he wants now!" stupidity.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 11:34 AM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: KatieFloyd at July 07, 2024
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Literature, to me, has some kind of amazing characterization among the leads -- people who *live* on the page, whether protagonist or antagonist. There are other requirements, but that's got to be there first. A portrait of a life, or of the most significant portion of that life.
Eh. I know it when I see it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 11:35 AM (omVj0)
Plus, D-ring binders are like $14.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt
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I met my match in organic chemistry. Had issues with visualizing the bonds plus we used the Microchem lab process which due to native clumsiness, I managed to generate new compounds unknown to the lab TAs on a continuing basis.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:37 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 11:37 AM (W/lyH)
Contact a cob for my email if you wish.
Posted by: nurse ratched"
Much obliged.
Looking forward to it.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 11:37 AM (dg+HA)
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It's from the "the Supreme Court will allow Trump to kill anyone he wants now!" stupidity.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 11:34 AM (Jh5b+)
That, and if unelected bureaucrats can't decide for themselves how to interpret law, our democracy is over.
Not that the midwits understand that, but the bureaucrats who tell corporate media what to say do.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:38 AM (EF7Aq)
I had gathered that even if the weather forecasters then had accurately predicted the path of that hurricane, there wasn't much they could have done, other than a mass evacuation - which wasn't really possible, given that there were (IIRC) only two railway bridges into the city, and a single road bridge connecting to the mainland. In Galveston itself there was a sort of public conviction that their city was charmed when it came to hurricanes. They were in a sweet spot, and would never be hit, straight on, like the 1900 hurricane did.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at July 07, 2024 11:39 AM (Ew3fm)
Spent most of my teen years and well into my twenties buried in science fiction paperbacks. These days not so much. But not all the genre stuff was trivial.
These days the split for me seems to be "That was okay, but I probably won't revisit it" vs "If I was a writer, I'd love to have written that."
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 07, 2024 11:39 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 07, 2024 11:30 AM"
Yes to both.
Thanks for the offer.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 11:39 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 11:40 AM (omVj0)
Eh. I know it when I see it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 11:35 AM (omVj0)
So, is your stuff literature, or stories? Are you shooting for one or the other? What caused you to get into writing your own works? Wait... that sounds like an idea for a post at ALH.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 11:40 AM (0eaVi)
I have figured out why actors were regarded as lower life forms many years ago.
And I'm still bummed that we don't have death camps yet.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2024 11:41 AM (X5r0P)
I find that I can listen to audiobooks when I'm doing something that's fairly automatic, like working out on a treadmill or elliptical or driving long distances on the freeway (especially if there is little traffic). I also choose audiobooks that are lighter fare that require less concentration.
YMMV, of course. And, besides Audible, check out LibriVox, which is like Gutenberg.com, but audiobooks, or see if your local library has the Libby app, which also has audiobooks. Best part: these are free!
Posted by: March Hare at July 07, 2024 11:42 AM (jfX+U)
*I have figured out why actors were regarded as lower life forms many years ago.*
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: John Wilkes Booth at July 07, 2024 11:43 AM (dg+HA)
Groundlings >>> actors
Posted by: Billy Shakespeare at July 07, 2024 11:43 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2024 11:41 AM (X5r0P)
We will, it's just a toss-up as to who will be the guards, and who the prisoners.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:44 AM (EF7Aq)
Yep. Here's a question that MP4 or someone else may have an actual answer to. Who was the first popular actor or entertainer to spout off on a public issue and anyone cared about it? That person has a lot to answer for.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2024 11:44 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: jackcoke at July 07, 2024 11:44 AM (EFQuV)
Oh, and Ian, one of the best sources of constitutional law is a free online resource.
Fedgov publishes (older versions were dead tree) an U.S. Constitution Annotated which follows the familar Article I, II, III, etc. and amendments but describes court cases that explain the various provisions of the Constitution. So for Art. II, Section 1, you will find the original text and then subsequent court decisions discussed in relatively plain language that explain it.
For historical understandings of the US Constitution, there is the online University of Chicago's Founders Constitution (https://tinyurl.com/5ayw7m9n)
Heritage Foundation also has something similar in a modern take on the Annotated Constitution but in a dead tree version.
Annotated Constitutions allow a much more rapid consultation of specific constitutional clauses and their history in case law than do law school textbooks or horn books to pass the bar.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:45 AM (/0X3E)
Thanks for the thread, Perfessor.
Have a good one, gang.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 07, 2024 11:45 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Diogenes
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It is a major reason I have quit reading new fiction nowadays and even rarely read my old stash of such things. Read mainly non fiction and classics as far as books today. Slowly going through Saint Augustine's works on Kindle right now.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:48 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:31 AM (/0X3E)
Thank you.
I'll be fine. No worries here.
Posted by: Reforger at July 07, 2024 11:48 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Wenda at July 07, 2024 11:48 AM (4GhzG)
Posted by: jackcoke
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Glad you and your dog are okay. People with spirit rarely let circumstances get them down for long.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:49 AM (/0X3E)
The other two Big Tit Sisters are also making an appearance with their cleavage, Nice Bid Brooke in a white sun dress thing, and Curvy Katie in a thin strapped gray top.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 07, 2024 11:49 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 11:19 AM (EF7Aq)
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My middle kid enlisted in my ANG unit under Trump. She says the transformation is really astonishing, from high-morale to utter demoralization. They keep trying ways to cheer people up, but the gloom is pervasive. She's counting the months until her term is up.
All the guys who served with me are getting out, even the full-timers. It says something that guys pushing 50 would rather test the civilian market than stay in the service.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 11:50 AM (llXky)
my book supply was severely diminished when my house blew up and fell on my dog and me in 2020
Were your last words before the house blew up, "But first we cook"?
Posted by: Walter White at July 07, 2024 11:51 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024
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It is! I'll post about that soon.
Off to the store; Miss L. knocked on the door just as I finished my previous post. Better if we go now rather than in the roasting heat of 3 pm. I'll check back later to see what everybody has posted.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 11:51 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:51 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Wenda at July 07, 2024
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I think The Left Hand of Darkness should be counted as literature now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 11:52 AM (omVj0)
Off to the store; Miss L. knocked on the door just as I finished my previous post. Better if we go now rather than in the roasting heat of 3 pm. I'll check back later to see what everybody has posted.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 11:51 AM (omVj0)
Good. Should be an interesting topic for discussion.
(looks at clock)
Rats! It's almost time for the Book Thread to end. The worst part of Sunday morning. Thanks for the thread, Perfessor.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 07, 2024 11:53 AM (0eaVi)
This is a heavy tome, Constitutional Rights and Liberties, Cases and Materials, by Lockhart, Kamisar and Chopar, from 1967. American Casebook Series, West Publishing Co.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 07, 2024 11:54 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: jackcoke at July 07, 2024 11:44 AM (EFQuV)
Oh sure, that's all bad but admit it. One paper cut and that damned lemon juice always finds a way into it.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 11:54 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 11:29 AM (/0X3E)
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I'll check out the link. Yes, the follower was cut down and there should have been a block on the front of the mag well, but it is missing. Repeated searches haven't found any for that particular item, but I did go down to Camp Perry and eyeball the .308 Garand coversions for ideas.
I've been using an iterative approach, and I think the Mark IV is the one that will work. Next weekend I'm planning on taking it out to the range to see how it performs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 11:55 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 11:56 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 11:56 AM (Lvojk)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 07, 2024 11:56 AM (PXvVL)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 11:56 AM (Lvojk)
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He got his mentions. It's an official thread.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 11:58 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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If needed, I forgot I have an inherited Guardia 7.62 1893 conversion in the safe that feeds okay if you need follower, ramp, and rail specs via measuring with calipers and micrometers.
Never shot it but checked feeding with 7.62 dummy cartridges for my FIL before he used it with no problems.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 12:00 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 12:00 PM (Lvojk)
*scrolls down and sees the Star Wars book*
HEY, I KNOW THAT BOOK!
*scrolls down and sees the WoW book*
HEY, I KNOW THAT BOOK TOO!
Posted by: pookysgirl, married to a geek at July 07, 2024 12:01 PM (dtlDP)
Time to retreat indoors where the A/C is. Can't read a pulp novel about a jungle island while it's jungly weather outside.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 07, 2024 12:02 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 12:00 PM (Lvojk)
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No, that's Fudd lore. It was chambered for 7.62mm NATO and to ensure safety, a vent was drilled into the left side of the chamber.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 12:02 PM (llXky)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 12:03 PM (Jh5b+)
If I recall right after being jogged by your information, I think the front block was part of the needed alterations for successful feeding.
The 7x57 is a bit longer cartridge than the 308 with some slight differences in cartridge shoulders. Also, the barrels of the older 93 -7.62 conversion models were hogged out from the smaller barrel and re rifled afterwards.
The Chileans used a sleeved approach on some of their 7.62 Mauser conversions which did not work out well.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 12:04 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
I just came in from hanging with dogs in the back yard. The birds are bird seed eating machines!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 12:05 PM (L/fGl)
Never shot it but checked feeding with 7.62 dummy cartridges for my FIL before he used it with no problems.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 12:00 PM (/0X3E)
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A photo of the mag well would be super - with a particular focus on the block piece. My gunsmithing skills are more of the "file till it fits" level, so no measurements are necessary.
I have the email link on the web page in my nic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 12:05 PM (llXky)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 12:03 PM (Jh5b+)
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People are dying to go there!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 12:06 PM (llXky)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 07, 2024 12:07 PM (PXvVL)
Posted by: Wenda at July 07, 2024 12:07 PM (4GhzG)
Biden Interview Disaster: Claims He “Put NATO Together” – but Was Only 6 Years Old When It Was Founded
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And this before elementary school!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 12:07 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 12:00 PM (Lvojk)
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No, that's Fudd lore. It was chambered for 7.62mm NATO and to ensure safety, a vent was drilled into the left side of the chamber.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Gets a bit weird on that issue. The CETME lower power cartridge did exist and I have the manual to show it but little sign that was because of the Mauser conversion safety. Had more to do with the first CETME models not being able to handle full bore 7.62 on the roller locking surfaces.
The major problem with 1893's which is also a passive safety is they are essentially case hardened exteriors with a soft core. Overpressure rounds generally do not 'blow up' the rifle but instead induce receiver locking lug setback over time that puts the rifle out of headspace. That can lead to cartridge separation and a gas event in which the 93 model is inferior to the later 98 model in handling.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 12:08 PM (/0X3E)
I have figured out why actors were regarded as lower life forms many years ago.
And I'm still bummed that we don't have death camps yet.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2024 11:41 AM (X5r0P)
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In keeping with the theme of the thread, what would the title.of.the book be?
I'd call it "How to be Butt-head Stupid and Live in Hollywood."
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 12:09 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 07, 2024 12:10 PM (CHHv1)
I have the email link on the web page in my nic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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I'll try to do that in the next day or so as I have to move the latest load of misc material from parental homes to get to the safe where it is. May have a relevant pix of the receiver somewhere on my computer as well and will try to sort those out.
Won't be the FR-7 but will be the 308 Guardia conversion though.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 12:11 PM (/0X3E)
The Communists in 1930’s Mexico outlawed religion and practicing Catholicism was considered treason. Many priests were killed, many fled, some succumbed to the “law,” violated their vows and to took a wife. The Whiskey Priest stayed. He travelled from area to area as he evaded the authorities. He saw himself as a bad priest who did not live up to his vows - he drank too much, he fathered a child. And yet he put himself at risk saying Mass, hearing confessions while weeping from exhaustion. The story exceeded my expectations. Greene’s descriptions of the poverty, heat, and sometimes filth were vivid. The constant tension as the Whiskey Priest avoids capture, escapes, always looking over his shoulder, and always wrestling with his inner conflicts made the book difficult to put down.
Posted by: KatieFloyd at July 07, 2024 12:14 PM (BvCAm)
MAZE
@mazemoore
One of the craziest clips of all time.
Jamie Raskin: Unlike Joe Biden, Trump and his family used politics to enrich themselves.
Psaki: What do you think of the false reporting that Biden is slowing down?
Raskin: Biden's age is healing the world.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 07, 2024 12:14 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: andycanuck
I will allow it. Absolute immunity for POTUS in all matters Federal and State, criminal and civil (even before election).
As lomg as POTUS is the trigger man.
Anyone following unlawful orders shall be subject to full prosecution.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 07, 2024 12:14 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 12:08 PM (/0X3E)
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Right, which is why the drilled a vent hole - keeps the chamber pressure lower. I'm not sure all conversions have it, but mine certainly does.
Thanks for the photo. I'm just looking at concepts at this point, so anything is helpful.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 12:18 PM (llXky)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 07, 2024 12:21 PM (PXvVL)
Thanks for the photo. I'm just looking at concepts at this point, so anything is helpful.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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The Hatcher hole solution for the low number 1903 receivers was done for similar reasons. To reduce risk from cartridge head separations.
BTW, I have a 1968 Guardia Manual in Spanish where they have the specifications of the 7.62 NATO cartridge as the specific ammunition for it--not the 7.62 CETME. A kindly soul posted that on Gunboards years ago when I was researching such things.
That being said, I would also check the headspace on any Mauser prior to 1920's post war metallurgy periodically if fired. The Mauser receivers are designed to degrade instead of kablooey but over time deformed locking lugs require a new receiver to be safe plus they can make operating the bolt rather nasty. Back when Samco Global liquidated, I ended up with several partially restored 1893 barrelled receivers in 7x57 as I was restoring an 1893 Spanish Long Mauser at the time. One of them showed lug setback.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 12:28 PM (/0X3E)
Another book I saw mention over at Jim Curtis' blog ( oldnfo.org ) is "Minstrels in the Galaxy: Stories in the Key of Tull, Volume 1". I don't know how many fellow Morons love Ian Anderson's / Jethro Tull's music, but I've been a big fan for decades. That there's an anthology of stories inspired by that music that also seems to concentrate on "bards in space"? I'm intrigued.
Anyone else feel like their "to-be-read" list is becoming (or perhaps just "is") the proverbial Hydra?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2024 12:43 PM (O7YUW)
The Communists in 1930’s Mexico outlawed religion and practicing Catholicism was considered treason. Many priests were killed, many fled, some succumbed to the “law,” violated their vows and to took a wife. The Whiskey Priest stayed. He travelled from area to area as he evaded the authorities. He saw himself as a bad priest who did not live up to his vows - he drank too much, he fathered a child. And yet he put himself at risk saying Mass, hearing confessions while weeping from exhaustion. The story exceeded my expectations. Greene’s descriptions of the poverty, heat, and sometimes filth were vivid. The constant tension as the Whiskey Priest avoids capture, escapes, always looking over his shoulder, and always wrestling with his inner conflicts made the book difficult to put down.
Posted by: KatieFloyd at July 07, 2024 12:14 PM (BvCAm)
That sounds wonderful and right up my alley. It's going on my list. Thanks!
Posted by: LASue at July 07, 2024 01:05 PM (llS7k)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 07, 2024 01:06 PM (Jh5b+)
Willy Ley wrote some science articles that were published in Astounding (Analog) and in Amazing Stories, but his "For Your Information" science column was in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, where he was the Science Editor, from 1952 until his death in 1969.
Posted by: Pope John 20th at July 07, 2024 01:31 PM (cYrkj)
The Navy should be boosted, and the Air Force reserve component built up with a corresponding reduction in active duty (reserve pilots often get more flight hours due to their day jobs).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 07, 2024 10:54 AM (llXky)
Making America 1)whiny and 2)toothless being a side benefit.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2024 01:59 PM (rQwsY)
Bull's-eye.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 07, 2024 02:22 PM (p/isN)
Daily Tech News 7 July 2024
Top Story
- Merle Myers did not kill himself: A former Boeing inspector says parts marked for scrap ended up being built into planes. (CNN)
Meyers, a 30-year veteran of Boeing, described to CNN what he says was an elaborate off-the-books practice that Boeing managers at the Everett factory used to meet production deadlines, including taking damaged and improper parts from the company's scrapyard, storehouses and loading docks.
This, if true, should result in felony convictions.Beginning in the early 2000s, Meyers says that for more than a decade, he estimates that about 50,000 parts "escaped" quality control and were used to build aircraft. Those parts include everything from small items like screws to more complex assemblies like wing flaps. A single Boeing 787 Dreamliner, for example, has approximately 2.3 million parts.
Lots of felony convictions.
Most of the parts that were meant to be scrapped were often painted red to signify they were unsuitable for assembly lines, Meyers said. Yet, in some cases, that didn't stop them from being put into planes being assembled, he said.
Tech News
- AMD's new 12 core 120W 9900X is about 6% slower than Intel's 20 core 253W 14700K. (WCCFTech)
Also the faster Intel chips have a habit of cooking themselves and failing though Intel is working very hard to pin the blame on someone else.
- It's always DNS, except when it's the DNS server, in which case it's BGP. (Bleeping Computer)
Cloudflare's global DNS service at 1.1.1.1 got bushwhacked by Greek ISP Electronet. BGP doesn't have great protection against mistakes like this - or against deliberate attacks either.
Since 1.1.1.1 is designed to respond from a local server no matter where you are in the world, the bad BGP announcement from one Greek ISP didn't affect that many people, but it's still a fiddly system that I'm glad I don't have to worry about.
- How good is ChatGPT at coding? (IEEE Spectrum)
If your problem had an answer published to the public internet prior to 2021, it's good. Otherwise not.
Of course, if that's the case you could just look up the answer yourself.
- Here's a $629 ice machine. And it's not even internet-enabled. (The Verge)
My fridge cost less than that.
- You could learn a lot from a CIO (chief information officer) with a $17 billion IT budget. (Tech Crunch)
Like the ability to fail upwards:"You can't really start talking about AI if you're not in the cloud, if you're not modernizing your data, if you're not doing all the foundational stuff," she said. That has put the bank on an aggressive modernization journey based on a hybrid strategy. Some of the more critical services are running on prem in very sophisticated data centers the company built to handle its unique demands, and some are running in the cloud with the main cloud vendors: Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
JPMorgan Chase, the article notes, handles $10 trillion in transactions per day.
And they want to throw AI into that mix.
I don't even want to think about that.
- Tokens are a big reason today's generative AI falls short. (Tech Crunch)
One of many big reasons.
The biggest being they are using language models without a corresponding fact model, and if you get the fact model right the language model becomes largely irrelevant.
Almost Relevant Music Video of the Day
Disclaimer: She's a model and she's spewing nonsense. (Keyboard riff.)
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2024/07/
bagger-288.html
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 04:03 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 04:08 AM (eE6U5)
$600 ice machine? Pffft. You want the gourmet ice machines, that make perfectly clear ice. They cost $1000s.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 04:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 04:10 AM (eE6U5)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 04:11 AM (eE6U5)
That is absolutely horrifying. I sincerely hope there are lots of felony convictions.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 04:13 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 07, 2024 04:13 AM (SuNbA)
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 04:16 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 07, 2024 04:18 AM (SuNbA)
https://t.ly/QBkQ6
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 04:18 AM (eE6U5)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 07, 2024 04:20 AM (SuNbA)
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 04:16 AM (oaGWv)
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Does Boeing or NASA still have any astronauts in training/waiting that are willingto ride in a future Starliner?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 04:20 AM (eE6U5)
Look up the ice harvesting vs refrigeration wars. Before the latter, ice harvesting was a big business. The new fangled refrigeration tech was a threat. They fought over it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 04:21 AM (w6EFb)
https://t.ly/QBkQ6
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
And the Israelis just continue to go about their business looks like.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 04:22 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Boeing PR Flack Free-Associating at July 07, 2024 04:23 AM (YhBdy)
One of those models was a dead ringer for Bild Lili.
Have to wonder how they were able to find four women in Germany at that time who shaved. Somewhat impressive for that point in the 20th Century.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 04:24 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 04:26 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 04:22 AM (oaGWv)
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Yes and no. 80,000 - 100,000 displaced northerners and southerners, businesses limited, closed or totally lost, Northern and Gaza envelope towns and communities gravely damaged or destroyed.
I tend to agree with that piece of dirt, Blinken: Israel has lost its sovereignty of the north. Much of the blame is on Israel itself, regardless of the pressures imposed upon it by the Biden soviet.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 04:26 AM (eE6U5)
Posted by: Rosasharn at July 07, 2024 04:28 AM (PzBTm)
Posted by: Rosasharn
No complaints here.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 04:30 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Rosasharn
Well, the twirling has been subpar, but most everything is good.
How are you?
Posted by: Bruce at July 07, 2024 04:41 AM (szrmA)
I give you Peter Fox and his single "Alles Neu":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD0A2plMSVA
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 04:49 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 07, 2024 04:50 AM (VuZH8)
I think I'm in for a lengthy phone call to customer service this week.
Posted by: Bruce at July 07, 2024 04:53 AM (szrmA)
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 04:54 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: Rosasharn at July 07, 2024 04:55 AM (PzBTm)
Posted by: Bruce at July 07, 2024 04:55 AM (szrmA)
Posted by: Rosasharn
Sleep is good. Glad you are okay
Posted by: Bruce at July 07, 2024 04:56 AM (szrmA)
Many booms hopefully, but, rain is showing for this afternoon and evening.
Posted by: Bruce at July 07, 2024 05:06 AM (szrmA)
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 05:10 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 05:10 AM (eE6U5)
Lots of felony convictions."
Hah! QC and Production are the same everywhere.
'These are bad.'
'They're the only parts we have! We have to hit our numbers!'
'But... they're bad. And they are going into passenger planes for fuck's sake!'
'Ah, it'll be all right.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 07, 2024 05:11 AM (y31cs)
Posted by: Rosasharn at July 07, 2024 05:12 AM (PzBTm)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 07, 2024 05:13 AM (YRsIm)
https://t.ly/oqiVt
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 05:10 AM (eE6U5)
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Snakes in the grass:
https://t.ly/G7Y1q
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 05:13 AM (eE6U5)
And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 05:15 AM (64Zez)
First prize is a round trip flight anywhere in the world on a Boeing jet. Second prize is two round trip flights anywhere in the world on a Boeing jet.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 05:16 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 05:17 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: John Drake Remembers Glengarry Glen Ross at July 07, 2024 05:19 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 07, 2024 05:20 AM (VuZH8)
I give you Peter Fox and his single "Alles Neu":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD0A2plMSVA
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 04:49 AM (tmPIh)
Cool. Kinda grows on you.
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 05:22 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 05:26 AM (eE6U5)
Posted by: m
Indeed - that bit at the end where he's effectively doing Schroeder at the piano gets me every time.
Posted by: John Drake Remembers Glengarry Glen Ross at July 07, 2024 05:26 AM (tmPIh)
'These are bad.'
'They're the only parts we have! We have to hit our numbers!'
'But... they're bad. And they are going into passenger planes for fuck's sake!'
'Ah, it'll be all right.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 07, 2024 05:11 AM (y31cs)
It reminds me of the allowable x% of this grain product is bugs. Except airplane, therefore different.
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 05:27 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 07, 2024 05:27 AM (YRsIm)
Posted by: m
Indeed - that bit at the end where he's effectively doing Schroeder at the piano gets me every time.
Posted by: John Drake Remembers Glengarry Glen Ross at July 07, 2024 05:26 AM (tmPIh)
I liked the drummers monkeying around in the outtakes.
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 05:28 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: Rosasharn at July 07, 2024 04:28 AM (PzBTm)
Nice to "see" you, Rosasharn!
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 05:31 AM (64Zez)
https://t.ly/Ni_0V
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 05:32 AM (eE6U5)
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(tries to remember what hiring and promotion practices really picked up steam in the early 2000s)
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 05:32 AM (2qB63)
Good morning, stranger! I missed your twirl?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 07, 2024 05:33 AM (YRsIm)
Slept a straight six hours last night! Not as good as a straight eight and especially not as good as a V-8, but I'm happy. Today's my last free day until I have to go back to the electron mines. Tomorrow's start will be tough, as I am having blood drawn in the morning, so no coffee or food until then. And 50,000 emails to delete when I get back. Joy.
Anyway: How has your Independence Day weekend been?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 05:35 AM (omVj0)
https://t.ly/Ni_0V
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That guy was one of the leaders that met in DC for the routine meeting of the group of press, military, government, etc. bigwigs that would discuss how November-January was going to happen prior to the coup, wasn't he?
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 07, 2024 05:35 AM (2qB63)
Posted by: Rosasharn at July 07, 2024
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Rosasharn hath returned! Welcome!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 05:36 AM (omVj0)
@BobcatneySpears
Together, we can make a difference.
Every year, thousands of journos are duped by political campaign staff.
Get help today at openyourfuckingeyes.org. Don't be a statistic.
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 05:36 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: m
I can imagine Peter Fox outlining his vision for the video with the producer: "Wait, what? A symphony orchestra of ourangoutangs? Chimp masks?"
Posted by: John Drake Remembers Glengarry Glen Ross at July 07, 2024 05:36 AM (tmPIh)
Big black Stirling cat just gacked up something. I got to him in time to slide him onto the tile entryway just inside my door and off the carpet. He doesn't do this often. I'm not sure I've ever seen the little one, Dagny, do it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 05:43 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 05:46 AM (eE6U5)
Yet, as we know, the U.S. kept right on with the lunar program. If a disaster like that happened today, the entire program would be suspended pending years of exhaustive and exhausting investigations, application of new safety procedures, billions of dollars . . . and it would still be canceled. We have become a society terrified of the least discomfort or setback.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: ZOD at July 07, 2024 05:59 AM (P+D4R)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 06:02 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 06:02 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 07, 2024 06:05 AM (YRsIm)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 06:05 AM (xpCR0)
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 06:06 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 06:09 AM (eE6U5)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 07, 2024 06:25 AM (i/vCG)
According to Global Warming/Climate Change experts, they agree that Tropical Storm Beryl should intensify as it traverses the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
It is not.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 06:34 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Global Warming/Climate Change Tech Support at July 07, 2024 06:42 AM (a1415)
>>Lammy, the new Brit Foreign Minister is going to make the ousted Cameron look like a Zionist.
The British Subjects have voted themselves a whole metric f**kton of pain.
That is if British Elections aren't as fake and gay as ours are.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 07, 2024 06:44 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 05:43 AM (omVj0)
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She's just better at hiding it!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 06:48 AM (BpYfr)
Judging by this link to Insty, Biden's removal cause may have been determined.
https://instapundit.com/658713/
Follow that with this link to Sage Steele, and it's not hard to see that chess pieces are beginning to be moved on the board.
https://tinyurl.com/yc2z966x
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 06:50 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Just Wondering at July 07, 2024 06:52 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 06:54 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 06:56 AM (fwDg9)
Birdbath has a little more evidence of water in it then last night. Experts agree that this evidence of climate change portends a future of rising sea levels, hot summers, and cold winters.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 06:56 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"
We are at 99% again. I wonder sometimes if the hygrometer is covered with condensation in the mornings.
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024 06:58 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2024 06:59 AM (yW/+k)
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024 07:00 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2024 07:01 AM (yW/+k)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 06:56 AM (RKVpM)
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Yup. That's how SCIENCE! works...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 07:02 AM (BpYfr)
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024 07:02 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 07:03 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 07:08 AM (omVj0)
I was clumsy yesterday and managed to splash hot greasy water on my arm .
Seems petty to ask but could you say a little prayer that it heals well?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 07, 2024 07:09 AM (Ka3bZ)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 07:09 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024
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Which banks? All the majors like Chase?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 07:09 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024
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How obvious were the edits they employed to keep him from looking like a rutabaga?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 07:10 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 07:11 AM (eE6U5)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:12 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024
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That's never a wise idea...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 07:12 AM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:13 AM (a1415)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 07, 2024 07:13 AM (Ka3bZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 07:14 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius"
Yes, Chase, and others will follow suite. Another example of how the Federal government helps us.
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024 07:14 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 07:14 AM (eE6U5)
I've been in cooler bath water..
Relaxing, but not refreshing.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:16 AM (a1415)
Experts agree that car-washing is one of the main drivers of climate change. The water used evaporates into the atmosphere and creates clouds, locking in the heat of the suns rays. Recommendations include ticketing cars that appear clean, and after three tickets removing them to a junk yard for crushing.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 07:16 AM (RKVpM)
https://tinyurl.com/zd23fpa9
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 07:14 AM (eE6U5)
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Some of the comments are to DEI for!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 07:16 AM (eE6U5)
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 07, 2024 07:19 AM (VuZH8)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:19 AM (a1415)
>>Short, to the point.
Remember, according to Sally Yates, it was Biden who pushed to go after Flynn using the Logan Act.
Biden is vicious, vindictive, malevolent, and unscrupulous animal, the day he shuffles off this mortal coil will be a day of rejoicing for a great many people.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 07, 2024 07:19 AM (XV/Pl)
Seems petty to ask but could you say a little prayer that it heals well?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 07, 2024 07:09 AM
I'll say a little prayer for you.The moment I wake up. Before I put on my makeup.
Posted by: Dionne Warwick at July 07, 2024 07:19 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: sal at July 07, 2024 07:19 AM (y7DxH)
https://tinyurl.com/2jzx8xv8
500,000,000 taxpayer buckeroos:
https://tinyurl.com/ymtbpdfw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 07:19 AM (eE6U5)
Same difference."
Did Biden visit the German military cemetery on Ford Island?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:20 AM (a1415)
Posted by: sal at July 07, 2024 07:21 AM (y7DxH)
The media is keeping everyone's hair on fire because that has become the normal state of many peoples mental state.
They have honed this skill well and the public laps it up like heroin.
Just wait till Elon toasts someone. It's coming, it's the nature of the business.
People will be screaming for the murderers at SpaceX to be shot. I doubt that he will ever recover.
Posted by: pawn at July 07, 2024 07:21 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 07, 2024 07:09 AM (Ka3bZ)
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With or without blisters?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 07:22 AM (eE6U5)
Posted by: pawn at July 07, 2024 07:21 AM (QB+5g)
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Seems Musk wants to toast lotsa folks:
https://tinyurl.com/w6u72rn6
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 07:25 AM (eE6U5)
Embrace the power of the OFF button.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 07:26 AM (dg+HA)
148 Degrees coming out the faucet.
So off to the heater we go and take off the access plates for the two elements.
Yup, both of them set well above the 'HOT' marking on the limit screws.
Now.....120 degrees max.
I feel a little bit better.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:26 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius"
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Yes, Chase, and others will follow suite. Another example of how the Federal government helps us.
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024
***
Chase always did charge if your balance was below a certain point. I'm well above that. If they start that on me, I'll look into moving everything to my savings bank, a smaller regional one.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 07:28 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 07:28 AM (eE6U5)
Huh.
Zod was bored yesterday and splashed hot greasy water on his eyeballs.
YMMV.
Posted by: ZOD at July 07, 2024 07:30 AM (P+D4R)
But we're mad as hell...now.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 07, 2024 07:31 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: ZOD at July 07, 2024 07:31 AM (P+D4R)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 07:31 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 07:32 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 07:32 AM (eE6U5)
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024 07:32 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: pawn at July 07, 2024 07:33 AM (QB+5g)
Yup, both of them set well above the 'HOT' marking on the limit screws.
Now.....120 degrees max.
I feel a little bit better.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:26 AM
Yeah, they should have winter and summer settings. Some of the high end boilers that I've looked into have outdoor sensors and adjust the hot water temperature accordingly.
The run length and pipe insulation (if you have any) are two other variables. Last year I tore out the ceiling in my garage and installed about 60 feet of pipe insulation, then repaired the ceiling. Amazing difference in how long hot water stays hot now. My wife gets up at seven am say, and pulls the hot water into the bathroom. Three hours later I turn a faucet on to wash my hands and the water is hot within a second or two.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 07:34 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024 07:32 AM (vFG9F)
(that little Kintner boy spills out all over the dock)
Posted by: ZOD at July 07, 2024 07:34 AM (P+D4R)
Went to feed the cats... their Tupperware container of food is.... gone.
One word; raccoon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 07:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 07:38 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 07, 2024 07:39 AM (MKEsG)
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2024 07:42 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:42 AM (a1415)
That is way too hot.
An older person could easily end up in the hospital for scalding.
Tempering valves can allow you to have a high reserve of hot water (if you need it/teenagers) and a safe delivery temperature.
Posted by: pawn at July 07, 2024 07:42 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 07, 2024 07:44 AM (SfhV1)
https://tinyurl.com/4etffszz
( Can't say that I like the AI biometric part of it, though)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:44 AM (a1415)
https://tinyurl.com/2mr5f8xw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 07:44 AM (eE6U5)
Two words; Trash Panda
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It was a one quart, sealed container too. The lid was especially hard to remove. IIRC it wasn't full, but probably had about 2/3 in it.
And, of course the security cameras picked up.... nothing.
But I have several short videos of cats licking themselves.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 07:46 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 07, 2024 07:48 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 07:49 AM (/7KEl)
That is way too hot. "
Yup.
That's why I brought it back down to 120 degrees.
The furthest shower from the heater has thermal limits, so I suspect they decided for higher tank temps, and allow the limits to keep the shower safe.
But the sinks don't have that luxury.
Anyhow, it's a 50gallon tank, with twin 4,500 watt heating elements.
And all the faucets have flow limiters, so it's not like it's gonna get all the hot water sucked out of it in a hurry. And all the pipes are insulated as well.
So, I think we'll be fine now.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:49 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 07:51 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 07:51 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:53 AM (a1415)
“I'm finance director for Donald Trump in Mississippi, so we raise money. I've talked to a number of very wealthy individuals that God has blessed, that say I can't give money to Donald Trump because the FBI would show up at my door.”
“I tell them, think of what you just said. If you make a legitimate, honest campaign contribution to the Republican nominee for President, the FBI will come to your door. And they acknowledge that's a reality in the United States of America.”
I agree. I'd like to send Trump some shekels but I've been down the road before... I'll leave it at that.
America 2.0 - fundamentally transformed
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 07:53 AM (RKVpM)
If we can vote by dropping ballots off at untended Ballot Drop Boxes, we should be able to drop off cash donations the same way.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:55 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 07:51 AM (fwDg9)
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Let me ruin it for everybody. This is not safe for work, home or your sanity. This is really awful:
https://tinyurl.com/3245t97s
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 07:57 AM (eE6U5)
They pull the plug on Sundowner means they will go with The Ho
Not pulling the plug means they wait for convention and it's plan 2, the Ho is out.
Waiting for the convention then switching to Ho makes no sense, though it's known Leftism is one stage thinking
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 07:59 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: dantesed at July 07, 2024 08:00 AM (Oy/m2)
If we can vote by dropping ballots off at untended Ballot Drop Boxes, we should be able to drop off cash donations the same way.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 07:55 AM
That's a thought. We're now well into the 'show me the man and I'll show you the crime' area.
I never read the book about three felonies a day, but I get the gist of it. This regime would have Mother Teresa in jail for money laundering.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 08:00 AM (RKVpM)
Yeh....that's f'n bad.
Wait till she finds out that you can re-use corn kernels.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:01 AM (a1415)
That's not so bad.
Posted by: Guy who makes croutons from toenail clippings at July 07, 2024 08:01 AM (vFG9F)
How big will the crowd be?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 08:01 AM (dg+HA)
How big will the crowd be?
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Dozens.
But the photos and video will make it appear like thousands.
It's magic.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 08:02 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:03 AM (a1415)
But no, they make direct eye contact, she smiles, says hello. He simply refuses to engage or go in for the hug he's given everyone else. Then turned his back on her to take engage in hugs and kisses and selfies with the women next to her.
And this is the only black person in the shot at all.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 08:04 AM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 08:04 AM (eE6U5)
I know why- Philly's close
They can take Joe there and back the same day- low risk
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:04 AM (/7KEl)
I've been in the Philly convention center and it's not huge. I don't think they have any seating, so it's a standing room only event. Parking costs a small fortune, so my guess would be maybe a hundred might show up. Unless bribery is involved.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 08:05 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:05 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 08:07 AM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:07 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 08:04 AM (5p7BC)
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Video:
https://tinyurl.com/49w2evr5
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 08:07 AM (eE6U5)
Oof. I could have done without that.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 07, 2024 08:07 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 07, 2024 08:08 AM (a1415)
Lax
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:05 AM (/7KEl)
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https://youtu.be/cqlf-dT-N64
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 08:09 AM (eE6U5)
Saw that yesterday.
And the survey says.....
Joe Biden doesn't really like touching black people!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:10 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 07, 2024 08:07 AM (/HDaX)
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So...
Who's having pancakes for breakfast?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 08:10 AM (eE6U5)
Posted by: dantesed at July 07, 2024 08:10 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 08:10 AM (fwDg9)
Seems petty to ask but could you say a little prayer that it heals well?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 07, 2024 07:09 AM (Ka3bZ)
You betcha! Blessings on you, vmom.
Posted by: m at July 07, 2024 08:11 AM (64Zez)
How big will the crowd be?
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Dozens.
But the photos and video will make it appear like thousands.
It's magic.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 08:02 AM (Q4IgG)
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In one of the episodes of Rings of Power, they used video editing to copy/paste extras into a crowd to make it look larger than it was. I expect the same here.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 08:11 AM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:11 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 08:12 AM (fwDg9)
My theory still is that Joe Biden really wants out and will keep shooting himself in the foot daily.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 08:12 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Another Anon at July 07, 2024 08:13 AM (QNMaY)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 08:04 AM (5p7BC)
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Video:
https://tinyurl.com/49w2evr5
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 08:07 AM (eE6U5)
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WOW!
Much worse. Scroll down there and see the full video and read the comments.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 08:14 AM (eE6U5)
He should set his sights higher than that.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:14 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Another Anon at July 07, 2024 08:13 AM (QNMaY)
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I'd be more worried about an AI programmed to make the accounts more "equitable" thanks to the DEI programmers.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 08:15 AM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:15 AM (/7KEl)
Grueling schedule. You'd have to have Jimmy Carter level stamina to keep up.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 08:16 AM (dg+HA)
Fkin deer ate tops off my cucumbers
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 08:10 AM
I told my wife that deer are repelled by the scent of human urine so she just about daily pees in a cup and pours it on the wooden retaining wall where her cucumbers are planted. So far, so good.
But after every rain have to make sure to replenish the area again.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 08:16 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 08:16 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 08:17 AM (5zRhj)
Jonathan Turley - "Biden and his allies spent months claiming the democracy will end and gay people will simply be "disappeared." There was admittedly little room left to escalate the rhetoric aside from death squads and a court approved "Assassin's Creed."
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 08:17 AM (5p7BC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 08:16 AM (RIvkX)
Sounds delicious!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 07, 2024 08:18 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:15 AM (/7KEl)
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My theory is this will be the October Surprise.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 08:18 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 07:51 AM (/7KEl)
That's right, Don! Hot water *burn* baby!
Posted by: Discovery Channel narrator at July 07, 2024 08:19 AM (DTX3h)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:20 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:20 AM (/7KEl)
Try a few pieces of Irish Spring soap. Keeps them away from my tomatoes.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 08:20 AM (dg+HA)
As a nation, we have become a very unserious people.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:21 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Ex GOP at July 07, 2024 08:22 AM (GpUII)
One time I bought some coyote piss to repel the deer and it worked... for a while. First rain it got washed away. Bottle of pee was too small to last the summer.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 08:22 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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and China is watching
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:23 AM (/7KEl)
https://tinyurl.com/3ucpk4ky
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Not a General. Mike, Jr. is LTG Mike Flynn's son. He serves as Chief of Staff and top aide at his Dad's Flynn Intel Group.
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 07, 2024 08:23 AM (SuNbA)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 08:24 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 08:25 AM (fwDg9)
Try a few pieces of Irish Spring soap. Keeps them away from my tomatoes.
I can still picture my neighbors garden with Irish Spring hanging from ropes everywhere. I can also picture the wife come barrelling out her back door screaming as five or six deer grazed all around.
I think they gave up after that.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024 08:26 AM (RKVpM)
Just lobbing hundreds of ballistic missiles at military targets doesn't necessarily mean the country will simply lay down for China.
A full scale invasion would probably take months, if not a year, to prep for. If that's what Xi intends.
The movement of ships and aircraft to support any offensive actions (aside from lobbing missiles) would likely be observable.
I personally think China's already infiltrated enough of Taiwan's government and critical infrastructure to do a soft coup... like they did here.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 08:26 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 07, 2024 08:27 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:28 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 08:29 AM (5p7BC)
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 07, 2024 05:20 AM (VuZH
That's how it *should* work, along with jail for the wilful sabotage (that's what it really was). Unfortunately, in our (literally) fascist economic system the feds decided that Boeing was "The One" in airplane manufacturing and suppressed any potential competition.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 07, 2024 08:29 AM (XjtdB)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 07, 2024 08:30 AM (HHd7w)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2024
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If you drink it really slowly, it might last two summers.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 08:31 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 07, 2024 08:31 AM (HHd7w)
https://tinyurl.com/45wc6mxr
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 07, 2024 08:32 AM (2NHgQ)
NY Post says that Kamala will be out first DEI President.
Newsom (and the rest of the X left) say it is "flat out racist!"
So isn't that an open admission that DEI is racism?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 08:34 AM (5p7BC)
Mrs. F. grates a little lemon peel in the batter.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 08:16 AM (RIvkX)
Say no more say no more!
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 08:34 AM (JSLZX)
she didn't spend a whole year studying crayons and macaroni art diorams just to be called 'Jill', thank you very much
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:34 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 07, 2024 08:34 AM (2NHgQ)
Just admit it: this isn't really about the gardening, is it?
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 07, 2024 08:36 AM (zdLoL)
Yet, *biden has signed countless EO's and legislation, some of it created out of whole cloth and patently illegal. (Student loan forgiveness)
How is it that none of those EO's or other acts he's "signed" haven't been challenged in court using his mental state as cause? I mean... it's pretty clear he's unable to pass any sort of cognitive test.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 08:37 AM (Q4IgG)
And he could winter over in Antarctica.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:38 AM (a1415)
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 08:38 AM (JSLZX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 08:37 AM (Q4IgG)
He has a team of experts!
Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2024 08:39 AM (JSLZX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 08:39 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 07, 2024 08:34 AM (2NHgQ)
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Unless you are trying to stop a zombie vampire horde from taking over your town...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 08:39 AM (BpYfr)
No standing
no reasonable prosecutor
look, he's just a kindly old man
jury unlikely to reach a verdict
pick one
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:39 AM (/7KEl)
That should clear up the drum beats of senility and dementia when the American people hear Joe's strong voice and clear thoughts on tape.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:40 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:40 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 07, 2024
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Unless you are trying to stop a zombie vampire horde from taking over your town...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024
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Shades of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 08:40 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:41 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 07, 2024 08:42 AM (0o/AH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 08:42 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: dantesed at July 07, 2024 08:42 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:42 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024
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Yeah, he thinks Scotch Tape and painter's tape are the best.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 08:42 AM (omVj0)
You saw my link earlier to Insty, and the reports of the Parkinson's Doctor making multiple visits to the White House?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:43 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2024 08:43 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 08:44 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 08:44 AM (RIvkX)
@vcdgf555
"The Iranian frigate Sahand, one of Iran's most modern warships, commissioned in 2018, sank today in the port of Bandar Abbas. Iranian state TV classified the case as an 'incident'."
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Looks like it just rolled over... LMAO
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 07, 2024 08:45 AM (2NHgQ)
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Wait, stop.
Exploding coffins would make it even more epic.
Think Michael Bay is available to direct?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 08:46 AM (5p7BC)
While I am not a doctor, nor have I ever examined Joe Biden, I think we can rule out ovarian cysts.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:47 AM (a1415)
what's happening with that
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:47 AM (/7KEl)
Fuck it... toss in cancer for the sympathy trifecta.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)
Are there any visitor's log entries indicating that Customs and Border Patrol experts have ever met with the Vice President?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:49 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 08:39 AM (omVj0
Hard to say til we get you in the wind tunnel at Boeing.
Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2024 08:49 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 08:50 AM (omVj0)
Fuck it... toss in cancer for the sympathy trifecta.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)
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There was an episode of the Simpson's where Mr. Burns was diagnosed with every known disease, all carefully balanced against each other, cancelling each other out to some extent. Mr. Burns took it as a sign of his immortality.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2024 08:51 AM (BpYfr)
Biden, who has been a champion of unions, said he would not cross the picket line to appear at the event."
(From Phillyvoice dot com)
How convenient.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 08:51 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 08:51 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:51 AM (a1415)
Posted by: pookysgirl, recalling a Mr. Ballen video at July 07, 2024 08:52 AM (dtlDP)
(From Phillyvoice dot com)
How convenient."
I had commented the other day that after that somewhat shaky report of a medical event on AF-1, we would see if Joe sees his own shadow this weekend, or if we need to start demanding daily Proof-of-Life.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:53 AM (a1415)
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As succinct appraisal as I have seen.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 07, 2024 08:55 AM (XeU6L)
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Let me get this straight...a union is interfering with a union meeting?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 07, 2024 08:57 AM (XeU6L)
Be glad you didn't get the chicken.
https://tinyurl.com/yc7t7xrb
Page two of the comments has some photos of the food in question.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 08:57 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Not a joke at July 07, 2024 08:57 AM (dg+HA)
Unbelievable.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2024 08:58 AM (GxCWX)
The senior White House official who worked with the Biden during his presidency, vice presidency and 2020 campaign told the New York Times he no longer believes the 81-year-old has what it takes to defeat Trump.
That official, who declined to be named so he could speak openly, said the president has shown more and more signs of his age in recent months - speaking more slowly, haltingly and quietly.
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 08:58 AM (/7KEl)
Last night I posted yesterday's results, with Biden ahead in MI and WI (outlier against what everyone else is seeing).
Today they have Trump up 7 in Pennsylvania, and over 50%.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 08:59 AM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 09:00 AM (a1415)
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No, Trump's lead has expanded in all the battlegrounds. Morning Consult (which I just trashed) is the only outlier.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 09:01 AM (5p7BC)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 07, 2024 09:01 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 09:01 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2024 09:02 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2024 09:02 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
It's a mad, mad, mad world.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 09:02 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 09:04 AM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 09:05 AM (a1415)
Actually it has been a while now for that scenario. At some point the regulators deferred the QC inspections to the manufacturer for 'speed and convenience' so Boeing has been doing its own thing for ever.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparement c'est choquant at July 07, 2024 09:06 AM (qfLjt)
Maybe voters are already looking ahead to Harris, and ignoring Biden.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2024 09:07 AM (hTeRG)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 09:15 AM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 09:18 AM (a1415)
I once got involved in testing the air handlers of an indoor range by using colored smoke bombs. We were working on (at my insistence) converting from straight evacuator fans to a positive pressure plenum with baffles on the exhaust pickups.
Several pretty good 'rump' engineers were in on the project, who could do arithmetic and everything, and we thought we had progressed beyond the cigarette-held-aloft and wet-finger-in-breeze stage. We all got a quick education in just how complex aero engineering really is. Upshot? It is damn hard to push smoke.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 07, 2024 09:18 AM (zdLoL)
Maybe voters are already looking ahead to Harris, and ignoring Biden.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Most media polls are trash to begin with and any movement right now is chiefly due to random fluctuations in sampling. Summer is a particularly difficult time for pollsters due to vacays, more time spent outdoors, and so on. Plus, you have the shift from registered voters to likely by some pollsters which generally is not appropriate until September or so.
Last time I checked, Trump is doing better in the registered and all voter screens than likely voters. This is partially due to Trump appealing to casual voters while the true Dems are pretty much locked in at their 40 some odd percentage (varies by state).
Trump's people have not said much this go around but I think we are looking at the same turnout strategy in 2020 and this is a personal constituency--not for the GOP itself (much as Nixon's silent majority was in 1972). Combined with preference cascading, looks like 1980 where the map expands too rapidly for the incumbent to counter. Don't think adding Kamala to the mix (which at this late stage is probably the only thing the Dems can do differently) helps.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:19 AM (/0X3E)
Try a few pieces of Irish Spring soap. Keeps them away from my tomatoes.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 07, 2024 08:20 AM (dg+HA)
Uhh, we ARE talking vegetables, right?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 07, 2024 09:22 AM (iODuv)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 09:23 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 09:24 AM (a1415)
This is a great summation of the problem. Similar to pushing rope.
Posted by: pawn at July 07, 2024 09:25 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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Lower propensity voters, by and large, are reactive and essentially vote against far more than for a party in power. The US is not exempt from the trends being seen in Western Europe where the general population has had it with illegals, net zero crap, massive inflation in basic living standards, and endless wars. These folks don't know what they want but can easily determine what they don't want and that is generally whoever is in power.
Not really a right or left issue. As a bonus, the media is now down for most voters at the same level as politicians for credibility. Basically (and I think you see a bit of this in polling), only the boomers and silents pay much attention to the MSM anymore.
Younger voters 18-34 are moving actually to the right and these are the most disconnected from the DNC MSM axis. Influencers, texts, and ads, don't overcome shitty actual conditions for voters.
Strange times and the old rules seem to be failing in application. Basically the Obama machine including the cheating machine has aged out because of internal contradictions.
Posted by: whig at July 07, 2024 09:27 AM (/0X3E)
Video just came out showing them all piling out of the back of a U-Haul truck.
They are all in their "uniform" with masks on when they get out.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 09:33 AM (5p7BC)
So someone pulled a box of non-conforming parts out of the cage and falsified a bunch of paperwork to get the parts back in production. Do you know how hard it is to do this? And how does this person benefit? Someone is paying them? What is the incentive other than making a production bonus and those are usually scrutinized at a couple of levels.
I know it happens but I really don't think it happens very often and it's certainly harder when the parts are part of a critical apparatus.
Posted by: pawn at July 07, 2024 09:36 AM (QB+5g)
Did anyone ever track down who had rented that particular U-Haul truck for that day?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2024 09:37 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Kevin at July 07, 2024 09:42 AM (qQlXB)
Posted by: scrood at July 07, 2024 10:04 AM (DSPID)
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at July 07, 2024 10:49 AM (LdpYW)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 07, 2024 11:27 AM (Ka3bZ)
I see a lot of cases where you have execs/VP's in charge of technical shit who fail to understand that at some level they have to stop filling seats with upwards-failing retards and actually delegate to those who know how to do things, lest you get the "this person in charge of IT shit has a music degree resulting in a massive breach" problem. And you have to do it at a high enough level to properly supervise your people in the trenches, enforcing functional practices.
I have seen A LOT of real world examples. Most recently some cost-cutting MBA Grima Wormtongue jackass convinced our higher ups to move from a custom datacenter to some cheapass AWS bullshit which cost us about 100 million dollars on the first day it was supposed to go live. The dot-not-feather fucktards over there failed in a mind-blowing number of ways all at the same time.
Posted by: somedood at July 07, 2024 11:36 AM (6kPB8)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 11:38 AM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Cortillaen at July 07, 2024 12:26 PM (6kADi)
Posted by: p-squared at July 07, 2024 12:39 PM (i3SWt)
As they say extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Posted by: pawn at July 07, 2024 04:50 PM (QB+5g)
Saturday Overnight Open Thread (7/6/24)
A Pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The Pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again and it won again. The local paper read: PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT. The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the Pastor not to enter the donkey in another race.
The next day the local paper headline read: BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR'S ASS. This was too much for the Bishop so he ordered the Pastor to get rid of the donkey. The Pastor decided to give it to a Nun in a nearby convent. The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following headline the next day: NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN. The Bishop fainted. He informed the Nun that she would have to get rid of the donkey so she sold it to a farm for $10. The next day the paper read: NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10 This was too much for the Bishop so he ordered the Nun to buy back the donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild.
The next day the headlines read: NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE. The Bishop was buried the next day. The moral of the story is . . . being concerned about public opinion can bring you much grief and misery and even shorten your life.
So be yourself and enjoy life. Stop worrying about everyone else's ass and just cover your own !!!
You'll be a lot happier and live longer! (H/T Ciampino)
It used to be that if you noticed something weird around you, there would be some kind of funny story to it, but nowadays if you see something strange, it always seems like that means you are in danger. There have been warnings shared on social media about how finding a water bottle on your car or discovering "1F" written outside of your home could be a sign that you might be victimized, and now comes an even odder warning - if you find a piece of cheese on your car you might be in danger. It all comes down to how all the bad people in the world keep coming up with new ways to abduct potential victims, and one woman is warning others after she found the dairy product on her vehicle. The woman, named Mimi, shared her story on TikTok, saying it is "for all my ladies out there." In it, Mimi explains how she came out of church one Sunday to find cheese melted on her car. Likely thinking it was just some kids' prank, she called up a friend to help her scrape it all off, but when her friend arrived, a white van with men in it two parking spots down from her pulled out and went to a lot across they street, where they seemingly parked so they could watch the women clean off the cheese
What Were We Thinking? The Top 10 Most Dangerous Ads
Often the criticism of vintage ads focuses on their inherent sexism, racism, or other displays of social prejudices, which we find laughable today, despite their continued presence. But what about ads that steered consumers into dangerous territory, espousing outmoded scientific evidence or misleading half-truths to convince people that appallingly toxic products, or even deadly ones, were actually good for them? While some faulty campaigns were merely the victims of evolving scientific knowledge, many blatantly ignored facts in their race for the dollar, using so-called experts to promote products terrible for public health, like cigarettes. Revered professionals like doctors and scientists routinely told us precisely the wrong things to do, as they are likely still doing today.
America!!!!
97,000 complaints sounds like a lot. But if you do the math (And you don't have to since it is The ONT) that's only 265 complaints per day. Leave it to Uncle Sam to botch it up.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Air travel got more miserable last year, if the number of consumer complaints filed with the U.S. government is any measure. The Transportation Department said Friday that it received nearly 97,000 complaints in 2023, up from about 86,000 the year before. The department said there were so many complaints that it took until July to sort through the filings and compile the figures. That’s the highest number of consumer complaints about airlines since 2020, when airlines were slow to give customers refunds after the coronavirus pandemic shut down air travel.
What Happened Today In Music July 6th
2020 - Charlie Daniels
American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Daniels died age 83 of a hemorrhagic stroke. He is best known for his contributions to Southern rock, country, and bluegrass music and scored the 1979 number-one country hit 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2008, the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016.
Born on this day: 1925 - Bill Haley
Bill Haley, (William John Clifton Haley), singer, guitarist, 'The first Rock 'n' Roll star.' As Bill Haley and his Comets he had the 1955 UK & US No.1 single Rock Around the Clock Haley was one of the earliest acts to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest of the world. He sold over 60 million records during his career. Haley died on 9th February 1981.
Go big or stay home unless you are tonight's Genius Award Winner.
Suspect Busted For One Cent Bank Robbery
Cops: Man gave teller withdrawal slip "for the amount of $00.01" JULY 3--After a man handed a bank teller a note demanding cash, police swooped down on a Chase Bank branch in Florida and arrested the unarmed suspect for robbery. The amount he allegedly sought: One cent. The unorthodox robbery bid, cops say, occurred Saturday afternoon in Lady Lake, a town about 50 miles north of Orlando. According to an arrest report, Michael Patrick Fleming, 41, walked into the bank, filled out a withdrawal slip, and handed it to a teller. “The defendant was told he could not be given $00.01,” police noted.
Notice: Posted, oh never mind. It is Saturday night. Someone posted this thread. Not sure.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 10:17 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:18 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 06, 2024 10:18 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 06, 2024 10:18 PM (huBzK)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:18 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 10:20 PM (5fDan)
I once asked Charlie Daniels on Twitter what it was like to play “Devil Went Down to Georgia” for Ronald Reagan. He responded: The greatest honor of his life. ❤️
Posted by: Jmel at July 06, 2024 10:20 PM (bVhJi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 06, 2024 10:20 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:18 PM (vJiyU)
Was involved in family stuff.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 10:20 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 06, 2024 10:21 PM (K/KvR)
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Modern Management at July 06, 2024 10:22 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra
Well sir, no explanation needed, just good to see ya!
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:23 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 10:23 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Modern Management at July 06, 2024 10:24 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 10:25 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 10:25 PM (hSEd9)
Got a bit of kruff at the end of the link messing it up.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 06, 2024 10:25 PM (klJTj)
Posted by: GWB at July 06, 2024 10:25 PM (AWrpC)
A Parkinson’s disease specialist has visited the White House residence medical clinic at least nine times since July 2023.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 06, 2024 10:25 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:18 PM (vJiyU)
Was involved in family stuff.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 10:20 PM (QXQ4l)
MisHum, we are spoiled by the precisely on-the-hour postings by you and other COBs. But be honest with us - Ace will only continue your dental benefits based on your posting timeliness, right?
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 10:26 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 06, 2024 10:26 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 10:26 PM (n3DL0)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 10:26 PM (hSEd9)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra
Well sir, no explanation needed, just good to see ya!
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:23 PM (vJiyU)
I didn't want you to think I had forgotten about you.
Its been Kidville all week here.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 10:26 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Lt Col Frank Slade at July 06, 2024 10:27 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 10:27 PM (rU4Z2)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 10:26 PM (hSEd9)
He was the lead guitarist for Jethro Tull for a number of years.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 10:27 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: RickZ at July 06, 2024 10:28 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 06, 2024 10:26 PM (tmPIh)
The Stanley Cup playoffs are over.
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 10:28 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Beverly at July 06, 2024 10:28 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 10:29 PM (WXNFJ)
Its been Kidville all week here.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 10:26 PM (QXQ4l)
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Oh, I thought "family stuff" meant, uh, something else.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 10:29 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: pookysgirl found it anyway at July 06, 2024 10:30 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 06, 2024 10:30 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 06, 2024 10:30 PM (6if7h)
And there was much rejoicing, thanks to Misanthropic Humanitarian.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 10:31 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Gref
Ah, yes - that makes sense.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin
And a whole lotta folks are going to beat the mob by heading home a day early, thus creating their own mob.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:31 PM (vJiyU)
Well done.
Please have Nurse Dixie McCall see to your F-5 finger. You probably sprained it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 10:33 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 10:34 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 10:34 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 10:35 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 10:35 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Cheesemonger's Friend at July 06, 2024 10:35 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at July 06, 2024 10:35 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: Some Rat
This is the ending of virtually every SEC game every time. Except for Ole Miss, where the mob changes their mind and hits the bar instead.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 06, 2024 10:35 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 10:36 PM (n3DL0)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 10:37 PM (qC/Q1)
Posted by: Luther's Catechism at July 06, 2024 10:37 PM (V5BDR)
Despite being about 80 at the time, he could still get up and down the stage and blaze away with that fiddle.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 06, 2024 10:37 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 10:37 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: mikeski at July 06, 2024 10:38 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog
Yup, and for a bunch of really, really REALLY smart people their predictions are for shit.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:39 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 06, 2024 10:37 PM (jGGMD)
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I always thought the fiddle player was someone other than Charlie Daniels.
If I was wrong, I humbly concede my pop culture faux pas.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 10:39 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (r5tfK)
Love the Saturday Night Joke!
America, indeed. No one does it better! Not sure how he managed to keep anything on that grill, but not going to quibble about it...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (U3L4U)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 10:20 PM (QXQ4l)
Back in the day the ONT was often posted much later...11:00pm!
You are simply spoiling the lunatics.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (55boN)
Posted by: mikeski
Prolly didn't want to nickle and dime them to death.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (vJiyU)
Remember. In the words of that great scholar, Mike Tyson, "Every one has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
So have a plan, your head on a swivel, and personal weaponry. And that's for just the sale aisle in the supermarket.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (n3DL0)
Justin Trudeau-0 Stanley Cups.
Posted by: Only Fair at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 10:41 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: pookysgirl found it anyway at July 06, 2024 10:30 PM (dtlDP)
There's an extra "/
" on the end. If you trim that off, the link works.
Posted by: BillyD at July 06, 2024 10:42 PM (F6Xpw)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 10:42 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 10:37 PM (jdHxK)
Just shared some WhistlePig Six-year-Old bourbon with my neighbor.
He was pleased.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 06, 2024 10:42 PM (d9fT1)
You are simply spoiling the lunatics.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
=====
Back before the internet
Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 06, 2024 10:42 PM (MqNkB)
You are simply spoiling the lunatics.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Well it did kinda post 11 ish Atlantic Time...
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:42 PM (vJiyU)
It probably isn't very common.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 10:34 PM (+K+vL)
But it makes a good sub-plot in a prison movie.
"Red Was Here" . . . and gone.
Posted by: RickZ at July 06, 2024 10:42 PM (gKDq2)
If I was wrong, I humbly concede my pop culture faux pas.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 10:39 PM (jdHxK)
Yes and no. There were others in his band more skilled with the fiddle than he was, and most of the solo performances in songs like "Devil Went Down to Georgia" were from one of them. But when he did pick up the fiddle himself, he was very good.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 06, 2024 10:42 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 10:42 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 10:43 PM (qC/Q1)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 06, 2024 10:43 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 10:44 PM (5fDan)
1. It appears that the American recon drones have been chased from the sky over the Black Sea. Manned recon flights are still happening, but they can't provide the continuous coverage the drones can.
2. The Ukrainians, having shifted forces from the east to the northeast, continue to lose ground in the east. The Russians have sent a few more attacks across the northeast border, stretching the Ukrainians even further.
3. The lifeline of NATO membership continues to be out of Ukraine's grasp. The next big meeting is on 15 July in Washington, with no big PR wins to bolster their case in sight.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 06, 2024 10:44 PM (6if7h)
Back in the day the ONT was often posted much later...11:00pm!
You are simply spoiling the lunatics.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Which timezone?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 10:44 PM (hSEd9)
Posted by: Adriane the Another Saturday Night Critic . . . at July 06, 2024 10:44 PM (TX4bP)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 06, 2024 10:44 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (d9fT1)
So the lunatics are spoiled. And?
Posted by: RickZ at July 06, 2024 10:44 PM (gKDq2)
If I can't get it on my own
If you don't like the way I'm livin'
You just leave this long haired country boy alone
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 10:45 PM (r5tfK)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 10:45 PM (qC/Q1)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 10:45 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (55boN)
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You ain't kidding.
In the past 12 months I have becomedeeply enmeshed in Ice Cube Culture.
Achieving a perfectly cubic large cube, crystal clear with no air bubbles or contaminants, is reaching cocktail Nirvana.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 10:45 PM (jdHxK)
You are simply spoiling the lunatics.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at
It would also run all night.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 10:45 PM (UMF0j)
1. It appears that the American recon drones have been chased from the sky over the Black Sea. Manned recon flights are still happening, but they can't provide the continuous coverage the drones can.
2. The Ukrainians, having shifted forces from the east to the northeast, continue to lose ground in the east. The Russians have sent a few more attacks across the northeast border, stretching the Ukrainians even further.
Meanwhile, I was the first casualty. I am in every war.
Posted by: The Truth at July 06, 2024 10:45 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 10:46 PM (5p7BC)
>>>Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (n3DL0)
Lacy lingerie will help....
Posted by: Test Field at July 06, 2024 10:46 PM (U31aU)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:46 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 10:47 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 10:47 PM (qC/Q1)
Posted by: mikeski
Prolly didn't want to nickle and dime them to death.
Posted by: Some Rat
A cop bringing copper, as it were …
Posted by: Adriane the Another Saturday Night Critic . . . at July 06, 2024 10:47 PM (TX4bP)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 10:43 PM (qC/Q1)
Are you saying money changes things for musicians?
Posted by: Metallica at July 06, 2024 10:47 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: pookysgirl found it anyway at July 06, 2024 10:30 PM (dtlDP)
There's an extra "/
" on the end. If you trim that off, the link works.
Posted by: BillyD at July 06, 2024 10:42 PM (F6Xpw)
Crap. It's an extra "/ ", without the spaces. Trim it and the link works,
Posted by: BillyD at July 06, 2024 10:47 PM (F6Xpw)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 10:46 PM (5p7BC)
Get out. Heathen.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 06, 2024 10:48 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 10:46 PM (5p7BC)
I'll just have wheat thins and beer
If I get sick the toilet is near
Posted by: Stormtroopers of Death at July 06, 2024 10:48 PM (8sMut)
You are simply spoiling the lunatics.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at
It would also run all night.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 10:45 PM (UMF0j)
It's been a heck of a long time since I did anything all night.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 10:49 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 10:43 PM (qC/Q1)
Are you saying money changes things for musicians?
Posted by: Metallica
The point of being a professional musician is to make money at it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 10:49 PM (rii+a)
That song is a hoot. And a narration of.... stuff done.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 10:49 PM (Q4IgG)
Got here late.
Off to content.
Be behind on comments.
Will never catch up.
Won't comment.
Will fall asleep.
Tonight's itinerary.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 10:49 PM (xcIvR)
The neighbor says I gotta warn ya, there’s gonna be some drinking. The new guy say he was in the Navy and saw his share of shore leave drinking.
The neighbor then tells him there could be some fighting. The new guy tells him he grew up in a rough neighborhood and can handle himself pretty well if he has to.
The neighbor says, “Well, I gotta tell ya, there might be some sex, too.” The new guy tells him he’s not a prude and has been around the block a bit.
Good says the neighbor. I’ll see you tomorrow at seven, and he turns to leave. The new guy says wait a minute, what should I wear?
The neighbor says, “Wear anything you like, it’s just going to be you and me.”
Posted by: Advo at July 06, 2024 10:49 PM (jO4mz)
Posted by: Metallica at July 06, 2024 10:47 PM (8sMut)
***
Say, have you found the slide on the mixing board that INCLUDES the bass guitar??
Posted by: Jason Newsted at July 06, 2024 10:49 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Beau Biden at July 06, 2024 10:49 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 10:49 PM (qC/Q1)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 10:49 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Diogenes
Getting up to pee three times has entered the chat.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 10:49 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at July 06, 2024 10:49 PM (hsWtj)
1. It appears that the American recon drones have been chased from the sky over the Black Sea. Manned recon flights are still happening, but they can't provide the continuous coverage the drones can.
2. The Ukrainians, having shifted forces from the east to the northeast, continue to lose ground in the east. The Russians have sent a few more attacks across the northeast border, stretching the Ukrainians even further.
3. The lifeline of NATO membership continues to be out of Ukraine's grasp. The next big meeting is on 15 July in Washington, with no big PR wins to bolster their case in sight.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 06, 2024 10:44 PM (6if7h)
4. Barring a miracle it looks like Putin (or at least one of his doubles) will out-last Joey.
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 10:50 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: pookysgirl found it anyway at July 06, 2024 10:30 PM (dtlDP)
There's an extra "/
" on the end. If you trim that off, the link works.
Posted by: BillyD at July 06, 2024 10:42 PM (F6Xpw)
Crap. It's an extra "/ ", without the spaces. Trim it and the link works,
Posted by: BillyD at July 06, 2024 10:47 PM (F6Xpw)
OK, I give up, Minx 0.8 beta keeps trimming my note on what to trim from the URL, so I'll just says there's some crap on the end of the URL, that you need to remove, and leave it to you to figure out what exactly the crap is.
Good Luck.
Posted by: BillyD at July 06, 2024 10:50 PM (F6Xpw)
>>>Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (n3DL0)
Crank on the a/c.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 10:50 PM (QXQ4l)
You are simply spoiling the lunatics.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
_________
Where's my ice cream?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 10:51 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Capt. Renault at July 06, 2024 10:51 PM (jdHxK)
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that's Russian military doctrine: be the last man standing
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 10:52 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:53 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
_________
Where's my ice cream?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
____________
Ice Cream? Seriously? I need to stay up for the ONT more often. If only I'd known....
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 10:53 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 06, 2024 10:54 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 06, 2024 10:54 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 06, 2024 10:54 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 10:54 PM (n3DL0)
The point of being a professional musician is to make money at it.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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And Charlie didn't miss a beat. That was Bill Haley's down fall, he wanted to keep doing the same thing but times were changing.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 10:55 PM (qC/Q1)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 06, 2024 10:54 PM (v6JzV)
***
You're just in time for ice cream!
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 10:55 PM (IQ6Gq)
>>>Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (n3DL0)
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Uh huh.
So, um, what are you wearing?
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pervert at July 06, 2024 10:55 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 06, 2024 10:56 PM (v6JzV)
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The calls are coming from inside the house.]/i]
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 10:56 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pervert at July 06, 2024 10:55 PM (jdHxK)
***Test* Test*Test***
the camera on my laptop is OFF, isn't it?
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 10:57 PM (n3DL0)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 06, 2024 10:57 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 10:57 PM (/7KEl)
I have no idea on AoS family stuff, but I wonder, how much does the Color Revolution being run by our "DeepState" government have to do with a lot of family strife?
In my case, siblings that were very dedicated to the Dem party leftist crap caused me to "disengage". That seems true of spouses and other family ties ... because "They" hate the family bonds.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 06, 2024 10:57 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 10:29 PM (1Nxff)
Paying too much attention to Biden stuff lately, huh?
Posted by: GWB at July 06, 2024 10:58 PM (AWrpC)
The calls are coming from inside the house.]/i]
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 10:56 PM (/7KEl)
Seriously, step back and look at the big picture for a minute. We are witnessing the fall of a government, something that hasn't happened in the US since Watergate. Whether it takes until November to be finished or not, it's happening. This is history in real life.
The Democrats overreached in 2020 with the riots and the lockdowns and the 81 million ballots. They're a spent force.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 10:59 PM (r5tfK)
Posted by: Diogenes
-----------------------------
Those were the days.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 10:59 PM (qC/Q1)
3 way races (Biden, Trump RFK)
PA Trump +3
WI Biden +2
MI Biden +6
GA Trump +2
NC Trump +2
NV Trump +6
AZ Trump +7
A couple notes:
1) Morning Consult is the most favorable poll for Biden this cycle
2) Polling a 3 way race is disingenuous, RFK is only on the ballot in 8 states, while Green Party is on 19. The MC poll gives says RFK is getting 10% in WI, however he isn't on that ballot and the deadline is past.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 11:00 PM (5p7BC)
the camera on my laptop is OFF, isn't it?
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 10:57 PM (n3DL0)
Sorry, ma'am, it wasn't - but my hard drive is encrypted, so no worries!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 06, 2024 11:01 PM (v23vE)
that's how Fox wrote it
he, she, who knows
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 11:01 PM (/7KEl)
I went ahead and made a sammich. So far, so good.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 06, 2024 11:01 PM (mH6SG)
Not sure I believe it.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 06, 2024 11:02 PM (Vvh2V)
Hiya, BTW. Hope you're planning on TXMoMe again this year.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 06, 2024 11:02 PM (v23vE)
1) Morning Consult is the most favorable poll for Biden this cycle
2) Polling a 3 way race is disingenuous, RFK is only on the ballot in 8 states, while Green Party is on 19. The MC poll gives says RFK is getting 10% in WI, however he isn't on that ballot and the deadline is past.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06,
How this could be close when Biden can’t string a sentence together is so indicative of how broken we are as a nation.
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 11:02 PM (pZEOD)
I went ahead and made a sammich. So far, so good.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
The chips were right too there so. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 11:03 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Jmel at July 06, 2024 11:03 PM (bVhJi)
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 10:36 PM (n3DL0)
Speaking of corrupt science, Rachel Carson is on line 2 from Hell.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:04 PM (EET1b)
Because of the former, and lack of the latter, it's kind of a like a big roommate who won't move out but insists that he must have pride of place.
Kind of like a giant domestic cat, when you think about it, except that the cat can't make musical noises or accompany (in a meaningful way) Miles Davies or Cecil Taylor.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 11:04 PM (CHHv1)
the camera on my laptop is OFF, isn't it?
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog
Yes, absolutely. And we love what you've done to the place.
Posted by: NSA at July 06, 2024 11:05 PM (vJiyU)
Not sure I believe it.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 06, 2024 11:02 PM (Vvh2V)
The literal last line in the link is that there was no police report made.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:05 PM (EET1b)
And I am way too full for ice cream. Someone else can have mine. I am wearing sweatpants full. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? 😂
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 11:05 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Piper
A guy I know who watched the debate simply repeats PDT lied 30 times. No examples can be specified however and Joe's performance was ignored.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 11:05 PM (WXNFJ)
I went ahead and made a sammich. So far, so good.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
The chips were right too there so. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 11:03 PM (WXNFJ)
No since letting this smoked turkey go to waste either.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 11:05 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 11:06 PM (pZEOD)
1) Morning Consult is the most favorable poll for Biden this cycle
2) Polling a 3 way race is disingenuous, RFK is only on the ballot in 8 states, while Green Party is on 19. The MC poll gives says RFK is getting 10% in WI, however he isn't on that ballot and the deadline is past.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06,
How this could be close when Biden can’t string a sentence together is so indicative of how broken we are as a nation.
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 11:02 PM (pZEOD)
The 'You Shall Hate Trump' brainwashing campaign has been very effective on the weak-minded.
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 11:06 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:04 PM (EET1b)
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Rachel Carson saved all of the malaria-ravaged tropics from the scourge of thin eggshells!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 11:07 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 10:59 PM (r5tfK)
It's also fascinating to see Edith Wilson reprised in the person of Dr. Dr. Jill, holding onto the power of The First Lady. I think Hillary was the first First Lady to weaponize that role. Now Dr. Dr. Jill is her own Praetorian Guard; no one sees the Big Guy without going through her.
I also love the 180 pirouette the media did with Biden, going from 'sharp as a tack' to 'who's running the country?' in less than five minutes, without even acknowledging their previous position just the day before. Like I said, fascinating.
Posted by: RickZ at July 06, 2024 11:08 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 10:59 PM (r5tfK)
I agree. The tell is that the more they struggle, the worse things get and there’s nothing they can do to make it better.
Btw my prediction earlier today is that Biden will stay in the race until it’s too late for anyone else to effectively run - and then he’ll drop out. Because that’s what dysfunctional people and parties do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 11:08 PM (5zRhj)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
So the first salvo on population control was a rousing success.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 11:09 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 10:35 PM (8sMut)
Texas Monthly- hatin' on the state since the early '70s.
As little kids in Galveston, we'd be back outside before the mist settled from the DDT truck.
We seem to be okay.
And no one poured straight Lysol in their lady parts- they mixed up a weak solution with water.
Maybe not the best idea, but this was way before Summer's Eve.
Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 11:09 PM (y7DxH)
It's beautiful and has a responsive touch screen. It's also the noisiest computer I've ever worked with. Fans come on full blast when it's turned on, and don't quiet until it's turned off.
Damn. I would really love a hand held PC where I could run (CS6) PhotoShop as a hand held graphic thing but it seems I am doomed to disappointment.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 11:09 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Piper
Some persons may not have watched the debate & believe the “cheap fakes” explanation.
Some people … are stupid.
Posted by: Adriane the Another Saturday Night Critic . . . at July 06, 2024 11:10 PM (TX4bP)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 10:59 PM (r5tfK)
It's also fascinating to see Edith Wilson reprised in the person of Dr. Dr. Jill, holding onto the power of The First Lady. I think Hillary was the first First Lady to weaponize that role. Now Dr. Dr. Jill is her own Praetorian Guard; no one sees the Big Guy without going through her.
I also love the 180 pirouette the media did with Biden, going from 'sharp as a tack' to 'who's running the country?' in less than five minutes, without even acknowledging their previous position just the day before. Like I said, fascinating.
Posted by: RickZ at July 06, 2024 11:08 PM (gKDq2)
When the MSM smells blood in the water, there is always a kill-frenzy.
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 11:11 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: mikeski at July 06, 2024 11:11 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 11:11 PM (63Dwl)
Agreed. We are living through history. The Debate will be studied for a long time.
Posted by: Jmel at July 06, 2024 11:12 PM (bVhJi)
How this could be close when Biden can’t string a sentence together is so indicative of how broken we are as a nation.
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 11:02 PM (pZEOD)
We’re all finding out how many on the Left will do whatever The Party orders them to do, no questions asked. They’re not Americans, they’re Stalinists.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 11:13 PM (5zRhj)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 11:14 PM (+K+vL)
People will start bailing from the administration soon. Who's going to be first? Mayor Pete?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 11:14 PM (r5tfK)
Apropos of nothing, rummaging around Amazon and Reddit a thing called "Prison Ship Sheol" exists. Sheol is a space prison for women; the main character is male and charged with fixing the ship.
And with that introduction, I doubt I need to read much further to guess how the plot goes.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 11:14 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 11:11 PM (63Dwl)
The funny part is that I know exactly what episode you’re watching.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 11:15 PM (5zRhj)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 11:14 PM (r5tfK)
I'll play. Anthony Blinken.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:15 PM (EET1b)
Agreed. We are living through history. The Debate will be studied for a long time.
Posted by: Jmel at July 06, 2024 11:12 PM (bVhJi)
That's why I feel compelled to stay glued to the computer. I didn't pay much attention to Watergate and regret that.
Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 11:15 PM (y7DxH)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 10:59 PM (r5tfK)
I agree. The tell is that the more they struggle, the worse things get and there’s nothing they can do to make it better.
Btw my prediction earlier today is that Biden will stay in the race until it’s too late for anyone else to effectively run - and then he’ll drop out. Because that’s what dysfunctional people and parties do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 11:08 PM (5zRhj)
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True. It's like there is nothing they can really do and no one to turn to. Way too many flakes and idiots have filled their ranks. They are indeed dysfunctional.
Popcorn!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 11:15 PM (W/lyH)
You open it and see that its hand-written. The words, stark and unmistakable. The hair on the back of your neck rises, and a chill sinks into your spine:
"Bring us a ... Shrubbery!"
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 06, 2024 11:16 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: gKWVE
Dude's gonna be swimming in sammiches.
Posted by: mikeski at July 06, 2024 11:16 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 11:16 PM (5zRhj)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 06, 2024 11:16 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 11:14 PM (gKWVE)
Lemme guess: all the wimmenz are hawt, right?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:17 PM (EET1b)
Popcorn!!! Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 11:15 PM (W/lyH)
But their pronouns are impeccable. You have to have priorities.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 11:18 PM (r5tfK)
Posted by: mikeski at July 06, 2024 11:18 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:18 PM (EET1b)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 11:19 PM (+K+vL)
I want to see how long KJP holds on, just out of morbid curiosity.
Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 11:19 PM (y7DxH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
and freshly Lysoled.
Posted by: mikeski at July 06, 2024 11:18 PM (DgGvY)
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Remember: the green ones are naturally clean.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 11:20 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: mikeski at July 06, 2024 11:18 PM (DgGvY)
You would think, in that situation, they would use Scope, out of consideration for their cell-mates.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:20 PM (EET1b)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 11:20 PM (63Dwl)
As noted about, "it has emerged" as the Daily Mail likes to put it, that a Parkinson's specialist has visited the White House 8 times in the last year...
Alex Berenson has another email for a doctor about this today:
https://tinyurl.com/2artqsgg
Biden likely has some kind of Parkisonism with Parkinson's Dementia.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 06, 2024 11:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I think it's holding the leg brace to the table.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 11:21 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 06, 2024 11:16 PM (tmPIh)
ARTHUR: O Knights of Ni, you are just and fair, and we will return with a shrubbery.
HEAD KNIGHT: One that looks nice.
ARTHUR: Of course.
HEAD KNIGHT: And not too expensive.
ARTHUR: Yes
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 11:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 10:46 PM (5p7BC)
Only if you've run out of Pepsi
Posted by: Laverne DeFazio at July 06, 2024 11:22 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:17 PM (EET1b)
Roger Corman taught me that the first thing that happens when there’s a fight in a wymen’s prison is that all the wymen rip their tear away blouses off and of course none of them have underclothing and all are very well endowed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 11:23 PM (5zRhj)
Posted by: Jmel at July 06, 2024 11:03 PM (bVhJi)
Proof of Russian interference in our elections! Reeeeee!
-Democrats everywhere
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 11:24 PM (OX9vb)
RCP Average:
7/6/2024 - Trump +3.3
7/6/2020 - Biden +8.7
7/6/2016 - Clinton +4.8
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 11:25 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Never doubt the classics.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 11:25 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 11:06 PM (pZEOD)
:-) I knew I liked you!
As a fitness enthusiast I think you will appreciate that I broke out my fusion exercise CDs - and somehow my legs are sooo sore even though I am doing the very beginner moves. I keep telling myself that means I'm getting stronger (even though I look like a cripple when I walk....)
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 11:25 PM (n3DL0)
They'll be here November 5, Johnny on the spot.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 11:26 PM (qC/Q1)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 10:46 PM (5p7BC)
Only if you've run out of Pepsi
Posted by: Laverne DeFazio at July 06, 2024 11:22 PM (pIfcn)
I do root beer and milk all the time. Just like a root beer float.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 11:26 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 11:23 PM (5zRhj)
Bonus points if Pam Grier is in the scene.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 06, 2024 11:26 PM (6if7h)
Posted by: The Truth
Amateur.
Posted by: Beau Biden
"You died in my arms tonight"
Posted by: still here at July 06, 2024 11:26 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Luther's Catechism at July 06, 2024 10:37 PM (V5BDR)
Maybe you just rubbed him the wrong the way
Posted by: Pope Ginormous IX at July 06, 2024 11:27 PM (pIfcn)
Was my go to when #1 was deployed in Iraq and the Afgan.
Now denied but thank you for the ONT.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 06, 2024 11:27 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 11:29 PM (KO+0G)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 11:30 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 06, 2024 11:20
After seeing an old friend of ours struggle w/ what was finally diagnosed as Lewy Body Parkinsons Jules is convinced that is what Biden has. It can go on for yrs until it gets really bad.
Posted by: Farmer at July 06, 2024 11:30 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 11:30 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 11:31 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 11:14 PM (r5tfK)
I'll play. Anthony Blinken.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Ah, Blinken will Blink?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 06, 2024 11:31 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog
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You are getting stronger! And the worst thing you can do when you are sore is nothing. The lactic acid stuff is bunk, but warming and stretching your muscles isn’t. Epson salt baths are your friend, keep doing your workout and modify where you need. This is TMI, but even when your quads hurt so bad sitting on the potty is no bueno, do something and keep going! If it makes you feel better, my obliques are really talking to me today, I pushed it hard yesterday. Tomorrow I will still do ab work, just smaller moves.
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 11:32 PM (pZEOD)
Are we fated to relive the last four years forever?
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 11:33 PM (gKWVE)
Parkinson's and Lewy Body are closely related. If I've got it right "Parkinsonism" is a cluster of symptoms. Specific Parkinson's Disease can cause those symptoms, but Lewy Body and some others can present with this Parkinsonism cluster.
As the doc noted to Berenson, Biden definitely has Parkinsonism, only question is what is causing it. He also notes that Biden has had some sort of "brain bleed" surgery, and that is very poor prognosis with that. Cognitive decline is worse and more rapid with Parkinsonism coupled with that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 06, 2024 11:33 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 06, 2024 11:31 PM (VNX3d)
He is young enough that he can afford to spend the next four years in Coventry, and come back as an "elder statesman" for the next Donk pretender.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:34 PM (EET1b)
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 11:34 PM (n3DL0)
Posted by: Tom Perry at July 06, 2024 11:34 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 06, 2024 11:35 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 11:35 PM (qC/Q1)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 11:36 PM (KO+0G)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 11:36 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 11:36 PM (KO+0G)
I just hope that they can't pull it off this time - they would need so many additional votes they just can't do it.
Maybe we need to reverse psychology them - "oh no we don't want to take over this terrible economy!"
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 11:37 PM (n3DL0)
Posted by: Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury at July 06, 2024 11:39 PM (XIkHl)
Maybe we need to reverse psychology them - "oh no we don't want to take over this terrible economy!"
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog
There might be more than a little truth to that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 11:39 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 11:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
I think they've realized (at least the "adults in the room", such as they are, as opposed to the Biden family and the true believers) that Biden's decline is accelerating and can't be hidden and they've got to do something now, otherwise Trump will win.
They were hoping to keep it hidden, Biden win, and then it wouldn't matter. When he got bad, he'd just resign or they'd 25th him. They'd be in power.
Now, they realize they might not be in power and they're going to have to get rid of him now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 06, 2024 11:40 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 11:41 PM (5zRhj)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 11:41 PM (qC/Q1)
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog
This is my only concern about President Trump winning.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 11:41 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 11:42 PM (qC/Q1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Fake Cheap News!
Posted by: University of Clempson at July 06, 2024 11:43 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 11:43 PM (LkLld)
Jack Poso 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
If Biden was a dog we all know what Kristi Noem would have done by now
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 06, 2024 11:44 PM (TGPs7)
Jack Poso 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
If Biden was a dog we all know what Kristi Noem would have done by now
Posted by: Mister Ghost
That sounds like a Gutfeld joke.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 11:46 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Bobby Kennedy at July 06, 2024 11:47 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 10:59 PM (r5tfK)
The entire process has slowly become focused on protecting and promoting only the Democrat party candidate, and generally the incumbent of any party in any elected position, but mostly a Democrat President or designated candidate for the Presidency. This has been going on for a very long time, and has gotten very good at isolating the Candidate from any shocks or the need to spend energy on infighting. this included the super delegate idiocy, how to qualify by the DNC, to cover flown by the traditional media.
Only this time the wound up protecting Joey the ice-cream dementia boy, and now they are trying to figure out how to derail a sure thing.
Kamala is going to be the candidate unless she declines or has a stroke too.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 11:49 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 11:49 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Joey B. at July 06, 2024 11:49 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Which opens the door to many other potential problems.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 11:49 PM (qC/Q1)
This is my only concern about President Trump winning.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 11:41 PM (vJiyU)
I'm hoping that reversing their energy policies and the DEI crap will be enough to re-energize the economy.
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 11:49 PM (n3DL0)
Are we fated to relive the last four years forever?
Posted by: gKWVE
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Like Groundhog Day but unfunny.
Posted by: reason at July 06, 2024 11:50 PM (cW4hp)
Posted by: The Biden response team at July 06, 2024 11:50 PM (XIkHl)
If she did have a stroke, how would we be able to tell if there was cognitive impact?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 06, 2024 11:50 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 11:49 PM (D7oie)
I don't doubt Kamala's had a few strokes, but her specialty is oral.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:52 PM (EET1b)
Internet diagnose is almost always wrong. I've had close relatives who had died with Parkinson's and associated issues and Parkinson's with Lewy body.
Biden clearly has mental decline. That's enough.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 11:53 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 06, 2024 11:53 PM (v6JzV)
Besides, they think the country is best when run by their bureaucrat experts, not a President.
So all the matters to them is can Biden (or anyone) beat Trump. This is why the donors are so pissed. Beating Trump is all they care about.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 11:53 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Trust this man.
He knows about drilling.
Posted by: Expert trusting Miklos at July 06, 2024 11:54 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 11:56 PM (RnZPU)
TRUMP WAS ON A RAMP AND HE SLOWED DOWN ON THE RAMP!
Posted by: MF'nM at July 06, 2024 11:56 PM (cW4hp)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2024 11:59 PM (w6EFb)
This changes EVERYTHING
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 11:59 PM (RnZPU)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 06, 2024 11:33 PM (w6EFb)
I have heard both vascular dementia, from his two brain surgeries, and Lewy Body dementia, both of them can give hallucinations on top of the tremors, frozen faces. I would wonder what Biden's signature looks like, I suspect his is teeny-tiny now, that is also a Parkinsonian symptom.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 11:59 PM (D7oie)
What Were We Thinking? The Top 10 Most Dangerous Ads
Bad article. They complain about meat and DDT?
Meat is what differentiated the nobles who lived almost as long as moderns from peasants who didn't.
And the complaint about DDT was that it damaged bird eggs NOT that it affected people.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2024 12:00 AM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Kindltot
I don't think so. Where barky got the "I ain't a racist" vote, kamala isn't going to get that break. She also has a crappy record for everyone to pore over, and I don't think she's terribly popular with POC.
I'm also sure the DNC knows all of this.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 12:01 AM (vJiyU)
The people who have been claiming for the last 4 years that Biden is the smartest, most talented man in America will turn on a dime and say that of course that senile racist Biden should be replaced if the DNC replaces him with someone else. And they'll tell you the only way to save "our sacred democracy" is to vote for the guy selected by their party's elites to replace the person they actually chose.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2024 12:02 AM (oZhjI)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2024 12:03 AM (oZhjI)
This election is not close.
The head of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence also know as the CIA mouthpiece is organizing to have Biden step down.
They might steal it but this not remotely a close election.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 12:05 AM (LkLld)
I'm also sure the DNC knows all of this.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 07, 2024 12:01 AM (vJiyU)
she has all the money and all the superdelegates if Joey goes away. There are some who want to ride her skin color to push their own agenda, - one talker was saying the Dems are about to become a black racialist party - but the main issue is the money and the superdelegates. If Kamela goes away, then there is a brokered convention and I don't think anyone has enough cards to make any g uarantees
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 12:07 AM (D7oie)
One of the many depressing things about Soviet America is that the time of things generally getting better across the board is over.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2024 12:08 AM (oZhjI)
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But she part black and has a vajayjay. Obama voters will swoon over making history agin.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 07, 2024 12:09 AM (RnZPU)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 12:09 AM (qC/Q1)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 12:10 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2024 11:59 PM (w6EFb)
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So many coppers for a penny makes no sense.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:10 AM (LZkMk)
In this case the fact that Trump is not winning by 20, which would be more appropriate given he is running against a vegetable.
By current standards? Not close at all.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:10 AM (5p7BC)
The left is scared shitless of retribution for all things covid and clot shot. As well they should.
Conversely, if they retain power, do NOT be surprised if they go about eliminating the only valid "Control Group" remaining, so as to "validate" all their covid fevered dreams.
Some of us revel in being un-jabbed, now. But, that'll make us EXACTLY that only valid control group that the left MUST eradicate, in order to maintain their conceit.
So, they "love the shot". They've just not had one from the right caliber, yet.
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 12:11 AM (e6UQI)
But the FNM was very very careful that those two groups were generally not aware of each other.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2024 12:11 AM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:10 AM (LZkMk)
Maybe he didn't have an account there?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 12:13 AM (EET1b)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 12:13 AM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 12:10 AM (LZkMk)
ISWYDT
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 12:14 AM (w6EFb)
We can only hope she manages to piss the Jewish bloc off by continuing to court the Muzzy vote with anti-Israel rhetoric and policies.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 07, 2024 12:14 AM (Vvh2V)
And the Dems only have 3 weeks to figure it all out, before it’s too late to do anything.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 12:16 AM (5zRhj)
Frame one: A landlord saying its not me raising your rent, it is the market.
Frame two: A copy of 30 of the landlords from the first frame all saying the same thing.
And...this is the left, they don't get economics, they don't get supply and demand, and they absolutely will not take any blame for inflating the currency or increasing housing demand by bringing in tens of millions of illegals.
Apparently to fix say rent increases you just have to get every single landlord to agree no matter how much their costs go up to not raise rent. I mean that's realistic right?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2024 12:21 AM (oZhjI)
And the Dems only have 3 weeks to figure it all out, before it’s too late to do anything.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2024 12:16 AM (5zRhj)
Tanned, rested, and ready. And authentically black, too!
Posted by: Shaun King at July 07, 2024 12:22 AM (EET1b)
"Our" (down in SC) own Clyburn has said he won't accept any replacement but Kamala.
Now, as I think Tyrus was going on about on Gutfeld the other night, they may not be able to control Kamala, and that's what they're worried about. With the demented vegetable Biden, they can control him easy.
Let Kum-swallow actually be POTUS and the nominee and she might start thinking she's the boss.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 12:22 AM (w6EFb)
>>In this case the fact that Trump is not winning by 20, which would be more appropriate given he is running against a vegetable.
>>By current standards? Not close at all.
In this case polls are useless. The vast majority of people are just waking up to the fact that not only is Biden a senile old man everything they have been told by the people who perpetrated the lies that put him in office and much more are lies.
You don't need polls to tell you which way the wind is blowing. The left has lost the media which is now scrambling to save itself. All they have left is cheating, We'll see how that goes.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 12:22 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 12:24 AM (qC/Q1)
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Nothing beats today's Medical Establishment promoting self sexual mutilation to kids of all ages.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur., they even took ze security video at July 07, 2024 12:24 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2024 12:21 AM (oZhjI)
Let the NYC Council, communist to the core, just pass a buncha laws. Then landlords have no choice but to agree or get sued by the City.
Commie Land is great!
Said no one ever.
Posted by: RickZ at July 07, 2024 12:26 AM (gKDq2)
I think this is the critical part of the debate.
Biden didn't have "a bad debate". His issue wasn't that he got his facts wrong, wasn't smooth, or got hit with more zingers that he fired off.
The problem is he appeared mentally incompetent - no different then Adm Stockdale not knowing why he was on stage...
Now the committed leftists? They do not care, they'll vote for whoever the FNM tells them to vote for. But for normies/LIVs? This must be terrifying.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2024 12:27 AM (oZhjI)
Achieving a perfectly cubic large cube, crystal clear with no air bubbles or contaminants, is reaching cocktail Nirvana.
LG has a refrigerator that features "Craft Ice" which is supposed to be a crystal clear orb rather than cube.
It takes an eternity though to make it. One can buy a rubber two-piece gizmo that fits into any freezer.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 07, 2024 12:28 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 12:29 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Cowboyneal at July 07, 2024 12:30 AM (/jWPx)
If there was an opposition party it would be interesting to see them explore this angle.
"The Democrats claim rents are up solely because landlords are greedy. I am here asking the NYC Council to set a hard, no exceptions allowed cap on rents - they will only be allowed to increase at the official, government provided inflation rate. Let's go in and see how they respond and if they agree, what happens over the next couple of years!"
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2024 12:30 AM (oZhjI)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 12:30 AM (t1jwT)
Posted by: Shaun King at July 07, 2024 12:32 AM (EET1b)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 12:32 AM (EET1b)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 12:33 AM (D7oie)
I got sort of interested in this "gourmet ice" stuff, and how it's done. You can get some ice machines, and pay some ridiculous amount to do it.
The trick to perfectly clear ice is doing it like icicles, freezing from the inside out, not outside in. The machines use this method. Running water, slowly running water that slowly freezes based on a kernel seed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mikeski
Prolly didn't want to nickle and dime them to death.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:40 PM (vJiyU)
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Cheapskate? (my two-cents worth).
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, vingt francs at July 07, 2024 12:33 AM (qfLjt)
How's it going in Canada land? Do
You follow smalldeadanimals? I think
Kate and her crew are hysterical. And they are doing great work up there.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 12:34 AM (t1jwT)
It's the dreaded HEAT DOME.
Because it never got hot in the summertime before global warmening.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 12:36 AM (t1jwT)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
Can I have craft ice balls in my drinks honey PLEEEEEEEEEASE?!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 12:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2024 12:36 AM (QSrLX)
Posted by: scampydog at July 07, 2024 12:36 AM (41CYW)
You follow smalldeadanimals? I think
Kate and her crew are hysterical. And they are doing great work up there.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 12:34 AM (t1jwT)
Yes, it is a daily read for me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 12:37 AM (EET1b)
Its always been that way with Banksters. The most politically protected people on planet Earth. They can do no wrong and will forever be bailed out and given royal treatment.
Recent Example: Silicon Valley Bank. Management was pure DEI, corrupt and reckless, yet the FDIC guaranteed way beyond the $250k/account and guaranteed every account in full despite SVB paying insurance premiums on the much lower amount.
Steal $1000 a day from your local CVS or Kroger? Yawn. Steal 1¢ from a bank, get the FBI involved faster than a garage pull in a NASCAR garage.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 07, 2024 12:37 AM (rHxhM)
In the Fullness of Time. You know the Significance of the Passage of Time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 12:41 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 12:42 AM (w6EFb)
107F is the all-time record here at GSP, set on July 1, 2012. I remember that.
I knew with these heat domes (high pressure ridges) the global warming people would be going crazy. They are.
This is weather. It happens.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 12:43 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 12:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 12:33 AM (D7oie)
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You're meant to use a hose for that!
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, vingt francs comme en ville at July 07, 2024 12:44 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
Can I have craft ice balls in my drinks honey PLEEEEEEEEEASE?!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
This, from the man who declined the position of Editor-in Chief of Popular Physics dot org
Posted by: I remembers at July 07, 2024 12:44 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 12:45 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
I ax that ALL THE DAMN TIME.
But he won't listen and hear OUR TRUTH.
Posted by: Darleen, Marleen, and Charleen at July 07, 2024 12:47 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 07, 2024 12:27 AM (oZhjI)
People should watch the video, not sure if it was today or yesterday, Biden is greeting people along a rope line, comes up to a young black female, and steps right past her, then schmoozes with a bitter, nasty old white lady who just yelled at the black gal moments earlier.
You could see whatever belief this gal had in the Biden Democrat party be crushed in the most perfectly symbolic act.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 12:47 AM (tZwal)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 12:44 AM (w6EFb)
Try boiling the water, and letting it cool, before filling the ice trays. Might drive out dissolved air in the water.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 12:47 AM (EET1b)
But I think you would have noticed that there were none in the garden. I wouldn't be able to keep up the charade in the long run.
Much like Joe Biden.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 12:49 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 12:41 AM (w6EFb)
Because Time passes, which makes it significant.
Posted by: RickZ at July 07, 2024 12:50 AM (gKDq2)
*stamps foot*
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
I cracked some ribs slipping on some Black Ice in Slovakia once.
Does that count?
Posted by: from Bratislava at July 07, 2024 12:50 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: PabloD at July 07, 2024 12:51 AM (ohsd/)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 06, 2024 10:44 PM (6if7h)
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Thanks for the update - I don't trust any of the other stuff I find online.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, vingt francs comme en ville! at July 07, 2024 12:53 AM (qfLjt)
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
Please do put a penny in the old man's hat
If you haven't got a penny, then a ha'penny will do
If you haven't got a ha'penny, then God bless you!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 12:53 AM (63Dwl)
Be satisfied with those cool ice "stalagmites" we were getting (but aren't any more). Pull the top ice tray out, and you had a little stalagmite of ice protruding up above the cube.
https://tinyurl.com/d4n4zds
We were getting those like crazy. It would happen in the same damn spot on the ice tray about every time. Conditions have to be just right. They aren't anymore.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 12:53 AM (w6EFb)
Try boiling the water, and letting it cool, before filling the ice trays. Might drive out dissolved air in the water.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 12:47 AM (EET1b)
This sounds like too much work. I need clear round ice balls on demand.
Speaking of which, I want to speak to the Manager.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist and part-time Karen at July 07, 2024 12:54 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 07, 2024 12:56 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: publius, Rascally
This man is fully qualified for the Highest Offices, except for being damn White, Male, Competent and probably heterosexual and and Christainist
Posted by: Kamala's pimp in Town at July 07, 2024 12:56 AM (XIkHl)
How the can I be satisfied with them if we're not getting them any more?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist and part-time Karen at July 07, 2024 12:57 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, vingt francs comme en ville!! at July 07, 2024 12:58 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 12:59 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist and part-time Karen at July 07, 2024 12:59 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist and part-time Karen at July 07, 2024 01:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
If I am ever a Manager, the main benefit will be choice words, perhaps
MANAGER
YOU WANT A MANGER
WHO IS YOUR FUKKIN MANAGER
STATE YOUR ISSUE TO THIS TIRE IRON
Posted by: There are reasons why I never worked for a Corporate Entity at July 07, 2024 01:01 AM (XIkHl)
But the memory is fresh. Time is a circle, not a line, what has happened before will happen again.
What has happened before is a burden on what will be.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:01 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: 13times at July 07, 2024 01:01 AM (LH1UD)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:02 AM (w6EFb)
Faster freezing results in the whiteness. Slower freezing is more clear.
But again, it's the inside out vs outside in that makes the most difference.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:02 AM (w6EFb)
If you've been experiencing issues with your vision, and considering expensive visits with an opthalmologist, think twice, and think fast - put Collodion directly on your eyes, and save!
Don't forget - Bashar al-Assad is an opthalmologist, and half a million of his clients have died. You can't trust opthalmologists.
Put YD Brand Collodion on your eyes, and save... It might even save your life.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Marketer at July 07, 2024 01:03 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:01 AM (w6EFb)
Kanola Harris would call you a racist for those words. But Willie Brown knows the truth.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:04 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Kindltot
This is one of the many reasons you don't invite wild canids to social occasions. It's almost always ends in tears. Tears and mournful yet harmonious howling.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 01:04 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
And no baby okras?
I blame democrats, other communists, and democrat communist contrails.
Posted by: Art Bell's bartender at July 07, 2024 01:04 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: PabloD at July 07, 2024 12:51 AM (ohsd/)
when I used to work with cherry picking in the Columbia gorge, the orchards were starting to put up staging areas for the picked fruit that were big boxes of shadecloth on frames, with spray heads misting the fruit to keep it cool. I am about to buy some tee-jet nozzles and spray bodies to set up on the back porch.
Um, and if they work I may set them up for the tomatoes too.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 01:04 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 06, 2024 10:44 PM (6if7h)
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Thanks for the update - I don't trust any of the other stuff I find online.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, vingt francs comme en ville! at July 07, 2024 12:53 AM (qfLjt)
Russians are also more pissed about the attack on Odessa than our corporate media is willing to report. Russian civilians, killed by weapons that must have had American operators, because the Ukes don't know how to use them.
Russians are a "dish served cold" type, when it comes to revenge, but I think it's a foregone conclusion they will get their pound of flesh over that one.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 01:05 AM (3jD8i)
B-17 over Milwaukie, Oregon.
https://tinyurl.com/5abrb5v3
Posted by: 13times
Is that a gas station?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 01:06 AM (63Dwl)
https://tinyurl.com/5abrb5v3
Posted by: 13times at July 07, 2024 01:01 AM (LH1UD)
there is a group rebuilding that bird in Salem. Initially they were just going to refurb it for for a static display, but they got told by the FAA that it is the B-17 in existence with the fewest hours on the frame so they were allowed to make it fly.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 01:07 AM (D7oie)
That's called the Mpemba Effect. It's real. Under certain conditions. You wouldn't believe how much research has been done on this. It has roots in some people noticing that hot water lines appeared to freeze and burst more than cold water lines.
In terms of spherical cows, it has to do with supercooling vs contanimants (which heating water can drive out).
Basically the cold water supercools more than the heated water. Note I said "heated water", not hot water.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:09 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 01:06 AM (63Dwl)[
It is, it was a landmark. The owner bought the plane as salvage, and the story was that he had to have a co pilot ot fly it back, so he got a mannequin and put a hat on it as a co pilot.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 01:09 AM (D7oie)
The point of being a professional musician is to make money at it.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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And Charlie didn't miss a beat. That was Bill Haley's down fall, he wanted to keep doing the same thing but times were changing.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 10:55 PM (qC/Q1)
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Down fall ..... "The Downfall" by Emile Zola, first read as an Illustrated Classic, when I was a teen, not quite a comic and a great idea.
Oops I'm a bit early for the Book Thread (but I am wearing trousers).
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, Emile was a grand auteur at July 07, 2024 01:10 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Kummala at July 07, 2024 01:10 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:08 AM (w6EFb)
How does this help ME, the consumer?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:12 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist and part-time Karen
A few years back someone made a convincing argument about the matter in terms of entropy. The problem is I can't remember whether they were arguing the hot or the cold option, or how entropy played into it.
It's rather like UK Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, who said that only three people understood the Schleswig-Holstein Question, the problem being that one of them was now dead, one was in an asylum, and one had forgotten it.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 01:12 AM (tmPIh)
Smart people know this, and smart people know to put YD Brand Collodion on their eyes.
Just ask our popular spokes-crooner, Ray Charles.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Marketer at July 07, 2024 01:12 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
This one knows.
Perhaps too much
Posted by: Majestic 12 at July 07, 2024 01:12 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:13 AM (w6EFb)
The owner bought the plane as salvage, and the story was that he had to have a co pilot ot fly it back, so he got a mannequin and put a hat on it as a co pilot.
Posted by: Kindltot
Otto Pilot!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 01:13 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:08 AM (w6EFb)
How does this help ME, the consumer?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
You two, get a room
Posted by: Friendly Suggestor at July 07, 2024 01:14 AM (XIkHl)
John Margolies Roadside America.
It’s a damn treasure trove of Americana. All public domain.
Posted by: 13times at July 07, 2024 01:16 AM (X9Qd4)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
Proof that Miley is, in fact, an AI bot with a degree in English.
Posted by: This actually works in terms of poetry stuff at July 07, 2024 01:17 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:01 AM (w6EFb)
Not me, I just fell out of the coconut tree
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 01:18 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: 13times at July 07, 2024 01:18 AM (X9Qd4)
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at July 06, 2024 10:36 PM (n3DL0)
Speaking of corrupt science, Rachel Carson is on line 2 from Hell.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:04 PM (EET1b)
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What's her 'reward'? Shoveling DDT all day and all night, day in and day out? For a break she gets a plate of Lindane, vanilla flavored, with naphthalene sprinkles? (not a moth in sight evvah!)
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, Emile was a grand auteur! at July 07, 2024 01:19 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:12 AM (w6EFb)
The sense of satisfaction of a job well done.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 01:19 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, Emile was a grand auteur! at July 07, 2024 01:19 AM (qfLjt)
All her apples have worms in them, and the bluebird of happiness shits on her birthday cake.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:21 AM (EET1b)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Maybe defining what constitutes "freezing" is where the difficulty arises - say, reaching a given temperature versus visual indication of ice?
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 01:21 AM (tmPIh)
One of the guys who did extensive research on this Mpemba Effect said he didn't know if this would be profound or trivial. Would this produce anything useful, or just discover something trivial.
Well, looking at the results, I'm reminded of the Peter Sellers guest appearance on Laugh-In. You remember What's-his-name, the guy who did the German soldier peering from the buses, saying, "Verrrry Interestzing".
Peter Sellers joined him in that episode, as another German solider. First guy pops up, "Verrrry Interestzing". Peter Sellers then pops, "But ssshtupid!"
Well there you go, the Mpemba Effect is very interesting, but stupid.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:22 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Kindltot
FUN FACT
There is No federal regulation specifying "bun length".
Posted by: There should be a law at July 07, 2024 01:25 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 01:21 AM (tmPIh)
Freezing is an observable phase change, accompanied by a change in volume.
I had a clear plastic bottle of drinking water in the freezer at my place in Arizona last Winter, and took it out to take on a Jeep run. Water was still liquid in the bottle, but was super-cooled. As I handled the bottle, it froze solid in my hands in a second or two.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:25 AM (EET1b)
The point at which the sample goes into the solid state. This research found the conditions to get this effect just right. Put some "hot water" in a container vs some cold water. The cold water temp gets to 32F faster than the hot water. It has to.
But that cold water stays at 32F, and with a little freezing point depression due to contaminants (anti-freeze), and some supercooling, stays liquid for longer.
The hot water sample gets down there to 32F later in time, but starts to freeze once it's there sooner than the cold water sample, Once completely frozen, the temperature then starts dropping, solid ice cooling off.
They had graphs of this with different samples under various conditions. They figure it out, with lord knows how much money, time, and effort involved.
Again, very interesting, but stupid.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:26 AM (w6EFb)
And no one poured straight Lysol in their lady parts- they mixed up a weak solution with water.
Maybe not the best idea, but this was way before Summer's Eve.
Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 11:09 PM (y7DxH)
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Milton's Solution is a 1% sodium hypochlorite in brine. It's used for disinfecting things like baby bottles and also as a gargle for sore throat. I taught a bunch of nuns running an orphanage, how to make it from water, bleach and salt. Saved them a bundle. They had mentioned how expensive it was for baby bottles.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, eau salee at July 07, 2024 01:28 AM (qfLjt)
Again, very interesting, but stupid.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:26 AM (w6EFb)
I imagine it might be of economic interest to those engaged in the bulk manufacture of ice. Or operators of ice rinks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:29 AM (EET1b)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:30 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: There should be a law at July 07, 2024 01:25 AM (XIkHl)
There is no actual rule, but for aesthetics' sake it really should be proportional to the over-all popliteal measurement
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 01:30 AM (D7oie)
Put Collodion on your eyes, and save.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Marketer at July 07, 2024 01:31 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: 13times at July 07, 2024 01:32 AM (3wUgC)
Posted by: There should be a law at July 07, 2024 01:25 AM (XIkHl)
There is no actual rule, but for aesthetics' sake it really should be proportional to the over-all popliteal measurement
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 01:30 AM (D7oie)
There needs to be a Federally-enforced limit on bun width. Ask Admiral Ackbar...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:33 AM (EET1b)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 01:33 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
That was Arte Johnson, doing his "Wolfgang" character - the backstory on that is that Wolfgang thought that WWI was still ongoing.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 01:34 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Marketer at July 07, 2024 01:31 AM (0FoWg)
What does someone who knows how to spell ono-mato-poeia get?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:34 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
After hurricane Andrew, the US government kept millions of tons of ice frozen for years.
Because why not.
Posted by: late nite commenter at July 07, 2024 01:36 AM (XIkHl)
. . . My aunt, Calliope, played the Collodion . . .
Posted by: Kindltot
She's married to Uncle Nick.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2024 01:36 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Archer at July 07, 2024 01:38 AM (IDphi)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
Hey girl
Posted by: Steatopygia at July 07, 2024 01:39 AM (XIkHl)
NYC tried and failed, for years, to get a Freon based chilling (copper) tube system, to restore the Ice Rink at (I forget) either Rockefeller Square or Central Park. Doesn't matter, as much as...
Trump got with professional Ice Hockey Rink operators, who schooled him on how it's really done.
Trump makes a "get out of my way" offer to NYC, which they accept.
Short version. The Chilled Salt Brine flowing through the copper tubing, at something like 29.2f, was more than cold enough to freeze the ice for the rink.
With no loss of freon gasses, or stolen copper tubes for the thieves.
Seems the left has forgotten that story of how Trump rode to the rescue of a vaunted NYC tradition, long before his first political venture.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 01:39 AM (e6UQI)
Because why not.
Posted by: late nite commenter at July 07, 2024 01:36 AM (XIkHl)
Sublimation be damned.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:40 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:41 AM (w6EFb)
{{{Miklos}}} thinking of you. Your Mama is in my prayers, although my prayers are somewhat diluted.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 07, 2024 01:42 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 07, 2024 01:42 AM (WF/xn)
With no loss of freon gasses, or stolen copper tubes for the thieves.
Seems the left has forgotten that story of how Trump rode to the rescue of a vaunted NYC tradition, long before his first political venture.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 01:39 AM (e6UQI)
I think ice rinks and large commercial ice plants use the ammonia cycle as the prime cooling mechanism. Cheaper and more thermodynamically efficient than Freon and its lame substitutes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:42 AM (EET1b)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Marketer at July 07, 2024 01:31 AM (0FoWg)
Consider the Burma Shave model.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:43 AM (w6EFb)
Here you go, Sellers and whats-his-name, Arte Johnson:
https://tinyurl.com/2yw7x9nw
Sellers also did the Dirty Old Man bit with Johnson as well. You know, where Ruth Buzzy starts whopping him with her purse.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:43 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
neveremore
Posted by: Qouth the Raven at July 07, 2024 01:43 AM (XIkHl)
Somehow, I do not think Yanet could properly explain CAPE, Convective Available Potential Energy.
Nor, this heat dome, high pressure ridge effect.
But who cares, Dat Ass Do....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 01:45 AM (w6EFb)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 01:39 AM (e6UQI)
I just finished reading The Art of the Deal
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 01:45 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
Onomatpoeia is Spanish for (Yoko) Ono kills poetry.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:45 AM (EET1b)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:46 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
But if all Billboards fall
I can shave, after all
Burma Shave
Posted by: Miklos is using literary license here at July 07, 2024 01:48 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 01:48 AM (tmPIh)
Now I feel like a bastard.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2024 01:49 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:42 AM (EET1b)
trump went with brine on the advice of a Toronto based ice rink designer, it was not pressurized, and cheap to run
Ammonia is a good refrigerant and it almost runs itself with a heat source, but there are some drawbacks like the chance of gassing Midtown Manhattan if there was a leak.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 01:50 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Miss Dixie Doodle, a smaller type of dog at July 07, 2024 01:50 AM (XIkHl)
Ammonia is a good refrigerant and it almost runs itself with a heat source, but there are some drawbacks like the chance of gassing Midtown Manhattan if there was a leak.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 01:50 AM (D7oie)
You have to chill the brine somehow, you know. The brine is the heat exchange fluid, but the source of the cold to chill it is most likely an ammonia refrigeration plant.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:52 AM (EET1b)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2024 01:49 AM (0FoWg)
But it WAS funny!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 01:54 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:56 AM (EET1b)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 02:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I have been working for years on an Einstein-Szilard whole house cooling system.
Posted by: there is no reason why it would not work at July 07, 2024 02:03 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:52 AM (EET1b)
I suppose you could be right, but the guy who ponied up the three million dollars and his reputation as a developer in Manhattan decided to follow the advice of Cimco on the theory that an engineering company that specialized in building hockey rinks had specific insight into the most trouble-free refrigeration system. They of course were willing to build it for him since it was an area of their expertise.
Cimco does make ammonia systems but apparently they thought brine was better, and lower maintenance for that use. which is used for hockey rinks now?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 02:05 AM (D7oie)
It's weird that both he and his Goon Show colleague Spike Milligan suffered from severe mental issues, and both were fairly open about it. To be fair, though, the same applied to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, and the members of Monty Python also battled a number of personal demons.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 02:08 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2024 02:09 AM (0FoWg)
Brine flows through the tubes, is returned to "The Plant" (ammonia based), re-chilled, and sent back out into the tubes under the ice, to keep the rink well and truly frozen.
It's called a Heat Exchanger, and a proven system for +100 years.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2024 02:12 AM (e6UQI)
It's a wild, fever-swamp conspiracy that is one of many circulating about that horrific event, and Hopper is perhaps not the most reliable of sources. Show Biz folks seem to like a bit of drama and scandal and might be happy to create some as well.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 02:14 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: The DNC in best Peter Sellers voice at July 07, 2024 02:18 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 07, 2024 02:26 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 02:27 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Miss Dixie Doodle at July 07, 2024 02:27 AM (XIkHl)
"We conclude, somewhat sadly, that there is no evidence to support meaningful observations of the Mpemba effect." Not sure
what any of this means, but probably involves math.
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at July 07, 2024 02:35 AM (WvGHv)
Miley, how is the poison ivy, oak or sumac with your brother? I hope that he is feeling better
Tomorrow, Horde, be there or be square,
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 07, 2024 02:37 AM (Sgq8y)
I think ice rinks and large commercial ice plants use the ammonia cycle as the prime cooling mechanism. Cheaper and more thermodynamically efficient than Freon and its lame substitutes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2024 01:42 AM (EET1b)
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Yes, Freon became the refrigerant of choice due to its lack of flammability and lack of toxicity. Ammonia is toxic and flammable.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, eau salee est le meilleur at July 07, 2024 02:38 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 02:38 AM (w6EFb)
I was told by a former Hungarian POW in Soviet camps how to make a soup from poison ivy.
It was better than what they got from the Russkies..
Posted by: Who listens and remembers at July 07, 2024 02:43 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 07, 2024 02:43 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
We plot, plan and wait.
Posted by: the mutant okras at July 07, 2024 02:46 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 07, 2024 02:49 AM (IG4Id)
Thank the good Lord our bishop passed his time at the country club working on his handicap.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 07, 2024 03:06 AM (2UBPP)
I'll have the veal, and send the check to the AOSHQ. And another round of drinks for the table.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 07, 2024 03:14 AM (2UBPP)
Date 2016. Check this out 2020:
https://tinyurl.com/232lo5dk
Note how complex this is getting....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 03:14 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: zombie margaret sanger, still hating babies from beyond the grave at July 07, 2024 03:21 AM (YhBdy)
https://tinyurl.com/232lo5dk
Note how complex this is getting....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
So the initial observation goes all the way back to Aristotle? Complex indeed...
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 03:36 AM (tmPIh)
And then "Inverse Mpemba Effect". If hot water can freeze faster than cold, then maybe cold water could boil faster than hot. :-)
There's been investigations into that....
Seriously, this is getting into "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" territory. You've got cold water vs "hot" (really previously heated water). Now, you start doing the experiments on the freezing time. You then start putting all sorts of definitions and conditions on the samples.
At some point, you're going to define and condition all the possible differences away until there is no difference, and thus the cold must freeze before the hot. In the real world, where the effect might be observed, those differences are important to getting the effect.
Again, "interesting but stupid", I must say.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 07, 2024 03:46 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:48 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 03:55 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Tuna
Our gray tabby is given to that behavior as well - she has our whole daily schedule mapped out in terms of what we are to do for her in the food department. Ah, you humans are watching Jeopardy - time for my afternoon squeeze-up. No, you will not wait until the commercial - do it now and I will decide if it's sufficient.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 07, 2024 04:05 AM (tmPIh)
Saturday Evening Movie Thread 07/06/2024 [TheJamesMadison]
William Friedkin
Who is William Friedkin as an artist?
It was the question I started out with when I turned on his first narrative feature film, Good Times, the first film featuring Sonny and Cher, and I was hit with comedy and fakery and artifice. This was the introduction of William Friedkin, director of The French Connection, The Exorcist, and To Live and Die in L.A. to the movie going public. I was already having trouble predicting who he was, and his first film threw me such a curveball that it took me about a dozen movies before I really recovered my line of thinking. You see, I didn't understand what connected his best known films, and a silly, not very funny comedic vehicle for a glorified vaudeville act was a weird way to start the path towards those famous films, especially when anything you hear about his early career is his work as a documentarian.
He started his career for WGN-TV in Chicago where he rose to directing live television and documentaries. He rode that success to Hollywood where he and the singing duet had the same agent leading to his first directing job of a feature film. As a hungry young filmmaker, he took the job he could, especially when matched with a famous couple like Sonny and Cher, and he had a good time making it. He went on to make an adaptation of The Night They Raided Minsky's, a botched production that he abandoned in editing, and jumped at the opportunity to adapt Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party for the big screen, reportedly the first of his three early projects he had any actual passion for (it was released second because the editor of Minsky's spent almost a year in editing trying to fix it, delaying the release of Friedkin's second produced film).
I think the opening three kind of perfectly encapsulate his whole career, though. It was a mixture of things he signed onto just to work (the C.A.T. Squad television films, The Guardian, Deal of the Century), and projects he was passionate about (Sorcerer, Killer Joe, The French Connection). It's not a particularly unusual pattern for a film director (the whole, "One for them, one for me" pattern), but with Friedkin's output it really does seem to fall in a way that obfuscates where one begins and the other ends.
There end up being a few major threads appearing through it all as the decades went on, Friedkin never finding the kind of unalloyed success outside of the early 70s that would allow him to just make whatever he wanted for the rest of his career. The movies for him, as I see them, tend to have the stronger thematic elements that connect his work. The movies for "them" are more workmanlike with less of a clear stamp on them from Friedkin, allowing writers in particular to come out more fully.
Themes
So, this isn't a distinction between his better movies and his worse ones. It's just kind of obvious where the thematic ideas are more prominent and where they're less. For instance, The Exorcist is arguably one of the greatest films ever made, but I'd argue that it's really just Friedkin in workman mode doing his best to get William Peter Blatty's novel to screen form as cleanly as possible. It feels like Friedkin doing his best on the technical side while trusting in the script by Blatty, based on his novel, to be strong enough on its own. However, that being said, even when it just comes down to Friedkin's choices of which projects to usher to the screen (keep in mind for this particular example that he made The Exorcist the follow-up to his Best Director win on The French Connection), you can see the seeds of the ideas that he was pursuing overall. So, what is it?
I've seen it described as obsession in the main characters, but I don't think that's really correct. It can fit easily with William Peterson's character in To Live and Die in L.A., but does it really fit Blue Chips or The Exorcist or The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial? I don't think it does. I think a better way to summarize the themes that are most present in his work is to say that the pursuit of something changes the pursuer. I was going to phrase it as the pursuit of evil, but there's stuff like Blue Chips that otherwise fit that aren't about pursuing evil but victory, diluting the object of pursuit a bit.
So, how does this manifest? Well, starting with his most famous film, The Exorcist, Father Karras, in having to partake in the exorcism of Regan MacNeil, has to embrace the faith that he's been questioning in order to fight the demon within the girl. He has to completely give himself into it in order to effectively fight it. To Live and Die in L.A. is the portrait of the downfall of an incorruptible federal officer in the face of pursuing a hellishly presented counterfeiter. Rampage is the story of an assistant district attorney who personally opposes the death penalty being forced to pursue it in a heinous trial and coming to defend its use in that particular instance. It's a common thread, and it's interesting when it comes. However, in retrospect, it doesn't quite feel as prominent as something like the idea of identity within in-groups evident so prominently in the works of Martin Scorsese. It might be more of a motif than a driving theme for Friedkin in comparison.
Finding Work
As previously noted, Friedkin's high water mark was the early 70s when his combination of technical skill, pessimism, and thematic focus aligned well with the overall cultural trend of wallowing in realistic misery. His downfall that he never really recovered from was the film Sorcerer which is alternatively the most Friedkin and least Friedkin film he ever made (that whole thematic idea is there, but it's presented in this minimalistic way that he never really came around to embracing again). It was an expensive movie that got completely swamped by the release of Star Wars and its sudden reinvigoration for an appetite for fun escapism. He bounced from smaller project to smaller project, trying to keep his vision of cinema alive, but he increasingly got the reputation as a has-been (Joe Eszterhas really didn't want him for Jade because of that, reportedly, but Friedkin got hired anyway).
This search for work led to a decreasing amount of say Friedkin had in his own projects. By the time he got to Deal of the Century, it really felt like he was there to make sure things were in focus while Chevy Chase exerted total control over everything else. To Live and Die in L.A. feels like something of an aberration in the middle of his downfall, not because it was some huge great success either artistically or commercially (it was the former, not too much of the latter). It's something he really tried to get together, but the director of The Exorcist was only able to pull together $6 million for the production, and it might have made its money back (Hollywood accounting makes it unclear if $17 million at the box office is actually a profit or not).
So, this period is pretty much just Friedkin going from projects he cobbled together with great difficulty and quick hiring jobs he just managed the sets of. In none of them did he meet great financial success, leading to the impression that he was a has-been with his best days behind him. This actually leads me to what might be the most interesting contrast in his career: To Live and Die in L.A. and C.A.T. Squad.
Authority
So, both To Live and Die in L.A. and C.A.T. Squad were written by Gerald Petievich (only the former co-written by Friedkin which, I think, is important). They both have government agents who play by their own rules at the core, but they have vastly different outlooks on that fact. The first is a tragedy as one man becomes a monster. The second is how government agents are completely justified doing absolutely anything anywhere. The first is a feature film that Friedkin obviously worked very hard on, even going so far as to have a writing credit on it (something he had on only six of his twenty-four films), and his thematic concerns come out. The second is a made-for-TV movie with a smaller budget that Friedkin obviously just managed quickly (he also made the sequel, which is honestly a better experience).
As a small case study in how Friedkin's career played out, especially after the failure of Sorcerer, it's an interesting contrast because To Live and Die in L.A. is the film of an artist really trying to make the most of things while C.A.T. Squad is the work of a former federal agent who thinks that he's the hero and can do no wrong. It shows how the director can have all of the power on a set if he so chooses. The first feels like Friedkin working hard to take a starting point and make it his own while the former is just Friedkin using himself to help a writer he liked.
Now, I did make mention of the sequel to C.A.T. Squad, C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf, and it's okay. The first film is a boring slog where the badass central character is actually a complete screw up and monster, but the second is more of a straight-forward rescue mission that works decently well. I wouldn't call it good, but it's decent.
Theater
To Live and Die in L.A. represents some kind of turning point in his career. It feels like the last time he could pull together a relatively big production on his own terms (or as close to his own terms as one can have in that world) while he went from even smaller films that he could manage to pull together (something like the courtroom drama Rampage) to hired hands on productions that needed his name (The Guardian and Jade). It's not that his output was lesser artistically than it had been before (well, it was, he was never getting close to The Exorcist again), but the fire in him seemed to have gone out. He was becoming an older man, increasingly divorced from the passion that drove him to seek out Harold Pinter to make an adaptation of his play The Birthday Party.
Out of Friedkin's twenty-four feature films (including his four made for television films), six are based on stage plays with five of those being adapted from play form to their screenplays by the original authors of the plays (I imagine he would have gotten Herman Wouk to do the adaptation for The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial in 2023, but Wouk died in 2019). He has four courtroom dramas to his name (well, one's pretty much just in a jury room). However, it combines to tell me that Friedkin not only loved theater, but he loved actors in particular. Looking up his extra-cinematic activities, he actually directed more than a dozen productions of opera on stage, too. How does that combine with stuff like Sorcerer which is almost purely cinematic?
Most of those stage adaptations end up happening in the latter part of Friedkin's career, though, and they feel like cheaper ways to make what he was interested in making. He was still somehow getting funds for the larger picture here or there like The Hunted which cost $55 million, but each big bet was a big loss (The Hunted only made $46 million at the box office). He was increasingly sidelined, and he found a way to keep doing the kinds of films he wanted to make.
The big focus of the very tail end of his career was two adaptations of plays by Tracy Letts, Bug and Killer Joe. The former has the distinction of being one of only a handful of films with an F Cinemascore (I also don't like it) while Killer Joe is this deeply black comedy that I get into. However, despite their low cost, they were still financial duds (especially the second), and it seemed like Friedkin's filmmaking career was over. He increased his time talking about his movies like Frank Capra in his later years (the best is Friedkin's interview with Nicholas Winding Refn where Friedkin just will not let Refn's ego pass). He somehow got the funding in the final year of his life to make an adaptation of the play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (with the added interesting bonus that Guillermo del Toro was the backup director on set everyday for insurance purposes). It's an accomplished, actor-focused film that sent Friedkin out on a high note, though he died shortly before the film's streaming release (as did co-star Lance Reddick).
Legacy
Out of everything mentioned, I still assume that the only films people will equate with Friedkin will be The French Connection and The Exorcist. To Live and Die in L.A. is simply not widely known enough while his other stuff like Blue Chips or Rules of Engagement or The Hunted. It makes you wonder if there is some strong authorial streak there at all, much less one to mention in great detail. Well, I do think it's there. I think it got undermined by the fact that Friedkin kept making financial bomb after financial bomb from the late 70s onward. That sidetracked his ability to command larger budgets and to exert command over a filmset (playing second fiddle to Chevy Chase, for instance).
He saw Francis Ford Coppola as his main rival, of a sort, at his height, and Coppola went through a similar crash and burn, but I see more overall command from Coppola over the different aspects of production. Friedkin's writing is questionable (To Live and Die in L.A. is the best of them, but it's unclear how much is him and how much is Petievich). His efforts at experimentation in films like Cruising are never huge successes. His strongest ability is the purely technical side of directing, managing a set and working with cinematographers to get effective and sometimes even very beautiful imagery while getting strong performances from actors.
He was really more of a classical machine director, I think. There was what some would call the auteur in him (I still hate the term, but it's useful), mostly in the running theme that came up time and time again, but ultimately he ends up feeling more like the guy who's there to shepherd the script as it is through production before handing it off to the editor. Would it have been different had Sorcerer been a financial success? If he had been able to go from victory to victory, exerting more control over his films as he got older? Impossible to say, but as his career continued downward, it really did feel like his films were going to be good or bad based purely on the scripts, like he was disengaging to a degree and just managing sets.
The ultimate question, though, is this: Is his career worth discovering beyond the most well known films? I think there are gems. Killer Joe for those who can find humor in the worst of humanity. Rule of Engagement for those looking for a solid legal/military courtroom drama. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial for a very good final go from a director who's best years were well behind him. Sorcerer for one of the great, depressing, nihilistic thrillers of the 70s. But, that being said, his career is shockingly uneven. I haven't seen a filmography this uneven since John McTiernan released Rollerball.
Still, he was pretty good.
Movies of Today
Opening in Theaters:
Despicable Me 4
MaXXXine
Movies I Saw This Fortnight:
The Guardian (Rating 2.5/4) Full Review "There's not enough story without that mystery to justify the runtime, and it's mostly just a well-filmed and kind of boring film. With the final five minutes, though, it's all of that but ends with a real bang." [Library]
Blue Chips (Rating 3/4) Full Review "However, it's the best movie Friedkin had made in years, the first since To Lie and Die in L.A. that feels fully his (though Rampage is honestly kind of close), and anchored by a wonderful central performance from Nolte." [Personal Collection]
Jade (Rating 1/4) Full Review "At least Friedkin knew how to frame a shot through it all, though. It's nice that the nonsense was in focus and well-composed as it played out." [The Criterion Channel]
Rules of Engagement (Rating 3/4) Full Review "Friedkin had what could have been one of his best films of his career, but he (or his producers, I dunno) gave into the demands to make things cleaner in a story about messiness." [Library]
The Hunted (Rating 2/4) Full Review "I don't think I've wanted to rewrite a movie more." [Library]
Bug (Rating 1/4) Full Review "It's ugly, comes to pretty much no point (paranoid delusions are bad, I guess), and doesn't actually feel like it uses the tools of cinema to drive its point home." [Library]
Killer Joe (Rating 3/4) Full Review "This movie is trash. It's about stupid, terrible people being awful, plotting murder, doing it badly, inviting the devil into their home, and then paying the consequences when everything goes pear-shaped. It's also deeply, darkly humorous in a way that connects with my own sense of humor." [Library]
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "It's an accomplished, late-stage movie from a filmmaker who understood filmmaking after decades of practicing it, using his final go as a celebration of actors, a look into how pursuing something can change the pursuer, and the murky space of morality in the face of extreme duress." [Paramount+]
Contact
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I've also archived all the old posts here, by request. I'll add new posts a week after they originally post at the HQ.
My next post will be on 7/27, and it will talk about the films directed by Preston Sturges.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 07:47 PM (ANzws)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 06, 2024 07:49 PM (bJGD1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 06, 2024 07:49 PM (bJGD1)
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Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 07:53 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 06, 2024 07:53 PM (bJGD1)
Really impressed with it.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 07:54 PM (Ka3bZ)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:56 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 07:57 PM (8sMut)
Next is GUARDIAN OF PIRI!!!
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 07:58 PM (8sMut)
Basically...he's a professional director. Which means he runs the show, works with the actors (quite well) but he's not a creative visionary. He stumbled into greatness with the French Connection and then hit the big time with The Exorcist...which was really more a result of the writing. (So William Peter Blatty gets most of the credit for the stuff that stuck with you. Seriously, check out Exorcist 3, the one he directed. It's solid)
He does have some ideas but they're murky and subtle and I think TJM is accurate in saying it's about the exploration and pursuit of an object or person changing a person...but I don't feel that's much to hang onto a director.
The guy knew his business and 'went along to get along' doing a lot of work that I can't see being part of any vision. He wasn't Tarantino or Scorsese, but he was solid. He made movies well, though not always good movies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 06, 2024 07:59 PM (xcxpd)
I had forgotten about that Friedkin worked on his own version for his final project.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 08:00 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 08:00 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 08:01 PM (8sMut)
The second-best is in French Connection.
Compared to those, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, James Bond etc. are all low-risk, low-reward. Friedkin shot those scenes last for a reason.
Posted by: Tom Perry at July 06, 2024 08:02 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 06, 2024 07:59 PM (xcxpd)
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He saw his main competitor, so to speak, as Copolla. I think he at least originally saw himself as an auteur (I hate that word), but his string of failures made him into a machine guy.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:03 PM (Dz4+H)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 08:03 PM (8sMut)
Woman has dramatic event that causes her to stop aging at 37, lives another 70 years in what turns out to be a pretty lonely life. But, happy ending is in the offing.
I really enjoyed it, though the premise was very silly, mostly because Blake Lively is very beautiful and a decent actress. She's been in some interesting films, another which I would recommend being called: "The Rhythm Section."
Posted by: Sharkman at July 06, 2024 08:03 PM (/RHNq)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 08:04 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 08:00 PM (oaGWv)
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He did a long interview with Fritz Lang in the 70s. That's worth finding on YouTube. He was a good interviewer.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:04 PM (Dz4+H)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 08:05 PM (Ka3bZ)
I'd guess that was sometime in the seventies.
Chicago at that time was a cultural leader.
There was Bozo, SCTV and Steve Dahl on AM radio.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 08:07 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:07 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 06, 2024 08:07 PM (9XWKq)
You have to give massive respect to that kind of integrity and sheer willpower to direct well into your 80's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 08:07 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:08 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:08 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:09 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:03 PM (Dz4+H)
Well him hitting the big time around the same time as Coppola, that makes sense. But Coppola could write and he did have an authorial voice, even if I think John Millius carried him for Apocalypse Now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 06, 2024 08:09 PM (xcxpd)
I'm about to put on The Devil And Daniel Webster but I just got back from dinner and I'm...digesting.
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 08:09 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: TJM's phone
He talked about that Lang interview during the TCM show I watched. Parts of it were shown.
Friedkin was also a good interviewee. Very easy going and chatty.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 08:09 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 08:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 06, 2024 08:07 PM (9XWKq)
He's wrong about some movies but he has a lot of thoughts about them on his website. Check it out!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 06, 2024 08:10 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:11 PM (gKWVE)
Well him hitting the big time around the same time as Coppola, that makes sense. But Coppola could write and he did have an authorial voice, even if I think John Millius carried him for Apocalypse Now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 06, 2024 08:09 PM (xcxpd)
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The guy who originated, "It's about family," was Copolla. Almost all of his films are about family. Even, apparently, Megalopolis, which I am very eager to see.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:11 PM (Dz4+H)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:08 PM (/7KEl)
No. But I have read the book. I have it in a place of prominence along with The Winds of War and War and Remembrance (both made into miniseries that became one of Those Moments to which I referred to earlier).
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 08:12 PM (8sMut)
The opening ten minute sequence in Iraq is ten of the best minutes ever put on film.
The whole movie is excellent.
If you watch the interview with Friedkin and Blatty on the divvy-dee it's obvious that they don't like each other much.
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 08:12 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 06, 2024 08:10 PM (xcxpd)
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Mostly, he's an asshole, though.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:12 PM (Dz4+H)
Is it weird that Ben Affleck has directed as many great films as Friedkin?
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:13 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 08:12 PM (1Yy3c)
They gave each other shit a lot but I felt they had a lot of respect for each other under all the disagreements.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 06, 2024 08:13 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 08:13 PM (8sMut)
Only because he was in New York did he become a bigger star.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 08:14 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:13 PM (SHMXB)
Scary...but possibly true
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 06, 2024 08:14 PM (xcxpd)
Even if it's not the main point of the movie it gives a fairly honest assessment of the scumbaggery involved in the Middle East.
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 08:15 PM (1Yy3c)
Is it weird that Ben Affleck has directed as many great films as Friedkin?
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:13 PM (SHMXB)
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Affleck is pretty good at filmmaking, for sure. I don't think he's made anything as good as The Exorcist, Sorcerer, or To Live and Die in L.A., though.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:15 PM (Dz4+H)
Friedkin was not "P.C." as it was called then.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:15 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 08:16 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 08:16 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:17 PM (SHMXB)
David Lynch's films are unmistakable, and David Fincher has a recognizable style as well. Coppola certainly in his big films. And early Ridley Scott. You can start watching in the middle of their films and recognize the voice.
Friedkin? I haven't seen enough of his work to make that judgement.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 08:17 PM (CHHv1)
Watched Godzilla: Final Wars today. That movie is batshit insane. Shit keeps happening at a kind of crazy pace while most of the human action scenes are shameless knockoffs from other movies.
Godzilla plays soccer with Anguirus.
I think the editor was doing massive amounts of cocaine.
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 08:18 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 08:16 PM (rii+a)
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Kino released To Live on 4k last year.
Apparently, their experience working with Friedkin was so bad that they dropped Bug from their release schedule, but then he died and they tried to get the license back. I think they failed.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:18 PM (Dz4+H)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:19 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:20 PM (gKWVE)
I saw it as a kid just because of the novelty of seeing a big name basketball player star in a movie. I don't even like basketball, not then and not now.
I remember fuck all about it except maybe something involving point shaving?
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 08:21 PM (1Yy3c)
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Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 08:22 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: polynikes
Poor Ben. Now all he's known for his his marriage to JLo.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 08:22 PM (oaGWv)
I ordered a bunch of W.C. Fields films and the 4K Reptilicus.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 08:23 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:23 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 08:23 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:23 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 06, 2024 08:23 PM (9XWKq)
I think the editor was doing massive amounts of cocaine.
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 08:18 PM (1Yy3c)
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In"Godzilla vs the Smog Monster", I think it was LSD.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 06, 2024 08:24 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 08:22 PM (+K+vL)
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Caruso gets a lot of shit for that, but I think he's okay. He's not terrible in it. He's fine. Passable.
The embarrassingly bad performance is by Linda Fiorentino. She's hilariously terrible.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:24 PM (Dz4+H)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 08:25 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:23 PM (SHMXB)
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The last time I watched it, I said to myself, "This needs a longer cut."
But I never wrote anything about it because I had consciously chosen to watch the theatrical cut rather than the Director's cut.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:26 PM (Dz4+H)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:26 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 08:26 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:26 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:26 PM (fwDg9)
If memory serves, at one point Friedkin and Harlan Ellison had discussed a possible film of Ellison's "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs." And there was presumably discussion of Friedkin filming Robert Silverberg's novel The Book of Skulls. I would have been the first kid on my block in line at the box office cash in hand to see those.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 06, 2024 08:27 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:27 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 08:28 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 08:10 PM
When my goddaughters were little and use the line:
"Pretty pleeeease...."
I loved responding with:
"The physical appearance of the please makes no difference...it is still no."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 06, 2024 08:28 PM (bJGD1)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:28 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:29 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 08:25 PM (rii+a)
His remake of Kiss of Death in the.Victor Mature role was pretty good . But in general I agree with you.
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:29 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 08:30 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 08:25 PM (rii+a)
He was fine on the small screen.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 08:30 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:28 PM (gKWVE)
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Smith got his start with Weinstein.
Weinstein's cue for women who wouldn't tolerate his advances was "difficult to work with".
Any actress labeled that way probably turned him down. Smith would not surprise me as being like Weinstein.
Lots of supposition, but I'd be surprised if I was far off.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:30 PM (Dz4+H)
Uh, once more with feeling...
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Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 08:23 PM (CHHv1)
I'm narrowing down an order for Criterion.
I'm thinking Scanners, for sure, The Blob, possibly and one more. Out not The Blob something else. Something horror-y.
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 08:31 PM (1Yy3c)
I had forgotten about that Friedkin worked on his own version for his final project.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 08:00 PM (8sMut)
++++
It's a classic. Bogie has the lead and Fred MacMurray plays a real weasel.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 06, 2024 08:32 PM (klJTj)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 08:23 PM (2NHgQ)
Zendaya, the master of RBF.
Guardian of Piri is on now. : o )
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 08:32 PM (8sMut)
I'm narrowing down an order for Criterion.
I'm thinking Scanners, for sure, The Blob, possibly and one more. Out not The Blob something else. Something horror-y.
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 08:31 PM (1Yy3c)
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I'm keeping myself to just the Criterion flash sales on their site.
Rack up the points. Effectively 10% cash back.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:32 PM (Dz4+H)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 08:32 PM (XV/Pl)
I don't know if Smith was ever That Guy. We're hearing this about Gaiman now, though.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:33 PM (gKWVE)
If you're thinking something horror from Criterion, give Eyes Without a Face a look. If you're thinking 50s type monster movie a la The Blob, check out First Man into Space. Nice stuff.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 06, 2024 08:33 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:33 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:34 PM (/7KEl)
I don't know if Smith was ever That Guy. We're hearing this about Gaiman now, though.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:33 PM (gKWVE)
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Yeah, Dogma's current state is weird. Out of print for over a decade.
Some people would rather make no money than only some money. The producer of Dawn of the Dead is like that, too.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:35 PM (Dz4+H)
On that note, highly recommend both of Carolla's self produced movies, The Hammer and Road Hard.
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:36 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
CSI: Miami too.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 08:36 PM (oaGWv)
https://tinyurl.com/4nkjmtcm
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 06, 2024 08:36 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:33 PM (SHMXB)
Lol.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 08:36 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: Texicanette at July 06, 2024 08:36 PM (SNf74)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:37 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 08:38 PM (aYD2Z)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 06, 2024 08:38 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 08:38 PM (aYD2Z)
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If you haven't yet, do check out the original version, Wages of Fear, by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
It might be even better.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:39 PM (Dz4+H)
Do you pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?
-Popeye Doyle in The French Connection
French Connection chase scene rivals Bullet IMHO...
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at July 06, 2024 08:41 PM (o3Uyl)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 08:42 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:44 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 06, 2024 08:33 PM (q3u5l)
Eyes Without A Face is excellent.
Ima look that other one up.
Anywho...
Off to watch Devil And Daniel Webster.
Yall take care now, y'hear?!?
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 08:44 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 08:42 PM (CHHv1)
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I'm very mixed on him. Hated The Brood. Kind of love Videodrome.
I did recently get eXistenZ, the 4K from Vinegar Syndrome. Probably my favorite of his work.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:44 PM (Dz4+H)
He has a son.
His son's work is even MORE messed up.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:44 PM (gKWVE)
Holy crap, they predicted Summer 2024!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 08:44 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Skip
It was the strawberries, wasn't it?
Posted by: Philip Queeg at July 06, 2024 08:44 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Carl at July 06, 2024 08:45 PM (IQ6Gq)
Hope everyone has a great evening
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:46 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 06, 2024 08:46 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:47 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at July 06, 2024 08:47 PM (GPtBB)
Big chase scenes in movies are more often than not a bunch of hot garbage.
A waste of time usually.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 08:47 PM (+K+vL)
I caught Spirit of St. Louis with Jimmy Stewart today on TCM. Fun.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 06, 2024 08:48 PM (CWMF2)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it!
I think it was all filmed in "one take", and the borough of Brooklyn did not actually give them permission to do it. Or maybe I am thinking of another chase scene in that area?
I have actually driven on those streets, under the elevated train (I do not live in or near New York City); it is actually pretty wild place to do a car chase.
Posted by: "Popeye" Doyle at July 06, 2024 08:48 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:46 PM (fwDg9)
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Taking MiL out to dinner so...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:49 PM (RIvkX)
Videodrome is possibly his best...although he made it about two decades too early to predict people's addition to screens.
I watched Scanners recently. It struck me that, right after the most famous scene, there's a wide shot of the stage and no evidence of any body at all.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 08:49 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at July 06, 2024 08:50 PM (o3Uyl)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 06, 2024 08:48 PM (CWMF2)
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Thank you!
That film is the last Billy Wilder film that Billy Wilder ever made. Pretty good, though.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:50 PM (Dz4+H)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 06, 2024 08:51 PM (PXvVL)
I have actually driven on those streets, under the elevated train (I do not live in or near New York City); it is actually pretty wild place to do a car chase.
Posted by: "Popeye" Doyle at July 06, 2024 08:48 PM (tjZg/)
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It couldn't be one take. Too much back and forth for that.
But it was without permission. Extremely dangerous.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:51 PM (Dz4+H)
Which really takes you out of the enjoyment of the film a bit.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 08:51 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:51 PM (RIvkX)
Which really takes you out of the enjoyment of the film a bit.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 08:51 PM (XV/Pl)
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I find it a fairly generic procedural and time capsule. It's pretty good. Overrated, though.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:52 PM (Dz4+H)
I have actually driven on those streets, under the elevated train (I do not live in or near New York City); it is actually pretty wild place to do a car chase.
Posted by: "Popeye" Doyle at July 06, 2024 08:48 PM (tjZg/)
Yeah Popeye under the El is where it took place.. That was a hell of a chase with or without permission.
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at July 06, 2024 08:53 PM (o3Uyl)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)
Takes place during the Gulf War. So, modern Navy.
At least that's what I gathered from the comments on IMDB.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 08:53 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:51 PM (RIvkX)
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Do you think that's because you know SF so well as a resident?
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:53 PM (Dz4+H)
Big chase scenes in movies are more often than not a bunch of hot garbage.
A waste of time usually.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 08:47 PM (+K+vL)
Yes. Chaotic, overdone, and generally too damn long.
Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at July 06, 2024 08:54 PM (GPtBB)
Which really takes you out of the enjoyment of the film a bit.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 08:51 PM (XV/Pl)
- Rudy Guliani has entered the chat.
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at July 06, 2024 08:55 PM (o3Uyl)
>>I find it a fairly generic procedural and time capsule. It's pretty good. Overrated, though.
The Seven-Ups is better.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 08:55 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 08:55 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: Jake and Elwood Blues at July 06, 2024 08:55 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at July 06, 2024 08:50 PM (o3Uyl)
I tend to take Serpico a little less serious now since I learned that Frank Serpico is a big time Lefty.
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:55 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:26 PM (fwDg9)
I'll have to see the movie, then. The book did not stick with me in the way that Winds of War did, but I thought it was very good. Strangely disjoint, though, it was like reading a murder mystery where the last chapter was all about how the murderer was not actually such a bad guy and was probably better than you, the reader.
Posted by: Splunge at July 06, 2024 08:55 PM (hmKaK)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 08:56 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
CSI: Miami too.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 08:36 PM (oaGWv)
NYPD Blue Viewer Discretion Advised
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 08:56 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:53 PM (Dz4+H)
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Oh yeah, we all talk about it all the time. Ruins the whole chase because the cuts are really jolting from very different parts of the city.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:57 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 06, 2024 08:57 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:57 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Splunge at July 06, 2024 08:58 PM (hmKaK)
Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at July 06, 2024 08:58 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: Jake and Elwood Blues at July 06, 2024 08:55 PM (IQ6Gq)
Goldeneye. The chase through St. Petersburg with Bond in the tank.
I want a chick to look at me the way Nataliya looks at Bond.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 08:58 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 06, 2024 08:57 PM (q3u
Yes that's pretty good . I liked Eastern Promises better though.
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:59 PM (SHMXB)
Oh yeah, we all talk about it all the time. Ruins the whole chase because the cuts are really jolting from very different parts of the city.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:57 PM (RIvkX)
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The best movie fan is someone who lives in a country with no interesting history in a job no one cares out. His expertise will never be challenged by a director saying, "I know these two parts of the city aren't next to each other, but the action scene will be so much cooler if we make them so in the edit."
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 08:59 PM (Dz4+H)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 06, 2024 09:00 PM (PXvVL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:00 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Computer at July 06, 2024 09:01 PM (8sMut)
Which really takes you out of the enjoyment of the film a bit.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 08:51 PM (XV/Pl)
- Rudy Guliani has entered the chat.
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at July 06, 2024 08:55 PM (o3Uyl
Dated? DATED? So, things used to be different? Not up to TODAY’S standards? You can’t change history. It was the way it happened. Some of us remember, we will always rrmember.
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 09:01 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 06, 2024 09:01 PM (PXvVL)
I tend to take Serpico a little less serious now since I learned that Frank Serpico is a big time Lefty.
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 08:55 PM (SHMXB)
who da think?
and the ceasation of the 'Stop and Frisk' law was a factor in the rise in crime in the 90's NOW?!? Forgedaboutit?
It was hard to fathom that the NYC slimehole covered in graffiti could ever become a nice town again. Thanks to Gulianni and Trump among others it came to pass.
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at July 06, 2024 09:03 PM (o3Uyl)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 06, 2024 09:03 PM (PXvVL)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 06, 2024 09:03 PM (q3u5l)
They would end it the first 20 to 30 seconds.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 08:55 PM (+K+vL)
You're still here?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:04 PM (8sMut)
It seems for a time some where putting him up as a lead man.
Though he never really should have been one.
So it seems like an exanemple of Hollywood miscasting.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 09:05 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 06, 2024 09:05 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 06, 2024 09:06 PM (PXvVL)
Posted by: Servant of The Guardian at July 06, 2024 09:07 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at July 06, 2024 09:07 PM (o3Uyl)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 09:07 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: morigu at July 06, 2024 09:07 PM (lKLrB)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 06, 2024 09:08 PM (PXvVL)
Far From Men is one of his not well known movies that I would highly recommend.
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 09:08 PM (SHMXB)
"Not even to have to worry about the problems of day to day subsistence. I used to dream about this..." - Dr. Helena Russell
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:10 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 06, 2024 09:11 PM (PXvVL)
Posted by: morigu at July 06, 2024 09:07 PM (lKLrB)
That's pretty good. Most theaters on base in Germany were behind the times in those days.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:11 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 09:12 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it!
Did LeMans (Steve McQueen) have dash cam footage? I'm pretty sure it did. I'd have to look up when it came out. Probably about the same time TFC did.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 09:14 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: morigu at July 06, 2024 09:15 PM (lKLrB)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at July 06, 2024 09:15 PM (o3Uyl)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 06, 2024 09:16 PM (oZhjI)
Big chase scenes in movies are more often than not a bunch of hot garbage.
A waste of time usually.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 08:47 PM (+K+vL)
Yes. Chaotic, overdone, and generally too damn long.
Agreed, except for Friedkin's chase scenes, especially the one in To Live and Die.
Huge, wide, continuous action shots. No trick editing. No CGI. That's a real fucking train. That's a real fucking drainage ditch.
And that's a real fucking plot twist. Bang, right in the middle, the world turns inside out and you can't figure out who's chasing whom.
To Live and Die isn't the best movie ever made, but there is nothing else like it. Friedkin scared everybody to death, including the producers.
Posted by: Tom Perry at July 06, 2024 09:17 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 06, 2024 09:18 PM (CWMF2)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 06, 2024 09:18 PM (CWMF2)
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I thought he was quite good. Weird accent, but he did the role well.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 09:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:04 PM (8sMut)
Montec lives!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 09:23 PM (rU4Z2)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 06, 2024 09:24 PM (CWMF2)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 09:24 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: Tom Perry at July 06, 2024 09:17 PM (MX0bI)
Ok, I'm in. Watch it this weekend. Thanks.
Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at July 06, 2024 09:25 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 09:25 PM (rU4Z2)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 06, 2024 09:24 PM (CWMF2)
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Clarke is very good. He probably should stay in the theater. He feels like a real actor. He provides a really good anchor to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 09:25 PM (GBKbO)
And the end is arguably one of cinema's greatest chase scenes, for reasons that are unique to the film and the narrative. I can't say much more than that, because it's a spoiler and something that needs to be viewed in context with the film as a whole.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 06, 2024 09:25 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 09:24 PM (+K+vL
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I don't think that's wrong, but he's in a very confined space cinematically.
It feels like he went as far as Friedkin would let him go.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 09:27 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 09:28 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 09:25 PM (rU4Z2)
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They do set shots up. Cinematographers may move the camera two inches to the left to make it theirs, but directors do have a lot of say in where cameras go and what they see no matter what.
Some, very few, do end up working as their own cameraman from time to time.
Not that Friedkin followed rules.
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 09:29 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 09:30 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: TJM's phone at July 06, 2024 09:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 09:31 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 09:32 PM (rU4Z2)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 06, 2024 09:33 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 06, 2024 09:34 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 09:36 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 06, 2024 09:36 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 09:37 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 09:38 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: Zombie Alfred Hitchcock at July 06, 2024 09:43 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2024 08:20 PM (gKWVE)
***
Doesn't that describe most of the programming on the Lifetime channel?
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 09:47 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 09:55 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 09:58 PM (/7KEl)
Happy Days star Henry Winkler left furious after being charged £130 for rickshaw ride in London
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Also a good headline for First World Problems.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 09:58 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 09:59 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 06, 2024 09:59 PM (q3u5l)
'Happy Days star Henry Winkler left furious after being charged £130 for rickshaw ride in London'
Not cool.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 06, 2024 10:00 PM (3wi/L)
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Also a good headline for First World Problems.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 09:58 PM (L/fGl)
A hunnert thirty pounds? That's indeFonzable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 10:00 PM (rU4Z2)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 10:00 PM (/7KEl)
For me this is exactly the case. I think my not seeing his other works is they never penetrated the noise to see ever newer things and that not enough time had passed for the noise to die down enough to get that there were other things.
But those three, oh my, were dripping with a post 1960s kumbaya nihilism that arose from the race riots, Vietnam, LBJ, and Nixon coming. My mind was primed to trust nothing and believe in nothing.
A few memories and impressions.
The Exorcist filled this void with an absolute terror the caused electric bills to rise from keeping the lights on. While the French Connection embodied a frantic but hopeless shot a stopping an increasing chaos of illegal drugs, the elixir of the 60s, finally destroying everything. While To Live and Die, was a last gasp and death of heroes that never sold themselves out; God Save the Queen meets Holiday in Cambodia so to speak.
Much has not changed over the decades. Much has become more cynical. Exactly, it seems, as predicated by Friedkin.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 06, 2024 10:01 PM (RUmyk)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 10:03 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:51 PM (RIvkX)
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The chase scene in the Seven-Ups was entirely filmed on a 2-block strip of West 96th Street in NY and then various clips from different angles all stitched together. Grew up there, so got to see some of the filming. A bunch of us went to see the movie and had a good laugh.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 06, 2024 10:03 PM (3ImbR)
I dropped 75 quid on a cab ride from my hotel to LGW.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 10:09 PM (8sMut)
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Also a good headline for First World Problems.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 09:58 PM (L/fGl)
A hunnert thirty pounds? That's indeFonzable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 10:00 PM (rU4Z2)
Fonz only weights 130 pounds? Should get a discount.
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 10:09 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: San Fransycho
Bullitt had a Mustang. Done. Boom. Plus Steve McQueen. Hackman is not McQueen and that matters.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 06, 2024 10:10 PM (RUmyk)
I dropped 75 quid on a cab ride from my hotel to LGW.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
The UK is pricey.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 10:10 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 06, 2024 10:11 PM (kpS4V)
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Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 10:15 PM (+K+vL)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 10:15 PM (VfE50)
Posted by: Jmel at July 06, 2024 10:15 PM (bVhJi)
The UK is pricey.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 10:10 PM (rii+a)
Especially London.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 10:17 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:18 PM (5zRhj)
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)
I always thought the best part of the movie was the speech Jose Ferrer gave at the end. It does give a sense of perspective to Queeg.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2024 10:32 PM (r5tfK)
Posted by: Nemo at July 07, 2024 11:01 AM (S6ArX)
Hobby Thread - July 6, 2024 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Do not adjust your interweb. This is an unapologetic Independence Day edition of the hobby thread. (Yes, we say "Independence Day" in this house - not just "July 4th.") Accordingly, a spin of the Ace of Spades wheel of hobbies has come up with a flag-waving theme.
The stars and stripes aren't a hobby per se, but we can make a hobby theme to celebrate Independence Day. Historians? Plenty of history has followed the flag in all of its forms. After all, it has waved in transit across the Delaware, above Fort McHenry and atop Mount Suribachi. Sewers and seamstresses? After all, Elizabeth Griscomare took a rough design idea and provided guidance to refine it further. You may know her more commonly as Betsy Ross. Mary Young Pickersgill made two large flags by hand for Fort McHenry. Photographers? One of the most famous photos ever taken showed a flag being hoisted at Iwo Jima. Genealogists? The flag has been draped over coffins and carefully folded and presented to descendants as a symbol of appreciation for honorable and faithful service. Musicians? The national anthem is a difficult song to sing and often requires performing live on a high profile stage in coordination with others. Military aviation? Oh yeah. Weather chasers? Florida man has you covered.
Do you have a special place to display the stars and stripes at your home? Do you have a favorite flag story? Do you have a flag that is important to your family? Have you made your own - in any medium? Have you visited noteworthy places where the flag flies? What traditions do you have for Independence Day? Do you have memories of parades and picnics and fireworks? How do you teach youngsters about Independence Day? Do you remember how you learned? Do you remember being taken to relevant sites? Did you take your children?
The horde is international, trans-oceanic, and potentially multi-planetary. If the American Independence Day and the American flag are not part of your tradition, please indulge us. Normal programming will resume next week.
Respect for flag: No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
(b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
(c) The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speakers desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
(e) The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.
(f) The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.
(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
(h) The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.
(i) The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.
(j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the heart.
(k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
4 U.S.C. 8.
Peace the Old Fashioned Way. Lockheed F-117 - tail number 782 is the oldest of five Nighthawk prototypes. This shot comes from the 2005 Edwards Air Force Base Open House and Air Show. The video link shows the 782 and three others making their final flight to Plant 42 for retirement (at least we thought it was permanent retirement at the time):
The American flag from the famous flag raising photo taken by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal at the top of Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima currently lives in the United States Marine Corps museum in Virginia, near Quantico. The fighting on Iwo Jima was fierce and lasted 36 days. The Marines made it to the top of Mount Suribachi and raised a flag on February 23, 1945. It could be seen by Marines fighting below and the sailors offshore. Ships blew their horns when they saw the flag and sailors and Marines and sailors cheered. Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Lowery of Leatherneck Magazine was there and took several photos to capture the scene, but everyone ran for cover when the flag attracted gunfire from Japanese soldiers.
The Secretary of the Navy watched from offshore and requested the flag as a souvenir. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Chandler Johnson got the order and decided to replace the flag with a larger flag but keep the original for the Marines. A group of Marines climbed the mountain, took down the first one, raised the second one and Rosenthal got the iconic photo.
The first flag only flew for a few hours, so it wasn't weathered. The second flag shows more signs of wear and is shown in the photo above. Both are in the Marine Corps Museum, but only the second is on permanent display. Lowery's photos weren't published until after the war.The movie "Flags of our Fathers" tells the story.
Another first flag/second flag story surrounds Fort McHenry and the origin story of the US national anthem. Francis Scott Key had approached the British navy on a mission of mercy to negotiate the release of the elderly Dr. William Beanes, a civilian non-combatant who had been taken prisoner by the British. The doctor was released and both returned to Key's boat, but the boat was tethered to a British ship and placed under guard to prevent them from disclosing British military information for the coming attack.
Key and others watched the 25 hour bombardment from the harbor. When morning came and the smoke lifted, he saw a waving American flag still above the fort. The British waited two days to release him which provided time to write a few lyrics.
The flag that waved during the bombardment is lost to history. A new flag was raised in the morning - the one Key saw. The second flag is the star spangled banner that is on display at the Smithsonian Museum of American History. The story of the flag's conservation is worth a look for anyone interested in history or textiles. The Smithsonian completed its conservation project in 2006.The national anthem is better with the Blue Angels:
This is a hobby thread, so we should do some building and crafting:
Flordia Man!
Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
Did you miss last week's hobby thread with an national parks? The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content. Thanks to Diogenes for this tip:
This kind of thing warrants a field trip, so off we went:
If the flag is not your thing and you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, you may be beyond redemption. In any case, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different hobby next time around. Send thoughts or suggestions to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Team America has endorsed this thread content. No refunds. Thanks for being here.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:31 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:35 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:36 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Ig at July 06, 2024 05:38 PM (I0XD1)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 05:40 PM (aiCOr)
I liked the artwork of some years ago with Ronald Reagan aboard a dinosaur, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 05:42 PM (omVj0)
I'd been looking at some estate (aka used) pipes on another site, but they were all so . . . good-looking. I couldn't imagine bringing a match or lighter near such nicely finished and polished wood, any more than you'd want to wave a Bowie knife close to an antique desk. The rugged sandblast on the Dublin says "I'm off to Antarctica, and I want a pipe that'll handle the trip!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 05:48 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 05:51 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 06, 2024 05:52 PM (oj7h2)
http://13colonies.us/
Posted by: Bert G at July 06, 2024 05:53 PM (VARTN)
The Republic dying and nobody doing anything about it (including me, Mea Culpa) did that to me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 06, 2024 05:53 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 05:55 PM (QZlK3)
Note that it never happened in Sub-Saharan African cultures.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 05:57 PM (aiCOr)
As for my writing hobby: Things are proceeding with the All Will Burn, Vol. 3 anthology from Raconteur Press with my story in it. The editor reminded me to go to PubShare and review/accept my participation in the project; that's how we will get paid. They had said something, too, about the actual book/e-book coming out on 7/19, and that they would send us at least one link to promotional material before then.
Once I get that I'll fire it off to Perfessor Squirrel for the Book Thread, and to everybody else I know.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 05:57 PM (omVj0)
You used my little post.
*wipes tear*
Finding that little park was a treasure. When I was working out there I visited several times. Each visit was special.
I hope to get back there this Fall and when I do, I'll go there again.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 05:58 PM (W/lyH)
Note that it never happened in Sub-Saharan African cultures.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 05:57 PM (aiCOr)
I guess I’ll just throw out my bonsai tree and origami collection.
Posted by: WTF at July 06, 2024 06:02 PM (SHMXB)
God Bless America.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 06, 2024 06:02 PM (1pfzJ)
A poser for scouts is, "How do you fly a flag at half staff?" The follow up is, "How do you lower a flag from bring flown at half staff?"
Raising: run the flag up to the top of the flagpole rapidly, then lower it slowly to half staff, then secure the halyard.
Lowering: run the flag from half staff to the top of the pole rapidly, then lower it to ground level slowly. Detach the flag from the halyard, fold it, and secure the halyard.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 06:04 PM (i4sOa)
Patriotism is a difficult thing for those to us who came of age in the Eighties.
That was a time we were patriotic to a fault.
Since that time we have watched as our nation was become something very different than what we knew it to be.
And its been very difficult for us to understand.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 06:05 PM (aiCOr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 05:57 PM (omVj0)
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Congrats!! Keep us posted.
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 06:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 05:51 PM (63Dwl)
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Brass? The Peruvian National Anthem was composed for vuvuzelas and slide whistles.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 06:07 PM (zhMsg)
It's good to remember why our forefathers took the giant risk they did.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024 06:08 PM (+oRno)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 06:08 PM (Q4IgG)
I guess I’ll just throw out my bonsai tree and origami collection.
Posted by: WTF
Yeah, troll gotta troll.
Someone has to pay them more so we get a better quality troll. They are so predictable it's sad.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 06:09 PM (z/7Ah)
I have other such flags I have accumulated on deployments that I am likewise phasing into shadowboxes.
For the occasion of my retirement I had a TX state flag flown at the State Capitol that I have had placed in a shadowbox.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:09 PM (8sMut)
Then I replaced the AC compressor and dryer on Mrs fd's 240SX. Tomorrow I'll evacuate, check for leaks, and charge.
Then I can get back on my problem child.
Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 06:09 PM (vFG9F)
Note that it never happened in Sub-Saharan African cultures.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 05:57 PM (aiCOr)
What about us?
Posted by: Asian cultures and societies at July 06, 2024 06:10 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:12 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 06:13 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 06:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
The next day, I hiked to Clarity Tunnel on the Caprock Canyons Trailway. To do so I had to hike from the edge of the plains to the Caprock (and eventually stood on the Caprock). The previous weeks saw hikes through Caprock Canyons State Park (nearby) and Palo Duro Canyon. I'm looking at getting my bike repaired so I can enter the parks with it as well.
I am reconstituting one of three Camelbaks as we speak so it can be mission ready. All three of the Camelbaks have 100 oz reservoirs.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:15 PM (8sMut)
The asian examples cited are more disciplines than than hobbies.
As for Sub-Saharan Africa? Really?
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 06:15 PM (aiCOr)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:16 PM (u+PLX)
That is how we deal with hurricanes. With a middle finger firmly raised.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 06:16 PM (5p7BC)
Troll, be gone!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024 06:17 PM (+oRno)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024 06:08 PM (+oRno)
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Thanks for posting. Love this. Different but similar - we understand some places in Normandy gather on the anniversary of D-Day to tell the story for the children in the town.
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 06:17 PM (IQ6Gq)
A poser for scouts is, "How do you fly a flag at half staff?" The follow up is, "How do you lower a flag from bring flown at half staff?"
Raising: run the flag up to the top of the flagpole rapidly, then lower it slowly to half staff, then secure the halyard.
Lowering: run the flag from half staff to the top of the pole rapidly, then lower it to ground level slowly. Detach the flag from the halyard, fold it, and secure the halyard.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 06:04 PM (i4sOa)
Indeed, before I joined the AF, flag etiquette was ingrained in me by the Boy Scouts (RIP).
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:17 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:17 PM (fwDg9)
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Washington acquired extensive lands in present West Virginia, on the Ohio River, Kanawha River, and elsewhere. In 1770, he traveled down the Ohio to view these lands and seek others.
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I be here, there, whatever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 06:18 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:15 PM
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Palo Duro got several mentions in the thread last week. Never been but the photos look impressive.
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 06:20 PM (IQ6Gq)
Troll, be gone!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024 06:17 PM (+oRno)
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Things must be quiet at Stormfront this afternoon.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 06:20 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024
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It's the second story I've had accepted for an anthology through my time here. The editor of the first one in 2019 (I've forgotten his AoS screen name) posted on the Book Thread about his new project, and I sent him three stories. He liked one of them: "Dead in First Grade." It's in The Wand That Rocks the Cradle: Magical Stories of Family, available on Amazon.
When I pick up my copy and look at the story, I'm amazed all over again that I wrote it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:20 PM (omVj0)
It begins at Washington State University in the Spring of 1975. My senior year and I was graduating. I had been working as a general helper for the head custodian at the library which sits on top of the highest hill that is WSU. He was a disabled veteran from the 101st who had jumped into Normandy and Holland and was wounded at Bastogne. Still had shrapnel in his knee. He knew I was getting commissioned into the Army and would be going to Airborne training as part of my initial schooling.
My last day of work, he said no work today and he gave me two boxes to carry. We headed up some back steps of the library to the roof. There we replaced the US flag and the State flag with new ones from the boxes. When we returned to his office, he presented them to me as a gift from one soldier to another. I was just blown away.
Continued…
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 06:20 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:21 PM (u+PLX)
I carried those flags with me throughout my career and on all deployments (Cold War assignments, Desert Shield/Storm, Somalia and Korea when we had the dust up on the nuke site). When I retired, my daughter carried on in her 6 year stint as an Army Nurse. I have them today and will pass them probably to my grandson. They are just simple flags…bits of cloth and color, but with a whole life’s worth of personal memories, and the history of America.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 06:21 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:17 PM (fwDg9)
I don't either. This Mr. Ray fellow has clearly not spent a nanosecond of his life on the northeast side of San Antonio. For starters.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:22 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024
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It is . . . and when you go, take a copy of Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne with you. It tells the story of the Comanches, who liked to use Palo Duro as their winter quarters.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:22 PM (omVj0)
Bullhockey. It's a bar tune, fer cryin' out loud. You should be able to sing it drunk. All that falderal comes from pro singers trying to make it hard to sing. You do NOT have to stretch that last note up two octaves. Just sing the dang thing.
Posted by: GWB at July 06, 2024 06:22 PM (AWrpC)
I like that tradition.
On a related note, I really hate that the national anthem has become a performance instead of a sing-a-long. We should be singing it together, not being inflicted with the latest personalization by a singer who thinks it's about them. Ugh.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024 06:23 PM (+oRno)
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 06:23 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Grateful
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That was one of the unexpected things I enjoyed (maybe not the right word when talking about graveyards) during my trip to England. We visited several graveyards and churchyards, and they look quite different from what I'm used to here. Less manicured, and I found that I preferred more wildness.
In the St Keverne churchyard, in addition to a mass grave for most of the sailors lost in the Mohegan shipwreck, there was a particularly sad section where infants, children, and teenagers were buried. But it was absolutely gorgeous, with a distant view of the ocean.
(The banister and staircase in the hostel we stayed in at Coverack was made from wood from the Mohegan wreck.)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 06:24 PM (iZbyp)
That is so cool!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024 06:25 PM (+oRno)
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 06:20 PM (IQ6Gq)
I read that thread in full and was bent that I missed it and indeed I saw the many comments on Palo Duro. Kinda cool that people see what I see in that place, and that it is only an hour's drive away.
One of the first things I did as a AF retiree was get a TPWD Parklands Passport. With this, I go to Palo Duro, the Park Rangers waive the $8 entry fee. Therefore I have been on a hiking tear lately. Also because I suspect it has been helping with my usual breathing difficulties.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:26 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024
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Or a singer who mangles it. It's not an easy song even for a talented/experienced singer, I understand. Tossing somebody who is the flavor of the month in front of the mike, whether not she can sing a note without auto-tune, is a bad idea.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:26 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 06:21 PM (W/lyH)
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Getting a little dusty over here... Thanks for posting.
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 06:26 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: GWB at July 06, 2024 06:27 PM (AWrpC)
Bullhockey. It's a bar tune, fer cryin' out loud
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It may be a bar tune but it requires the vocal range of Freddie Mercury.
I've heard more would-be divas butcher that song than any other.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 06:27 PM (zhMsg)
to be doing anything except sitting in the AC and sipping a cold drink. Posted by: PabloD at July 06, 2024 06:27 PM (ohsd/)
The flag was folded, taps was played, then a Marine knelt before my wife, handed her the flag and said in a soft voice only for her.
"On behalf of the President of the United States, the United States Marine Corps, and a grateful nation, please accept this flag as a symbol of our appreciation for your father's honorable and faithful service."
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 06:28 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:28 PM (omVj0)
On a related note, I really hate that the national anthem has become a performance instead of a sing-a-long. We should be singing it together, not being inflicted with the latest personalization by a singer who thinks it's about them. Ugh.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024 06:23 PM (+oRno)
I do like the different ways it is performed. For my first baseball game, my father took me to Busch Stadium to see his Cardinals play the Giants. They did exactly what you suggest: they had the lyrics scroll by and the crowd sang it. I have also seen the National Anthem performed on a saxophone before a Spurs playoff game and found that impressive.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:29 PM (8sMut)
What a great story, thank you for sharing it. This is a perfect example of the simple respect we used to share each other, and to our nation...
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 06:30 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:28 PM (omVj0)
Shout! Factory is back to Season 1 of Space:1999 now; in other words, the only good season. Earthbound is on now. In about 2.5/3 hours, they will show Guardian of Piri again, which I will pause all activities to see. Yet again. : o )
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:31 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:31 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 06:28 PM (5p7BC)
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Nice. Those little shoots of decency and honor give me hope that this nation is still worth saving.
FJB
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 06:32 PM (zhMsg)
The flag was folded, taps was played, then a Marine knelt before my wife, handed her the flag and said in a soft voice only for her.
"On behalf of the President of the United States, the United States Marine Corps, and a grateful nation, please accept this flag as a symbol of our appreciation for your father's honorable and faithful service."
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 06:28 PM (5p7BC)
Me, one year ago, except substitute "Marine Corps" with "Army", when my father's funeral took place and the flag was presented to my mother.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:33 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Lizzy
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Cool story, Lizzy. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 06:34 PM (41CYW)
These TZ stories are like little one-act plays. You could imagine some of them being turned into stage playscripts, and offering challenging roles for student actors in high school or college. Maybe some of them have been.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:34 PM (omVj0)
Bullhockey. It's a bar tune, fer cryin' out loud
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In other words, it requires alcohol in order to do it justice.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 06, 2024 06:34 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 06:36 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 06, 2024 06:34 PM (BpYfr)
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We'll, to be fair, the same can be said of any complex skill.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 06:37 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 06:37 PM (CHHv1)
France and Canada have better ones.
Even the Soviet Union did It better.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 06:38 PM (aiCOr)
"On behalf of the President of the United States, the United States Marine Corps, and a grateful nation, please accept this flag as a symbol of our appreciation for your father's honorable and faithful service."
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My parents aren't buried at Arlington, but we had the same experience for my Mother (Navy) and Father (Army) when they died. I have Dad's flag and my brother has Mom's.
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 06:38 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 06:39 PM (41CYW)
Quite coincidentally, we happened to be there during a funeral that warranted a four ship fly-over right above our heads which was memorable.
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 06:39 PM (IQ6Gq)
France and Canada have better ones.
Even the Soviet Union did It better.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 06:38 PM (aiCOr)
Blasphemy.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:39 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024 06:39 PM (+oRno)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 06:40 PM (z/7Ah)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 06:41 PM (ozQLF)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:26 PM (omVj0)
The best rendition I ever heard was done by the Pointer Sisters singing it a cappella before a Mariner's game years ago. By the time they finished, the stadium had grown silent and then the crowd just roared! They were fantastic!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 06:41 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 06:45 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 06, 2024 06:46 PM (/U5Yz)
The "Famous" Darth Biden, red scrim lighted building photo op/speech, utilized 2 US Flags with fringes on the them, and US Marines, in dress uniform to stand next to them in an "Uncharacteristic" non-official parade rest pose. As part of his "Prop" background.(But I guess, orders is orders)
I have a new neighbor(and now good friend) that moved in across the street from South Africa...he put up a US Flag on a pole from his garage, I noticed it was "Odd", too few stars, went and looked, only 15 stars, and it also had 15 stripes, asked him where he got it...turns out it was left in the garage of a rental house, was nearly new so he put it up. I thought it was some sort of chinese knockoff that someone got reallll wrong. But it was made in the USA...turns out it WAS an official flag, from 1795-1819. There have been 27 official USA Flags, 25 of which the numbers of stars were the only thing changed.
ANY and ALL are still "Correct to Fly".
I have an old one that used to fly at our family farm...48 stars.
Posted by: birdog at July 06, 2024 06:46 PM (+Fkyb)
Posted by: birdog at July 06, 2024 06:46 PM (+Fkyb)
A 49 star flag is a rare find.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:48 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 05:57 PM (omVj0)
I'm very much looking forward to reading your story, Wolfus!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 06, 2024 06:49 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 06:23 PM (IQ6Gq)
People just need to mind their own business. Fer cryin' out loud.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 06:49 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:49 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 06, 2024 06:49 PM (mH6SG)
ANY and ALL are still "Correct to Fly".
Posted by: birdog at July 06, 2024 06:46 PM (+Fkyb)
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Wow. What a find. A few Antiques Roadshow episodes with old flag finds didn't make the final hobby thread cut.
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 06:50 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 06:51 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 06:45 PM (o2ZRX)
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Seconded
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 06:51 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 06, 2024 06:51 PM (mH6SG)
I think sometimes people forget they are not anonymously in front of their computer in their house....or they just failed being sociable....whatever....
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 06:51 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:31 PM (8sMut)
Agreed on Season 1 being the only one worth watching.
What's your favourite episode?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 06, 2024 06:53 PM (O7YUW)
I have named her Piglet because she has expressed interest in growing up to be a Hog. I haven't yet broke the news to her that isn't going to a happen.
The link goes to a Reddit post about one of our recent adventures. With picture goodness.
https://tinyurl.com/7j5bzekn
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 06, 2024 06:54 PM (u/wgs)
Congrats on having your story published.
The Peterson Dublin series looks good and they certainly get some great reviews. Never tried any Pease blends but the write-ups about Horizon sound intriguing. Please let us know how it smokes.
Posted by: JTB at July 06, 2024 06:56 PM (zudum)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 06:56 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 06, 2024 06:54 PM (u/wgs)
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Motorcycle riders know the best roads.
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 06:57 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:58 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 06, 2024 06:58 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:31 PM (8sMut)
Agreed on Season 1 being the only one worth watching.
What's your favourite episode?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 06, 2024 06:53 PM (O7YUW)
I made reference to it: Guardian of Piri. Catherine Schell (pre-Maya) is in it (as a guest star...oh, I mean, guest artist) and she is HOT. But, that is a cherry on a sundae. For me it is very reminiscent of the lotus-eaters from The Odyssey. Also, there's this: was the Guardian evil? Or was it just computer programming that went out of control?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 06:58 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:58 PM (fwDg9)
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Congrats Skip. You get the post #100 award!
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 06:59 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 07:00 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 07:02 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 07:06 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 07:02 PM (CHHv1)
THIS IS EVERYONE'S FAVORITE!!!!!! FFS!!!!!!!
(In all seriousness, I rather like Dragon's Domain. I still chuckle over seeing Dr. Russell typing out her report on a manual typewriter a the end...anyways, I enjoy it immensely, but EVERYONE jumps on that one.)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 07:07 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:08 PM (fwDg9)
What's your favourite episode?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 06, 2024 06:53 PM (O7YUW)
WHERE ARE YOUR OWN PEOPLE? THEY DON'T EXIST DO THEY? NO BECAUSE THEY DIED, JUST AS MY PEOPLE ARE DYING RIGHT NOW!!! FROM TOTAL APATHY!!!
Posted by: Commander John Koenig at July 06, 2024 07:09 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:08 PM (fwDg9)
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Watch out for that swinging hinge on Little Round Top.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 07:11 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: JTB at July 06, 2024 07:12 PM (zudum)
Sewing is a skill, and one I never mastered - but wish I could do better...or some....
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 07:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 07:12 PM (8sMut)
One task for the summer is to gain access to the flagpole surrounded by forsythias, and fly a new Jack.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 07:13 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
My wife currents honors her Dad's flag in our home. She and her two brothers each keep it for a year and then it moves on to the next sib. We will be passing it to brother Mark in a few weeks when we get together in Kitty Hawk. Both of her brothers graduated from West Point and had long careers with the Army.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 07:13 PM (WXNFJ)
@105/BeckoningChasm: Yup. That's my favourite one too, and like you, it still gives me the willies after all these years.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 06, 2024 07:14 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: JTB at July 06, 2024 07:12 PM (zudum)
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Great story JTB. What is the town?
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 07:14 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 05:51 PM (63Dwl)
I think they all have lyrics, short of the EU one, maybe
They are pretty interesting, they usually reflect the musical and military tastes of the time when adopted. Star Spangled Banner is for people to sing while partying, since no one can sing it while marching. German is for marching, of course.
The Colombian one, unfortunately, sounds like it was written by Gilbert and Sullivan
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 07:15 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 07:15 PM (8sMut)
I mean, I could look it up, but this is a smart military blog, and a bunch of you probably know.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 07:15 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
Umpossible! But, wear whatever you are comfy in. It is an essential component of the Code of Moron.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 07:15 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 07:17 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
https://tinyurl.com/ykwfr5j6
(And you have to be dead too.)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 07:19 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: JTB at July 06, 2024 07:19 PM (zudum)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 07:19 PM (WXNFJ)
Haha, thank Heaven!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 07:20 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 07:07 PM (8sMut)
Other ones I'm very fond of:
The Infernal Machine, Voyager's Return, and Earthbound.
Most ridiculous episode in Season 1: Space Brain. The washing machines all went mad at once. :-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 06, 2024 07:21 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 07:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 06, 2024 07:22 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 07:22 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 07:22 PM (zhMsg)
We have two Independence Days: July 4, and March 2.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 07:15 PM (8sMut)
Mr. S's hobby is genealogy- the only hobby whose practitioners bore each other.
Years ago he compiled all the paperwork to become a Son of the Republic of Texas. The kids and grandkids are all eligible through him. His sisters used his research, as well.
Mine didn't get here until the 1840s, so I have to be something else- a Gone to Texas.
Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 07:25 PM (y7DxH)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 07:25 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:25 PM (fwDg9)
Most ridiculous episode in Season 1: Space Brain. The washing machines all went mad at once. :-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 06, 2024 07:21 PM (O7YUW)
I rather enjoyed The Infernal Machine. Space Brain is pure silliness (but Star Trek had Trouble With Tribbles) but the underlying concept is interesting.
Earthbound was on just a short time ago.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 07:27 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 06:38 PM (aiCOr)
"One ping only, Vasily."
Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 07:27 PM (y7DxH)
Newport, RI. It was established in 1639. (Coincidence that my family came to Quebec that year.) But I didn't have any family in the States until the 1880s. It was still a wonderful place to grow up surrounded by all that history.
JackStraw lives on the next island over between Newport and the mainland.
Posted by: JTB at July 06, 2024 07:27 PM (zudum)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 07:27 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 07:25 PM (y7DxH)
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Genealogy is on the list of candidates for a future hobby thread. We'll see how un-boring we can make it if/when it takes shape.
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 07:27 PM (IQ6Gq)
Also fixed the clock on a first gen President Madison CB. The Intermatic motor that drives the clock used a gear that for whatever reason gets brittle and crumbles. Found a guy selling new gears online. Put that in and she's been keeping good time every since.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 06, 2024 07:28 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 07:22 PM (xjTDL)
Hey, thanks! I just bookmarked.
Not a fan of palazzo pants for myself--I like a more tapered leg. A lot of women wear them well, though.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 07:28 PM (OX9vb)
If, in fact, you are TRex...,
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 07:22 PM
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George Washington's Allosaurus says so.
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 07:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: TRex
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I have a good story about an ancestor who came to Virginia in 1619. It might even be true!
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 07:29 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 06:40 PM (z/7Ah)
Little there just wants attention. Tell him, "That's nice dear, but Mommy is talking to friends"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 07:29 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 07:29 PM
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We just visited Jamestown a few days ago. Keep the thought and be ready to share the story!!
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 07:31 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 06, 2024 07:31 PM (u/wgs)
He is after that like dog with a bone.
Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 07:31 PM (y7DxH)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 07:32 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 06, 2024 07:32 PM (nrUfy)
That's amazing you can get that gear. The Internet, for all it's faults, is a fantastic thing.
Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 07:33 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at July 06, 2024 07:34 PM (J8OCH)
Hi Skip,
A few suggestions. Run a pin or wire through the touch hole before adding the priming powder to be sure the channel is clear. Also, the priming powder should be just below the touch hole, not covering it, or it can clog the hole and keep the flame from reaching the main powder charge.
Posted by: JTB at July 06, 2024 07:34 PM (zudum)
Another new board game with unpainted miniatures is Talisman, which arrived today as well.
My shelf of warhammer etcetera unpainted items has filled up. Now I have gone to "first in first out", that the regretful purchases won't sit there forever. Every other day I add one to my painting desk, and it gets done more promptly than the laundry or dishes.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 06, 2024 07:36 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 06, 2024 07:37 PM (pT2wV)
and backboard, attached at the appropriate level.
I knew what I wanted to do with this, but I didn't know how to do it. First, got the basketball stuff off of there. Then, research. Turns out there's a whole industry for turning your random high post into a flagpole. So I ordered stuff. Not cheap, but I was on a mission.
The hardest part was getting the ball and hardware up to the top. My neighbor has some workers, and they and I held a ladder firm while the tiniest of the workers went up there and installed the ball. Victory! Now I have the big-ass flag flying, just like I wanted.
Recently, a couple of horses got out from a nearby rodeo. Mrs. Splunge and I went over there, and everyone was sleeping. Rousted somebody and told them to tell the owners that we had their horses. I pointed, and said it was the place with the big flag.
Well, there's a problem with living in Arizona. Lots of places have big flags, and it took them a long time to find us.
Posted by: Splunge at July 06, 2024 07:37 PM (hmKaK)
Not being eaten by gators or sharks and not drowning?
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 06, 2024 07:38 PM (u/wgs)
Even the Soviet Union did It better.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 06:38 PM (aiCOr)
"Oh Canada" sucks as a song. "The Maple Leaf Forever" is a far better anthem.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 07:38 PM (22XE5)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 06, 2024 07:38 PM (u/wgs)
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This barely makes the top 10
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 07:39 PM (zhMsg)
Just wanted you to know that I did eventually get here. Love the picture at the top.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 07:40 PM (t/2Uw)
Moffett Field in Mountain View CA.
Not many have a dirigible hangar.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 06, 2024 07:41 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:41 PM (fwDg9)
So far, kneading and shaping-wise, it makes a thin-walled tile that I can keep from cracking or shrinking too much, but I can only fire it to earthenware in my fire pit, so my next step is to find someone with a kiln. It is very brittle, and I need someone to tell me what I am doing wrong.
It is also 107 outside so I am drowsing and sweating and waiting for dusk.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 07:41 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 07:40 PM (t/2Uw)
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Good evening!
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 07:42 PM (IQ6Gq)
Moffett Field in Mountain View CA.
Not many have a dirigible hangar.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 06, 2024 07:41 PM (MeG8a)
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Shut up. Just, shut up.
Posted by: Tustin at July 06, 2024 07:42 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: Tustin at July 06, 2024 07:43 PM (zhMsg)
It is also 107 outside so I am drowsing and sweating and waiting for dusk.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 07:41 PM (D7oie)
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Other than glass blowing, I can't imagine a hotter hobby.
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 07:44 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 07:44 PM (t/2Uw)
Highest we got today was about 75.
We dodged that one.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 06, 2024 07:44 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Good luck on the 1st overnighter and let us know how it goes!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 07:44 PM (z/7Ah)
Posted by: Tustin
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This...how many have hangers that can fit three dirigibles?
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 07:44 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 06, 2024 07:41 PM (MeG8a)
OOHH! Oooh! Oooh!
Posted by: Tillimook Airport at July 06, 2024 07:44 PM (D7oie)
It is also 107 outside so I am drowsing and sweating and waiting for dusk.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 07:41 PM (D7oie)
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You were going to make me a pot!
Posted by: Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman at July 06, 2024 07:45 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: Tustin at July 06, 2024 07:42 PM (zhMsg)
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Oof. (Very clever comment. I LOL'd.)
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 07:46 PM (IQ6Gq)
Is that where the ice cream comes from?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 07:46 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: GWB at July 06, 2024 06:27 PM (AWrpC)
I've thought of getting a set of smaller flags of all the states I've lived in but I like this idea too.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 07:46 PM (llON8)
Well, there's a problem with living in Arizona. Lots of places have big flags, and it took them a long time to find us.
Posted by: Splunge
I don't see a problem with a lot of places in AZ flying big flags!
I do pity the horseless rodeo people though!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 07:47 PM (z/7Ah)
Is that where the ice cream comes from?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 07:46 PM (t/2Uw)
They also make cheese...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 07:47 PM (llON8)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 07:48 PM (z/7Ah)
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 07:44 PM (IQ6Gq)
welding. forging
Hey, here is Cody who is insane, making cast iron in a thermite reaction, using beverage cans and aluminum foil and magnetite
I am sure OSHA would have a stroke watching this
https://youtu.be/uC1LTZIVOu0
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 07:48 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Good luck on the 1st overnighter and let us know how it goes!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 07:44 PM (z/7Ah)
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In P.S., the weather is blistering hot, but they make up for it with all the over-the-top gayness!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 07:49 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 07:49 PM (ANzws)
When they closed the hanger doors they could cause 'weather' inside the hanger due to pressure changes.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 07:49 PM (z/7Ah)
So I rolled the JD mower off the trailer, and finished tearing it apart. I did try to start its engine, but no luck. Does seem to have compression, though, and it has oil in it. Got the mower pretty well torn down, and parts gathered up and put away.
So now I had to get the new Dixon ZTR off the trailer, I put a battery in it, fired it up, turned around on the trailer deck, drove it off the ramp, and went mowing. There's not much wrong with it at all. It struggled with the damned Prairie Wool grass, but all mowers choke on that shit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 07:50 PM (22XE5)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 07:50 PM (z/7Ah)
Is that where the ice cream comes from?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 07:46 PM (t/2Uw)
Yes, they had two blimps stationed there during the war to guard the mouth of the Columbia river.
It is a very nice town, if you ever get the chance to go there.
I used to go out from the Valley to Hebo and up to Tillamook, it is a wonderful drive if you don't go when all the RVs are on the road
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 07:51 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 07:51 PM (t/2Uw)
I do pity the horseless rodeo people though!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 07:47 PM (z/7Ah)
Yeah, people actually like America around here, and I love it. I'm staying put.
You would pity the rodeo people less if you saw the excuse for a fence that they had imagined would keep their horses around. Basically one strand of electric at about 3 1/2 feet off the ground, with flimsy supports.
Posted by: Splunge at July 06, 2024 07:53 PM (hmKaK)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 07:53 PM (t/2Uw)
https://youtu.be/uC1LTZIVOu0
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 07:48 PM (D7oie)
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Just started watching. Yep - insane.
Posted by: TRex at July 06, 2024 07:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Fenderbender at July 06, 2024 07:56 PM (r72iY)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 07:57 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 06, 2024 08:46 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 06, 2024 10:12 PM (vJiyU)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, July 6
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Calling the chickens in for their dinner
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These three cuties are the newest addition to Shep's. Again, they went straight to foster so I'll never get to meet them darn it! Maudie is 12, Augie is 11 and Chug is 8. Their owner passed away. We are hoping to adopt all three out together.What adorable doxies! And they are not all the same. Thanks for sending the great photo, Jewells!
I had to put my best friend down today. It had gotten to where she could barely breath and she could no longer swallow. Her nose was dry and cracked from dehydration and she gagged and drooled all morning. She tried to eat grass but I had to pull it out by hand as she was choking on a ball of grass as big as my fist. It was time. I got her just a few months after my wife left in 2010 and took my boys. She was my only real friend during the lowest period of my life. She was my constant companion and kept me warm at night. She was 18 months old then. She would have turned 15 years old in August. I could not continue to watch her drop weight and slowly, painfully make it up the steps one at a time because of the arthritis in her shoulders any longer. She always really enjoyed eating and, finally, this morning, she couldn't even do that anymore. I finally realized I was being selfish because I couldn't bear to let her go. It was time to man up and say goodbye. I will never forget my little girl and the unflinching loyalty and happiness she brought me when I needed it the most. -Autumn's daddySo sorry for your heartbreaking loss. It was time. Hope you check in here from time to time.
There really is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - Frank, Winston and Archie - my 3 grand dogs. Conservative HippyThey are utterly charming. They seem to like the rainbow.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last two weeks' Pet Threads. We are so lucky to have Misanthropic Humanitarian. I closed the comments on these posts so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway. Ace of Spades Pet Thread, June 22 June 29, Misanthropic Humanitarian: The Ace of Spades Pet Thread
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 06, 2024 03:21 PM (2UnvF)
Beneath the cross is where my best buddy’s buried
Lasted 13 hunting seasons running strong
Keep your money cause a man can’t leave his dog”
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Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 03:32 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 03:33 PM (1Nxff)
That one picture has had me thinking. We all know how depressing it is for our little guys to cross the rainbow bridge. But what happens when the opposite happens - the dog goes to wake the owner to go outside or get fed...except the owner has died in his sleep?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 03:33 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 03:34 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at July 06, 2024 03:34 PM (zudum)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at July 06, 2024 03:35 PM (zudum)
Nightmare. That's why we make sure owners keep in touch with humans, too.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 03:36 PM (rrtZS)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 03:36 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 03:37 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at July 06, 2024 03:37 PM (zudum)
A hot Saturday afternoon, and I'm thinking of walking over to the nearby library. Another endless and pointless meeting about the fate of the near-ghetto apartments I live in, but they may have news of new owners.
Anyway! I love the cat breed chart, and that they set "Black Cat" into its own category. Siberian is there too -- which is unusual, as a lot fo people still have not heard of the breed. When I say I have a Siberian I append "cat" so they won't think I have a Husky dog.
Autumn's Daddy, know that we have all been where you are. I too hesitated, with big white-and-black Chekov cat in late '21 and early '22, since we had no diagnosis and he rallied from time to time (only to slip back further than before). He was 14.5 when he went into the Long Sleep. I miss him still.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 03:39 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024
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My mother's 12-year-old cat Lil Bit was left stranded when Mom passed away. She, the cat I mean, was terrified of strangers as well. Neighbors left food for her before I could finally scoop her into a box and take her home. I barely saw her for three solid weeks; she ate and used the litter box, but no more. Until Christmas Day -- when she trotted out, no hesitation, and leaped into my lap. I really think she was in shock as the loss of Her Human, and took that long to adjust to me and a new place as well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 03:43 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 03:45 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ciampino - it's a never-ending wheel at July 06, 2024 03:46 PM (qfLjt)
Also refilled the ground one for any other animals who find it
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 03:46 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Ciampino - she had conversations with us at July 06, 2024 03:47 PM (qfLjt)
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Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparently c'est une vadrouille at July 06, 2024 03:49 PM (qfLjt)
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Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at July 06, 2024 03:50 PM (sAmhv)
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Posted by: CaliGirl at July 06, 2024 03:55 PM (Go6qm)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 03:58 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparement c'est une vadrouille at July 06, 2024 03:59 PM (qfLjt)
He was outside for the post-dinner turnout yesterday. I looked away to shoo the other dogs out of the kitchen and he found that to be the perfect time to charge to the door. Which was closed.
Basically, he hit the mat on the floor and bonked his head on the glass door. No damage to door or dog and I think he was more confused than hurt. And now I make sure that I keep an eye on him when it's time to bring the dogs in.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 06, 2024 04:00 PM (lXCUP)
Posted by: Ciampino - she had conversations with us at July 06, 2024 03:47 PM (qfLjt)
I'm under strict orders to make sure the ashes of Pepper, Oreo, Basil and Rosemary (because of Pepper, I began insisting my mother name all following dogs after spices whenever possible) go with my mother into the grave.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 04:01 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at July 06, 2024 04:01 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparement c'est une vadrouille at July 06, 2024 03:59 PM
I had a cat that got UTIs. I finally pulled all dry food and only gave her wet food. Add about a spoonful of water to the food. Cats don't have a big thirst drive. In the wild they get a lot of fluid from their food. Push water and if they can't urinate it's an emergency.
You are talking about a cat, right?
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 06, 2024 04:03 PM (Go6qm)
(Disclaimer: I'm not a vet) More water, add wet food and frequent potty breaks. And consider calling an emergency vet as well and asking if Bailey should be brought in now.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 06, 2024 04:03 PM (lXCUP)
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Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 04:04 PM (o2ZRX)
Got one of those too, but she was just covering her tracks -
I learned too late there was a class action against her, and she lost. Abattoir.
Sorry to hear about Autumn.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 06, 2024 04:05 PM (ZSy9t)
At the end of November 2012, I was heading to San Antonio after busting my ass all day at work to go to the AT&T Center in San Antonio for a Rush concert. So I was geeked as all get out. Then I got to the concert, and saw I had a text from my mom. "We had to put Oreo to sleep a short while ago. Too sick to save." Not even 10 years old yet. That took the wind out of my sails.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 04:06 PM (8sMut)
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Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparement c'est une vadrouille ... at July 06, 2024 04:12 PM (qfLjt)
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Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparement c'est une vadrouille .. at July 06, 2024 04:15 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 06, 2024 04:10 PM (Go6qm)
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Thank you, I thought of that as we have used the juice and capsules for ourselves. I just didn't think cats would eat that but we could mix it in a treat.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparement c'est une vadrouille . at July 06, 2024 04:21 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: look whats not at July 06, 2024 04:27 PM (nakGR)
That actress with the over-the-top 'wink'....what movie is that from? Her pic cracks me up every time.
Posted by: look whats not at July 06, 2024 04:27 PM
I know, right? I see that gif all the time.
who is she? what is that from?
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 06, 2024 04:33 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 04:33 PM (qrTq1)
Losing Spark hit me very hard. With an older dog, the memory of their youth and vigor is a comfort, but when a young puppy with its whole life ahead of it dies suddenly it's particularly tragic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 04:36 PM (rnJGi)
She was 6 years old. We buried her in our backyard, with 2 other cats and 2 dogs.
RIP, Moxy.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 06, 2024 04:38 PM (9XWKq)
The sound of the explosions scared her when outside. She loves going for walks but she actually tugged on the leash to get back inside quickly. This is her first 4th of July with us. Thunder doesn't bother her but the percussive sound of the fireworks sure did. It took the next day before she felt good about going out again. Who knew?
Posted by: JTB at July 06, 2024 04:40 PM (zudum)
Posted by: Adriane the Critical of Morning Critic . . . at July 06, 2024 04:42 PM (TX4bP)
RIP, Moxy.
Posted by: Nazdar
So sorry for your loss. That must be particularly hard as you had no warning.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 04:44 PM (oaGWv)
Been there. Still there when it gets too quiet.
Prayers for your Peace of Mind. To relieve suffering is a lonely duty.
Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at July 06, 2024 04:47 PM (TX4bP)
Another OTC supplement that works for human UTIs is D-Mannose. I keep it around for my occasional human UTIs and got into the fix as you are with my dog. Some research said that you can give D-mannose to a dog so I figured that at least it wouldn't hurt her. After a couple of capsules, she was back to normal--with no antibiotics.
There are reviews on Amazon for people who have used D-Mannose for cats but I can't speak from personal experience. I think the dosage for a cat would have to be pretty small.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 06, 2024 04:50 PM (FEVMW)
I'm sorry to hear about Moxy. What a shock for you and for her kitten. Losing furry family members and friends is so very hard.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 04:50 PM (65M7S)
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I thought it was from SNL and a Toonces the Driving Cat skit, but it might not be.
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers Magic Johnson's advice - Stay positive! at July 06, 2024 04:52 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 04:53 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 04:55 PM (wMVKv)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 06, 2024 04:56 PM (9XWKq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 04:56 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 04:59 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 05:01 PM (Njw+R)
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 05:13 PM (aiCOr)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024 05:14 PM (CHHv1)
So, there really is hope for these left behinds. If they are lucky, they get adopted by someone like my son, his wife, and their daughter. They spoiled her more than even her original owner had.
Posted by: Livia Drusilla at July 06, 2024 05:15 PM (ZuPhL)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 05:16 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2024
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I had the same problem with the late Chekov D. Siberian. With him it was generally more of a nip, though now and then he'd almost snap. It was why I was never as close to him as I have been with my other cats.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 05:17 PM (omVj0)
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I have the ashes of two of my pet buddies. Don’t know why I did that because I really enjoy remembering when they were young. I miss them all, especially my sweet NOVA dog and Sylvester the worlds smartest cat.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 06, 2024 05:18 PM (oj7h2)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 06, 2024 05:20 PM (YRsIm)
It's about time I took the feline monsters' food out of the fridge and ran some water in their bowls to clean them out. I can tell. They're awake and chasing each other around.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 05:20 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
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And I now have 4 cats and a dog...
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 05:21 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 06, 2024
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After Chekov was gone in early '22, when I was ready I started looking at Petfinder. I like the longhaired cats, and there was nothing in shelters close by. It took widening the search to four hours' drive away to luck across the future Stirling and his sisters.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 05:23 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 05:23 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Livia Drusilla at July 06, 2024 05:23 PM (ZuPhL)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 06, 2024
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Except for big red Arizona, whose ashes are up in the CO mountains among (what he thought were) His People, the bobcats, I have the ashes of each of my cats in boxes or urns on my bookshelf. When I have my house, I'll find a better place for them . . . or maybe just keep them on the same shelf.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 05:25 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:31 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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I have lost some cats over the years, but Gonzo is the only one I had to have put down. He got cancer, probably in fall 2021, but we didn't get a diagnosis until January 2022. Had to say goodbye in April 2022, about 2 months after Jesse died. I keep his ashes next to Jesse's. In the few short months we were all together, J and G forged a deep bond based on love and tuna.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 05:31 PM (iZbyp)
I'm can't help but thinking they are mostly scams.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 06, 2024 05:31 PM (aiCOr)
So sorry to hear about Autumn! A wonder-doggeh, no doubt, and I do hope your grief is short and ends with a new buddy to share your house.
Posted by: Addie Bundren at July 06, 2024 05:36 PM (TMqcd)
That Persian Longhair on the chart looks just like smaller version of our Bella. Always wondered what she was.
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 05:37 PM (SuNbA)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 05:40 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2024 05:40 PM (w6EFb)
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When I was 10 we had dog terrified of fireworks. Wouldn't got outside to do her business. Had to drive her out town to isolated area with no boom-booms. This was when fireworks were sold for weeks prior to the Fourth. It was miserable month for her.
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 05:46 PM (SuNbA)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024
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There will be difficulties at the Rainbow Bridge, if all my cats are there. "Back off, Black Cat, he's *my* human!" "Stick a trout in it, Fat Boy, this one's *mine*!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 05:50 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 06:40 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 06, 2024 07:56 PM (9XWKq)
There will be difficulties at the Rainbow Bridge, if all my cats are there. "Back off, Black Cat, he's *my* human!" "Stick a trout in it, Fat Boy, this one's *mine*!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 05:50 PM (omVj0)
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Piker!
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparement c'est une vadrouille! at July 07, 2024 12:41 AM (qfLjt)
Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, July 6
I was inspired by the Misanthropic Humanitarian's post about the state flower of Wisconsin, the wood violet, to send some images of the Pennsylvania state flower, the mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia). I took these pictures a few weeks ago when the flowers were blooming in the local mountains.Here in the South-Central San Joaquin, it has gotten considerably hotter since I last wrote here. They have lowered the forecast from 114 to 113. In contrast, the forcast for Oxnard, where The Mister fishes occassionally, is 74 degrees. The early settlers used to bundle the women and children off to the coast in the summer, leaving the men to work in the heat. Male privilege!
Just for fun, I am also sending a picture or two of the flowers of the pitcher plants that grow in the nearby bog. Enjoy! Ladyhobbit
More photos from Ladyhobbit. The flowers of the mountain laurel are intriguing up close:
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By By-Tor:
My winning ribbons from the 2024 LA County Fair arrived. Now just waiting for my my prize check.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: huerfano at July 06, 2024 01:31 PM (VGOMa)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 01:31 PM (fwDg9)
Did pick a few chili peppers , have lots on not ripe. Cucumbers are starting but so far just 1 green tomato smaller than a baseball is all
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 01:33 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 01:37 PM (81wK+)
Making a plywood box for the extra gable fan I have, maybe could use it in window of outbuilding
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 01:39 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 01:44 PM (t/2Uw)
Madea batch of pesto but didn;t even have enough to fill an ice cube tray. But left enough of the plant so maybe get somemore.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 01:49 PM (t/2Uw)
The Tiny Tim's are surprisingly big and prolific, but don't have much taste. Disappointed in those. The Texas Wilds are tiny and wonderfully sweet. Petit Chocolats are marvelous, big and heavy like those old agate marbles, and they do have a taste of cocoa and are sweet.
Still waiting on the Black Cherry ones, they are just starting to turn.
Posted by: skywch at July 06, 2024 01:49 PM (uqhmb)
Strawberries are done; they did well
peppers look very behind I think?
zucchini also seems a bit behind last year IDK why
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 06, 2024 02:00 PM (s3qiR)
LeTorneau was bought out by Komatsu.
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 02:00 PM (o2ZRX)
Hope you are feeling better. Thanks to you and all for the gorgeous photos.
It's been unusually hot and dry in our area and I water the containers every day. The herbs are doing OK but the summer squash blossoms just withered away. Bummer. however, we have a few cherry tomatoes turning red. Now it's just a matter of whether we get to pick them before the squirrels decide it is time for a picnic.
Posted by: JTB at July 06, 2024 02:01 PM (zudum)
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 02:06 PM (rrtZS)
Red admiral caterpillars feed on stinging nettle.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 02:07 PM (rrtZS)
Posted by: TeeJ at July 06, 2024 02:08 PM (xZpzx)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 02:10 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 02:11 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Eromero
I haven't thought of a Tillie since 1976!
I never knew why they were called Tillie either.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 02:19 PM (pPOh9)
skip I only have the little cherry tomatoes and I bought them from Ken's who I think really boosts their veggie and fruit-bearing plants
some kind of Amish secret or something!
the peppers I did from seed which is probably why they are taking longer than the Ken's stuff
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 06, 2024 02:21 PM (s3qiR)
Madea batch of pesto but didn;t even have enough to fill an ice cube tray. But left enough of the plant so maybe get somemore.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 01:49 PM (t/2Uw)
That might be hornworms. They're green so hard to find on the plant - and squishy, and ooze green slime, so messy to remove. My chickens *love* to eat them. You can find them using a UV flashlight.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 02:22 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2024 02:23 PM (w6EFb)
Managed to get her a few hand length zukes before they succumbed to...??? Some heirloom variety. Have 4 black diamond variety been up about a week.
Been keeping her in enough jalapeños. Also have a bag in my freezer fit for a batch of chili. There will be more.
She got all of the turnips she wanted early spring that I planted for winter cover, before I tilled most of the ones left under. The ones I didn't till I have saved 3 times the amount of seeds I planted last fall off of.
Posted by: TeeJ at July 06, 2024 02:24 PM (xZpzx)
We don't have a tractor yet we are using a quad atv for motor duty right now.
Posted by: blaster at July 06, 2024 02:24 PM (JSLZX)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 02:25 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 02:26 PM (fwDg9)
I've been reminiscing about my grandparents the past couple of days while outside in this heat. My grandfather went off to work in a factory long before air conditioning while my grandmother spent the day in the hot sun weeding, watering, and attending to their acre plus sized garden. Their home was a plain box, very small by today's standards.
Every day they both produced something tangible in value. I miss spending a late August week picking bushel baskets of tomatoes for my grandmother. I was only allowed to fill them, they were too heavy for me to carry. I would spend endless hours shucking endless bags of lima beans in her kitchen with an ancient fan on the floor cooling us off as she reduced the tomatoes to sauce. The 'I Like Ike' banner hung from her cork message board, most likely something she picked up at a 'Ladies Auxiliary' meeting. She liked me and said to my father within my earshot that I knew 'how to work' - quite possibly the compliment I'm most proud of in my life.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 02:26 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 06, 2024 02:27 PM (s3qiR)
Posted by: Kathy at July 06, 2024 02:30 PM (p69D5)
I watched a hummingbird go to every bloom in my neighbor's apple tree and ignore my hummingbird feeder literally 2 feet away.
Now I have to worry about how much sugar I put in the feeder?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 02:31 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 06, 2024 02:33 PM (MeG8a)
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping. The leaves and stems are healthy even though the blossoms wilted. Might be a come back with cooler weather. We got the seedlings at a local hardware store, a brand I hadn't heard of before. Chef Jeff or something like that. I'll keep the brand in mind for next year.
Posted by: JTB at July 06, 2024 02:33 PM (zudum)
I have a couple of five foot tall 'Big Ben' tomatoes growing in containers. Lots of small tomatoes, lots of buds. The cherry tomatoes are shorter in height, a few plants close to ripening. Cucumbers will eventually be too many and shared, same with zucchini. Corn is all over the place from shoulder height to knee high, which is good. I'd rather it not all come to harvest at the same time. Lima beans, which I've never grown before, simply amaze me as the genetic instructions contained in that tiny seed are slowly revealed day after day.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 02:34 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 02:37 PM (QZlK3)
Lots of night watering is involved, not to mention the $400+ monthly water bills.
Bring back Pride Month!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 02:41 PM (QZlK3)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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So you've seen weasel on his tractor at the farm....
😎
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 02:41 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 02:42 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 06, 2024 02:42 PM (/U5Yz)
that's lovely Divide!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 06, 2024 02:27 PM
Thank you. I was standing in the reception line on our wedding day, hundreds of people walked past, saying something or other forgettable, but my wife's grandmother shook my hand and said, 'K____ knows how to work" - apparently it was something that people who grew up in the depression years thought of as a high compliment.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 02:42 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 02:42 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Oliver Wendell Douglas at July 06, 2024 02:43 PM (QZlK3)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 02:50 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at July 06, 2024 02:51 PM (dg+HA)
Try planting new seeds. Some of the yellow varieties bear in 44 days or so.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 02:52 PM (rrtZS)
It stays warm here into October. If I can find a decent plant at HD, can I get another crops of tomatoes?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 03:02 PM (t/2Uw)
There is a lot of Mountain Laurel growing in this area (northern Delmarva Peninsula). The "naturalists" at the local Scout camp have long propagated a myth that to burn the wood of Mountain Laurel was to unleash deadly toxins.
I have asked several times for them to cite the source(s) for their misinformation. They cannot so so, but claim that someone back in the chain of staff members for that program area was the person who delivered that received wisdom. Their lack of a citable source has never dimmed their ardor for continuing to spread their false myth. Mind you, this is the same group of "knowledgeable youths" who will turn all screechy and preachy to you about "climate catastrophe", something based on tenuous and misleading science that is gospel to them. The assuredness of youth ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 03:04 PM (i4sOa)
Most of my garden area receives only six hours of direct sunlight per day. It's somewhat west of south. The yields are nothing to complain about. Half of the cucumber crop is in an area further away which gets more then eight hours of sunlight. My wife takes care of them, I just keep her five gallon water pail topped off. Which is almost every other day recently.
We did get a two inch rainfall recently but I think it evaporated by noon the same day. Radar doesn't show any 'pop-up' storms on the way so... back to watering.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 03:06 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 06, 2024 03:13 PM (hqSyT)
BRB. I gotta water the yard.
Finished off the drip lines for the Lilac wall on the south side of the property. Got 90% of the bad cheatgrass outbreak we had cleaned up. Shit was everywhere with the wet winter.
Must remember to turn the drip line off.
Temps right now require daily watering. Hit 108° yesterday, according to my thermometers. 99° right now.
Grands want to go to the skate park.
I'm thinking no.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 03:16 PM (xcIvR)
Cool story may their memory be a blessing
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 03:16 PM (RIvkX)
Bad news: Japanese beetles have arrived, and some are getting at the basil and grape plants before they're enticed into the traps.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024 03:18 PM (+oRno)
Yes, you have to be careful not to put too much sugar in the hummingbird feeders so you don't hurt their little livers.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 03:23 PM (rrtZS)
I just pushed a reel mower for 1.25 miles.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 03:30 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 03:30 PM (RIvkX)
Wife bought some okra at the local farmers market and fried it in the Ninja. Not bad eating. I can see why you like the stuff.
Posted by: Ronster at July 06, 2024 03:31 PM (eyIsE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 03:31 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 03:33 PM (RIvkX)
Next year I'll keep it producing. To late this year.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 03:35 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 03:39 PM (OX9vb)
Our daughter has a reel mower at their "homestead" in Braddock, PA. I used it for a run at cutting their grass. Heavy old thing, and badly in need of some quality maintenance and sharpening.
It reminded me of being nine years old and cutting our front lawn with a reel mower, a happy memory.
My Dad lost the tips of two fingers on his (left?) hand to a reel mower accident when he was five or six years old. The middle and ring finger if I recall correctly.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 03:43 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 03:33 PM (RIvkX)
My yard isn't gigantic, but it's big enough to split the chore over two days with the reel. I don't know why I call it a hippie mower. Just because it's "eco-friendly," I guess. And it's easy to say. Heh.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 03:44 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 03:31 PM (RIvkX)
My friends use one of those on a small lawn and their lawn always looks beautiful, I can't figure out if it is the mower or they just take good care of their lawn.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 06, 2024 03:47 PM (Go6qm)
The fire is burning the same ground as a huge fire in 2007 that I remember created it's own lightning and tornadoes.
California is a mismanaged mess.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 06, 2024 03:51 PM (Go6qm)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 03:54 PM (RIvkX)
Stay safe! Praying for those around you.
We had a fire conditions warning on the Weather Channel Thursday, which is unusual.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 03:56 PM (rrtZS)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 03:56 PM (OX9vb)
Cilantro never lasts. There are a few varieties that are supposed to be sort of "bolt resistant", but you still have to plant more seeds every few weeks.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 03:59 PM (rrtZS)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 03:02 PM (t/2Uw)
You can, you could also baby them along or you can take a cutting from the current plants, root them and get them to bearing size by the time the cooler weather starts
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 04:06 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: fluffy at July 06, 2024 04:13 PM (39GWd)
Just checked my 'bush lima beans' - I have a couple of planters with pods with three beans in them already. I worry that if the SHTF I may not survive without protein, while my wife would be fine eating salads with lettuce, tomato, cucumbers and zucchini three times every day.
I'd have to endure having a six pack stomach under that sort of diet regimen.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 04:30 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 04:34 PM (llON8)
I'm not really sure how I'll do, actually; some plants haven't grown the way I expected. Only tiny sprouts from the Thai Basil seeds, only 1 each from basil and parsley seeds. I have a row each of orange and yellow carrots, but both had surprise potatoes come up (soil recycled from potato bags) so I don't know how much crowding there will be. I wonder if there's a catnip category since that thrives in this yard. At least the zucchini plant is doing well, and I've marked out one fruit to become my Largest Zucchini entry.
In non-Fair production, peas are burning out, but green beans are starting, and I spotted color on a SunGold tomato. I'm drying lots of oregano. First red raspberries have showed up. Only 2 sweet potato slips survived - and they have new leaves, which is hopeful. The strawberries are not producing, and since we didn't put nets on, I think something else is getting there before me - I'm mostly looking for runners this first year anyway.
Temps predicted over 110 for part of this coming week - not much will get done.
Posted by: Pat* at July 06, 2024 11:23 PM (x3vYa)
Posted by: Tony Litwin at July 07, 2024 07:47 AM (reJvG)
Posted by: Ladyhobbit at July 07, 2024 04:36 PM (v4oBq)
Posted by: Ladyhobbit at July 07, 2024 11:16 PM (v4oBq)
Who failed to position Kamala Harris for success? George Floyd!
Was reading this for a little perspective from the left, finding myself amazed and bemused at the semantic gap.
The Slate piece is linked below in case you wish to analyze it, but beware that an AI assistant is offered for your guidance. Which reminds me that certain people have suggested that "deep fakes" could help even out some of Joe Biden's presentations, even though "cheap fakes" are obviously evil.
Slate is not happy: It’s Kamala Harris’ Moment. But Biden May Have Screwed That Up Too. From July 1. There are some interesting excuses for and harumphs about the debate and its aftermath, then this piece gets down to issues affecting Kamala:Joe Biden was old when he ran for president. He and his team should have spent the past four years road testing surrogates and grooming potential successors. Instead, they’ve sidelined their vice president and failed to place the spotlight on any of the Democratic Party’s many bright, shining potential stars. Now the very predictable has happened: The oldest-ever American president is showing his age, voters are reasonably wondering whether he will be up to the extremely demanding tasks of governing until he’s 86—86!—and there is no obvious Plan B. Under normal circumstances, Plan B would be the vice president, and a small handful of commentators are already voicing support for Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket. The reasons are obvious enough: She is the vice president, after all; she is by most accounts a perfectly competent if not particularly compelling leader; and skipping over her has the potential to anger and alienate core Democratic constituencies (Black voters, female voters). But Harris is also unpopular. . .What follows seems rather convoluted to me. Kamala's unpopularity is not her fault. It's all due to the burdens of what has been in past political history, the failures of political operatives around her, plus bigotry of various types, all working together against her. Then:
But she really suffered from running for president in 2020. That year was in many ways a cultural blip, and one of its most significant irregularities was the brief turn against policing and prosecution. In any other election year, including probably this one, a tough-on-crime stance is a benefit to politicians, especially those with national aspirations. But 2020 was a year of mass protests against police violence. Progressive prosecutors won high-profile elections, and although no police forces were actually defunded, the slogan “Defund the Police” became a progressive rallying cry. Even many Republicans seemed amenable to criminal justice reform. “Kamala is a cop” became a pointed and effective attack line because there was a major and long-brewing national backlash against cops. Career prosecutors were not the moment’s rising stars.Kamala's career woes were really started by George Floyd! She had done all the right things to move up the political ladder, and then George Floyd changed the narrative! She tried to make up for her image as a tough cop in this new environment by setting up that bail fund with her progressive friends for protesters arrested in George Floyd protests. People arrested for other crimes also got bailed out after the pool of arrested protesters ran out (as long as the arrestees fit certain racial criteria). Somehow, that didn't do the trick for her. The Slate piece didn't mention the bail fund. Or Tulsi Gabbard. Anyway, Kamala's primary campaign in 2020 didn't go so well. California Nightmares It has always bothered me that The Party sent Gavin Newsom to escort Kamala Harris out of the primaries when she was sinking into disaster, before she was chosen as Biden's running mate. Lloyd Billingsley at Powerline yesterday: Harris and Newsom’s Brown Connection
With waxworks effigy Joe Biden in post-debate meltdown, Steve spots a Kamala zeitgeist, starring Harris as Joe’s successor. In this high concept, the younger Kamala, 59, has the advantage over the older Trump, 78, and only Kamala can inherit the Biden-Harris $250 million campaign warchest.And Newsom is making some moves to position himself for the nationals stage, too.
In her new book, Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power, Ellie Gardey Holmes notes that Newsom and Gordon Getty helped elect Willie Brown mayor of San Francisco. Brown then appointed Newsom to the city’s Parking and Traffic Commission, followed by a promotion to the Board of Supervisors. “Newsom entered office entirely indebted to Willie Brown,” and locals referred to him as “an appendage of Willie Brown.” The powerful Democrat also had a thing for Kamala Harris, 30 years his junior. Brown appointed Harris to lucrative sinecures and backed his main squeeze in runs for district attorney of San Francisco, attorney general of California, and everything beyond. So now contending for president are a former appendage of Willie Brown and a person experienced with Willie Brown’s appendage. .YIPES
Looks like America is undergoing it’s own Orange Revolution. It is said that nothing rhymes with orange, but in the make-it-up world of Karine Jean-Pierre what rhymes with orange is “Joe Biden is the kindest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known. Also the smartest and most energetic. In fact he ran a marathon before breakfast this morning. That’s why his face looked so orange in his latest appearance. It had nothing to do with Trump. Or the debate. What debate? I don’t know what you’re talking about. I have nothing to add.”But there was another revolution which we are celebrating this weekend. There are quotes from Abraham Lincoln and Calvin Coolidge on the Eternal Meaning of Independence Day. And from someone not even an American:
Do you have a favorite Independence Day quote? Here is a craft created by a relative for her grandkids. A bit of Revolutionationary War history:America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.
— G. K. Chesterton (@GKCdaily) July 4, 2024
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 11:05 AM (pPOh9)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 11:05 AM (pPOh9)
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Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 11:07 AM (pPOh9)
All four!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 11:07 AM (pPOh9)
Made my BP spike and caused other symptoms - shortness of breath, etc.
Now to figure out what cause it. There were no bacteria.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 11:09 AM (rrtZS)
Posted by: PabloD at July 06, 2024 11:11 AM (ohsd/)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 11:11 AM (fwDg9)
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
Pro-abortion Democrats march to “Born in the USA,” blissfully unaware of the searing irony.
https://is.gd/aszt7g
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 11:11 AM (L/fGl)
The speculation is about why she doesn't use the event to pad her street creed. She never mentions it. The media, obviously, doesn't report on it. Even though most people don't know the pipe bomb was fake.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 11:13 AM (Q4IgG)
Now to figure out what cause it. There were no bacteria.
Posted by: KT
You're in my prayers.
Glad it wasn't a heart attack!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 11:13 AM (pPOh9)
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 11:15 AM (rrtZS)
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 11:15 AM (o2ZRX)
Glad you doing better! I've had a heart attack, not fun, would not recommend!
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 11:18 AM (PZo5T)
452 Vivek and DeSantis nail the whole debate affair and why it worked out as it did.
Vivek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PatIoAocZsA
DeS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ-q_WM7wcM
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 11:18 AM (xCA6C)
A dance such as that shown would definitely get me out in my colonial outfit.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 11:20 AM (xCA6C)
Imprisonment of Stephen K Bannon
They have taken him out the rest of the year
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 11:20 AM (fwDg9)
Let the Dems talk about their idiot candidate. Or their spat with the media, or their VP who is not well positioned, but has all the campaign money. Or how the President listens only to God - that's a winner!
If you must talk... make it about America's future.
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 06, 2024 11:21 AM (fvaUq)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 11:24 AM (pgG81)
Posted by: Con Reeder at July 06, 2024 11:24 AM (dAMqW)
I'd say the time is right to unburden Kamala from political office.
She can find a much more satisfying career in the private sector hocking walk in showers to senior citizens.
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 11:24 AM (1Yy3c)
The split screen, where Biden flinches trying to get the words out, and Trump looking to his left in a concerned way, has left a mark.
OT: Poor Man's Poison, Hell's Comin With Me
https://youtu.be/beK6T_tt-pE?si=v9yyetG1wPamArxb
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 06, 2024 11:26 AM (lhenN)
Never had a heart attack only the heartache of psoriasis.
Posted by: As Seen On TV at July 06, 2024 11:27 AM (RKVpM)
Made my BP spike and caused other symptoms - shortness of breath, etc.
Now to figure out what cause it. There were no bacteria.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 11:09 AM (rrtZS)
Bummer, bro.
I thought maybe you were running guns into Mexico. Hospital stays aren't nearly as exciting.
Glad to see you're doing okay!
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 11:27 AM (1Yy3c)
Have not read the article yet, but does the author give any examples of these "bright, shining potential stars" of the Democrat Party?
Only ones that come to mind, regarding whom the Deep State would think are rising stars, are Wretched Whitmer, Gavin Newsom and Bootyjudge.
And they have "sidelined their vice president" for good reason. She's quite an idiot. They actually tried to give her things to do where she could have made a name for herself (i.e. the border and immigration). But she either failed spectacularly at that or she succeeded spectacularly at what she was told to do. Which was lie about border security while keeping the border wide, wide open for the flooding of illegals to use to fortify the 2024 election.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 06, 2024 11:29 AM (P5BPp)
Prayers up from here!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 11:29 AM (hOUT3)
Agreed. It's time for Trump to be silent, buy popcorn, get some rounds in, and lower his handicap.
In case it becomes a national issue again.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 11:29 AM (RKVpM)
Biden does not give in. He becomes the official Democratic nominee.
Then we get 'The Great Walkback!' The media steps back from the dementia stories, marvel at how much better Biden is, Joe recuperated from Long Covid and Biden Is Back Baby!
That's going to be fun.
Posted by: Stateless at July 06, 2024 11:31 AM (jvJvP)
"By most accounts" a "perfectly competent ... leader"? On whose accounts is this statement based???
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 06, 2024 11:33 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 11:35 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at July 06, 2024 11:35 AM (zudum)
Then we get 'The Great Walkback!' The media steps back from the dementia stories, marvel at how much better Biden is, Joe recuperated from Long Covid and Biden Is Back Baby!
That's going to be fun.
Posted by: Stateless at July 06, 2024 11:31 AM (jvJvP)
"Lay back and think of England, my dear!"
Posted by: Auspex at July 06, 2024 11:36 AM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Ray Van Dune
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This is a general comment toward those that pontificate about politics.
Before criticizing someone else and telling them what to do--"What have YOU done to improve our political system." People in the trenches registering voters, volunteering to be poll watchers and election judges, showing up at local events manning a table and handing out pamphlets, etc. You can even join many voter integrity groups now to check off invalid voters in your local area.
I have been involved in politics at the national, state, and local level for decades and the most useless are those that watch a bit of news and suddenly believe they are the most informed pundits of the political universe.
No one, including DJT is going to save you if you don't take action yourself to do what you can do to change the system.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 11:37 AM (/0X3E)
He actually has been doing a good job of that lately.
Instead, they’ve sidelined their vice president and failed to place the spotlight on any of the Democratic Party’s many bright, shining potential stars.
Have not read the article yet, but does the author give any examples of these "bright, shining potential stars" of the Democrat Party?
Only ones that come to mind, regarding whom the Deep State would think are rising stars, are Wretched Whitmer, Gavin Newsom and Bootyjudge.
Megyn Kelly disagrees, and I think she's right. Start at about 6:30, although the whole thing is worth your time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbfmCROTdk8
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 11:37 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 06, 2024 11:38 AM (cOq4q)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 11:41 AM (nJTSw)
Posted by: Adriane the Critical of Morning Critic . . . at July 06, 2024 11:41 AM (TX4bP)
What about America? What about the free world? See, it doesn't matter to them. All that matters is they stay power and the media stays in line.
If they're lucky, Trump will win, and they'll have to develop a soul. If they're not, Hell will come for them, and they will deserve it.
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 06, 2024 11:42 AM (fvaUq)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 06, 2024 11:42 AM (xpCR0)
Bootjuice may actually be dumber than Kumdumpster Harris.
Whitmer is statist authoritarion right out of casting (stasi, nazi, whatever, just change the uniform).
It'll be Newsome. He made Caslifornia what it is today!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 06, 2024 11:43 AM (cOq4q)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 06, 2024 11:45 AM (cOq4q)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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This is going to be a referendum election based on the Dems. Just as the election in UK was based on the Tory record and in France, Macron's. To some extent, what matters in such elections is more retrospective voting than prospective. Tories warning about how the skies would fall in the UK if Labor got elected did not sway the electorate much while their awful performance in government did. Labor, didn't do well either as their vote share was something around 33 percent or so but the Tories dropped even more and overall turnout dropped quite a bit.
Macron is in a similar pickle. For years, the left and the remaining centrists have tried to keep the right out of power by warning the sky will fall if LePen etc. take power. At some point, those phantom fears are overwhelmed by the stench of incumbent pols pissing all over the people and calling it needed rain to make society grow.
Germany and Australia also are examples that WEF policies are brain dead and evil.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 11:45 AM (/0X3E)
Gretchen, She-Bitch of the SS
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 11:46 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 11:46 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 06, 2024 11:47 AM (IyPmt)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 06, 2024 11:47 AM (Dm8we)
Now to figure out what cause it. There were no bacteria.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 11:09 AM (rrtZS)
Welcome back, KT! Good to hear you are on the mend.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:48 AM (jEbF6)
Women have killed the art of flirting. Don’t whine you don’t have a man when you get stompy footed if they flirt. When you tell a man no thank you, that should be it, no need to be creepy, gentlemen, but holy hades, girls.
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 11:48 AM (pZEOD)
Willowed:
422 I have long thought that Stephanopoulos was sent out to administer the coup de grace to Biden.
It seems that others agree.
After watching the 23-minute interview, it was obvious that Stephanopoulos was sent out to stab Caesar to death on [pre-recorded] television. There's no other way to spin it. After the interview, ABC political hacks piled on. Rather than reassuring skittish Democrat operatives (let alone the public) that Biden is fine, it reinforced the narrative that he is too old and feeble to remain as the nominee.
On Thursday, my esteemed colleague Stephen Green wrote:
Some argue that Stephanopoulos has been brought on not to help Biden but to commit the System's coup de grâce and "rhetorically assassinate" their flailing POTUS. Let George trip him up a couple of times in front of the TV cameras, the thinking goes, and even DOCTOR Jill Biden will have no choice but to relent and tell Joe to go Full LBJ.
https://tinyurl.com/8xvtnd3h
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 11:48 AM (xCA6C)
My grandfather was hugely involved in politics on the local level, which inspired my father to run for office and win and be reelected many times.
When he moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania he contacted the (R) party and told them of his history. They said good, address these envelopes and then put stamps on them.
The 'good ol' boys' aren't too welcoming to new faces. Unless they have some grunt work to be done.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 11:48 AM (RKVpM)
Bootjuice may actually be dumber than Kumdumpster Harris.
Whitmer is statist authoritarion right out of casting (stasi, nazi, whatever, just change the uniform).
It'll be Newsome. He made Caslifornia what it is today!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 06, 2024 11:43 AM
And here is the thing that bothers me with whitmer, she is extremely popular in Michigan. The wife3 has two sisters who live in Michigan and they both love her. I asked the one sister why and she just said some nonsense about her being a strong woman. When I asked her about the draconian lock downs and the fact that her and her husband avoided the lock downs by vacationing in Florida she had no real response.
She just cringed when I brought up the fact that the husband pulled the "do you know who I am married to" card when he got his boat in the water before she lifted the lock downs on the lakes. I don't get it, and neither sister is a flaming liberal.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 06, 2024 11:48 AM (QNSds)
somebody call Buttgig, tell him to spit out the ballgag and ditch the donkey costume, and do his job
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 11:49 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 11:49 AM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 06, 2024 11:49 AM (JLq/1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 11:50 AM (63Dwl)
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Today, April 13, 2013, 'Obama apologizes to Kamala Harris for 'best-looking attorney general' comment'
ndtv world new (press of India) 08/12/2020: 'Barack Obama's Advice Made Biden Choose Kamala Harris As Vice Presidential Running Mate: Report'
A person close to the Vice-Presidential search told CNN that Joe Biden and Barack Obama spoke regularly about the choices before the Democratic Party and the political moment facing the country.
Politico, Transition 2020, 12/07/2020, 'Maya Harris aided effort to boost husband’s attorney general bid'
The vice president-elect’s sister, a major player in Kamala Harris’ presidential run, has no formal role in the Biden transition.
America 250 debuted a New Ambassador Circle in June & it includes Willie Brown, Former Mayor, San Francisco, CA.
It's distraction; too many are falling for it. "We have the issues" ... not the presenter.
She'll have it at whatever agreed upon time, after the Bs are all clear of future litigation, punishment.
"Vote for the presidency, not a president."
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at July 06, 2024 11:50 AM (NFX2v)
Competent?
*spit-take*
America's secure borders stand as a monument to Kneepad McRoundheel's 'competence'.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 11:50 AM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 11:51 AM (xCA6C)
' I asked the one sister why and she just said some nonsense about her being a strong woman. '
It's all about the beaver. The rest of us can all just suffer as long as they can point to some woman and pretend she's their champion.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 06, 2024 11:51 AM (3wi/L)
I love how the prog media totally ignores the blatant fact that Harris was picked as life insurance for Joe, and everyone knows it. Being unpopular is literally her job.
Posted by: somedood at July 06, 2024 11:52 AM (yDVMy)
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 06, 2024 11:49 AM (JLq/1)
*ding ding*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 11:52 AM (jdHxK)
Posted by: DOCTOR Jill Biden! at July 06, 2024 11:52 AM (uxCna)
Epstein Docs Allege Trump Had Relations with Underage Girls
Unsealed documents related to Jeffrey Epstein have brought forth allegations against Donald Trump, accusing him of having sexual relations with underage girls. The allegations, reported by the U.K. press, have sparked significant discussion on social media, with many users expressing outrage and calling for more attention to these claims. The discussion also highlights a perceived lack of coverage by the U.S. media on this issue. The documents include claims by one of Epstein's alleged victims, Sarah Ransome, detailing these accusations against Trump. The conversation has been marked by a mix of shock, anger, and calls for accountability, with some users questioning the media's focus on other topics.
https://bit.ly/4bxQ60f
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 06, 2024 11:53 AM (P5BPp)
Biden does not give in. He becomes the official Democratic nominee.
Then we get 'The Great Walkback!' The media steps back from the dementia stories, marvel at how much better Biden is, Joe recuperated from Long Covid and Biden Is Back Baby!
That's going to be fun.
Posted by: Stateless
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I don't know if the Biden crime family can back off. If Biden resigns, Kamala (who Biden has treated like crap and humiliated personally) might not issue the needed pardons. If Biden does it going out the door before resigning, fairly or not, the general public is going to attribute corruption to Kamala and it will destroy any traction whatsoever to casual voters about Trump being convicted.
Other than Kamala replacing Biden, then you get problematic as to ballot access, funding, etc. and ginning up a NATIONAL, not state campaign in a hurry. Biden's campaign team already is viewed as part of the problem so wholesale replacement introduces more angst etc. Plus, Kamala has a lot of rivals viewing themselves as potential prezzies like Whitmer and Newsom if not Buttplug.
A humorous pairing would be Kamala Buttplug ticket.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 11:53 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 06, 2024 11:53 AM (xpCR0)
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 11:54 AM (rrtZS)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 06, 2024 11:47 AM (Dm8we)
What difference would it make either way?
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 06, 2024 11:54 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 06, 2024 11:55 AM (JLq/1)
Posted by: whig
On point. Thank you, whig.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at July 06, 2024 11:55 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 11:24 AM (1Yy3c)
She is only six years away from getting the seniors' discount herself.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:56 AM (jEbF6)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 06, 2024 11:56 AM (EXyHK)
And of course I got jumped! "No! Totally WRONG! You don't get it! He needs to fill football stadiums again right NOW! Because that energizes his supporters!"
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 11:56 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 11:50 AM (jdHxK)
Do not come. Do not come.
Posted by: VP Harris at July 06, 2024 11:56 AM (nJTSw)
Posted by: DJT at July 06, 2024 11:56 AM (nJTSw)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 11:56 AM (2NHgQ)
Epstein Docs Allege Trump Had Relations with Underage Girls
If there was any actual dirt against Trump in the Epstein Files, it would have been leaked in a millisecond.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 11:57 AM (uxCna)
Just bask in the glow of knowing you aren't an idiot.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 11:57 AM (xCA6C)
Ha! I literally just watched the real An Affair to Remember last week with my dad!
I enjoyed it, but it was a very odd movie even given the stars involved.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 06, 2024 11:58 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 06, 2024 11:55 AM (JLq/
He's more of a Taupe color... The new Taupe dope ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 06, 2024 11:58 AM (IyPmt)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 11:57 AM (uxCna)
Yep. And nine years ago.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 11:58 AM (jdHxK)
Hope you are feeling better. I had similar symptoms developed last summer. SOB,chest pain and dry cough. Chest X-ray showed a L pleural effusion (fluid in lungs). With more testing the cause and then the treatment were identified. Meanwhile I’ve had that fluid drained 3 times. Still some there But feeling one hell of a lot better.
Posted by: Ex GOP at July 06, 2024 11:58 AM (GpUII)
When he moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania he contacted the (R) party and told them of his history. They said good, address these envelopes and then put stamps on them.
The 'good ol' boys' aren't too welcoming to new faces. Unless they have some grunt work to be done.
Posted by: Divide by Zero
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You go around them, plenty of local and state candidates welcome help directly but a lot of politics IS grunt work and no job should be viewed as beneath oneself regardless of credentials.
I've licked stamps, stacked and sorted mailers, been outside polling places with pamphlets, sat at booth at events, signed up voters and so on. Greet people at a cruddy empty storefront local campaign hq.
You do the work long enough as a volunteer (not a paid smarmy type looking for the next grift) and by and large you become known.
Then again, I grew up on a farm and am well used to shitty jobs growing up so licking envelopes doesn't bother me a bit nor cold calling missing voters election eve.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 11:59 AM (/0X3E)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 11:56 AM (2NHgQ)
YOU ARE A SELF-HATING WOMAN!!!
Posted by: Feminists at July 06, 2024 11:59 AM (nJTSw)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 12:00 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: DaveA at July 06, 2024 12:00 PM (PMJuY)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 11:57 AM (uxCna)"
Yeah but MSM narrative doesn't give a shit about that, and way too many voting age white chicks (sorry ladies) who should know better by now bend their entire reality around what the MSM/social media implies that *other* voting age white chicks believe, say, or find reprehensible.
Posted by: somedood at July 06, 2024 12:01 PM (yDVMy)
Epstein Docs Allege Trump Had Relations with Underage Girls
If there was any actual dirt against Trump in the Epstein Files, it would have been leaked in a millisecond.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 11:57 AM (uxCna)
Didn't Trump testify against Epstein in the first trial ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 06, 2024 12:01 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 12:01 PM (jdHxK)
Epstein Docs Allege Trump Had Relations with Underage Girls
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Sounds like another "pee on the bed" story. Has the CIA confirmed it yet?
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 06, 2024 12:01 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 11:49 AM (/7KEl)
If you can find him.
The way I see it, Buttygig is proving that we don’t need a Dept of Transportation.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 12:02 PM (nJTSw)
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
Pro-abortion Democrats march to “Born in the USA,” blissfully unaware of the searing irony.
https://is.gd/aszt7g
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 11:11 AM (
Some people also play it at pro American activities which is just as ironic.
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 12:02 PM (SHMXB)
There's a good link on Biden's incoherence and how it fits the needs of Democrats at Instapundit. Couldn't find it today.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 12:03 PM (rrtZS)
https://bit.ly/4bxQ60f
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 06, 2024
My understanding (which my iPad tried to make undertaker) is the documents only reveal some real estate transactions and nothing sordid. The girl who accused Trump was discredited and all the proof she said she had against Trump didn’t exist
. “ Ransome subsequently told the New York Post reporter, who did not publish any story related to the allegations, that she wanted to "retract everything I have said to you and walk away from this," according to an unsealed message from October 2016”
As to why they aren’t jumping on it? She said the very same things about Clinton.
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 12:03 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 12:03 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 06, 2024 12:01 PM (g8Ew
As we speak 51 IC grandees are being roused from their slumber so they can sign onto a joint declaration assuring the voters that this story is 100% true.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 12:03 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: KT
You really can't overestimate the Dems stupidity.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 12:04 PM (pPOh9)
And of course I got jumped! "No! Totally WRONG! You don't get it! He needs to fill football stadiums again right NOW! Because that energizes his supporters!"
Posted by: mnw
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One of the reasons that kibitzers get jumped is you have presented no credentials as a political expert nor reasons why your political advise is useful or needed by the DJT team.
The campaign team has far more granular and better idea of what the different campaign electorates look like and most probably you are NOT the targeted audience. For Trump to win over the expected cheat, he is going for the low propensity voters (which worked in 2020 btw to the extent the cheat was rocketed to eleventy by the Dems to barely win) that basically dislike most the GOP officeholders as much as the Dems for being fake, lying, swarmy, grifting disgraces to humanity.
This is a referendum on the Dems in power less than it is about Trump this time.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:04 PM (/0X3E)
My short stint in local politics left such a bad taste in my mouth I didn't walk away I ran. Candidate 'A' I supported with a lot of time and effort. Wrote letters of support to local newspaper, took polls of voter attitudes, graphic arts stuff. Nice reward with a luncheon at a name real estate developers home - Skip and vmom would recognize the name. The Top Guy in this area.
Yeah, she embarrassed the hell out of me by looking to approve something that same real estate developer wanted which would have busted our zoning laws and led to massive overdevelopment in my little town. While having run successfully on a platform of just the opposite.
I'm not saying others shouldn't do what they can, but it's no Sunday picnic out there.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 12:04 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 12:03 PM (pRpzT)
I believe it regarding Clinton
Posted by: It's me donna at July 06, 2024 12:04 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2024 12:02 PM (SHMXB)
Yep. CCR's Fortunate Son gets the same mis-application, for some reason.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 12:04 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 11:56 AM (NLIak)
He has to present himself as a dynamic alternative to Comatose Joe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 12:04 PM (jEbF6)
'Epstein Docs Allege Trump Had Relations with Underage Girls
If there was any actual dirt against Trump in the Epstein Files, it would have been leaked in a millisecond.'
This will just be another ball of mud that only democrats care about. All this does is inoculate Trump against further attacks.
No one is taking democrats word for anything. The boy cried "wolf" one too many times.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 06, 2024 12:05 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Not voting our way out at July 06, 2024 12:05 PM (UAE9D)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 12:05 PM (nJTSw)
Great news. The people who did that procedure at the hospital noted that they did several of them every day.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 12:05 PM (rrtZS)
Posted by: Nappy B. at July 06, 2024 12:06 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 06, 2024 11:53 AM (P5BPp)
So what they're saying is even at the age of 78 Trump can still achieve and maintain an erection while Biden hasn't had a hard-on since 2006..
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 12:06 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 12:07 PM (V13WU)
Trump had Epstein tossed out of Mar Lago when he started hitting on Trumps young female help. Permanent ban.
Bullshit story out of Britain is bullshit. But that's what they do.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 12:07 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Not voting our way out at July 06, 2024 12:05 PM (UAE9D)
Because no one wants to. Although we should demand the same efficiency of government that we demand of Apple or Samsung but we don’t.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 12:07 PM (nJTSw)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 12:01 PM (jdHxK)
Do we really want those blobby green assholes from Alpha Centauri voting in our elections?
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 12:08 PM (1Yy3c)
Do we really want those blobby green assholes from Alpha Centauri voting in our elections?
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 12
Down with blobby green things!
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 12:08 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: somedood
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Don't take counsel of your fears and the MSM is a dying and untrusted institution right down there with the GOP and Dems in general.
The MSM itself took a massive dump on its own credibility with the whole Biden dementia coverup that is now apparent to a huge number of semi engaged voters. The CNN record ratings mean that once that is seen, people have enough experience personally to know that they have been kept in the dark and fed manure over Biden's competency.
That is why the Dems are in a panic; their best ally (the MSM) just shot themselves in the head covering up dementia and all of a sudden, no one knows what the narrative is or should be.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:09 PM (/0X3E)
"How Kamala Harris's affair with a much-older Democrat kingpin - now 90 - catapulted her career.."
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 12:10 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Methos at July 06, 2024 12:10 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 12:10 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: Kang and Kodos at July 06, 2024 12:10 PM (23272)
From my grandpa: "kid, that's an awful short fuse. I wouldn't hold that firecracker in your hand".
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 06, 2024 12:11 PM (kxq0/)
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Desantis has gotten a lot better at off the cuff discussion of issues. He wasn't able to do an answer like that in 2018.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 12:12 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 12:14 PM (/7KEl)
I'm not saying others shouldn't do what they can, but it's no Sunday picnic out there.
Posted by: Divide by Zero
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Nothing worthwhile ever is. Churches have ministers that are perverts, charities have embezzling thieves, and so on. No less than marriage, children, jobs, etc., you will always have risks that things turn out badly. Resilience to get back up after failure with sadly acquired knowledge is the ticket. I Get Knocked Down (But I Get Up Again) is a pretty good song and philosophy.
And yes, I have seen a candidate say one thing and do quite another. Never worked for the ass again and worked for an opponent the next election which took the pos out. Good times revenge as the POS outspent our candidate about ten to one and still lost.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:14 PM (/0X3E)
Exactly. Biden can't walk away and no one close has any reason to stop him.
So Joe becomes the nominee. And we get to watch the media whores pretend the last two weeks didn't happen and Joe is amazing again.
Or else Trump gets in and this universe collapses in on itself or something...
Posted by: Stateless at July 06, 2024 12:14 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 12:15 PM (fwDg9)
Hate to say this, sounded more like Trump.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 12:16 PM (5p7BC)
The MSM itself took a massive dump on its own credibility with the whole Biden dementia coverup that is now apparent to a huge number of semi engaged voters. The CNN record ratings mean that once that is seen, people have enough experience personally to know that they have been kept in the dark and fed manure over Biden's competency.
That is why the Dems are in a panic; their best ally (the MSM) just shot themselves in the head covering up dementia and all of a sudden, no one knows what the narrative is or should be.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:09 PM (/0X3E)"
Oh, I think the progs have a fair chance of losing this one. I'm just pointing out that the actual facts of the matter or anyone's ability to infer them don't really amount to anything.
Posted by: somedood at July 06, 2024 12:16 PM (yDVMy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgXYj_YqVvM
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 12:16 PM (2xB3Z)
"Gay" used to be a perfectly good word, it didn't refer to homosexual in any way.
Why can't "Born In The USA" be re-purposed, then? I don't get it.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 12:16 PM (HHI2d)
That is why the Dems are in a panic; their best ally (the MSM) just shot themselves in the head covering up dementia and all of a sudden, no one knows what the narrative is or should be.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:09 PM (/0X3E)
The GOP knew Biden was demented, but went along for the ride, happy to be rid of Trump. They covered up the dementia just as the covered up the J6 show trials, the election fraud, and anything else that might shake the grift tree. To exclude their contribution is wrong.
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 12:16 PM (2NXcZ)
"Did ya learn anything kid"?
" Dang long haired hippy needs to take a bath and get a job".
" Kid, go find yerself a switch and meet me out behind the barn".
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 06, 2024 12:17 PM (kxq0/)
Hate to say this, sounded more like Trump.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 12:16 PM (5p7BC)
Agreed.. Vivek is a bit too slick for me
Posted by: It's me donna at July 06, 2024 12:17 PM (IyPmt)
Shes obviously deeply flawed, but so is our nominee.
Posted by: Highlander at July 06, 2024 12:17 PM (kRhM/)
Shes obviously deeply flawed, but so is our nominee.
Posted by: Highlander at July 06, 2024 12:17 PM (kRhM/)
Kamala is part of the cover up too.. She knew Biden was senile and lied
Posted by: It's me donna at July 06, 2024 12:19 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 06, 2024 12:17 PM (kxq0/)
That one is to small. Go get me a bigger one.
Posted by: Grandpa at July 06, 2024 12:19 PM (xcIvR)
Kamala is part of the cover up too.. She knew Biden was senile and lied
Posted by: It's me donna at July 06, 2024
She is the ultimate winner of the dead pool. Why wouldn’t she?
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 12:20 PM (pRpzT)
Kamala is part of the cover up too.. She knew Biden was senile and lied
Posted by: It's me donna at July 06, 2024 12:19 PM (IyPmt)
Nearly everyone in DC is part of the coverup. Only the freshman congresspeople might have not known at first, but then they did.
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 12:20 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 12:20 PM (pRpzT)
She could have invoked the 25th Amendment and become president..
Posted by: It's me donna at July 06, 2024 12:21 PM (IyPmt)
And yes, I have seen a candidate say one thing and do quite another. Never worked for the ass again and worked for an opponent the next election which took the pos out. Good times revenge as the POS outspent our candidate about ten to one and still lost.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:14 PM
Good for you. I basically withdrew support and never returned phone calls. I don't think she ran for reelection. The one issue I was concerned about all the people in the town had the same feeling - limit growth. 40% of the town has now been set aside to never be developed and my property is safe.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 12:21 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 12:21 PM (2NHgQ)
kid. "I did so and so."
Shut up kid. Never tell on yourself. Let's go get some ice cream.
Posted by: Grandpa at July 06, 2024 12:23 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Not voting our way out
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The bond market will sooner or later. When the US can no longer borrow money at affordable rates, then massive cuts will happen either via direct repudiation (haircut) etc. or interest consuming the entire budget.
Biden actually severely damaged the existing fiscal cushion from the US being a reserve currency because of Ukraine which in turn reduces the demand for dollars abroad and hikes inflation domestically.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:23 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 12:24 PM (llON8)
https://tinyurl.com/5ht6hfc5
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 06, 2024 12:24 PM (RUmyk)
Involuntary 25th has never been tried. Safe, and effective? Well who knows. Joe can deny it, say "I'm fine, really, thanks" and then it has to go to Congress. They have 21 days to vote on it. Both houses, and 2/3rds majority to remove Biden. If they don't do anything in 21 days, Joe gets his job back. The 25th is an "acting" position, not actual presidency, in some cases, it appears, and some cases not.
Harris has already been president, technically speaking, for a few hours when Joe was put under anesthesia.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 12:25 PM (HHI2d)
"I'd vote for Biden in a coma to keep Hitler out of the White House."
Nice, huh? And she's still got her gig.
Obviously there's an audience out there who appreciates insights of this sort.
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 12:25 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2024 12:26 PM (q2sRE)
If anything she hoping for a faster demise like I am
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 12:26 PM (fwDg9)
No CGI.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 12:26 PM (Ka3bZ)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 12:20 PM (pRpzT)
She could have invoked the 25th Amendment and become president..
Posted by: It's me donna at July 06
She would be looked at as a traitor. If he dies, she is sympathetic and President. Remember, we aren’t speaking about the upper echelons of morality here.
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 12:27 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 12:25 PM (NLIak)
The same people who still believe in open borders as long as the migrants don't come to their neigborhood.
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 12:27 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 12:27 PM (G8YPt)
Shes obviously deeply flawed, but so is our nominee.
Posted by: Highlander
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This is not a personality election but more a referendum on the Dems. That is why even Mooch is not polling well enough to jump into the race at this point. Right now, all the Dems candidates are losing to Trump by about the same margins.
We are seeing that basically in country after country, it is more a desire for the voters for change from the crap fed to them by WEF globalists regardless of party. NetZero is and was a stupid policy that enriches the wealthy and impoverishes the general population. Ditto for mass immigration from poor countries. Ditto for shipping money abroad to be wasted in Ukraine. Ditto for Gaza and so on. Muslim immigrants ain't our friends, lots of criminals in those young male immigrants seeking new lands to conquer, and so on.
It is going to be messy, unpleasant, and the debate will NOT revolve around the trivialities that the Globalists WEF uniparty want.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:29 PM (/0X3E)
Biden is doing to meet and greet for all of his fans behind him.
Takes selfie with the white guy.
Completely passes by and ignores the black girl.
Spends tons of time hugging and kissing the two white women next to her.
The face on this black girl is unreal, she was so totally dissed and she is in disbelief.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 12:30 PM (5p7BC)
https://tinyurl.com/5ht6hfc5
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 06, 2024 12:24 PM (RUmyk)
Parkinson's doesn't cause dementia. Affects the brain's ability to control voluntary muscle movement. My mother had it. Biden is suffering Alzheimers or senile dementia.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 12:30 PM (jEbF6)
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 12:30 PM (NLIak)
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It is going to be messy, unpleasant, and the debate will NOT revolve around the trivialities that the Globalists WEF uniparty want.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:29 PM (/0X3E)
I have a dream, that someday *all* the WEFtards will be on the run and have to hide wherever they can, maybe in a stinky dusty pit like Saddam, where they will be found anyway.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 12:31 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 12:31 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 12:31 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Grandpa
Learned quickly to not make that mistake.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 06, 2024 12:31 PM (kxq0/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2024 12:31 PM (q2sRE)
George Takei
@GeorgeTakei
If you think a nightmarish, unconstitutional round up of innocent people, merely suspected of being enemies of the state, can’t happen in the U.S., then you’re forgetting that it already has.
I was among them, along with my entire family and community.
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And this is why Democrats should never be allowed power again.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 12:31 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2024 12:31 PM (q2sRE)
Or he thought she was a caregiver and only there to wipe ass.
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 12:32 PM (2NXcZ)
Biden is doing to meet and greet for all of his fans behind him.
Takes selfie with the white guy.
Completely passes by and ignores the black girl.
Spends tons of time hugging and kissing the two white women next to her.
The face on this black girl is unreal, she was so totally dissed and she is in disbelief.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 12:30 PM (5p7BC)
Link pretty please?
(Tell us how RAYCISS! Trump is again, presstitutes...)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 12:32 PM (llON8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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SanFranPsycho, I believe had some dealings with her on the San Francisco local level when getting started. But, Kamala has a pattern of lots of aides leaving her various offices and not particularly speaking well of her. Apparently vindictive and blames her staffers for her own personal failings.
Stories have been around for years about the turmoil in her office and part of the bad blood between her and Biden is that Biden (or Jill) purposefully put Kamala as the point person for losing projects and leaked info to the DC political info circuit about her mismanagement of the VP office and poor political skills.
No love lost there.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:32 PM (/0X3E)
The RCP average is now composed 100% from polls taken post debate.
Trump leads in all 11 of them.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 12:33 PM (5p7BC)
Parkinson's doesn't cause dementia. Affects the brain's ability to control voluntary muscle movement. My mother had it. Biden is suffering Alzheimers or senile dementia.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 12:30 PM
I think he can have both simultaneously. On a long enough timeline a lot of medicines are associated with Parkinson's. Both of my wife's parents had it in their 80's after decades of taking 'happy pills'.
Who knows what Biden has been taking for decades.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 12:33 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Countries will have to kill transnational corporations via regulatory death of a thousand cuts for that to be done. Oligarchs are going be be limited in reach to doing damage only to their own countries, not others.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:34 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 12:35 PM (fwDg9)
kid. "I did so and so."
Shut up kid. Never tell on yourself. Let's go get some ice cream.
Posted by: Grandpa
Most often it was, go grab some worms out of the barrel, grab yer pole and lets go catch dinner.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 06, 2024 12:35 PM (kxq0/)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 12:35 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 12:36 PM (V13WU)
Monica Crowley just posted it.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 12:37 PM (5p7BC)
'Biden is doing to meet and greet for all of his fans behind him.
Takes selfie with the white guy.
Completely passes by and ignores the black girl.'
Sen. Byrd told me I didn't have to because LBJ made sure they'd always vote democrat anyway.
Posted by: F. Joe Biden at July 06, 2024 12:37 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:34 PM (/0X3E)
As oligarchs were largely responsible for forced vax and vax passports, and covered for fauci's bioweapon, Nuremberg 2.0 could help neutralize them and relieve the families of all the cash as compensation.
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 12:37 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2024 12:37 PM (q2sRE)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
https://is.gd/1n06Bw
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 12:37 PM (L/fGl)
Who knows what Biden has been taking for decades.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 12:33 PM (RKVpM)
Oh, he might have both, but Parkinsons is not, on its own, necessarily a disqualifier for an office holder. A Parkinsons patient can still be sharp mentally, not that Biden ever was.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 12:38 PM (jEbF6)
Puttering outside but has to be in high 90s, was 91 around 9am
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 12:35 PM
Just checked, 93 here. Gonna have to water some stuff for the second time today soon.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 12:38 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Due to my mother's condition (who is actually better shape speaking and reasoning if not memory), I am guessing a combination of vascular dementia (old timey hardening of the arteries diagnosis) and Alzheimers. Joe has already had brain damage due to his past two brain aneurysms and that leave a mark.
FWIW, intemperate anger is often more common with vascular than Alzheimers.
My mother is being treated by an excellent university medical hospital institute that specializes in adult dementia and aging and she has pretty much had all the tests. Spent a fair amount of time with the doctors discussing the issues and likewise seeing my mother interact with others at her memory care facility.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:38 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
https://is.gd/1n06Bw
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 12:37 PM (L/fGl)
----
The Biden team will probably make things right in the form of cold hard cash (on the QT of course).
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 12:39 PM (2xB3Z)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE VICE PRESIDENT'S PRIMARY FUNCTION IS TO BE THE "PLAN B" UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 06, 2024 12:40 PM (+oRno)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 11:56 AM (jEbF6)
I got a senior discount at a restaurant without asking for it. That's sad.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2024 12:41 PM (w6EFb)
@GeorgeTakei
If you think a nightmarish, unconstitutional round up of innocent people, merely suspected of being enemies of the state, can’t happen in the U.S., then you’re forgetting that it already has.
I was among them, along with my entire family and community.
-
And this is why Democrats should never be allowed power again.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 12:31 PM (L/fGl)
***
Exactly. Get a clue George.
And there nothing worse than a has been actor desperate for relevance.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2024 12:42 PM (W/lyH)
Who knows what Biden has been taking for decades.
Posted by: Divide by Zero
My father in law was misdiagnosed by a quack as having Parkinsons but really due to a particular heart medication side effect. Mis treatment of a non Parkison's patient with Parkinson drugs made matters much worse over the couple of months for my fil and simulated dementia for him. Fortunately we brought him to our locale and sent him to specialists that correctly diagnosed him and changed his heart meds to avoid the issue. He lived a couple of more years and never showed the signs of dementia or Parkinsons. Multiple myeloma leading to a heart attack got him.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:42 PM (/0X3E)
Good catch.
Speaking of unpopular posts, here's one of my greatest hits. Summary only. What do you think?
Why the DEMs can't steal AZ this time:
Biden's margin of victory in AZ in 2020 was 10400 votes. In the RCP avg of all AZ polls yesterday, Trump was ahead by 6 points. Assuming the exact same turnout in 2024 as in 2020, i.e., about 3.3 million total votes, the DEMs would need to steal 200000 votes just to get to 50%. Fraud on THAT scale is a fantasy, imo.
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 12:42 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 12:43 PM (2xB3Z)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
https://is.gd/1n06Bw
- - - -
Wow, he totally snubbed her!
And the earrings on that Karen - yuge, red ovaries?
What is wrong with women that are so obsessed with (I assume) 'reproductive rights'??!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024 12:43 PM (+oRno)
Posted by: enough BS
=========
I would include the various oligarchs pushing Net Zero as well and Pritzker family for financing trans for kids as well.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:44 PM (/0X3E)
The face on this black girl is unreal, she was so totally dissed and she is in disbelief.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
https://is.gd/1n06Bw
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 12:37 PM
Thanks for link. Will it effect black women's votes? I'd like to think so. But I'm a realist.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 12:44 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: mnw
AZ Gope: let me hold that beer for you.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 12:44 PM (pPOh9)
CNN interviewed two radio hosts that did interviews with Biden after the debate. Biden campaign is touting these interviews as proof he is fine.
Turns out the campaign sent the hosts a list of 8 questions, and they had to choose 4 from the list, and tell the campaign which they would ask.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 12:44 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at July 06, 2024 12:45 PM (iF0sF)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
https://is.gd/1n06Bw'
I laughed but then felt bad about it because the girl was obviously crushed,
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 06, 2024 12:45 PM (3wi/L)
@GeorgeTakei
If you think a nightmarish, unconstitutional round up of innocent people, merely suspected of being enemies of the state, can’t happen in the U.S., then you’re forgetting that it already has.
I was among them, along with my entire family and community.
----
Jan 6 prisoners? HELLO! MCFLY! DON'T BE SO GULLIBLE MCFLY.
Posted by: Biff Tannen at July 06, 2024 12:46 PM (2xB3Z)
If you think a nightmarish, unconstitutional round up of innocent people, merely suspected of being enemies of the state, can’t happen in the U.S., then you’re forgetting that it already has.
I was among them, along with my entire family and community.
"I know, right? Sometimes it's easier to not round them up, though. . ."
-- Lon Horiuchi
Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2024 12:46 PM (+oRno)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 06, 2024 12:47 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2024 12:48 PM (q2sRE)
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 12:48 PM (NLIak)
Joy Reid last night:
"I'd vote for Biden in a coma to keep Hitler out of the White House."
And ANYTHING is acceptable in the destruction of Hitler.
Even going back in a time machine to kill baby Hitler.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 12:48 PM (63Dwl)
The RCP average is now composed 100% from polls taken post debate.
Trump leads in all 11 of them.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
Dave in Fla,
Incumbent governments are losing elections across the West or languishing in unpopularity like in Australia and Germany.
What we are seeing is that the WEF/Global uniparty agenda is universally unpopular whether pushed by Tories, Social Democrats (Germany), Labor (Australia), Liberals (Canada), or Macron's so called centrists in France.
This election, unlike a lot of others in the past is more in line with the general population turning on those pushing mass immigration, useless wars like Ukraine, pervert worship, Covid Public Health tyranny, and Net Zero/Green Nude Eels. The dogs ain't eating the dog food and I think the oligarchs are beginning to get uncomfortable. They have the money but not the boots on the ground.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:49 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 12:49 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Biff Tannen at July 06, 2024 12:50 PM (2xB3Z)
Biden's margin of victory in AZ in 2020 was 10400 votes. In the RCP avg of all AZ polls yesterday, Trump was ahead by 6 points. Assuming the exact same turnout in 2024 as in 2020, i.e., about 3.3 million total votes, the DEMs would need to steal 200000 votes just to get to 50%. Fraud on THAT scale is a fantasy, imo.
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 12:42 PM (NLIak
Oh, gosh, the water pipes all broke at every polling place except for those in Maricopa County. We will only have those votes to count then. Well, whaddya know, AZ goes to Biden!
Posted by: The Party at July 06, 2024 12:50 PM (lrEMD)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
https://is.gd/1n06Bw'
I laughed but then felt bad about it because the girl was obviously crushed,
Trump needs to call the young woman up, and listen to her. And invite her to his next rally. Put her front and center.
Play those two images on a split screen.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 12:50 PM (81wK+)
In 2020 they were able to cheat Lake out of a 2% lead in a turnout that is half what you see in a Presidential year. About 70K votes worth of fraud.
Trump's lead is 5 times larger and the electorate will be 50% bigger.
Back of the envelope, they need from 600-900K of fake votes to overcome Trump's lead, if election was today.
It doesn't look like the Dems are even bothering to fight for AZ. They are focused on trying to hold the blue wall.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 12:51 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2024 12:51 PM (q2sRE)
And now we have DOCTOR Jill. It always whymes.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 06, 2024 12:51 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 12:51 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 12:52 PM (lrEMD)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 12:53 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
https://is.gd/1n06Bw'
I laughed but then felt bad about it because the girl was obviously crushed,
Posted by: Dr. Claw
---------------
Same, Dr. Claw. Kid has her politics wrong but what a jerk move by Biden.
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 12:53 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
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You should be proud of your accomplishments. A good wife like you is worth far more than rubies as the saying goes.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:54 PM (/0X3E)
Play those two images on a split screen.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 12:50 PM (81wK+)
Excellent idea, Nurse!
Trump is actually scary good at retail politics.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 12:55 PM (EET1b)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 06, 2024 12:55 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
https://is.gd/1n06Bw
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 12:37 PM (L/fGl)
Wow.
Gotta love the uterus earrings the second AWFL is wearing... even better is someone in the background with a t-shirt 'No Hate In My State'.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 12:55 PM (llON8)
I think the new law indicates that things DO change for the better sometimes, fraud-wise.
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 12:56 PM (NLIak)
Trump needs to call the young woman up, and listen to her. And invite her to his next rally. Put her front and center.
Play those two images on a split screen.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 12:50 PM
Good idea. Signed MAGA hat too. They have to be worth some coin.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 12:57 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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Same, Dr. Claw. Kid has her politics wrong but what a jerk move by Biden.
Posted by: scampydog
======
Betcha DJT would not have treated her that way.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:57 PM (/0X3E)
Play those two images on a split screen.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 12:50 PM (81wK+)
Excellent idea, Nurse!
Trump is actually scary good at retail politics.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 12:55 PM (EET1b)
YES please.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 12:57 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 12:57 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 12:57 PM (63Dwl)
Any word from lousagirl? Should add her to the prayer list since her hubby passed away a few eeks ago. She stopped by on an ont this week and she's really hurting.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 12:57 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 12:44 PM (/0X3E)
Pritzker definitely falls under Nuremberg 2.0 as these young people have no ability to understand the permanence of these choices or the smiling lies about "transitions". In a civilized society the perps would hang, but we haven't been civilized in quite a while.
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 12:57 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 12:58 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: Cicero
They fooled us last time. Maybe we should get 53 or 54 intelligence experts this time.
Posted by: mikeski at July 06, 2024 12:59 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 12:59 PM (/7KEl)
'Betcha DJT would not have treated her that way.'
I don't think so either. Besides being more compassionate, Trump isn't a stupid asshole.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 06, 2024 12:59 PM (3wi/L)
Scott Pressler moved to PA to register voters there. He has been getting people from all over to come to PA to help.
One guy drove from New York to Bucks County, and registered a new Republican outside the Newsom event.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 12:59 PM (5p7BC)
Gotta love the uterus earrings the second AWFL is wearing... even better is someone in the background with a t-shirt 'No Hate In My State'.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
No foo like a yung fu.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2024 12:59 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Trump actually likes people from what I've seen. Clinton was also an excellent retail politician as was Reagan. Carter was pretty good also in 1976. Personal encounters with the last three guys.
Only seen Trump personally work the room at an NRA convention.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 01:00 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 01:00 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 12:59 PM (/7KEl)
She was motivated to be there. If the motivation was pay, she wasn't going to vote for him in the first place. If it was genuine enthusiasm for Brandon, then at this point, he couldn't dissuade her if he stunned her with a cattle prod on the way by.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 06, 2024 01:01 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
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Read that. Several ONT commenters offered their personal emails in their NICs to her. Dunno if she took them up on it.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 01:01 PM (/0X3E)
More than enough to be plausible as a winner against the bad orange man.
The coming Cheat will dwarf 2020.
Posted by: davidt at July 06, 2024 01:02 PM (SYTee)
RE: AZ
Thanks.
I used static analysis just to be ultra cautious. Because... whenever I post that that level of fraud is impossible, I get carpet-bombed into oblivion, usually.
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 01:02 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: davidt at July 06, 2024 01:02 PM (SYTee)
I agree and they will not hesitate to use deadly force as it worked on J6
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 01:03 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
So Kamala is the nominee?
Posted by: mikeski at July 06, 2024 01:03 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: mikeski at July 06, 2024 01:03 PM (DgGvY
The nominee is a cut-out figure, Mayorkas, Garland and Obama are the real triumvirate.
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 01:05 PM (2NXcZ)
THAT will help her.
Posted by: p-squared at July 06, 2024 01:06 PM (i3SWt)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Or Shitler for short.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 01:06 PM (L/fGl)
RE: AZ
Thanks.
I used static analysis just to be ultra cautious. Because... whenever I post that that level of fraud is impossible, I get carpet-bombed into oblivion, usually.
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 01:02 PM (NLIak)
Honest question, not trying to bomb
but why do you think any level of fraud is impossible? Sure it will look absolutely ridiculous if Brandon receives a half-billion Note, this does *not* mean there couldn't be ... consequences ... for such insanity, but that's not *prevention*.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 01:06 PM (llON8)
Brian Stelter.
I don't think I have enough popcorn in the house.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 01:06 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: davidt at July 06, 2024 01:02 PM (SYTee)
I agree and they will not hesitate to use deadly force as it worked on J6
Posted by: enough BS
The electoral map is widening so that the swing states in 2020 are not the same as 2024. Essentially, even the military Feebs, etc. start quailing to defend a horrible old dementia patient and the actual Commies in government (unlike those in the 1900's) don't get their hands dirty with actual work--they just try to blather, issue impotent threats, etc.
Gamma personalities basically that lack the courage of their convictions. They rely on others to do their dirty work and the others just might not be amenable this time.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 01:07 PM (/0X3E)
Show the clip of him ignoring her.
Then Trump calls her. Invites her to sit down so he can listen to her. He listens to her goals and her dreams. He asks her how he can help.
She complains about the plight of black people. Trump explains how black unemployment was at its lowest in history under his administration. She complains about black incarceration. He points out his working with Kim Kardashian to rectify some sentences. She complains about opportunity. He offered her a job.
Then show her at a Trump rally wearing a MAGA hat.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 01:08 PM (81wK+)
Brian Stelter.
I don't think I have enough popcorn in the house.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 01:06 PM (5p7BC)
LOL
Tater vs Spud 2024!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 01:08 PM (llON8)
Thanks for the thread K.T. Best wishes for a complete recovery and a happy summer.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 06, 2024 01:08 PM (qxlax)
Spongebrain Shitpants!
Demented and corrupted as he sure can be?
Spongebrain Shitpants!
So if chaos, confusion, and war you do wish,
Spongebrain Shitpants!
Hold your nose tightly and vote for the bitch!
Spongebrain Shitpants!
Spongebrain Shitpants!
Spongebrain!
Shitpants!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 06, 2024 01:08 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: pawn at July 06, 2024 01:09 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 01:10 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 01:07 PM (/0X3E)
Herds need time to settle on a new bellwether before they are united. What is going on now, I suspect, is a speed-sorting to get that, and not every possibility is cooperating.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 01:10 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: The Imperial Japanese Navy at July 06, 2024 01:11 PM (23272)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 12:24 PM (llON
I actually downloaded AtC's excellent rant. It was epic! I'll need to check my other drives.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 06, 2024 01:11 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: pawn at July 06, 2024 01:09 PM (QB+5g)
Amazing how much the GOP is ignoring this situation. In. On. It.
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 01:11 PM (2NXcZ)
Note, this does *not* mean there couldn't be ... consequences ... for such insanity, but that's not *prevention*.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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The goal is prevention first and also putting a lot of these local jurisdictions under court injunctions in the first place such as mandating access to election judges, etc. That way, the enforcement is semi automatic. The other is massive cheats are only possible with bloated registration rolls and mail in ballots. A lot of non partisan voter integrity groups are involved in cleansing the registration rolls of dead, moved, ineligible, and nonexistent voters in fake addresses right now via motor voter lawsuits and finally the RNC is giving them aid in court. I can go on but gray box limits.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 01:12 PM (/0X3E)
Posted by: The Imperial Japanese Navy at July 06, 2024 01:11 PM (23272)
Might help you get the lifeboats off...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 01:12 PM (p7ywU)
Math works out like this:
(Trump Vote) + (Biden Vote) + (Fraud)
The fraud has to be pulled from a fixed sized pool of "unused" votes.
The greater the differential between Trump and Biden vote, the harder it is logistically to pull in fraudulent votes to make us the difference.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 01:12 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 06, 2024 01:12 PM (qxlax)
Trump + Biden + Fraud must be less than or equal to total registered voters
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 01:14 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: enough BS
======
I think the Tories getting wiped out is a sobering moment for GOPe go along with Dems this election.
No office, no grift.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 01:14 PM (/0X3E)
I'm sure by about five pm tonight we'll have the name of the young black woman. By tomorrow her face and story will be everywhere.
I'm a conspiracy theorist so I suspect someone that close to Biden to get that video could be an insider who knows how demented he is and wants Joe gone.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 01:14 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 01:15 PM (D7oie)
No office, no grift.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 01:14 PM (/0X3E)
They deserved it.
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 01:16 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 01:14 PM (RKVpM)
And works for someone who wants to be President.
Posted by: davidt at July 06, 2024 01:16 PM (SYTee)
@GeorgeTakei
If you think a nightmarish, unconstitutional round up of innocent people, merely suspected of being enemies of the state, can’t happen in the U.S., then you’re forgetting that it already has.
I was among them, along with my entire family and community.
..........................................
Yeah, under a democrat president, you stupid fvcking cvnt!!
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 06, 2024 01:16 PM (iODuv)
I'm a conspiracy theorist so I suspect someone that close to Biden to get that video could be an insider who knows how demented he is and wants Joe gone.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 01:14 PM (RKVpM)
Feel bad for her being doxxed and blamed for the bad campaign
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 01:16 PM (D7oie)
It's a fair question. However, if, as Dave in FL posits, they stole 700000 (!) votes in AZ (just in order to win the state by 1 vote)... I believe that neither the courts, nor the press (FOX News, etc.), nor the actual voters in AZ would stand for it.
The stench from stealing 6% of the total AZ vote (Dave in FL says 700000; I said 200000 just to be on the safe side) would be exponentially greater than the considerable stench when they (probably) stole appx 10000.
Wouldn't you agree that fraud on THAT scale represents a whole different risk calculus than (likely) stealing 10000?
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 01:16 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 01:16 PM (NLIak)
Only if there are consequences for fraud and there have been only individual cosmetic consequences created to make fraud look isolated and small.
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 01:19 PM (2NXcZ)
Trump + Biden + Fraud must be less than or equal to total registered voters
Posted by: Dave in Fla
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Agreed. In most states (leaving out the few that have election day registration), having more ballots produced than actual registered voters is prima facie proof of fraud in court precedents. Then the question is margin.
Yes, the Democrats could in theory ramp up to eleventy but 400 million votes in a country of 350 millions or so will destroy any vestige of popular sovereignty is likely to result in regime suicide. Contra to people's beliefs, we are not a police state yet and due to federalism, decentralization, and the sheer vastness of the US are unlikely to be a consolidated E. Germany or North Korea in the near future. So there are practical limits to coercion and much of that is directed actually at their own purported voters--e.g. Antifa only exists as a force in blue cities, ditto for the urban riot gangs. Move outside of those areas into many of the suburbs and you get Kyle Rittenhouse effect.
The military in such a situation will stay in their barracks and a fair number of federal leos won't be enthused about propping up Biden.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 01:20 PM (/0X3E)
hmm I doubt it
the girl was up in the back and one of the staffers asked her to come down to the front SPECIFICALLY to meet him! they were shooting so they could get a great "moment" to help with the Black vote.
and that old racist just ignored her - not once but twice!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 06, 2024 01:21 PM (s3qiR)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 06, 2024 01:22 PM (oGbWL)
It's a mystery to me why the Democrats didn't convince Joe to bow out of the race at this time last year. Now they can't win with him and can't get rid of him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 01:22 PM (1Nxff)
Hadrian I am certain they did try.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 06, 2024 01:23 PM (s3qiR)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 01:23 PM (fwDg9)
"[T]his means that Labour is an unstable coalition of completely incompatible groups that hate another, including both the gender-maddened and the warrior-barbers of Allah, presided over uneasily by an elite of neoliberal managerial technocrats, or at least actors who play those on TV"
https://tinyurl.com/3vrb63s3
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 01:24 PM (D7oie)
Nurse is right, Trump campaign should totally find this girl and put her right behind Trump at a rally. Hell, even let her hold her Biden sign.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 06, 2024 01:24 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 01:24 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: enough BS
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I agree. Most senior GOP officeholders at the national level are just as much dinosaurs approaching extinction as the senior Tories were.
Posted by: whig at July 06, 2024 01:25 PM (/0X3E)
272 I have said before the country has 180 million voters and there will be 220 million votes cast
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 01:23 PM (fwDg9)
And this time they'll be prepared enough that there will be no need to "shut down" the count.
Posted by: enough BS at July 06, 2024 01:26 PM (2NXcZ)
Rich, silly old queens like Takei can have their lachrymose tantrums comfortably. The rest of us actually have to live with this shit show.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 06, 2024 01:26 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Kindltot
Sounds about right. However, the easiest way to string such groups together, at least temporarily, is to identify a common enemy. Things could get very bad for the average Brit.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 06, 2024 01:26 PM (IG4Id)
[T]he simpy "center right" who lacked belief in rights or republics has been a door mat for the far left that masquerades as "center left” for ages because as the old political saw says “you cannot beat something with nothing” and the center right has long been the party of nothing.
they have been worse than “no defense” and crossed over into “active accomplices to societal dissolution.”
this is simply a terrible and increasingly tragic (and costly) worldview
https://tinyurl.com/47fn22nr
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 01:27 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 06, 2024 01:28 PM (oGbWL)
It's a mystery to me why the Democrats didn't convince Joe to bow out of the race at this time last year. Now they can't win with him and can't get rid of him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 01:22 PM (1Nxff
Actually they can get rid of him.
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 01:30 PM (o2ZRX)
'It's a mystery to me why the Democrats didn't convince Joe to bow out of the race at this time last year. '
Same here. I consider democrats to be incompetent in about every regard, except when it comes to politics. This was a predictable political landmine and they did nothing to prepare for it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 06, 2024 01:31 PM (3wi/L)
California had no idea what was going to happen. If you understand the logistical issues at interning tens of thousands of people, no one at this late date could consider this even remotely rational in a time of war.
They were worried at what types of havoc might occur if even small percentages - 5 or 10 per cent - of foreign nationals might cause, if they put a mind to it. That was their job to worry about such thing. It still is today, in fact.
This was a rationing of all food and retail goods economy. You couldn't even buy a tube of toothpaste without turning in the empty one. Complete mobilization of everything. Every thing. If they really thought they *didn't* need to round up foreign nationals from Japan - I would submit they would not have done so. It is a sad chapter in our nation's history for a lot of reasons, but a government that at least tried to win the wars it engaged in. Unlike .... Well, never mind.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 01:32 PM (HHI2d)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 06, 2024 01:31 PM (3wi/L)
there are two things at work here, one is the belief that if things are trucking along, there is no reason to change it
The second is that I doubt anyone in the inner circle of the Bidens is both competent and an independent thinker, which means they all do what they are told, and are reluctant to change things because they don't understand why it works in the first place.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 01:35 PM (D7oie)
That is deep-real video. Haven't watched it. It isn't faked - but it's a *setup* by people who know what Joey is like. Betcha.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 01:39 PM (HHI2d)
Though read the Democrats Convention next month was to be virtual not live much.
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 01:41 PM (fwDg9)
My great uncle was a pharmacist in a retail pharmacy store in Tacoma in 1941. December 7 they hid the Japanese dishwasher kid from the lunch counter in the basement of the store for the day because there had been a group come by deciding to beat him up because he was Japanese, and no one working there wanted him wandering around and running across another lynch mob.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 01:42 PM (D7oie)
That is deep-real video. Haven't watched it. It isn't faked - but it's a *setup* by people who know what Joey is like. Betcha.
Posted by: Common Tater
Show her at a Trump rally with people shaking her hand and celebrating WITH her.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 06, 2024 01:44 PM (81wK+)
Epstein Docs Allege Trump Had Relations with Underage Girls
Unsealed documents related to Jeffrey Epstein have brought forth allegations against Donald Trump, accusing him of having sexual relations with underage girls. The allegations, reported by the U.K. press, have sparked significant discussion on social media, with many users expressing outrage and calling for more attention to these claims. The discussion also highlights a perceived lack of coverage by the U.S. media on this issue. The documents include claims by one of Epstein's alleged victims, Sarah Ransome, detailing these accusations against Trump. The conversation has been marked by a mix of shock, anger, and calls for accountability, with some users questioning the media's focus on other topics.
https://bit.ly/4bxQ60f
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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OMG!!!
This is worse than the RUSSIAN prostitutes!
Anyway...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 06, 2024 01:47 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 01:51 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: tankdemon
Maybe they meant "hystericompetent".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 02:00 PM (L/fGl)
The second is that I doubt anyone in the inner circle of the Bidens is both competent and an independent thinker, which means they all do what they are told, and are reluctant to change things because they don't understand why it works in the first place.
Posted by: Kindltot
3. Astounding amounts of arrogance.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 06, 2024 02:02 PM (qZEuM)
You can stay here if you like, too. Democrats are in a tizzy.
Posted by: KT at July 06, 2024 02:04 PM (rrtZS)
This is worse than the RUSSIAN prostitutes!
Anyway...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 06, 2024 01:47 PM (cOq4q)
They'll blame Trump for shitting Biden's pants before it's over.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 06, 2024 02:34 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 06, 2024 02:48 PM (XMwZJ)
In the Stephanopoulos interview, Biden somehow managed to bring up... the size of his crowds. (!)
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 02:52 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 02:56 PM (fwDg9)
Stephanopoulos pointed out, "But Trump draws BIG CROWDS."
Biden; "But who are they?"
Biden clearly wanted to segue into basket of deplorables territory, but Stephanopolous let it slide.
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 02:59 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 03:02 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 03:03 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 06, 2024 03:04 PM (5LP0j)
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 06, 2024 03:04 PM (5LP0j)
If they leaned towards cheer and optimism, they wouldn't be Leftists.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 03:17 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 03:27 PM (fwDg9)
80% of Parkinson's patients develop dementia.
Posted by: Aviator at July 06, 2024 03:47 PM (HQ9Sl)
I would love to become a member of her campaign, and I would love to become her presidential aide.
I would love Kamala to do what she does best which is suck dick, and my cock would absolutely fulfill her impeccable standards.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 04:16 PM (2UBPP)
Posted by: Heresolong at July 06, 2024 11:28 PM (Go1X4)
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
Good morning Horde, I hope that you an enjoyable Independence Day celebration. If not we can pray for your recovery from fireworks gone wrong.
Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy and morale was considered almost as vital as gunpowder; Union General Benjamin Butler ordered his soldiers to carry coffee with them always, saying it guaranteed success: “If your men get their coffee early in the morning, you can hold” your position.
Before we enter the Prayer Revival. Just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Park Falls, WI) 1. This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2. Even trolls have feelings, be nice to one another.
3. Running with sharp objects and/or flaming projectiles is not recommended.
4. Have a great weekend!
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 5/25 – Tonypete asked for prayers for an elderly neighborhood couple. They are in failing health and abilities. They insist on living independently, yet they can’t do it. Tonypete and his wife are torn between respecting their wishes and privacy, but there are numerous LEO wellness checks each week.
6/8 – Tonypete and R have been subpoenaed to give testimony at the competency hearing in a few weeks, called by the elderly couple’s children. The elderly couple is still fighting against going to an assisted living facility. It’s just a very sad situation. 6/11 – Sponge’s wife, “The First Lady” has breast cancer, and the initial prognosis is good, as it is Stage 1 and caught early.
6/20 Update – The meeting with the surgeon was moderately frightening, as she ‘s been declared Stage 1B ,which means it’s a relatively aggressive form and can spread quickly.
6/28 Update – The blood test came negative on hereditary cancer markings, so that is good. They meet with the oncologist on 7/11 and surgery is scheduled for 7/22. Hopefully it will be just a lumpectomy and 5 days of radiation. 6/14 – Perfessor Squirrel requests prayers for his friend from church. Jimmy has been suffering some issues with his lungs and could use prayers for healing. 6/15 – Jewells posted that she has decided to end her cancer treatments. She had 6 months to go on her 2 year palliative care program, but the chemo drug is ruining her quality of life.
6/22 Update – They are going to get a second opinion. She still doesn’t want to do any more chemo, but maybe another doctor can come up with something else.
6/29 Update – Jewells will get a CT scan 7/2 and will see the new doctor on 7/8. She is losing weight, which is a concern. 6/15 – Grumpy and Recalcitrant asked for continued prayers for J.J. Sefton of the Morning Report. He is about to begin chemo and radiation therapy.
6/27 Update – J.J. posted: “On a personal note: for those who have been asking about me, I’m four days into treatment and mercifully not feeling any side effects so far. Thank you for your continued support and prayers.” Grumpy and Recalcitrant sends a big thank you to God for helping to keep J.J. strong at this time, and asks that we all keep J.J. in our prayers as he continues with his chemo and radiation therapy for his cancer.
6/29 – J.J. posted that he’d completed week 1 and has 5 more to go. He asked God to bless everyone for their prayers and well wishes. 6/19 – DangerGirl lost the SanityProd requests prayers for her father, who was admitted to the hospital with respiratory issues. He’s been struggling for the past year, on and off, with shortness of breath and could use prayers for both healing and a proper diagnosis. (The doctors can’t figure out what is causing it.) Thank you!
6/27 Update – Dad is back home, on oxygen as needed and other meds. The doctor thinks it is an allergic raction to something that is causing his bronchial tubes to spasm and create mucous, which results in low oxygen levels and breathing issues. Future plans include appointments with allergists and cleaning out the HVAC. 6/22 – Our country is screwed offered prayers of thanksgiving that their daughter, age 27, battling breast cancer, is on her last chemo treatment. She has tolerated it very well. She still will have surgery in August. 6/22 – Aetius451AD sent thanks to the Horde for the prayers, and thanks to God, for the healing of his dad after a heart attack and surgery. Dad is cleared for normal activity now. 6/22 – Tonypete requested prayers for Sandy, a friend from church who passed suddenly. 6/22 – Gushka asked for prayers for herself and for her husband’s soul. His body was found in the river. He had been missing since 12/8. The coroner is ruling it a suicide. 6/23 – Steck asked for prayers for a former co-worker named Allen. Before Allen was transferred back to his former job, Allen became cold and distant after hearing that Steck is a born again Christian. As a former atheist, Steck’s experience is that there’s often a nearby “support system” of fellow atheists. Please pray hard to bring Jesus into this fine man’s life, and into the lives of those around him and change their hearts as well. 6/25 – TP asked for prayers for JT, who is ill and in need of prayer. 6/25 – Alberta Oil Peon posted that he has a lump of some sort impinging on one of his vocal cords. He is booked for surgery on 7/31. 6/26 – VM requested prayers for 2 co-workers. Mrs. C, who is hospitalized for an unspecified illness. And Mrs L, whose teen daughter is in the hospital for a seizure. 6/29 – Misanthropic Humanitarian asked for prayers for our local, state, and federal officials. 6/29 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for her son’s university. They are facing financial difficulties. It is a small “farm school”, founded by a rabbi, and has a steady enrollment of students studying farm/dairy/animal science. Fenelon’s son was happy there, and the professors are good. 6/29 – Reforger is looking for a job. He quit after 6 years of being treated poorly. 6/29 – bluebell posted that she had the following message from BitterClinger: It is my most fervent prayer that those there that are struggling would find relief, that those that strive would find success, and that those that worry would find comfort, that those that are ill would find healing, and most of all that the truth of the Savior of the world, our Lord Jesus Christ, would live in the hearts of them all, throughout all trials and storms and in every jubilant and celebratory moment and even in the dull times. We shall see each other on the other side, and what a glorious time it will be, when our strivings cease and death and corruption is defeated.” 6/28 – Sal asked for prayers for Karen, age 11, who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. Her prognosis is good, but this is a big hurdle for a kid. Petitions for courage and patience would be great. Thank you! 6/29 – bluebell passed along a request from grammie winger requested prayers for her husband, Rev, who is having open heart surgery on 7/8 to take care of his aortic aneurysm. Recovery time is expected to be 6-8 weeks. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Thank you Annie for organizing the Prayer List every week.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:43 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:43 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 06, 2024 08:44 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 08:44 AM (Oy/m2)
Grocery today, then exercise and car wash tomorrow. I hope.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:45 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 06, 2024 08:46 AM (6gW4D)
Ah, Parry's "Jerusalem", words by William Blake.
And did those feet in ancient time,
Walk upon Englands mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these[c] dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold:
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:47 AM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:47 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:48 AM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 06, 2024 08:48 AM (hKoQL)
Prayers offered for all of you, for the listed intentions, and for the souls of the recently departed including Kenny, my friend and former coworker. He was the source of one of my favorite sayings: "if you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough".
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 06, 2024 08:49 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:49 AM (1Nxff)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 06, 2024 08:50 AM (hKoQL)
Thinking ice water, coffee pot is gone
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:50 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Ju at July 06, 2024 08:50 AM (aTmM/)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 06, 2024 08:51 AM (6gW4D)
Prayers up for those that know they need them but have not asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don’t know it yet; and
Prayers up for those who pray alone, asking for help in silence, and whose prayers are known but to God!
And prayers up even for all "our" politicians who have apparently decided that the 10% money and power are far more desirable than honor or integrity, may they see the error of their ways and repent!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 08:51 AM (hOUT3)
Prayers for all, especially JT, J.J. Jewels, mindful webworker, Mrs. Sponge. And any other of the horde who are fighting critical medical battles.
I pray for general blessings for the rest of youse.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 08:51 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 08:51 AM (V13WU)
If I remember correctly from the other night today is also the day to wish Mr. and Mrs. Muldoon a very happy anniversary.
Prayers for all of the Horde, and enjoy a nice day.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 06, 2024 08:52 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:53 AM (2UBPP)
On the WDONT, our Miklos asked for prayers for his mother just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on July 4th!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 08:53 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 08:54 AM (u82oZ)
What is the prize for that anyway?
Posted by: Ju at July 06, 2024
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Durned if I know. Bragging rights? Avoidance of The Barrel?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:54 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 08:54 AM (vFG9F)
Well done DDS!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 08:54 AM (hOUT3)
Please add a prayer for Mindful Webworker who is in the hospital right now with complications from his previous issues. It may be an easy fix or it may require surgery. Please pay for an easy fix. He's been though so much already.
Thanks to all who pay and to God for his love and mercy.
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at July 06, 2024 08:55 AM (G77LY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:45 AM (omVj0)
Damn, you live on the edge.
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 08:55 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 08:55 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (rHxhM)
It was like the hypnotist snapped his fingers on debate night. The spell has been broken! This is devastating to the media, or ought to be. The most amazing 180 turn we've witnessed in the "news" certainly.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024
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It is peculiar. Like a logjam breaking up, or a dam bursting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (omVj0)
What is the prize for that anyway?
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thread explodes in massive fireball
roll credits
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (/7KEl)
Now off to work outside while it is still almost possible to do so and yet survive!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (hOUT3)
Prayers for the Horde and our loved ones.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (xjTDL)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024
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Damn, you live on the edge.
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024
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In a town where, even in the suburbs, you can stop a bullet in broad daylight? I sure do.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:57 AM (omVj0)
Thank you. That is beautiful music, and an example of Muscular Christianity. I think of a POMS performance when I think of it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 08:58 AM (u82oZ)
"Yes, he had major emergency surgery on October and then a follow up in March. Seems to have an obstruction now in the small intestine- not good because of ostomy... blah blah (I guess dad doesn't mind me telling his friends in little hey boxes how he is...) maybe an easy fix with no surgery of they can clear it... if not then maybe another surgery due to his "complicated condition"
Please pray for the easiest solution for him. He has only just been putting weight back on.
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy "
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 08:58 AM (iZbyp)
It was like the hypnotist snapped his fingers on debate night. The spell has been broken! This is devastating to the media, or ought to be. The most amazing 180 turn we've witnessed in the "news" certainly.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024
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It is peculiar. Like a logjam breaking up, or a dam bursting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (omVj0)
. . . glacier calving
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 06, 2024 08:58 AM (6gW4D)
movie cliche- cornered villain always climbs the nearby tall thing, like that's an escape plan
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:58 AM (/7KEl)
Prayers for those asking and those needing but not asking.
On my job front. I don't want anyone to worry about me. I'm almost solvent and could really, almost, possibly get away with never working again.
My wife, however, does not agree with that.
I'm really in no hurry and am looking for that last job that I can live with for another 6 to 10 years. I have eyes on two places right now.
Monday I go see both. One making bullets and one making AR's.
I'm torn between finding a shithead job to just do and being willing to take on 'sponsibility type stuff. I did Administration at my last place (someone saw something in me I never did) and really turned out pretty good at it.
It's been a month and the yard is cleaned up now so Monday I get off my ass and do something.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (xcIvR)
I typed my Ph.D. thesis on an IBM Selectric.
Acid-free paper and absolutely, positively NO use of the correction tape.
The job went slowly, to say the least.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (i4sOa)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (Ka3bZ)
This statement can easily be applied to homeless encampments.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (/7KEl)
Of late I've added the following to my daily prayers:
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
I've noticed a discernable improvement in mood since I started saying it and highly recommend it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:00 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 09:00 AM (xjTDL)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 09:00 AM (Ka3bZ)
movie cliche- cornered villain always climbs the nearby tall thing, like that's an escape plan
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:58 AM (/7KEl)
Form experience, I can say it's not a winning move.
Posted by: King Kong at July 06, 2024 09:00 AM (6gW4D)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 09:01 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: King Kong at July 06, 2024 09:01 AM (6gW4D)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (QXQ4l)
Local state park, Myles Standish, in case the needed to bail.
Looks like fine time for all.
My heart soars like a hawk.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (4780s)
Amen
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (o2ZRX)
The film is the best cops-and-robbers movie ever made. Oddly, it was written by the two guys who much later created Charlie's Angels, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. A classic, and it should be. Cagney deserved an Oscar nod; did he get one? Come to think of it, did he ever win an Oscar, or even get nominated?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at July 06, 2024 09:03 AM (G77LY)
Good luck. I have a Plan C job idea if that fails.
Companies need good workers, not DEI unlearned head cases.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 09:03 AM (u82oZ)
Sounds like you have a plan in place, may it succeed in every respect!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 09:04 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024
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I wouldn't be surprised if their coffee was toast crumbs steeped in water heated over a campfire.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:04 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (QXQ4l)
that is a beautiful photo ! would hang, as the kids say...
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:04 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (Ka3bZ)
You are an inquisitive 'ette this morning.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:04 AM (QXQ4l)
Yankee Doodle Dandy, I think.
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:04 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:05 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Addie Bundren at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (hj1Oi)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (/7KEl)
Lets Ask AI !!1!
Substitutes for Coffee:
• Coffee was scarce during the war, leading soldiers to find creative substitutes.
• Confederate soldiers roasted various ingredients to make a coffee-like brew. These included rye, rice, sweet potatoes, beets, chicory, peas, dandelions, acorns, and even peanuts3.
In summary, Confederate soldiers relied on whiskey and other spirits for both sustenance and comfort during their challenging wartime experiences.
If you have more questions or need further information, feel free to ask!
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024
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I'm increasingly viewing the world through spiritual lenses. Leave out politics, personalities, and just focus on the big picture.
If we start with the foundational belief that all love comes from God and that He moves in ways we cannot fathom, the "dam bust" was inevitable and it was always just a question of timing. Biden himself has profaned the Host many times, blasphemously crossed himself when referring to abortion, so his continued torment in the public eye is right and just.
The cabal of evil people desperately trying to backstab one another is likewise predictable. The key is to keep praying and focus on family, parish and community and let the talking heads continue to tie themselves in knots.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:08 AM (llXky)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:08 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:08 AM (fwDg9)
3. Running with sharp objects and/or flaming projectiles is not recommended.
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MisHum, maybe add to 3 or make a new 5 in view of a very recent Genius/Darwin Award:
Exploding large firework 'bombs' on ones skull is very strongly not recommended.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparently loss of hair is the least probleme at July 06, 2024 09:08 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:09 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: Not Awake Yet at July 06, 2024 09:09 AM (V5BDR)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:08 AM (iZbyp)
With blueberry syrup?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:09 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)
Are those Keurig coffee makers any good?
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:10 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:05 AM (V13WU)
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A lot of Confederate troops drank coffee, having traded with Union soldiers to get it.
Huge amounts of cotton (and other crops) continued to flow out of the South and into Union hands because there was money to be made and folks wanted to eat.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:10 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Addie Bundren at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (hj1Oi)
Surpass Britain and catch up with America.
Posted by: Mao Zedong (1893-1976) at July 06, 2024 09:10 AM (8sMut)
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easy
you get a fire going (sheltered from the wind, duh) and let it burn down to coals
place the head of a shovel on the hot coals
there's your skillet
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 09:11 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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The 3 essential prayers- Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 09:11 AM (Ka3bZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 09:03 AM (u82oZ)
There are a lot of jobs around here.
All amazingly paying better that what I was making at my last gig.
After six years of loyal service.
Worst case I could go get my old job back. Friend from work said they had a whole company meeting over me leaving.
Benig I was actually running the place most of the time I'd bet if I went in and made my demands they would fold.
I demand that the President quit fucking my "supervisor" on company time.
That would be my first demand.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 09:11 AM (xcIvR)
As for me, week two of treatment is in the books, four more to go. Thank you for the continued support, prayers and kindness you have shown me.
One day at a time. Live in the present, not in the past or the future. God bless you all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024
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The AI item quoted above mentioned chicory. That's probably when Southerners developed a taste for the stuff and continued later putting it into coffee. (I approve.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)
Are those Keurig coffee makers any good?
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:10 AM (Oy/m2)
Yes.
But you can purchase off name brands that work just as well.
Also you can use your own coffee most of the time in the provided ground coffee basket.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (V13WU)
One day at a time. Live in the present, not in the past or the future. God bless you all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (x0n13)
How ya feeling J.J?
Thanks for stopping in.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)
Are those Keurig coffee makers any good?
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:10 AM (Oy/m2)
I like them. The beauty of the Keurig machine is that if I just want one cup of coffee, I can produce one cup of coffee. The Keurig machine that I have can produce coffee the traditional way as well, so if I want 10 cups, I just switch to the decanter. If I am in the mood for tea, well, I got tea K-cups here as well.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (omVj0)
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That was back when to even qualify for films you had to be multi-talented. I mean, yeah the casting couch, but you still had to be pretty damn good.
Hollywood has been coasting on the fumes of WW II patriotism for a long time. I think they've finally dissipated.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
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I do not understand these words in this order
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: 1970s Instant Coffee Not Even Rebels Would Drink at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (omVj0)
God bless you and Mrs Sefton
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (Ka3bZ)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (Ka3bZ)
Water.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (iZbyp)
JUST ONE FIX
Posted by: Ministry at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024
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I had something to do with that
Posted by: 1980s Cocaine at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (8sMut)
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There's a conventional coffee maker in my office as well as a Keurig (brought in by a since departed employee).
The pot got heavy use for a long time, but Covid, retirements, remote work, etc. has left it so that I'm the only coffee drinker in that part of the office. So the Keurig makes sense.
We also have one at home for the same reason. Trying to make one cup in a regular coffee maker is annoying.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (zudum)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (SuNbA)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (2UBPP)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024
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I had something to do with that
Posted by: 1980s Cocaine at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (omVj0)
Hey! I thought you Morons liked me.
*pouts*
Posted by: Caddyshack at July 06, 2024 09:16 AM (llON8)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (fwDg9)
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Bread toasted over a wood fire is delicious. Ask boys in boarding schools. In Uganda, on the odd occasion that there was no power in the early morning, my Mom would take an Al frying pan with butter and eggs in it, go outside the kitchen, light some crumpled newspapers and fry the eggs.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, no probleme as longas we have feu at July 06, 2024 09:16 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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Lovely to see you JJ!
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:16 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (iZbyp)
YOU RACIST MONSTER!!! THAT IS PEARL MILLING COMPANY!!!
SWEEP AWAY ALL MONSTERS AND DEMONS!!! DEATH TO THE FOUR OLDS!!!
Posted by: Red Guards at July 06, 2024 09:16 AM (8sMut)
Coffee was a serious issue for the Rebs. The embargo or Union blockade saw to that. It disappeared virtually overnight, and cost a fortune when you could get it. Coffee substitutes - Kentucky "coffee tree" or Chicoy, well ... acorns roasted .... that ain't coffee.
What the Rebs did have was Tobacco, and that led to both Union and Confederate trading parties, which were discouraged naturally. There were a couple notable battles where the Rebs routed the Yanks, and along with that, the supply trains and depot stores of things like Coffee, which they enjoyed very much.
Confederate soldiers wrote home about Coffee in their letters, that's how important it was. They would search for spilled roasted beans. Soldiers on either side who halted even briefly on the march were sure to get a fire going to get a boil on. The problem was, an order to halt might not last long enough to get a good pot of joe going, and worse - you can't get back on the march with a pot of half done coffee, it will spill. Be careful!
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:16 AM (HHI2d)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024
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Water.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024
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"If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies what ain't drunk water from a hoofprint, I'll shake his hand and . . . buy him a Daniel Webster ceegar."
Posted by: Rooster Cogburn at July 06, 2024 09:17 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 09:17 AM (SuNbA)
Blueberry pancakes sound wonderful. Maybe if I drink more coffee....
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 09:18 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: 1980s Cocaine at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (omVj0)
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Nepotism is the correct answer. The early generations did even know what film was, but they knew business and how to please a crowd. They hired the best, particularly emigres from Europe. Add in people who had lives outside of show business and you get great works of art.
That lasted into the 1980s because the kids who grew up on the classics wanted to build on that, but by the 1990s it was all who you know, and so we have box-checking numb nuts and perverts who hate the audience and can't write dialog beyond self-inserts of anxiety.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:18 AM (llXky)
Thanks for stopping in.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (QXQ4l)
Not too bad at all. No nausea or other severe side effects from treatment. That said, I'm fatigued. On top of it, emotionally, it's challenging to try and tune out the negative thoughts.
One day at a time.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)
It's as if you read my mind.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (8sMut)
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There's a conventional coffee maker in my office as well as a Keurig (brought in by a since departed employee).
The pot got heavy use for a long time, but Covid, retirements, remote work, etc. has left it so that I'm the only coffee drinker in that part of the office. So the Keurig makes sense.
We also have one at home for the same reason. Trying to make one cup in a regular coffee maker is annoying.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (llXky)
fwiw they tried to force the coffee sellers to adopt a "proprietary" system so you could only use their machine with the approved pods, but that is easily defeated. There are also several variations of a permanent funnel to sit on top of your cup holding the coffee filter. I have the Melitta ceramic version and like it.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (llON8)
Good to see you doing well, JJ. Prayers sent for continued progress.
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (Oy/m2)
https://tinyurl.com/29txedzu
Hopefully some of you will enjoy this as much as I have.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (kOluj)
The film is the best cops-and-robbers movie ever made. Oddly, it was written by the two guys who much later created Charlie's Angels, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. A classic, and it should be. Cagney deserved an Oscar nod; did he get one? Come to think of it, did he ever win an Oscar, or even get nominated?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (omVj0)
Cody Jarrett was one of the most heartless and evil bad guys ever in cops 'n robbers movies. Cagney did a terrific acting job in White Heat. I'll wager he had a lot of fun going over-the-top playing the over-the-top criminal, Cody Jarrett.
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at July 06, 2024 09:20 AM (5fDan)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (iZbyp)
Thank you SiD.
It wil find the right one.
Looking for a job is the worst job out there.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 09:20 AM (xcIvR)
When you are ready to take it to the next level, may I suggest you listen to some podcasts (start with the earliest) from these two Orthodox Fathers as they discuss the spiritual world through the lens of the Orthodox faith. I'm not Orthodox, but they have a very rich history in church thought on the matter and consider books like Enoch and other non canon church texts.
The series: "Lord of Spirits".
It is definitely eye opening, mainly because the past century or so of culture shift towards Materialism that has effectively erased what was the common foundation to civilizational thought.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:21 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (x0n13)
A little each day.
Wednesday is one year since I called my oldest sister at the insistence of my middle sister via text. I was spent after working all night but I knew to make the call because I suspected it would either be very good or very bad. Turns out...she was in the room, along with my mom, when my father succombed to cancer.
I say all this because, well, cancer is personal to me. It's just taken too many of my friends and family. Therefore, J.J., I want you to take it down. Wishing you all the best, as well as all who have this terrible illness, and all who have been effected in some way by it.
Good seeing you here.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (5fDan)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (V13WU)
One day at a time. Live in the present, not in the past or the future. God bless you all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM
In an underappreciated James Taylor song he sings:
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time
Any fool can do it
There ain't nothing to it
Nobody knows how we got to the top of the hill
But since we're on our way down
We might as well enjoy the ride
/ helps me get through some days sometimes
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (RKVpM)
It's all built on the fundamental American celebratory food pyramid: pizza, snacks, amateurs, minors, gunpowder and alcohol.
What could go wrong?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Ciampino at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 09:20 AM (xcIvR)
Truth.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (x0n13)
Keep the spirit my friend!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:23 AM (QXQ4l)
This is the best possible outcome, Democrats publicly asking Joe to get out and he keeps refusing.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:23 AM (LkLld)
This is the best possible outcome, Democrats publicly asking Joe to get out and he keeps refusing.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:23 AM (LkLld)
Note to self - buy more popcorn
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 09:24 AM (llON8)
It is definitely eye opening, mainly because the past century or so of culture shift towards Materialism that has effectively erased what was the common foundation to civilizational thought.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:21 AM (rHxhM)
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Been there, done that.
I stopped listening to the show a while ago. They'd largely run out of material and started a series on Why the Catholic Church is Wrong, which was intellectually dishonest and also dull. I mean, I can get anti-Catholic stuff anywhere, so why waste my time with them?
The first couple of years were great, though. Loved them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:24 AM (llXky)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:25 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:25 AM (fwDg9)
What could go wrong?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (dg+HA)
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What's more American than German food? Bratwurst and Hamburgers, Kartoffelsalat and some Pommes Frites, amirite?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:26 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 09:27 AM (pgG81)
Lays out this didn't help Sundowner a bit if you spell this interview out
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:27 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:18 AM (llXky)
All business is this way now, and Americans want it this way. Americans love living in a corrupt society where sincerity is out the window and making strategic friends is the way to go. "It's not what you know it's WHO you know!" they very cheerfully chirp. If it leads to the degradation/destruction of business? So be it. It just so happens that Hollywood is the most visible as their business is being seen on screen.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:28 AM (8sMut)
They can't be this stupid, or this smart? I keep looking for the eleventy dimensional game plan here, because everyone assumed Joe was going to step aside, Harris becomes President, and then appoints Mrs. Clinton as her royal highness. Wasn't that the plan in 2020? It was for the tin-foil hat brigade and other hard pipe-hitting leftists.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:28 AM (HHI2d)
This is why God taught man how to make an espresso machine. Dial in a double shot and water it down to whatever dilution best works for you.
If you want to emulate that authentic Keurig taste, you will need to use stale beans and sprinkle in fine plastic shavings into the final result.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:29 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 09:27 AM (pgG81)
The Sharps company offered a rifle that had a grinder in the butt of the rifle, but it was never an issue item. In testing it was found to be extra heavy and not terribly useful. The grinder was advertised for grains, corn and coffee. Can you imagine trying to operate the grinder in camp, or having the handle come adrift in battle so it could clobber you when marching or shooting?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:30 AM (D7oie)
That would be my first demand.'
What about during breaks?
Posted by: President of Reforger's former workplace at July 06, 2024 09:30 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:28 AM (8sMut)
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No, the oligarchs forced it on us by crushing small and mid-sized businesses and creating massive conglamorates that would make the Rockefellers blush.
It's interesting consider how much of our societal changes happened with no public input. It was alll administrative law and judicial fiat. Muh Democracy? Nope, not even on the ballot.
The screeching you're hearing about bumpstocks and Chevron is the fact that these turds (of both parties) will have to put their names on it at last.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:31 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:31 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:31 AM (HHI2d)
What is the prize for that anyway?
Posted by: Ju at July 06, 2024 08:50 AM (aTmM/)
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Well there's no Wall o' Shame Top Ten for First Commenter at the moment. Just a lot of effort for nothing other than wearing out the various 'refresh' key combos.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, c'est premiere position is much sought after at July 06, 2024 09:33 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at July 06, 2024
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Oh, he had *some* heart when it came to his (equally-criminal) mother. And something in him, a need to mentor a kid brother maybe, responded to Edmond O'Brien's undercover cop. Aside from that, no.
[Cody, eating a sandwich as he calls out to the snitch locked in the trunk of a car:] "Kinda stuffy in there? Need some air? I'll give you some air." [Draws revolver, shoots into the trunk several times, holsters gun, strolls off finishing sandwich]
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:33 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 09:33 AM (AwYPR)
Since his party can’t come up with a plausible candidate, he’d rather let a nameless bureaucracy made up of his cocktail party friends run everything forever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 09:34 AM (pgG81)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:34 AM (RIvkX)
The main thing is to take it off the heat when it is done or you will cook the rubber seal, and that makes your coffee taste vile.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:34 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:28 AM (HHI2d)
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Using our "They Live" spirit shades, we can see that the core weakness of the Dems is that only one can wield the Ring of Power at a time. While they could band together to drive Trump out, it was inevitable that they would turn on each other because they are at their core, selfish, wicked individuals.
Students of history will recall how the Popular Front in Spain swept to power in 1936, went on a rampage of destroying businesses, assassinations, and emptied the prisons before the July Rising.
Predictably, the hodge-podge of alphabet groups fell upon each other before in May, 1937 because they hated each other more than the Nationalists.
Trump is Jose Calvo Sotelo, and if they ice him, watch for Mola.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:34 AM (llXky)
Even those sainted, virtuous small and mid-size businesses act the same way. There is a virtuous small business down the road that coulda hired me, but they'd rather hire people they knew. Their first hire was fired through incompetence, their second for theft. But they Didn't Know Me so they wouldn't DARE hire me. (How did that work out?)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (VuZH8)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (iZbyp)
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This isn’t new. Knowing the right people has always been key to getting ahead.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (wCYy7)
Send in the SWAT team!
Posted by: Hunter "I'm Not Leaving" Biden! at July 06, 2024 09:36 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024
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Huh? Though I'm not a Southerner (I've never felt like I belonged in this benighted town), I've been drinking chicory coffee since I was young. (With the exception of French Truck's version of the stuff. In one cup I loaded three sweeteners and milk, and still couldn't stand it. Though I've never been fond of French Truck coffee anyway.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:36 AM (omVj0)
Lays out this didn't help Sundowner a bit if you spell this interview out
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:27 AM (fwDg9)
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Never accept the signature of anyone who has a formal diagnosis of dementia, they are not legally competent to consent to anything. Don't ask how I know.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (RIvkX)
The first couple of years were great, though. Loved them.
I thought it was just me. Spotify really, really want people to listen in reverse chrono order. So when episode two was over it immediately jumped to something made last month.
it was NOT good. It ran three hours, I felt trapped in a nerd convention with Star Trek and SciFi movie references. Then I whined to the dude who steered me to that series and said - "stay with the earliest".
it must be run at least 1.3x and best when going for a walk or some other concurrent thing.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:31 AM (HHI2d)
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The student loan forgiveness is an unintentional admission that higher education is worthless. You can't make that money back, and the university-industrial complex is collapsing as a result. The small schools are already closing and the mid-grade ones are next.
Skilled trades are a much better investment, and people are figuring it out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (llXky)
Am I happy that I have about a dozen cans of coffee I bought at $7 a can. Now? The exact same can goes for $12.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (8sMut)
The only way forward .
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (wCYy7)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
>Bratwurst for lunches, Braunschweiger sandwiches for fishing. It's summertime in America!
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 09:38 AM (2UBPP)
Some states make a diagnosis the predicate to a Red Flag law intervention where the State can swoop in and invalidate all of your previously held 2nd Amendment Rights.
Dementia = 2nd Class Citizen, on par with a convicted felon.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:39 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (8sMut)
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Family-owned small business go back to Roman times, and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
They have nothing to do with our current problems.
The issue is people seeding government offices, contractors and interlocking directorates which are obviously trusts but get protection from other nepotists.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:39 AM (llXky)
Pull the garage door up, clamp it thread the spring back on.
Now it's shorter by inches and will break again, not if but when.
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:40 AM (fwDg9)
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time
Any fool can do it
There ain't nothing to it
Nobody knows how we got to the top of the hill
But since we're on our way down
We might as well enjoy the ride
/ helps me get through some days sometimes
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM
That’s one of my all-time favorites of his. I know he wouldn’t like me for my politics but I have every album he ever made. There are a lot of hidden gems like that.
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 06, 2024 09:40 AM (rbKZ6)
Dementia = 2nd Class Citizen, on par with a convicted felon.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:39 AM (rHxhM)
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The "tell" on Red Flag Laws is whether they take the car keys away.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (llXky)
With any luck those schools expand so that when I get back into the classroom, I can point students in those directions. When I was teaching I was up front about not everyone needing to go to college.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (2i9gl)
Seeing the picture at the top of the cream being poured into the coffee reminds me that I stopped putting cream and sugar in my coffee about two months ago.
Slowly, slowly, slowly I've lost a couple of pounds. If I eat a hot buttery bagel while I sip the coffee the taste is not too bad. The half and half was 40 calories, the sugar 32. Three cups of coffee per day times 72 less per cup equals 216 less calories per day. Every 20 days equals a pound.
I think it was Jane D'oh who was the diehard black coffee drinker who got on me once about adding cream and sugar. ((Miss her))
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024
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Huh?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:36 AM (omVj0)
Heh. Wolfus, I'm pretty sure Skip uses his phone to comment, and frequently shortens his sentences and bypasses punctuation. I read this as Skip is a yankee himself, and has never tried chicory in coffee.
Carry on.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (OX9vb)
Pull the garage door up, clamp it thread the spring back on.
Now it's shorter by inches and will break again, not if but when.
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:40 AM (fwDg9)
It's 15 yo...so replacing.
Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (AwYPR)
Make Sundowner test, declare him incompetent and they are screwed.
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (fwDg9)
My source for this story is Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War.
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (VuZH8)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (RIvkX)
You play an attorney both on tv and real life.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (QXQ4l)
Ahead of who?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (dg+HA)
Uhm the people who know the right people?
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (wCYy7)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (fwDg9)
Dementia = 2nd Class Citizen, on par with a convicted felon.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:39 AM (rHxhM)
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They should also have only supervised access to sharps, knives, or caustic substances including mouthwash and safety razors.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:34
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I had faith in you.
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 09:43 AM (SuNbA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (omVj0)
My current "breakfast brew" is chicory, roasted barley, roasted carob, and roasted rice. It's not coffee, but at least it has a little body unlike tea. With a dash of protein shake it makes a decent iced coffee substitute as well.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 06, 2024 09:43 AM (XjtdB)
Quick search....no.
I miss Postum. I wish I could get it here. But that's another reason Canada is a shithole.
Posted by: Stateless at July 06, 2024 09:44 AM (jvJvP)
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*nods*
My mother's diagnosis is currently "mild cognitive impairment," but I'm thankful my SIL had the wisdom to get POA set up for me before it got too late. And thankful my mom trusts all 3 of us.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:44 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 09:44 AM (2i9gl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:44 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (fwDg9)
Stuff was better made back in the old days.
Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (rHxhM)
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The early episodes are great, and the D&D stuff is funny and appropriate. They probably should have wound it up after two years because they were running out of material and so started doing a more blatant advertisement for the Orthodox Church - which is fine, but if you want to rip on Catholics, at least get your facts straight and be consistent.
I mean, I get it. The great thing about being Orthodox is that you get all the traditions, saints, Church Fathers and sacraments without having to give up your anti-Catholic hate. But it does get tedious.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (llXky)
The real political wonks have been discussing this debacle for a while now, months if not even years. It seems like years anyhow.
And then we get to watch the entire left spazz out, within about 2 minutes on debate night, and go through all this stuff at the granular level, a voyage of Discovery, on just how absoutely fucked they are, when this was known by people who should have known a long, long time ago. Political reliability and yes-men are nice, but they are all amateurs now even though they are highly paid. Our own JackStraw and many others were pointing all this shit out.
They are literally just figuring this shit out now. Too weird for me, when random j. bloggers have and has a better take on things then the professional pundit class.
"Didn't Earn It" indeed. We're going to have to CrowdSource our country back, I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (HHI2d)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (pgG81)
We've had an informal film festival here on these hot summer afternoons in Texas. Most afternoons we watch a silly comedy. Yesterday it was "Caddyshack." A couple of weeks ago it was "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," which includes a scene from "White Heat" where Cody is talking to his mom in the visitor's pen in the prison.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (FEVMW)
My boss once explained it like this: "The good thing about nepotism is that you really do know the strengths and weaknesses of the members of your family.
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 09:46 AM (VuZH8)
They have nothing to do with our current problems.
The issue is people seeding government offices, contractors and interlocking directorates which are obviously trusts but get protection from other nepotists.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:39 AM (llXky)
Yes, but there is a mistaken belief in these times that small and mid-size businesses are sainted and virtuous. (On Shop Small Business Day I make it a point to hit the biggest businesses I can find because I hate virtue signaling bullshit like that.) Yes, I know you did not say that, but neither are businesses inherently evil even if they reach a size that would make Rockefeller blush.
Perhaps the spiritual lens would help businesses of all sizes, be they Apple or my "Rolodex" of small businesses I frequent?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:46 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: 1970s Instant Coffee Not Even Rebels Would Drink at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (omVj0)
Lol, that's what Inspector drinks if his muscles are super tense and his mind is racing. Especially mixed with chamomile. Practically guarantees a good night's sleep.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 06, 2024 09:47 AM (XjtdB)
The oddest sort of "tea" is to make it out of the newest blackberry tips you can find. I pick mine out of the thicket on the back fence. It vaguely tastes the way blackberries smell, and has a decent mouth feel. It isn't offensive and it make boiled water less boring.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:47 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 09:47 AM (2UBPP)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (HHI2d)
Develop a parrallel economy that gets strong enough to consume the other, more corrupt one.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:47 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (2i9gl)
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He is considered a "religious conservative" and so along with David French and Rod Dreher, appears in publications along more serious types. There's still this big collegiality thing on those circles, though French has managed to get himself ostracised to a certain extent (for obvious reasons).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:48 AM (llXky)
I typed my Ph.D. thesis on an IBM Selectric.
Acid-free paper and absolutely, positively NO use of the correction tape.
The job went slowly, to say the least.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (i4sOa)
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I had three different ladies doing mine, all on IBM golfballs - only way to get all the Greek symbols in the text and experimental. I started the longhand version in April using my legible chicken-scratch calligraphy.* Soon realized that 2 part-time typists were not going to make it by the early December deadline for submission so I found a third. Just made it.
A great time for me.
* really calligraphy and my longhand should not appear in the same sentence/page. Ugly but legible.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, le Grec langue est utilise at July 06, 2024 09:48 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 09:48 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (llXky)
Do ALL Orthodox hate Catholics?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:49 AM (8sMut)
This is the best possible outcome, Democrats publicly asking Joe to get out and he keeps refusing.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:23 AM (LkLld)
Every day DOCTOR Jill and Hunter tell Joe big lies reduces the amount of sympathy Joe will receive when he does resign. Those two either don't realize it, or they don't care as long as THEY can continue to live in the White House.
Does Joe's personal doctor, Kevin O'Connor, now still believe his official statement in February, that Joe is fully capable of performing the duties of President? If not, what is he going to do or say about it? He is a retired U.S. Army Colonel. What does he see as his duty right now?
The annual NATO Summit will be held next week in DC, Tuesday through Thursday. I believe this is why on Thursday the Dems gave Joe four days to prove himself capable of the job. If Kamala is inevitably going to be President soon, it would be extremely helpful to her to attend this summit as POTUS. I do not like her politics but do want her to be capable as possible at some of her tasks, for the good of the nation.
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 09:49 AM (5fDan)
Carry on.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024
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Ah! Now that I reread his sentence, I see what you mean. I wasn't offended; I've never thought of myself as "Southern" (or "Northern" either, just what I am).
The stuff was available (at a slighty higher price than other blends) in Denver grocery stores 25 years ago, so it's not impossible to try it in other locales, I'd guess. At one office where I worked, though, when I put it in the coffeemaker to treat everybody, they thought the coffeemaker was malfunctioning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:49 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:43 AM (omVj0)
James Cagney. White Heat.
"look Ma!!! Top a the world!!"
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (GPtBB)
Never accept the signature of anyone who has a formal diagnosis of dementia, they are not legally competent to consent to anything. Don't ask how I know.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM
That makes me wonder about these assisted living establishments with dementia patients. They always seem to be voting locations.
Are the dementia patients even competent to vote? Or are the nurses filling out the ballots for them?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at July 06, 2024
The mess hall scene, when Cody finds out his mom had died and he freaks out, was totally improvised by Cagney. Only he and the director knew that his character would begin screaming, and go into total freak-out mode. It shook up many of the other actors and the nearly 600 extras on set! The entire scene was shot in three hours. Incredibly powerful.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (iODuv)
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (VuZH8)
Posted by: 1970s Instant Coffee Not Even Rebels Would Drink at July 06, 2024
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Lol, that's what Inspector drinks if his muscles are super tense and his mind is racing. Especially mixed with chamomile. Practically guarantees a good night's sleep.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 06, 2024
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I didn't know they still made that stuff.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:48 AM (llXky)
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Tentacle porn?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (RIvkX)
I typed my Ph.D. thesis on an IBM Selectric.
Acid-free paper and absolutely, positively NO use of the correction tape.
The job went slowly, to say the least.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (i4sOa)
My very first typewriter was a manual Opympia typewriter. When I went to a typing class in seventh grade on Selectrics the teacher was rather concerned over how hard I was hitting the keys.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:51 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:51 AM (HHI2d)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (Ka3bZ)
Parched corn, ground up.
Scarlett hated the Yankees for many things, but not
being able to have a cup of hot coffee with cream was high on the list.
When she kills the Yankee at Tara and they go through his pockets, they find coffee, which Melanie "sniffed as it the finest of perfumes".
Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 09:51 AM (y7DxH)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024
Chicory coffee goes very well with whatever they call the Vietnamese version of satay chicken. Lots of Vietnamese restaurants only serve the powdered sweet iced coffee, but the Cafe du Monde stuff goes great with the flavor of the foods.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:51 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:51 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 09:49 AM (5fDan)
She needs to be positioned for success.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:52 AM (8sMut)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:46 AM (8sMut)
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Nope, just less dangerous. We've seen big businesses actually tell municipal governments what laws they can have - and the regulators are cheering them on.
I mean, look at Sodomy Month vs Bake the Cake, Hater.
I know whose side I'm on.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:52 AM (llXky)
Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at July 06, 2024 09:53 AM (iF0sF)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (8sMut)
Even worse is trying to move up in a company like that.
And I wouldn't have noticed the fucking if those two did it on breaks.
Wouldn't even have bothered me.
I'd be closing some paperwork and, I'll just call her the bitch..., bitch.... messed something up, as usual.
I can't find anyone with the access to the system to fix numbers.
I know how to do it. Had access to do it and when the pres brought in his side piece they took it away. While I'm doing 70% of her job.
Insulting. And now I have to sit on it untill...
Anyway. When bitch... would return. Ima call her bedhead from here on out.
When bedhead returned one day she had an... issue with her voice.
Nevermind. I should have quit right then.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 09:53 AM (xcIvR)
I had two summer jobs in college that I got via friends of the family. And throughout my career I got work through connections at companies.
I’ve done the reverse as well multiple times.
The who you know vs what you know saying is right in the macro sense but wrong in its implication. The implication is only bad choices are made due to knowing the right people. I don’t think that’s true. What having a good network does is put you at the top of the list. It doesn’t guarantee you get the job or the contract.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:53 AM (wCYy7)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:49 AM (8sMut)
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The guys on "The Lord of Spirits" podcast are evangelical converts to Orthodoxy, and that is the attitude I am describing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (llXky)
Cue Nelson Muntz
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (2i9gl)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (RKVpM)
the assisted living places for the developmentally disableds are also really good for harvesting ballots.
The attendants help them fill them out. You know the guy who rocks and has no interaction with the world voted for Tina Kotek for governor, so no changes will be made anytime soon.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (V13WU)
Am partial these days to Gevalia Signature Blend k-cups and Gevalia Guatemalan coarse grind for the press. The strong dark roasts play hob with this kid's aging gut.
Now and then I find myself tempted to give up all the devices and just go to fixing a cup of hot chocolate in the microwave and tossing in a spoonful of instant coffee. Abomination, I know, but...
Good morning, gang.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 06, 2024 09:55 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:55 AM (wCYy7)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:55 AM (HHI2d)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (RKVpM)
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No, because you would have to sign your ballot.
Staff would lack access to the ballot, if there is ballot fraud here, it is the family doing it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: skywch at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (uqhmb)
My first concert was seeing James Taylor at Princeton University when I was but a wee lad. Good size crowd but not a stadium thing, maybe a couple thousand people in a small auditorium.
Middle of the first song there was a loud BOOM and the whole amplification system died. So he played the rest just acoustically. You could hear a pin drop people were so quiet. He did write some great old songs.
He just built a house in my town a couple of years ago but he's pretty under the radar. Life is coming full circle.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:55 AM (wCYy7)
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Wait, wut?
Posted by: Sergey Brin at July 06, 2024 09:57 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:57 AM (fwDg9)
For some reason, he thinks that it would be a good thing to have a negotiated settlement of the Ukraine War, instead of the Forever War that the Deep State wants, so first he went to Keeev to talk to Zelensky, and yesterday he went to Moscow to talk to Putin.
The unelected leaders of the EU are furious with him, of course, and the Ukrainian government is furious that Orban didn't ask their permission before going to Moscow.
Orban has now been added to the semi-official Ukrainian Myrotvorets kill list.
Always nice to have an "ally" that maintains assassination lists of prominent foreigners that they don't like.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 09:57 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (fwDg9)
Stuff was better made back in the old days.
Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (AwYPR)
***SNORT***
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:58 AM (QXQ4l)
Amen
Posted by: Eromero
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Amen!
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (PZo5T)
Prayers for both the spoken and unspoken needs of the Horde and their friends.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (pPOh9)
I hope this becomes a RepublicanReaganlike landslide election that produces an ocean of leftist tears.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (RIvkX)
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No, that was a reporter who somehow got to keep his job.
(Nods to the "competence is no longer required" discussion.)
French's problem is that his dishonesty makes him a dull debating partner. It's clear that he is just playing word games and has no actual interest in defending Christianity.
He got disinvited from the PCA convention because people knew he was just going to stir the pot and add nothing substantive to the discussion.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (llXky)
LOL. Democratic activists hit all the old-age homes in Portland every election, and harvest mail-in ballots from the residents.
Since it's Portland, there is no point complaining.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (uxCna)
At the end of the Summer, the deadwood are "thanked and excused." The good one's are offered part-time jobs 15-16 hours / week during the school year. It works out great. When they graduate, we already know their work ethic and skills. They already know our culture.
My son got into Software Development that way. He was only a Freshman at the time, and a very bad student.
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (VuZH8)
I recently discovered an espresso roast and ground coffee can make a decent cup in a minute and 30 seconds. Place a large tablespoon of coffee in a mug with cold water. Nuke it till it just starts to boil a little bit. Top it off with a splash or two of ice cold water, this will further settle the grounds after a boil. This makes a surprisingly tasty brew. Not the best way to make a cup, but it does work in a pinch. Cowboy coffee 21st century style.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (HHI2d)
Posted by: Military Industrial Complexes at July 06, 2024 10:00 AM (wCYy7)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (llXky)
See also: ex-Catholics who went over. They can be pretty harsh, too. but for different reasons.
time for Farmer's Market. Have a good day, all.
Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 10:00 AM (y7DxH)
I can poke a forefinger through six inches of concrete.
Posted by: Sergey Brin at July 06, 2024 10:01 AM (RIvkX)
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1h
NEW from me
President Biden's physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, met with a top Parkinson's disease specialist at the White House residence clinic in January, according to White House visitor logs
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 10:01 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 10:01 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM (2i9gl)
He just built a house in my town a couple of years ago but he's pretty under the radar. Life is coming full circle.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM
I thought he lived in Maine as it's mentioned in one of his songs. Or is he the Bernie Sanders of singers?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM (wCYy7)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
>Sir, forgive me for trespassing upon your lawn. I shall make an effort to respect your boundaries in the future.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 10:03 AM (2UBPP)
Before Biden's physical in February.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:03 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:03 AM (pgG81)
Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at July 06, 2024 10:03 AM (iF0sF)
I think he also has a house out in the Berkshires. He's obviously pretty wealthy.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (LkLld)
Our Sacred Democracy is rapidly progressing to the point where elections will no longer be necessary!
Posted by: The New York Times, Tomorrow! at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:53 AM (wCYy7)
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People are social creatures, and they natural prefer people they know (or who have person references) to complete strangers.
The problem with "meritocracy" is not only that it is just as easily subverted, but it also breeds that sense of unearned superiority we've been talking about. If you were hired because your brother is president, you know how you got there (and how you could be bounced).
But the "meritocratic" hires are starting to think they're some sort of Ubermenchen, and the lessers deserve the crumbs.
TL;DR - it's a fallen world. Pray more.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (llXky)
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Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (LkLld)
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I am so sorry you were hurt this way.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (RIvkX)
https://www.youtube.com/live/9A8VaUWoAVo
One thing I noticed in clips of the interview was how Biden kept a large pen clutched in his left hand. He wasn't taking notes, so I assume it was to hide a tremor in that hand.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (23272)
https://tinyurl.com/3t228hcf
Posted by: runner
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I think J and I saw this at the firearms museum in Cody! I had forgot about that...
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (iZbyp)
They've been 'finding' uncounted ballots when & where needed for decades, I think. Who'd have thought the whole freakin' country would turn into Chicago?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 06, 2024 10:06 AM (q3u5l)
Well there are plenty of guitar lessons on "Fire and Rain" on YouTube, some of them are pretty good. Guess what, James Taylor decided to make his OWN video on how to play it. He even installs a camera INSIDE his guitar, so you can watch how he picks the pattern. Completely unnecessary really, but he breaks the entire tune down, and you can see how he does it.
One thing he does, he makes the "A" chord shape very much different than most. This makes hammering on the note possible, a distinctive thing about the tune. His finger style has been described as "Watching a Spider play Twister" LOL, it's true.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 10:06 AM (HHI2d)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (8sMut)
You must spend a lot of time brooding on this. Is it helping?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 10:06 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM (wCYy7)
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It's pretty amazing that the same party that decried wasteful wars for oil are now all about wars for whatever the hell Ukraine is selling. Hookers? Drugs?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:06 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Northernlurker at July 06, 2024 10:07 AM (JLq/1)
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Biden had maybe 150 people in that audience but he bragged to Stephanopoulos that he could draw huge crowds like that. Haha. Half the crowd was media.
He did the same thing at the July 4 th thing where on his way out he grabbed a mic and babbled something.
He is getting high off the crowds and thinks he is doing fine, the poll numbers are wrong, he's winning.
He gets that manic grin....
He's done.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:07 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (V13WU)
I learned to drink coffee with Nestle's instant, boiled milk, and far too much sugar.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 10:07 AM (D7oie)
Yet... here we are.
Because you can bet the left will use the exact same challenges to a Trump presidency. That narrative is already simmering in the background.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 10:07 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:07 AM (L/fGl)
There are trillions of dollars of oil, natural gas, and other valuable minerals in Eastern Ukraine, which is why we should go to war with Russia over them!
Posted by: Miss Lindsey! at July 06, 2024 10:09 AM (uxCna)
Oh, pretty much everybody paying attention. I recall Gregoire in Washington state kind of started the ball rolling, at least for obvious in your face "F You, We Win" kind of stuff. My suspicion is that electoral fraud is a lot deeper than anyone supposed. They don't have to hide it any longer is the main difference.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 10:09 AM (HHI2d)
If we could post images here, I would have followed that up with “organ grinder monkey!”
And posted a picture of Joy Reid.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:09 AM (pgG81)
At the time my best friend had an older sister who was very nice to us for some unknown reason. She was also very cute.
She took us with a couple of her friends. If she had invited me to hear two alley cats shrieking at each other I would have gone.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 10:09 AM (LkLld)
My favorite is my wife's grandmas' Smith Corona.
She did typing for Generals when Generals hired typists.
Incredible piece of machinery.
I've often wondered if I could pull the tape and see if it is readable.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 10:10 AM (xcIvR)
There was this very pretty girl I worked a part time job with whose taste in music was just like mine. I heard that JT was coming to Philly so I called up a ticket place and the guy said, 'Yeah, we still have tickets.' So I find pretty girl and ask her if she'd go with me to JT concert. She said sure, but do you really think you can get tickets? I said think so.
Drove into the city. Black dude at counter, same dude I talked to. I mentioned tickets and at exact moment his boss comes out of office. Suddenly, sold out. I know the truth, he was gonna scalp me. I woulda paid dearly because I already asked the girl. Poor planning on my part.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:11 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, cafe at July 06, 2024 10:11 AM (qfLjt)
Occasionally I have given up coffee for a while, my go to coffee is No Name stuff I bought at $6 Canadian and there's a lot of No Name decaf in the cupboard too.
Simple tastes..?
Posted by: Stateless at July 06, 2024 10:12 AM (jvJvP)
Ann Althouse lives in Madison, where the "rally" was held, and noted that there was absolutely no information made public about how to attend the rally, despite the fact that Madison is about 90% Democrat.
I'm sure Biden's people live in fear that Biden will completely melt down if somebody heckles him, so they only invite pre-screened individuals to their "rallies".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:12 AM (uxCna)
Total crapshoot hiring him.
If someone I know well recommends him,
I have to assume he’s at least somewhat competent. Otherwise he wouldn’t be recommended. That person’s reputation is in a way on the line.
It doesn’t guarantee the guy will be an amazing employee but it reduces some of the risk he won’t be.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (wCYy7)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Fraud Is Nothing New at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Mick at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (KOTG6)
Mark Knopfler made a great point about changing up Sultans of Swing one time at a concert. He told his wife that nobody liked it, and she said "They came to hear their song." He said at some point a song becomes the fans' song, not the author's. It defined moments of their lives, and they paid to hear you play their song.
J.T. doesn't get it, because unlike Mark, he's a narcissist.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (iRX3h)
Posted by: Enough BS at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:14 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 10:14 AM (HHI2d)
My favorite is my wife's grandmas' Smith Corona.
She did typing for Generals when Generals hired typists.
Incredible piece of machinery.
I've often wondered if I could pull the tape and see if it is readable.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 10:10 AM (xcIvR)
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My agency is seeing the retirements of the last of the typist pool hires.
Can't expect an executive to type, so "take a letter" and all that. The ladies moved into clerical, then did career enhancement and some are now directors, all with 40 years at the same job, having been hired out of high school. They actually have a pretty good work eithic.
The ones replacing them, not so much.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:14 AM (llXky)
Posted by: DOKTOR Jill Biden at July 06, 2024 10:14 AM (kbyy+)
I looked up the 'pretty girl' during the pandemic. I knew she went to nursing school as I visited her there. Dead in her early 50's. History of drug abuse and vehicle accidents. Shame.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:15 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:15 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:15 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus
Hey! James Taylor single handedly defeated Islamic terrorism!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:16 AM (L/fGl)
My prediction for what happens next : the Party won’t be able to make Biden to step down as a candidate until it’s too late for anyone else to make a real run for it, and then suddenly he’ll step down. Yes, that makes no sense - but that’s what dysfunctional people and dysfunctional organizations do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:16 AM (pgG81)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 06, 2024 10:16 AM (Aoykm)
I have to assume he’s at least somewhat competent. Otherwise he wouldn’t be recommended. That person’s reputation is in a way on the line.
Yep - I've seen people with wonderful resumes who were awful on the job, as well as people who interviewed wonderfully.
The only thing that works is getting a recommendation from someone who has worked with the candidate that you know well enough that they are willing to give you a negative recommendation, if justified.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:17 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM
What kind of idiot loses blue sweater-era Carly Simon?
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 10:17 AM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:17 AM (wCYy7)
The projected track of Tropical Storm Beryl changed a large amount from what it was 24 hours ago. Now landfall of the center is projected near Corpus Christi; then, a little south of Brownsville (it's on the US- Mexico border). About 300 miles as the crow flies farther-up the Texas Gulf Coast!
24 hours ago the Houston area was predicted to get less than one-half inch of rain from Beryl; now, over 3 inches with severe thunderstorms.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (5fDan)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (wCYy7)
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When I was unemployed long ago, my dad got me a book on finding a job, and one of the things it hammered home was that deep down, all employers just want someone who won't steal from them or quit.
Personal references that you work hard and aren't a thief are a huge help in this, and almost all my serious jobs were obtained by networking, and I've used my network to help friends and relatives.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (llXky)
Posted by: President Potatohead at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (kbyy+)
James Taylor, like Robert Kennedy Jr, is a former heroin addict. It's like a permanent brain injury.
Still, helluva voice and guitar skills.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (p4NUW)
A Vietnam vet I know observed that all you had to do to stay out of combat in Vietnam was to take a typing course in high school.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:19 AM (uxCna)
Staff would lack access to the ballot, if there is ballot fraud here, it is the family doing it.
A woman I know is doing reverse ballot harvesting, she is heavy duty GOTV among the apathetic "cares" saying that she will help them fill out their ballots along with helping whatever "inmates" at the home need help. Recruiting ballots from the memory care section too (since our voting laws make it legal).
The staff can't fill out patient ballots, but no one prohibits patients from filling out other patients and staff ballots - as long as the ballots are legitimately signed by the individual voters, all is well.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 10:19 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Enough BS at July 06, 2024 10:19 AM (2NXcZ)
Occasionally I have given up coffee for a while, my go to coffee is No Name stuff I bought at $6 Canadian and there's a lot of No Name decaf in the cupboard too.
Simple tastes..?
Posted by: Stateless
>Canadian coffee? Jebus. If it can work up a bowel movement like Folgers we'll cut you some slack.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 10:19 AM (2UBPP)
Posted by: Elderly Git at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (aspIq)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Played by Donald Meek, and yes, it was very funny. Twentieth Century is a very funny film.
Posted by: Train, Train... at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (V5BDR)
Coffee was a serious issue for the Rebs. The embargo or Union blockade saw to that. It disappeared virtually overnight, and cost a fortune when you could get it. Coffee substitutes - Kentucky "coffee tree" or Chicoy, well ... acorns roasted .... that ain't coffee.
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Did you mean chicory? Chicory is a root, not acorns, and after being roasted and dried it could be ground like coffee and used to supplement dwindling coffee supplies. Cafe du Monde in Nawlins still makes and sells coffee with chicory.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (2xB3Z)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (PZo5T)
The attendants help them fill them out. You know the guy who rocks and has no interaction with the world voted for Tina Kotek for governor, so no changes will be made anytime soon.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (D7oie)
Yep. Saw that happen in MO. Conservative, or at least Republican, town but the the mentally disabled guy who went to our church was so *pleased* that the helpers at the home helped him vote. For Obama. Just like they told him to.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (XjtdB)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (llXky)
Yep. Which is why you should never burn professional bridges. Your reputation is everything.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:21 AM (wCYy7)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 06, 2024 10:21 AM (lhenN)
Posted by: Eromero
Heroin is a helluva drug.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 06, 2024 10:21 AM (qZEuM)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:22 AM (V13WU)
I looked up the 'pretty girl' during the pandemic. I knew she went to nursing school as I visited her there. Dead in her early 50's. History of drug abuse and vehicle accidents. Shame.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:15 AM (RKVpM)
Going to a wake next weekend for one just like that.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 10:23 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:21 AM (wCYy7)
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I still get together with my coworkers from my first "real" job 20 years ago. We meet at a local bar every three months or so and catch up. It's pretty cool.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:23 AM (llXky)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:23 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 06, 2024 10:23 AM (Wnv9h)
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RFK Jr. has his head on straight.
https://is.gd/iWIa9P
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:24 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: lin-duh
>It's okay if you're skills as a typist are substandard. Do you have a nice rack?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 10:24 AM (2UBPP)
If the letters sent home by the Rebs is any guide, the article I read on the subject was they were dreaming of Coffee all the time. It was a sore subject for both. Another article I read somewhere, when WWII started kicking off, one of the big US Navy guys, maybe Mitscher or somebody like that, sailed right into Brazil harbor and bought the whole year's crop and loaded it up.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 10:24 AM (HHI2d)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (2xB3Z)
there are a number of coffee substitutes. Acorns, chicory, roasted field peas. Chicory is the one that is used commercially.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 10:24 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:25 AM (wCYy7)
Corinthians 10:31
Posted by: Marcus T at July 06, 2024 10:25 AM (oSFyF)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:25 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: Dr. Bone
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I can shoot and what ever I miss my spawn will take out....😎
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:25 AM (PZo5T)
Blue sweater era Carly was the partner in a club on Martha's Vineyard in those days, Hot Tin Roof. Quite a place.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 10:26 AM (LkLld)
JOE YOU ANSWERED EVERY ONE OF GEORGE'S QUESTIONS
Posted by: DOKTOR Jill Biden
And it's PUDDING POP night! YAAAAAYYYY!!!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 10:26 AM (i4sOa)
Get's odd looks.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 10:26 AM (xcIvR)
My granddaughters have taken to wearing multiple bracelets, so,e of which they make and some of which are gifted. The first ones were ones that you had made that I gave to them. I always think of you when I see that or when I take out the keys to my car with the AOSHQ logo.
Hoping for positive outcome with this new doctor.
❤️❤️❤️
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:27 AM (t/2Uw)
THANK YOU Dr. Jill!! She's the bestest parasitic ..... ever!
Posted by: Stateless at July 06, 2024 10:27 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (PZo5T)
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I can type and converse at the same time, but that's rude.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 10:27 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM
I have a can in the fridge. That's great stuff.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 06, 2024 10:27 AM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 10:26 AM (LkLld)
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I did a blog post a while ago on how Simon's music evolved over the years, from being skeptical of marriage, to lamenting the other woman, to "it's coming around again," and finally urging fidelity because it's 'the stuff that dreams are made of.'
Quite a story arc.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:28 AM (llXky)
Posted by: lin-duh
I can verify this as accurate.🤠
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:28 AM (t/2Uw)
Why would you bother with sex, when you have heroin?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:23 AM
I enjoyed the hell out of the movie Trainspotting, and saw it as more of an anti-drug movie. But there's one scene where some young woman gets tied off and injected and she moans "That beats any meat injection. That beats any f***ing cock in the world."
Meanwhile her baby dies. IIRC it was hers.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:30 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 10:31 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author
We still have a Facebook group. Nobody is really ever on FB but every now and then someone will find a photo or something and post it. And the. There’s a 2 day, 200 comment discussion about how awesome that time was.
This was a late 90s/early 2000s timeframe. Tech start up. That group of about 100 of us we’ve all orbited in each others’ circles over the years. Even today I can call up most of those guys (and they were almost all guys, hateful I know) and said I need a job is your place hiring, I’d have a job within a week.
It was a special place and time. Bunch of 20-somethings who had no clue what we were doing but somehow made it work.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:31 AM (wCYy7)
Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 10:32 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:33 AM (pgG81)
I'd like the rain. Hasn't rained at all since the *last* tropical storm two weeks ago.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 06, 2024 10:33 AM (XjtdB)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert
I am drinking coffee with chicory right now, it’s pretty common in the south. Mine is Community, but there is Cafe Orleans, CDM, Luzianne. Local brewers have it, too.
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:33 AM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:33 AM (fwDg9)
Haha haha hahaha haha hahaha!
Posted by: Ow. My sides hurt at July 06, 2024 10:34 AM (dg+HA)
Tactically, that is their only real plan.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 10:34 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: BignJames at July 06
I always add a little more coffee so it’s less chicory. I do like it though, but it’s something I have always been around and maybe that is why.
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:35 AM (p4NUW)
Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom
Martha Raddatz reports that Dr. Jill is "lashing out" at those who want Crooked Joe to get out of the race.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)
My aunt of blessed memory could type 120 words per minute without a mistake on any manual typewriter.
She worked for years for both Carnegie and Inland steel, yet she changed her name to hide her Judaism to get the jobs.. I think they knew she was Jewish but due to her skills they looked the other way.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 10:36 AM (x0n13)
You Go, Girl!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:36 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)
She'll sic DOJ/IRS on 'em.
Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 10:37 AM (AwYPR)
If the letters sent home by the Rebs is any guide, the article I read on the subject was they were dreaming of Coffee all the time. It was a sore subject for both. Another article I read somewhere, when WWII started kicking off, one of the big US Navy guys, maybe Mitscher or somebody like that, sailed right into Brazil harbor and bought the whole year's crop and loaded it up.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 10:24 AM (HHI2d)
If you want to read how a Confederate Private saw things, try Company Aytch, by Sam R. Watkins.
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 10:37 AM (o2ZRX)
I wonder if another Minnesota Democrat...opps
I mean Republican...Pete Stauber of Minnesota is against that idea ? since he joined with Pelosi and Schumer in voting "Yes" to confirm "Penetrating Fingers" into the Oval Office in 2020.
Of course, Pete now brags about how he, "Stooper Duck" Stauber is busily fighting for us deplorables against pResident Biden's destructive policies.
You go, Pete. No, I mean "go." As in away.
Posted by: Ju at July 06, 2024 10:37 AM (aTmM/)
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nikki mccann ramírez
@NikkiMcR
Stephanopoulos: If you stay in, and Trump is elected and everything you're warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?
Biden: I'll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that's what this is about.
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It's all about the Biden, the Biden, the Biden.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (L/fGl)
Maybe this seems flippant compared to medically-oriented prayers, but we really need rain. Yesterday, they got 1" down the road, but all we got here was 1/4" and we're in the first stages of drought. We're expecting thunderstorms over the next few days, but we need them to deliver!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (wCYy7)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (fwDg9)
She worked for years for both Carnegie and Inland steel, yet she changed her name to hide her Judaism to get the jobs.. I think they knew she was Jewish but due to her skills they looked the other way.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 10:36 AM (x0n13)
I saw this in Gentleman's Agreement !
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (V13WU)
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Regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to pronounce.
Posted by: President Potatohead at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (kbyy+)
Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (iF0sF)
One day at a time.
***************
You have that right JJ. Those negative thoughts are the enemy, just as much as the cancer. Refuse to allow them to torment you. Find the joy and laughter in your life. It will boost your immune system. And combat those negative thoughts. Prays continue for you and for all who battle this scourge of a disease.
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (fwDg9)
Think of all the tacky dresses she can make with the draperies.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (lhenN)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:25 AM (PZo5T)
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The HAWTest possible answer.....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (kOluj)
Lovely setting ( in woods by water) of a song based on Psalm 23:
https://tinyurl.com/yc43fwep
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (oUxZc)
To be clear up front: I don’t give one tiny hot fuck who the Dem nominee is. I truly don’t. Biden’s fine. Harris is fine. A warm puddle of vomit is fine. *There is no conceivable resolution to the nomination fight that could change the basic calculus of this race.*
Preventing a fascist takeover of the US is my top priority–as a journalist, as a voter, as a human. If it isn’t yours too, you should feel bad about yourself. If you haven’t made the stakes of this election clear to everyone within the sound of your voice, you should feel bad.
Moar popcorn!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 10:42 AM (2i9gl)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:42 AM (wCYy7)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:42 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:42 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (w6EFb)
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In 2009, US Air Forces Africa Command hosted a delegation from Botswana. Interesting guys from one of Africa's most stable, functioning countries. Anyhow the big thing for them is the start of the rains, and if they are late, a national day of prayer is proclaimed. It always works. (They're Anglicans, btw, but African, so not okay with teh ghey.)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:42 AM (llXky)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:43 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:44 AM (pZEOD)
Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2024 10:45 AM (uCfKO)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:45 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM (oUxZc)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:43 AM (iZbyp)
Howdy new neighbors.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM (qZEuM)
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Howdy! Someday, I will try to get my shit together and have a little SC MoMe. But it is not this day....
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (pZEOD)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 10:36 AM (x0n13)
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I'm related to a bunch of Jewish artists in New York. Edwin Franko Goldman being the most famous.
My great-great-great grandmother decided to go full assimilation and became an Anglican, later Catholic (at least the kids were).
I'm sure this created some family drama!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (llXky)
Amen. I have a beautiful crystal bracelet with a cross on it and the word "faith" which had been carefully crafted by Jewell. It makes me feel close to God to wear it and I have gotten compliments on it. Thanks, Jewells. Prayers continue for you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (oUxZc)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (qZEuM)
This way the Rs have to clean up the mess they made just in time to bring in what they think is their fabulous bench.
Meanwhile we have DeSantis, Youngkin, hopefully VP Vance🤞 waiting to take over.
I think thei left's time has passed.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (t/2Uw)
He was the one who destroyed Hildabeast in the debate a couple months ago.
The Labour party will have what's left of Great Britain overrun with Muslims before they get tossed out.
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (JLq/1)
https://tinyurl.com/rzx4efmr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM (oUxZc)
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I see your rack a raise you an iron maiden.
https://tinyurl.com/4fhjmy9a
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (2xB3Z)
Sultans of Swing - the ultimate, very bestest version evah!!!
https://youtu.be/8Pa9x9fZBtY
around 7 minutes to the end is bliss.
Fight me.
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, cafe oui at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (qfLjt)
Moar popcorn!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (uxCna)
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Note that this heroic struggle will be fought behind a keyboard, perhaps at family reunions and in coffee shops.
Such is the degraded state of society that people have to imagine themselves heroes for just bitching online.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (llXky)
Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly
I’m genuinely sad/angry over what these ppl around him are doing to Joe Biden. He deserves better than to go out like this. The answer is to let him retire w/some dignity. Not to keep forcing the critically wounded racehorse to run more.
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I, for one, want abject, public humiliation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at July 06, 2024 10:50 AM (55boN)
https://tinyurl.com/rzx4efmr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM (oUxZc)
Is that going to have enough space for shoes?
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 10:50 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Most guys at July 06, 2024 10:50 AM (dg+HA)
387 I am rather pleased with my rack:
https://tinyurl.com/rzx4efmr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM
LOL I had to look but I knew that was coming! It’s like Monty Pythons Spanish Inquisition, “give her the rack!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (pgG81)
Now that he is gone they are freaking out trying to figure what to do as it may be too far to steall 2024 too. But regardless of what they do with Biden try to steal it they will because that is what they do for decades.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (cOq4q)
My typing skills are decent, but my 10 key skills are unparalleled. Do I get the job?
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (16NmB)
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (V13WU)
*******
Runner: we have one. It makes very good coffee. Wide variety of coffees, but the pods are pricey.
Posted by: Some Boxer Guy at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (qxlax)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (t/2Uw)
I am not Imelda Marcos.
I have two pairs of shoes-a black pair and, a brown pairPosted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:52 AM (oUxZc)
@TrumpWarRoom
Martha Raddatz reports that Dr. Jill is "lashing out" at those who want Crooked Joe to get out of the race.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)
I don't wish suffering on anyone, but this is obviously painful for her. And him. To the extent one considers sympathy for them, they make it impossible to care that this all must be terribly bitter for that rotten family.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 06, 2024 10:52 AM (tZwal)
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (JLq/1)
The phony made up one that a bunch of idjits on Twatter were making up?
No. No new phony made up details have come out yet.
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (iZbyp)
Such is the degraded state of society that people have to imagine themselves heroes for just bitching online.
Not to worry, the Molotov cocktails are coming soon.
Somebody detonated an IED as a surburban Portland police car drove by a couple of days ago, injuring the cop.
A glimpse of the near future.
Posted by: Antifa! at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (uxCna)
Well you’re about 4 years too late for that one, aren’t you?
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (pgG81)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (2NHgQ)
==
Very plausible. Of course the like of Jeffries and Clyburn genuinely think that Kamala is the bestest choice evah.
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (V13WU)
Thanks, I think. That certainly is creepy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:54 AM (oUxZc)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:54 AM (fwDg9)
Lucas Tomlinson
@LucasFoxNews
Biden tells ABC: “I’m the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:54 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)
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We should pray for them to repent their sins, and seek to redress all the evils they have done. Until that point, I have no sympathy for someone who sins, keeps sinning, celebrates sinning and wants to persecute people who share their nominal faith.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:54 AM (llXky)
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where
Everything I have seen is there was nothing. He was seen going into his house in DE for the weekend. As usual.
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:55 AM (pZEOD)
It seems that others agree.
After watching the 23-minute interview, it was obvious that Stephanopoulos was sent out to stab Caesar to death on [pre-recorded] television. There's no other way to spin it. After the interview, ABC political hacks piled on. Rather than reassuring skittish Democrat operatives (let alone the public) that Biden is fine, it reinforced the narrative that he is too old and feeble to remain as the nominee.
On Thursday, my esteemed colleague Stephen Green wrote:
Some argue that Stephanopoulos has been brought on not to help Biden but to commit the System's coup de grâce and "rhetorically assassinate" their flailing POTUS. Let George trip him up a couple of times in front of the TV cameras, the thinking goes, and even DOCTOR Jill Biden will have no choice but to relent and tell Joe to go Full LBJ.
https://tinyurl.com/8xvtnd3h
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 10:55 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (t/2Uw)
Alternatively, everyone on AF1 got their fill of the journos and came up with an excuse to kick them all off the plane for a couple hours.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:55 AM (pgG81)
Thanks. It's always great to see you as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:55 AM (oUxZc)
I shut down the Taliban, too!
Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at July 06, 2024 10:56 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:56 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 10:57 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:57 AM (fwDg9)
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We are already there... bless your heart!
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:57 AM (PZo5T)
@LucasFoxNews
Biden tells ABC: “I’m the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:54 AM (L/fGl)
That's true. No one thought it could happen. Because it hasn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 06, 2024 10:57 AM (tZwal)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:56 AM (L/fGl)
Got to admit, that's catchy. Just tighten it up a bit.
"The Ho in Twenny-fo!"
There. Much better.
Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 10:58 AM (1Yy3c)
@LucasFoxNews
Biden tells ABC: “I’m the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen.”
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Then why are we sending billions more to Ukraine???!
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:59 AM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 10:59 AM (/7KEl)
Somebody detonated an IED as a surburban Portland police car drove by a couple of days ago, injuring the cop.
Coming soon, sectarian violence?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 11:00 AM (RKVpM)
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no incident
The President just spilled his juicebox
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 11:01 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 06, 2024 11:01 AM (lhenN)
Usually there's lock-step agreement.
I'm enjoying it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 11:01 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: 144 at July 06, 2024 11:03 AM (ErnYL)
It's very weird - no one has claimed responsibility for the IED.
We'll see if this is a one-off, or the start of an organized campaign.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 11:03 AM (uxCna)
One wonders if this was purely a Clinton initiative, or if it had buy-in from the Obamanites as well. My guess is the latter.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 11:03 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Corn Pop at July 06, 2024 11:03 AM (PiwSw)
**********
Have we seen any recent polling data on this?
Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2024 11:05 AM (uCfKO)
Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2024 11:05 AM (uCfKO)
Somebody detonated an IED as a surburban Portland police car drove by a couple of days ago, injuring the cop.
A glimpse of the near future.
Posted by: Antifa! at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (uxCna
This type of action will initiate an opposite reaction which oddly enough might not be equal
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 11:05 AM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 11:05 AM (pPOh9)
Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom
Martha Raddatz reports that Dr. Jill is "lashing out" at those who want Crooked Joe to get out of the race.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)
Jill needs to be told to get bent. AND, to STFU.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 06, 2024 11:06 AM (iODuv)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 06, 2024 11:07 AM (23272)
Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 11:09 AM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: 144 at July 06, 2024 11:10 AM (ErnYL)
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
Pro-abortion Democrats march to “Born in the USA,” blissfully unaware of the searing irony.
https://is.gd/aszt7g
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
Amen.
Prayers for all on the Weekly Prayer List, their families and good friends. Prayers for comfort for Mama Miklos & strength for family, and for mindful webworker with his most recent hospitalization.
Prayers for all others in need - including those of the Horde who are not presently appearing on the Weekly Prayer List - strength, comfort, hope.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at July 06, 2024 11:11 AM (NFX2v)
Vivek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PatIoAocZsA
DeS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ-q_WM7wcM
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 11:12 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Whispering Walter at July 06, 2024 11:21 AM (GpUII)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (fwDg9)
FIFY
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 11:44 AM (nJTSw)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (wCYy7)
Yeah but IIRC 411 of 650 seats in Commons.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 11:49 AM (nJTSw)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (llXky)
So you like making strategic friends as well. You benefit from the corruption you decry.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 11:55 AM (nJTSw)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 06, 2024 01:03 PM (qxlax)
Daily Tech News 6 July 2024
Top Story
- OpenAI got hacked, but definitely not by Chinese spies. (New York Times) (archive site)
In April. 2023.
And they didn't report it until now. In fact, they didn't report it at all. One of their employees alluded to the event on a podcast, and was fired for his trouble.Mr. Aschenbrenner said OpenAI had fired him this spring for leaking other information outside the company and argued that his dismissal had been politically motivated. He alluded to the breach on a recent podcast, but details of the incident have not been previously reported. He said OpenAI's security wasn't strong enough to protect against the theft of key secrets if foreign actors were to infiltrate the company.
OpenAI denies this - well, not the hack, nor the firing, nor the fact that Aschenbrenner leaked the information, but the causal connection, in an announcement apparently written by a special release of ChatGPT trained exclusively on modified limited hangouts:"We appreciate the concerns Leopold raised while at OpenAI, and this did not lead to his separation," an OpenAI spokeswoman, Liz Bourgeois, said.
Liz Bourgeois? Obviously a made up name.Referring to the company's efforts to build artificial general intelligence, a machine that can do anything the human brain can do, she added, "While we share his commitment to building safe A.G.I., we disagree with many of the claims he has since made about our work. This includes his characterizations of our security, notably this incident, which we addressed and shared with our board before he joined the company."
OpenAI is making no efforts to build AGI, safe or otherwise. OpenAI's focus is building something and then redefining the term AGI to claim they have achieved it.
Tech News
- Microsoft has indefinitely delayed the release of its Recall spyware, but forgot to tell its marketing department. (Tom's Hardware)
Ads for the new Copilot+ ARM laptops prominently feature the now nonexistent, uh, feature.
- Speaking of the Copilot+ ARM laptops, any good? Yes. (The Verge)
The 12 core Snapdragon X Elite chip is almost exactly tied with Apple's (also 12 core) M2 Max. It's a little behind Apple's newer 8 core M3 chip in single-threaded tasks but well ahead in multi-threaded tasks.
It's not the fastest chip on the planet but as far as laptop processors go it's up there with the best.
- After previously rejecting the Epic Games app store on iOS and facing nuclear levels of antitrust action in the EU, Apple has approved the exact same app store. (Tech Crunch)
Epic Games made none of the changes Apple demanded, but the store somehow got approved anyway.
- Amazon is also facing EU action on a myriad annoying things it does to squeeze more money out of customers. (Tech Crunch)
The EU calls companies like Apple and Amazon VLOPs - very large online platforms. Of the list of VLOPs the EU is looking to regulate, exactly one is European.
- After more than entire decade in the court system the lawsuit by Sony against German cheat device maker Datel is turning against Sony. (TorrentFreak)
The courts originally found in Sony's favour, then on appeal the decision was overturned and the suit dismissed. Sony appealed that decision and it's been bounced up to the highest court in Europe for a ruling on specific legal and technical details, which came back saying that changing the value of a variable is not copyright infringement, you idiots.
- Japan has introduced a 40 foot tall humanoid robot designed for maintaining railway lines. (The Guardian)
It can be used for painting infrastructure - since it can maneuver to paint both sides and the inside fiddly bits of metal frameworks - and it can also be fitted with enormous death-dealing chainsaws for "trimming tree branches".
Bagger 288 Video of the Day
It was a simpler, more innocent time.
Disclaimer: And we've got another 287 where that came from.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:00 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur., they even took the security video at July 06, 2024 04:01 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:05 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:13 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 06, 2024 04:28 AM (hKoQL)
Yeah, I hear ya about the "hydraulic pressure" and not being able to get back to sleep, IG!
It's not faaaaiiiirr!!!!!
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 04:34 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 04:36 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:40 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 04:40 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:41 AM (fwDg9)
Liz Bourgeois? Obviously a made up name.
I once had to ship product to a government location, attention: Linda Lovelace. It gave me a throaty chuckle.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 04:42 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: m at July 06, 2024 04:43 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 06, 2024 04:45 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 04:48 AM (VuZH8)
This one?
https://tinyurl.com/h7wpnjw8
Nothing says gravitas like clutching a pen, sitting in a 7/8 size chair in an elementary school library, and grinning ridiculously at inappropriate times.
As one of ABC news post interview talking head lesbian space witches said...
He puts them in a bind. He didn't do badly enough to demand immediate removal, and he didn't do well enough to make people think he should continue in office.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 04:51 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:53 AM (fwDg9)
Yeh, it was bad 14 years ago after prostate surgery.
It got worse after last years radiation treatments for the recurrence. Oncologist thinks some scarring on the bladder makes it more sensitive to a 'full' sensation.
Only thing worse than getting up to go pee is going pee, and not getting up first.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 04:54 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 04:55 AM (FjEs9)
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 04:57 AM (VuZH8)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 04:57 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 06, 2024 04:59 AM (a1415)
FOR PRESIDENT!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 05:01 AM (wh7vU)
I hate summer.
Oh, and will pee again before going back to bed, LOL
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:01 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 05:01 AM (wh7vU)
Heaven only knows what he's trying to tinker with now.
But it probably involves online gaming, or flight sims.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:01 AM (a1415)
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:04 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 05:07 AM (SuNbA)
Formerly Hurricane Beryl is now a tropical storm. Experts on climate change agree this hurricane season will be the deadliest in the history of the planet.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:08 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Divide by Zero
Don't they say that every year?
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:09 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:09 AM (njWTi)
I hate summer. "
Ouch.
We have been hitting within one or two degrees of record temps for several days now.
75.9 degrees outside right now with a 75.6 degree dew point.
One of the benefits of a relatively newer home is the insulation and vapor barrier requirements that have been implemented in recent years.
Even though it runs a lot during the hottest part of the day, the house holds at 75 degrees, and about 44 percent R.H.
Looking forward to mid-September when the heat and the tourists both begin to abate.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:09 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:12 AM (fwDg9)
My wife likes to go outside at night and watch the space station go by. I've warned her before there's stuff out there at night you don't want to run into. She left me a note this morning that there was a huge catlike animal right outside last night.
Not sure what that would be.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:14 AM (RKVpM)
The nearest choices are:
Scorching hot summers and mild/moderate snowfall winters
OR
Barely tolerable summers and *heavy* snowfall winters.
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:15 AM (njWTi)
And a flame that burns brighter consumes the candle quicker.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:15 AM (a1415)
Don't they say that every year?
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:09 AM
Of course. Every year they get a little more hysterical.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:16 AM (RKVpM)
It's just your friendly neighborhood WereKittuh! It just wants tummy rubs and to feed on human flesh.
You'll be fine.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 05:16 AM (wh7vU)
Not sure what that would be.
Posted by: Divide by Zero
Let's see. Huge and catlike. Hmmm....
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:17 AM (oaGWv)
Big Penguin, wearing a cat disguise?
They're sneaky bastidges, you know.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:18 AM (a1415)
Would rather die of heatstroke. Or of heart attack while shoveling snow.
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:20 AM (njWTi)
And a flame that burns brighter consumes the candle quicker.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
I really would like to know what chemical cocktail they give him. I thought doctors took an oath to do no harm.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:21 AM (oaGWv)
https://tinyurl.com/3fbacmyr
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:23 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:23 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:24 AM (a1415)
Right. And then you see the freeeeks what get split tongues and facial lumps and gawdknowswhatelse... and you realize that IF those Dr's took any "oath" it was to fill their pockets.
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:25 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: 8 month old fetus. at July 06, 2024 05:25 AM (a1415)
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:26 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:26 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:26 AM (oaGWv)
And I am convinced that as the older employees age out, the demand for 'work/life balance' is gonna kill us all.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:28 AM (a1415)
Local news says a gas station in Oakland was ransacked last night by a crowd of about 20.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 05:28 AM (RIvkX)
Do the voters in Oakland support defunding Police?
Restorative justice?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:29 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:32 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: jillyjilly at July 06, 2024 05:32 AM (yA1hZ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
I always 'joke' about retiring 3 years after I'm dead. Considering the recent generations work ethic, that may come true.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 05:34 AM (wh7vU)
Mostly, they were not educated well enough to succeed on their own merits.
And so, they relied upon victim status --whining to HR about perceived sleights-- to simply remove higher-ups, to clear the way for their own advancement.
Pathetic.
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:34 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 06, 2024 05:37 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:39 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:39 AM (fwDg9)
Often generationally.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:41 AM (a1415)
Posted by: jillyjilly at July 06, 2024 05:32 AM (yA1hZ)
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If you want to render something important into something silly and useless, say it in French.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 05:43 AM (RIvkX)
Yes, VIA.
I am not simply bitching about Those Damned Kids. I'm referring to a whole batch of idiots who will not follow instructions, cannot think critically, do not accept their actual hiring status/position...
The ones what believe they should be paid 6 figures for their (barely acceptable) entry-level work.
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:44 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 05:46 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:47 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:48 AM (a1415)
Or is it another Rehoboth/Camp David weekend, with him basically invisible to the American people.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:50 AM (a1415)
Indilia sings in French
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:50 AM (fwDg9)
I've thought of going 'naked' on my homeowners or raising the deductible to some number like $20,000 or so to save money. The premiums are now pushing $3,000 a year.
Maybe just have fire insurance only. When shit breaks I fix it myself.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:51 AM (RKVpM)
And like a good neighbor.......
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
State Farm WAS there.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:51 AM (oaGWv)
Mimes.
Mimes are all French, right?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:51 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:53 AM (fwDg9)
For those of us with mortgages, don't lenders have specific coverage requirements that have to be maintained?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:53 AM (a1415)
Gov't control of a mandatory product=controlled votes
Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 05:54 AM (hjK64)
For those of us with mortgages, don't lenders have specific coverage requirements that have to be maintained?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:53 AM
Yes, they do. Even the rating of the company has to be at some level.
Fortunately my first (and second) mortgage days are over. If I get a plumbing leak that messes us a wall and insulation I tear out the drywall and insulation, fix the leak, then patch everything up myself. Good as new. Why pay so much every year when I'll probably never file a claim?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:57 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:57 AM (a1415)
Bad news: They're only going to show some slight mispronouncing of a word and say, "See?!?!? He's just as bad."
Posted by: Wally at July 06, 2024 05:58 AM (9Uj9K)
I think the insurers are hiding behind the 'climate change' hysteria to raise premiums.
Although California definitely has some issues. Especially in those fire prone areas that they can't seem to figure out a sensible compromise with the greenies.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:01 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:02 AM (hjK64)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:04 AM (FjEs9)
The building is only about 1/4 of the total value of the plot.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 06:05 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:06 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 06:12 AM (RIvkX)
My guess is that it's a recovery weekend particularly if Biden really did have a medical event on AF1,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:13 AM (64yfp)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:14 AM (MK13O)
https://tinyurl.com/4jueaydb
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:15 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:15 AM (MK13O)
Posted by: fluffy at July 06, 2024 06:16 AM (86W+h)
Sort of my thoughts, as well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:16 AM (a1415)
Buncha pussies, can't handle the mean old dotard when he's angry? Heh.
I dunno... wonder what he put his poor doggehs through?
F.J.B.
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 06:17 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:17 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:18 AM (MK13O)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
My late husband had dementia and the delusions were frightening and only controlled with medication. Before he was medicated he often acted out physically. I wonder how far down the delusion road Biden is.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:19 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 06, 2024 06:19 AM (MKEsG)
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 06, 2024 06:20 AM (ENQN6)
https://tinyurl.com/344pf62s
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:20 AM (64yfp)
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The Prayer List is more immediately relevant.
Old Mama was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on July Fourth. No fireworks here.
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 12:44 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 06:21 AM (SuNbA)
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 06:21 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:21 AM (a1415)
Posted by: The Deep State at July 06, 2024 06:22 AM (FdrjG)
Sorry about your husband. That is a really hard and heartbreaking thing for families to go through/ having a loved one with dementia.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:22 AM (64yfp)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:22 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:22 AM (oaGWv)
"My guess is that it's a recovery weekend particularly if Biden really did have a medical event on AF1, "
There seems to be complete denial anything of the sort happened.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:23 AM (RKVpM)
He is done as a candidate next month
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:23 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 06:23 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:23 AM (a1415)
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Because doggos are special *every day*
This is known.
Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 06:25 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:25 AM (5KunV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:25 AM (64yfp)
You'll get Drumpf. And happy Saturday.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 06:25 AM (9wkhT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 06:26 AM (RIvkX)
It's seems odd that someone said this and then it was denied. Suspicious.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:27 AM (64yfp)
Anyway! Has F. Joke abdicated in favor of Kamalala yet?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:27 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 06, 2024 06:27 AM (xpCR0)
Posted by: JQ
*
Why do cats get a special day and not dogs?
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024
***
Cats have a better PR firm. This is known.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:28 AM (omVj0)
You'll get Drumpf. And happy Saturday."
Nothing says 'large and in charge' like saying that your candidate is too weak for the job, but Presidenting by Committee is the way to go.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:28 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 06:28 AM (9wkhT)
Old Mama was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on July Fourth. No fireworks here.
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024
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Miklos, I'm sorry to hear that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:29 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:30 AM (a1415)
It's seems odd that someone said this and then it was denied. Suspicious.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:27 AM
The knives are out right now and you'll hear all sorts of stuff, some true, some wishful thinking.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:30 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Thanks. It's been almost a year since he passed. I try not to blame myself for not recognizing all the little signs years ago. The hospice nurse assured me the end would have been the same but I guess it's just human nature to play the "what if" game with oneself.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:30 AM (oaGWv)
In Wilmington. Washing 'vette.
LID"
It's pretty bad when the American people are desperately searching for Proof-of-life on a daily basis.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:31 AM (a1415)
There seems to be complete denial anything of the sort happened.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:23 AM (RKVpM)
Never believe a rumor until you hear the official denials.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:31 AM (1Nxff)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 06:32 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:33 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024
***
These are part of the same class of medicos who were all in on the Sniffle Scare/Clot Shot mandate. Something tells me Hippocrates, William Osler, Drs. Kildare and Casey, and the Mayo brothers would vomit in disgust at hearing about these "doctors."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:34 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:34 AM (64yfp)
Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 06:34 AM (vFG9F)
So Beryl, once forecast to make landfall in northern Mexico, then Brownsville, then Corpus Christi, is now predicted to come ashore Monday morning near Matagorda Bay. That's just great. Maybe they'll change it again to Freeport.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:34 AM (1Nxff)
Hmmmm...to the Wiki Page.
https://tinyurl.com/bdzkdkpa
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:35 AM (a1415)
Posted by: fd
LOL
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:35 AM (oaGWv)
Heatwave broke yesterday here at lake. After several days of 110-117 heat index it got down to high of 92. We were able to go out on the water finally.
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 06:36 AM (SuNbA)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024
***
Some cats make it more obvious than others. My late Marie, Oreo, and Wolf were, and Stirling now is, more like roommates and friends who leave you to do the housework and meal prep, but love your company.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:36 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:36 AM (a1415)
No idea what she says but it sounds nice
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:37 AM (fwDg9)
Dear Tuna
I think that's very natural to do "what ifs"?after a loved one dies, but you are not omniscient and you
Did the most you could in caring for your husband with an extremely difficult medical condition. Be gentle with yourself. I'm sure your husband would be if he were with you and in a sound mind.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:38 AM (gnetv)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
How many kitties have you had?
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:38 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 06:38 AM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:39 AM (gnetv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 06, 2024 06:39 AM (xpCR0)
Biden is the abusive husband to the battered media that swears she ain't gonna take it no more.
Until the next beating.
Posted by: Auspex at July 06, 2024 06:41 AM (j4U/Z)
Shot: (Repost from Yesterday) https://tinyurl.com/fry9ktcb
Chaser: https://tinyurl.com/4ud8kvy2
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:41 AM (a1415)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
That's why I love this place. So many wordsmiths.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:41 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:41 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 06:42 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
How is your injury. Did you ever make it to a doctor?
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:43 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: That kid at July 06, 2024 06:45 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
How many kitties have you had?
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024
***
Tuna, since 1983 there have been nine. Twelve, if you count my boyhood cat Rusty and the two Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 and I had. Not serially; in the post-'83 period, I've had two at a time, four times.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:46 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:46 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 06:46 AM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 06, 2024 06:47 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:47 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 06:48 AM (RIvkX)
That's moist.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"
Same here. 75 degrees and 75 heat index, 74.5 dewpoint. I'm still not sure how that works
Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 06:48 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:49 AM (a1415)
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 06, 2024 06:49 AM (ENQN6)
Looks like kennel cleaning is on the agenda for today. I've managed to talk Her Majesty out of a complete power washing on the grounds that that's a fall/winter job and can't be done in the summer.
Doing the numerous floor mats in the pens and the work area will be difficult with the wet weather forecast, as the usual method is to take them all outside for washing and letting them air dry.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (1Nxff)
>>I really would like to know what chemical cocktail they give him. I thought doctors took an oath to do no harm.
IM multivitamin, IM b12, testoterone, methylprednizilone, an upper, blood transfusions and whatever the rest of the old fossil inner party power brokers are getting to survive into their 80's and 90's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (XV/Pl)
Unfortunately, what he has is a very rare form of....
Posted by: House at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (a1415)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (incbT)
(And this the "less hot" portion of the day. Gah.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:51 AM (oaGWv)
It might be a tumor!
Posted by: That kid at July 06, 2024 06:45 AM (a1415)
Make sure you eat more broccoli. And at least 128 oz. of water every day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:51 AM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 06, 2024 06:51 AM (sAmhv)
Which I'm going to do by throwing a low-key pool party.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:51 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024
***
A toilet, maybe. Then again, maybe not.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:52 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 06:52 AM (ugxa6)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 06, 2024 06:52 AM (YRsIm)
>>I really would like to know what chemical cocktail they give him. I thought doctors took an oath to do no harm.
IM multivitamin, IM b12, testoterone, methylprednizilone, an upper, blood transfusions and whatever the rest of the old fossil inner party power brokers are getting to survive into their 80's and 90's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (XV/Pl
Plus the blood essence of 10 year old girls.
Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 06:52 AM (o2ZRX)
IM multivitamin, IM b12, testoterone, methylprednizilone, an upper, blood transfusions and whatever the rest of the old fossil inner party power brokers are getting to survive into their 80's and 90's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (XV/Pl)
It wouldn't surprise me if it included the blood of young children.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:52 AM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 06, 2024
***
I wish my car had an option to turn off the outside temp display. Unfortunately it glares at me as long as the car is in operation. (No, I'm not going to stick black tape over the readout. Imagine the gummy stuff that'd leave on the readout screen.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:53 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:53 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 06:53 AM (ugxa6)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:54 AM (1Nxff)
Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 06:54 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:54 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:56 AM (a1415)
I probably took 20 showers yesterday with my outdoor solar shower. Got some hedge trimming done, looked at the lawn and figured it could wait. Mainly putzed around with crop, keeping everything watered. No ripe tomatoes yet, but first gigantic zucchini is ready to burst.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:57 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 06:58 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:58 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 06, 2024 06:58 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:59 AM (XV/Pl)
That's a mile stone to reach
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:59 AM (fwDg9)
Yet our Walmarts are going back to cashiers, quickly.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:59 AM (a1415)
Maybe 225 to 250 people
Carefully selected people. Except that someone had a "Joe Must Go" type of sign at one.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 07:00 AM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:57 AM (RKVpM)
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I've been nurturing and training my runner bean vines and clematis to great success. I'm trying to attract more hummingbirds.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:01 AM (RIvkX)
I believe it read 'Joe, pass the torch'
Note the proper use of the comma.
Leads me to believe it was a conservative Plant.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:01 AM (a1415)
Make a bunch of bread and Ratatouille.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:59 AM
Yeah, zucchini bread is something else. Not sure which is better, zucchini bread or banana bread.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 07:01 AM (RKVpM)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 07:01 AM (SuNbA)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:02 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:03 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:03 AM (RIvkX)
Here is the assertion this person would like to get across: It’s unclear even to some inside the West Wing policy process which policy issues reach the president, and how. Major decisions go into an opaque circle that includes White House chief of staff, Jeff Zients (who talks to the president regularly) and return concluded.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 07:03 AM (jeqkR)
Posted by: rhennigantx
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And half of that was the press.
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 07:04 AM (SuNbA)
" I haven't been able to walk regularly since Tuesday. "
Sorry to hear that as
walks seem to be an important walk of your life and often with your son
Please consider going to an orthopedic doctor . A friend of mine was having healing pain and now he had to wear an orthopedic boot for a while. I will pray for your healing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 07:04 AM (eHqeq)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 07:03 AM (jeqkR)
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This is what a junta is and how it operates.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:05 AM (RIvkX)
>>Yeah, zucchini bread is something else. Not sure which is better, zucchini bread or banana bread.
Zucchini Bread slathered in raspberry jam with a piping hot cup of black coffee is heaven on earth.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 07:05 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Ahh meatloaf. Haven't made one in a long time . Must remedy that situation this week. Leftover meatloaf sandwiches..yum.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 07:06 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:06 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 07:06 AM (P+D4R)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:07 AM (RIvkX)
Now if the heat doesn't kill them, we might get more ripe tomatoes by the end of summer.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:07 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:08 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 07:08 AM (dDv7s)
Sometimes God speaks in clear and unambiguous ways.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:09 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 07:06 AM (oaGWv)
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Have I mentioned my turkey quinoa loaf recipe in Deplorable Gourmet?
/beaming
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:09 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:09 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024
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Home Depot, too, though the stations will take cash, and they have no obvious cameras staring you in the face and displaying your phiz, so it doesn't seem so bad.
WM in some locations here has dispensed with the in-your-face cameras too. I mentioned that to one of the staffers standing around while no doubt dreaming of her break. She shrugged and grunted. I wanted to say, "Just how closely related were your parents, anyway?" but didn't.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 07:10 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:10 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:10 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:58 AM (fwDg9)
Saw that at HD as well, the last time we were in the city.
Morning, all.
We had the temp drop as well yesterday, like a little summer norther.
Realized I need to put a border on the organist's quilt to get it up to "Throw" size. Then, embroider the dedication on the back, assemble and tie. One of her lifelong (seriously- they were born two weeks apart) friends is going to help me tie it, since she wants to participate.
So I have a 'touch grass' project for the day.
Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 07:10 AM (y7DxH)
The greatest shojo manga and anime evah is getting a modern theatrical release from Studio MAPPA.
Bara no Versailles sugoi!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxA2wEndpTg
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2024 07:11 AM (OJv82)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 07:11 AM (KaxPh)
"I'll drop out if God tells me to." -- Biden
Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. - Matthew 4:7
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 07:11 AM (1Nxff)
Daddy...if mommy transitions, will she still be your sister?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:11 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:10 AM (a1415)
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VIA readies his opening line for his SNL hosting gig
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 07:12 AM (KaxPh)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 07:16 AM (RKVpM)
https://x.com/RealJakeBroe/status/
1803615745198424512
__________________________________
Mildly amusing but not as funny as advertised. snl is garbage.
Posted by: Outside of Life at July 06, 2024 07:21 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:22 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:23 AM (fwDg9)
The show is scheduled for tomorrow night, the 7th, three full days after.
Independence Day is one of the few fed holidays that's not been turned into a Monday one. Fireworks shows typically begin well after sunset, certainly after anyone's work day, unless they are a shift worker. Employers giving paid holidays almost all give shift workers the time off.
Having the 4th fall on Tue, Wed, or Thu doesn't mean anyone will not be able to see the boomboom show if the fireworks are blown up on the 4th.
But here, it's all about revenue for the town guv. They throw a festival into it, and the festival must begin on a Saturday FOLLOWING the 4th, and the boomboom show must then be Sunday night. Ten bucks a head to get into the festival, which includes third rate live music, and shitty food stands.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 06, 2024 07:23 AM (ZtgZZ)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:27 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 07:28 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 06, 2024 07:30 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:30 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Just Wondering at July 06, 2024 07:30 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 07:31 AM (oaGWv)
shredded zuke does sound good as an ingredient, gotta try that
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 06, 2024 07:33 AM (MKEsG)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 06, 2024 07:34 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 06, 2024 07:38 AM (MKEsG)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 07:39 AM (xjTDL)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 06, 2024 07:41 AM (SfhV1)
1 is on ground if other animals want a drink
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:44 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: 13times at July 06, 2024 07:47 AM (JWQTr)
harsh but effective; I'm lovin' it, LOL!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 06, 2024 07:48 AM (MKEsG)
Posted by: blaster at July 06, 2024 07:52 AM (cvZX6)
I thought that was a euphemism for a longer run of around the clock escalated gun violence typical of Chicago
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 07:53 AM (rHxhM)
I have an 180 acre one, and from the looks of the tracking of the rainmaker out of the GoM, appears to add a few more acres early this next coming week.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 07:55 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: 13times at July 06, 2024 07:56 AM (TaPE6)
Posted by: ZOD Faulkner at July 06, 2024 07:57 AM (P+D4R)
*big sigh*
I also remember a day when "social influencers" on social media were called "prostitutes," engaged in prostitution.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 07:58 AM (2UBPP)
In some genetic strains, the family tree is a wreath.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 07:58 AM (rHxhM)
After breakfast it will be time to 🚜 the yard. 3 - 4 hours of time spent solving every problem known to man.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 07:59 AM (Q4IgG)
Or a bowl of spaghetti. Or a single, large, solid dot.
Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 07:59 AM (P+D4R)
Birdbath status?
In the little garden outside Her Majesty's study, we have a fountain, a concrete birdbath and a water-filled catch pan on the ground. All three were getting heavy usage yesterday. Need to get the mister set up so the bees can have a drink too.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:00 AM (1Nxff)
Same.
Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:00 AM (P+D4R)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 06, 2024 08:01 AM (MKEsG)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 06, 2024 08:04 AM (qZEuM)
The rates are reasonable and you get a volume discount.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:04 AM (2UBPP)
On the debate stage, Joe Biden came across as largely frail and shaky. But on other days, he appears to be much more lucid. Scientists have a term for this: cognitive fluctuations
Posted by: 13times at July 06, 2024 08:07 AM (WHP6G)
" Denial or senile ?Either way, Biden's not fit for the office and had entered that stubborn stage of grumpy old man that wants you off his lawn."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 08:07 AM (hBP6r)
As a "fucking nerd", these decisions to apply "AI" are almost always made at the organizational level that has nothing to do with actually making things.
Due to the high cost of everything, "AI" is a luxury idea that marketing is now wresting to attract investors and customers (mostly investors since the customer is tapped out).
LLMs have their place. The consensus of those who work with the technology daily is that AI is a very eager intern that lies a lot. I think most of the public sees AI generating heavily previous-art influenced music, text and art. It plagiarizes with amazing speed rendering its output as near worthless since it doesn't have the human aesthetic, creativity or ability to self-correct and properly adapt to its intended use.
This is why the output in legal, systems code and finance is close but error filled and can't be used directly but must be heavily edited by someone skilled in the area being addressed by the Augmented Intelligence.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:08 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: 13times at July 06, 2024 08:07 AM (WHP6G)
On other days, those around him are much less perceptive.
Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:08 AM (P+D4R)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 08:12 AM (HHI2d)
Leviticus 3:15
Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:12 AM (P+D4R)
Now the fun begins. On what day would it be safe to say that Biden wasn't fit and never would be fit for the office?
Before the Afghanistan debacle? Before publicly giving Putin permission to invade Ukraine? Before deciding to undo every single bit of work Trump did to secure the border? Before siring Hunter? Before that twinkle in Joe's father's eye?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:13 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:14 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:14 AM (P+D4R)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:14 AM (fwDg9)
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He's past all that.
He's at the "grumpy old man yelling at clouds" stage.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 08:15 AM (Q4IgG)
One of the flavors is called Palmer House, a take on spumoni, that includes almond pieces and Palmer House cherries. Whatever Palmer House cherries are.
Their aunt's lifelong boyfriend Eddie, long departed, was the manager at the Palmer House, way back in the days, had his own suite, knew the guys from the outfit when they came in, told the young girls, Ms G and her cuz, about whatever suicides of note happened that week on the twelfth floor.
The aunt worked her whole career right up the street, as the buyer for the Tea Room at Marshall Fields. All the food, the tableware, linens, waitress uniforms.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 06, 2024 08:15 AM (ZtgZZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 08:16 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:16 AM (fwDg9)
Just the words "American" and "Thinker" proximate to anything about Sundowner's head seems to be a hallucination of AI.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:16 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 06, 2024 08:15 AM (ZtgZZ)
I loved the Tea Room!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 06, 2024 08:17 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 08:18 AM (WXNFJ)
Nothing says 'sex appeal' like the perfect Kardashian.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:19 AM (2UBPP)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 08:19 AM (WXNFJ)
Sort of like all of the hagiographies that are sitting in abeyance waiting for Jimmy Carter to follow Rosalyn.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:22 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:23 AM (P+D4R)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 08:25 AM (9wkhT)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:27 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Cockamamie at July 06, 2024 08:30 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: ZOD
>I was fortunate enough to learn typing on an IBM Selectric when I was a sophomore in HS. Those old mechanical typewriters were a bastard.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:30 AM (2UBPP)
Currently its on the path to self-destruct.
For example, the music industry, in their usual greed and litigiousness as gone after EVERYONE who provides an AI service to generate new music so any retard with an iPhone and a data plan can fantasize about being the next Taylor Swift because the AI made the music. The music industry is dashing those plans - and will generate their own AI from their own signed artists and make endless music for $10/mo subscription.
Problem is, why generate new training data? So AI will be using dead data, yesterday's trends, and less than reliable sources. Then subsequent AI will train on the previous garbage accelerating even more the GIGO process.
I'm starting to see some of it now in the dropped quality of new code that AI engines "suggest". Also dead-linked citations, and refactorings that are amplified versions of previous reductions.
Its spinning apart, and will continue to spin apart as more people want to influence its already alien processes and as AI borrows more from previous AI hallucination
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:30 AM (rHxhM)
My father's descent into dementia was full of days like that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 08:31 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: ZOD Faulkner at July 06, 2024
***
This reminds me of Sinclair Lewis, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:31 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:32 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: And has been for a long time at July 06, 2024 08:33 AM (dg+HA)
Which will be reduced further into pressing the call button on their necklace medallion so that a care worker will come in, mop the floor, change the sheets and diaper.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:33 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024
***
I learned on a Selectric too, but that was in the typing classes at the Job Training Partnership Act program in 1988. A bit older than 15, I was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:33 AM (omVj0)
FJB's got LBD.
Shout it out after me: FJB's got LBD!!!11!
We ain't got no CIC.
Come on, shout! FJB's got LBD! We ain't got no CIC!
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 06, 2024 08:34 AM (ZtgZZ)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:35 AM (fwDg9)
yu don't see that one a lot
Posted by: Don Black
*
I think Eisenhower used it a lot.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024
***
F. Joke would have been, what, ten when Ike was first elected president? He, Joke I mean, would have heard it a lot during his formative years as a little frog-killing bastard. (I presume, based on his character as an adult)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:35 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:37 AM (RIvkX)
What's hilarious are the expressions of astonishment among the establishment elite over something that was manifestly apparent to us mud people ages ago.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:37 AM (1Nxff)
My father's descent into dementia was full of days like that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 08:31 AM
I feel sorry for people with dementia, with one exception which is Joe Biden. I feel kindly toward the caregivers, like Nancy Reagan who stayed with Ron to the end. I feel nothing but loathing toward Jill Biden who is encouraging this broken man to continue and putting the entire nation at risk.
Sometimes I hearken back to an early lesson from my parents, the phrase 'there but for the grace of God go I'.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 08:38 AM (RKVpM)
Dolled Up Mannequin Shrill Harridan Wives opened to big fanfare off Broadway in 2003. It was quickly panned by critics however for it's shallow dialogue, cheap sets, tinny music and subpar talent. It closed inside of two months.
Posted by: Snooty Theatre Critic at July 06, 2024 08:38 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
>This is what I have suspected all along.
Certainly we should place AI in a position where it coordinates and controls all of our first strike and nuclear defense capabilities to gain those milliseconds above our adversaries.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:39 AM (2UBPP)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:39 AM (RIvkX)
Odd words and sounds work like that.
I remember so many people were saying "Aaaaaaay" sometime into the first season of the sitcom "Happy Days". Dittos with the "Whazaaaaaaaaa-p" after popularized with the Budweiser adverts.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:39 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:39 AM (2UBPP)
====
This is a fabulous idea!
Posted by: Dr. Forbin at July 06, 2024 08:40 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 08:40 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Don Black
++++
If you only get your "news" from the MSM, you only know what they want you to know.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 06, 2024 08:40 AM (Lo97M)
ZOD IMPERIAL
(looks at hand, unsees it)
Mutated.
Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:41 AM (P+D4R)
You youngsters and your new-fangled electric typewriters.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:39 AM (RIvkX)
________
*flings wad of copy paper and Ticonderoga No. 2 pencil at SF*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:41 AM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:42 AM (omVj0)
*flings piece of coal and cave wall at Hadrian*
Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:43 AM (P+D4R)
IMO YMMV
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:44 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Dr. Forbin at July 06, 2024 08:44 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Childhood memories at July 06, 2024 08:44 AM (dg+HA)
Today’s nature walk- a blue and a white heron, a monarch butterfly, another yellow butterfly with blue on it too, painted turtles. Lots of wildflowers and cultivated flowers. a male cardinal and two funny and friendly bulldogs with their owners.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 08:45 AM (5EV+l)
In all seriousness, that ain't gonna happen. Far too many people want to strut around claiming their role in the decision chain.
Furthermore, from a security standpoint, I'm not sure how it could be air-gapped, because if it isn't, in order to receive the myriad of real-time streaming inputs that need to be scored, sorted and ingested in the decision matrix, it would be vulnerable to all kinds of malevolent manipulation events.
Sort of like how Joe is air-gapped and how Trump likely was so that any world altering decision would be managed by the power-mad sociopaths who don't trust anybody except their own vain imaginations.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:45 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Two funny and friendly bulldogs at July 06, 2024 08:46 AM (dg+HA)
"We" knew Joe was a vegetable a long, long time ago. But we incorporated that into our worldview, and eventually ignored it, because "they" were ignoring it. It was part of the furniture to our political view.
It was like the hypnotist snapped his fingers on debate night. The spell has been broken! This is devastating to the media, or ought to be. The most amazing 180 turn we've witnessed in the "news" certainly.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 08:47 AM (HHI2d)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 08:53 AM (s+ZSR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:54 AM (RIvkX)
And by the comment I am not telling any RC's how they "should feel about their faith."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 08:57 AM (cWGcu)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 09:00 AM (dg+HA)
Being Necessary To The Security Of A Free ONT, The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Memes Shall Not Be Infringed
Welcome to Friday night! Today's question: Are memes a modern version of pamphlets from colonial times, and are they an effective way to persuade people?
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This is some BS
I'll take two!
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On being God
Very popular choice for the ladies
He has a better sense of comedic timing than the comic
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What would Space Force do?
Poll: Should he have pulled the trigger or not?
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
Factoid
Creepy little AI short
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The 4th rule
Taking the piss
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That's a good question
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 10:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 05, 2024 10:01 PM (v8FiY)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 05, 2024 10:02 PM (hOUT3)
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Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 05, 2024 10:03 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 05, 2024 10:03 PM (kOluj)
Memes are essential for red-pilling
They simplify and clarify leftist hypocrisy
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 10:03 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Emmie at July 05, 2024 10:03 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 05, 2024 10:04 PM (v23vE)
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:05 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:06 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:07 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 10:07 PM (hY4dx)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 05, 2024 10:08 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 10:08 PM (1Nxff)
Am I out of line to expect to be given the special price?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10:08 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:10 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 10:10 PM (RIvkX)
Easy. Secure the bridge and open every airlock on the ship. After an hour, re-close the airlocks and pump ar back into the rest of the ship. Go dig out the bad people smart enough to secure themselves somewhere they could lock air-tight.
Posted by: GWB at July 05, 2024 10:11 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:11 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10:08 PM (WXNFJ)
Why didn't you qualify exactly?
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:12 PM (jGGMD)
And get brains all over his gun? No.
Oh wait. Maybe there wouldn't have been any....
Posted by: GWB at July 05, 2024 10:12 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 05, 2024 10:13 PM (hOUT3)
Hey, again, Hadrian.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:11 PM (v6JzV)
_________
*assumes serious expression*
What can I do for you? How can I serve?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 10:13 PM (1Nxff)
Well.
Let me just say that it would be a shit show.
It doesn't remove the President from office just takes his powers. But the President can say hey I am okay give them back. So the VP and Cabinet have 4 days to agree or not. If they agree he gets them back. If not they can say no, he's still not capable. Then it goes to Congress and 2/3 of BOTH houses have to agree that he's not capable. But he still remains in the office of President. Just the powers devolve to the VP as Acting President.
Or if they don't vote that way it goes back to the President.
Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2024 10:13 PM (cvZX6)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 05, 2024 10:14 PM (u73oe)
I might change my mind, but only if it is offered with a factory-installed flux capacitor.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 10:15 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 10:15 PM (BT7Y6)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 10:15 PM (BT7Y6)
Posted by: mnw at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (4780s)
I was a guest of the French Foreign Legion (2e R égiment étranger de parachutistes, 2e REP) in Calvi, Corsica. We were a bunch of pencil-necked geeks compared to those combat vets (Katanga, Congo). They were fit. We were getting ready to drop the anchor, and they were dropping chutes near the mountains on the horizon.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (u82oZ)
So, this is an ONT...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Sir, if you're going to stay, you'll need to wear your papyrus ID card in plain sight at all times.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (4780s)
Hey, Tonypete.
I’m gettin’ tired out sayin’ “Hi” to everybody.
The rest of you can just consider yourselves greeted.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (v6JzV)
Now there's a question for Congress to consider: Do we hand these powers back to Biden, or keep them in the hands of Kamala Harris?
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:17 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Tonypete
No. That's bullshit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 10:17 PM (qZEuM)
But it created a test of the new system, because nobody really anticipated it fully. Tyler, the VP, said he was President, not "acting" President. He didn't think he needed to swear an oath having already done so, but he was persuaded to do so. And then he moved into the White House and that kind of settled the issue. Sort of.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 10:17 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 05, 2024 10:18 PM (6if7h)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:18 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:10 PM (v6JzV)
===
*clicks bootheels*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 10:18 PM (RIvkX)
Am I out of line to expect to be given the special price?
Posted by: Tonypete
Post the story on their Yelp page and say something about 'don't believe their advertised prices' and that you're not going back ever again.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 10:18 PM (BT7Y6)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 10:18 PM (VSht7)
The rest of you can just consider yourselves greeted.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (v6JzV)
***
Hey, Bulgaroctonus!
Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Doof at July 05, 2024 10:19 PM (RFPHU)
The rest of you can just consider yourselves greeted.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (v6JzV)
We were supposed to fight a duel over our favorite gingers and I don't even merit a personalized Hi?! Well! *angrily flounces off*
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:19 PM (jGGMD)
No, I mean like a really stupid 5-year old. A really stupid 5-year old who wants to run your new country by making it more like
Posted by: GWB at July 05, 2024 10:19 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Dr. T
According to the cashier, I only had one topping on each pizza, not two.
Tomorrow I'm going back in and pull a Karen move. I've made an ass of myself over lesser amounts.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10:19 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Blackjack Pershing at July 05, 2024 10:20 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10
I would have told them to add a veggie of some sort to make them 2 topping pizzas if that was their hang up.
Leave a google review. Those things matter. You may get a refund.
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:20 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: GWB
Leave the ship decompressed and go drill holes into any compartment that has 'bad people' in it.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 10:20 PM (BT7Y6)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 05, 2024 10:20 PM (xjTDL)
(The guy who forced the Fourth Rule is a Moron, isn't he?)
Posted by: GWB at July 05, 2024 10:20 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: mnw at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (NLIak)
Why not? She didn't look like she was 29 yet.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 10:20 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 10:21 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:21 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Tonypete
Just don't make the news.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 10:21 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 10:21 PM (hY4dx)
There is more Truth in a funny meme than in fifty thousand words of masturbatory dreck cribbed by a fake professor, full of footnoted references to Marcuse and Derrida that don't even have anything to do with the text, and hinging entirely (to the extent it is even coherent) upon some preposterous monstrosity like the Labor Theory of Value or the Bongwater Theory of Unicorn Farts.
Truth doesn't need obfuscation to be communicated effectively.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 10:21 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM (ZtgZZ)
Posted by: Miklos out-points at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: mnw at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM (NLIak)
Space Opera done right. Chase scenes with starships.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM (u82oZ)
There is a fantasy that Obama (who Biden hates) will have The Talk with Senile Joe, which will cause Joe to ride off into the sunset.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM (s3qiR)
-
If you haven't seen this you probably should. It's a great observation.
The Tesla Cybertruck is a Pontiac Aztek with Playstation 1 graphics:
https://tinyurl.com/24qnlfbk
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:23 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:23 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (v6JzV)
Dang, I used to get a personal greeting from this guy.
*sniffs armits*
I mean, they don't smell spring fresh, but they ain't THAT bad.
Posted by: Doof at July 05, 2024 10:23 PM (RFPHU)
Tomorrow I'm going back in and pull a Karen move. I've made an ass of myself over lesser amounts.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10:19 PM (WXNFJ)
Ah. I mean....if the special doesn't match your order, I don't think you have a leg to stand on. But maybe they'll give you some money back to make the problem go away.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:23 PM (jGGMD)
There is a fantasy that Obama (who Biden hates) will have The Talk with Senile Joe, which will cause Joe to ride off into the sunset.
yep lol
they gamed all this out! they had a plan!
oops here comes Reality to fuck that all up as per normal
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2024 10:23 PM (s3qiR)
There is a fantasy that Obama (who Biden hates) will have The Talk with Senile Joe, which will cause Joe to ride off into the sunset.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM (uxCna)
I can help.
Posted by: Hillary! at July 05, 2024 10:23 PM (llON8)
Him: Why do we need eight pillows?
Posted by: Moron Robbie
Her: You need to reread the kama sutra...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 10:24 PM (BT7Y6)
*looks around with awed expression*
So, this is an ONT...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 10:08 PM (1Nxff)
Haha, I know! What am I doing here?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 05, 2024 10:24 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:24 PM (jGGMD)
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You need to work there and become the manager to get that price.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:24 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: Cicero
Theoretically, all blue-eyed people are some level of cousin.
Posted by: Miklos has those baby blues, which makes me a Minority at July 05, 2024 10:24 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:24 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM
And that pastor needs to get his head straight.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 10:24 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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No personal greeting?! I'm sending Tonypete over to make a formal complaint.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 10:25 PM (iZbyp)
Him: Why do we need eight pillows?
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Her: You need to reread the kama sutra...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
--
I assumed they were married.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:25 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 10:25 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Tonypete
If it's a "manager's special," ask to talk to the manager. The cashier may only need an IQ of 65 or so, but the manager should be of functional intelligence.
Ask him why negative-one toppings costs five bucks today.
Posted by: mikeski at July 05, 2024 10:25 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! at July 05, 2024 10:25 PM (o3Uyl)
really!!???
ok who here is my cousin!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2024 10:25 PM (s3qiR)
Posted by: mnw at July 05, 2024 10:25 PM (NLIak)
I do like reading George Kennan and a few others.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 10:25 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: Cruel, But Kinda Fair at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:23 PM (jGGMD)
They should have offered to upgrade his order to the Manager's special.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (tRhv4)
Tomorrow I'm going back in and pull a Karen move. I've made an ass of myself over lesser amounts.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10:19 PM (WXNFJ)
Ah. I mean....if the special doesn't match your order, I don't think you have a leg to stand on. But maybe they'll give you some money back to make the problem go away.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:23 PM (jGGMD)
Yeah, that's what I think, although they could have mentioned it when you called the order in. Most places push their employees to upsell at every opportunity.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (llON8)
He has a low tolerance for pain. Obviously, being stupid is not painful enough.
Posted by: GWB at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 10:17 PM (XDSQR)
I don't know if this is a well-known bit of trivia in these parts, but Tyler was the only President/former President who did not receive a state funeral upon his death.
Getting elected to the Confederate Congress in the 1860's didn't sit well with some people.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 10:27 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: GWB at July 05, 2024 10:19 PM (AWrpC)
You misspelled "ruin"!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 05, 2024 10:27 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Jordan61
At our Fourth of July celebration there's a car show....amongst the GTO's Galaxy 500s, A bones, and other "cool" cars, there was a cyber truck. Talk about publicizing ones shame.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 05, 2024 10:27 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2024 10:25 PM (s3qiR)
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Me!
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 10:27 PM (16NmB)
Yo.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 10:28 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 05, 2024 10:28 PM (s/jXJ)
Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:28 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 05, 2024 10:28 PM (6if7h)
The greatest shojo manga and anime evah is getting a modern theatrical release from Studio MAPPA.
Bara no Versailles sugoi!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxA2wEndpTg
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 05, 2024 10:28 PM (OJv82)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 10:29 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:29 PM (QzINz)
Him: Why do we need eight pillows?
Posted by: Moron Robbie
My wife asked me why I had four pillows. I told her two for you and two for me.
She went and got her own, so two pillows stay on the foot of the bed, where the cat sleeps on them.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 10:29 PM (D7oie)
Fun times.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 10:29 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2024 10:25 PM (s3qiR)
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Me!
Posted by: Jordan61
Me.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 10:29 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 05, 2024 10:29 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 10:29 PM (tRhv4)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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I withdraw my complaint!
Greetings and hugs to you!
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 10:29 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 05, 2024 10:30 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2024 10:25 PM (s3qiR)
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Me!
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 10:27 PM (16NmB)
Yo.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
When not bloodshot.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 05, 2024 10:30 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:17 PM (jGGMD)
And THAT is why there's a third option: impeachment.
Posted by: GWB at July 05, 2024 10:30 PM (AWrpC)
Posted by: keeping it down because everyone at July 05, 2024 10:30 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:30 PM (v6JzV)
they gamed all this out! they had a plan!
The vile left-wing "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" blog just put up an article explaining that while a bunch of eminent doctors of course don't diagnose people over the internet, the eminent doctors nevertheless have all concluded Biden has advanced Parkinson's.
The 1398(!) comments to the article are complete fratricidal warfare, between the people who think that Biden should be forced to have the tests for Parkinson's, and should be forced to withdraw if he has Parkinson's; and the people who say that Biden is the Democratic candidate, and you are only helping the filthy Republicans by questioning Biden's health.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 05, 2024 10:30 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 10:30 PM (BT7Y6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (tRhv4)
I agree that it's poor salesmanship on their part, but if the manager wants to get his back up and refuse to give him the Special, there's probably nothing he can do.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:31 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 05, 2024 10:31 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Not out of line at all. I owned a couple of pizza joints for 10+ yrs. Trained the staff to offer the specials if customer ordered without knowing. Customers appreciated it, told their friends, came back, etc. Hope the pizzas were delicious, Tonypete, regardless of price.
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 10:31 PM (41CYW)
On my name tag, I want the three DC MoMeets I attended to be marked with an Eye of Sauron.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 10:31 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2024 10:31 PM (s3qiR)
really!!???
ok who here is my cousin!
Posted by: BlackOrchid
My wife and I (after we were married) were visiting old (mid 1700's) graveyards and discovered there is quite a bit of overlap in kinfolk from way back.
I have to tell you, it freaked us out a bit.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10:31 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * navigating reality from the back seat at July 05, 2024 10:31 PM (kxq0/)
All the lights on
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 05, 2024 10:31 PM (Ka3bZ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:32 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: mnw at July 05, 2024 10:32 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 10:32 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Some Rat
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We had a car show recently where a Tesla owner parked his car with a fancy sign talking about how it was the fastest sedan on earth and this that and the other.
Not one single person did much beyond laugh as they passed.
I decided that part of the problem is that you can't simultaneously insist that EVs are boring everyday commuters like a Honda Accord and everyone could drive one pain-free *and* they're something special to be admired like the slower but gorgeous and exhilarating Porsche GT3 parked next to it. Not to mention people who like car shows are usually interested in cars. Golf cars with funny cartoons painted on the back are slightly popular if the cartoon is clever enough, but that's about as far as it goes for golf carts unless they're 4x4 or something really unusual.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:32 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 10:32 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Up To Here at July 05, 2024 10:32 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Not out of line at all. I owned a couple of pizza joints for 10+ yrs. Trained the staff to offer the specials if customer ordered without knowing. Customers appreciated it, told their friends, came back, etc. Hope the pizzas were delicious, Tonypete, regardless of price.
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 10:31 PM (41CYW)
See, I never even *worked* at a pizza joint...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 10:32 PM (llON8)
Why is it happening to you?
BECAUSE YOU ARE WEAK.
They have harassed you, tried to get you fired, openly spread lies, and all you did was block them and whine about it.
Get a lawyer and sue them. Report them to the cops and file police reports for harassment. Get restraining orders.
NOBODY ever was left alone by whining that they 'just want to be left alone'.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 05, 2024 10:32 PM (jEIOw)
You were out of line expecting the average pizza droid to understand simple concepts like 1 < 2. On the other hand, you could have asked them to add extra cheese and then demanded the 2-topping price.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 05, 2024 10:33 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Tyler Cherry
Oh the shame
Posted by: Tippecanoe and Tyler too at July 05, 2024 10:33 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: mnw at July 05, 2024
I didn’t see Owlbert today because we had thunderstorms kick up at the time he comes by for his Scooby snacks. But J is out there with a college friend who is staying the weekend. He may swoop in on them. Depends on if the new guy freaks Owlbert out or not.
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:33 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 05, 2024 10:33 PM (OJv82)
I can only imagine.
just fyi my insanely liberal family is all even MORE on Biden's side btw. they feel he's being ganged up on. I can see this being a fairly common sentiment in this area (near Delaware where people know them).
this is SUCH a mess. I love it!
now he's the underdog, put upon by nasty media and former aides! he's the underdog!
these little red kiddos are pretty dumb
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2024 10:33 PM (s3qiR)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Sorry, but that order does NOT qualify for the Manager's Special!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 05, 2024 10:34 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:34 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 05, 2024 10:30 PM (uxCna)
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of a**holes.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:34 PM (jGGMD)
Lew Rockwell published a neat story by somebody once, something something about the "Greek Order of Water Carriers" or something like that. This was basically a group that formed a kind of labor union about 1000 years ago. Nobody is carrying water down from the moutains any longer, but the inherited pension system of retirment benefits was still chugging along, somehow.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 10:34 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 10:34 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:31 PM (jGGMD)
No law has been broken, no deceit. Just brain-dead marketing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 10:35 PM (tRhv4)
Says the voice in suburban Mordor.
Hope you are doing well, and making her laugh with my absurd advice.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 10:35 PM (u82oZ)
I have to tell you, it freaked us out a bit.
I once met someone from the island of Antigua, which has 100,000 people and is as old as the United States, who explained that when you are single, and meet an attractive person of the opposite gender, the first thing you do is discuss your family trees - you know that you related to the other person, but you don't know how closely you are related to the other person.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:17 PM (jGGMD)
Have to go back and read but i think they have 21 days to decide. And it's 2/3 of both Houses which is a higher threshold than impeachment. And think of the lobbying and horse trading. Because it would have to be a bipartisan vote.
And suppose Harris - or any VP, really - did it and then the President took back power. That would make for some uncomfortable meetings.
Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (cvZX6)
So yesterday I put a 9 yar old girl on the stand
to tell a jury about how her dad med her.
What am I missing ?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (63Dwl)
I want video of his left hand shaking uncontrollably while he screams at staff.
About the time Early Voting starts.
Posted by: Miklos thinks Hitler found out at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (G77LY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (OJv82)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (uxCna)
"I just moved here from Alaska. "
"Do me."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 10:37 PM (BAEGB)
I want video of his left hand shaking uncontrollably while he screams at staff.
About the time Early Voting starts.
Posted by: Miklos thinks Hitler found out at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (XIkHl)
Somebody posted that the other day!
Now where is that link...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 10:37 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:37 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 05, 2024 10:37 PM (Ka3bZ)
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (G77LY)
Will do.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 10:37 PM (llON8)
The way restaurants are skimping and charging for every tiny little thing in the BEST ECONOMY EVER JACK makes me reluctant to think there will be much beyond a sorry, though. I hope it turns out for the best, because it stinks for everyone otherwise.
I know I'd be telling everyone at church, golf outings, etc. what my experience was, and that wouldn't help business.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:37 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 10:38 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 05, 2024 10:38 PM (VuZH8)
Funniest part was him saying he worried what his neighbors would think. And get this, nobody cares. Because even in the blue city shithole where this idiot lives people generally don’t reflexively shit their pants seeing the flag. He was kinda disappointed.
These people are so fucked up.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 05, 2024 10:38 PM (qChUb)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 10:38 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy
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Will do.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 10:38 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (QzINz)
Me too!
Hi Cuz!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 10:39 PM (W/lyH)
Tomorrow I'm going back in and pull a Karen move. I've made an ass of myself over lesser amounts.
Posted by: Tonypete
Do it in a way where they don't have a chance to spit on your pizzas before they give them to you.
Posted by: nerdygirl cheerleader at July 05, 2024 10:39 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:39 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (uxCna)
"I just moved here from Alaska. "
"Do me."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 10:37 PM (BAEGB)
In the land of shared DNA profiles, the unique DNA profile is king.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:39 PM (jGGMD)
Twenty bucks, same as in town.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2024 10:40 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (QzINz)
Me too!
Hi Cuz!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05
We will get tshirts!
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:40 PM (QzINz)
I'll try to email the photo you suggested-- IF I have one. Don't know if I ever took one looking out from my own deck or not. Plus, I'll need my son's help to scan it & email it to you, IF I have one.
As stated, I'm certain the Wood Crest Condos website, Lake Ozark, MO, would have one-- showing the same view.
Posted by: mnw at July 05, 2024 10:40 PM (NLIak)
*swoon*
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:39 PM (v6JzV)
Ha! I keep telling Ace we need a fainting couch around here but he won’t spring for it.
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:41 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (cvZX6)
Not really. First you fire all the cabinet members who voted to remove your power, and you don't invite the veep.to any of the meetings.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 10:41 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 10:42 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 05, 2024 10:42 PM (0FoWg)
Tipping has gotten beyond out of control!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at July 05, 2024 10:42 PM (PZo5T)
That guy should file a Tortious Interference lawsuit against the family of the dindu 'nuffin.
And let the attorney keep anything he can get.
Posted by: Ju at July 05, 2024 10:43 PM (aTmM/)
Posted by: Miklos requires amusement at July 05, 2024 10:43 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:41 PM (QzINz)
CBD reserved it for the fat man's next appearance on the Art Thread...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 05, 2024 10:43 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:43 PM (QzINz)
this is SUCH a mess. I love it!
now he's the underdog, put upon by nasty media and former aides! he's the underdog!
these little red kiddos are pretty dumb
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2024 10:33 PM (s3qiR)
For the laughs, suggest they vote for Chase Oliver instead, he subscribes to every social plank that Biden supports, and isn't suffering from Parkinsons or vascular dementia so he will live live out his term1
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 10:43 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 10:26
Yes indeed. Anyone remember there was a post here a while back that John Tyler had 2 living grandsons? With 2 wives he had 21 kids some very late in life. Wonder if they are still living.
Posted by: Farmer at July 05, 2024 10:44 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 05, 2024 10:44 PM (jGGMD)
I might be asleep before dark.
Sun sets after 9, so that's not too bad. Is it?
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 10:44 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:44 PM (wfs4p)
*swoon*
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Nice, but expensive.
$440/month for sunscreen alone
Posted by: Miklos does illegal maths at July 05, 2024 10:45 PM (XIkHl)
*swoon*
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Oh my. I should just get ahead of the game, buy her a house and insist that she hate me.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10:45 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:45 PM (v6JzV)
Fun times.
Posted by: Diogenes
So the boys from Brazil really were The Boys From Brazil?
Yeesh...
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 05, 2024 10:45 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Hillary's left testicle at July 05, 2024 10:45 PM (PxH9L)
Posted by: BlackOrchid
That's what makes this place so very special.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 10:46 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: nurse ratched
*uses this cool USD funnel*
Posted by: Miklos your genial bartender at July 05, 2024 10:46 PM (XIkHl)
Tipping has gotten beyond out of control!!!
Posted by: lin-duh
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I think this trend is going to damage tipping more than increase it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:46 PM (wfs4p)
I might be asleep before dark.
Sun sets after 9, so that's not too bad. Is it?
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024
If it helps, I do this regularly. Sleep is very important!
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:48 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: BlackOrchid
That's what makes this place so very special.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Only two people in my orbit I can share AoS stuff with. And 50% of the time one of them says I'm a sick bastard.
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 10:48 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 10:48 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10:19 PM (WXNFJ)
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We expect nothing less! Make us proud.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 10:48 PM (RIvkX)
They won more battles than any other country, and were absolutely killing it from 1000 to 1800. There is a reason all the bits of a knights armor, EG cuisse greave sabaton, have French names.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2024 10:48 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Emmie at July 05, 2024 10:49 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 10:49 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM (s3qiR)
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My son actually showed it to me a couple of days ago. LOL.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 10:49 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 10:50 PM (u82oZ)
Rings a bell with those over 29.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 05, 2024 10:50 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 05, 2024 10:50 PM (55boN)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 10:44 PM (81wK+)
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Living here this time of year is crazy. It's bright AF when I go to bed AND when I get up.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 10:51 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:51 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 05, 2024 10:50 PM (55boN)
Vigano should start a schism, and make himself the American Pope.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 10:51 PM (tRhv4)
Posted by: scampydog
I get it. My oldest son gets AoS. My other friends? Nope nope nope. It s just a lot to get. You have to get in the groove.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 10:52 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:44 PM (wfs4p)
I don't know if anyone cares, but Pres. Milei of Argentina is accusing Pres. Arce of Bolivia of staging a fake coup to garner support for Arce's re-election in 2025. This point of view is attributed to declarations by the General who led the coup, and the ex-president of Bolivia, Evo Morales.
Bolivia recalled its ambassador from Argentina for consultation. The foreign ministry of Argentina pretty much said, Yeah, whatever.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 10:52 PM (D7oie)
I don't think I've ever heard them say they're Christians.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:52 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson
Unf**king believable, isn't it?
The Church has survived bad popes before but sheesh!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10:53 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 05, 2024 10:53 PM (Q4IgG)
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Vigano should start a schism, and make himself the American Pope.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 10:51 PM (tRhv4)
Is it really a schism if Frankie is a FakePope?
Not that I dislike the idea. I wonder what Bishop Strickland is up to these days.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 10:53 PM (llON8)
Posted by: PabloD at July 05, 2024 10:53 PM (ohsd/)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Also you can be a LIV and still understand the point. It's what makes them so effective (and hated) across the board.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 10:54 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 10:54 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 10:52 PM
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We're an acquired taste.
Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 10:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 05, 2024 10:53 PM (Q4IgG)
This makes no sense!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 05, 2024 10:55 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:55 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 10:44 PM (81wK+)
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Living here this time of year is crazy. It's bright AF when I go to bed AND when I get up.
Posted by: Jordan61
C'mon! This is SOOOOOO much better than dark at 8am, dark at 430pm.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 05, 2024 10:56 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Jordan61
I got up this morning around 0450 and it was first light already. Holy smokes.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10:56 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 10:56 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 10:56 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2024 10:57 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 05, 2024 10:57 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Can't read more than 15 words at one what?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 10:57 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Piper
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We do have a fainting barrel... ok, not so much a fainting barrel as a falling into barrel. That's good enough for the horde!
Posted by: lin-duh at July 05, 2024 10:58 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 10:32
Oh I worked at a couple of pizza joints. My first job at 16 was at Barnabys, just south of Rockford. Wonder when that comp died?
Later in college I worked at The Galery, a former coffeehouse/pizza place that became a bar/pizza place when Normal IL finally went wet a few yrs before I got there in 73.
Wo that comment brought back memories.
Posted by: Farmer at July 05, 2024 10:58 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
So they're the Millennial-and-later version of the "elevator pitch?"
Posted by: mikeski at July 05, 2024 10:58 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024
Eat the popcorn.
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:58 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 10:56 PM (XDSQR)
Wouldn't you much prefer some lightly salted cauliflower? Mmmmmm, thst would really hit the spot.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 10:59 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Pictures good too
Posted by: screaming in digital is a product of SC public skool at July 05, 2024 10:59 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2024 10:48 PM (lhenN)
Yeah. Okay.
Posted by: Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt at July 05, 2024 10:59 PM (/nCD+)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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So true and not a new phenomenon. During restaurant days had 50 plus staff under the age of 22. Part of the process from interview through training was the constant drum beat/training/reminding the importance of having an attention....wait what...squirrel.
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 11:00 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
You should make a meme of that.
Posted by: mikeski at July 05, 2024 11:00 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 10
You kind of sound like me and that should be a lil bit scary for you.
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 11:00 PM (QzINz)
The thing about memes is that they are great for rallying the already on board, but I don't think they often change minds.
I mean, how many Lefty memes do we read?
In fact, I think they cause people to double down on whatever opinion they had already.
Posted by: sal at July 05, 2024 11:01 PM (y7DxH)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 11:01 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: Percy Dovetonsils at July 05, 2024 11:02 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 05, 2024 11:02 PM (6if7h)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 05, 2024 10:56 PM (vJiyU)
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Definitely, except my dumb ass keeps forgetting to close the curtains before I go to sleep.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 11:03 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: tankdemon
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Mmmmmm cauliflower baked with parmesan and drizzled with buffalo sauce.
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 11:03 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 05, 2024 11:04 PM (xjTDL)
I meant confronted with the opposition's memes, everyone sticks with their original position.
Posted by: sal at July 05, 2024 11:04 PM (y7DxH)
Posted by: Little Caesar's at July 05, 2024 11:04 PM (XIkHl)
I mean, how many Lefty memes do we read?
In fact, I think they cause people to double down on whatever opinion they had already.
Posted by: sal at July 05, 2024 11:01 PM (y7DxH)
We don't read any lefty memes because they are all pathetic, humor less, nonsensical, rely too heavily on non-sequitors, and have no appreciation for the Oxford comma.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 11:05 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 11:05 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 11:05 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 11:07 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2024 10:48 PM (lhenN)
Yeah. Okay.
Posted by: Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt at July 05, 2024 10:59 PM (/nCD+)
Which were battles won by the Normans... from... oh... Normandy... which was ... oh... France.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 05, 2024 11:08 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 11:05 PM (VSht7)
well, that too...
Posted by: sal at July 05, 2024 11:08 PM (y7DxH)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 11:08 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Miklos suggests at July 05, 2024 11:09 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at July 05, 2024 10:36
Prayers up from here. I seem to recall he had health issues a while back. What is going on now, if I might ask?
Posted by: Farmer at July 05, 2024 11:09 PM (55Qr6)
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They still have a handful of locations in Illinois and Indiana. Good tavern style pizza.
Posted by: Bigsmith at July 05, 2024 11:10 PM (MrBsC)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:36 PM (QzINz)
Me too!
Hi Cuz!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05
We will get tshirts!
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:40 PM (QzINz)
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The Horde is gonna be sooooo jealous!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 11:10 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 11:10 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 10:26 PM (SHMXB)
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I forgot to acknowledge polynikes as the winner of the post #100 award for this ONT. Congrats!
Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 11:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Moki at July 05, 2024 11:12 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 05, 2024 11:08 PM (xaFKb)
Basically Vikings that conquered that part of France and intermarried.
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 11:12 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 11:10 PM (SHMXB)
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Ridicule is the basic mode of communication with my lib idiot friends.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 11:12 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 11:14 PM (iZbyp)
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It was noted years ago that the communists have an inability to create memes, and the hatred they have for them. It's not an incorrect observation. I assume it's because of lack of joy.
Don't forget, it wasn't too long ago that a White Nationalist Christian Separatist Isolationist was jailed for creating or sharing a meme.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:15 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2024 11:16 PM (lhenN)
My neighborhood is weird.
Posted by: pookysgirl, cringing at the missed notes at July 05, 2024 11:16 PM (dtlDP)
A favorited item on FB from five years ago:
We keep a potato masher in a drawer because sometimes it's fun not to be able to open that drawer
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 05, 2024 11:16 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 11:14 PM (iZbyp)
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If I'm to have pancakes tomorrow I need to lay the groundwork tonight.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 11:16 PM (RIvkX)
George actually went after him a little bit.
Biden can't do anything except talk about what a stinker Trump is.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 11:17 PM (81wK+)
My neighborhood is weird.
Posted by: pookysgirl
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Sounds like America.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:17 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:18 PM (wfs4p)
Wonder what that implies about me who complies them.
Posted by: Weirddave at July 05, 2024 11:19 PM (UOlJb)
"Prayers up from here. I seem to recall he had health issues a while back. What is going on now, if I might ask?
Posted by: Farmer at July 05, 2024 11:09 PM (55Qr6)"
Yes, he had major emergency surgery on October and then a follow up in March. Seems to have an obstruction now in the small intestine- not good because of ostomy... blah blah (I guess dad doesn't mind me telling his friends in little hey boxes how he is...) maybe an easy fix with no surgery of they can clear it... if not then maybe another surgery due to his "complicated condition"
Please pray for the easiest solution for him. He has only just been putting weight back on.
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at July 05, 2024 11:19 PM (G77LY)
They did get his drug cocktail right this time though.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 11:19 PM (81wK+)
1. Launch the building into space.
2. Use rods from heaven to obliterate it from existence.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 05, 2024 11:21 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: torabora at July 05, 2024 11:22 PM (TMJDJ)
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Was the White House Press Secretary that moved to a major media/propaganda role immediately after leaving the Clinton administration surprised at this?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:23 PM (wfs4p)
Posted by: Jordan61
While stationed in England, we would duct tape the curtains to the windows. Sunset in summer was past 2230, sunrise at 0430.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 11:24 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at July 05, 2024 11:19 PM (G77LY)
I hope everything comes out all right! (both a bit of a joke, and a serious concern)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:25 PM (/tezc)
https://www.justice.gov/
"Defendant Attempted to Trick Voters into Believing They Could Vote by Text Message
A social media influencer was sentenced today to seven months in prison and fined $15,000 for his role in a conspiracy to interfere with potential voters’ right to vote in the 2016 presidential election..."
https://tinyurl.com/2xgqxwca
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:26 PM (wfs4p)
When they went to commercial, the first one was hyping Dr. Sanjay Gupta's upcoming special on dementia, cognitive decline, and Alzheimer's. The next up was promoting medications to help with memory loss.
I think that may be the clearest indicator of where CNN is at as the Biden drama unfurls.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 05, 2024 11:26 PM (tmPIh)
https://tinyurl.com/2xgqxwca
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:26 PM (wfs4p)
He should appeal. Or skip the country.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:30 PM (/tezc)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 11:31 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 11:31 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Weirddave
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You have a gift. And they are joyless.
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 11:32 PM (41CYW)
Rewrite the 2nd one like you're talking to a five-year-old ... or a Golden Retriever
h/t to John Huld (Jeremy Irons), "Margin Call"
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 05, 2024 11:32 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: PabloD at July 05, 2024 11:35 PM (ohsd/)
I decked the trailer at his place, and continued on in to Calgary to do some shopping that had to be done/ Stampeded is on, and, of course, many streets are torn up because the water system is crippled, due to lack of proper maintenance by a series of dumbass muslim mayors. Current one is a woman named Coyote Bulldyke, or something close to that.
But I persevered, and got my shopping done, headed back out, picked up the trailer, and made it home.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:37 PM (/tezc)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2024 11:37 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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But at least that man's 1st Amendment rights were discarded and he was jailed for wrongthink because of the potential for someone's voting rights being compromised even though no ones were.
Think of the jokes posted at the HQ. It's a tad chilling to think of how easily that could happen to almost anyone posting here.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:37 PM (672l/)
Posted by: Kamala Harris at July 05, 2024 11:37 PM (81wK+)
The quick corrections pull up the prevaricators short.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 05, 2024 11:38 PM (ggv1C)
I still can't make pie crust. I may give up.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 11:39 PM (D7oie)
Think of the jokes posted at the HQ. It's a tad chilling to think of how easily that could happen to almost anyone posting here.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:37 PM (672l/)
Anyone who fell for that gag is too fucking stupid to be allowed to vote.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:39 PM (/tezc)
Humans react to his dreams and some worship him but it's not a two way relationship.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 05, 2024 11:39 PM (xcxpd)
Which were battles won by the Normans... from... oh... Normandy... which was ... oh... France.
Posted by: Romeo13
But they would not have gotten on that timeline had they not won the battles of Strawberry Fields and Hastings in 1066.
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 05, 2024 11:40 PM (i4sOa)
Hostess pies were sorta OK, I think that was hostess. Apple and Cherry, in those waxed paper deals? Those were sorta good.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 11:40 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 05, 2024 11:40 PM (JrYM1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:37 PM
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I'm beginning to think that you can fix just about anything mechanical. Impressive.
Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 11:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:40 PM (/tezc)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 11:40 PM (81wK+)
Space Opera done right. Chase scenes with starships.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM
I just read them all a few months ago, hadn't read them since they were new. Seriously the best SF I've ever read.
Stephenson's "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" comes close, though.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 05, 2024 11:41 PM (iRX3h)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 11:41 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 11:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
They all rely upon the same first principles. Details vary.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:42 PM (/tezc)
Posted by: Kindltot
Still no luck, even using lard?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 11:42 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:37 PM (672l/)
And courts say the government has standing against him but those of us witnessed 2020 shenanigans and were disenfranchised as a result have no standing.
Must be nice to be the Party of the Government come election-time.
Posted by: pookysgirl, smelling fireworks at July 05, 2024 11:42 PM (dtlDP)
I prefer ding dongs.
Posted by: Kamala Harris
And to think that I would have guessed that Ho-Hos were your favorite.
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 05, 2024 11:43 PM (i4sOa)
Fuck that Greek dwarf.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factor
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He refused because they wouldn't run it unedited.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 05, 2024 11:43 PM (ggv1C)
I like Zingers
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 11:43 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 11:44 PM (IQ6Gq)
It was discussed on one of JJs threads a couple of years ago how it's estimated that the multi-billion-dollar ban that lowered enjoyment/ quality of life for people around the country saves approximately nine (9) lives each year.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:45 PM (672l/)
AOP, you're a gem.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 11:40 PM (81wK+)
Real name: Jyoti Gondek. (nee Grewal, which implies she was born a Sikh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:45 PM (/tezc)
The real shit of this is that the dwarf's Mom and Dad are damned nice folks. I met them years ago during a Greek Orthodox function.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 11:45 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Kindltot
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I love commas, I savor commas, I whence when whoever it is nose picks the accuracy of that than thing. Shredded it pretty well this afternoon, it was
.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 05, 2024 11:46 PM (ggv1C)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 11:42 PM (qZEuM)
You want to use Morell, not Fiesta brand for the flavor, but no. I even have trouble with crisco, and it was made for pie crusts.
Once in a while it turns out OK, but I have to be extra careful with it, not make it when it is 90 out, I find if I use white rum instead of a dash of cold water for the final addition to it, I have slightly better luck.
I even was using pastry flour for the crust, and it still was little better than the ones I used to make with corn oil.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 11:47 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Kindltot
Please keep at it - it's worth it. Make sure your fat (whatever you use) is chilled and don't work it with your hands (so that it remains cool). I use a pastry blender until it it just crumbly and then gently roll it out.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 11:49 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2024 11:49 PM (lhenN)
After tonight, authenticity is for chumps
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 05, 2024 11:50 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 05, 2024 11:51 PM (ggv1C)
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Posted by: Braenyard
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I have Darling Daughter edit anything of importance that I write - she scored a perfect on the English section of ACT, so I listen. She says I have a love affair with commas and run on sentences. There are worse things. Like sleeping on a bag of shingles.
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 11:52 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Before you do, if you've got a food processor look for some videos online of using it to help. Good luck.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:53 PM (672l/)
Posted by: pookysgirl doesn't know why we shake hands either at July 05, 2024 11:53 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 11:53 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at July 05, 2024 11:54 PM (672l/)
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 11:52 PM (41CYW)
The hallmark of a run-on sentence is a lack of commas, where there should be commas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:54 PM (/tezc)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 05, 2024 11:54 PM (hKoQL)
People are either buying way too lean a mix for their burgers or straight up grinding steaks for those prices.
Posted by: Sjg at July 05, 2024 11:55 PM (aqZN1)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 11:49 PM (WXNFJ)
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I use cold butter and a pastry cutter, and they've always turned out well.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 11:55 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:37 PM (/tezc)
From here - that looks like a good day. All the best to you.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 05, 2024 11:55 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 11:56 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 10:24 PM (BT7Y6)
Read the manual? Pfft.
Posted by: GWB at July 05, 2024 11:56 PM (AWrpC)
I especially liked the part where he brought peace to the ME.
Oh, and said God is the one who has to tell him to step down. Yeah, God does what Biden wants.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 05, 2024 11:58 PM (JrYM1)
Of course that’s really a Stephen King invention rather than Lovecraft but still funny
Posted by: The Grounded Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger at July 05, 2024 11:58 PM (DBZuM)
I know some of you are familiar with YouTuber Steve1989. He released a video about Hostess Twinkies yesterday and of course it planted the suggestion that I should totally buy a two-pack of Twinkies while shopping for dinner tonight.
Posted by: PabloD
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I read an exercise for tony waiters once on making something rather awful sound like a gourmet dish. Twinkie: A roll of classic vanilla genoise, scooped out and filled with a delicate sweet cream.
Slice of cold pizza and a few other things were in the exercise.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 11:58 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 05, 2024 11:55 PM (QGaXH)
Good day, for sure. But the Suburban gave me some grief. I started out with the transmission in tow/haul mode, and it was shifting up and down wildly for some reason. Put it back in normal mode, and all was well. And the cruise control was erratic, too. I think the cause is a weak return spring on the brake pedal, allowing the pedal to droop a little, kicking out the cruise. Might be the root of the transmission issue, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:59 PM (/tezc)
Posted by: Tonypete
Just don't make the news.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 10:21 PM (qZEuM)
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The real question is, how good was the pizza? 'Cause if you go raise a fuss, I'd advise against ever ordering from there again. But, yeah, they should have given you the deal. When we order Domino's pizza, we use a coupon for 1-topping pizzas. We only ever get cheese (which doesn't count as a topping), and have never had an issue.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 06, 2024 12:00 AM (F4bAW)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 11:56 PM (XDSQR)
Crisco Kid, was a friend of mine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 12:01 AM (/tezc)
Slice of cold pizza and a few other things were in the exercise.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 11:58 PM (lCaJd)
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Slice of cold pizza sounds fine as is.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 06, 2024 12:02 AM (F4bAW)
TRUMP better win and at least a decade of Republican rule thereafter.
So much damage has been done.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 06, 2024 12:02 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 11:55 PM (16NmB
I had a girlfriend who refused to buy beef steaks because she felt she never cooked them well, and there were cheaper cuts of meat to cook poorly. I secretly laughed at her, since the secret to getting good is learning from the mistakes, not refusing to make them.
And yet here I am trying to explain to myself that I don't make butter pastry because I am no good at it, and I don't want to waste the money . . . I should thank you Jordan for making me look at myself. I am sorry it is hard for me to do so with graciousness your service to me deserves.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 12:03 AM (D7oie)
So much damage has been done.
Posted by: Nightwatch
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This is where my brain has been since the Obama days. Need a solid 12 years to unf*ck things.
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 12:04 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:59 PM (/tezc)
I'm sure you'll figure it out.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 06, 2024 12:05 AM (QGaXH)
Of course that’s really a Stephen King invention rather than Lovecraft but still funny
Posted by: The Grounded Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger
Matty is an asshole but I really hate Todd. Fuck Todd!
Posted by: Cthulhu at July 06, 2024 12:06 AM (wh7vU)
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 12:04 AM (41CYW)
Trump's Cabinet needs to have a Secretary of Unfucktion, and a Secretary of Retribution.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 12:07 AM (/tezc)
You wanted oil? Easy. 10w30. Headlamps? They were all round, and fit different makes.
Pizza was kind of the same way. You want Pepperoni, or maybe Sausage? They didn't have fifty thousand choices, extra this or extra that, that I remember too much. We just ordered a couple extra large and they were pretty good sized.
Even coffee. I remember Folger's wasn't the best coffee in the world, but it was pretty strong if you made it that way. You could get Regular and Drip grind.
Now they have about 25 or 35 different kinds, with fancy names, and they all taste like shit to me. I think we're being scammed here. McDonald's use to sell burgers, fries, and shakes. Nothing else. Core competencies have to be met, before going off into la-la land the way I see it.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 12:07 AM (XDSQR)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 12:07 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Sjg
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Been buying beef quarters here for the past 20 years or so. Last one came out to an average of $4.21 per lb. Steaks, roasts, and a lot of ground beef. Up a bit since the last purchase but still a great deal.
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 12:08 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Sounds like he is better prepared this go-around. Building a bench already. The deep state (I hate that term, but it seems accurate) is going to put up a helluva resistance. I've been involved in a number of takeovers in the biz world over the years and learned that one can either come in and make subtle changes or go with the machete. He should be in machete mode.
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 12:13 AM (41CYW)
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 06, 2024 12:14 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM
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exact same problem in my life too.
Posted by: reason at July 06, 2024 12:15 AM (cW4hp)
Posted by: PabloD at July 06, 2024 12:15 AM (ohsd/)
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 12:15 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Not familiar with the old Screw magazine I take it.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 12:18 AM (ggv1C)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 12:18 AM (ggv1C)
Heard of it, never saw it. Was riffing on an old song by War (I think). "Cisco Kid".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 12:20 AM (/tezc)
Two days of applied Pro Grade pesticides. A LOT OF WORK under the house, getting the Juice to the Joists, and more.
They're dead. They're all dead.
When not a single scout or soldier (ant terms, but roll with me, here) emerges from the hidden nest(s), it means the Queen(s) are dead.
dead Dead DEAD!!!
This particular product kills by means of an enzyme that makes it impossible to digest their food.
There's a latent Maple Syrup joke in there, somewhere, but I've not been able to cook it down.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 06, 2024 12:25 AM (e6UQI)
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
As long as it starts with implosion of the FBI building, approved.
Posted by: Miklos likes this jib-cut at July 06, 2024 12:30 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 12:31 AM (XIkHl)
Got distracted by the pie crust.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 12:34 AM (ggv1C)
Vacant, Occupied, or Two Minutes on the Clock and blow the whistle to start the play?
/s
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 06, 2024 12:35 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Miklos likes this jib-cut at July 06, 2024 12:30 AM (XIkHl)
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Salt. Never forget the salt.
Posted by: Cato the Elder at July 06, 2024 12:35 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 12:36 AM (ggv1C)
There's a latent Maple Syrup joke in there, somewhere, but I've not been able to cook it down.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
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Get 'em, Jim. Little bastards. They attacked my AZ house back in the day. Took a couple rounds but got rid of them.
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 12:36 AM (41CYW)
Interesting & insightful post.
I always make a mental note of who the sponsors are when I watch TV news shows. I believe it's possible to glean a lot from that.
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 12:37 AM (NLIak)
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Been buying beef quarters here for the past 20 years or so. Last one came out to an average of $4.21 per lb. Steaks, roasts, and a lot of ground beef. Up a bit since the last purchase but still a great deal.
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 12:08 AM (41CYW)
I was very happy when I moved to TX to buy my first 1/2 moo and 1/2 oink. Good price and yes, noticeably better than the grocery store stuff. There's local pastured chicken too, and I even found a place that will process your birds along with theirs.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 12:38 AM (llON8)
Posted by: mnw at July 06, 2024 12:40 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 12:41 AM (llON8)
It's emblematic of the shitshow America has been turned into by the self serving politicians.
We need a 2 term rule for the entire Federal system. Two in any office. Two and you're done.
Posted by: torabora at July 06, 2024 12:43 AM (TMJDJ)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 12:44 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
The Prayer List is more immediately relevant.
Old Mama was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on July Fourth. No fireworks here.
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 12:44 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 06, 2024 12:45 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 11:56 PM (XDSQR)
Yes, this is true.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 06, 2024 12:45 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 06, 2024 12:45 AM (XeU6L)
It's a six-speed. I expect it does.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 12:46 AM (/tezc)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 06, 2024 12:46 AM (ggv1C)
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 12:44 AM (XIkHl)
Crap, Miklos. That is not good at all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 12:47 AM (/tezc)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Love it. Pretty rural here so we all share/trade wild game. Venison, pheasant, etc. A lot of self processing and/or a friend will have an at home smoker. No porky here, however. Been thinking about making some homemade bacon. Costco sells pork belly. Need to work that into the rotation.
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 12:48 AM (41CYW)
This is why Newsom wants out.
Posted by: torabora at July 06, 2024 12:48 AM (TMJDJ)
Posted by: Farmer at July 06, 2024 12:49 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 12:07 AM (D7oie)
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Not gonna lie, you had me worried for a minute.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 06, 2024 12:51 AM (16NmB)
Prayers are certainly there for your Old Mama, you, and all of your family.
Roughest of Roads.
Sincerely. You need me, you write me. You'll have my number soon after. I can't fix that, but a friend, I can be. And, am.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 06, 2024 12:51 AM (e6UQI)
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I get the sentiment, but in reality it's not so bad regarding coolant.
Theres three kinds.
Most all modern cars use some sort of OAT. Yeah the different manufacturers have different colors, but they're all more or less the same makeup.
Except Dodge. They use HOAT. Because Mooar.
Fhen there's IAT, which is what everyone with a classic ar is used to. The green stuff.
There is a universal fluid available that you can mix with fhe others and not gel everything up.
I maintain a family fleet of 1984 to 2014 year GM, Mopar, FoMoCo, and a BMW. For fluid flush I'll use what the manual says to use, For top-offs I buy the yellow universal stuff that mixes with all the others.
Posted by: reason at July 06, 2024 12:53 AM (cW4hp)
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 12:53 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 06, 2024 12:54 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 06, 2024 12:54 AM (16NmB)
Posted by: reason at July 06, 2024 12:55 AM (cW4hp)
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 12:56 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 12:08 AM (41CYW)
I was very happy when I moved to TX to buy my first 1/2 moo and 1/2 oink. Good price and yes, noticeably better than the grocery store stuff. There's local pastured chicken too, and I even found a place that will process your birds along with theirs.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 12:38 AM (llON
This'll be our 3rd half steer and first half pig.
The beef is grass-fed by a local farmer we have gotten to know.Good man.
The pork is from a family we found who has been raising pork for decades. We're hoping the pork will be as good as the beef.
Nothing like it.
I'm going to look into if the butcher (for the beef) will process chicken for us. We just dont have the bandwidth (yet) to raise AND slaughter them.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 06, 2024 12:57 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 12:44 AM (XIkHl)
I am very sorry to hear that. Will pray.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 06, 2024 12:59 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: reason at July 06, 2024 12:59 AM (cW4hp)
Slice of cold pizza sounds fine as is.
Posted by: No One of Consequence
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You obviously would not be eating at one of these restaurants.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 06, 2024 01:00 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Jordan61
Thank you
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 01:03 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2024 01:03 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2024 01:03 AM (/tezc)
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 01:04 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 06, 2024 01:05 AM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Cicero
Thank you.
If I could get Biden started, it would be like one of those Buddhist prayer wheels, just round and round....
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 01:05 AM (XIkHl)
Oh my goodness, Miklos, so sorry. We'll be praying for you.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 06, 2024 01:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: irongrampa at July 06, 2024 01:09 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 06, 2024 01:08 AM (w6EFb)
403 396 Miklos, prayers for you and family from the entire clan that our Lord comfort you.
Posted by: irongrampa
Gray box friends can be pretty good friends.
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 01:10 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 06, 2024 01:11 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 01:14 AM (XIkHl)
This is why Newsom wants out.
Posted by: torabora
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I hadn't thought of it that way. If the man wants to enter national politics, he will have to literally and figuratively put California behind him.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 06, 2024 01:16 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2024 01:17 AM (w6EFb)
The MSM have not only found their wisdom; they've found their wits.
Commentator on Biden's feeble plea in the George S interview that he's "doing the best he can":
"This isn't youth sports."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 06, 2024 01:17 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
Add Old Papa to the list.
Odd that both my parents got the nastiest of the Big C.
Statistically improbable, not good for me, but heck, 81 Million votes! means anything is possible.
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 01:22 AM (XIkHl)
That's what we're here for, the grey-box friends.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 06, 2024 01:22 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 11:25 PM (/tezc)
Humor most appreciated at most difficult times!!
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at July 06, 2024 01:23 AM (G77LY)
Sorry for being a Debby Downer on this thread
Posted by: Miklos
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We're here for this.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 06, 2024 01:23 AM (lCaJd)
Absolutely no apologies necessary. We are your friends and we're here for you.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 06, 2024 01:24 AM (mH6SG)
$2.02
Need to remember to bring pennies
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 01:25 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 01:25 AM (wh7vU)
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 01:27 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miklos
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In this awkward grey box world, you are surrounded by caring folks and friends. Do not hesitate to share and reach out to any comfort.
Posted by: scampydog at July 06, 2024 01:28 AM (41CYW)
Wow. That gave me some deja vu. When my Pop went into hospice care at the hospital, the pizza was awesome. I think my Sis and I lived on it for days.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 06, 2024 01:29 AM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 06, 2024 01:36 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 01:40 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miklos
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You're among family. There's no Debbie Downerism about it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 06, 2024 01:44 AM (XeU6L)
Oh, darn, I can't find the text version of this, only a graphic. Well (sigh) click my nic. It's a Stages of Biden Exit list by Nate Silver.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 06, 2024 01:45 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 06, 2024 01:50 AM (Sgq8y)
Today was a scorcher. I hit the highest yet, 98.4F with my station. We're in "moderate drought" (D1 level) now. We had a little thundershower this afternoon, hitting a little after 6PM, and I got 0.28" out of it.
Looking, GSP airport set a daily record, 100.9F, beating the old July 5th record of 99F. That's a relatively low high for July records. Most of the other days are 100 - 103F level, so this puts the 5th record in line with that.
July 1, 2012 was also the all-time high for GSP, 107F. I remember that one.
We're also flirting with highest lows are well for these dates, but won't quite make it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 06, 2024 01:54 AM (w6EFb)
When that shower hit, the temp dropped 15F from 91F down to 75F in less than 30 minutes, and then got down to 73Fish. That beat the early morning low.
This pretty oddball, when the daily lows occur in the late afternoon, not early morning. That early morning low was just a smidge lower than the highest low record for the 5th, but dropping it down after the shower pushed the daily low well below for me.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 06, 2024 01:58 AM (w6EFb)
Blonde Morticia, I think that Power Line has the text for that.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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It's actually a graphic there, too. But it's cool, innit?
And Mark Halperin has declared Harris to be the candidate. I wonder what a Trump/Kamala debate will be like.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 06, 2024 01:58 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at July 06, 2024 02:02 AM (iPO2/)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2024 02:05 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at July 06, 2024 02:05 AM (iPO2/)
May you Be Blessed with Health and Healing.
May your Family Be Blessed with Strength and Love at this tiring time.
Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at July 06, 2024 02:07 AM (TX4bP)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at July 06, 2024 02:11 AM (TX4bP)
423 Try this
https://tinyurl.com/3rwrjdvu
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
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Yeah, you click on that and it comes up as a graphic. You can't drag over the text and paste it into this place.
And I'm so sorry to the morons who are struggling with health issues or who have loved ones in that situation. I say, take advantage of this time to get closer to everyone. One of the silver linings of these times is that it tightens the bonds between those who are grieving.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 06, 2024 02:15 AM (lCaJd)
They're talking about Kamala. Uh-oh, she and Willie Brown flew together on Trump's private jet.
They also say she's a terrible organizer and people don't like her.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 06, 2024 02:17 AM (lCaJd)
Hmmmm. This "in all good conscience" clause of the DNC delegate pledging rules is interesting.
They could invoke that, saying that in all their good conscience, they just can't vote for Biden knowing what they now know. So, the pledging thing is not absolute.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 06, 2024 02:23 AM (w6EFb)
Hey, Tonypete.
I’m gettin’ tired out sayin’ “Hi” to everybody.
The rest of you can just consider yourselves greeted.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 10:16 PM (v6JzV)
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You should have said, "The rest of you can just consider yourselves Hied."
Then AutoCucumber would have magically made it Hired.
And now all of us Morons, paying attention, would be expecting a paycheck!!
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparently they are employed at July 06, 2024 02:41 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, c'est la morte at July 06, 2024 02:57 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Rod Porkmore at July 06, 2024 02:59 AM (fRdhj)
They could invoke that, saying that in all their good conscience, they just can't vote for Biden knowing what they now know. So, the pledging thing is not absolute.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Intriguing, isn't it?
God, whenever I have a bad day at work or something makes me feel like a failure, I think of people like Biden in this situation. The eyes of the entire world on him, angry or betrayed or vindicated or full of salacious curiosity, waiting for him to implode or apologize. He can't make a single false step. He knows that everyone with whom he comes into immediate contact knows what a mess he's in. He screwed it up, he's taking down his family, his party, the country, the WORLD.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 06, 2024 02:59 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Miklos
So sorry to hear that Miklos. Lost a friend to that horrible cancer. My prayers for your Mama.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 03:11 AM (oaGWv)
100 robbers ransack gas station in hellhole California city... days after progressive mayor touts drop in crime
https://mol.im/a/13606247
Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, they even took the security video at July 06, 2024 03:37 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 06, 2024 03:43 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 03:51 AM (wh7vU)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 03:52 AM (fwDg9)
https://tinyurl.com/3ywnaa6x
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 06, 2024 03:55 AM (xxG/v)
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: irongrampa at July 06, 2024 04:03 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 06, 2024 04:07 AM (xxG/v)
Posted by: irongrampa at July 06, 2024 04:08 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: irongrampa at July 06, 2024 04:08 AM (hKoQL)
****************
It's a parody.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 06, 2024 09:25 AM (xxG/v)
Posted by: Candidus at July 06, 2024 09:39 AM (9XFD/)
and it seems NOT to be one of those chemicals with terrible-nasty side effects.
Posted by: Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah at July 06, 2024 08:23 PM (ewS4Y)
the site.
To read Joe Tippen's story :
https://mycancerstory.rocks/the-blog/
Posted by: Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah at July 06, 2024 10:28 PM (yzsyt)
Biden "Interview"
In progress.
I heard they got his Medical Grade Cocaine Solution levels titrated well, so he's doing okay. Which is good for us.Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)It's a Howard Stern Wack Pack of ugly, stupid hangers-on. Yasssss:
@AWeissmann_ If Biden withdraws, how about a ticket of Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney to show this election is about our democracy? Country over party. Replying to @AWeissmann_
LouiseMensch
@LouiseMensch God yes please
Will Chamberlain
@willchamberlain
This interview is great
Biden's doing well enough to help fight off calls for him to drop out, but not well enough to actually alleviate the public's concerns
5:12 PM * Jul 5, 2024 Ari Fleischer
@AriFleischer
Biden is doing great. The Ds should keep him.
I see no reason for the Ds to replace Biden. None. None at all.
This interview was the worst of all worlds for the Ds.
Biden committed no real flubs. He didn't do anything to force himself out of the race. But he appears old, weak, tentative and he's losing to Trump.
So Biden will dig in and stay. The Ds are stuck.
5:09 PM * Jul 5, 2024 Posted by: AlphaChad4Ever
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Emmie at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (kpS4V)
That's the transcript.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Molly k. at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (j/yko)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 08:38 PM (V13WU)
Marginally better than he was at the debate. A holy mess if you ask me.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:38 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 08:39 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at July 05, 2024 08:39 PM (OGo8+)
The Dems are getting desperate. They're moments away from eating each other in the Superdome.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 05, 2024 08:40 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 05, 2024 08:41 PM (pgG81)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 08:41 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:41 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (q7hip)
The Dems are getting desperate. They're moments away from eating each other in the Superdome.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 05, 2024 08:40 PM (kpS4V)
Silly Eris, the DNC is in *Chicago* this year.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (llON8)
@willchamberlain
This interview is great
Biden’s doing well enough to help fight off calls for him to drop out, but not well enough to actually alleviate the public’s concerns
5:12 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Ari Fleischer
@AriFleischer
Biden is doing great. The Ds should keep him.
I see no reason for the Ds to replace Biden. None. None at all.
This interview was the worst of all worlds for the Ds.
Biden committed no real flubs. He didn’t do anything to force himself out of the race. But he appears old, weak, tentative and he’s losing to Trump.
So Biden will dig in and stay. The Ds are stuck.
5:09 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (9aVck)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Vlad Putin at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (u73oe)
all together now. son of a bitch, he got fired
steele dossier
pee tape
hunter biden laptop was true
grand daughter that never was
lapdog media
Posted by: 80's music fan at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (xCA6C)
So Biden will dig in and stay. The Ds are stuck.
5:09 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (9aVck)
"Nice airplane you got there..."
Posted by: The See Eye Eh at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:44 PM (llON8)
Posted by: 80's music fan at July 05, 2024 08:44 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 08:44 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:44 PM (BAEGB)
Of course, the kid would tower over Stephy....
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:45 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: CIA, Grassy Knoll Division at July 05, 2024 08:45 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:45 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 08:45 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (lCaJd)
I don't know what he said. I don't think he knows either.
Posted by: Donald Trump at July 05, 2024 08:45 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 05, 2024 08:45 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:45 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Don Black
Oh, HE gets a pass for a bad cold, does he??? FFS!!@!
Posted by: Rick Perry at July 05, 2024 08:45 PM (6gW4D)
It's best he makes it to the convention I thknk.
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:45 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:46 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 08:46 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Everyday Rockets at July 05, 2024 08:46 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:46 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (q7hip)
Seems appropriate.
Posted by: Ashely Biden at July 05, 2024 08:46 PM (llON8)
put your hood on and ride with pantifa and blackbqueers matter
Posted by: 80's music fan at July 05, 2024 08:46 PM (QSrLX)
XOXO
Duke
PS - Fuck you
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Don Black
Oh, HE gets a pass for a bad cold, does he??? FFS!!@!
Posted by: Rick Perry
He should be tested for COVID.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: JQ at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (njWTi)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 08:46 PM (V13WU)
Hey, if there was ever a Democrat who knew her way around a pickle....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: davidt at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (m62GY)
Posted by: Kamala Harris at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (41CYW)
The catfight going on now on the lefty boards is when a leftist calls Harris stupid, leading to howls of protest. She was California AG. Attorney! Senator!! She is obviously brilliant, how can you say that OMG .... etc. ad infinitum ad nauseam.
Job titles are prima facie evidence of competence, you understand. We are seeing the ultimate train wreck of Credentialism meets Intersectionality versus I Don't Know What All. Hubris too.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: 80's music fan at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (QSrLX)
Have a great evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: 80's music fan at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: 80's music fan at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (y31cs)
https://tinyurl.com/5n8asjwr
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (hO6gk)
That was objectively a horrible interview but Biden take an obvious dump in his pants or pull out little Joey and start playing with it so he did great!
Not having an actual media that does its job is a threat to democracy.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (LkLld)
Too many 'o' in Country.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: davidt at July 05, 2024 08:49 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:46 PM (fwDg9)
Worse.
Visible capillaries.
Getting half a kilo of top shelf pharmaceuticals shoved into your arteries twice a day ain't a recipe for glowing, healthy skin.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:49 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:49 PM (ufFY8)
and cabinet secretary stonewalling from mayorkas and garland
Posted by: 80's music fan at July 05, 2024 08:49 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 05, 2024 08:49 PM (pgG81)
Let's assume the former. We headed into the debate hoping for a tie.
8 days later, the Democrats finally end the calls for their nominee to resign, the fact that Biden has dementia is openly known throughout the entire world, and Trump's lead has expanded by 4 points, heading into the convention.
And Trump hasn't even named his VP pick yet.
Pretty hard to top this week.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 08:49 PM (5p7BC)
Honestly, anyone listen to this, they have to realize "I've heard all this before, I'm done."
But the piece of shit is sentient enough to sit there and shit all over anyone who ever supported him. Including that piece of shit sitting in front of him.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 08:49 PM (peNgU)
Posted by: 80's music fan at July 05, 2024 08:50 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 08:50 PM (qnsfO)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 05, 2024 08:50 PM (klJTj)
https://tinyurl.com/5n8asjwr
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (RIvkX)
Awful.
... and this is one of the many things that people will 'put up with' ... until they don't.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:50 PM (llON8)
Just needs to have the Steve Inman treatment.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 08:50 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:50 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 08:51 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 08:51 PM (peNgU)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:51 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: leftist looking at a notecard taken from his breast pocket at July 05, 2024 08:51 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 05, 2024 08:51 PM (u73oe)
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I love titrating. Joe Mannix, where you at?
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 05, 2024 08:52 PM (iRX3h)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:52 PM (xCA6C)
They stole it once, they have to steal it again is his campaign strategy.
Posted by: Jamaica at July 05, 2024 08:52 PM (HHd7w)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 08:52 PM (a1415)
Posted by: 80's music fan at July 05, 2024 08:52 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 08:51 PM (oUxZc)
So this isn't live?
Pathetic.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 08:52 PM (peNgU)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:50 PM (llON
===
Not once. Not twice. Over and over targeting old people. Not just robbing, assaulting.
Some people just need killing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 08:52 PM (RIvkX)
Heheheheh.
It just dawned on me that all the asshole Agency pricks can't even go double agent to escape this shitfest, because they all already are!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:52 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:53 PM (xCA6C)
We need to carefully watch the video to make sure that each hand (two total) have five fingers each.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 08:53 PM (rHxhM)
He told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that he was the only one to blame for the calamitous primetime showdown last week that sparked a full-blown panic in the Democratic party.
President Joe Biden put blame on former President Donald Trump for his poor debate performance.
So it's all his fault, but it's Trump's fault. Got it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 05, 2024 08:52 PM (iRX3h)
TJM's ratings are usually much harsher.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (TCI8b)
Posted by: Eeyore at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (1bNHn)
Would you believe he guest hosted Rush Limbaugh show at one time? Tells me all these fuckers are just corrupt as hell. They make more money in one night than a lot of folks make in a year, honestly.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (XDSQR)
I thought some people said it was being taped at about 4:30 today. Since he's one the plane to DE it's not live
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (kpS4V)
Hell, i would have lost my diastolic blood pressure.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 05, 2024 08:52 PM (iRX3h)
TJM's ratings are usually much harsher.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (BAEGB)
"Eyes are too close together. Would not bang.
2/10." -- TJM, probably
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (llON8)
She is obviously brilliant?? Doesn't take a lot of brain cells to mimic Hawk Utah.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (UcAQV)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (HHd7w)
She's a hottie, of course. You can't make this stuff up.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (iRX3h)
ABC not kind to Biden.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (a1415)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (y31cs)
I saw a clip on YT recently from CSPAN from the time in 1987 where Biden was busted for plagiarizing Neil Kinnock. Dude was young once.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: steevy at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (HJ9BW)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (60nWs)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 08:56 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (oUxZc)
In other words, the real interview was much worse.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 08:56 PM (peNgU)
It's Sitting Bull's fault I lost. Other than that I did everything perfect.
Posted by: George Armstrong Custer at July 05, 2024 08:56 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 08:56 PM (MKEsG)
She's a hottie, of course. You can't make this stuff up.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (iRX3h)
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Yes, I am now in love.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 08:56 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (60nWs)
You answered ALL the questions!!!
Posted by: DOCTOR Jill at July 05, 2024 08:56 PM (llON8)
So it's all his fault, but it's Trump's fault. Got it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (16NmB)
Well, yes.... yes, if you lose a debate to a guy, it's generally the other guy's "fault". That's what a debate is. That's how you know you lost, and they won...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:57 PM (BAEGB)
No policy questions at all.
Posted by: Obseravational Miklos notes at July 05, 2024 08:57 PM (XIkHl)
Admit it. The very thought of a Harris Cheney ticket gives us all hardons.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (1bNHn)
Not *all* of us.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:57 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 05, 2024 08:57 PM (UcAQV)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: George Armstrong Custer at July 05, 2024 08:56 PM (gKWVE)
Sitting Bull say: Yes. Yes it was.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (pgG81)
Posted by: Lopez de Santa Ana at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (gKWVE)
-Grimm Reaper
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! /George Carlins Pencil at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (7NPdn)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (8sMut)
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Once upon a time in America, an open liar like that was disqualified for high office.
Now it is a prerequisite.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (TCI8b)
=====
Bitch can try. It won't end well for him.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: Obseravational Miklos notes at July 05, 2024 08:57 PM (XIkHl)
Being a decrepit lunatic *is* his policy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (BAEGB)
Would you believe he guest hosted Rush Limbaugh show at one time? Tells me all these fuckers are just corrupt as hell. They make more money in one night than a lot of folks make in a year, honestly.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (XDSQR)
I'm trying to remember the other ass-clown who guest hosted for Rush. Chris something or other. Fuck I am pissed that I can't remember. Also well renowned for creepily leering at Erin Burnett live on TV...
Chris Matthews! I think. That joker. He guest hosted for Rush back in the day!
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:53 PM (xCA6C)
To accuse them of covering up Biden's cognitive decline to their faces.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (TCI8b)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:59 PM (q7hip)
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Harris/Romney
Posted by: Pierre Delecto at July 05, 2024 08:59 PM (iZbyp)
I don't know what he said. I don't think he knows either.
Posted by: Donald Trump
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lol. Those words are the new covfefe.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:59 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (pZEOD)
Right after the Epstein story they had three years before he was arrested.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 08:59 PM (peNgU)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:59 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! /George Carlins Pencil at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (7NPdn)
Now it is a prerequisite.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (RIvkX)
I remember saying in 2021 that I would love to be a kid in school. I'd plagiarize left right and center and when caught, I'd just say "So? The President does it".
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: fly gal at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (wOqQq)
Posted by: George Snuffleupagous at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (HHd7w)
G.S. "What's your plan to turn the campaign around?"
Biden "You saw it today. Can anyone draw a crowd like that?"
Biden is being shielded from news. He has probably never been told about or seen pictures of the 110K crowd in New Jersey.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (q7hip)
Errorick Errorickson is another. That guy makes me want to strangle my radio.
Posted by: fd at July 05, 2024 09:01 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:59 PM (q7hip)
Bob Dole does not remember when Bob Dole fell off the stage, and Bob Dole KNOWS Bob Dole.
Posted by: Bob Dole at July 05, 2024 09:01 PM (8sMut)
Biggest fucking lie of all.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (q7hip)
To be fair, he was busy looking at his watch while the coffins were being unloaded from the plane.
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 09:01 PM (14URa)
Errorick Errorickson is another. That guy makes me want to strangle my radio.
Posted by: fd at July 05, 2024 09:01 PM (vFG9F)
Hey, you can change the station whenever you like!
Posted by: fd's radio at July 05, 2024 09:02 PM (llON8)
Before or After the Tranny Nashville Shooter's manifesto and 100GB of "Copyrighted" material?
"They claim..." yuck yuck yuck
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:02 PM (rHxhM)
That'll scare 'em.
Posted by: Observational Miklos suggests at July 05, 2024 09:02 PM (XIkHl)
Biggest fucking lie of all.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (q7hip)
To be fair, he was busy looking at his watch while the coffins were being unloaded from the plane.
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 09:01 PM (14URa)
Posted by: U.S. Media at July 05, 2024 09:02 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (RIvkX)
I thought it wasn't "own", but "go into", which makes even less sense.
Joey being Joey.
(And bad cess to the damnable brigand....)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:02 PM (BAEGB)
George S: "Did you watch the debate afterwards?"
Joe: "I don't think I did, no."
Reminds me of Stephanie Lazarus. "Hmmm, I can't really remember going to the hospital and hitting Sherri Rasmussen, but you know, it was like a million years ago and it might have happened."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 09:02 PM (lCaJd)
Dumb And Loving It
Posted by: gKWVE at July 05, 2024 09:03 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 05, 2024 09:03 PM (c4+La)
I look forward to November.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 09:03 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05
He did seem genuinely shocked at Stef saying he doesn’t want to play the crowd game.
Also his popularity numbers. “I don’t believe it,”
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 09:03 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:03 PM (RUmyk)
Guy is traveling and sees a sign that says free talking dog. So he pulls over and talks to the farmer. Farmer says yes he talks ask him something. So the guy asked what the dog has done and the dog tells him about being in the war and saving his platoon, how he was in the CIA and stationed in the Kremlin, and that he was a Nixon confidante. Guy says that is impressive and asks the farmer why he is giving such a remarkable talking dog away. Farmer says damn dog is a liar. He didn’t do any of that shit.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at July 05, 2024 09:03 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: fd's radio"
Yes but I will know that he is still out there, broadcasting his bullshit.
Posted by: fd at July 05, 2024 09:04 PM (vFG9F)
Only the fire marshal if Trump were to do a campaign stop at a Denny's .
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:04 PM (rHxhM)
However, I will still be astonished if he's the head of the ticket.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 09:05 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Willie Brown at July 05, 2024 09:05 PM (3D9kJ)
Biggest fucking lie of all.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (q7hip)
To be fair, he was busy looking at his watch while the coffins were being unloaded from the plane.
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 09:01 PM (14URa)
Posted by: U.S. Media at July 05, 2024 09:02 PM (8sMut)
BULLSHIT. Quit spreading disinformation. NO SERVICE MEMBERS HAVE DIED WHILE JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN, THE MOST BELOVED AND POPULAR PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME, HAS BEEN IN OFFICE.
You pieces of shit. You are ALL proof that the customer is ALWAYS WRONG.
Posted by: U.S. Media at July 05, 2024 09:05 PM (8sMut)
It matters what his donors are saying.
If they think he's a bad bet, he's done.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 09:05 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 05, 2024 09:06 PM (r5tfK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (RIvkX)
Every time Crowder is going to play a clip of Biden, he shows the "We already have a ni88er mayor, we don't need any more ni88er big shots" bit.
Yeah, it's a cheap shot, but F that guy.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:06 PM (peNgU)
Posted by: Lopez de Santa Ana at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (gKWVE)
Tactical win for Santa Ana, but a strategic and propaganda loss.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 05, 2024 09:06 PM (y31cs)
Posted by: Piper
And this ice cream tastes different!
Posted by: Miklos with Sources at July 05, 2024 09:06 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 09:05 PM (xCA6C)
I just hope the internecine warfare neuters any attempt to make a successor and they wind up stuck with the bastard.
If he isn't already room temperature, that is...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:06 PM (BAEGB)
Biden "You saw it today. Can anyone draw a crowd like that?"
Biden is being shielded from news. He has probably never been told about or seen pictures of the 110K crowd in New Jersey.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (5p7BC)
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Yep, he's totally out of touch. Is this the kind of stuff they are leaving out of the daily briefing so he doesn't blow his stack.
Posted by: WisRich at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (Qgr0I)
Notice how they never show the crowd size when Joe does a rally? I bet there were less than 100 people there not counting media and staff.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (gKWVE)
That'll scare 'em.
Posted by: Observational Miklos suggests at July 05, 2024 09:02 PM (XIkHl)
Groucho glasses ? yes /no ??
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (RUmyk)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at July 05, 2024 09:03 PM (17s+e)
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Ha!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: WisRich at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (Qgr0I)
What's wrong with that?
Posted by: East German Politburo at July 05, 2024 09:08 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:09 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 05, 2024 09:09 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (8sMut)
Yeah, Biden is that special old people kind of creepy that makes you nervous if you will end up something like that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 05, 2024 09:09 PM (y31cs)
Biggest fucking lie of all.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (q7hip)
Did he really say that?
Just when I think he can't go any lower... that right there should disqualify him to be CoC.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:09 PM (peNgU)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:09 PM (RUmyk)
I'm the one who shut Putin down
Look at the size of my crowds
Stephanopoulos: wha' the???
Posted by: Whispering Walter at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (GpUII)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (V13WU)
Because this isn't reassuring the public one bit.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: WisRich at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (Qgr0I)
I bet he doesn't know about the rest of the "fine people" clip and that 7 states have unrestricted abortion.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (r5tfK)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (HHd7w)
I may be a little short on discernment here, but I kinda like Tulsi. But as with Vivek, there's the little WEF issue. Is she or isn't she?
Posted by: Emmie at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (RUmyk)
Make us.
Posted by: U.S. Media at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (8sMut)
Biggest fucking lie of all.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (q7hip)
Did he really say that?
Just when I think he can't go any lower... that right there should disqualify him to be CoC.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:09 PM (peNgU
He absolutely did.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Yep. Like a local school board meeting crowd. Or a plant sale fundraiser. WisRich reported earlier an estimated 350 today? Regardless, the media still running cover. For now.
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (41CYW)
11 Lessons from Bill Watterson
#10 - Bill Watterson explains how selling out is actually buying in:
"Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules & rewards"
Buying into someone else's system of values is how you lose your soul.
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Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (P5BPp)
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Truth be told I voted for Frank Jordan.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (RIvkX)
Makes much more sense.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (hZc6Q)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (v6JzV)
“I have a cognitive test every day,” Biden said. “Everything I do. I’m not just running a campaign, I’m running the world.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Emmie at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (Sf2cq)
Tulsi is pure evil. She will say and do anything and everything to get and retain power. The sooner more people grasp this and stop giving her as much as the time of day, the better.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 09:11 PM (8sMut)
'I'll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as goodest job as I know I can do, that's what this is about,' he said, making up the word 'goodest'.
Following the interview, ABC News' Jonathan Karl said a prominent ally of the president could only say 'wow' in response to that quote. "
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:11 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Hunter B. at July 05, 2024 09:11 PM (XIkHl)
We have a special VIP section for brain damaged life time members Joe. We our 24/7 play list includes the looney tools theme and the Porky Pig ending. A huge favorite in the 3 Stooges Theme song. Joe you're gonna love this place.
-Satan's receptionist
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! /George Carlins Pencil at July 05, 2024 09:11 PM (7NPdn)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:11 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 09:00 PM (5p7BC)
Yep, he's totally out of touch. Is this the kind of stuff they are leaving out of the daily briefing so he doesn't blow his stack.
Posted by: WisRich at July 05, 2024 09:07 PM (Qgr0I)
It's been credibly theorized, Saddam Hussein didn't really know he didn't really have a thriving WMD program in place. His handlers were lying to him, so when he played games with the inspectors, it's because he thought they would find things, when there was really nothing to find.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:12 PM (peNgU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:12 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:12 PM (RUmyk)
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! /George Carlins Pencil at July 05, 2024 09:13 PM (7NPdn)
Posted by: fd at July 05, 2024 09:14 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:11 PM (V13WU)
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Shut. Up. Is that true?
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 09:14 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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What an egocentric prig. He couldn't run a fireworks stand.
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 09:14 PM (41CYW)
Pretty women are Trump’s biggest vice, other than Diet Coke, Big Macs, and braggadocio.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 09:14 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Emmie at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (Sf2cq)
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No Tulsi
No Nikki
No Kristi
Sarah
Elise
Winsome
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 09:14 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:11 PM (V13WU)
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Shut. Up. Is that true?
Supposably.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 09:14 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 09:14 PM (16NmB)
at the DM ! they never lie!
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:15 PM (V13WU)
Stinky and the Brain?
Posted by: fd at July 05, 2024 09:14 PM (vFG9F)
Ah. So that loud slapping sound i heard was Barack Obama facepalming.
Good to know. I though it was some weird kind of leftover firework.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:15 PM (BAEGB)
I may be a little short on discernment here, but I kinda like Tulsi. But as with Vivek, there's the little WEF issue. Is she or isn't she?
Posted by: Emmie at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (Sf2cq)
She's not, but she's more of a liberal Democrat than she's willing to admit these days. If only the party hadn't abandoned her... wah.
It's been a shitty party your whole life, sweetheart, this isn't anything new.
As for Vivek, he's not going to be trusted by many, mostly because he's a brown non-Christian. The WEF stuff is easily explained, and means nothing, other than it might have opened doors for him when he was in college.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:15 PM (peNgU)
Imagine Joe's brain hooked up to run a planet like they did with Spock's brain.
Posted by: fd at July 05, 2024 09:16 PM (vFG9F)
Dead ringer for Marilyn Monroe, right down to the blond flip hairdo and pink lipstick
hubba hubba
Posted by: Whispering Walter at July 05, 2024 09:16 PM (GpUII)
That clip of Jill (excuse me, DR. JILL!) talking to Joe like he's a mildly retarded four-year-old is just fucking perfect...a perfect metaphor for this embarrassment of an administration.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 05, 2024 09:16 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 09:16 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: fd at July 05, 2024 09:16 PM (vFG9F)
"It's just a big ball of farts and volcanoes!"
"Exactly."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:17 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:17 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 09:17 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 09:05 PM (xCA6C)
I just hope the internecine warfare neuters any attempt to make a successor and they wind up stuck with the bastard.
Agree, but I just don't see a major political party going all Frankie Five Angels.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 09:17 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:18 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 09:18 PM (RIvkX)
Mike Quigley, a congressman I never heard of, was not impressed.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 09:18 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 05, 2024 09:18 PM (ZtgZZ)
He's probably a generic gen-x "religion is icky" American Agnostic.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:19 PM (BAEGB)
"I'm doing my bestest at running the world."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:17 PM (oUxZc)
Ha!
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 05, 2024 09:19 PM (CWMF2)
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 09:19 PM (41CYW)
The people that Joe should be most concerned about are not on the right, or maga, they are in his own party ! ain't that right Joe ?
Posted by: runner
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Joe the opposition is coming FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 09:19 PM (lCaJd)
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Imagine Joe's brain hooked up to run a planet like they did with Spock's brain.
Posted by: fd at July 05, 2024 09:16 PM (vFG9F)
There's a real fundamental disconnect there, in that anyone sentient would realize taking "credit" for running THIS world is dumber than taking credit for steering the Hindenburg.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:19 PM (peNgU)
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 09:19 PM (14URa)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:19 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:19 PM (RUmyk)
Posted by: Peaches
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So do mine with Ashley!
Posted by: FJB at July 05, 2024 09:20 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:21 PM (RUmyk)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:21 PM (tT6L1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khOfSVULtsU
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 09:21 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 05, 2024 09:21 PM (c4+La)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:22 PM (oUxZc)
Ha! This is a comedy act.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:21 PM (RUmyk)
I've seen pigeons draw bigger crowds than this shambling embarrassment.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:22 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 05, 2024 09:22 PM (qChUb)
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Which is why she did so wonderfully in the Dem 2020 debates. Oh, wait...
Heh.
When Harris eventually has to debate this year - either against Trump's VP candidate, or as a replacement at the top of the ticket, the Republicans should invite Tulsi Gabbard, and put her on the front row.
🤣
Posted by: junior at July 05, 2024 09:22 PM (Q1V5c)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 09:22 PM (v6JzV)
Ha! This is a comedy act.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
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Uh Joe, that's not what you think it means.
Posted by: Big Red Crayon Art Class at July 05, 2024 09:22 PM (41CYW)
17 ...but just in case : "Kamala Harris team considers ‘white man’ VP for presidential run"...
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (V13WU)
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I nominate Dwight Mannsburden as candidate for VP/Success-Postiioner/Whipping Boy! His time is now!
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 05, 2024 09:23 PM (uz6ub)
That's the way it always works with commies.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 05, 2024 09:23 PM (r5tfK)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (HHd7w)
Tulsi beat Kamela so bad in their debate it ended her campaign, she isn't picking Tulsi. Tulsi got called a Russian asset, so I doubt she would come back without a lot of inducements.
Nikki was one of the evil ones in the dem LIV pantheon, though that is not permanent It might be hard to switch at this late in the game
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:23 PM (D7oie)
Will the big donors be reassured?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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That's what I wonder. And will any of the anti-Joes in the MSM walk anything back?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 09:23 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 09:23 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:24 PM (RUmyk)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 09:24 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:24 PM (peNgU)
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! /George Carlins Pencil at July 05, 2024 09:24 PM (7NPdn)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:23 PM (D7oie)
"You can be my VP. But only if you start going by Namaratha."
".... Fuck you.
.....
I'm in. "
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:24 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:24 PM (tT6L1)
Let the Daily Mail deny it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 09:24 PM (u82oZ)
One of the Powerline boys watched Tulsi at one of their events. Loved her. Said she's as smart as a whip. Expressed the hope that Trump would pick her. There was no video of the event, hang it all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 09:25 PM (lCaJd)
I played a couple of clips from the ABC interview that @RNCResearch posted on X. Joe sure doesn't sound like he's going anywhere, and he's chock-full of excuses why the debate was such a shitshow.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 05, 2024 09:25 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:25 PM (V13WU)
When does the MSM begin telling us this is a no-fooling real Constitutional Crisis?
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 09:25 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Skip
Well, they can't stick anymore botox in that face. The plugs have already been done.
By the time their finished working on him he will be able to go straight to the Disney World Hall of Presidents.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 05, 2024 09:25 PM (0Htd1)
Hard pass.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 09:25 PM (LkLld)
Joe: Am not! Attack to the rear!
Delusional is an aneurism in Joe's head.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:25 PM (RUmyk)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:25 PM (D7oie)
@zerohedge
some time tomorrow E. Jean Carroll will remember that about 50 years ago Joe Biden forced himself on her
6:16 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Julie Tsirkin
@JulieNBCNews
One 👀 House Democrat on President Biden’s interview tonight:
“It made me sad. Completely out of touch with reality and insulated from truth.”
“I’ll be breaking my silence soon.”
5:50 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 09:26 PM (9aVck)
Technically, its true.
Biden has never been in command, he is a stage prop for the Oligarchs and the Dark Tetrid types the Party Military answers to.
Arguably, Trump wasn't in command of the Party Military either as the Obama generals answered to China.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:26 PM (rHxhM)
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Back in the day, at county fairs people would pay a dime to see an act like mine. No malarkey, Jack!
-- President Potatohead
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 09:26 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: JTB at July 05, 2024 09:26 PM (zudum)
Isn't that the point of a debate, that you can make your case when challenged?
He looks and sounds exactly like the "good night" version of the "bad night" Biden we saw last week. In other words, he has confirmed that he is as far gone as we thought.
Posted by: Ronzoni at July 05, 2024 09:26 PM (tof4A)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:26 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 05, 2024 09:26 PM (qChUb)
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! /George Carlins Pencil at July 05, 2024 09:24 PM (7NPdn)
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Um. What?
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 09:26 PM (16NmB)
They just stick it under his nose and say, sign here, like they do with everything else.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 05, 2024 09:26 PM (r5tfK)
@realmflynnJR
I’m not.
Fuck Biden.
Mother Fucker tried to destroy my family.
He can burn in hell for all I care.
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Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly·1h
I’m genuinely sad/angry over what these ppl around him are doing to Joe Biden. He deserves better than to go out like this. The answer is to let him retire w/some dignity. Not to keep forcing the critically wounded racehorse to run more.
5:53 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 09:27 PM (9aVck)
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 05, 2024 09:27 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 09:25 PM (5fDan)
"Blue Bunny truck is here. Rodney's out today. You gotta sign for it, Boss. "
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:27 PM (BAEGB)
Hawk tuah. Thanks autocorrect
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 05, 2024 08:57 PM (UcAQV)
If I wrote cowboy stories, I would have been jealous of anyone coming up with the name "Hawk Utah"
that is better than "the Amboy Kid" or "Carrie's Nephew"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:27 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 09:24 PM (xCA6C)
No, but I wouldn't speculate what's they're thinking.This was obviously intended for them.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:27 PM (oUxZc)
Has "cuntocracy" been trademarked yet? If not *plants flag*.
Posted by: PabloD at July 05, 2024 09:28 PM (ohsd/)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 08:58 PM (pZEOD)
Only to members of Congress due to national security concerns
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:28 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 05, 2024 09:28 PM (3D9kJ)
Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur
George Orwell was an unmitigated genius. Tell me this line from 1984 isn't absolutely perfect for the Democratic Party right now: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur Jul 4
What’s the point of forcing out Biden, if we’re going to go with Kamala? Winning is so much more important than one person’s feelings.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 09:28 PM (Jh5b+)
Yeah, she's in the cabinet. Burgum runs Interior, that's a big deal in North Dakota. Vivek gets Commerce. The ghey guy at State. One of Trump's Wall Street buddies at Treasury. Flynn for DNI. Whittaker comes back for AG.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 05, 2024 09:29 PM (r5tfK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 09:25 PM (lCaJd)
If we had a "normal" political climate, she could be a leading member of the Democrat Party, arguing and working with a conservative Republican Party. She'd be mostly wrong on many issues, but she'd be an honest opponent.
That doesn't qualify her to be a leader of the allegedly conservative Republican Party.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:29 PM (peNgU)
5:53 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 09:27 PM (9aVck)
Whip that fucking beast until it stops twitching, then jolt it back to life with amphetamines and 10 kilovolts and whip it some fucking more.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:29 PM (BAEGB)
>>Just watch.
I don't think so. Did you see the ABC panel of journalists after the interview? They all looked they were coming from a funeral.
You can't spin what people are seeing with Joe.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 09:30 PM (LkLld)
Is y there some fairness law that says candidates have to be given equal time during campaign season?
Am I just making this up?
When does George Steponallofus give equal time and treatment to Trump?
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 09:30 PM (81wK+)
soooo....you're saying he's pining for the fjords?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 09:30 PM (xCA6C)
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
Massive coverup taking place by
@bidenhq
right now as they are having to explain to press why they abruptly pulled their access today when they were told they’d be traveling with
@JoeBiden
.
Biden had a medical emergency on the plane today, as I reported, and is now having a hard time getting up by himself.
Posted by: Meremortal at July 05, 2024 09:31 PM (Bwqq4)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:31 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:31 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! /George Carlins Pencil at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (7NPdn)
He said he invited Trump, but Trump declined. Smartly, Trump is staying out of the way and letting this train wreck happen.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (r5tfK)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (RUmyk)
Sounds like you could redo that Devo Song, "Whip It"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (m62GY)
Hiya, Frank! My niece is getting married to a Kiwi next weekend.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (LuMF/)
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holy cow , all those drugs they gave him ?
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (V13WU)
George Orwell was an unmitigated genius. Tell me this line from 1984 isn't absolutely perfect for the Democratic Party right now: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
But no self awareness that 1984 covers everything the Left does.
Since he is Muslim I’m sure that he also agrees that line describes the Dems and gender.
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 09:33 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:33 PM (V13WU)
How many people can draw crowds like I do - Joe Biden
All of us moved on from drawing stick figures by first grade, Jotatoe.
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 05, 2024 09:33 PM (i4sOa)
@AWeissmann_
If Biden withdraws, how about a ticket of Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney to show this election is about our democracy? Country over party.
Saw this over on the previous thread. It truly is amazing. I'm really not sure if these people truly believe their own hubris. The smug arrogance they have is obvious, so it's possible.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 05, 2024 09:34 PM (wh7vU)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (V13WU)
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He wouldn't step down and Doctuh Jill wouldn't cut a deal.
The Deep State went the medical removal route.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:34 PM (tT6L1)
Joe shambles in the way. By any means necessary...
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 09:35 PM (u82oZ)
The Deep State went the medical removal route.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:34 PM (tT6L1)
I would not put it past them.
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:35 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 09:35 PM (SHMXB)
They can't even call him The "Comb-over Kid". How does some senile old fossil ever get tagged as "Kid" unless the comment comes from Methuselah?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:35 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:33 PM (V13WU)
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I believe they said the interview was right after the rally. So I think so.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 09:35 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:35 PM (BAEGB)
George Orwell was an unmitigated genius. Tell me this line from 1984 isn't absolutely perfect for the Democratic Party right now: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
He's being ironic?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 05, 2024 09:35 PM (wh7vU)
It seems like the question about Snufulupigus has been answered…. He’s trying to rehabilitate the breathing corpse.
There’s no question in my mind this election all comes down to cheating: if it’s limited Trump wins…. If they cheat big time it’s in the balance. Wisconsin drop box nonsense by their Supreme Court does not bode well…..
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 05, 2024 09:35 PM (2BAti)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 09:35 PM (xCA6C)
They just stick it under his nose and say, sign here, like they do with everything else.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon
Worked for me.
Posted by: Walter 'RADAR' O'Reilly at July 05, 2024 09:36 PM (3D9kJ)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:36 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! /George Carlins Pencil at July 05, 2024 09:24 PM (7NPdn)
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Um. What?
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 09:26 PM (16NmB)
I'm not sure what Gumby just said. I don't think he knows either.
/jk
Posted by: Emmie at July 05, 2024 09:36 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Emmie at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (Sf2cq)
I think she sued the WEF to get them to take her off their list of young leaders.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:36 PM (D7oie)
Ballots will be EVERYwhere.
In da hood they'll be giving out ballots with every purchase of a lottery ticket.
The Commies don't care. Biden's DOJ will investigate? ...... sure.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 05, 2024 09:36 PM (jfq/f)
Primaries intended to preclude exactly, precisely, what is shaping up right now. A convention where nobody knows exactly what will happen?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 09:36 PM (XDSQR)
One of the Powerline boys watched Tulsi at one of their events. Loved her. Said she's as smart as a whip. Expressed the hope that Trump would pick her. There was no video of the event, hang it all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 09:25 PM (lCaJd)
Tulsi is still a Democrat and Trump is 78. I might imagine place in his administration, but not as Veep.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 09:37 PM (VSht7)
You know, two can play that game.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 05, 2024 09:38 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:38 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: runner at
Good. More. Harder. I can think of no one more deserving than that steaming pile of dog shit.
No offense to dog shit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 09:38 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 09:38 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:38 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Miklos sees inevitable logic at July 05, 2024 09:38 PM (XIkHl)
@realmflynnJR
I’m not.
Fuck Biden.
Mother Fucker tried to destroy my family.
He can burn in hell for all I care.
Quote
Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly·1h
I’m genuinely sad/angry over what these ppl around him are doing to Joe Biden. He deserves better than to go out like this. The answer is to let him retire w/some dignity. Not to keep forcing the critically wounded racehorse to run more.
5:53 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe
Deserves got nuthin' to do with it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 05, 2024 09:39 PM (wh7vU)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:38 PM (BAEGB)
this kind of stuff works in parliamentary systems; not here
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:39 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 09:39 PM (14URa)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 09:39 PM (SHMXB)
So she has more sense than Eye Patch McCain.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:39 PM (rHxhM)
You know, two can play that game.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent
Cheeseheads...ASSEMBLE
Posted by: Miklos sees a solution at July 05, 2024 09:40 PM (XIkHl)
They can't even call him The "Comb-over Kid". How does some senile old fossil ever get tagged as "Kid" unless the comment comes from Methuselah?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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'Plugs' seems to have fallen from usage.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2024 09:40 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: my dick at July 05, 2024 09:41 PM (gKWVE)
Don't let him drive anything though. I was impressed that he wiped out another car on the interstate, by definition his fault. The only "news" was they reported they were both safely at home. The other people they totaled their car and they went to the hospital?
fuck, who knows? Not even a recognition that maybe, other people were inconvenienced??
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 09:41 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 09:41 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:33 PM (V13WU)
The interview was taped and not shown live. But considering I have not seen anybody on any other site mention a Biden medical emergency today, I am going to assume it's Loomer's wishful thinking.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 09:41 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 09:42 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc
Rush never said it was time to panic.
Posted by: Miklos so recalls at July 05, 2024 09:42 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 09:41 PM (63Dwl)
That sounds like a very haiku-ey way to say they changed his britches.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:42 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 05, 2024 09:43 PM (2BAti)
MSNBC kids not impressed either.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 09:43 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Ghetto Yoda, confused I is at July 05, 2024 09:43 PM (wh7vU)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:12 PM (peNgU)
Saddam was sold chemical weapons by the Germans prior to the Iran Iraq war. He then used it during that war, and also used it on the Kurds after the war.
Supposedly the Iraqis bundled everything they had left over to Syria at the beginning of the war, because they knew if they got caught with it it would mean hangings for war crimes
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:43 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 09:43 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 09:42 PM (QzINz)
Listen, the Soviets sometimes had to wait months to find out their leaders were dead. We'll probably find out in a few days.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:43 PM (SfHnh)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 05, 2024 09:44 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 09:42 PM (QzINz)
It's like watching the music stop and the Rockettes fall out of sync and just start flailing their legs around desperately and giving each other dirty looks....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:44 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 09:44 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 09:42 PM (QzINz)
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Make any bets Joe has already suffered a medical emergency but we've not heard about it?
The Deep State has been willing to trot out an obviously demented old man for the last 4 years or so. Covering up a medical emergence probably is no big deal.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:44 PM (tT6L1)
>>I am standing in the center and have decided to vote Present. I could not in good conscience vote against impeachment because I believe President Trump is guilty of wrongdoing.
>>On the one side — The president's defenders insist that he has done nothing wrong. They agree with the absurd proclamation that his conduct was "perfect." They have abdicated their responsibility to exercise legitimate oversight, and instead blindly do the bidding of their party's leader.
Just because she is slightly less stupid than others on the left that doesn't mean she should be Trump's VP.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 09:45 PM (LkLld)
Vivek gets Chief of Staff
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (rHxhM)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 05, 2024 09:45 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:31 PM (tT6L1)
You make a good point.
Not sure what to make of Steph giving Dementia Joe a pass.
May be the Clintons deals are still in progress ( ie sufficient money committed to their pockets) for Felonia to take her rightful place on the Dem ticket?
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 05, 2024 09:45 PM (jfq/f)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:45 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Qin Shi Huangdi at July 05, 2024 09:45 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 09:45 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: nerdygirl cheerleader at July 05, 2024 09:45 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:15 PM (peNgU)
Unless he totally and convincingly repudiates WEF, and every one of its policies, he is shit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 09:45 PM (tRhv4)
She would bring a lot of millennials and Gen Z into the fold.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 09:46 PM (81wK+)
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What happened to the sanity prod?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:46 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:12 PM (peNgU)
Saddam was sold chemical weapons by the Germans prior to the Iran Iraq war. He then used it during that war, and also used it on the Kurds after the war.
Supposedly the Iraqis bundled everything they had left over to Syria at the beginning of the war, because they knew if they got caught with it it would mean hangings for war crimes
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:43 PM (D7oie)
There was 20 tons of VX gas that Blix and the UN inspectors had tagged previously that couldn’t be accounted for and likely shipped to Syria,
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 09:46 PM (SHMXB)
Certain chemical weapons are really super nasty. They don't take up much room. Enough Sarin or maybe Tabun, to kill everybody in large countries, could fit on the back of a tractor trailer. In theory, at least.
People have this mental picture of needing several football field size warehouses or something and being difficult to conceal.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 09:46 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (rHxhM)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 05, 2024 09:45 PM (kpS4V)
Offer him the job, then take it back!
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:46 PM (SfHnh)
So I guess we shall see!
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 09:46 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 09:46 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 09:47 PM (LkLld)
Might work, probably won't, but it stops the bleeding and drastically changes the Holy News Cycle for a time.
Can DOCTOR Jill and Hunter stay awake at Joe's bedside and somehow test all his food and medications for the next 120+ days?
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 09:47 PM (5fDan)
The Democrats challenge is to metaphorically put Uncle Joe on an ice flow as soon as possible and wave to him as he disappears out of sight. At that point the village idiots can decide who gets the big igloo.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:47 PM (RUmyk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 09:45 PM (tRhv4)
He has.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:48 PM (SfHnh)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:46 PM (SfHnh)
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LOL
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 09:48 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:49 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:46 PM (SfHnh)
Indian giver!!
I’m sorry, I’m not familiar with that term. — Jerry Seinfeld
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 05, 2024 09:49 PM (2BAti)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (rHxhM)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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LOL
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 09:49 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: fd at July 05, 2024 09:49 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (rHxhM)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Commisar of Merciless Termination of Indian Call Centres and all involved
Posted by: Miklos so proposes at July 05, 2024 09:50 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! /George Carlins Pencil at July 05, 2024 09:50 PM (7NPdn)
Seriously. What the hell is wrong with you people?
With 400 million people to pick and choose from, why do some of you seek out the unstable loose cannons? Is the bench so shallow that we have to recruit Democrats who, as a brand, are Destroyers of Civilization?
If trying to fix the country you want to let your loins do the choosing? Are you like some stupid woman who thinks that she can fix a total wreck of a boyfriend because he didn't beat her today or has been out of jail for over a week?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:50 PM (rHxhM)
Is he operating on new evidence, or just pissed they got found out?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:50 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Miklos so proposes at July 05, 2024 09:50 PM (XIkHl)
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AARP has their call center in India.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:51 PM (tT6L1)
Might work, probably won't, but it stops the bleeding and drastically changes the Holy News Cycle for a time.
Can DOCTOR Jill and Hunter stay awake at Joe's bedside and somehow test all his food and medications for the next 120+ days?
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 09:47 PM (5fDan)
The Scalia Pillow .......
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (jfq/f)
I wonder what Biden's excuses for his next debate debacle will be.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Meremortal at July 05, 2024 09:31 PM (Bwqq4)
Bob Dole has pills for that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (tRhv4)
Posted by: John Nance Garner at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: Miklos so proposes at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! /George Carlins Pencil at July 05, 2024 09:50 PM (7NPdn)
She's a traitor? You get your talking points from Hillory?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (SfHnh)
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (oaGWv)
Gee, and I thought I had it tough in that box.
Posted by: Schrodinger's Cat at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (6if7h)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (RUmyk)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:51 PM (tT6L1)
Who DOESN’T have a call center in India?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 09:53 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:53 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 09:53 PM (8sMut)
Tata
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:53 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 05, 2024 09:53 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 09:53 PM (8sMut)
Tata
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:53 PM (BAEGB)
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Allo Fiber.
No IP.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:54 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:12 PM (peNgU)
Saddam was sold chemical weapons by the Germans prior to the Iran Iraq war. He then used it during that war, and also used it on the Kurds after the war.
Supposedly the Iraqis bundled everything they had left over to Syria at the beginning of the war, because they knew if they got caught with it it would mean hangings for war crimes
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:43 PM (D7oie)
There was 20 tons of VX gas that Blix and the UN inspectors had tagged previously that couldn’t be accounted for and likely shipped to Syria,
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 09:46 PM (SHMXB)
He used chlorine for his swimming pools, didn’t he?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 09:54 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Meremortal at July 05, 2024 09:31 PM (Bwqq4)
Bob Dole has pills for that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (tRhv4)
If Hunter's on the plane it means there is also crack on the plane. And footjob hookers. Probably.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:55 PM (SfHnh)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:55 PM (SfHnh)
Hey, family is always allowed on AF1!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:55 PM (BAEGB)
Politically I want him to stay. Personally I’d like to have them make him withdraw. It will sting him and sully his history.
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 09:55 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 09:53 PM (8sMut)
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Patriot Mobile
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 09:56 PM (16NmB)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Attorney Generalix would work too
Posted by: Miklos additionally proposes at July 05, 2024 09:56 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:38 PM (BAEGB)
this kind of stuff works in parliamentary systems; not here
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 09:39 PM (V13WU)
There is nothing wrong with having elements of the parliamentary system over here.
Posted by: Alaska and Maine at July 05, 2024 09:56 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:55 PM (SfHnh)
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Don't even need actual hookers. Plenty of gals are drawn to the the powerful. Toss in some drugs and Hunter probably has his pick of young female staffers.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:56 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Or Razorfist. I want presstitutes leaving the briefing room in tears.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 05, 2024 09:56 PM (3D9kJ)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:32 PM (rHxhM)
~~~~~
No! He gets OMB and becomes the hatchet man extraordinaire a la Milei. Afuera! Afuera! Afuera!
Posted by: IrishEi at July 05, 2024 09:56 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 09:56 PM (16NmB)
Any others? I’m surprised we have ONE.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 09:57 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 09:55 PM (SHMXB)
I'm just rooting for casualties at this point.
Whatever does the most damage to the junta before this bitch goes full Sarajevo on us.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 09:57 PM (BAEGB)
The power is in Chief of Staff, AG and State in that order.
VP is like coming in second place at the Super Bowl.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:57 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 09:56 PM (tT6L1)
Which would make them hookers.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:58 PM (SfHnh)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 05, 2024 09:56 PM (3D9kJ)
Lol Razorfist.
AtC for AG.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 09:58 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 09:59 PM (RUmyk)
It's a GIFT! Make hay while the sun shines, because boy, it's shining like a supernova right now.
This is a chance to concentrate everything on his campaign initiatives-- early voting; recruiting poll watchers; FR, etc.
I would suggest not holding any yuuge MAGA rallies in football stadia right now-- don't do anything to detract attention from the train wreck in progress.
Posted by: mnw at July 05, 2024 09:59 PM (NLIak)
People have this mental picture of needing several football field size warehouses or something and being difficult to conceal.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 09:46 PM (XDSQR)
Some of them are also teratogenic, and even the techs working safely with them will come down with cancers
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:59 PM (D7oie)
Next you will want to implement a VAT.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:59 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:52 PM (SfHnh)
Traitor? No. Evil? Yes. Willing to say and do anything and everything to get power.
Oh, she HATES freedom, as evidenced by her hatred of 2A.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 09:59 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 05, 2024 09:59 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 05, 2024 09:59 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 09:58 PM (SfHnh)
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Hookers leave after they'be been paid. Staffers try to leverage their positions using the people they've slept with.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 10:00 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 10:00 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Miklos will not identify the source of this information at July 05, 2024 10:00 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:59 PM (rHxhM)
Yes. And force McDonald’s to stop serving quarter pounders with cheese by adopting the metric system,
Posted by: Other Countries Do It So America Must Do It Too at July 05, 2024 10:01 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 10:01 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 05, 2024 10:01 PM (xjTDL)
I strongly disagree. Mimetic Theory tells us that influencers can shepherd many times their number in sheep. Huge MAGA rallies are powerful influencers and people will hop on to that train if they are sold the idea that doing so is desirable.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 10:02 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 05, 2024 09:59 PM (xjTDL)
I saw that, a real "make it stop" experience. I wanted to find sharp objects to jab into my ears.
What a horrible human being.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 10:02 PM (SfHnh)
Perfessor Squirrel for Dept of Ed.
raimondo for Retard Jester.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 10:00 PM (ufFY
I am excitedly awaiting my assignment.
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:03 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 05, 2024 10:03 PM (xjTDL)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 05, 2024 09:59 PM (xjTDL)
there is someone calling that "coconut-pilled"
as in "just fell out of the coconut tree"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 10:03 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:03 PM (QzINz)
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Health and Human Services.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 10:04 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Piper
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I volunteer for anything involving trebuchets.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 10:04 PM (iZbyp)
99.97% accuracy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 10:01 PM (BAEGB)
Not if you're on a Saudi prince's yacht. Then she's probably someone you saw starring in a marginally successful movie about 5 years earlier.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 10:04 PM (SfHnh)
99.97% accuracy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Not in Budapest.
You will be robbed by the mafia thugs, though.
Posted by: Miklos, victimhood-free at July 05, 2024 10:05 PM (XIkHl)
WI poll w/ Trump +7:
Remington is a GOP-friendly pollster, you know.
Just saying.
They GOTTA start polling the 3-way with Kennedy, because he'll be on almost all state ballots, according to what I've read lately.
Posted by: mnw at July 05, 2024 10:05 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:05 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:03 PM (QzINz)
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Health and Human Services.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker
This....was unkind.
Posted by: Miklos, unless the job is Boss of Firing at July 05, 2024 10:06 PM (XIkHl)
Power vacuums mean factions. Factions mean no cooperation on anything like The Steal. At core, there is no one on earth a communist hates more than another communist who might get a leg up on them in the Party.
This is A Thing now, whether shitpants keeps breathing or not.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 10:06 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 09:59 PM (rHxhM)
Yes. And force McDonald’s to stop serving quarter pounders with cheese by adopting the metric system,
Posted by: Other Countries Do It So America Must Do It Too at July 05, 2024 10:01 PM (8sMut)
A 113.3975 Grammer with Cheese!
or
A 0.1139975 Kilogrammer with Cheese!
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 10:06 PM (5fDan)
Not in Budapest.
You will be robbed by the mafia thugs, though.
Posted by: Miklos, victimhood-free at July 05, 2024 10:05 PM (XIkHl)
Before or after?
And how good looking?
It matters.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 10:07 PM (SfHnh)
Posted by: screaming in digital
Those Fed personnel have to be relocated from DC.
One.By.One.
Posted by: Miklos, interested in the budgetary and engineering details at July 05, 2024 10:08 PM (XIkHl)
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Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! at July 05, 2024 10:08 PM (o3Uyl)
Health and Human Services.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker
This....was unkind.
Posted by: Miklos, unless the job is Boss
Def. Boss. But I do need to know if we are going to usher in the dictatorship because it makes a difference as to how I schedule the 6am workouts for everyone.
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:09 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 10:09 PM (llON8)
And how good looking?
It matters.
Posted by: BurtTC
Very good looking.
And usually before.
Posted by: Miklos, who also found out the stolen bank cards are used at July 05, 2024 10:10 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 10:09 PM (QzINz)
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I see Piper is on the same page as myself. Further proof of her fitness for the job.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 05, 2024 10:10 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 09:42 PM (QzINz)
Watching it, I noticed he was breathing fast. His eyes were off. And why the pen in his right hand? Pretending to be Bob Dole? A transmitter?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 05, 2024 10:11 PM (UcAQV)
Is he operating on new evidence, or just pissed they got found out?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 09:50 PM (D7oie)
Let me at em!
-Chuck Wepner
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! at July 05, 2024 10:13 PM (o3Uyl)
Posted by: Dave at July 05, 2024 10:22 PM (nLwaa)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 05, 2024 10:39 PM (w6EFb)
it only takes a cold to send the White House into maximum entropy
... this can't be good
Posted by: SMOD at July 05, 2024 10:46 PM (GITLP)
Brandon would bitterly curse their names until he drew his last breath.
So... if they somehow humiliated him into giving up his greatest achievement, what he cherishes most, his precious presidency: would Biden want his successor to win or lose against Trump? Obviously, he'd want to be the only man who ever beat Trump. Just so he could say, "Told ya' I was your only hope."
Biden would hold out as long as possible just to increase Trump's chances. But he ain't goin' nowhere.
Posted by: Bach in Black at July 06, 2024 02:29 AM (+oqUV)
… Joe is guilty of using an ambiguous “we”
Posted by: SMOD at July 06, 2024 07:04 AM (GITLP)
Posted by: Eternity Matters at July 06, 2024 08:11 AM (BhkgG)
Posted by: Eternity Matters at July 06, 2024 08:11 AM (BhkgG)
THIS
Posted by: m at July 06, 2024 12:00 PM (64Zez)
That's a Hellofant Elephant Cafe
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Elephant gives birth to a calf, and then the whole troop surrounds them protectively. Elephant crossing. Getting a dog a new toy.
Casually stretching out to kissing range. Following the leader isn't smart if you've got a dumb leader. He gets a little frisky but his lady just isn't in the mood. Baby lion practices his big roar. Saving a drowning fawn. Ben-Fur. Luncheon with a moose. I'm telling you, we have to keep young females away from social media.
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Capybaras wandering around at dawn. pic.twitter.com/QDMpxF9ebm
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 07:33 PM (P+D4R)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:33 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 05, 2024 07:34 PM (SuNbA)
Posted by: Eromero at July 05, 2024 07:34 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 05, 2024 07:34 PM (SuNbA)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:35 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:36 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:37 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 07:37 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 07:38 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 07:39 PM (u82oZ)
Well, the hurricane track that had it coming ashore at Brownsville yesterday is now targeting Corpus Christi. I guess the next update will have it hitting us.
But we know what the temperature and sea level will be 50 years from now.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 07:39 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 07:41 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 07:41 PM (D7oie)
Human. Hungry. Erect. Curious. Wounded. Odd.
Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 07:41 PM (P+D4R)
Posted by: Eromero at July 05, 2024 07:34 PM (LHPAg)
she was clearly wearing an ass hat
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 07:41 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 07:42 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: Eromero at July 05, 2024 07:34 PM (LHPAg)
she was clearly wearing an ass hat
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 07:41 PM (D7oie)
Golf clap.
Posted by: tbodie, Lurker. Unless you are reading this at July 05, 2024 07:43 PM (OOnTd)
Once his nuts touched my forehead he’d be learning how to fly.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 07:43 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 07:44 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 07:44 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 05, 2024 07:44 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:45 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:45 PM (GPtBB)
Not smart. Not smart at all.
Didn't we discuss wild animals earlier today?
Posted by: Mayo Pete at July 05, 2024 07:46 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 07:46 PM (p4NUW)
Does Dave in Fla know how Hillary is polling in a head-to-head with Trump?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 07:46 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 07:44 PM (iZbyp)
(commands chimp-army armed with restraints)
You now have a monkey's ass on your face. TGIF.
Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 07:47 PM (P+D4R)
Yikes. That could have gone wrong in a heartbeat.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 05, 2024 07:44 PM (mH6SG)
Better a luncheon OF moose.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 07:47 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 07:46 PM (lCaJd)
Please, Tengri, let this happen.
Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 07:48 PM (P+D4R)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 05, 2024 07:48 PM (MzNQ5)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 07:43 PM (6ydKt)
And you would learn that monkeys will fuck you up.
Watch Ricard Pryor's monkey skit.
Posted by: Reforger at July 05, 2024 07:49 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 07:49 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 07:46 PM (lCaJd)
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Nate Silver's model still has Hillary at a 93% chance to win in 2016.
/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (qCacp)
Oh oh oh, OH oh!
———
I’m kinda partial to Oh-Oh-Ozempic!
And another with the the two-time classic Dancing In The Moonlight for some kinda eye-treatment.
I’ve just realized that we’ve got commercial earworms in our heads.
I’m now certain that Demolition Man (1993) wasn’t just a movie… it’s a prophecy.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (u82oZ)
Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on AF1 right now. Press access has been removed.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (5p7BC)
@LauraLoomer 8m
Joe Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on Air Force One right now.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 05, 2024 07:51 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:51 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 07:51 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 07:51 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 07:52 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 05, 2024 07:52 PM (Aoykm)
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 07:52 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (5fDan)
Hillary doesn't even register.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (5p7BC)
Oh oh oh, OH oh!
———
I’m kinda partial to Oh-Oh-Ozempic!
And another with the the two-time classic Dancing In The Moonlight for some kinda eye-treatment.
.....
I'm partial to the Jardiance jig:
I've got type 2 diabetes but I manage it well
It's a little pill with a big story to tell
*fat people dancing around*
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (v0R5T)
That emergency wouldn't be happening in somebody's pants, would it?
Posted by: Cpt. Malcolm Reynolds at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (gKWVE)
Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on AF1 right now. Press access has been removed.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05
I am praying for him. What his family just did to him is crap and probably pushed him beyond his capabilities. It’s disgusting.
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (6ydKt)
So now blow torches can't ignite gasoline all over the floor but cigarettes can?
Posted by: Reforger at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (63Dwl)
Biden: I'm gonna come in the overflow room!
Julio Rosas
@Julio_Rosas11
An update to a classic format:
Video: https://x.com/i/status/1809334453379936646
2:12 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (9aVck)
Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on AF1 right now. Press access has been removed.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
It had to happen now.... sigh...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (JhIYV)
If Kamala was really dangerous, she would already have the Cabinet in line to dump Biden with the 25th Amendment.
Good thing action plans don't fit on Venn diagrams.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 07:54 PM (u82oZ)
I hope he shits himself and collapses with blood squirting from his eyes and expires before he can sign any pardons.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 05, 2024 07:54 PM (YRsIm)
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 07:54 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: The Beast of Chappaqua at July 05, 2024 07:54 PM (6gW4D)
No one wants that.
Posted by: Jamaica at July 05, 2024 07:54 PM (GfN2c)
@LauraLoomer
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11m
Joe Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on Air Force One right now.
Press access has been removed
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:54 PM (LkLld)
Watch Ricard Pryor's monkey skit.
Posted by: Reforger at July 05, 2024 07:49 PM (xcIvR)
Maybe, but I’m pretty sure I could handle myself better than the guy who set himself on fire after a heavy base cocaine session,
And I like me some Pryor, but I can see how that monkey got the better of him.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 07:54 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:55 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2024 07:55 PM (xpCR0)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (5p7BC)
It's a Boeing. Was he sitting near the window?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 07:55 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 05, 2024 07:55 PM (GfN2c)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05
I am praying for him. What his family just did to him is crap and probably pushed him beyond his capabilities. It’s disgusting.
It's Joe Biden. He deserves everything he gets.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 07:55 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (u82oZ)
But you know in the back of the mind is the thought, "If I go too far, I'm going to prison for murdering the President"
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (OX9vb)
How conveeeeeenient.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Piper
You're a lot more forgiving than I am. The man has always been a disgusting jerk. Can't feel much sympathy.
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (oaGWv)
@LauraLoomer
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11m
Joe Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on Air Force One right now.
Press access has been removed
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:54 PM (LkLld)
Bad gas. Probably shit himself without a diaper on.
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (pgG81)
Joe Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on Air Force One right now.
Press access has been removed
Posted by: JackStraw
........
ooh eee ooh ah ah
ting tang
Kamalama ding dong
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 07:57 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (5p7BC)
This, too, is the story of Michael Jackson's personal doctor.
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 07:57 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 05, 2024 07:58 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
I'm with you there. Mine is used to 24-7 access to mommy pampering. No sharing.
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 07:58 PM (oaGWv)
@AWeissmann_
Co-host of @MSNBC podcast "Prosecuting Donald Trump;” author of 2 NYT bestsellers "The Trump Indictments" and "Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation”
Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻
@AWeissmann_
If Biden withdraws, how about a ticket of Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney to show this election is about our democracy? Country over party.
7:04 PM · Jul 4, 2024
Replying to @AWeissmann_
LouiseMensch
@LouiseMensch
God yes please
6:40 AM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 07:58 PM (9aVck)
She will have to steal re-entry parachutes from NASA.
Elon Musk would just blast her with super hot exhaust from 2-3 Raptor engines. I'm actually OK with that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 07:58 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (oaGWv)
......
A vile, corrupt creature, to be sure.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 07:58 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:58 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (u82oZ)
Well she did get be a vodka/olives...and a bar of soap.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:58 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: weft cut-loop"
Putin got him!
Posted by: fd at July 05, 2024 07:58 PM (vFG9F)
Yes; Having dealt with seniors whose family make financial or personal sacrifices to care for loved ones at home, I find it elder abuse to have him pretending to be President for their own personal power and money when they have money for the best of care.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 07:58 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: screaming in digital
Corinthian Leather!
The whole hide.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 07:59 PM (JhIYV)
For how many deaths are they responsible? How many noble people have they slimed? Nope, not an iota of sympathy.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 07:59 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 05, 2024 07:59 PM (YRsIm)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (5p7BC)
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Once the doc is no longer useful, probably will be Epsteined anyway so he can't talk.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 07:59 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 07:57 PM (p4NUW)
I've been saying forever Biden needs to be enjoying retirement bouncing great grandbabies on his knee.
Kamala needs to be bouncing...uh...I'll stop there.
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 07:59 PM (1Yy3c)
......
Bring out yer dead. Bring out yer dead.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Reforger at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (xcIvR)
Movie logic/magic.
Mmmmm. Ratburgers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (5p7BC)
Squad 51, use Ringers Lactate with D5W and transport to Rampart asap!
Dixie! Get into your nurse's uniform stat! We have incoming!
Posted by: Dr. Joe Early at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (GPtBB)
He can always walk away.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (LkLld)
Joe Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on Air Force One right now.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 05, 2024 07:51 PM (IG4Id)
Are THEY going to kill him themselves?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (OX9vb)
Proof you are a better person than I.
I want pain, a return of all stolen goods and money, then more pain, followed by using them to feed the sharks.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (u82oZ)
It always lifts my spirits to see Cardinals.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (oUxZc)
ting tang
Kamalama ding dong
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 07:56 PM (v0R5T)
Snort!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 08:01 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:01 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
That is not going to taste good.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 08:01 PM (JhIYV)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:01 PM (fwDg9)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/mexico/ article-13604823/ witch-killed-child-sacrifice-satan-worship-texas-border.html
Before Maria Guadalupe R.M., 33, tried to kidnap the child, she had made it known to her nephew, also the father of the child, that she believed a dead family member had been reincarnated as his son, reported local newspaper Norte Digital.
Sunday, she broke into her relatives' Ciudad Juarez home as her nephew slept with his wife and son and tried to take the child by force.
The nephew, identified as Carlos Gabriel C.R., 23, fought back with a baseball bat and killed her.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 05, 2024 08:01 PM (gKWVE)
Biden: I'm gonna come in the overflow room!
(Ejaculates wildly)
Overflow.
Beautiful. Also mutated.
Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 08:01 PM (P+D4R)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 08:01 PM (JhIYV)
Lol.
*foams at the mouth*
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:02 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 05, 2024 08:02 PM (ZtgZZ)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:02 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:02 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Jamaica at July 05, 2024 08:02 PM (GfN2c)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (fwDg9)
If we JUST TRY communism here, IT WILL WORK!!!
Posted by: Communists and their apologists at July 05, 2024 08:02 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 05, 2024 08:02 PM (4Mu9T)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (5p7BC)
Squad 51, use Ringers Lactate with D5W and transport to Rampart asap!
Dixie! Get into your nurse's uniform stat! We have incoming!
Posted by: Dr. Joe Early at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (6gW4D)
Could be lupus.
Posted by: Doogie Howser, M.D. at July 05, 2024 08:03 PM (v0R5T)
Corinthian Leather!
The whole hide.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
The Corinthians were hunted to extinction.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 08:03 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (5p7BC)
Has Harris been alone with him?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:03 PM (GPtBB)
Three possibilities come to mind:
1) It real due to the stress of all the drugs
2) It is the cover they came up with to allow him to withdraw and save face
3) They realized that they can't get Kamala on the ballot in WI unless he dies
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 08:03 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:03 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Miklos Duke at July 05, 2024 08:03 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 08:03 PM (qZEuM)
No one wants that.
Posted by: Jamaica at July 05, 2024 07:54 PM
What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Kamala "Comma-la" Harris at July 05, 2024 08:03 PM (/nIbP)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (5p7BC)
Please tell me Dr. Rumack is aboard AF1. Lie to me if you must.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 08:04 PM (6gW4D)
Nate Silver's model still has Hillary at a 93% chance to win in 2016.
/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS
============
lol
I'll never forget that night. I was at my grandmother's place and she couldn't stand to watch; she was too nervous. I kept checking the NY Times predict-o-graph and watched in awe as it flipped from 95% Hillary to Trump like sand slipping through an hourglass.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:04 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 08:04 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:04 PM (u82oZ)
And as I've noted before he's at his most lucid when threatening and denouncing normal Americans.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 08:04 PM (iZbyp)
I've got type 2 diabetes but I manage it well
It's a little pill with a big story to tell
*fat people dancing around*
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (v0R5T)
This one makes me want to shoot the tv.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 05, 2024 08:05 PM (OX9vb)
Stuffy reading people's accounts Sundowner is not same as before
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:05 PM (fwDg9)
So DOCTOR Jill, cremation or do you have a burial plot?
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:05 PM (v0R5T)
He's screwed.
Posted by: Ron Brown at July 05, 2024 08:05 PM (qZEuM)
"Well shit, i guess we'll slog through this fake interview and cobble together some footage out of it as best we can and everything will be fi---"
*croaks on AF1*
"Uhhhhhh... hooray?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:06 PM (BAEGB)
Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on AF1 right now. Press access has been removed.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
Who from MSNBC is pushing him out of the plane?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 05, 2024 08:06 PM (wh7vU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 05, 2024 08:06 PM (pgG81)
And as I've noted before he's at his most lucid when threatening and denouncing normal Americans.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 08:04 PM (iZbyp)
Kinda like being drunk. Maybe the dementia is granting us a glimpse into his true self.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:06 PM (8sMut)
I just saw a clip from the interview and the continuity error in the editing was so bad you can see the scissors. George S asking a comatose Joe about the "cold" that sank him in the debate, cut away from Joe momentarily to George, and when the camera goes back to Joe his posture, expression, and coloring are all different.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:06 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 08:04 PM (iZbyp)
This. He is a sick hateful criminal pervert, and I have zero empathy for him.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:07 PM (GPtBB)
'Lily the 4-1/2 year-old corgi just at ate a couple day-old goose turds off the lawn.'
You'd never see a cat do this.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 05, 2024 08:07 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:07 PM (fwDg9)
L. Ron Hubbard is on the plane with Zhao Bai-Den. All is well.
Return to your toil.
Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 08:07 PM (P+D4R)
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I just received a tip from an anonymous source. My source says that Joe Biden is currently experiencing a medical emergency on Air Force One as I type this. No further details are known.
4:21 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:07 PM (9aVck)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 08:07 PM (5fDan)
*in the voice of the leader of the big shapeshifting alien mercenaries in "Fifth Element"*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 08:07 PM (MKEsG)
That way I don't sunburn while I wait in line to piss on the grave.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:07 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 07:53 PM (v0R5T)
———————
If you would do a little more of that you WOULDN’T NEED THE LITTLE PILL.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (BAEGB)
Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on AF1 right now. Press access has been removed.
_________
Garland preparing murder indictment against Teump.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (fwDg9)
There's probably 3-4 pairs in the crepe Myrtle trees between our yard and the neighbors. They usually show up in the evenings with their youngsters. We have quite a few blue jays and a lot of wrens and titmouses too. Even some chickadees.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (YRsIm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (5p7BC)
Squad 51, use Ringers Lactate with D5W and transport to Rampart asap!
Dixie! Get into your nurse's uniform stat! We have incoming!
Posted by: Dr. Joe Early at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (6gW4D)
Could be lupus.
Posted by: Doogie Howser, M.D. at July 05, 2024 08:03 PM (v0R5T)
That's not how it works; that's not how any of this works!
Posted by: Marcus Welby, M.D. at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (6gW4D)
Crucify him!
~D.Underground
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (JhIYV)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:09 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 08:09 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:09 PM (v0R5T)
I just received a tip from an anonymous source. My source says that Joe Biden is currently experiencing a medical emergency on Air Force One as I type this. No further details are known.
4:21 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:07 PM (9aVck)
Anonymous sources say! DRINK!!!
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 08:09 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 08:09 PM (1Nxff)
If Biden withdraws, how about a ticket of Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney to show this election is about our democracy? Country over party.
LOL! These f'ing people are amazing!! Sure, WTH.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 05, 2024 08:09 PM (wh7vU)
Posted by: wth
I lot of the Dancing Covid Nurses seemed a bit overweight.
Posted by: Miklos uses the Walmart Body Mass Index at July 05, 2024 08:10 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: JQ at July 05, 2024 08:10 PM (njWTi)
He was an adamant “No.”
So now they made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Alternatively, the man has worn himself out since the D-Day & G7 trip, and the stress has finally gotten to him.
You can see in the clip of the Stephanopulous interview going around that the man is still slurring his words like he drank a pint.
Biden is not well, and a lot of people are saying his symptoms are indicating Parkinson’s disease.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 08:10 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:04 PM (lCaJd)
That night was my first night in the Canyon. I rented one of the Cow Camp Cabins at the bottom of Palo Duro and killed all communications. My apps could not light up with updates. I could not look up anything if I wanted to. I wanted to lose myself in the Canyon and politely tell the world to fuck off as I explored it, and continued to the next morning.
When did I find out about what happened? When I turned on the radio at 1105 or so the next day and started listening to Limbaugh. And I freaked. "This is how you run a campaign!" or words to that effect. Trump WON??????
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:10 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:10 PM (BAEGB)
Probably not. L Ron Hubbard died in 1986 so unless it's some sort of version of the Flying Dutchman except for dead people and a plane , the plane does not contain him
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 08:10 PM (oUxZc)
Because yeah, thats it.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:10 PM (GPtBB)
It it were, Terry Bradshaw would still be the starting QB for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 08:10 PM (5fDan)
@CassandraRules
I don't see anything about a medical emergency from the white house press pool. They called a lid about 7 min ago
5:07 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (9aVck)
Posted by: although fuck it, we may read about it tomorrow at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Anticipatory Miklos at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (u73oe)
......
maybe cut back on the cheeseburgers too.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM (YRsIm)
Damn, I miss crepe myrtles. Very fragrant.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (fwDg9)
4000 years ago a Chinese junk floundered on a beach at the top of the North Island New Zealand. It's still there buried in the sand. Europeans arrived in NZ at least 2000 years ago. 1300 years before the documented arrival of moari.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:12 PM (m62GY)
Posted by: Death at July 05, 2024 08:12 PM (u73oe)
I don't see anything about a medical emergency from the white house press pool. They called a lid about 7 min ago
.......
coffins have lids
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:12 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 08:12 PM (1Nxff)
Dixie! Get into your nurse's uniform stat! We have incoming!
Posted by: Dr. Joe Early at July 05, 2024 08:00 PM (6gW4D)
Could be lupus.
Posted by: Doogie Howser, M.D. at July 05, 2024 08:03 PM (v0R5T)
That's not how it works; that's not how any of this works!
Posted by: Marcus Welby, M.D. at July 05, 2024 08:08 PM
Remain calm! We've yet to hear from Dr. Kildare, Gregory House, or Leonard McCoy.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 08:13 PM (/nIbP)
The fallacy is believing his past performance was anything but a dismal failure. He is getting crushed on every single issue voters say is important to them. He has zero goodwill built up other that the far left of the bell curve.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:13 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 05, 2024 08:13 PM (UcAQV)
Posted by: Death at July 05, 2024 08:12 PM (u73oe)
Well the emergency contact on all their phones dials straight to Industrial Light And Magic, so....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:14 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:14 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip
Here's unedited footage from the interview
youtu.be/hQ4n3_m-wCc
Posted by: gKWVE at July 05, 2024 08:14 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 08:14 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: NZFrank
You were invaded!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 08:14 PM (JhIYV)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (LkLld)
----
I'd say for those who want to destroy America, he's done a pretty bang up job.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 08:14 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: From about that Time at July 05, 2024 08:15 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Tinkerbull at July 05, 2024 08:15 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:15 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: nurse ratched
......
I wish you were attending on AF1 right now.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:15 PM (v0R5T)
Awfully bad planning for an old fuck in his condition.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 05, 2024 08:15 PM (ZtgZZ)
Good to see you posting.
The Chinese Admiral was a eunuch. He needed young, fertile women to colonize. He failed.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:15 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Reforger at July 05, 2024 08:15 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 08:16 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:16 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (LkLld)
Obama believes that too
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 05, 2024 08:16 PM (UcAQV)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 08:16 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 08:16 PM (p4NUW)
That's How You Know It's Working
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:17 PM (BAEGB)
It's on right now.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Not on ABC live website
Posted by: Anticipatory Miklos
It's on my TV. Cable and over the air ABC.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 08:17 PM (63Dwl)
Thread winner...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 05, 2024 08:17 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:17 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 08:17 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 05, 2024 08:17 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
.......
Start heating up the iron!
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:17 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Dr Kevorkian at July 05, 2024 08:18 PM (iWSaD)
Posted by: nurse ratched
......
I wish you were attending on AF1 right now.
Posted by: wth
https://tinyurl.com/3w2hkkv2
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 08:18 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: Joe 'I'm not dead yet' Biden at July 05, 2024 08:18 PM (wh7vU)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
I have a feeling they are already signed and stuck in the Oval Office safe.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 05, 2024 08:18 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (LkLld)
----————-
No one ever tells him bad news.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 05, 2024 08:18 PM (u73oe)
What is it they like to say? Oh yeah, I remember now...
"I question the timing!"
Posted by: davidt at July 05, 2024 08:18 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:19 PM (v0R5T)
They've *finally* gotten Joey's animatronic replica perfected.
Posted by: JQ at July 05, 2024 08:19 PM (njWTi)
Posted by: nurse ratched
......
Every time I think I cant love you enough.....
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:19 PM (GPtBB)
Keeps Biden in the race.
Give no one confidence that he is qualified.
Trump's team is probably popping corks right now.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 08:19 PM (5p7BC)
*forty year old dude in aviators and dyed grey hair steps out*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:19 PM (BAEGB)
4000 years ago a Chinese junk floundered on a beach at the top of the North Island New Zealand. It's still there buried in the sand. Europeans arrived in NZ at least 2000 years ago. 1300 years before the documented arrival of moari.
———
Interesting. I had not heard of that before.
I’ve seen a few things about the Chinese possibly making to America, but not NZ.
And Europeans in NZ before the Moari?
Never heard that either.
You got any links to read more?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 08:19 PM (6ydKt)
I knew at some point St. JMB would prevail, and you get over that little Lee-Enfield infatuation.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 08:20 PM (/nIbP)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 08:20 PM (6gW4D)
Thread winner...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 05, 2024 08:17 PM (XMwZJ)
SECOND!!!
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:20 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:20 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 08:21 PM (5p7BC)
@CassandraRules
I don't see anything about a medical emergency from the white house press pool. They called a lid about 7 min ago
5:07 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:11 PM (9aVck)
Oh, it was just a bedtime tantrum. Ok then.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:21 PM (llON8)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:21 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: JQ at July 05, 2024 08:19 PM (njWTi)
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I'm reading Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series right now. It features Victor creating an army out of his New Race, replacing key political figures with doppelgangers. Unfortunately, they tend to glitch out after a while....Then go on a murderous rampage.
Imagine that happening on AF1 right now....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2024 08:21 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:50 PM (5p7BC)
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Biden Didn't Kill Himself.
"Yenshee Baby" FTW! [h/t ZOD]
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at July 05, 2024 08:21 PM (qCacp)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July
We were invaded!!
Glad to hear someone else has read some books on the subject.
Unfortunately we are very very slowly realizing that we are going to have to deal with them again. The fucks. We fought them in 1950 and they never signed a peace treaty. Technically we may be still in a police action.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (m62GY)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 08:20 PM (/nIbP)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THOSE ARE MY ACTUAL INITIALS
....
WAIT, SHIT, IF I USE THE BEN ROETHLISBERGER SOCK NOW THIS WON'T MAKE ANY SENSE
....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (5fDan)
@rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: There is no medical emergency on Air Force One, despite numerous reports claiming otherwise. As President Joe Biden landed back in Delaware around 7:30 this evening and is now at home in Wilmington
5:20 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (9aVck)
Posted by: Oliver Stone at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:23 PM (u82oZ)
When did I find out about what happened? When I turned on the radio at 1105 or so the next day and started listening to Limbaugh. And I freaked. "This is how you run a campaign!" or words to that effect. Trump WON??????
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
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There could be a whole Where Were You When You Found Out Trump Won? cultural motif. Another thing, we finally fell asleep (I passed out on the couch with the tv on) and I woke up all woozy in the early early AM. Television still playing. I flipped to MSNBC and saw Rachel Maddow's horrified face. It was then that I found out we also had the House and Senate.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:23 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:23 PM (u82oZ)
Technically we may be still in a police action.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (m62GY)
__________
Correct. We have an armistice right now.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 08:23 PM (1Nxff)
@rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: There is no medical emergency on Air Force One, despite numerous reports claiming otherwise. As President Joe Biden landed back in Delaware around 7:30 this evening and is now at home in Wilmington
5:20 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (9aVck)
=====
Bummer
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 08:23 PM (bR4Tq)
That's because they've been told by the DNC to get rid of the guy. The fact that they'll pretend this shows they really are objective is just gravy.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:24 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
Cleanup is a bitch.
Posted by: DOCTOR Jill at July 05, 2024 08:24 PM (v0R5T)
Imagine that happening on AF1 right now....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2024 08:21 PM (BpYfr)
Check out Dale Brown's "Day of the Cheetah".
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:24 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:24 PM (fwDg9)
5:20 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (9aVck)
Well that seals it.
Fucker must have croaked halfway through The Interview.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:24 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (m62GY)
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Remain calm.
All is well!
Posted by: JQ at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (njWTi)
I'm working out how they are going to blame this on Trump.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (rHxhM)
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It was just a Code Brown.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (Jh5b+)
Thread winner...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 05, 2024 08:17 PM (XMwZJ)
SECOND!!!
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:20 PM (GPtBB)
Thirded.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (llON8)
Where are you privileged people watching it? I've got ABC News on an illegal internet site and Viva Frei's watch party on Rumble and it's not on yet.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (lCaJd)
5:20 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (9aVck)
——————
Fuck
Posted by: Kamala at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (u73oe)
5:20 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe
.......
The medical emergency is now in Wilmington.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (v0R5T)
Technically we may be still in a police action.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (m62GY)
__________
Correct. We have an armistice right now.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 08:23 PM (1Nxff)
This doesn't surprise me as much as, well, I was stationed in Korea once upon a time. Indeed, only an armistice is in place. That's a major reason why there is a DMZ across the pen.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:26 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Deep State at July 05, 2024 08:26 PM (njWTi)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Looks like they cut halfway through too change his diapers.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:26 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2024 08:26 PM (iWSaD)
Fucker must have croaked halfway through The Interview.
Well, we always wanted to see who is his body double. They have a few days to finish up the cosmetic surgery.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM (p4NUW)
==
I'm working out how they are going to blame this on Trump.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (rHxhM)
If Biden has a medical emergency, you may infer a conspiracy between OrangeManBad and Poo Tin.
Posted by: Judge Merchan, I am da law at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM (llON8)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM (q7hip)
5:20 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (9aVck)
I mean, it's not a medical emergency if he's already posthumous and on the way to being humus.
And the plane had to land eventually.
...
I don't really give a shit either way, really, i just want to ostentatiously display my disrespect for the fucking pervert and my lack of concern for his continued existence.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM (BAEGB)
The medical emergency is now in Wilmington.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (v0R5T)
__________
Please tell me they tossed him into the limo like a sack of manure.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM (5fDan)
He's totally fine tonight, too. False alarm.
Who put out the rumor he was playing another episode of double vision anyway? They could do this every day.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM (XDSQR)
5:20 PM · Jul 5, 2024
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (9aVck)
He's dead.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM (m62GY)
Posted by: Dr. Herbert West at July 05, 2024 08:28 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 08:28 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Laura Branigan at July 05, 2024 08:28 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2024 08:28 PM (iWSaD)
240
When did I find out about what happened? When I turned on the radio at 1105 or so the next day and started listening to Limbaugh. And I freaked. "This is how you run a campaign!" or words to that effect. Trump WON??????
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
==============
There could be a whole Where Were You When You Found Out Trump Won? cultural motif. Another thing, we finally fell asleep (I passed out on the couch with the tv on) and I woke up all woozy in the early early AM. Television still playing. I flipped to MSNBC and saw Rachel Maddow's horrified face. It was then that I found out we also had the House and Senate.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:23 PM (lCaJd
Wasn’t it great? And I left Corsicana thinking Hellary would steal it.
Posted by: Eromero at July 05, 2024 08:28 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:28 PM (fwDg9)
Ah, so the non-cord-cutters are having their moment.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:28 PM (lCaJd)
In other news, they characterized the landing of the Hindenburg as "rad, man", and "nailed it".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: U.S. Media at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (bR4Tq)
Posted by: Laura Branigan at July 05, 2024 08:28 PM (8sMut)
You make me lose my self control.
Posted by: Branigan at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (ufFY8)
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In other news, they characterized the landing of the Hindenburg as "rad, man", and "nailed it".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (xCA6C)
Won't PAC Down!
Posted by: ABC at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 05, 2024 08:30 PM (c4+La)
I bought a 1943 BSA Co. Mk III SMLE just a few months ago; and AOP got a 1907 bayonet to me for it he'd picked up a while ago.
Once Weasel's katana epic is done, I'll be sending him some photos of my new items.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 08:30 PM (Jh5b+)
On a golf vacation with the missus, a couple's tournament. The morning after, there was a big group of obviously distraught lefties at one table. Missus and I sat at another, reading the room. In comes a couple we'd never met before, but the smiles on the faces told us they were MAGA. We motioned them over, and had the best breakfast ever.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 05, 2024 08:30 PM (XMwZJ)
But immediately lost both once McConnell and Ryan were made "leaders" of the Stupid Party.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 08:30 PM (rHxhM)
OUR TOP STORY:
Biden Not Dead
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (/
Poke him.
To be sure.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:30 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:23 PM (lCaJd)
The thing I remember the most is how CNN (and the other networks) refused to call some big states like Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio until they had no other choice. It had me seething.
Four years later they were calling Arizona by 10 eastern.
Pricks.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 08:30 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (gKWVE)
Ah, that's what it's called now.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:30 PM (8sMut)
Well then, will Morning Joe, the NY Times Editorial Board, and Abigail Disney all reconsider?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 08:30 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Tinkerbull at July 05, 2024 08:30 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 08:31 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:31 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:31 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 08:31 PM (5fDan)
Events = "involuntary bowel movements"
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 08:31 PM (rHxhM)
Biden Not Dead
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (/
Poke him.
To be sure.
With a Bangalore Torpedo.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:31 PM (xCA6C)
On a golf vacation with the missus, a couple's tournament. The morning after, there was a big group of obviously distraught lefties at one table. Missus and I sat at another, reading the room. In comes a couple we'd never met before, but the smiles on the faces told us they were MAGA. We motioned them over, and had the best breakfast ever.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 05, 2024 08:30 PM (XMwZJ)
That phrase would mean something else entirely for most leftists...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:31 PM (llON8)
Lol
He also said he doesn't think he researched the debate.
Lol
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:32 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: U.S. Media at July 05, 2024 08:32 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 05, 2024 08:32 PM (c4+La)
Oh, and don't forget to sign in.
Posted by: John McCain at July 05, 2024 08:32 PM (BAEGB)
OUR TOP STORY:
Biden Not Dead
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:29 PM (/
Poke him.
To be sure.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
......
with a cattle prod
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:32 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Obseravational Miklos at July 05, 2024 08:32 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:32 PM (GPtBB)
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right here, following along in real time Election Night
I couldn't believe it
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:33 PM (/7KEl)
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Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 08:33 PM (Jh5b+)
Lol
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:32 PM (ufFY
Well he only had a week to prep, and most of that was spent going over "standing upright".
Cut the guy some slack.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:33 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:33 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Eromero at July 05, 2024 08:28 PM (LHPAg)
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I went to bed 100% convinced they were going to suddenly find enough ballots to drag her over the finish line. Got up the next morning and husband just said, "he won."
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 08:33 PM (bR4Tq)
Biden sure likes to show his dentures
Same dentist as AOC?
Posted by: Obseravational Miklos at July 05, 2024 08:32 PM (XIkHl)
My teeth are real!
...except for the ones that got knocked out when I was murdered 78 times on January 6th.
Posted by: Alexandria Occasional-Cortex at July 05, 2024 08:33 PM (llON8)
The job that requires top performance and clear, critical thinking is being done by the guy who was sidelined for a week with a cold and couldn't wake up enough to answer scripted replies to softball questions.
If he can't do an interview, how the FUCK is he running the country?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:34 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 05, 2024 08:34 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 05, 2024 08:34 PM (c4+La)
Maybe the interviewer and staff applied that stuff under their noses used when investigating "discovered decaying corpse" sites so that they can mask the old man stool smell.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 08:34 PM (rHxhM)
My teeth are real!
...except for the ones that got knocked out when I was murdered 78 times on January 6th.
By Beau.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:34 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:34 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 08:34 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:34 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:34 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 08:35 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:35 PM (llON8)
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Like this?
"Hey, Joe. G'mornin'. What's your name?"
Posted by: JQ at July 05, 2024 08:35 PM (njWTi)
Cut the guy some slack.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:33 PM (BAEGB)
Stupid autocorrect.
I meant "rewatched", not "researched".
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 05, 2024 08:35 PM (ufFY8)
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Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+)
.......
Is that the radio message he picks up on the steel plates in his head?
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 08:35 PM (v0R5T)
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Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 08:33 PM (Jh5b+)
You read my mind.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:35 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 05, 2024 08:34 PM (c4+La)
Ok Joe. Put the toothpaste on the brush now.
Good job!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (q7hip)
President Joe Biden suggested that only God would get him to exit the 2024 presidential race.
'If the Lord almighty comes down I might do that,' he told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos when asked what it might take for him to step down.
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (fwDg9)
He definitely knows where the bodies are buried..
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! /George Carlins Pencil at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (7NPdn)
Thread winner...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 05, 2024 08:17 PM (XMwZJ)
SECOND!!!
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:20 PM (GPtBB)
Thirded.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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An AOS instant classic. Well done, screaming in digital.
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (wh7vU)
Posted by: Kamala at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (SYTee)
The world laughs and mocks your televised dumbassery as one, while you die unloved and unmissed on a luxury jet that isn't yours and never was.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Tinkerbull at July 05, 2024 08:30 PM (vFG9F)
That's... that's nitpicking, isn't it?
Posted by: KJP, Press Whore at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Jen the original a
So do I but I remember to flush.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (ufFY8)
The Dems are imploding.
*gets popcorn*
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:32 PM (GPtBB)
On the bright side, how many times in our lives will we see a presidential race where the CIA could easily be expected to kill any one of the three leading candidates.
Usually they just have one or none.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (H03ba)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (c4+La)
Posted by: Don Black
So then, it's logical to assume that our enemies will wait until Biden has a bad cold to attack us.
Unless of course those that we Morons consider enemies are in fact, supported and financed by the Junta.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (WXNFJ)
ChatGPT:
Decoded Text: “DIGITAL READY? SAVE AMERICA!”
The decoded message suggests a sense of urgency and patriotism. If you have any more messages to decode or need further assistance, feel free to ask! 🇺🇸
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Garrett Morris, New York School for the Hard of Hearing at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (Jh5b+)
- Biden at his next TelePromper reading event
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (/7KEl)
Get my Lord's Name out yo mother fucking mouf.
*pimpslap*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 05, 2024 08:38 PM (yVm7M)
Mann tracht, un Gott lacht
Posted by: gKWVE at July 05, 2024 08:38 PM (gKWVE)
DO YOU WANNA DIE?????????????????????
THE WAVES OF BLOOD ARE RUSHING NEAR, POUNDING AT THE WALLS OF LIES TURNING OFF MY SANITY, REACHING BACK INTO MY MIND NON-RISING FROM THE GRAVE SHOWING NEW REALITY WHAT I AM WHAT I WANT I'M ONLY AFTER DEATH
Posted by: Slayer at July 05, 2024 08:38 PM (8sMut)
President Joe Biden suggested that only God would get him to exit the 2024 presidential race.
'If the Lord almighty comes down I might do that,' he told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos when asked what it might take for him to step down.
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (/7KEl)
something something hubris nemesis SMITE
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:38 PM (llON8)
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:38 PM (m62GY)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 05, 2024 08:38 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:38 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:38 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:39 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:39 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 05, 2024 08:34 PM (q7hip)
I’m pretty sure Biden foggily believes his entire job is to get the daily intelligence briefing, eat lunch with Kamala sometimes, go to the occasional event for a few hours and at least once or twice a week read off whatever his staff dreamed up on notecards or a teleprompter to some people somewhere.
Kinda like Obama’s schedule actually, only his was a little more energetic and coherent.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 08:39 PM (6ydKt)
BIDEN STLL ALIVE
Posted by: Garrett Morris, New York School for the Hard of Hearing at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (Jh5b+)
Not heading to our party I guess.
Posted by: Oingo Boingo at July 05, 2024 08:40 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:40 PM (ufFY8)
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Get my Lord's Name out yo mother fucking mouf.
*pimpslap*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (BAEGB)
See? Another excellent newsletter provider here at AoS.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 08:40 PM (llON8)
But only with a suspended piano.
https://tinyurl.com/bd88k6ce
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 08:40 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 08:40 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: Vlad Putin at July 05, 2024 08:41 PM (u73oe)
Please tell me they tossed him into the limo like a sack of manure.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM (1Nxff)
It's worked before.
--Hillary
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 05, 2024 08:41 PM (UcAQV)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 08:37 PM (H03ba)
I cant wait to hear the (Epstein) propoganda.
"He slipped on a bar if soap and hit his head on the toilet, and his brains fell out".
'He was cutting vegetables, slipped on a banana peel and fell on the knife...25 times."
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:41 PM (GPtBB)
Careful what you wish for, Choo Choo.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: JoKe Biden at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (m62GY)
T-55s won't get far. Russia is not the threat. China is.
But I'd loan Taiwan about 5 nukes, to keep the peace.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:42 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Don Black
Oh, HE gets a pass for a bad cold, does he??? FFS!!@!
Posted by: Rick Perry at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (41CYW)
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Thanks yall
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (iZbyp)
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM
And salutations to you, sir!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (/nIbP)
It's best he is around until the convention
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (fwDg9)
"He slipped on a bar if soap and hit his head on the toilet, and his brains fell out".
'He was cutting vegetables, slipped on a banana peel and fell on the knife...25 times."
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 08:41 PM (GPtBB)
It happens. My husband forked himself to death in an epileptic seizure. Honest!
Posted by: Catherine the Great at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (8sMut)
I’ll check it out. I dig this kinda stuff. Thanks.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 05, 2024 08:44 PM (c4+La)
Posted by: Gref, channeling Hunter S. Thompson at July 05, 2024 08:45 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 08:45 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Professor Neil E. Peart, world renowned Canadian poet and percussionist (1952-2020) at July 05, 2024 08:46 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2
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I hope so although the ammo for it is pretty dear!
And I like that it looks right for both World Wars although I don't intend doing any military reenacting with it.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 08:46 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 08:46 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Catherine the Great at July 05, 2024 08:43 PM (8sMut)
Wow.
Terrible way to go.
I’m sorry.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 08:36 PM (/7KEl)
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God doesn't like being mocked.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 05, 2024 08:44 PM (c4+La)
TRUMP SAID "PUSSY"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: U.S. Media at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2024 08:47 PM (BpYfr)
Because that is insolence, which is a very serious offense.
Posted by: His Majesty The Shahinshah at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:27 PM
I'm at a loss to interpret this, other then perhaps you are not 100% aligned with the observation that Lt. General George S. Patton (who is arguably far more authoritative than that wanker Monty) wrote, to wit: “In my opinion, the M-1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised.”
Is that a fair summation?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (/nIbP)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 05, 2024 08:49 PM (c4+La)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 08:49 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 05, 2024 08:50 PM (8sMut)
Is that a fair summation?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 08:48 PM (/nIbP)
Hey! Market Garden was MY idea!!!
Posted by: Monty at July 05, 2024 08:51 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 08:52 PM (cOq4q)
His breathing was very labored.
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 08:54 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Monty at July 05, 2024 08:51 PM (8sMut)
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You do know that it's just been revealed that a Communist faggot fuck in the Brit government [not Philby but a different one] told the fucking Germans the plan 48 hours in advance because Stalin was afraid that if it was too successful, that he wouldn't be able to take over Eastern Europe, don't you?
Posted by: Kasserine Pass at July 05, 2024 08:55 PM (Jh5b+)
*feels less like an idiot now*
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 08:59 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 05, 2024 09:05 PM (v6JzV)
'May I be of some assistance?
Posted by: Dr. Herbert West'
Ha! I was just thinking of you when I was wondering what dangerous stimulants were left for FJB to get through the 2nd debate.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 05, 2024 09:34 PM (3wi/L)
Sea Cruise Open Thread
Octopus going stealth mode pic.twitter.com/HTFwkUWJGP
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 22, 2024
Crazy to think this is how humans explored the world for thousands of years pic.twitter.com/nD9GFYLMsR
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 20, 2024
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 06:35 PM (JhIYV)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 06:35 PM (JhIYV)
A little green paint and sheis ready for the role, no amendments or CGI needed.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (Jh5b+)
status/1808873456592900114
oooh wee
oooh wee baby
Let take you on sea cruise
Make them swim home
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (ENQN6)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (JhIYV)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (IyPmt)
(spaces, video at link)
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/
status/1809352253473714567
Posted by: Ann at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (4neFu)
status/1808873456592900114
oooh wee
oooh wee baby
Let take you on sea cruise
Make them swim home
Posted by: rhennigantx
I didn't know Amish even did cruises.
Posted by: Miklos admits surprise at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (XIkHl)
If Kamala were to become POTUS, “Head of State” would have new meaning.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 16h
Her new campaign theme will be "Slightly better than a braindead guy"
LOL:
Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur Jul 4
What’s the point of forcing out Biden, if we’re going to go with Kamala? Winning is so much more important than one person’s feelings.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 16h
Diversity is more important than winning.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2024 06:39 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 06:39 PM (BAEGB)
waymo's non existent driver rolling down the window when pulled over by Phoenix PD is wild 😭
https://tinyurl.com/3dw528tb
48 seconds; self-driving car BTW
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:39 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Miklos admits surprise at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (XIkHl)
Coal fire steam sail
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:40 PM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (/nIbP)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (MeG8a)
I have had to comfort many a cabin boy at the rails.
Posted by: Capn Ned (Raging Queen) at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (ENQN6)
Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2024 06:42 PM (fV+MH)
And yeah, it's crazy that humans sailed the oceans for thousands of years in very primitive boats by modern standards.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2024 06:42 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 05, 2024 06:42 PM (Z8Yh2)
I don't understand what exactly needs to happen here, and nobody else does either is what it looks like. Presidential succession is kind of interesting.
I think Bill Harrison should automatically get the nod for "Best President", because he died before taking office. April to May, 1840
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 06:43 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: Ciampino - Yes Inspecteur, it was the Vice President at July 05, 2024 06:43 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 06:43 PM (/nIbP)
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My dad threw up in a North Atlantic storm in the crow's-nest of his Algerine Class minesweeper -- unfortunately, into the wind.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:44 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 05, 2024 06:42 PM (Z8Yh2)
I would want a jap bath and bj for that much yen.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:44 PM (ENQN6)
Posted by: catman at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (4HMlb)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (Z8Yh2)
President Biden told Democratic governors that he plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. so he can get more sleep, sources say cnn.it/3VTs3TB
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
He’s a better president when he is asleep.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
Maybe Stalin only had a stutter and a cold too. Apparently, the side effects are impossible to predict.
Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar 8h
“Longtime friends of the Biden family, who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, were shocked to find that the president did not remember their names. At a White House event last year, a guest recalled, with horror, realizing that the president would not be able to stay for the reception because, it was clear, he would not be able to make it through the reception.”
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
It’s funnier if you say, “It’s just a cold” with a heavy Monty Python accent.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (Jh5b+)
waymo's non existent driver rolling down the window when pulled over by Phoenix PD is wild 😭
https://tinyurl.com/3dw528tb
48 seconds; self-driving car BTW
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:39 PM (Jh5b+)
Johnny Cab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (AiZBA)
I'm surprised at how fast they edited up that interview. ABC just said it'll be on at 8:30 EST.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (lCaJd)
Mistah Christian!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (1Nxff)
! Let me grab my leather, latex, lash, and....
Oh, wait. This isn't a National Review/Bulwark cruise with Cap'n Bill Kristol and Friends? Damn.
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at July 05, 2024 06:46 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 06:46 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: Katie Couric at July 05, 2024 06:46 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 06:43 PM (/nIbP)
The word around the kettle is that he was cannibal by necessity not choice. Not in the right club.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 06:47 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 05, 2024 06:47 PM (Z8Yh2)
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (ENQN6)
I only been on a ship once in a storm and was fine. Being 40 years ago n I doubt has no bearing on now
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Undercover Octopus at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (fwDg9)
Sailors of old, even landlubbers like Lewis and Clark had to make "celestial observations" that took a lot of training and practice.
This spring I found some neat benchmarks and things like that along the San Juan river goosenecks. It was actually a section marker or whatever it is called. Not for elevation. Marked 1909, it must have been an expedition in those days just to get everything surveyed accurately. Maybe they did it from the river, I suppose. Probably no roads at the time.
The Antikytheria mechanism shows that the heavens have been understood for a really long time. Not by me. If I can find the Big Dipper and the North Star, we're doing pretty well. What day is it again?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 06:49 PM (XDSQR)
Water jet propulsion, low drag cruise configuration, eight extendable variable-size drag fins, and adaptive camouflage skin!
Aliens!
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 06:49 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (fwDg9)
One gets used to it. The funny thing is that once back on land the rockin and rollin keep on going.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: catman at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (4HMlb)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (PgeR7)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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SCTV ~ SWISHBUCKLER promo, 1977
https://tinyurl.com/y3xatwdr
2:12 minutes
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (Jh5b+)
There were exceptions like lost Scandis who somehow found their ways back, but until Columbus humans stayed as close to shore as they could with few shortcuts when the know sea was fully mapped all around.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (ENQN6)
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tomorrow it'll be even older
crazy, right?
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (/7KEl)
Years ago I got together with a bunch of friends to go tuna fishing. You have to go about 40 miles offshore here to get into the pelagics and it was a windy, rough day.
We hadn't been together in a couple years so naturally we had to go out the night before which bled into the morning. Left the dock at 4 am and by 5 all of us had hurled. Our buddy who was driving from the fly bridge had a bucket between his legs so he didn't have to leave the wheel.
Only time I've been seasick but at least I was in good company.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 06:52 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (oaGWv)
There are no ropes on a boat, they're LINES! -- Pedantic Napoleon XIV
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 06:52 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (oaGWv)
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*ahem*
"Sheets." Those "ropes" are called sheets.
Posted by: Yer Good Capn at July 05, 2024 06:52 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 06:52 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 06:53 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: InZona at July 05, 2024 06:53 PM (qz1Fg)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 05, 2024 06:53 PM (PgeR7)
Spoofs
Blocks
Dead zones
And we have no plan to replace as we have to home shothole people and give them EBT.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:53 PM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Tuna
Each rope had a sailor assigned to it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 06:54 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: Epstein at July 05, 2024 06:54 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:55 PM (ENQN6)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 06:55 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (/nIbP)
I have literally years on ships on the Ocean...
And have never found the Lido Deck...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 05, 2024 06:56 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 06:56 PM (1Nxff)
Ropes are for hanging people.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 05, 2024 06:56 PM (4780s)
Some of them are stays.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 06:55 PM (LkLld)
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True. They hold up the masts.
But the lines attached to the sails are sheets.
As in, "he's three sheets to the wind."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:57 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 05, 2024 06:57 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 06:58 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:58 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 06:58 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: InZona
Did math on this 2 threads back. 2020 they had these drop boxes, and Biden was only able to win by 20K votes, after much late night (non dropbox) cheating in Milwaukee.
This year, they will need an extra 130K fake ballots.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 06:58 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (/nIbP)
I have literally years on ships on the Ocean...
And have never found the Lido Deck...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 05, 2024 06:56 PM (xaFKb)
It's where the passengers are doing the Lido Shuffle.
Posted by: Boz Scaggs at July 05, 2024 06:59 PM (6gW4D)
Sure sign of a nood.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
lol, I warned you at #232.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 06:59 PM (JhIYV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:59 PM (dDmld)
A few years back I went to a particularly bizarre overlook along the Colorado and I couldn't process it. They had very stout railings and the rest of it, I didn't even want to get near those even. Just made me disoriented looking at the view. When I was younger I was hopping around the hoodoos and crazy stuff like that.
Now I ruminate too much. "Geologically speaking, it's impossible... But this cliff edge I'm camped on could fall down into the valley below. Wouldn't that suck...."
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 07:00 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 05, 2024 07:00 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Wisconsin Supreme Court at July 05, 2024 07:00 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (oaGWv)
Intense on-the-job training by longtime seamen
Reading the 'Master and Commander' book series, most officers went to sea as midshipmen at a pretty young age, to learn navigation, command, gunnery, and sailing skills from long-time officers. Rookie seamen were initially assigned to deck and below deck drudge tasks while they were taught sailing and gunnery skills at the rate they could learn.
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 07:01 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:59 PM (dDmld)
Hey Jack. The poop deck is where it's at.
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 05, 2024 07:01 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Tuna
Heh, heh, heh. The 'ropes'(!) are attached to the sails... you can just look at them!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 07:01 PM (JhIYV)
Posted by: InZona
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It was last seen headed west, leaving a trail of cheese curds and beer through North Dakota.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 07:02 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:02 PM (LkLld)
"Sheets." Those "ropes" are called sheets.
Posted by: Yer Good Capn
Some of them are stays.
Posted by: JackStraw
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By coincidence just yesterday I watched a Doc Martin where the schoolteacher-wife had a group of kids on a sailboat getting their certification [the show is set in Cornwall] and the instructor was telling her to pull on the stays, although she didn't know how hard to pull!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7426764/
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:02 PM (Jh5b+)
An intriguing discovery!
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 07:02 PM (XDSQR)
234 I just can't see how a party can run a man who half of their own members have already said is incompetent.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 04:35
GOP ads write themselves: one Dem legislator after another saying Biden's unfit for office.
Posted by: Philip at July 05, 2024 07:03 PM (fwIBJ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:04 PM (6gW4D)
An intriguing discovery!
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 07:02 PM (XDSQR)
They could have passed a sobriety test on that boat.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 07:04 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:04 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:04 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV
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There was another recent Doc Martin where the grade school choir was singing that for Pirates Day. [It is Cornwall, after all.]
I sang along with them!
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:05 PM (Jh5b+)
Some of them are stays.
Posted by: JackStraw
belay that
Posted by: Cap'm Miklos and the One eyed Dog at July 05, 2024 07:05 PM (XIkHl)
Wisconsin is like a loo?
Posted by: Mark1971
Don't let MisHum hear/see you imply that!!!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (JhIYV)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:04 PM (6gW4D)
???
Posted by: Submarine officers and seamen at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV
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There was another recent Doc Martin where the grade school choir was singing that for Pirates Day. [It is Cornwall, after all.]
I sang along with them!
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:05 PM (Jh5b+)
It is impossible not to sing along to that tune.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Unkaren at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (2nlEB)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (/7KEl)
ones near roads are often state DOT, at least around here.
not all those who wander are lost.
but if one were, a nice benchmark and even rudimentary navigation could put one back on track.
a few years ago I bought a dozen little 1/2" diameter compasses like they used to hide inside uniform buttons, just a little needle in a housing; I have one in just about every hiking pack and jacket pocket as a layer of fallback under the just-in-case clause.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (81wK+)
YEAH! What nurse said !!!!
Uh, why this time?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (GPtBB)
And you don't mess around with Jim.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (/7KEl)
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I haven't had a clue since Obama took office.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (dDmld)
GOP ads write themselves: one Dem legislator after another saying Biden's unfit for office.
Posted by: Philip
And another set of ads showing which dim Dem says Brandon isn't a demented dimwit.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (JhIYV)
Posted by: or Denver, or most of Canada at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (gKWVE)
Just watching the movie "Master and Commander"
Now. But I'm posting because I didn't want to see one of the seamen got flogged
Great movie and great series,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (s2uvR)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM
Sadly, men only have enough blood to supply and operate one brain at at time.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 07:10 PM (/nIbP)
Posted by: nurse ratched
PORT wine is RED and if I had any I'd only have a little bit LEFT.
STARBOARD is the other side.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 07:11 PM (JhIYV)
Posted by: Submarine officers and seamen at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (5fDan)
Subs are boats. As in WWII pig boats.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:11 PM (6gW4D)
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Onboard, usually it's the chicken that gets flogged.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 07:11 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Philip at July 05, 2024 07:03 PM (fwIBJ)
Nonsense! That's Not Who We Are!
We're gonna stage a fake massacre and then run on gun rights!
And if that don't work.... Abortion!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 07:12 PM (BAEGB)
It isn't.
He is able to string sentences together, but the meaning behind them is nonsense.
I think this is the best outcome possible for us. It keeps him in the race, doesn't quell any criticism, keeps the donors on the sidelines, and the state of the race continues its slow slide in Trump's direction.
Much better for us to have them boil the frog slowly.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:12 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:13 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 05, 2024 07:13 PM (J8LnB)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 07:14 PM (BAEGB)
(we sang that song in grade school, lol)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 07:14 PM (MKEsG)
Boats go on a ship. This I know. Thus endeth my nautical knowledge base.
Posted by: Count de Monet
But they call a submarine a boat.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 07:14 PM (63Dwl)
My best friends son was on the team that built American Magic, America's Cup yacht. I've been sailing all my life but that thing is like a space ship compared to what I sailed. I'd have to learn a whole new way to sail on one of those things.
https://tinyurl.com/h7p5r24j
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:14 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:15 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 05, 2024 07:15 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM
Sadly, men only have enough blood to supply and operate one brain at at time.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 07:10 PM (/nIbP)
Only under ideal and optimum conditions. Even that is debatable.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:15 PM (6gW4D)
Biden should be fine.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 07:15 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 05, 2024 07:16 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: ABC News at July 05, 2024 07:16 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (BAEGB)
Which we'll only be able to watch on X and Truth because the Corrupt Media and Facebook won't allow them to be aired. "Misinformation" or something.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 07:14 PM (63Dwl)
Before missile boats and nuke boats, they were a lot smaller.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 05, 2024 07:16 PM (2NHgQ)
Every other sentence with uuuuuuhmmmm in between.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (GPtBB)
the rubric I learned long ago associated the length of the words:
red - port - left
green - starboard - right
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (81wK+)
YEAH! What nurse said !!!!
Uh, why this time?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at
Sailboat racing on the Cape. Beautiful boat. He's as much a jackass on the water as he was in the senate.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (81wK+)
'not going to convince anyone with an IQ above 75 '
That still gets the democrats 90% of their votes.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (6gW4D)
Takes a lot less oomph to fire a torpedo at an Ironside than it does to huck a rocket halfway around the planet.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (GPtBB)
Wait a sec. That's Obama's schtick.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:19 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Submarine officers and seamen at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (5fDan)
Subs are boats. As in WWII pig boats.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:11 PM (6gW4D)
Something taught to me by my mom and dad since I was a wee lad. Dad was on subs since 1937. He once told me Das Boot was the most realistic sub movie he had seen.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 07:19 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (81wK+)
Got. Semen. Not seaman.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:19 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (QSrLX)
Do people send fraudulent letters pretending to be from the IRS?
My 19 year old son got one saying his return was filed wrong. He used Turbo Tax, paid what he owed (no quibble about him owing money) and was signed by a Mr. Petru
Posted by: Jmel at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (bVhJi)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: tbodie, Lurker. Unless you are reading this at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (OOnTd)
>>the rubric I learned long ago associated the length of the words:
red - port - left
green - starboard - right
Viking ships had a steering board on the right, rear side of their ship. It protruded so the boats landed in port on a dock on the left side.
Starboard - Port.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (LkLld)
There were exceptions like lost Scandis who somehow found their ways back, but until Columbus humans stayed as close to shore as they could with few shortcuts when the know sea was fully mapped all around.
There is plenty of evidence that not only Vikings, but a millennia before them Roman soldiers crossed the Atlantic and explored deep into the North American continent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (rHxhM)
I don't believe those boats are real. They're another hoax by the people who brought us the "moon landings".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (xCA6C)
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I think a portion with the full airing on Sunday. [Preplanned questions/answers; heavily edited with multiple 'takes' etc.]
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (5p7BC)
Just watching the movie "Master and Commander"
Now. But I'm posting because I didn't want to see one of the seamen got flogged
Great movie and great series,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (s2uvR)
Alert - Master and Commander spoiler below -
The movie is a combination of plots and vignettes from of several of the books in the series. It is not a film representation of the first book in the Aubrey/Maturin series, "Master and Commander"
Posted by: Submarine officers and seamen at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (5fDan)
I had a however-many-greats grandfather who was a seaman on a whaler pre Civil War, and I've inherited his needles. They are made of wood, almost a foot long, plus one like a ruler that looks like the shuttle of a loom.
Posted by: Wenda at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (4GhzG)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:22 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:22 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Interview with an Idiot at July 05, 2024 07:23 PM (qUkBO)
Roman soldiers crossed the Atlantic and explored deep into the North American continent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (rHxhM)
___________
"Chicago? What kind of name is that? Let's go home."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 07:23 PM (1Nxff)
Got a late start, but I am intent on making up for it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 05, 2024 07:23 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 07:24 PM (MeG8a)
And thus, Little Italy was born.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 07:24 PM (xCA6C)
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Das Boobs Part 1 - SCTV
https://tinyurl.com/mv57b7ut
6:21 minutes; one of the NBC ones so it's two parts
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:24 PM (Jh5b+)
I read the book about 20 years ago so I don't recall all of the bits. I'm still enjoying it, however.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 07:24 PM (ZXzgl)
My 19 year old son got one saying his return was filed wrong. He used Turbo Tax, paid what he owed (no quibble about him owing money) and was signed by a Mr. Petru
Posted by: Jmel
Yes they do but the IRS will send you a letter if there was something wrong with a return. Usually because they want you to pay more. I'd call your local IRS office on Monday and double check.
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 07:24 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
ALL IS WELL
Posted by: Chip at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 07:19 PM (W/lyH)
Respect to your Dad for serving and to your Mom for waiting on his return.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:22 PM (81wK+)
I'm not refuting the nurse but, starboard tack is when the wind is coming from starboard which means the main is on the port side.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (AiZBA)
The inaugural event is in Barcelona. The boat was built here in RI right up the bay. Completely custom, everything purpose built. I forget how much it cost but it was well into 8 figures. When it was finished they trucked it to TF Green Airport in Warwick and hired one of those old Russia cargo planes to fly it to Spain.
It takes some serious coin to play that game.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Key Bridge at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:26 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (63Dwl)
My 19 year old son got one saying his return was filed wrong. He used Turbo Tax, paid what he owed (no quibble about him owing money) and was signed by a Mr. Petru
Posted by: Jmel at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (bVhJi)
Maybe, the IRS doesn't call they send letters (state revenue is some states do call)
The letter should have an ID number. Look the IRS number up in a phone book or from the IRS website, and call to ask
turbo tax is notoriously lax about taxes, they don't really care. Also check with the state revenue to make sure there is not any problems as well, sometimes TurboTax doesn't get the state return mailed and no one notices for a couple of years.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV
You are absolutely correct.
I am three sheets to the wind.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (81wK+)
I had a however-many-greats grandfather who was a seaman on a whaler pre Civil War, and I've inherited his needles. They are made of wood, almost a foot long, plus one like a ruler that looks like the shuttle of a loom.
Posted by: Wenda
Wow. It must be amazing to touch something that an actual ancestor used 100+ years ago.
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Count de Monet, nautical lore at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (6gW4D)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (xpCR0)
Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 07:28 PM (P+D4R)
Do people send fraudulent letters pretending to be from the IRS?
My 19 year old son got one saying his return was filed wrong. He used Turbo Tax, paid what he owed (no quibble about him owing money) and was signed by a Mr. Petru
Posted by: Jmel at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (bVhJi)
Also check the envelope. Is it a government envelope?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 07:28 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Unkaren
.......
The show must go on.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 07:29 PM (v0R5T)
Or Honor System voting. Unfortunately the "elected" people we are trying to banish from office have no honor.
And the country has decidedly slid into the typical low trust society model where it is expected that people lie, cheat and steal because their is no moral conscience to act in a manner that is inconsistent with immediate lusts.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 07:29 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 07:29 PM (XDSQR)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:30 PM (81wK+)
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at July 05, 2024 07:30 PM (5fDan)
I am three sheets to the wind.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (81wK+)
Well, I like the cut of your jib!
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (6gW4D)
They were a good couple. Both were at Pearl Harbor along with my oldest brother who was in diapers then. (I came along real late.)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (W/lyH)
Yes. I have them framed. No idea why I'm the lucky one who inherited them, and I hope one of my kids/grandkids value them properly.
Posted by: Wenda at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (4GhzG)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (81wK+)
Specializing in custom governmental solutions.
Monday to Friday - 10 am to 4 pm
Note: Lunch/Nap time daily from 12 pm to 2 pm
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (RUmyk)
Do people send fraudulent letters pretending to be from the IRS?
My 19 year old son got one saying his return was filed wrong. He used Turbo Tax, paid what he owed (no quibble about him owing money) and was signed by a Mr. Petru
Posted by: Jmel at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (bVhJi)
Do not type in web address
Do not enter data
Call and ask
Do you know last 4 of SS
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (XDSQR)
This sailing must be dangerous business.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Submarine officers and seamen
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The book series is superior to the movie, IMHO.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (MKEsG)
If there is an IRS change in the tax return the state one will be changed automatically so once your kid is done with the IRS he gets to do it all over again with the IRS. this is the secondary value of providing all the proof the IRS needs to show that he and not the IRS is correct in the tax return.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:22 PM (81wK+)
This is (mostly) correct. The boat that takes the first windward tack 'wins' the tack until the leeward boat gains the wind.
Mutated.
Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (P+D4R)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Miklos has implemented this policy at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:22 PM (81wK+)
This is (mostly) correct. The boat that takes the first windward tack 'wins' the tack until the leeward boat gains the wind.
Mutated.
Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (P+D4R)
Waht if they have cannons?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:33 PM (GPtBB)
Posted by: Mayo Pete at July 05, 2024 07:33 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 07:35 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 05, 2024 07:36 PM (J8LnB)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 07:37 PM (RUmyk)
I can NOT remember the name ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 07:37 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 07:38 PM (u82oZ)
There were exceptions like lost Scandis who somehow found their ways back, but until Columbus humans stayed as close to shore as they could with few shortcuts when the know sea was fully mapped all around.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (cOq4q)
You’ve got to add the Polynesians in there somewhere. Not only did they not stick to the coasts they colonized most of the Pacific and some scholars think they made it all the way to Chile.
All that in little more than glorified dugout canoes and catarmarans. Much props.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 07:38 PM (6ydKt)
Some of them are stays.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 06:55 PM (LkLld)
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"Belay those stays" is a thing, right?
Posted by: Ciampino - Yes Inspecteur, it was an actual sailing ship at July 05, 2024 07:39 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 07:41 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2024 07:41 PM (XeU6L)
A sailors life was difficult even in good weather.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 05, 2024 07:41 PM (zOtcE)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (D7oie)
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I had the state contact me about unpaid taxes once. But then I sent them the bank statement showing they cashed the check. Never heard from them again.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2024 07:42 PM (BpYfr)
Some of them are stays.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Halyards, stays and lines enter the chat.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2024 07:43 PM (XeU6L)
Dammit! No one talks about me anymore.
Posted by: Hawsers at July 05, 2024 07:44 PM (XeU6L)
I always wanted to be a sailor, just couldn't stomach the uniform.
Had a promise of a job once in Savannah as a Shrimper, when the boat got back. They're still missing.
I left for the desert.
Posted by: Reforger at July 05, 2024 07:44 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:45 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Pete Bog
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It's remarkable that anyone who did not *have* to do it, went to sea.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2024 07:46 PM (XeU6L)
I left for the desert.
Posted by: Reforger
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I know of a shrimper that caught fire, and went down in Calibogue sound. A rescuer who dived got caught in the rigging and drowned.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2024 07:48 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (81wK+)
Close hauled?
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 05, 2024 07:49 PM (zOtcE)
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:06 PM (m62GY)
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (oUxZc)
Helping Humans Open Thread
An injured fox cried for help from humans.
Humans responded.Love is the greatest bond pic.twitter.com/RmGDlOVtRd
— Enez Özen (@Enezator) June 27, 2024
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: steevy at July 05, 2024 05:15 PM (HJ9BW)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 05, 2024 05:16 PM (pgG81)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 05, 2024 05:17 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 05:19 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 05:19 PM (1Yy3c)
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Sure sure sure. That fox doesn't love you, cupcake.
I'm sorry your dad ran out on you.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 05:19 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2024 05:19 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 05, 2024 05:19 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 05:19 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 05:21 PM (1Yy3c)
A fox, said the Fox.
And the jury?, asked the Goose.
Day all be foxes, said the Fox.
Oh well, said the Goose. I guess my goose is cooked!
Posted by: Adriane the Justice for Some Critic . . . at July 05, 2024 05:21 PM (Mgymq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 05:21 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 05, 2024 05:22 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 05:21 PM (1Yy3c)
No, you don't understand, that chick with the funky hair and too many tattoos... she has SO much love to give, she's going to overcome millions of years of genetic programming.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 05:23 PM (dGCAG)
HQ's closed...
Ewok out front shoulda told ya!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 05:23 PM (a1415)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 05, 2024 05:22 PM (/U5Yz)
Yeah.
"Help".
Like the hunter putting out a salt lick and a bushel of apples is "helping" the deer.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 05:23 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 05:21 PM (oUxZc)
Wait, are you implying the ameenuhl kingdom isn't like a Disney movie?
I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 05:23 PM (1Yy3c)
Oh, well. Maybe next time, guys.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (Jh5b+)
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (opUAf)
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 05:19 PM (1Yy3c)
This looks like a job for that Obligatory Seinfeld Quote guy.
Posted by: spindrift at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (OguvZ)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (W/lyH)
Oh, well. Maybe next time, guys.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (Jh5b+)
Is this about me?
Posted by: COVID 19 at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (opUAf)
I just muted it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 05:21 PM (oUxZc)
Didn't you hear the minor chord two-note piano accompaniment?
That means it's all about love. If the fox does bite, it's love bites.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 05:25 PM (dGCAG)
Keep Stormy Danials away from your faces, folks!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 05:25 PM (a1415)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 05:25 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 05:21 PM (oUxZc)
Didn't you hear the minor chord two-note piano accompaniment?
That means it's all about love. If the fox does bite, it's love bites.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 05:25 PM (dGCAG)
Yep, I loved my dinner.
Posted by: fox, with chicken feathers on its muzzle at July 05, 2024 05:25 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (BAEGB)
Apparently Elric has been outfoxed by his computer controls.
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 05:26 PM (14URa)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 05, 2024 05:27 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 05:26 PM (14URa)
I do wholeheartedly agree that the music on these little videos typically sucks a freeze dried reindeer ballsack.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 05:27 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 05:25 PM (63Dwl)
It’s like a box of chocolates, of course.
Posted by: Forrest Gump at July 05, 2024 05:27 PM (JRP2U)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 05, 2024 05:27 PM (4780s)
Fine, Trump can trade 'em to Canada along with Wisconsin. They won't be missed.
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 05:28 PM (14URa)
When healthy, will eat cat.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 05, 2024 05:29 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 05:25 PM (63Dwl)
I am thoroughly enjoying the week by week videos about the Lesbian Star Wars show.
Those idiots put the hot guy with muscles in this last episode, because people on the set said they should put the hot guy with muscles in more episodes... and make him take his clothes off.
In other words, gay female showrunner was being advised by gay male grips and craft services people to show more beefcake... even though NOBODY who would want to watch that insipid show wants to see that.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 05:29 PM (dGCAG)
Oh, well. Maybe next time, guys.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (Jh5b+)
It should gain energy after it crosses back into the Gulf. At this point the eye isn't expected to make landfall again until Monday morning. Who knows what it will look like between now and then. I'm keeping a tight watch on it cuz I live in the region it may hit. If I get flooded I'm moving in with you.
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 05:30 PM (1Yy3c)
Allen Ray McGrew, 41, died after igniting a “large firework device” and setting in on top of his head. The coroner says the firework exploded on top of his head and caused extreme head injuries.
lol
Posted by: wth
I been saying this and saying this.... Take the fucking warning labels off of EVERYTHING! Let Darwin do his damn job!
Posted by: Madamemayhem
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 05, 2024 05:30 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:31 PM (omVj0)
Oh, well. Maybe next time, guys.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (Jh5b+)
It should gain energy after it crosses back into the Gulf. At this point the eye isn't expected to make landfall again until Monday morning. Who knows what it will look like between now and then. I'm keeping a tight watch on it cuz I live in the region it may hit. If I get flooded I'm moving in with you.
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 05:30 PM (1Yy3c
Wait, that damn thing just cross the border. We have laws.
Posted by: Eromero at July 05, 2024 05:32 PM (o2ZRX)
Poor guy died in our side yard. I think he may have been poisoned, or more likely ate something poisoned.
I salute you, Mr. Possum. 👍
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 05, 2024 05:32 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: InZona at July 05, 2024 05:32 PM (qz1Fg)
Oh, well. Maybe next time, guys.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024
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It still has to move across the SW Gulf before it hits land again -- time to strengthen. Brownsville, TX, may see some of it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:33 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (BAEGB)
Apparently Elric has been outfoxed by his computer controls.
Posted by: Peaches
Perhaps some tutorials geared towards those of us in the sunset years is in order. The controls on my Hoveround sometimes befuddle me.
Posted by: Goin' Round In Circles at July 05, 2024 05:33 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2024 05:34 PM (fV+MH)
Oh, well. Maybe next time, guys.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (Jh5b+)
Is this about me?
Posted by: COVID 19 at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (llON
No, silly. That's me.
Posted by: Monkeypox at July 05, 2024 05:34 PM (pMW7S)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:31 PM (omVj0)
Actually, the conclusion they reached... and the study went back to the 40s, was that foxes just aren't going to be domesticated anywhere near what dogs are, unless and until you put a millennia or two into the breeding program.
The foxes would NOT socialize with humans the way dogs do, and when you have them inside your house, they shit on everything, no matter how hard you try to train them.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 05:34 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Madamemayhem"
Have I ever told you of my airbag theory?
Remove every drivers steering wheel mounted air bag.
Replace it with a four inch steel spike facing the drivers chest.
Helps to keep the driver focused on the task at hand.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 05:34 PM (a1415)
Posted by: Madamemayhem
You should totally be Trump's VP pick!
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 05:34 PM (14URa)
Posted by: JQ at July 05, 2024 05:35 PM (njWTi)
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2024 05:21 PM (1Yy3c)
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My thought exactly. Those gals obviously suffered from Fluffy Bunny Syndrome.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2024 05:36 PM (YqDXo)
Poor guy died in our side yard. I think he may have been poisoned, or more likely ate something poisoned.
I salute you, Mr. Possum. 👍
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 05, 2024
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My late big black cat Wolf, before he was abandoned and I took him in, encountered an opossum. Miss Linda said the cat looked at the opossum, the opossum eyed the cat, and then they turned and went their separate ways. Wolf was a healthy eater and good hunter. If he didn't go after that marsupial, it was because he didn't think it was worth the attempt. "Eat that? Hell no."
And opossums are as big as your average cat. Maybe they don't seem like prey. Or maybe they just don't smell like food.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:36 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Madamemayhem
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THIS!!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2024 05:37 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2024 05:34 PM (fV+MH)
What's horrible is that Heigl's career has suffered, due to the fact when she was a teenager, her mother watched over her like a hawk, and wouldn't let the predators in Hollowood get their greasy paws on her.
If you want to succeed in Hollowood you gotta do what dames like Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence do.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 05:37 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Maine Dept of Human Services at July 05, 2024 05:38 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:31 PM (omVj0)
Actually, the conclusion they reached... and the study went back to the 40s, was that foxes just aren't going to be domesticated anywhere near what dogs are, unless and until you put a millennia or two into the breeding program.
The foxes would NOT socialize with humans the way dogs do, and when you have them inside your house, they shit on everything, no matter how hard you try to train them.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 05:34 PM (dGCAG)
I am always baffled when someone has *livestock* or WILD animals in the house. What are they thinking???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 05:38 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at July 05, 2024 05:38 PM (V5BDR)
The foxes would NOT socialize with humans the way dogs do, and when you have them inside your house, they shit on everything, no matter how hard you try to train them.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024
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It's been a while since I read the story; the details are blurry. I thought they had at least found the foxes were fairly sociable, if not trainable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:38 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Enough BS at July 05, 2024 05:39 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: Stateless at July 05, 2024 05:39 PM (jvJvP)
There ain't nobody here at all
So quiet yourself and stop that fuss
There ain't nobody here but us
Kindly point that gun the other way
And hobble, hobble hobble of and hit the hay”
Posted by: The singing foxes at July 05, 2024 05:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Fatima my house goat is very well domesticated and provides warmth and comfort on cold winter nights.
Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober at July 05, 2024 05:40 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Jimmy Hendrix at July 05, 2024 05:40 PM (DsA2n)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 05:34 PM (dGCAG)
So, basically, they're Bidens at heart?
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 05:41 PM (14URa)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 05:41 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:38 PM (omVj0)
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So ... kinda like the Russians themselves.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2024 05:42 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 05:34 PM (dGCAG)
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They work for the EPA?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2024 05:42 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 05, 2024 05:43 PM (2BAti)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 05:41 PM (v0R5T)
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Crazy sister regularly feeds the storks, herons, and seagulls in her neighborhood. When she goes outside they all flock to the front yard, and occasionally go inside the house.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 05:43 PM (UJRPK)
.......
Love could wither away but incandescent hatred goes on forever!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 05, 2024 05:44 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 05:44 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Goin' Round In Circles at July 05, 2024 05:33 PM (V5BDR)
I laughed entirely too hard at this.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 05, 2024 05:44 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 05, 2024 05:44 PM (4XwPj)
I bow to your awesomeness, madame.
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 05:45 PM (14URa)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 05:41 PM (v0R5T)
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Crazy sister regularly feeds the storks, herons, and seagulls in her neighborhood. When she goes outside they all flock to the front yard, and occasionally go inside the house.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 05:43 PM (UJRPK)
Sorry, but - ewwwww. I would not be inside her house.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 05:45 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at July 05, 2024 05:45 PM (V+Xlk)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 05:45 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 05:46 PM (fwDg9)
Tried to tell a neighbor about the Canada Geese..but did they listen?
Nooo.....
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 05:46 PM (a1415)
Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at July 05, 2024 05:45 PM (V+Xlk)
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Odds the human participants are liberals? 100%.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2024 05:47 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 05, 2024 05:47 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 05, 2024 05:45 PM (llON8 )
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She lives wayyyy on the other side of the country, so fortunately I haven't been.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 05, 2024 05:47 PM (UJRPK)
Tried to tell a neighbor about the Canada Geese..but did they listen?
Nooo.....
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 05:46 PM (a1415)
We no see your goose.
Posted by: Chinese restaurant down the street at July 05, 2024 05:47 PM (llON8)
Like they are still keeping the craft alive during the Dark Ages.
Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2024 05:47 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at July 05, 2024 05:45 PM (V+Xlk)
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Odds the human participants are liberals? 100%.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2024 05:47 PM (YqDXo)
It's a certainty because conservatives are heartless bastards!!
Posted by: Rosie O'Donut with a heart as big as my waist at July 05, 2024 05:49 PM (iODuv)
Oh, well. Maybe next time, guys.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 05:24 PM (Jh5b+)
El gato malo on his substack commented that the incentive is to always predict the worst hurricane season ever every year. If you're wrong, well it's just forgotten. If you predict a mild hurricane season and you're wrong, then that's the end of your career. It's all upside to predict doom and downside to predict normalcy.
Posted by: InZona at July 05, 2024 05:49 PM (qz1Fg)
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 05:49 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 05:50 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 05, 2024 05:50 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton at July 05, 2024 05:50 PM (v0R5T)
So ... miss me with that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2024 05:50 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024
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I used to see them frequently in Denver. They ran in and out of the enclosures at the zoo, for instance. And one chilly morning I drove up to work out at Red Rocks Park in the western suburbs. A red fox was sitting on the far side of the narrow road. I pulled over and watched him. He seemed utterly unconcerned that my car was there, and sat, peering intently around. Then he wheeled and trotted off on his fox business.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:51 PM (omVj0)
Like they are still keeping the craft alive during the Dark Ages.
Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2024 05:47 PM (fV+MH)
Helped that he was a commie. I’d rather a movie had been made about General Leslie Groves.
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 05:51 PM (SHMXB)
Nooo.....
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 05:46 PM (a1415)
I know they say God doesn't make mistakes, but I'm confident that He was not having one of His best days when he made those hateful creatures.
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 05:51 PM (14URa)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 05:51 PM (SHMXB)
See Fat Man and Little Boy.
My ex-wife worked for Groves' grandson. I made her watch Fat Man and Little Boy and she understood the younger Groves much better.
Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2024 05:52 PM (cvZX6)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2024 05:53 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 05, 2024 05:53 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Peaches at July 05, 2024 05:51 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2024 05:53 PM (YqDXo)
"Go around me, hooman"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:53 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 05, 2024 05:54 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: mrp at July 05, 2024 05:54 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 05:51 PM (SHMXB)
And people would say, "who"? And no one would go see the movie. And no one would finance the movie.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 05, 2024 05:54 PM (iODuv)
Ruled by absolute monsters who wanted the bomb so that they could terrorize the world into submission.
I appreciate Christopher Nolan's treatment of the backstabbing, conniving low lives whose vanity and their projection of their own worst character flaws on to others was part of the narrative.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 05:54 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 05, 2024 05:55 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 05:55 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Discerning Chap at July 05, 2024 05:56 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 05:56 PM (SHMXB)
I was cuddling with my beaver and suddenly just bam! It mauled my face! I wasn't expecting that. It's usually a very friendly beaver. The sweetest beaver ever. Swear to God!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 05, 2024 05:56 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 05, 2024 05:56 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 05, 2024 05:55 PM (CWTWj)
Zip line across the New River Gorge.
Posted by: mrp at July 05, 2024 05:56 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 05:56 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:57 PM (omVj0)
diving board checks out a-ok.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 05, 2024 05:57 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 05:56 PM (SHMXB)
The people I knew who worked on the Manhattan Project thought it was.
Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2024 05:57 PM (cvZX6)
·
59m
Decision Desk changes the Montana Senate from Lean R to Likely R, with an 81% chance for an R win
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 05:58 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 05:56 PM (SHMXB)
And - the grandson - also named Leslie Groves - acted just like Paul Newman. And HE said it was pretty accurate.
Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2024 05:59 PM (cvZX6)
I might try smoking a turkey breast with the wood of the trunk some time, though...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 06:00 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 06:00 PM (omVj0)
They were found in containers and disguised to look like wind turbine parts, Italian officials said.
The Times reported that these were Wing Loong UAVs, which are made in China and often compared to the Reaper.
Italy has seized parts for two combat drones disguised as wind turbines in containers en route from China to Libya, customs and maritime authorities said on Tuesday.
Posted by: SMOD at July 05, 2024 06:00 PM (GITLP)
Posted by: Migratory Fowl Ball at July 05, 2024 06:00 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: gnats local 678
*SNAP*
Oopty. *cackle cackle giggle*
Posted by: Kamalama at July 05, 2024 06:00 PM (v0R5T)
Very nice woman, well dressed, classy. House smelled like you can imagine.
Posted by: Jamaica at July 05, 2024 06:01 PM (hjK64)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 05, 2024 06:02 PM (J8LnB)
Posted by: Appycay at July 05, 2024 06:02 PM (EdYR/)
And opossums are as big as your average cat. Maybe they don't seem like prey. Or maybe they just don't smell like food.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:36 PM (omVj0)
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Bigger. We had a mama that was the size of a smallish dog. Watched her waddle by many an evening, sometimes with all her babies trailing or hanging on. A small barrel with legs. The possums and raccoons here co-existed with my outside cats with never any trouble. In fact some of the baby raccoons grew up with the kitties and got on very well. We only have one outside cat now, Mr Grey, and no raccoons at this time.
Posted by: Ciampino - Yes Inspecteur, the night was full of wild animals at July 05, 2024 06:02 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Kamala Harris at July 05, 2024 06:03 PM (yYWHi)
Pretty sure he doesn't know what beaver tastes like.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 06:03 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at July 05, 2024 06:03 PM (hZc6Q)
And i only ever read those books because of Moron recommendations.
So thank you, Morons.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 06:03 PM (BAEGB)
We have one that crosses through our back yard now and then. Someone posted a video to the neighborhood facebook group of five or six of them living under her deck. So far the dog hasn't tried to approach it but I do try to check from the window before letting her out.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 05, 2024 06:03 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Appycay at July 05, 2024 06:02 PM (EdYR/)
The only movie I've watched in a theater since "Return of the King" was "Dune 2" in an IMAX theater. That was worth the money.
Posted by: mrp at July 05, 2024 06:04 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: gnats local 678
Biden is our modern Humpty-Dumpty.
Had a great fall, all the king's horses, etc.etc.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 05, 2024 06:05 PM (DsA2n)
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 05, 2024 06:05 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Amber H. & Joe B. at July 05, 2024 06:05 PM (/nIbP)
Posted by: Old Softee at July 05, 2024 06:05 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at July 05, 2024 06:06 PM (hZc6Q)
The event is an annual tradition that started in 2005 with tickets now costing $20.
Most years, about 6 vehicles are launched off the cliff however reports say they had about a dozen for this year's celebration.
Vehicles take off from one of two runways: One has a monorail and the other is freewheeling.
Most cars are launched with a piece of wood wedged against the gas pedal.
Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 06:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
The foreman of our job had arrived by that time. I went to his pickup and said, Is that common? He said, Never seen it before in my life.
Posted by: Wenda at July 05, 2024 06:06 PM (4GhzG)
Posted by: mrp at July 05, 2024 06:06 PM (rj6Yv)
That Paul Ryan would show up suddenly and push them over?
Posted by: Oddbob at July 05, 2024 06:07 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 06:00 PM
Don't forget me, and you'll have an unforgettable night!
Posted by: Axe Body Wash at July 05, 2024 06:07 PM (/nIbP)
Its a lot easier to propagandize the population. The attention span of the typical American LoFo? No more than a fortnight, then all is forgotten and at least another squirrel emerges.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 06:08 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 05:55 PM (v0R5T)
__________________
Never visit SF.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2024 06:08 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Axe Body Wash
Yes the gagging and puking will be memorable.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 05, 2024 06:08 PM (4XwPj)
Chaser: The motor failed today.
Refill: They are fedex'ing me a new unit.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 06:09 PM (a1415)
I'll leave them alone. The place it roached anyway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 05, 2024 06:09 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 05, 2024 05:38 PM (omVj0)
Somewhat sociable. They had a way to test it, by releasing the animal into a room with a human sitting inside concentric circles. They were able to measure how far into the circles the foxes got, how long it took them to get there, and how long they stayed.
They were slow to get somewhat close, and didn't stay long, in contrast to dogs, who immediately went into the inner circle with tail wagging.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 06:10 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Animal Antics at July 05, 2024 06:11 PM (V5BDR)
Hopefully the rain will get here before the fire does.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2024 06:11 PM (xpCR0)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 05:44 PM
I know this because the animal-lovers went South for the winter and the poor confused animals were looking for humans to feed them.
Also, I call fake on the fox video. Probably used to being fed by those home-dwellers and therefore knew exactly where to go. If I open the door when a critter comes up on the deck, it flees until it recognizes me.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 05, 2024 06:11 PM (gJoNf)
Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 06:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
MERICA!
Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2024 06:11 PM (cvZX6)
Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 06:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 06:13 PM (a1415)
Hoverround canceled the special Thelma & Louise Signature Edition because the focus group said absolutely not.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:13 PM (jdHxK)
Chaser: The motor failed today.
Refill: They are fedex'ing me a new unit.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 06:09 PM (a1415)
Gee Whiz, are you using it as a rock tumbler?
Posted by: Warranty Void at July 05, 2024 06:13 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2024 06:14 PM (RIvkX)
Eye to eye, station to station
Living in America
Hand to hand, across the nation
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 05, 2024 06:14 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: TRex at July 05, 2024 06:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
FUN FACT: If you stab a knife through the accelerator pedal it will not only accelerate the car but it will steer it as well.
Posted by: Patrick Swayze at July 05, 2024 06:15 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Enough BS at July 05, 2024 05:39 PM (2NXcZ)
Der Starmer... how long before they're rounding up Jews...
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 06:15 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: BurtTC
I do the same thing. Pays off!
Posted by: Kamala at July 05, 2024 06:16 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 05, 2024 06:16 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 06:16 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 05, 2024 06:17 PM (90Vvs)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2024 06:17 PM (xpCR0)
Decision Desk changes the Montana Senate from Lean R to Likely R, with an 81% chance for an R win
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 05:58 PM (LkLld)
~~~~~
That's Tester, right? Would love to be rid of him!
Posted by: IrishEi at July 05, 2024 06:17 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:18 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Enough BS
Fudge 'em! They didn't vote for us.
Posted by: James Baker, all-around mensch at July 05, 2024 06:18 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:18 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 06:19 PM (LkLld)
Will anyone care?
If they're rioting in Paris
I don't want to go there!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 05, 2024 06:19 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Migratory Fowl Ball
......
How about honking heroin?
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Artiste and Pimp at July 05, 2024 06:19 PM (v0R5T)
Sounds like the perfect background for an Ackbar gals video.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 05, 2024 06:19 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:18 PM (fwDg9)
For now.
Posted by: Zombie Wat Tyler at July 05, 2024 06:19 PM (jdHxK)
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I watched an entire YouTube video of this last year.
Fuckin' awesome.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 05, 2024 06:19 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 06:20 PM (BAEGB)
"Mark Halperin is reporting that Biden is on his way out, many people close to him are saying"
"Biden's staying in the race - and "will beat Trump again in 2020""
8 days now
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 06:20 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 06:20 PM (V13WU)
I wish.
It runs absolutely perfectly.
And suddenly, even with nothing in it, the overload on the bottom trips.
Then it slows to a stop in a perfectly normal rate of slowing.
Randomly.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 06:20 PM (a1415)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
We have authorized unlimited overtime.
Posted by: ABC Editing Dept. at July 05, 2024 06:20 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 05, 2024 06:21 PM (lXCUP)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 06:21 PM (/7KEl)
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In all seriousness, in Pacific Grove, CA if you so much as shoe a goose, and you're observed by LE, you're going to jail.
Don't ask.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 05, 2024 06:22 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 06:21 PM (/7KEl)
As if.
Posted by: Megan Markle-Windsor at July 05, 2024 06:22 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 05, 2024 06:22 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 05, 2024 06:22 PM (2fIO4)
Posted by: DanMan at July 05, 2024 06:22 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 05:58 PM (LkLld)
~~~~~
That's Tester, right? Would love to be rid of him!
Posted by: IrishEi
—
Tester has never won 50% of the vote. Each of his 3 wins were very close with the so called Libertarian candidate getting more than his winning margin.
Imagine that! Almost as if Democrats keep funding these candidates to siphon off Republican votes. Why don’t Republicans ever do the same? Fund some Green candidate to siphon off 1% of the vote. Because the GOP has no idea how to win nor do they really care to win.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 05, 2024 06:23 PM (90Vvs)
Posted by: Halfhand at July 05, 2024 06:23 PM (Q5Ulg)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 06:23 PM (/7KEl)
I know they say God doesn't make mistakes, but I'm confident that He was not having one of His best days when he made those hateful creatures.
Posted by: Peaches
"Greasy Green Shit Machines", I call them.
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 05, 2024 06:23 PM (AyKbk)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:23 PM (fwDg9)
Randomly.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 06:20 PM (a1415)
First thing that tells me is that your overload/heater is bad
Posted by: Megan Markle-Windsor at July 05, 2024 06:23 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 05, 2024 06:24 PM (90Vvs)
There was a mountain lion too. When the fucker was around those foxes were nowhere to be found and it was a sign to pack a pistol.
Posted by: Reforger at July 05, 2024 06:24 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Megan Markle-Windsor at July 05, 2024 06:24 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Halfhand at July 05, 2024 06:23 PM (Q5Ulg
Benjamin Button Fox.
Posted by: Eromero at July 05, 2024 06:24 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 06:24 PM (BAEGB)
Will Steffy help or torpedo Joe tonight? He can torpedo Joe with out much difficulty, if his masters the Clintons and/or the DNC honchos tell him to.
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 06:25 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 06:25 PM (LkLld)
PA - Trump +3.2
MI - Trump +2.0
WI - Trump +2.0
AZ - Trump +6.0
GA - Trump +4.7
NV - Trump +4.5
NC - Trump +6.7
As always, I'm just providing information. Not making predictions.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 06:26 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 05, 2024 06:26 PM (90Vvs)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 05, 2024 06:26 PM (2BAti)
If horny Harold could honk a hapless heron, how many hapless herons did horny Harold honk?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:27 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:27 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 05, 2024 06:27 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:27 PM (fwDg9)
Count how many skips there are where it was edited
Posted by: It's me donna at July 05, 2024 06:28 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: Dave in Fla
......
I hesitate to comment until KJP weighs in.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 06:28 PM (v0R5T)
That was my first guess as well.
But with a three year warranty, they are just sending me a new unit.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 06:28 PM (a1415)
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 05, 2024 06:26 PM (90Vvs)
He'd be known as the guy who kicked a dying puppy on camera to make a buck.
I mean, he would cement his reputation as the guy who would etc etc etc
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 06:28 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 06:28 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:28 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: runner at July 05, 2024 06:29 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)
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I posted it 2 threads back.
Bottom line, Biden needs to fake over 12M votes to eek out a win. 488% increase over the fake votes in 2020.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 06:29 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:29 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 05, 2024 06:28 PM (a1415)
The mark of a True Moron is not carrying over a Fake Moron's sock fail in a quote.
I raise my glass.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 06:30 PM (BAEGB)
https://tinyurl.com/4x2tc8dz
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 06:30 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2024 06:17 PM (xpCR0)
His wife is a reformed 1/2 Jew ( On her father's side ) kinda
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 05, 2024 06:30 PM (SHAib)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 06:31 PM (MKEsG)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:31 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 06:31 PM (/7KEl)
If horny Harold could honk a hapless heron, how many hapless herons did horny Harold honk?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43
......
I don't know. How much heroin can unhygienic Hunter honk?
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 06:31 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:32 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Piper at July 05, 2024 06:32 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 05, 2024 06:32 PM (2fIO4)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:33 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 06:33 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:33 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 05, 2024 06:33 PM (Aoykm)
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 06:34 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:34 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 06:35 PM (5fDan)
I say
when youre such a broke ass cunty bunty hindu bindu word salad bitch runt that you cant even poll better than a 500 year old pedophile, you are truly a special snowflake
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 05, 2024 06:35 PM (DBZuM)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 05, 2024 06:35 PM (Aoykm)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:35 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 06:35 PM (JhIYV)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:35 PM (fwDg9)
Lie number one for Joe
Posted by: It's me donna at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (IyPmt)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 06:35 PM (5fDan)
I am not watching...I know his mind is gone.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (SHAib)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Skip
.......
When I have a cold I always forget shit, mumble, lie, and stare at lights like I don't know what they are.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 06:37 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
Would you expect anything less?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 06:37 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:37 PM (fwDg9)
They aren't ready to go all in on Shitpants Must Go until they know who their new masters are.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 06:37 PM (BAEGB)
Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 06:37 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: wth
Crap your pants.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (qZEuM)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:33 PM (fwDg9)
~~~~~
Where are you seeing it, Skip? I thought it was at 8pm on ABC (Channel 7 here)
Posted by: IrishEi at July 05, 2024 06:39 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2024 06:40 PM (xpCR0)
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:40 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: IrishEi at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (3ImbR)
Snufalufagus is going to help Biden. He does not want to be responsible for Trump getting elected.
Posted by: Piper
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I wonder if any of the people who denounced him after the debate will come running back if he "aces" the "interview."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 05, 2024 06:22 PM (2fIO4)
_________________
Biden's golf swing looks like Obama's: lots of up and down motion, the classic duffer swing. A 6 handicap? Maybe 6 per hole, that I'd buy.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2024 06:42 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Aggie at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (jopxR)
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