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aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com CBD: cbd at cutjibnewsletter.com Buck: buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com joe mannix: mannix2024 at proton.me MisHum: petmorons at gee mail.com J.J. Sefton: sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com | Saturday Evening Movie Thread [9/28/2024]Tony Scott Tony Scott is synonymous with 1980s and 1990s big-budget action cinema. Mostly through his partnership with Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, he made a series of high-profile movies like Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and Crimson Tide, meeting success for the most part as his career flourished. He was well known for his work with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood like Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, and Bruce Willis. He directed the biggest movies of the year in 1986 and 1987 at the box office, and he had a top ten movie in 1996 (Crimson Tide). His films never broke $100 million at the box office from the 90s on, but they did regularly make good investments for the studios that he worked with. It seems obvious to me that his relationship to his elder brother Ridley really helped him get started. Together, they formed Scott Free Productions in the early 70s, and it was Ridley who got started making features first in 1977 with The Duellists, Tony not starting his feature film directing career until 1983 with The Hunger (unless you really want to count Loving Memory, essentially a student film made in 1971). He ended up with a fairly narrow band of films that he could direct well, though. So, what do you make of a career like Tony Scotts? Of a career ended early when he committed suicide by jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles? I liked a good amount of what I saw, more than I thought, but I also saw this pattern of derivativeness that made him feel like a vessel for other people's visions, especially Don Simpson's. That's not to take away from his successes, just that he was much more of a chameleon than people seem to think of him. They think of his frenetic editing and camera work as his defining feature, but considering the stories of Don Simpson on set and how controlling he was, Simpson ends up feeling like a coked-up David O. Selznick. So, when I look over the career of Tony Scott, I see three main sources of influence. I see Don Simpson. I see his elder brother Ridley Scott. And, I see himself. Don Simpson Out of the eleven films that Don Simpson produced, Tony Scott directed four of them, more than a third. From the start of their professional relationship (along with Simpson's producing partner Jerry Bruckheimer) in 1986 with Top Gun, Scott directed half of what Simpson produced until his death in 1996. If there was one director that Don Simpson latched onto, it wasn't Martin Brest who directed the first Beverly Hills Cop film, it was Scott, who directed the second. It's hard to delineate between the two and how they influenced each other without pointing towards later in Simpson's life, particularly around the period that the pair made Crimson Tide together. Scott didn't always work with Simpson over those ten years. He made a few other movies for some other producers like Joel Silver (The Last Boy Scout) or Wendy Finerman (The Fan), but his main working relationship in terms of producer was Simpson. What's evident is that visually the films under Simpson are actually a bit more reserved and in control (relatively, this is Tony Scott we're talking about) while the films outside of that relationship are where he started to experiment, especially with The Fan. Crimson Tide, Simpson's last film with Scott went into production about 10 months before The Rock, also produced by Simpson but directed by Michael Bay (his second feature after Bad Boys, also a Simpson production), and I find it hard to tell the difference between the two from a visual perspective. They have extremely similar ways of shooting and editing that make it hard to differentiate the styles at the time of Bay and Scott with this connective tissue that is Don Simpson. As Jerry Bruckheimer said in 1985, sitting next to Simpson, "We are as much a part of making the picture as the director." Simpson lived large and big, his peak probably coming in 1990 with the production of Days of Thunder where he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a gym on the beach, bring in hot girls to work out, and even put himself in the film in a minor role. That minor role got cut out after cost overruns brought the studio in to try and save things in post-production (apparently, it was Tom Cruise himself who demanded the cuts). It got cut so far down that he's in, effectively, one shot with one line of dialogue. Days of Thunder represented the peak of Simpson's power, cut down during post-production, but he wasn't done, making movies for six more years until his death. His entire career in the 80s was about making himself the front and center of a production to the point where Days of Thunder doubled its original production budget in costs because he, Bruckheimer, and even Robert Towne (who wrote the script) would argue for hours with Tony Scott about camera placement...all the time. He was the coked up David O. Selznick of the 80s, and he wanted the world to know. So, that's why I feel a certain uniformity to the visual stylings of Scott's films for Simpson, why when he ended up working for some other producer, things felt more open and even experimental (though not always better, I found The Fan to be a real drag). Which makes my feelings about the similarities between Crimson Tide and The Rock seem valid. Simpson had a long history of meddling in the production of his films in a way that Bruckheimer, in the decades since Simpson's death, doesn't seem to share (I get the sense that Bruckheimer was a bit of a follower to Simpson's behavior), so it becomes a question of whose movies are these? These four movies that Scott directed with Simpson? The truth is somewhere in between them, but it's obvious that Simpson is at least as much responsible for the final product as Scott was. Ridley Tony Scott's relationship with Don Simpson lasted ten years and for four productions. Overall, he had seventeen feature films to his name from that early film Loving Memory through Unstoppable in 2010. The one relationship that will outstrip all others, that lasted his entire life, though, was his elder brother Ridley Scott, director of Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, and, yes, Prometheus. Just because the two are siblings and Ridley is the elder doesn't necessarily mean that Tony was inspired by how Ridley made films...until you watch his first feature film after that long break, The Hunger. The Hunger is made like how Ridley Scott was making movies in the early 80s, especially Blade Runner which came out a year earlier. There are heavy uses of gels to create monochromatic images, in particular blues. There's this heavily reserved approach to the acting. There's a lot of fog effects. It has this reserved approach to the editing that makes it feel like a steady dream, not a thrill ride. It's not what one thinks of as a Tony Scott film. If someone were to tell me that Ridley actually directed and just put Tony's name on it, I wouldn't be able to dismiss the assertion. It feels like a Ridley Scott movie much more than every other film Tony made. The influence doesn't end there. After the work with Simpson that ended in 1996, Scott had the time and opportunity to actually move in his own directions, in ways that interested him stylistically more. He also had opportunity to work directly with Ridley on films through their mutually owned production company Scott Free Productions which they began in the 70s to make commercials in Britain (and then went through some corporate moves that split the company in two, one for each brother, and then reassembled into one in 1995). The first film that Scott Free produced for Tony was The Fan, followed by Enemy of the State, and then Man on Fire. Man on Fire is where I want to focus because it came out three years after Ridley's Black Hawk Down, and the two are as close stylistically as the two brothers got outside of The Hunger. It still has moments that distinctly make it Tony's, not Ridley's, including Tony's growing propensity for heavily edited moments of montage that include multiple exposures across several shots, blown out whites because of over-exposures, and distortions on the audio track, something that Ridley has never really done. However, outside of those moments which dot the film from beginning to end, Man on Fire is essentially Tony's Black Hawk Down stylistically. There's a grittiness that matches the streets of the Mexican city the film takes place in with Mogadishu. There's this overexposed quality to the film that highlights the brightness of the sun. Nights tend to be filmed in similar gel-heavy manners emphasizing blues instead of spare lighting and blacks in both films. The reserved approach to dialogue scenes, in particular the first introduction of Denzel Washington's character to the family who hires him, feels similar to how Scott shoots most of his dialogue scenes. They're not the same movie, by the stylistic overlapping is too much to ignore as coincidental. I don't think it's hard to say that Tony, who called his brother a mentor and father-figure, tried to emulate his brother's filmmaking style to some degree. Tony That leaves Tony Scott himself. I don't mean to imply that he was derivative in any sort of pejorative way by highlighting what seemed to be his main influences. Every great artist has their influences, you just have to have the knowledge of the medium to find them. I mean, it's easy to see Ridley's influence in Tony's work because we all know Ridley's work fairly well, but who can see the Michael Powell influence in Martin Scorsese's filmography? It's there. You just have to know Powell to see it, and most people don't know Powell all that well (I don't, but I'll correct that soon). So, with his influences, where does he start mixing and matching them himself? Where does he feel like he's breaking out in new directions that come from his own desire to make cinema his own way? Well, I don't think there's a pure place for artists where they create something out of nothing, it's about combining what they know and like into something unique for them. And where Tony Scott was unique was his visuals. The best way to demonstrate that is an example, so below is his entry in the early 00s short film series produced by BMW (as well as the two Scott brothers) titled The Hire, his entry titled Beat the Devil: That extreme effort at visual chaos might be the purest form of what Scott ended up trying to do after Simpson died and while he was in the earlier days of working with Ridley in an official capacity. I find it headache inducing, personally, and he took it to feature length with his movie about Domino Harvey, Domino. This is just endless high-octane editing, never settling down to actually let anyone in the audience see what's going on, never letting actors have a moment to make their own contributions known. It is director and editor at the center, leaving everyone behind, including the audience. I think there's a reason he only really tried this technique at the feature length once. Pretty much everyone rejected it (although Tarantino and Edgar Wright have expressed deeply held appreciation for the film, which I don't get, but whatever). So, is Domino the purest form of Tony Scott? The Pure Tony Scott I don't think it is. Domino seems to represent Tony Scott most at one moment in his life, the mid-00s when he was trying to make himself into something beyond the Simpson tool and Ridley mimic. It's more of a timepiece than a reflection on his work as a whole. The focus on its actors is too diffuse. The quality of its stars is too low (Keira Knightley was more of a flash in the pan in Hollywood, an identifiable face within an ensemble, than a real movie star). The script was too...experimental and unfocused (Domino isn't even the protagonist of a movie named after her). No, the purest example of Tony Scott as an artist of action, populist cinema is what I think to be his best film, Unstoppable (probably an unpopular opinion, especially with the love that True Romance gets). Unstoppable is pure formula, essentially a Roger Corman movie made with $100 million and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine where Corman found a train he could use and made Scott go and build a film around it. It has telltale signs of Simpson influence (the action, the mentor relationship, the bridging of the divide between antagonists in the beginning to become friends in the face of the real antagonist in the end, movie stars), but told in a simpler, more grounded, lower-class way than Simpson ever would have. Simpson's world was a world of the elite's elite in dangerous professions, not working-class guys rising to an occasion to fix a problem. Visually, the film doesn't have nearly as much of that editing incoherence that defined Domino (it was obvious he'd largely cast if off with his follow-up film to Domino, Deja Vu), but you can still feel that Ridley influence in the visuals because they're so baked in the cake of everything Scott did by that point. It's this combination of him, Simpson, and Ridley told in this surprisingly tight little package of explosive destruction and action that meshed well with his penchant for action-filmmaking but also the tense aspects of the script. Honestly, Unstoppable feels like everything Scott had been trying to do as a filmmaker since Top Gun. It is the one movie that feels fully his, fully like he made the movie he wanted to make, the movie that his career had been building to. It probably sounds like I'm overpraising it as some sort of masterpiece. I wouldn’t go that far, but I do love the film and think it's a great entertainment. In the End And Unstoppable was his final film. He threw himself off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in 2012, reportedly because of a cancer diagnosis (though, supposedly, there was no cancer found in his body), and he died. It seems obvious, based on the little that I've read of his relationship with his elder brother, that Tony was a troubled man who leaned heavily on his elder sibling for emotional support. They both had survived their eldest brother, Frank, who died in 1980 due to skin cancer. Ridley had put him on the track that led him to film directing in general by talking him into starting Scott Free instead of working for the BBC because the former would lead him to buying a Ferrari sooner (it worked). The cancer diagnosis must have been something he kept from Ridley and didn't know how to process, leading to despair, which is a terrible thing. And he left behind a legacy of films that were popular in their day and mostly have aged fairly well. My own opinions don't matter, but Top Gun, True Romance, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Man on Fire, and Unstoppable should all have shelf lives that go on for a few more decades to entertain people with their charms and thrills. That's far from nothing. Movies of Today Opening in Theaters: Megalopolis The Wild Robot Movies I Saw This Fortnight: Unstoppable (Rating 4/4) Full Review "So, I genuinely and greatly enjoyed this film. I think it was Tony Scott’s best film." [Library] Domino (Rating 1/4) Full Review "This is something of a disaster from Tony Scott." [Library] Man on Fire (Rating 3/4) Full Review "So, I think the overall package is quite good. It might be Scott’s best film. However, I just feel like something is missing in the back half that would give Creasy's actions more immediacy. Also, Scott’s visual flare continues to become a headache in increasing intensity, flashing needlessly in sections but, thankfully, not all the time." [Library] Spy Game (Rating 2/4) Full Review "So, it feels like Scott trying to, again, elevate his own material, but he couldn't judge scripts or improve them, and his stylistic excesses were beginning to work against him. He still has qualities to recommend his work, but this script is simply too filled with issues that need to be worked out on the page before pre-production ever got close to beginning." [Library] True Romance (Rating 3/4) Full Review "There's a sweet core, some solid action, and a lot of fun dialogue along the way. It's quality entertainment from Scott." [Library] Days of Thunder (Rating 2/4) Full Review "So, the first half is actually quite fun, doesn't take itself too seriously, and is just generally a high-adrenaline good time at the movies. The second half is a hodgepodge of dramatic nonsense that never connects and the movie doesn't actually care about." [Library] The Last Boy Scout (Rating 3/4) Full Review "This is solid, 90s fun from Scott and Black, buoyed by fun performances, a good balance between comedy, drama, and action, and a smartly written, noir-inspired script." [Library] Crimson Tide (Rating 3/4) Full Review "So, it's fun, but its one foot in realism betrays the rest of the film which isn’t terribly realistic." [Library] Contact Email any suggestions or questions to thejamesmadison.aos at symbol gmail dot com. 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 10/19, and it will be very spooky. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)Hobby Thread - Sept 28, 2024 [TRex]Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. By popular demand, a spin of the Ace of Spades wheel of hobbies has come up with a theme of BEER for this week. We enjoy drinking beer, we enjoy trying different kinds of beer made by different people, we travel to interesting places and events to drink beer, we collect beer, and we collect beer glassware in different shapes. Some homebrew our own beer. Beer is universal. Oktoberfest is in full swing which makes beer a timely topic. Are you a beer lover? Are you a connoisseur of beer? Are you a beerologist? Do you have stories of finding or discovering good beer? Do you have favorite seasonal beers or Oktoberfest beers? Are you among those that chase limited editions or beer made in low volumes? Have you traveled to drink beer? Do you collect beer or beer-related glassware? Have you brewed your own beer? Have you walked fields of barley or hops? Do you grow your own hops? Lets talk suds.As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to beer. Politics and current events can wait for other threads. Play nice. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls. Use caution when drinking and posting. Best wishes to those struggling with unpleasant weather. If you are in need and think the horde can help, please ask.September 28 is National Drink Beer Day. The date commemorates the birthday of Arthur Guinness, the founder of Guinness Brewery. The day also known as Arthurs Day. National Drink Beer Day should not be confused with National Beer Day on April 7. This day recognizes the day that the Cullen Harrison Act came into force after having been signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933 as part of the repeal of prohibition.Ben Franklin is often credited with observing the universal truth that Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Unfortunately, while true, there is no proof that he actually said it. The quote is believed to have come from a letter he wrote with this quote - Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy! The wonders of God and the rain are the subject rather than wine itself. Franklin also apparently preferred wine over beer. Regardless, Franklin is commonly credited for the quote that has sold a thousand t-shirts.The final point is the most important of all: The 1516 law applied only to Bavarian breweries. This is not incidental, because the beers brewed there were unique in the world. By the 16th century, Bavarians were already well into lager brewing. That is, making beer with yeast strains that fermented at cool temperatures. Nowhere else in the world was this happening, including in other parts of what we now call Germany. In parts north, brewers made ales that looked like the ones in neighboring Belgium. They were funky, wild, and made with exotica like ashes, tree bark and beans as well as all manner of fruits and spices. It is the same tradition that can be seen in historical remnants like gose and Berliner weisse. Duke Wilhelms original decree that beer be made with only hops, malt and water was appropriate for his charges. It would have been an absurd restriction for a brewer in Berlin or Leipzig. In fact, in a rebuke to the Bavarians, the city of Cologne even banned lager-brewing in 1603. Breweries in the north had their own tradition, and it included brewing with a range of ingredients. The Complex Half Millenium Story of Reinheitsgebot Q: Why is it better to drink beer from a glass rather than directly from the bottle? A: Drinking beer from a glass rather than directly from the bottle allows for the beers gas to be released more naturally, preventing your stomach from feeling bloated. It also helps the aromas to volatilize better, enhancing your perception of the flavor of the beer.Trappist beers are made by Trappist monasteries. The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a Catholic religious order of cloistered monastics that branched off from the Cistercians. For a beer to be officially recognized by the International Trappist Association, it must be brewed inside the walls or in the immediate vicinity of a Trappist monastery under the supervision of monks. Additionally, the beer cannot be brewed for profit but can only be sold to sustain the needs of the monastery, the monks, and the surrounding communities or designated charities.There are currently 11 Trappist breweries in the world, and they are responsible for creating 12 beers that are legally and legitimately approved to be called Trappist ales. The monasteries are located predominantly in Europe where the Trappist monks rebuilt after the French Revolution with six in Belgium, two in the Netherlands, one in Austria, one in Italy, and the only overseas brewery in the United States. Additionally, Mont des Cats in France has partnered with Abbaye Notre-Dame de Scourmont in Belgium, which makes Chimay, to brew Mont des Cats ale offsite at the Scourmont Abbey. Belgium and Beyond: The Trappist Breweries and BeersTouring Belgium to visit the Trappist breweries is a time-honored tradition of beer enthusiasts. Even aside from beer, the tour is a great way to see a lot of different parts of Belgium. However, if you go, do not expect brewery tours or hanging out with the monks. Most breweries and monasteries are off limits, leaving a nearby cafe for visitors to buy and enjoy liquid refreshment. Each has unique glassware which some people collect. This tour of Chimay gives a sense and provides some great Chimay history: When traveling in Europe, we have consistently found that most beer is local and regional. It is always fun to try something from the local brewery (sometimes that is the only option). The downside is the difficulty of finding it elsewhere if you like it. Here are three random examples. Somewhat ironically, Kostritzer (schwarzbier) comes from the former East Germany and is the only one I have seen available in the US. From Salzburg, Austria: TRex is not a home brewer. By marital edict, TRex is mostly banned from anything in, near or adjacent to the kitchen or production of anything edible or drinkable. Some are born to make. Others are made to consume. I know my place. However, many others are wise in the ways of homebrewing and many professional brewers started off making small batches at home. Are there some among the horde who conjure beer at home (either past or present)? Both success stories and horror stories are welcome. Found these on YT, but feel free to suggest other resources. The American Homebrewing Association says about 1.2 million people in the United States homebrew. The US is the largest population of homebrewers in the world. Homebrewing is illegal in Japan (making anything with over one percent alcohol) without a license. From my modest interweb research, it sounds like a rule that is not strictly honored or enforced.If a wine expert is called a sommelier, what is a beer expert called? Some use the term beer sommelier, but a private company created a formal certification in 2007 called a Cicerone. The term comes from the Webster definition of a guide or one who explains curiosities. The term was added to the dictionary in 2023 as a proper noun with a service mark in the beer context. Did you miss last week's hobby thread with a Lego theme? The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content. One of the best parts of the Hobby Thread is when someone is inspired to try something new or pick up an old interest. If that is you, please share in the comments or send me a note. Our friend PA Dutchman sent this: Attached is a shot of my finished Tamiya 1/35 Type 97 Chi-Ha. It was a blast to build and the first model I've built in about 35 years. Thanks for the hobby thread for inspiring me to dig the kit out and get it done. The model is based on a tank from the 1st Tank Regiment of the Imperial Japanese Army, which took part in the invasion of the Malay Peninsula on December 8, 1941. First model in 35 years - wow. Thank you! Notable comments from last week: 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). Do you need another reminder to join the horde at the TX MoMe? On the fence and not sure? Be not afraid. Get thee to Texas. Contact info in the banner on the left for Ben Had. If beer or beer-related material is are not your thing and you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, there might be something wrong with you. In that unlikely event, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different hobby next time around. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Ace of Spades is not responsible for any skunked beer. No Bud Light was utilized in the production of this post. Duffman can never die. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Welcome Hobbiests and Beer drinkers
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 05:35 PM (fwDg9) 2
I almost expect a teenage girl to pop out of the cupola
Great job PA Dutchman Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 05:37 PM (fwDg9) 3
Hello, hobby folken,
In my drinking days I often drank beer, but I was no connoisseur. Whatever was on sale was fine. Though I especially liked Lone Star, that brand out of Texas that was sold as far east as Lafayette, LA, and Pabst Blue Ribbon. I really don't recall if I ever had any English beers, warm or otherwise. Oh, there was the Foster's Australian beer in the big oil can. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 05:39 PM (omVj0) 4
Well, there is Arrogant Bastard Ale. Not bad.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 05:39 PM (Q4IgG) 5
Drinking beer is definitely one of my hobbies. I'm always practicing--some day I hope to go pro!
Of glassware, I only have two of interest--a glass mug from The American Spectator, and a "tulip" from Red Letter Media that says "Half in the Bag." Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 28, 2024 05:41 PM (CHHv1) 6
The Wheel of Hobbies stops on BEER on National Drink Beer Day?
What are the odds? I smell divine intervention at work. Or maybe that's just the hops. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 05:41 PM (BpYfr) 7
I don't drink as much beer as my younger days, so if your not drinking much might as well get good craft beers.
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 05:42 PM (fwDg9) 8
Mongo like Mongo Beer
Posted by: Mongo at September 28, 2024 05:43 PM (63Dwl) 9
Beer out of a pilsner glass is the best. You keep the glass at the top rack of the freezer, pour the beer in slowly, just a little foam. Sip, eat, sip, eat, repeat. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 05:43 PM (RKVpM) 10
Ice cold beer on a hot day. I am not much of a beer drinker but I really like Guinness and enjoyed the pony size Coronas with a slice of lime.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 05:43 PM (I1GXe) 11
I've seen Stiegl for sale here in Columbus. I think I bought some once and liked it.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at September 28, 2024 05:43 PM (sJHOI) 12
Not a beer drinker here.
My parents had a Lone Star Beer coin bank shaped like a barrel. Instead of a rubber plug on bottom, it had a threaded one made of resin (or whatever the bank itself was made of. Didn't seem like cheap plastic) Not sure how tall it was, but it seemed rather large. Maybe 12 inches? Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 05:44 PM (njWTi) 13
"If a wine expert is called a sommelier, what is a beer expert called? Posted by: TRex Fat, you call a beer expert fat. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 05:45 PM (lZVZi) Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2024 05:45 PM (FnneF) Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2024 05:45 PM (0eaVi) 16
PA Dutchman, that Tamiya tank is very well done. The treads even look as if they are crusted with mud -- that this is not a prototype, but one that got out there in the field!
When, late in my model-building period, I discovered Tamiya models after many years with Revell and Aurora kits, I was amazed at their detail and fine proportions. My completed tanks -- a WWII King Tiger and a West German Leopard -- both looked as if Dr. Cyclops had turned a miniaturizing ray on examples of the full-size machines. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 05:45 PM (omVj0) 17
I don't drink beer, but my college buddies (who do) and I used to get together a few times a year to brew it. Always a lot of fun.
They were all engineers (two of them chemical engineers), so they were dead-serious when it came to maintaining a high-quality, clean brewing environment. I don't think we ever made a bad batch. A few bottles did break after bottling due to being too full (too much fermenting can cause them to explode), but that's normal. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 05:46 PM (BpYfr) 18
A few bottles did break after bottling due to being too full (too much fermenting can cause them to explode), but that's normal.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 05:46 PM (BpYfr) Good thing the hezzies don't drink alcohol! Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2024 05:48 PM (0eaVi) 19
I like beer. I have other hobbies now, though.
Posted by: huerfano at September 28, 2024 05:48 PM (VGOMa) 20
44 years ago in the French Quarter we hit this hole in the wall oyster bar and ended up drinking from our own pitcher, no glass, our own pitcher. When you set out to eat 3 or 4 dozen oysters that's how it was. Good times.
Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2024 05:48 PM (LHPAg) 21
Something for Wolfus:
https://tinyurl.com/5n774864 Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2024 *** Amazing! This guy has done more than one adaptation in that style? I have to check his work out! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 05:49 PM (omVj0) Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2024 05:49 PM (FnneF) 23
Dad was a Bud drinker.
I took him to our favorite microbrewery (long ago) where we often went after work. With about 8 of my workmates and the brewery owner behind the bar we watched as Dad took a swig and waited for his opinion. "I like Bud better." brought the group to tears as we all enjoyed our 24oz personalized beer steins. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 05:50 PM (lZVZi) 24
Amazing! This guy has done more than one adaptation in that style? I have to check his work out!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 05:49 PM (omVj0) There are quite a few people posting things like that. This guy says he's in the business, so I'd say that's why it looks so good. Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2024 05:50 PM (0eaVi) 25
I did the home brew thing back in the late '90s. Other than a couple brews I thought they were all meh. I suspect the quality of the equipment is one of the most significant issues beyond the quality of the ingredients.
And having a favorable environment. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 05:50 PM (Q4IgG) 26
Beer was invented about 500 years ago - in anticipation that someday there would be a thing called chicken wings, which would require a beverage to "put out the fire", so to speak.
Wings without beer would just be inconceivable. Posted by: MrExcitement at September 28, 2024 05:51 PM (hOOi9) 27
6 The Wheel of Hobbies stops on BEER on National Drink Beer Day? What are the odds? I smell divine intervention at work.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 05:41 PM *** The Wheel knows all. But there has been a lot of theology discussed and discovered en route to the bottom of a beer glass. Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 05:51 PM (IQ6Gq) 28
I'm drinking a nice cold St. Pauli Girl, after a day at the range. I'm toasting the several hundred rounds of 9 mil and 556 that were expended in my quest to become a better and more efficient weapons handler.
I'm also toasting the almost unspeakably sublime fact that Hassan Nasrallah will never see anything like the ample and beautifully formed cleavage of the supremely fetching St. Pauli Girl that adorns the label of my ice-cold beverage in his perverted idea of the after life. Here's to you Hassan. Enjoy the weather. Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 28, 2024 05:52 PM (MkuC5) 29
I missed the pet thread but I see there was a chicken featured and there is chicken news today.
Douglas Carswell @DouglasCarswell In Britain from next Tuesday it will be a criminal offence to keep a chicken without registering it with the authorities. Clown country - You can't just let unregistered chickens clucking around everywhere. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 05:53 PM (L/fGl) 30
Not a brewer and actually don't drink a lot of beer. But I have some preferences. Brown(ish) ales as a group and a rather tart IPA when having light food like salad or buttery seafood.
I've come to like various Founders beers. Their All Day IPA, Dirty Bastard, and Porter pretty much meet my beer needs. And a far cry, and improvement, from the Narragansett brew so common in my Rhode Island youth. It had one redeeming quality: it was better than Iron City beer. Not sure if either brewery still exist. Posted by: JTB at September 28, 2024 05:54 PM (yTvNw) 31
I started brewing the day it became legal. I've bottled hundreds of batches, and the only time I've had a bottle break was when one had been through a hot dishwasher cycle for sterilization and lost its annealed strength -- a shattering experience at the capping press.
If you are monitoring your specific gravity, and priming the secondary correctly, the bottles won't blow up. I did have the top blow off a tun once. Attempting a barley wine, the fermentation went stuck on me and it "wouldn't bubble." I should have pulled some off and used a yeast nutrient, but I added more corn sugar. When it took off I was not around, and the heavy wort clogged the bubbler, built up pressure under the snap lid, and evenly coated the kitchenette without about a pint of very pure extract. Cleanup was an involved process. "I learned from that." Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 28, 2024 05:55 PM (zdLoL) 32
I was @Dublin, free tour of Guinness and such a green tourist, had no idea, but everyone in group was so excited! Posted by: zigzag at September 28, 2024 05:55 PM (JYmEz) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 05:55 PM (5p9UO) 34
they were dead-serious when it came to maintaining a high-quality, clean brewing environment.
I've brewed beer a few times. Clean brewing is key. Or else, you end up with Stinkbrau. Every batch I made was...eh...good, not bad but not great either. Honestly, I've never had anybody's home brew that was any better than okay. And some unpleasant. Pro Tip: Don't make Brussels sprout beer. This is one of those things that the Pros do very well across the board. Why subject yourself to mediocre stuff even if it is home brewed. Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 05:55 PM (eDfFs) 35
I can't count the number of gallons I have brewed, my at home personal record is 40 gal in one day, 2 20gal batches. I was president of the beer club at the time and had 75 brewers over, and in one day brewed 1140 gallons of beer.
Brewed at a brewery 3 times and after helping design a brewery and having the owners 'bottom feed' on salary I turned down a job as a brewmeister. I haven't brewed in 20 years; but, I have the gear and have started looking into malted barley and available hop varieties recently. It may happen again! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 05:57 PM (lZVZi) 36
I've home-brewed kombucha (mostly for the wife), but never beer. I've also home-brewed kvass, which is a fermented Russian drink made with stale dark bread; think "prison wine" without fruit. If you barely ferment it, it's almost a soft drink. Let it go too long and it's too bitter for my taste.
Posted by: PabloD at September 28, 2024 05:58 PM (DDP4b) 37
34 Pro Tip: Don't make Brussels sprout beer.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 05:55 PM *** or drink it. Just to be safe. Yikes. Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 05:58 PM (IQ6Gq) 38
Homebrewer here - generally all grain, no sparge. Started the hobby making meads, but shifted to beers once we had kids. Not as frequent this year, pipeline is currently empty, but I keg, and like to have two on tap at once - if I'm aggressive in brewing weekends close to each other, maybe a 3rd in a keg on deck. Love being able to brew obscure styles not usually exported to the US. One of my two best recipes is a decent English Mild that comes in at 3.8%, but lots of flavor. The other best is a Maibock at maybe 6.7%, but you wouldn't know it - sneaks up on you. Recently did a belgian "singel" or patersbier - belgian flavor, but sessionable - wife liked that one.
Posted by: MD_Mike at September 28, 2024 05:58 PM (BouEL) 39
30 It had one redeeming quality: it was better than Iron City beer. Not sure if either brewery still exist.
Posted by: JTB at September 28, 2024 05:54 PM *** Iron City and IC Light both still exist, but been many, many years since I've hoisted either. Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 06:00 PM (IQ6Gq) 40
My wife loves beer and today is her birthday, which magically aligns with National Drink Beer Day??! Plus, this thread popping up about beer? This calls for Belgium tripel for the wife and I…. In glasses of course. Don’t want to feel bloated!
Posted by: HappyFun at September 28, 2024 06:02 PM (aIURK) 41
40 My wife loves beer and today is her birthday, which magically aligns with National Drink Beer Day??! Plus, this thread popping up about beer? This calls for Belgium tripel for the wife and I…. In glasses of course. Don’t want to feel bloated!
Posted by: HappyFun at September 28, 2024 06:02 PM *** Divine providence. Happy birthday to your bride! Prost! Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 06:04 PM (IQ6Gq) 42
I keg, and like to have two on tap at once - if I'm aggressive in brewing weekends close to each other, maybe a 3rd in a keg on deck.
Posted by: MD_Mike I had a temp controlled chest freezer (9ft IIRC) and had 11 corny kegs with different beers on tap at one time. As you probably guess they all had 'cobra' taps. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 06:06 PM (lZVZi) 43
Beer is good for chasing whiskey.
Cigarettes for chasing everything else. At least, that's how I remember it. I was drunk at the time. Old Style kegs was my fraternity's go to beer. Posted by: Accomack at September 28, 2024 06:07 PM (tLPHV) 44
You don't often hear brewers make fun of the ultra lite beers, because they know how hard it is to make it without it going off. No, I don't 'like' it, but it is an achievement.
Last I heard, Iron City was being brewed in the former Rolling Rock brewery in the Laurel Highlands. It was all you could get at Nelson Ledges in the old days, and was stunningly good very cold and in a metal can -- as if it had been laid down for that purpose. Another great beer in metal was the old Andeker of America. Some hops are described as "brassy," and the metal can (before plastic linings!) really bore this out. Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 28, 2024 06:08 PM (zdLoL) 45
This calls for Belgium tripel for the wife and I…. In glasses of course. Don’t want to feel bloated!
Posted by: HappyFun Nice! I brewed a Belgium Tripel only once, 11%, it was well appreciated. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 06:08 PM (lZVZi) 46
I don't often drink beer, though maybe I should substitute it for the evening cocktail. There are more calories in 2-3 shots of booze than in one beer, and the beer will take longer to drink.
Posted by: PabloD at September 28, 2024 06:08 PM (DDP4b) 47
My niece home-brews and she has a degree in Chemical Engineering. There may be a connection.
Posted by: huerfano at September 28, 2024 06:08 PM (VGOMa) 48
Yesterday, I noticed the grocery had the Octoberfest beers out, so I bought a 4-pack of Ayinger October-Fest Marzen Very tasty and smooth, very drinkable with food, of course! It had a really nice malty flavor. Malt seems to have gone out of style these days with everyone going hog wild on the hops. I like hops and some of the over-hopped beers but I prefer a nicely balanced brew where the hops makes it crisp and the malt makes it smooth and just right for drinking with a meal. The Japanese do this very well. The beer brewed in Japan is clearly to be quaffed while dining. Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 06:08 PM (eDfFs) 49
Douglas Carswell
@DouglasCarswell In Britain from next Tuesday it will be a criminal offence to keep a chicken without registering it with the authorities. Clown country Mommy buggers. Posted by: Clarkson's Farm at September 28, 2024 06:09 PM (/U5Yz) 50
Attention Model Builders,
Eduard is having their E-Day sale until 30 Sept. 20% off all in stock items, including new October releases like the new tool 1/48 P-51B Mustang with fin filet. See of buddies will chip in to order as orders over $200, IIRC, get free shipping from the Czech Republic. Squadron and Sprue Brothers are having 20% off in stock Eduard items this weekend also, Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2024 06:09 PM (C/v00) 51
Food but not beer related. I may be adding a new hobby to the (too) many I have: baking. The last few weeks I've made banana bread, several batches of biscuits (that taste like biscuits), and yesterday we made Moki's pita bread recipe. There is satisfaction in handling the dough, learning about various flours, yeasts, etc. And it's making me appreciate cast iron cookware even more than before.
Part of this is just for the fun but part is taking more control of the ingredients in our food. I'll expand on this in tomorrow's food thread. Several weeks ago CBD sent me information about sourdough starter which I plan to put to use this winter. Posted by: JTB at September 28, 2024 06:10 PM (yTvNw) 52
You don't often hear brewers make fun of the ultra lite beers, because they know how hard it is to make it without it going off. No, I don't 'like' it, but it is an achievement.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver We all made fun of the megaswill brews; but, those brew masters have mad-skills. Bud tastes the same all over the world no matter what the local water chemistry is and what barley and hop is available. I used to joke that I used one of the megaswills for a keg rinse because I knew they wouldn't had any flavor and would be perfectly 'sterile'. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 06:13 PM (lZVZi) 53
Hops plants are amazing, the vines grow so long and so quickly! The roots are invasive, though.
My one venture with them, turned out merely okay-- got probably 1/2 pound of hops total from 3 plants-- I'd grown them in *huge* containers and trained them spirally onto pyramid shaped trellises. (Couldn't tie off to the soffet like I wanted.) They resembled Christmas trees with their little green hop cones as ornaments. Pictures died with old computer, unfortunately. One brother used to make beer, so I grew these for him. Sad that he didn't use them, but it was a great gardening year! Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 06:14 PM (njWTi) 54
There are more calories in 2-3 shots of booze than in one beer, and the beer will take longer to drink.
Posted by: PabloD I don't understand that last bit... Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 06:15 PM (lZVZi) 55
>>> 49 Douglas Carswell
@DouglasCarswell In Britain from next Tuesday it will be a criminal offence to keep a chicken without registering it with the authorities. Clown country Mommy buggers. Posted by: Clarkson's Farm at September 28, 2024 06:09 PM (/U5Yz) You may have my chickens... never. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2024 06:15 PM (FnneF) 56
Britain not alone in Chicken Wars. It has been discussed here: most towns have invoked chicken rules. Up to four hens and no rooster at all is a pretty common ordinance. In UK, all rules are national, apparently?
My frickin' next-road neighbor has a domestic goose patrolling. Chases people, if they let him. Across the street is a fenced Saint Bernard, not the mellowest Barnie you ever met. There is going to be a reckoning. Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 28, 2024 06:15 PM (zdLoL) 57
co worker was in brewing club "maltose falcons" .
Went to a tasting party. The judges were very drunk before the end, heck, most of us were. Started calling them "comatose falcons". Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 06:16 PM (uTs0B) 58
Ben Franklin is the kind of guy who would buttchug imperial IPAs with truants. No matter his contributions, he was a creepy weirdo.
Posted by: His Middle Name Was Wayne at September 28, 2024 06:16 PM (e13i6) 59
>>> 53 Hops plants are amazing, the vines grow so long and so quickly! The roots are invasive, though.
My one venture with them, turned out merely okay-- got probably 1/2 pound of hops total from 3 plants-- I'd grown them in *huge* containers and trained them spirally onto pyramid shaped trellises. (Couldn't tie off to the soffet like I wanted.) They resembled Christmas trees with their little green hop cones as ornaments. Pictures died with old computer, unfortunately. One brother used to make beer, so I grew these for him. Sad that he didn't use them, but it was a great gardening year! Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 06:14 PM (njWTi) How huge is huge? I've got some tubs with ~2' diameter and 2' + depth. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2024 06:17 PM (FnneF) 60
36 I've also home-brewed kvass, which is a fermented Russian drink made with stale dark bread; think "prison wine" without fruit.
Posted by: PabloD at September 28, 2024 05:58 PM *** "prison wine?" Pass. Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 06:17 PM (IQ6Gq) 61
When I was traveling around Germany in an APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) I found that almost every village had their own brewery. That's where the good stuff was. Really liked those flip top bottles as well.
Posted by: javems at September 28, 2024 06:18 PM (8I4hW) 62
What sort of pisses me off is the way some stores, not the breweries, will claim the beer is "local." I do understand the financials that drive this, but it still pisses me off.
If your beer is named "my city lager" and brewed in "some other city 100's of miles away" It's not "locally brewed." Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 06:18 PM (Q4IgG) 63
Trappist beers are made by young boys dressed like girls.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 06:18 PM (uTs0B) 64
Made a meatball grinder, would have been nice to have a beer with it. It's certain foods when I will have a beer with it.
We have only 1 can of beer, but wife claimed it weeks ago and it's still in refrigerator. Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 06:20 PM (fwDg9) 65
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TimberCreek is a local watering hole near Grove City, PA. They make there own beer. The Oktoberfest brew is delightful! Lots of winery's, distillery's, and microbrewers have popped up in the PA in the last 20 years. None of that was here when I was growing up. Posted by: Puddleglum, mmmmm, beer at September 28, 2024 06:20 PM (/Djer) 66
How huge is huge? I've got some tubs with ~2' diameter and 2' + depth.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket ------- Yours would work! Mine were homemade wooden planters, 2' x 2' x 20"deep Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 06:21 PM (njWTi) 67
Gosh, what changed that we suddenly have to have chicken rules? Couldn't be the importation of boatloads of godless swarthy foreigners who are uncivilized barbarians requiring draconian oversight (which is imposed on everyone).
Posted by: Let's Eliminate All Freedoms So We Can Be Browner at September 28, 2024 06:22 PM (fybOr) 68
Helena-- One plant per tub.
I bought the rhizomes online from a place in Oregon, can't think of the name right now... Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 06:23 PM (njWTi) 69
How huge is huge? I've got some tubs with ~2' diameter and 2' + depth. Posted by: Helena Handbasket https://is.gd/znkyJE The depth/size might work; but, you might need to stake them a little better than you think! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 06:24 PM (lZVZi) 70
63 Trappist beers are made by young boys dressed like girls.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 06:18 PM *** If you watch the Chimay history video, you'll learn that the head brewmaster on a day to day basis is a civilian who started there as a painter. He had the chance to learn to make beer and left painting behind. Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 06:25 PM (IQ6Gq) 71
About 30 per cent of the beer sold in Germany was never compliant with the Reinheitsgebot, as it was made with at least 50 per cent Wheat in lieu of Barley. Hefe Weissen.
Fresh out of the tap, there is nothing quite like it. Not a super hoppy beer, it tends to have more a calming effect, suitable for quiet contemplation. And drinking another Hefe. They are tasty. Interestingly Beer or Bier drinkers in Germany were sort of looked down on, was the way it was explained to me. Like the way we might look at Harley riders or scooter trash, say. Goddamn beer drinkers, Decent folks drink wine. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 06:25 PM (16bie) Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 06:26 PM (njWTi) 73
Iron City is still a thing in Western PA. Usually buy a case of IC Light and take it back with me to Babylon DC. Show that stupid town some culture.
Posted by: Puddleglum, mmmmm, beer at September 28, 2024 06:26 PM (/Djer) 74
Big beer fan. I blame my mother. I was born in Germany while my dad was serving and my mom's German obstetrician told her to drink beer while she was nursing so it's not my fault. She started me young.
There are a bunch of little breweries around me and I enjoy trying different brews. Not the froo froo pumpkin spice crap but different pilsners and ales and normal stuff. Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 06:28 PM (LkLld) 75
Was invited to pour at a Santa Monica beer fest, pouring Sierra Nevada brewery products. Good thing I had keys to my office around the corner. Zzzzz Zzzzzz. Kid in a candy store.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 06:30 PM (uTs0B) 76
I like beer. Not enough to make it though. I like steak too but I don't grow my own cows.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 06:31 PM (vFG9F) 77
The depth/size might work; but, you might need to stake them a little better than you think!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron --------- Stake? More like: run strong twine from soffet of 2-story house! Or from a tall pole, like the pro growers. You want to be able to let the vines down without killing the plant during harvest, then leave it to die back naturally, to feed the roots. My spiral pyramids were a minor success, but would rather have done differently. Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 06:32 PM (njWTi) 78
>>> 72 Helena-- I remembered!
thymegarden.com Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 06:26 PM (njWTi) Thanks! Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2024 06:32 PM (FnneF) 79
Beer humor:
There is a strain of hops named "Hallertau" and another named "Fugles", the former is frequently used for lagers and the latter for ales. There used to be (and still might be) a significant different in price per oz for the Hallertau. I brewed mainly ales so never bought Hallertau. Long ago someone in the US did a DNA test on the Hallertau available and found it was Fugles. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 06:32 PM (lZVZi) 80
Drinking German beer ruined American beer for me. Stuttgarter Wizen was the drink of choice, followed by Warsteiner. But never Eichbaum. Tasted like it was filtered through old pfennig coins.
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at September 28, 2024 06:33 PM (ojCLR) 81
@73 it was featured in the 1979 "Dawn of the Dead."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 28, 2024 06:33 PM (CHHv1) 82
No fruit flavor. No Citra hops. No Hazy. Posted by: Auspex at September 28, 2024 06:34 PM (j4U/Z) 83
German beer was a wake-up after American beer
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 06:34 PM (fwDg9) 84
Beer!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 06:35 PM (p4Gz+) 85
Nelson Ledges! I haven't thought about that place in years. Such fun!
Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2024 06:36 PM (QB+5g) 86
That Duff Brewery clip showed why the old Simpsons’ episodes were so great. One clever line after another.
Posted by: Eternity Matters at September 28, 2024 06:36 PM (eU82G) 87
Couldn't be the importation of boatloads of godless swarthy foreigners
There's a name for what's eating you, but it's Latin so I will not bother. No dipshit, it was scads of sudden-back-to-earthers who were raised in animal-free conditions all of a sudden deciding their 5000 SF lot was Green Acres, and parking roosters under Karen the HOA Chair's bedroom window. Also, foxes, coons and chicken shit. In other words: people just exactly like yourself. Somebody let your sorry ass in, and he and I will talk soon. Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 28, 2024 06:36 PM (zdLoL) Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 06:37 PM (LkLld) 89
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is superb.
Sours are interesting. IPAs are often not well balanced. I like porters. Stouts are often too malty. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 06:38 PM (p4Gz+) 90
Somebody looking for the banhammer on a pleasant Saturday evening thread about beer. C & P and off to CBD. Again. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 06:39 PM (RKVpM) Posted by: Stateless at September 28, 2024 06:40 PM (jvJvP) 92
Great work on the model tank!
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at September 28, 2024 06:40 PM (1v1Wh) 93
Never tried Belgian White Beer
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 06:41 PM (fwDg9) 94
Anything from Bayern Brewery. They also have a nice restaurant, limited menu, in Missoula MT. It's that time of the year. Pork cutlets, braised red cabbage and mashed acorn squash for dinner with a Bayern Octoberfest beer. Pumpkin pie for dessert. Yummmmmmy!
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2024 06:42 PM (2NHgQ) 95
Not only good beer, it was not expensive. About 8 bucks a case (of 20 bottles, or 10 liters) delivered.
What was REALLY weird, there were at least a few "barracks rats" stationed over there who never thought to try the restaurants or gasthaus meals, and were content to buy American shit lager light beer from the PX. That made no sense, although I guess "there is no accounting for taste". American bars and taverns were never quite the same after Prohibition. There are no "branded" bars in the USA, that is not legal. In Germany they have a "sponsor" and competitor products are not allowed for sale. Makes sense to me, I guess. This has the effect of subsidizing or at least keeping beer prices competitive overall. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 06:43 PM (iioOY) 96
Anyone else misread Stiegl Hell as 'Sieg Hell'??
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 06:43 PM (CEzQx) 97
Good grief, the banned guy has been stinking up threads today. I hope he's banned.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2024 06:43 PM (2NHgQ) 98
I've brewed a lot of beer. Not great but OK, so I kept brewing it and drinking it. For sure it was better than Lone Star, Pearl or Jax.
Posted by: Ronster at September 28, 2024 06:43 PM (+PI4p) 99
The increase in alcohol content in beer and ales has been interesting.
I can buy beer with twice the proof of wine. 1/5 the proof of Bourbon. Not sure it's better. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 06:44 PM (Q4IgG) 100
Samuel Adams is a bit pricey but there Oktoberfest Ale and Winter Lagers are my favorites. Drink way to much of it this time of year. Yuengling Oktoberfest Ale is very good, slightly less $$ than Samuel Adams offering.
Posted by: Puddleglum, mmmmm, beer at September 28, 2024 06:45 PM (/Djer) 101
Making your own beer I assume would be cheaper?
Not that alone would be your motivation Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 06:45 PM (fwDg9) 102
Beer is not a hobby for me anymore.
It is a source of income, since I got a new job in April. It’s quite amazing to see how beer is bottled and canned on a mass production basis. Posted by: PMRich at September 28, 2024 06:47 PM (eh5ud) 103
Guinness For Health!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 06:47 PM (ZC0L3) 104
How long does beer in a keg last?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 06:47 PM (I1GXe) 105
73 Usually buy a case of IC Light and take it back with me to Babylon DC.
Posted by: Puddleglum, mmmmm, beer at September 28, 2024 06:26 PM *** If you're in/near the Beltway or NoVa, drop me a line. We'll get together and drink beer. Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 06:47 PM (IQ6Gq) 106
Colfax Mingo? Remember that dude?
Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2024 06:47 PM (QB+5g) 107
I like the complexity of a good Hefe Weissen. Or a Pils or crystal.
To be honest many beers never really tasted all that great to me. OK, not great. Refreshing, to be sure. A Hefe is just perfect for my taste buds. It doesn't make people as belligerent, I don't believe. Just kinda sleepy. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 06:48 PM (iioOY) 108
They have several ‘Belgian Ales’ and such in the market here. Le Fin du Monde comes to mind, as does Maredsous. I can only drink a few ounces though but man! That stuff just hammers me!
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 06:48 PM (3Ope8) 109
It's not "locally brewed."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 06:18 PM (Q4IgG) Does it have to within 10 miles to be local? Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 28, 2024 06:49 PM (89Sog) 110
Shiner Bock makes me happy. I also like New Belgium's Trippel.
Posted by: mrp at September 28, 2024 06:49 PM (rj6Yv) 111
A sealed keg, kept cold, should last a long time.
Once it is cracked open, it would start to oxidize upon exposure to the atmosphere. And should be consumed immediately! So get drinking, fellas. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 06:49 PM (iioOY) 112
100 Samuel Adams is a bit pricey but there Oktoberfest Ale and Winter Lagers are my favorites. Drink way to much of it this time of year.
Posted by: Puddleglum, mmmmm, beer at September 28, 2024 06:45 PM *** Congratulations! You win the post #100 award. Fwiw, I'm partial to Sam Adams Oktoberfest as well. Good choice. Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 06:50 PM (IQ6Gq) 113
Home brew is often nasty. Folks try to do too much out of the blocks.
Stouts are the easiest to brew. Start there. Sam Smith makes a good, solid Oatmeal Stout. Newcastle Nut Brown Ale is also really good. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 06:50 PM (h66YK) 114
If you're in/near the Beltway or NoVa, drop me a line. We'll get together and drink beer.
Posted by: TRex ............................ Sounds like an idea. Live next to a metro station. Old Town Alexandria is easy to get too. My work schedule is wonky though. Posted by: Puddleglum, mmmmm, beer at September 28, 2024 06:52 PM (/Djer) 115
A real Hefeweizen is open fermentation. Usually has a slight banana taste.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 06:52 PM (h66YK) 116
Mmmmm. New Belgium beers, very good. Nice brewery in Asheville, NC. Fun day walking the grounds, tasting beer and a nice lunch outside. 1554 and Fat Tire are favorites for mr. nec and I.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2024 06:52 PM (2NHgQ) 117
I do enjoy Red Horse and Leon or Modela Negra
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 06:53 PM (3Ope8) 118
@Wolfus Thank you for the compliment! It's been a long time since I've built any models and right now I'm just working on getting my confidence and skills built back up. Just started on a Panzer II Ausf. G, also 1/35 from Tamiya.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at September 28, 2024 06:53 PM (QyT5w) 119
Pre-pandemic I had a nicely stocked wine cellar. Nothing expensive just a lot of Cabernet Sauvignon. Then came the lockdowns and the lockouts. Wine is not really my thing except occasionally when it is really good. I ventured down there last week and it's nothing but a couple of 19's and 20's. Maybe a dozen bottles left out of once was a hundred or so. Should I sent the bill to Fauci for restocking? Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 06:53 PM (RKVpM) 120
Home brew needs to age a few weeks (in the bottle) to achieve carbonation. It also needs to the time for the remaining yeast to consume the more complex sugars that make new brew "green" tasting, with off flavors.
About 3 months or so is even better. The German word for "storage" is "Lager". That's what they meant by that, brewing beer and then storing it in ice caves or whatever over the winter. You'll have some fine brew come summer! Hops and alcohol preserves it, but the yeast clean everything up and make it taste crisp and clean. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 06:53 PM (iioOY) 121
"Newcastle Nut Brown Ale is also really good."
I was just going to mention the English Brown Ales. That was the only beer that I was able to homebrew that turned out decent. Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2024 06:54 PM (QB+5g) 122
It's not "locally brewed."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 06:18 PM (Q4IgG) Does it have to within 10 miles to be local? Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 28, 2024 06:49 PM (89Sog) ____________ I thought there were "requirements" for brews sold as "local." Federal. Not local. ATF stuff. Maybe not? Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 06:56 PM (Q4IgG) 123
German beer educated me. The Marzans, the Hefeweisens in the summer, but especially the Wits.
Belgium beer simply ruined me. Maredsous, Westmalle, Orval, etc We were in a "beer restaurant" in Brugge Belgium, and the beer menu was 2inches thick. Single space, double sided pages. Heaven.... Posted by: Grateful at September 28, 2024 06:57 PM (IQ6Gq) 124
'Bitters' in the UK were quite good.
Posted by: Puddleglum, mmmmm, beer at September 28, 2024 06:57 PM (/Djer) 125
While in the army I enjoyed two tours to Germany. Both in Bavaria. The absolute best bier I found was out of Augsburg and it was a helles style called Hasenbrau. Absolutely fantastic!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2024 06:58 PM (W/lyH) 126
Brown? Avery's Ellie's Brown Ale out of Colorado.
Posted by: Grateful at September 28, 2024 06:59 PM (IQ6Gq) 127
Mmmmmmm.....Maredsous....
Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 06:59 PM (IQ6Gq) 128
Yeah, slight clove and banana taste is the "official" determination for Hefe Weissen.
It's really super subtle, I wouldn't look at it as diagnostic. What I did notice, NOBODY can make a Hefe in the USA. I've tried them all, or most - and they seem to taste like shit, nothing like a Hefe, or really faggy fruity stuff with apricots or strawberries or whatever. "Honey Wheat" etc. I made a really great tasting beer using Wheat based DME and the proper yeast, but it didn't really taste like a Hefe. Better than anything that claimed to be one, though. One 6 pack I bought tasted like moldy cardboard. I mean, that shit should have been recalled. Tucher, Weiheinstephan and a couple other genuine Hefe's should be available in any well stocked beverage outlet. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 06:59 PM (iioOY) 129
I thought there were "requirements" for brews sold as "local." Federal. Not local. ATF stuff.
Maybe not? Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 06:56 PM (Q4IgG) I beg your pardon but I was snarking on a unlamented, semi great , poster that went by Banana Splits Guy and his 10 mile limit. I'll show myself to the door. Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 28, 2024 07:00 PM (89Sog) Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 07:01 PM (oYaSF) 131
It really shouldn't be called a wine cellar. Actually it's where every spider in the county goes and has an orgy that puts the P Diddy/Kamala sex tape to shame. Allegedly, yet repeatedly. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 07:01 PM (RKVpM) 132
* makes sure not to hand Grateful a Coors*
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 07:02 PM (I1GXe) 133
Fortunately I can still find German biers here locally. Hofbrau and Paulener. Prices aren't too bad either.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2024 07:03 PM (W/lyH) 134
PA Dutchman PZKW MkII are my favorite early war tanks
Hope we get to see it when done Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 07:03 PM (fwDg9) 135
The local Hefe was Lichtenauer, with a depiction of the local castle iirc.
It was called "Lick the Schnauzer" by local GIs, though it seemed to be well loved. It was the equivalent of about 75c for a half liter during happy hour at the local pub. Before the Euro. I was told that the introduction of the Euro was a shock - nobody changed or adjusted the nominal prices - just the currency. So what was once 1.75 Marks was now 1.75 Euro. Overnight. Like prices doubling, or near enough. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 07:03 PM (iioOY) Posted by: Grateful at September 28, 2024 07:04 PM (IQ6Gq) 137
Last time I was in Salzburg, I drank the Stiegl. A very good bier.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2024 07:04 PM (W/lyH) 138
@Skip Absolutely! This thread was responsible for getting me back into the hobby. The least I can do is share the results!
Posted by: PA Dutchman at September 28, 2024 07:05 PM (QyT5w) 139
Paulaner makes a decent export Hefe, as well as Tucher. I sure liked that Lichtenauer though.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 07:06 PM (iioOY) 140
Chip Kelly is a piece of shit
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 07:06 PM (k0Wyd) 141
Drinking a Maredsous is a meal in and of itself.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 07:07 PM (3Ope8) 142
thought there were "requirements" for brews sold as "local." Federal. Not local. ATF stuff.
I think most of the restrictions a based upon advertised claims. If you advertise as being a local beer to a specific state “Made in XX state” then trying to get beer from other sites can be very complicated and legal departments get deeply involved. Overall beer consumption is down across the board, and the large brewing companies actively pursue opportunities to help build new, small brands. The small places produce less than is wasted on a weekly basis in a big brewery. Posted by: PMRich at September 28, 2024 07:07 PM (eh5ud) 143
Chip Kelly is a piece of shit
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 07:06 PM (k0Wyd) *scratches Chip Kelly bier from list* Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2024 07:08 PM (W/lyH) Posted by: Captain America at September 28, 2024 07:08 PM (CEzQx) 145
When you need a thirst quenching beer, go for miller genuine draft or Yuengling.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 07:10 PM (k0Wyd) 146
My HOA is hosting an Oktoberfest next weekend. I am building up my supplies but i keep sampling the stockage.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2024 07:10 PM (W/lyH) Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 28, 2024 07:11 PM (89Sog) 148
Chip Kelly was once head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles semipro football team, now at college level. Not exactly moving on up, to the east side. With a deluxe apartment in the sky. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 07:11 PM (RKVpM) Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 07:12 PM (3Ope8) 150
Chip Kelly is a piece of shit
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 07:06 PM (k0Wyd) ******* Ducks, Eagles, Ohio St? Couldn't agree more Posted by: Grateful at September 28, 2024 07:13 PM (IQ6Gq) Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 07:13 PM (I1GXe) 152
Sierra Nevada has an Oktoberfest collaboration with Brauerei Gutmann that is fantasy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 07:14 PM (k0Wyd) 153
*fantastic
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 07:14 PM (k0Wyd) 154
I don't drink many beers anymore maybe 6 a month (and those only if I feel like I have "earned" them) so when I do it's the good stuff.
I like Gordon Biersh Marzen. Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 28, 2024 07:14 PM (MeG8a) Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 07:15 PM (k0Wyd) 156
Ocktoberfest is getting ready to break out all over North Texas.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 07:15 PM (I1GXe) 157
Dead guy rogue ale is pretty tasty. And Dogfish 90…
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 07:15 PM (3Ope8) 158
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I don't know who runs Sierra Nevada, but they are brilliant. Every aspect of their sites is a joy. Much like Stone in So Ca. Posted by: Grateful at September 28, 2024 07:16 PM (IQ6Gq) 159
Big fan of stouts. Really enjoy Founders Breakfast Stout.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 28, 2024 07:16 PM (2AW7/) 160
When I was in Germany back in the 70's, we were required to go up to our battle positions (in case the godless Russian hordes came across the border) and get familiar with the roads and villages. We'd typically make four or five stops along the way and would always stop in a little village gasthaus. All of them had their own brewery. The biers were fantastic!
I started buying the brewery mug each time we'd stop. I came home with a huge mug collection. Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2024 07:16 PM (W/lyH) 161
When I have a beer, it's a Coors Light, because I'm stupid and I don't care.
Posted by: Ronster at September 28, 2024 07:17 PM (+PI4p) 162
After bud light went sodomite I started brewing my own beer. So far I can't brew it as cheaply as the current corporate swill on sale, I always come out a couple pennies more per bottle. but the resulting brew is great. Its like top shelf beer (buck or two a bottle). I'm brewing ales (top fermented, quicker and more forgiving in this Texas heat).
Posted by: The Walking Dude at September 28, 2024 07:17 PM (yoFcQ) 163
The best thing about beer is there’s one for every taste. You do you.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 07:18 PM (3Ope8) 164
>>I came home with a huge mug collection.
I have what's left of my parent's collection. Many got destroyed in moves but I still have a couple old ones. Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 07:19 PM (LkLld) 165
161 When I have a beer, it's a Coors Light, because I'm stupid and I don't care.
Posted by: Ronster at September 28, 2024 07:17 PM (+PI4p) Coors is ok. If you enjoy it, go for it. Question for you, are you open to try different craft beers? Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 28, 2024 07:19 PM (2AW7/) 166
Dead guy rogue ale is pretty tasty. And Dogfish 90…
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 07:15 PM (3Ope Not a fan of Dogfish, but Rogue Dead Guy is mighty fine! Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2024 07:19 PM (W/lyH) 167
I started buying the brewery mug each time we'd stop.
I came home with a huge mug collection. Posted by: Diogenes This. I still laugh when I think about trying to buy a glass at a small brewery near Darmstadt. I don't speak any German and they finally understood I wanted the glass. It was 4 color and beautiful: 40 cents. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 07:20 PM (lZVZi) 168
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2024 07:19 PM (W/lyH)
RE: the dogfish….Yeah ya gotta be in the right frame of mind for an IPA like that. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 07:21 PM (3Ope8) 169
When I have a beer, it's a Coors Light, because I'm stupid and I don't care. Posted by: Ronster at September 28, 2024 07:17 The very first time I had a Coors I thought it was pretty exceptional. My son has a handbook for his homebrewing which breaks down the mineral content of the water used in various major brews so he could emulate a particular brand. It probably had something to do with that. Presence or absence of something made it quite different. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 07:22 PM (RKVpM) 170
Dogfish and HeadyTopper were all the rage once. Been a huge uptick in different types of hops with different flavor and aroma profiles so smaller craft breweries have been putting out awesome beers.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 28, 2024 07:23 PM (2AW7/) 171
Question for you, are you open to try different craft beers?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 28, 2024 07:19 PM (2AW7/) Sure, but I only have a beer about once every 6 mos., so not worth the trouble for me. Posted by: Ronster at September 28, 2024 07:23 PM (+PI4p) 172
I had a chocolate stout a while back but I can’t remember who made it. It was pretty decent.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 07:24 PM (3Ope8) 173
I still laugh when I think about trying to buy a glass at a small brewery near Darmstadt. I don't speak any German and they finally understood I wanted the glass. It was 4 color and beautiful: 40 cents.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 07:20 PM (lZVZi) Ha. I found they were very happy to sell their mugs. Usually about 5 DM. I also picked up Oktoberfest mugs for every year I was there. But my fav is the Checkpoint Charlie mug. It cool. Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2024 07:24 PM (W/lyH) 174
My son has a handbook for his homebrewing which breaks down the mineral content of the water used in various major brews so he could emulate a particular brand.
Posted by: Divide by Zero Knowing your water and what you need to do it makes or breaks your homebrew. Good brewers know their water chemistry and it sounds like your son could be a great brewer. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 07:24 PM (lZVZi) 175
Checkpoint Charlie mug. It cool.
Posted by: Diogenes Very cool. I was surprised by the low price; but, I didn't complain! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 07:27 PM (lZVZi) 176
Some good beer is liquid food. I like a good porter or stout but they're an event and take planning. Good example - Stone vanilla smoked porter. Haven't seen it for a long time and used to really enjoy it.
Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 07:27 PM (IQ6Gq) 177
172 I had a chocolate stout a while back but I can’t remember who made it. It was pretty decent.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 07:24 PM (3Ope I homebrew occasionally. I have a recipe for a nice breakfast stout. I add oatmeal as part of the grain I'll. 2 different types of chocolate, and I use 2 different types of coffee. Absolutely wonderful. About 6.5 to 7% abc Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 28, 2024 07:27 PM (2AW7/) 178
I see Shane Gillis is doing the new Bud Light ads. Nice move, but that ship has sailed. Besides the Zima-fication of the industry I have noticed that Voodoo Ranger is marketing a 19 oz can with a 9.5 abv for somewhere around $2.50. Bang / buck. Posted by: Auspex at September 28, 2024 07:28 PM (j4U/Z) 179
Brewed and bottled in South Korea, Hite beer was a tasty lager from a great tiny Asian market next to a mom n pop japanese to go steam table restaurant. All gone now.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 07:28 PM (FISOY) 180
A chocolate stout sounds good. What meal goes best with that?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 07:29 PM (I1GXe) 181
Lagers add a new level of complexity. Forments at a cooler temperature than ales. For the homebrew, you have to jerryrig a fridge.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 28, 2024 07:30 PM (2AW7/) 182
Not directly beer related, but mugs are available for those touring German Christmas markets too. They serve Gluhwein. They're not specific to a brand. Every market has its own unique mug and some change year to year. They're not expensive and very fun.
Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 07:30 PM (IQ6Gq) 183
180 A chocolate stout sounds good. What meal goes best with that?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 07:29 PM (I1GXe) Dessert. A good steak. Pair with something with bold flavors. Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 28, 2024 07:31 PM (2AW7/) Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 28, 2024 07:31 PM (Cbio9) 185
Fond memories of my first Oktober Fest, by the time it was over, I was ready to stay there after my discharge.
The woods were just like home, all maple, oak and beech with just enough pines. Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 28, 2024 07:31 PM (hKoQL) 186
Beer out of a pilsner glass is the best. You keep the glass at the top rack of the freezer, pour the beer in slowly, just a little foam. Sip, eat, sip, eat, repeat.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 05:43 PM (RKVpM) One beer glass I did not see: the schooner. Or is that just an alternate name for on of the ones pictured? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2024 07:33 PM (g0oAz) 187
All major breweries are carefully sited based on water quality
‘Most’ brands for a major corporation can be brewed at ‘most’ of that companies breweries. BUT there are exceptions for that. Some brands are only brewed at the original site due to the risk of a slightly different taste from a different water source. Posted by: PMRich at September 28, 2024 07:33 PM (eh5ud) 188
Time to say thank you before the next AoS act takes the stage. Thanks much for being here and contributing to the fun and games. Thanks for reading if you're a lurker or catching up later.
Write anytime. Always interested in hearing about horde hobbies. Also always happy to get together for a beer with the horde. Prost! Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 07:33 PM (IQ6Gq) 189
A chocolate stout sounds good. What meal goes best with that?
I’ve never given much thought to that, but a big ole bacon cheeseburger would be my choice. Gotta have a side of duck fat fries and garlic aioli. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 07:34 PM (3Ope8) 190
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20 Tweets from Bad Blue Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 07:34 PM (fwDg9) 191
@178, I use the voodoo ranger bottles for my homebrew. They are good bottles. That beer is too expensive for me but friends save the bottles for me. Those, Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada are great bottles for homebrew.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at September 28, 2024 07:35 PM (UTrUc) 192
Is football a hobby? Because it’s almost kickoff for UGA v. Alabama.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2024 07:35 PM (p4NUW) 193
4 Well, there is Arrogant Bastard Ale. Not bad.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 05:39 PM (Q4IgG) I enjoy it, and readily admit that I am what I drink... Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 28, 2024 07:35 PM (Cbio9) 194
For the homebrew, you have to jerryrig a fridge.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed I use a temp controller that the frig or freezer plugs into. You put a sensor in the freezer and set the temp you want on the controller. Then with the freezer set at a low set point you get the temp you want. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 07:36 PM (lZVZi) 195
@194, I use inkbird brand temp controller on my rigged up freezer fermentation chamber.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at September 28, 2024 07:38 PM (UTrUc) 196
CrotchetyOldJarhead, have you found the spray duck fat?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 07:39 PM (I1GXe) 197
Z Deplorable is a homebrewer. Awesome!!! Anybody else besides us?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 28, 2024 07:39 PM (2AW7/) 198
Admittedly I haven't brewed much in the last year or two I have been on more of a bourbon kick.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 28, 2024 07:40 PM (2AW7/) 199
You think AZ deplorable is good at beer his cheese is to die for.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 07:41 PM (I1GXe) Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 07:41 PM (3Ope8) 201
I met Ken Grossman, founder and owner of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company a couple times. He is a really nice man. Loves his brewery. They covered their roofs with solar panels and capture methane released during the brewing process and use it to power the brewery. They feed a cattle herd, managed by Chico State University Ag kids, spent grains from the brewing process. Then they butcher the cows and serve them in their on site brew pub. The beef is superb. You can tell the cows were happy critters.
It's a great tour if you're ever in Chico Ca. Apparently the brewery in Asheville, NC is also amazing. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 07:41 PM (4t1fl) 202
Ben had, where do I get the spray duck fat when in TX?
Posted by: Grateful at September 28, 2024 07:42 PM (IQ6Gq) 203
201 Apparently the brewery in Asheville, NC is also amazing.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 07:41 PM *** Can confirm. When it was built, apparently the locals called it "Malt Disney." Posted by: TRex at September 28, 2024 07:42 PM (IQ6Gq) 204
CrotchetyOldJarhead, for real. They make an aerosol duck fat that is outstanding. I use it on baked potatoes, fries and vegetables.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 07:43 PM (I1GXe) 205
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Beer out of a pilsner glass is the best. You keep the glass at the top rack of the freezer, pour the beer in slowly, just a little foam. Sip, eat, sip, eat, repeat. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 05:43 PM (RKVpM) Yea, and verily. Thin walls enhance the mouthfeel, IMO. Tried to ship my late father's pilsner glasses to my place. Packed them with mom's Corningware, which was dumb... Pint glasses were made for Guinness, however. Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 28, 2024 07:43 PM (Cbio9) Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 2828: I may miss all the other threads today due to various necessary activities, but I do hope the pet thread will include this story of the cat who disappeared at Yellowstone and somehow made its way to Roseville, CA (~800 miles) and was reunited with its people in Salinas.Cat left at Yellowstone makes way back to Northern California A California family is surprised after their beloved cat Rayne Beau vanished on a trip to Yellowstone National Park and likely trekked around 800 miles back toward home before being found. The couple, Susanne and Benny Anguiano, told KSBW in Salinas that they had taken their cats on previous trips, but that this time, something scared Rayne Beau and he ran off into the forest in early June. The Anguianos spent their days searching for Rayne Beau but ultimately had to make the decision to return home without him. . . Rayne Beau was likely already heading home on his own. Two months after that June trip, a woman in Roseville found Rayne Beau and took him to the local SPCA, where they were able to get information from his microchip and contact the owners. “This lady who found him and rescued him, she’s just an angel. She even said he looked like he was not going to make it much longer,” Susanne said. From Yellowstone to Roseville is about 835 miles, and just another 200 miles separates Roseville from Salinas. . .He lost 40% of his body weight on the trip. There may be before and after photos if you dare follow a link to Facebook. Tough cat ! Dedicated Cat! Dedicated humans, too! Courtesy Sharon(Willow's apprentice)
Murphy and Max having to share the back seat and giving me the stink eye about how unhappy they are.Not sure who sent this in, but Murphy and Max look like great dogs! Sifty's Warrior Dog Tex bravely saved the family from this sprinkler.Tex is a dog with heart! long-haired blonde bitch She was christened Marilyn Monroe eight months ago, but we call her MOMO, and she wiggles her ass and walks with a swagger that is irresistible! That's my bed she's appropriated . . . every night! EliBroAnd MOMO talks, too! Charming! Meet Bonzo, a feral cat who likes to nap on my couch. We’re about three months into feeling each other out. He’s a good little fellow, but I’ve only let him sleep inside overnight one time. I think I’ll start with an outdoor home for him, and then see what a Chicago winter brings. Thanks for the Pet Morons weekly thread. I am a regular lurker.Bonzo looks like a "Bonzo". Lucky cat to have found you. This is our most recent arrival. Fitz (Soyara's Justart Son of Fortune) is a four-month-old puppy from an "oops" litter in California out of Delilah's sister Dot (Ch. Soyara's Crowning Glory). Fitz is cute as a button, very friendly and is learning quickly about the perquisites and privileges of being a house dog. Hadrian the SeventhLooks like a great pup! I noticed the toys . . . What a nice collection of pet stories today. Thank you for sharing your pets with us. We have a couple more for next week. 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! If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 21 Some special PetMoron stories and photos there. I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Critters!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 28, 2024 03:27 PM (2UnvF) 2
ducks wearing crocs.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 03:31 PM (D7oie) 3
Rayne Beau? Really? I'm surprised the cat didn't try to get further away.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 28, 2024 03:33 PM (2UnvF) 4
Great Pet Thread today, as always!
I made the mistake of leaving a kitchen cabinet open while I was washing dishes this morning. Naturally, Hexie saw it as an opportunity to explore. Had to fish her out of the cabinet... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 03:34 PM (BpYfr) 5
I want to hug Murphy and Nax!!!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 03:35 PM (Tw+JN) 6
Thank you K.T.
I read the entire post! I have a situation similar to Bonzo except it's our friend's cat across the street. Trumpy was the dude who was injured a few weeks back but he's much better now. He comes to visit when the sun goes down. He comes inside for awhile. I have a towel on the porch for him to sleep. A little bit of food and water. He stays there a chunk of the night and disapppears during the day. Anyways, small cats under 10 pounds. What shoukd I get for flea protection? We're moving into October in Canada but I'd still feel better if he had something. I'll pay. Neighbor's are fine with this. Thanks. He's such a beautiful, sweet, friendly cat. His Mom and aunt chose to become outdoor cats. He was born into that but is such a social cat..... Posted by: Stateless at September 28, 2024 03:36 PM (jvJvP) 7
That chicken quilt is gorgeous
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 03:36 PM (Tw+JN) 8
So, Hadrian, is he called "Fitz" because he's from the "wrong side of the blanket" in the bloodline?
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at September 28, 2024 03:37 PM (FEVMW) 9
I made the mistake of leaving a kitchen cabinet open while I was washing dishes this morning. Naturally, Hexie saw it as an opportunity to explore. Had to fish her out of the cabinet...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 03:34 PM (BpYfr) Brings new meaning to the term "catfishing." Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 28, 2024 03:38 PM (2UnvF) 10
I never knew how much I could love a cat. Inherited from another. Now it's mine. For better or worse. Lol.
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 03:39 PM (nv4jJ) 11
Afternoon, Pet Folken!
Yes, I saw the story of the Yellowstone cat earlier this week. Incredible Journey stuff for sure. Things like that are why I don't bring my cats on vacation; there are just too many chances of our being separated. (I don't think my cats want to leave me; but they do love exploring, and going just a little farther, and then a bit farther, and . . . What was that noise???!!! and a dash into the bush, and there you go. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 03:39 PM (omVj0) 12
Happy Caturday everyone
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 03:39 PM (fwDg9) 13
Hadrian, Fitz is so cute!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 03:39 PM (Tw+JN) 14
How to pick up a duck?
Buy it a few drinks. Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 03:40 PM (hCjtc) 15
Fitz looks rather pleased.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 03:42 PM (zG664) 16
Oh, thanks for posting the story about the poor cat's journey from Yellowstone to Roseville.
It boggles the imagination. Also, get's ya right here (puddles up, pats chest...) Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 28, 2024 03:43 PM (MeG8a) 17
Lily the redhead tricolor corgi (she'll be 5 in December) and I had a nice little walkabout on the woods trail we have here in the northern Adirondacks. It runs in a 3 mile loop through the five contiguous properties I and family have here. The hardwood forest parts were nice today, but the color change just ain't happening yet.
We did the section with two brook crossings. Lily loves the brooks. The woodlands we traverse were all open grazing and hay meadows a hundred years ago, and I am amazed at the size of the maple, ash, and white pine trees. Some of the pines look to be about 30 inches diameter at chest high, and run up 25 to 30 feet before there is a branch. Lily either stays immediately behind me, like really close, or she gets out ahead just far enough to be clear of my hiking pole tips when I do the front reach. The brook we crossed is called Styles brook, and when that Betsy hurricane occurred a month ago, the Styles flooded and wrecked two bridges downstream of here, which ruined the 4 mile bike loop I ride slowly with the dog chasing me. Posted by: Mr Gaga at September 28, 2024 03:45 PM (N7QIs) 18
The "cats in prison" story is clearly from the UK, Australia, or NZ. There's the narrator's accent, the use of "labouring" and "organised" in the captions, and the word "jumper," which Americans call a sweater. It's great to see . . . but somehow I doubt the same outcome would obtain in American prisons like Angola.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 03:45 PM (omVj0) 19
On comment on Rayne Beau story was my thought
Don't take cats on road trips But love reading the story Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 03:45 PM (fwDg9) 20
Report on little blind kitten: He has learned how to climb a 4 foot ladder to access cabinets, and how to climb an appliance dolly to get on top of the refrigerator to play with the window blinds.
He got down by himself, too! Posted by: KT at September 28, 2024 03:46 PM (xekrU) 21
As for my two feline thugs, Stirling is settled on the carpet grooming . . . and wonder upon wonders, Dagny the Aloof is curled next to me on the couch. I mean, actually touching me. Come to think of it, she joined me this morning while I was brushing my teeth and settled down on the bathroom counter for a while for petting.
This is odd. I hope she's not sick! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 03:48 PM (omVj0) 22
Posted by: KT at September 28, 2024 03:46 PM
Blind kitten....ooohhhh. Bless you. Okay, I'm going to the pet store. Someone there should be able to recommend something to me for the cats and fleas. Everyone have a great weekend. Posted by: Stateless at September 28, 2024 03:49 PM (jvJvP) 23
My cat Dexter used to climb trees and fences.
Now he's too darned old and well fed. He just stares up at them with a wan look in his eyes. BTW he loves to ride in a car. How did I find out? He jumped in an open window while the car was parked. Had a cat nap in the back seat. Then I got in for an errand. After I got about a dozen miles away, I looked in the rear view mirror and there was his little cat head staring back at me... No panic at all. Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 28, 2024 03:50 PM (MeG8a) 24
Hadrian, is he called "Fitz" because he's from the "wrong side of the blanket" in the bloodline? Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey _________ I don't know, as we had nothing to do with it. But we had to give him a registered name. I wanted "Favorite Son" or "Fortunate Son" but we settled on "Son of Fortune". His daddy's name is Felix. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 03:51 PM (BkEzK) 25
I use Wondercide. I typically just spray but they do have a topical. It's not a poison but seems to works well.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 03:51 PM (MpVUb) 26
Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 03:45 PM
I am aware of a prison here in CA in which some cats are nurtured, kind of informally, by inmates. The cats are part of a "colony", allowed on grounds to control rodents, but not part of a formal program. Inmates are tough on anyone who abuses a cat. I think programs like the one above are considered from time to time. Posted by: KT at September 28, 2024 03:52 PM (xekrU) 27
a woman in Roseville found Rayne Beau
Which means that little cat crossed the Nevada desert and the Sierra Nevadas and was going in the right direction along I-80. Posted by: t-bird at September 28, 2024 03:53 PM (1ilEC) 28
Actually, the KY state pen, maximum security has a lot of cats around. The prisoners care for the cats and adopt them. The cats are not only well treated by the cons, messing with someone else's cat in an unkind manner is asking for at the very least a severe beating by the other inmates.
The place is called, The Castle on the Cumberland. It has that look and is very tough. The cats keep those men much calmer. Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at September 28, 2024 03:54 PM (YvvFZ) 29
I keep thinking the cat hitched a ride somehow or another.
Cats will do that, stories abound. Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 28, 2024 03:55 PM (MeG8a) 30
I've seen dogs from a distance.
Never had one as a pet but I do know that they "feel." There was some "study" that said pet ownership didn't make the owners any happier. I'm calling BS on that. Don't tell me dog owners would just as happy without their dogs. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 03:55 PM (nv4jJ) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 03:57 PM (hCjtc) 32
It's not that cool yet, but Mr Trouble is starting to remember the joys of sleeping inside. He's just coming in for a few hours in the morning.
And I have another visitor! This is a pale orange cat, I've been calling Creamsickle. Not sure if it's male or female. It likes to sleep on the camp chair I use out back. It's not as scared of me now, but wary of Jake. I will likely set up an outside bed for this one. Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 03:58 PM (MpVUb) 33
Okay, I'm going to the pet store. Someone there should be able to recommend something to me for the cats and fleas.
Everyone have a great weekend. Posted by: Stateless at September 28, 2024 *** Stateless, I don't know if Hartz Mountain still makes a topical flea treatment. But the last time I used it, on Linda's rescue cat Angelique in '03, it gave the cat the shivers and she looked as if she were going into seizures. We rinsed her off right away and she was all right. But clearly it did not agree with her. There are other things like Revolution (which I think is Rx) and Frontline; they work fine. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 03:58 PM (omVj0) 34
As for my two feline thugs, Stirling is settled on the carpet grooming . . . and wonder upon wonders, Dagny the Aloof is curled next to me on the couch. I mean, actually touching me. Come to think of it, she joined me this morning while I was brushing my teeth and settled down on the bathroom counter for a while for petting.
This is odd. I hope she's not sick! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 03:48 PM (omVj0) --- It took TWO YEARS before my cat Allie felt comfortable to emerge from her library. Now she's my constant companion and often plops herself down in front of me on my desk. Right now she's curled up on my futon. I'm grading papers and don't need her support there. Meanwhile, Jasmine horked up the food she just ate. Gotta to clean that up... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 03:59 PM (BpYfr) 35
Yeah, no. Cats may have 9 lives, but 835 miles across countless highways, mountain ranges, deserts, fences, predators of every kind ....
Kitty had a little help along the way. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 04:02 PM (16bie) 36
Meow
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at September 28, 2024 04:03 PM (/Djer) 37
It took TWO YEARS before my cat Allie felt comfortable to emerge from her library. Now she's my constant companion and often plops herself down in front of me on my desk. Right now she's curled up on my futon. I'm grading papers and don't need her support there. Meanwhile, Jasmine horked up the food she just ate. Gotta to clean that up... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 *** Oh, little Dagny is well socialized. She likes petting and having her belly rubbed and even scratched. But she only rarely displays affection, at least to me. She sits next to Linda on the couch when I'm not there, I'm told. I have this notion that she doesn't really approve of me somehow -- that I'm not up to her standard of manservant or something. In my experience, Siberians are odd. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 04:03 PM (omVj0) 38
I will likely set up an outside bed for this one.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 03:58 PM (MpVUb) Well done. "The least of these" should always be in our thoughts and behavior. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 04:06 PM (nv4jJ) 39
The prisoners adopting otherwise euthanized kitties made me cry. They know they are saving each other.
This is why God placed creatures on our planet. To nourish us. Physically and spiritually. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 04:09 PM (R+jVn) 40
Oscar, a 13 yearold that I mentioned Wednesday as having peed over himself, went to the vet Thursday and $400 later was told he had no kidney problems! Relief as he also appeared to get a clean bill of health but vet costs have skyrocketed. He did get antibiotics though and does seem better. Thank you immensely to those who have been helping with vet bills, it is deeply appreciated.
The 'kittens' are all doing well and have integrated themselves with all the others. Lots of playing. I'll post a link to pictures. Posted by: Ciampino - cats and boxes at September 28, 2024 04:09 PM (qfLjt) 41
Thanks for the recommendations everyone. I'll go see what the store has.
Posted by: Stateless at September 28, 2024 04:10 PM (jvJvP) 42
Ciampino's Rescue Kitties Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all There's another more extensive photo update #272 at the link. Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on "See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time. https://is.gd/WQ5JcT OR http://tinyurl.com/4pak97f6 Posted by: Ciampino - cats and boxes, even big cats at September 28, 2024 04:11 PM (qfLjt) 43
Vet bills have skyrocketed due to insurance. It wasn't like this in the past.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 04:11 PM (MpVUb) 44
Prison kitty story is awesome. I hope to see more of this kind of thing.
Posted by: Pugsley Hudson Mahon, Telling War Stories at September 28, 2024 04:11 PM (Ad8y9) 45
This past summer I was stuck in traffic around Indianapolis on I 465, and one of the cars I sat next for a while had a nasty minature collie that was teeth bared barking, biting and slobbering all over the window. Dog was flipping out, and owner made no move to deal with it.
Posted by: Drivin' 465 at September 28, 2024 04:12 PM (ml2cl) 46
Just a note on animals affected by the hurricane Helene in Florida- the prognosis is dire for many of them on the beaches between St Pete and Clearwater. The famous Seaside Seabird Bird Sanctuary on Gulf Blvd cannot yet get to the animals to check on their status- they do know most of those in cages outside should be ok, but they are very worried for those in the hospital section. No electricity there, and they are working hard to get to them. Might recommend a donation to help. seasideseabirdsanctuary dot org for more.
Posted by: Mr Wolf at September 28, 2024 04:13 PM (gGf80) 47
Fitz is a cutie.
Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2024 04:13 PM (oaGWv) 48
Some of you may know Mrs. E and I have had Mineola the gray woolycat we got to keep MadisonTheCat company after Pepperdog died, for about a year and a half. Mineola, who has passed to Minnie and now goes as Minnifer has bullied Madison for about 8 months. Well that crap is done and over. I have watched Madison beat Minnifer's ass about 4 times this week. Doesn't hurt her, just shows her who da boss.
Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2024 04:16 PM (LHPAg) 49
This is why God placed creatures on our planet. To nourish us. Physically and spiritually.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 04:09 PM (R+jVn) This. Amazing how much man can love an animal. Not in a sick or bad way. Sad that the disclaimer is required, but you know. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 04:18 PM (nv4jJ) 50
Probably nothing the owner could do. My Gary dog would bark at cars next to us and get hysterical at drive throughs. You have to try and desensitize them but you can't make them stop.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 04:19 PM (MpVUb) 51
The only thing better than passing a friendly dog sticking its head out of someone's car, is passing that same dog when you have a friendly dog sticking out of your own car.
Posted by: Tom Perry at September 28, 2024 04:20 PM (MX0bI) 52
The story of Rayne Beau proves the innate superiority of dogs. A dog would've not only found its way all the way back home, but would've- also brought back a bucket of fried chicken for everyone to celebrate his return. Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 04:21 PM (eDfFs) 53
That Yellowstone cat probably hitched a ride on a truck. A day later and 400 miles ......
Posted by: Ciampino - cats are ingenious sometimes at September 28, 2024 04:22 PM (qfLjt) 54
44 Prison kitty story is awesome. I hope to see more of this kind of thing.
Posted by: Pugsley Hudson Mahon, Telling War Stories at September 28, 2024 04:11 PM (Ad8y9) Here, kitty! That's right, bring me the keys! That's a good kitty. Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2024 04:23 PM (LHPAg) 55
Props though to Rayne Beau's owners for giving him an appropriate cat's name and not something stupid like Eli Whitney or Nostradamus. Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 04:24 PM (eDfFs) 56
Some dogs are indulged in their untrainability by their overly lax owners. Alas. Better than neglect or abuse.
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 04:26 PM (nv4jJ) 57
Hopefully pictures next week, but Stella had 10 pups last Sunday. Breeder says all is well.
Meanwhile at Casa Refugee, things are back to how they should be . . . according to The Cat. Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2024 04:28 PM (8AONa) 58
It's easier to pick up a duck that's wearing Red Goose shoes.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2024 04:30 PM (63Dwl) 59
If you've had a dog for three years and it's still shitting on the floor you probably haven't done a good job of training it.
Or maybe I just have some unrealistic expectations. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 04:31 PM (nv4jJ) 60
That top pic is great. Our Daisy's snout doesn't allow for such smiles. But she shows happiness in yips and wiggles and chasing her tail. The pup on the ONT that "neutered" a child rapist sure had a big grin.
Daisy the frantic young Malinois just had her after-lunch (our lunch) ball-fetching session. She sure does like to run, and I mean, races like crazy. When she's ready to go, she does not like delays. When she finally brings the ball back but doesn't put it down, that means she's done, and glad to come inside, lie down, and pant for a while. Glad to report that Daisy and Ony the old black cat seem to be getting along better every week. Haven't seen Ony hiss'n'spit at Daisy for a while now. Daisy doesn't get bug-eyed and turn away when their heads are near each other. They may never be snuggle-buddies, but I'm glad for increased mutual tolerance. I have *got* to get some pictures off my phone and sent to the Pet Thread of our kids' dogs and cats. A reminder that BluebirdOfBitterness.com has a couple of Caturday posts. One today is video collection of cats getting caught in the act. Posted by: mindful webworker - throw the ball! yap! yap! throw the ball! yap! yap! at September 28, 2024 04:33 PM (bqxS+) 61
Rayne Beau sounds like a Disney movie from 1958.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2024 04:35 PM (63Dwl) 62
I've been having some worries about Lucy the Fink.
Her vet doubled her thyroid medication based on her bloodwork a month ago. She was overly energetic (in a very fun, silly way) and lost a little Weight. So, I doubled her medication. Now she sleeps all the time and rarely greets me at the door when I come home from work. I feel it's too much too soon. Does anyone else have experience with thyroid meds and kitties? Lulu is 11. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 04:35 PM (991LO) 63
I got up to vacuum the carpet. From her perch atop the couch or table, Dagny simply studies the machine as it goes by, and is not upset by its noise. (I know she is not deaf.) Stirling takes one look at the machine, even before turn it on, and flees. He's learned the trick big Wolf knew: Hole up in the bathroom; it's the last room I vacuum and he'll be safe there the longest.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 04:37 PM (omVj0) 64
nurse, I would have that double checked. That is a very big shift in demeanor.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 04:38 PM (I1GXe) 65
Shadow has the Buckwheat 'do along her back again this year.
She retires under the shed to beat the heat and brushes up against the sap oozing out of the pine boards. Then she lies out in the sandy loam. We sneak up on her when she is sleeping and trim the dreads hair by hair. Posted by: sal at September 28, 2024 04:42 PM (f+FmA) 66
Fitz is gorgeous. Striking coat.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 28, 2024 04:44 PM (t/2Uw) 67
I'm surprised Helena Handbasket isn't here with chicken stories.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 28, 2024 04:46 PM (t/2Uw) 68
Precious the bichon is 16 now and I swear she is rejuvenated since we adopted her over a year ago. (The medical attention she's had probably helped.) And she loves to go for her walks. As soon as she sees the leash come out her tail starts wagging furiously which, with her being so short, is a threat to my ankles. She rushes down the porch steps ready to do her business and see what adventures might unfold. UNLESS it's raining. She puts on the breaks as soon as she feels the first drop and looks back as if to accuse us of some horrible prank. As soon as she does what is needed she heads right back to the porch, shakes as much water on us as possible then stares at the door to come inside. She is not subtle about this. Once inside, she does a happy dance, checks out the food bowl then settles into the cuddler with a contented sigh.
Dumb animals my ass. She has us perfectly trained. Posted by: JTB at September 28, 2024 04:47 PM (yTvNw) 69
Fitz looks like the super cute Goth boy in high school, with the eyeliner.
Handsome boy. Posted by: sal at September 28, 2024 04:47 PM (f+FmA) 70
That's a topic: How do your cats or dogs react to the vacuum?
Arizona the big part-Coon tabby evacuated whatever room I was doing. Marie-Antoinette learned to sit atop the couch and watch; I think she realized I would never allow the Big Roaring Thing to harm her. Chekov fled ahead of the machine, hiding in spot A until I approached it, then fleeing to spot B. Wolf learned early to retreat to the bathroom, as I did that room last, and now Stirling does that, while Dagny just watches from a high perch. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 04:47 PM (omVj0) 71
Sharon, me too. Tales of bluebell !
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 04:48 PM (I1GXe) 72
Does anyone else have experience with thyroid meds and kitties? Lulu is 11.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 04:35 PM (991LO) For me pets shouldn't get any expensive medical care. Let their lives be the as natural as possible. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 04:49 PM (nv4jJ) 73
Gary was a rescue at 8. Previous owner raised a neurotic dog.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 04:50 PM (MpVUb) 74
Hey KT...folks need to read that piece about Springfield posted at the end of the Commie thread.
Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2024 04:52 PM (QB+5g) 75
I'd talk to the vet and see if you can reduce those thyroid meds.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 04:52 PM (MpVUb) 76
I took Kaylee to the vet this past week to get some bloodwork done. She's lost a fair amount of weight over the past year and I was concerned it might be something serious. The bloodwork came back normal, though, so maybe she's just starting to show her age (she's 10). She's still about 9-10 pounds (down from a decidedly chubby 13), so I'm not too worried yet...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 04:52 PM (BpYfr) 77
Stateless, Seresto collars are the best; my vet said Frontline was already losing effectiveness.
Posted by: skywch at September 28, 2024 04:52 PM (uqhmb) 78
Thanks for the help everyone regarding the flea medication.
The dog is on 'Revolution' and the lady at the pet store recommended 'Advantage 2' for the kittens. So we should be good until the snow arrives. Two cats visit, with our friend's blessing, and I just wanted the protection. It's getting colder and I'm fine with keeping Trumpy inside for awhile at night if he wants to stay. Posted by: Stateless at September 28, 2024 04:55 PM (jvJvP) 79
77 Stateless, Seresto collars are the best; my vet said Frontline was already losing effectiveness.
Posted by: skywch at September 28, 2024 04:52 PM (uqhmb) Thank you. I'm going to bookmark this thread just in case. Posted by: Stateless at September 28, 2024 04:56 PM (jvJvP) 80
73 Gary was a rescue at 8. Previous owner raised a neurotic dog.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 04:50 PM (MpVUb) My late aunt got a dog from someone. I forget the breed. It was about 40 pounds. I don't know what snapped in that poor things' brain, but it was fascinated and driven insane by light reflections. Light reflecting from fridge doors, mirrored doors, anything would drive it insane. Crazy. Posted by: Stateless at September 28, 2024 04:59 PM (jvJvP) 81
"Trumpy"?
Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2024 04:59 PM (QB+5g) 82
Stateless, Seresto collars are the best; my vet said Frontline was already losing effectiveness.
Posted by: skywch at September 28, 2024 04:52 PM I use Seresto as it seems the best out there but beware of fakes. Buy it at a pet store. Online is open to fraud. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 05:01 PM (nv4jJ) 83
This morning I gave her 1/2 tab. I will give her a whole one this evening.
The vet had doubled her to a full tab twice a day from a half tab twice a day. I think it's too much too fast. She had a follow up oct 7. I'm cutting her back to a half tab am and a full tab pm. I hope she perks up. She's been eating more but drinking and peeing less. And she had pre existing kidney issues. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 05:01 PM (n2iAY) 84
Need to get a baby cat for our cat. He can be a room away and if the door is open the slightest he will race out. I don't mind if he's out for a little while but sometimes he's gone till late and I don't want him attacked by coyotes or foxes which we have around here.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 05:01 PM (92RGD) 85
Keep in mind that an outdoor cat with a collar on has the potential to get hung by said collar.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 05:02 PM (I1GXe) Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 05:02 PM (n2iAY) 87
84 -Meant "baby gate" not "cat"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 05:05 PM (3sB/D) 88
Stateless,
Please consider asking the neighbor if you can adopt Trumpy. You clearly are bonded. Offer to pay them 20 bucks. Keep Trumpy inside. Love on him. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 05:06 PM (z5h1j) 89
'bout time for me to take the kittens' current can of food out of the fridge, and to rinse out their bowls, in prep for dinner. They're used to breakfast at 4:30, except weekends when it's a touch later, and dinner at 5 or so, a little earlier on weekends.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 05:07 PM (omVj0) 90
Mr Ray and Ben Had.
Thanks to you both. I get the feeling this is not the last time I'll be getting cat info from all of you. Posted by: Stateless at September 28, 2024 05:08 PM (jvJvP) Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 28, 2024 05:09 PM (Ad8y9) 92
Keep in mind that an outdoor cat with a collar on has the potential to get hung by said collar.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 05:02 PM (I1GXe) Lol, and "outdoor" cats have about a five year life expendency. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 05:09 PM (nv4jJ) 93
Stateless, non prescription Capstar for cats in a pill form.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 05:12 PM (I1GXe) 94
Our weimaraner Lincoln is a year and a half and has been so quiet, no barking at strange noises or other creatures, until about a week ago. Someone tried to get into the rvand it really spooked him. It was just our neighbors son who had come to visit and was one site away. Now Lincoln has decided that he really has to protect us. He barks at everyone and everything. It's going to be interesting because we start traveling in 2 weeks and he'll be in lots of new places. I hope he calms down a little.
Posted by: Megthered at September 28, 2024 05:13 PM (VihIQ) 95
The white poodles, Murphy and Max, in that photo remind us so much of our first pups when we got married. Argyle was white and his brother Duncan was dark brown but that pose is so typical of them.
Posted by: JTB at September 28, 2024 05:14 PM (yTvNw) 96
88 Stateless,
Please consider asking the neighbor if you can adopt Trumpy. You clearly are bonded. Offer to pay them 20 bucks. Keep Trumpy inside. Love on him. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 05:06 PM (z5h1j Thanks nurse. They were just over for a nice visit. They will be fixing the remaining cats, getting rid of all the kittens and will be on a long vacation in the new year. So I already told them we'll take Trumpy. And Snowflake too depending on what happens. I need to wrap my brain around this. We'll keep moving slowly and let the cats transition here. Our dog is fine with them. I spilled cat food the other night and the dog and cat teamed up to clean the floor. No barking, hissing, growling...nothing. Posted by: Stateless at September 28, 2024 05:15 PM (jvJvP) 97
Ben Had, I agree, but the Serestos are breakaway.
Posted by: skywch at September 28, 2024 05:16 PM (uqhmb) Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2024 05:20 PM (84gkw) 99
Harian, your Fitz is beautiful. How do you differentiate house dog from other dogs. Do the others stay somewhere else? Kennel or their own space?
Posted by: Megthered at September 28, 2024 05:20 PM (VihIQ) 100
I remember I put a flea collar on Arizona once, when he was about a year old (1984). He was okay with wearing it, though since he was longhaired it made the fur around his neck look weird. When it was time to get it off, there was no way to unbuckle it, so I had to cut it off.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 05:22 PM (omVj0) 101
84 -Meant "baby gate" not "cat"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 *** It needs to be fairly tall. Cats can climb and jump! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 05:23 PM (omVj0) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 05:24 PM (5p9UO) 103
Yes, Wolfus, I remember the 80's ones. I saw one hanging in a tree about 40 years ago, where my cat had thankfully wriggled out of it, ugh.
Posted by: skywch at September 28, 2024 05:26 PM (uqhmb) 104
RMBS,
She certainly took a liking to y'all! Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 05:30 PM (z5h1j) 105
It's a good article on Springfield but I didn't want to post it on the garden or pets thread.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 05:31 PM (MpVUb) 106
Boy did I luck out with Lily. She was a tiny shivering ball of fluff in the cage at PetSmart, and she cowered inside her litter box for two days when I brought her home. But now she strolls around like lady of the manor and is intensely interested in what her human staff is up to. I can't read or use the computer without her interposing herself. I've found that a few minutes of intense attention and rubz satisfy her demand for worship.
Now, Mister Beautiful, the cat I tried to adopt a while back, I never saw except as a ghost lurking at night. His former owners took him back and he was happy as a hairy clam to be back with them. Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 28, 2024 05:35 PM (kpS4V) 107
HOBBY AND BEER NOOD
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 05:35 PM (fwDg9) 108
Noodus hobbyana ("beer"!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 05:36 PM (omVj0) 109
Boy did I luck out with Lily. She was a tiny shivering ball of fluff in the cage at PetSmart, and she cowered inside her litter box for two days when I brought her home. But now she strolls around like lady of the manor and is intensely interested in what her human staff is up to. I can't read or use the computer without her interposing herself. I've found that a few minutes of intense attention and rubz satisfy her demand for worship. . . .
Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 28, 2024 *** You sent in a pic of her, didn't you? She's a longhaired gray tabby, or solid gray ("blue")? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 05:40 PM (omVj0) Posted by: girldog at September 28, 2024 07:23 PM (GYrUF) Posted by: Fritzy at September 28, 2024 07:23 PM (LM1wn) Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Sept 28The enormous clump of Helianthus maximiliani, seven feet tall, has just started blooming, and the much smaller Tricyrtis will follow in a few days. Otherwise, the garden is pretty much done for the year. This is as good a time as any to look back and see what did well and what didn’t, and what did too well. Callirhoe involucrata is the prettiest of all weeds in the prairie lawn, with a splendid display of bright magenta flowers in early summer. Prairie Moon Nursery claims that it is well-behaved: “Mature plants spread out over about 3 feet. Despite these rambling habits, Purple Poppy Mallow plays nicely with others – topping out between 6 and 12 inches – which allows enough sunlight for other plants to poke through and share the spotlight.” Well, maybe — if grown hard with minimal water. In good soil with regular water, once established it becomes monstrous, rapidly overwhelming everything nearby. I’ve kept the plants hacked back, and they’ll be coming out entirely soon. I'm growing two kinds of milkweed, which monarchs have discovered.Don's Echinacea (photo at the link) was also attacked by caterpillars of the Silvery Checkerspot butterfly. But the flowers survived! Lots more great photos and information at the link. Take a look! Edible Gardening/Putting Things By By-Tor is still working through his bumper crop of Habaneros. We got a photo of Habaneros on street tacos, then a detailed recipe for Pineapple-Habanero Jam on Sept. 14 and Chinese Hot Chili Oil (with Habanero) on Sept. 21. By-Tor says the projects below worked out well, too. The hot sauce bottles came from Amazon. Still working my way through my stash of habaneros, this time with tropical jam (papaya, guava, pineapple and habanero) and habanero hot sauce. Yet another Mini Van load from another one of our Food Forests In Ogden. Dry Farming Fruit is much prettier, sweeter than anything you’ve ever ate before! Thanks to the tons and tons of Woodchips we use we can totally stop watering. This increases the sugar content and allows everything to ripen uniformly. YOU can do this too in YOUR backyard supermarket. Even though it is almost October using Greenhouses, Dry Farming and lots of sunshine our harvests are improving! Insanely sweet Donut Peaches, O Henry’s, Honeycrisp Apples, Bosc Pears, Tomatoes NO SPRAY. Will be at the farmers markets we attend in Utah. MORE Neighborhood Farms! Chads Midgley("Dry farm" here may mean "no water since the end of August". This sweetens the fruit before harvest) * * * * * * Illuminated Manuscript Seasonal dried fruits – a chestnut and hazelnuts – decorate the bottom of this folio of the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a collection bringing together a selection of "admirable calligraphies". A blue iris with spread petals completes the composition. This iris is also called England iris or English iris. At the end of the 16th century, when the monks of the Bavarian Abbey of Eichstätt received its large bulbs from the Big Island, they believed that this iris usually grew there. This sort of iris was later named Iris bulbosa anglicana. The small format manuscript was calligraphed in Vienna by Georg Bocskay and illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel, two Hungarian artists, between 1561 and 1596.Original: Des fruits secs de saison – une châtaigne et des avelines – décorent le bas de ce folio des Mira calligraphiae monumenta, recueil rassemblant une sélection d’« admirables calligraphies ». Un iris bleu aux pétales déployés complète la composition. Cet iris est aussi appelé iris d'Angleterre ou iris anglais. À la fin du XVIe siècle, lorsque les moines de l’abbaye bavaroise d'Eichstätt reçurent ses gros bulbes de la Grande Île, ils crurent que cet iris y poussait habituellement. Cette sorte d’iris prit par la suite le nom d’Iris bulbosa anglicana. Le manuscrit de petit format fut calligraphié à Vienne par Georg Bocskay et enluminé par Joris Hoefnagel, deux artistes hongrois, entre 1561 et 1596. Los Angeles, Getty Museum, Ms. 20 (86.MV.527), f° 52, 16,6 × 12,4 cm Marie-Reine Demollière Lawns are sort of silly things, but good for kids. I like a Cape Cod lawn - which is no lawn. Sand, some wild grasses, some Black Pines and Scrub Oak. Zero maintenance. Well, we can't all have that. Deserts are easy too, except for the golf courses.At last week's link (bottom of the post), power seeding (slit seeding) a lawn.
Near the Arizona/Utah border is this truly spectacular sandstone rock formation called the Wave that looks more like a surrealist painting than an actual place you can visit. The undulating rock formations are not only visually striking but also geologically significant, as the patterns are a result of ancient sand dunes that hardened into rock, then eroded into the fluid forms seen today. Marcin Zając Taken 9-23-24 Late afternoon and evening along Million Dollar Highway between Crystal Lake and Red Mountain Pass, south of Ouray, CO. Ray MathisFrom other available photos, it looks like the Million Dollar Highway is a great place to go to see fall foliage in the West. If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, the address is: ktinthegarden at g mail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker. Any thoughts or questions? I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
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Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 28, 2024 01:16 PM (GYhKE) Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:17 PM (nv4jJ) 3
Dunno if it counts, but I'm in a flowery mood!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 28, 2024 01:23 PM (qTM0v) Posted by: KT at September 28, 2024 01:25 PM (xekrU) 5
I think I mentioned a sighting of the wildflower called Slender Ladies Tresses last week. There's been another sighting. I would love to see these! Here's an article on them.
https://tinyurl.com/4exjzaw3 Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 01:28 PM (MpVUb) 6
Dudes who like flowers are total fags. (Trying to get something started
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:29 PM (nv4jJ) 7
6 Dudes who like flowers are total fags. (Trying to get something started
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:29 PM (nv4jJ) We'll straighten you out you little prick. Posted by: Guy Lafleur at September 28, 2024 01:33 PM (IDphi) 8
Nothing but Flowers. Great tune by Talking Heads.
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:34 PM (nv4jJ) 9
Good afternoon Greenthumbs
This is every year my prime season for my Anaheim peppers, have at least 6 nice size and ripe in bowl. Now need to grill them. And still finding a cucumber daily but they are really done for. Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 01:36 PM (fwDg9) 10
Dudes who like flowers are total fags. (Trying to get something started
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:29 PM (nv4jJ) - They often turn out to become notorious pedaffodils. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 28, 2024 01:36 PM (qTM0v) 11
Biden has a keen appreciation for flowering buds. It's been a life long passion.
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:38 PM (nv4jJ) 12
Beautiful photos as usual, and I like the yellow pea flowers on Don's site.
I had an interesting thing happen in the garden: cross-pollination of summer and winter squash. Specifically, black beauty zucchini and yellow acorn squash. Early this month, I had several weird, pale yellow zucchini that shriveled on the vine. I didn't catch on until I found an acorn squash that grew longer and longer. I'm not sure how to tell when it's ready to pick, but I look forward to taste-testing it. Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 28, 2024 01:39 PM (gJoNf) 13
Best time of year here. Leaves will start falling in a few weeks.
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:43 PM (nv4jJ) 14
Thank you K.T.
All the fruit looks amazing! So hungry.... Our tiny part of Ontario had the tiniest little black flying bugs that land and bite you. Very annoying. They lasted a week or so last year. Posted by: Stateless at September 28, 2024 01:49 PM (jvJvP) 15
Dudes who like flowers are total fags. (Trying to get something started
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:29 PM (nv4jJ) - They often turn out to become notorious pedaffodils. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 28, 2024 01:36 PM (qTM0v) Is there an identity based on stems? Panstemsual? Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:50 PM (nv4jJ) 16
It's been really pretty here in the PNW this week. Scattered showers, some lovely sunsets, and humpback whales visible from my beach. There's also a new baby Orca in one of the southern Puget Sound pods. I believe it's L pod. I've seen pictures, but not a live sighting. It's just beautiful seeing it swim with momma.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 01:54 PM (H3kqf) 17
We've spent the last nine days painting the great room, which was done in the Joanna Gaines palette of grey, some more grey and charcoal by the flippers.
It's now a warm cream, with white trim. The difference is amazing and w e love it, but we are now officially Too Old to do this anymore. We will hire someone to do the bedroom. I'm afraid I bored my friends over this- a fellow volunteer said "You're having an open house so we can see this, right?" Posted by: sal at September 28, 2024 01:56 PM (f+FmA) 18
Caterpillar in third picture is beautiful. Just amazing.
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:56 PM (nv4jJ) 19
We will still get some days in the '80s or so, but the mornings are lovely and cool.
Currently, I am decluttering the shed- ruthlessly- it is so easy to pick up stuff from the thrift store that I wind up not using. I will be mulching the paths, putting sheet compost on the beds and generally tidying up. When he recovers from painting, he will finish the compost bins in time for the leaves to fall. Posted by: sal at September 28, 2024 02:03 PM (f+FmA) 20
NaughtyPine at September 28, 2024 01:39 PM
The pale yellow zucchini that shriveled on the vine may not have been pollinated, or may not have been pollinated enough to get bigger. Your acorn squash may not be getting longer because it was cross-pollinated by zucchini this year. It may be the result of seed that was somehow cross-pollinated last year. Zucchini and acorn squash are the same species. Posted by: KT at September 28, 2024 02:04 PM (xekrU) 21
Leafs changing color are because they're dying. Fall is all about death and dying.
Posted by: Archer at September 28, 2024 02:05 PM (IDphi) 22
Oh and crappy pumpkin spice.
Posted by: Archer at September 28, 2024 02:06 PM (IDphi) 23
Mr Ray bite your tongue 👅
I need to clean out compost bit soon for the new crop Not looking forward to it Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 02:07 PM (fwDg9) 24
It's going to be in the high 90's today and tomorrow with red flag warnings.
Posted by: Archer at September 28, 2024 02:07 PM (IDphi) 25
Leafs changing color are because they're dying. Fall is all about death and dying.
Posted by: Archer at September 28, 2024 02:05 PM (IDphi) And the prelude to rebirth. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 02:08 PM (nv4jJ) 26
Race against time here in SE PA. I put my cherry tomatoes into the ground too early, and for some reason when the temps hit optimum they put all their energy into growing tall, but little into budding. Now I have hundreds of buds and lower temperatures. Maybe three weeks until first frost, about October 20th. It's going to be close. I think I understand why farmers will only key on growing one crop. The complexity grows the more crops you grow. I do know that next year I will devote at least twice as much area to growing stuff. More lettuce, more tomato, more cucumbers. Basic salad stuff that is not cheap at the grocery store, but with the addition of some small quantity of protein should cover at least one healthy meal a day. My advice to a beginner would be to concern yourself with growing lettuce and tomato, then expand from there. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 02:11 PM (RKVpM) 27
Skip, you are fortunate to have land to tend to. Of course you know that.
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 02:13 PM (nv4jJ) 28
Well my garden started off great and then seriously declined. I thought it might have been a thrips infestation but when I shake affected plant stems over a piece of paper, I don't see any thrips.
Posted by: Emmie at September 28, 2024 02:20 PM (Sf2cq) 29
I do hate crowding
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 02:23 PM (fwDg9) 30
The last week of Summer the high temps here were low to mid 90s.
The 1st full week of Autumn and we're seeing a mere 110F today. Mother nature, you're such a prankster! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 02:23 PM (bz8Vd) 31
The last week of Summer the high temps here were low to mid 90s.
The 1st full week of Autumn and we're seeing a mere 110F today. Mother nature, you're such a prankster! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 02:23 PM (bz8Vd) AZ, at least it's a dry heat. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 02:31 PM (nv4jJ) 32
17 We've spent the last nine days painting the great room, which was done in the Joanna Gaines palette of grey, some more grey and charcoal by the flippers.
Yes, grey everything has had its moment in the sun, that’s for sure. I’m also switching from S-W Popular Gray to a buttery cream shade for the walls. Posted by: kallisto at September 28, 2024 02:33 PM (9CXxi) 33
The produce from the Ogden Farmers’ Market looks spectacular! As fresh and yummy as the produce at the market in Ottawa.
Yes, Ottawa. Posted by: kallisto at September 28, 2024 02:35 PM (9CXxi) 34
South Jersey no longer offers fruits and veggies in abundance. It seems the old farms have switched to growing warehouses.
Posted by: kallisto at September 28, 2024 02:37 PM (9CXxi) 35
Yes, grey everything has had its moment in the sun, that’s for sure. I’m also switching from S-W Popular Gray to a buttery cream shade for the walls.
Posted by: kallisto at September 28, 2024 02:33 PM (9CXxi) We would do to well with a fifties-sixties style comeback. Today is boring and bad. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 02:39 PM (nv4jJ) 36
The Million Dollar Highway is spectacular any time it is open.
Posted by: Hal Dall at September 28, 2024 02:44 PM (mF+hx) 37
When is western Colorado going to have a "Greater Wyoming" movement?
Posted by: Hal Dall at September 28, 2024 02:46 PM (mF+hx) 38
When is western Colorado going to have a "Greater Wyoming" movement?
Posted by: Hal Dall at September 28, 2024 02:46 PM (mF+hx) Encroachment is a thing. The worst drive out the best. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 02:50 PM (nv4jJ) 39
Grass seed, especially Bluegrass, is going to be far better planted in the Fall than in the Spring.
I'm convinced the problem is Marketing. A garden shop that doesn't sell Grass seed and Fertilizer in the spring, and counsels customers how stupid it is to try and grow grass from Spring into Summer, would lose a lot of business. So they stock everything up and sell it, because the Customer is an idiot, but we do need to take his money, or else who really is the idiot here in the equation? Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 02:51 PM (U+NeW) 40
I saw the Thrips Infestation open for Fleetwood Mac at McElroy auditorium in '77
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 02:53 PM (U+NeW) 41
I painted every room in my house in a very light, slightly warm gray. The white floor trim, doors, and heating registers 'pop' with color. No hand-prints or markings visible anywhere, no issues after many years. 'Just say No' to white and eggshell white. Tone it down a bit and enjoy the low/no maintenance look for a long time. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 02:57 PM (RKVpM) 42
Grass, left on its own grows. Our want to have "lawns" takes it to something else.
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 02:57 PM (nv4jJ) 43
Lawns are beautiful, and have a cooling effect, too.
Not a fan of chemicals and herbicides and fertilizers though. I can grow prize winning, blue-ribbon Thistle though, and you should see the Dandelion this year! I'm going to offer the "Lazy Man's Yard Mix" seed, consisting of a proprietary, expert Blend of Dandelion, Purslane, Thistle, Creeping Charlie, Clover, Plantain, and Violet. Should be a hit. Easy to grow, drought tolerant, nice color. Low maintenance. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 03:02 PM (U+NeW) 44
'Just say No' to white and eggshell white. Tone it down a bit and enjoy the low/no maintenance look for a long time.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 02:57 PM (RKVpM) Green Orange Yellow of the fifties-sixties is going to come back in fashion. Just wait awhile. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 03:02 PM (nv4jJ) 45
We are finally getting a whole lot of much needed rain. We had about 6 weeks of hot and very dry weather. It started raining and windy very late Thursday night and continued through last night. Still raining but the wind has stopped howling across my hill. Not soon enough. My 20 year old redbud tree is now broken. One large limb down. The shitty old pecan tree has multiple larger and smaller branches down.
Better news.... My hydrangeas have flower buds! I have never seen one bloom the same year it's transplanted. One had a full flower in August but now all of them have flower buds. It's crazy how late this is happening. I hope it doesn't cause trouble next summer when they should be blooming. Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 28, 2024 03:05 PM (4XwPj) 46
Race against time here in SE PA. I put my cherry tomatoes into the ground too early, and for some reason when the temps hit optimum they put all their energy into growing tall, but little into budding. Now I have hundreds of buds and lower temperatures. Maybe three weeks until first frost, about October 20th. It's going to be close. [ . . . ]
11 PM (RKVpM) Last year I was taking a stab at trellising my tomatoes, and when it got hot, I hung shadecloth over the trellises and ran a mister under it to try and keep the temperatures down. I am never very sure if I ever got anything right, but I did get a lot of tomatoes. It might have been because of the watering though. This year I half assed everything and did not get much beyond cherry tomatoes. Next year I will go back to trying to do the shade and misting. Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 03:06 PM (D7oie) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 03:10 PM (hCjtc) 48
Pet nood
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 28, 2024 03:28 PM (2UnvF) 49
From Boise area: Highs 77-93 F, lows 46-64. Returned from a trailer trip on Sat. 21st. I told friends to come get free food - they didn't. I found many too-large zucchini, which I had to compost with a machete. Lots of red raspberries at first, though they've slowed down. Also lots of Sun Gold tomatoes, which are producing steadily. Slicing and paste tomatoes still coming in. Husband picked a few of the apples and pears we got - if we want to make cider, we'll need to buy apples. Gasp!
I've dug all the flowers out of one bed - they came from a hummingbird mix years back, but I don't see hummingbirds on the flowers that have survived, they aren't good cut flowers, and the lupine attracted aphids like crazy. Time to put that bed into food production! We just dug 2 more of our potato bags but I haven't weighed them yet. A number of these will become seed potatoes, since they're green. We had to pull the irrigation tubing (known as The Squid) out of the corn patch - heavy weeds this year... Husband has also had to repair my toilet, replace the bathroom fan in the trailer, and call a washing machine repairman - a rough week for our infrastructure. Posted by: Pat* at September 28, 2024 04:01 PM (diewX) 50
Common Tater at September 28, 2024 03:02 PM
Leave the thistle out and you may get some customers! Then plant edible thistles (cardoon or artichoke) on the side. Posted by: KT at September 28, 2024 04:14 PM (xekrU) 51
Finally got power in early afternoon here in Tallahassee. What a summer so far. Early in the summer we had 3 tornadoes come through town, and two months later the first hurricane. Now this one hits. So if you think you’re having bad weather, please hold our beer.
Posted by: Ron at September 28, 2024 04:58 PM (KDtr3) 52
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 03:02 PM (U+NeW)
You’re describing a variety of ‘eco-lawn’ The low growing mixes are getting some traction, but I don’t think my HOA would allow it. Thistle attracts goldfinchies Posted by: kallisto at September 28, 2024 05:02 PM (9CXxi) Why is communism rising again?I just finished Sean McMeekin's Russian Revolution and it was well-written and fast-paced. But depressing--because there were so many points between 1905 and 1920 when the Bolsheviks were on the verge of being wiped from history, only to be saved-at every point--by the venality, stupidity and conniving of their enemies, from the aristocrats to Kerentsky to the SDs to the Whites to the Western Allies. What an awful bunch. Posted by: JoeF. at November 06, 2022 11:25 AM (mR6Gs)Comment: What if the Russian Revolution had never happened? Or was stopped in its tracks? Of course, we live the really real world and the Russian Revolution happened, causing incomprehensible suffering, misery, and death for the next 100+ years. It's still going strong in some form or another...Based on the results of this past Tuesday's election, I have to wonder - - Did Communism win? Is humanity doomed to make the same mistakes over and over and over again? How many more people have to die before this insidious ideology is refuted for all time? Some of "Perfessor" Squirrel's questions are pertinent to Sean McMeekin's new book: I have to wonder - - Did Communism win? Is humanity doomed to make the same mistakes over and over and over again? How many more people have to die before this insidious ideology is refuted for all time?I think that this is one reason that the book under discussion here was written. I'm not sure that this question has been answered. In the current issue of the New Criterion, Gary Saul Morson assesses it “the best short history of communism I know.” It may be the book of the year. I invited Professor McMeekin to write something for us to bring it to the attention of our readers. Professor McMeekin writes: My new book is To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism. As implied in the subtitle, one of the claims I make in the book is that Communism did not really die off with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 or the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and not only in the literal sense that avowedly Communist governments still exist in China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Laos, and only slightly less avowedly one-party Communist regimes in Cambodia and Cuba. Rather, I argue that certain practices common to Communist regimes have endured, thrived, and spread to many once-free countries in the West, above all in the realms of government surveillance, CCP-style “social credit” systems, “cancel culture,” and forms of public and private (or semi-private) censorship which grow more blatant all the time. The Covid-19 lockdowns, from forcible government shutdowns of business to censorship of Youtube videos and the shutdown of government-critical Twitter accounts, to travel and work restrictions on the “unvaccinated,” were the most obvious example of this, but lately one can hardly miss the tsunami of news headlines about threats to shut down Twitter (now X), arrest or silence Elon Musk, or the sentencing of UK citizens for offensive social media posts. Indeed, since I finished drafting this book in spring 2023, the warning about creeping threats to freedom of speech in the US and western countries in my epilogue has proven, if anything, to have undershot the mark. Nonetheless, I understand that drawing these historical comparisons can be unsettling. . .There have been objections to his approach. Like all historians, I am writing at a particular moment in time. If I were writing the history of Communism in the 1970s, when the Soviet Union was surging ahead in geopolitical competition with the USA, winning new client states in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and American allies like Britain were descending into quasi-socialist stagnation owing to excessive state intervention in the economy, I likely would have focused more heavily on the woeful economic performance of Communist regimes, as many people – including, famously, CIA analysts – were then under the impression that fully state-planned economies could produce better growth and performance than freer ones, and it would have been necessary work to interrogate their claims against the historical evidence. For a western historian today, what really stands out from the history of Communism are the eerie echoes in contemporary practices of the hysterical moral-terror panics of the Stalinist Great Terror or China’s Cultural Revolution, the bright red “denunciation boxes” the CCP provided citizens to denounce class enemies and wrongthinkers, or the “unofficial collaborators” the East German Stasi relied on to snitch out neighbors and even family members. . . Of course, few of us today can imagine suffering the worst forms of Communist repression. . . But we should still be aware of relevant historical parallels. How many of us expected in the early days of the World Wide Web that the range of acceptable opinion would radically narrow rather than expand on the Internet, or that a speech platform like Facebook (as Mark Zuckerberg just confessed) or Twitter/X (until Elon Musk bought it and restored transparency) would cooperate with the U.S. government in censoring speech? Freedom of speech and assembly, once bedrock principles of American public life, seem to be hanging by a very thin thread. I have written my history of Communism with this in mind, and I hope readers will approach it in the same spirit of curiosity – and urgency. The verdict is in: freedom is clearly better. So why is communism making a comeback? This question frames Sean McMeekin’s impressive new book, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism. It’s a wonderful read by an engaging writer with a deep knowledge of the relevant history. The 462 pages fly by. Readers may feel a certain dissatisfaction at the end, however, reflecting that they understand the first rise of communism considerably better than the second. This is understandable; like everyone else, McMeekin may still be reeling a bit from the geopolitical twists and turns of the last two decades. Who does understand this with confidence? What McMeekin can offer is a re-examination of communism’s history, with an eye to spying those genetic elements that have given it such unexpected longevity. It’s something. Given the chance to reorganise society in Munster, one Anabaptist sect, led by a former baker of Dutch origin named Jan Matthys, began by cleansing Catholics and Lutherans, then seized all the gold and silver in the town, looted Catholic monasteries of their wealth, abolished money, and declared food stocks common property. The radical new social order was enforced by terror, with public executions of critics, and by the edict that all houses keep their front doors open, so as to ensure that no private space be allowed for dissent. In this frenzied atmosphere of enforced social conformity, all books other than the Old and New Testaments were banned, and then collected and burned in great public bonfires. Matthys’s ever-more-radical Anabaptist commune lasted about six weeks, until the tyrant of this theocratic utopia was cut down in battle and dismembered in early April—on Easter Sunday—with his head erected on a pole above the town to discourage future radical experiments.The accounts of impressions of Columbus concerning his first encounters with inhabitants of the New World are interesting. You may want to read the entire excerpt. What do you think? For some reason, the guy Tim Walz chose to design Minnesota's Ethnic Studies program for its school system keeps coming to my mind. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
I'll go let 'em know.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 11:20 AM (O7YUW) Posted by: Zombie Vladimir Lenin! at September 28, 2024 11:22 AM (uxCna) 3
I thought communism was toast. Guess I was wrong.
Posted by: international Toaster Conspiracy at September 28, 2024 11:23 AM (CV8a5) 4
It's not. But they teach marxism in all the best schools, including middle schools, as a way to hide the fact that fascism is the norm.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:24 AM (2l8ZD) 5
Under Communism, there will only be one kind of toaster, Comrades, and you will like it!
Posted by: Zombie Bernie Sanders! at September 28, 2024 11:24 AM (uxCna) 6
Under Communism, there will only be one kind of toaster, Comrades, and you will like it!
Along with only one kind of deodorant! Posted by: Zombie Bernie Sanders! at September 28, 2024 11:25 AM (uxCna) 7
Thx K.T. Reading about the Russian revolution and civil war is an interest of mine. The thing that cracks me up and goes along with JoeF post is that the Bolsheviks were kind of surprised that they managed to take power. All others on the left weren't prepared or didn't think the time was right so the Bolshevists said "we got this _ and the rest is history
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2024 11:26 AM (RTfY1) 8
Because under Communism, everything will be free, you can work or not work anytime you want, you can be supported for years while you write your novel, and you'll be given a farm if you want to farm!
Posted by: Idiot College Student! at September 28, 2024 11:27 AM (uxCna) 9
The Houthis lobbed at least one missile at Israel a while ago. No reports of damage
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2024 11:27 AM (RTfY1) 10
5 Under Communism, there will only be one kind of toaster, Comrades, and you will like it!
Posted by: Zombie Bernie Sanders! Can you even get a decent bagel in Vermont, Bernie? Posted by: Poppy Seed, Salt, Onion, Etc. at September 28, 2024 11:28 AM (CV8a5) 11
Because under Communism, everything will be free, you can work or not work anytime you want, you can be supported for years while you write your novel, and you'll be given a farm if you want to farm!
There are numerous people who actually believe this. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 11:28 AM (uxCna) 12
Along with only one kind of deodorant!
Posted by: Zombie Bernie Sanders! at September 28, 2024 11:25 AM (uxCna) I got some fancy deodorant that was being advertised on the internets. Made my pits red and sore. Proctor and Gamble product never did that, but I've vowed not to buy P and G product if I can avoid it. Come on, capitalism, be better. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:28 AM (2l8ZD) 13
A part of it was incorporated into Academia when the "Frankfurt School" brand of communists were allowed to emigrate to the USA, and setup shop at Columbia and elsewhere. Marcuse, Horkheimer, Adorno, et al. Kicked out of you know where by you know who in 1930s.
They expressed their gratitude by immediately setting about destroying the existing society. And there is no escaping the straight line from there to here, almost 100 years later. The Soviet Union died, but ironically their mind virus has not and is no longer a fringe long-hair worldview, but has been codified into law and policy and federal education programs and popular culture. They did a few tweaks along the way - replacing "Race" where "Class" struggle might have been used, but the technique is the same. Notice nobody talks about making things "better" except very vaguely. No, people want revenge, for something that never happened, perpetrated against people who didn't do anything. What could go wrong? Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 11:29 AM (R3wAr) 14
Resource Depleted Seattle Police Department Won’t Respond to Burglary Alarms Anymore
- I'm sure this'll work out well. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:31 AM (L/fGl) 15
Heads of tyrants stuck on a pole in the town square? I see no problem here.
Posted by: PabloD at September 28, 2024 11:31 AM (DDP4b) 16
The verdict is in: freedom is clearly better. So why is communism making a comeback?
1) Some people are really, really stupid and think they'll get all the free sh*t. 2) Some people are really, really venal and plan to take advantage of the first group to take all their sh*t. Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 11:32 AM (/y8xj) 17
Communism is a heresy. It is a religion and trying to refute it with facts and logic is a loser's game.
It can only be defeated with spiritual warfare, and the increasing secularlzation of "conservative" movements is why it is winning. Communism has never been stopped in its tracks by secular liberal democracies, it was halted the same way all other heresies were - with faith. Reagan and Thatcher had a powerful ally in St. JPII, and that allowed them to harness Western economic strength and military might to bring down the wall. We celebrated this by embracing sodomy, decadence and materialism, and here we are. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 11:32 AM (llXky) 18
All others on the left weren't prepared or didn't think the time was right so the Bolshevists said "we got this _ and the rest is history
The amazing thing is that central Saint Petersburg is basically unchanged from 1917, so you can still see all the locations where the February and October Revolutions took place. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 11:32 AM (uxCna) 19
Communism is evil. Satanic.
Destruction of the family. Destruction of God. Destruction of the soul. Envy Jealousy Sloth Lust Inversion of the Good and beautiful. Fatima warned about the errors of Russia. Because communism is evil, it will always be with us and it always needs to be fought. Our times are quite evil, and thus...communism gains a foothold. We are losing this war, and won't win until we return to Gods fold. Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 11:32 AM (vjxXT) 20
because we forgot that marx preceded lenin and stalin, they sought non violent means to the same end, indoctrination was the way in Western Europe, where it didn't take, because people on their own, would not come to this conclusion so Lenin invented the Vanguard the elite that would guide the proletariat to the right choice,
the Social Revolutionaries and before then the Peoples Will sought to over throw the Czar by Force, Lenin saw from his exile in Zurich that would not work, Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 11:33 AM (PXvVL) 21
I'm interested to read it. I wonder what his angle is.
Mine is this: Leninism was always the wrong approach to international socialism, but the fastest method. It fell apart in the 80s. But during its apparent successful period, the socialists in the West pursued the right approach - the long, slow grind of Gramscian and Frankfurt School institutional subversion, which the Leninists were happy to foster abroad, but not at home. Essentially, the candle that burned brightest flamed out, while the embers the Communists lovingly tended in the West eventually became the fire we're living in today. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 11:33 AM (awTae) 22
Joy Behar And Wanda Sykes Fear Trump Will Put Comedians In Jail: “It Could Really Happen - He Wants To Be A Dictator”
- Well, you've got to admit, Joy Behar And Wanda Sykes are jokes. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:34 AM (L/fGl) 23
What was the fellow who was asked, "What is it like to kill a human being?"
He answered, "I don't know. I've only killed communists." Posted by: Brewingfrog at September 28, 2024 11:34 AM (s/iIU) 24
Tearing down the Berlin Wall didn't let freedom into Russia as much as it let communism lose on the world. Same with opening China to the west.
The seeds of the communist movement we are now living through were planted years ago. Yuri Bezmenov never got the recognition he deserved. He predicted all of this decades ago. Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 11:36 AM (LkLld) 25
Why does it not die out? The complex answer is that atheists believe they can outdo God and create heaven on earth, if only they can control every action of every person. The short answer is greed.
Communism and it's half-baked brother socialism are almost entirely fueled by greed. Take what you want, and pay what you want. It is why every socialist system is ultimately doomed to institute slavery, strip the land, and then collapse. Then, like locusts, the perpetrators move on to a different functioning society and begin to steal from it as well. Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 11:36 AM (/5iXv) 26
Why doesn’t Perfesser Squirrel and the Ace Brand Moron Team have links to Amazon for books. (That can earn the blog a little cash).
Insty does that, and every week there are excellent books that can be linked for fun and profit…. Yes, I hat Jeff Bezos too. Doesn’t mean this isn’t an obvious way to support the blog and Ace’s shelf hobby. Posted by: Justin Pinochet Castreau at September 28, 2024 11:36 AM (l5yVc) 27
The problem is that democracy doesn't give the elites enough power.
You had Fran Leibowitz, a member of the cultural elite if there ever was one, saying that Biden should simply abolish the Supreme Court. They are getting more and more blatant about their intention to establish a dictatorship. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 11:36 AM (uxCna) 28
because of the self inflicted errors that mcmeekin notes, the Soviets succeeded, but they had a harder time in Germany for instance, the Social Democrats which share roots with Marxism were in charge, actually the Catholic Center, but Briening was discredited by the Depression,
Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 11:36 AM (PXvVL) 29
Notice nobody talks about making things "better" except very vaguely. No, people want revenge, for something that never happened, perpetrated against people who didn't do anything. What could go wrong? Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 11:29 AM (R3wAr) I never did make myself learn about the various socialist philosophies, and always assumed the power structure would adopt whatever language they needed, to progress toward power consolidation. And in modern day, I don't think the various adherents to the various philosophers much care. They borrow the slogans and phrases, and as you say, none of it means anything to the people, it just sounds nice. I still say all of it amounts to fascism. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:36 AM (2l8ZD) 30
Rafal Gan-Ganowicz
Posted by: PabloD at September 28, 2024 11:36 AM (DDP4b) 31
He answered, "I don't know. I've only killed communists."
Posted by: Brewingfrog at September 28, 2024 11:34 AM (s/iIU) Rafal Gang-Ganowicz. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 11:36 AM (awTae) 32
Like America,German politics are similarly at a cross-roads, as the Green Party leadership resigned en masse, and the party switched to a close the borders stance. The German people are done with migrant crime and harassment of young women, and recent elections make their wishes clear: close the borders and eject illegals.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 11:37 AM (fW52N) 33
Gan-Ganowicz. Stupid autocorrect.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 11:37 AM (awTae) 34
Great content K.T.
I love fall weather and that’s what it felt like here this morning I think communism makes a comeback because it’s rooted in mankind’s original sin in Eden. Adam and Eve lived in a literal paradise and yet Satan was still able to convince them it was “unfair” (why can’t you eat the fruit from that tree? God’s keeping something from you…. Modern progressives, including our neo-communists like AOC and the cackler for that matter) are just the latest utopians…. They happen to make distinctions on race and gender lines rather than class, but it’s still the same stinky ideology… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2024 11:37 AM (6RwsA) 35
Totalitarianism has many disguises.
Posted by: davidt at September 28, 2024 11:38 AM (i0F8b) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:38 AM (L/fGl) 37
The author of Len ( a former Stalinist byt) thought writing after the Russian Communists collapse thought Communism has failed and should be forgotten.
I wrote in my review the Cultural Marxists are willing to try again. Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 11:38 AM (fwDg9) 38
Joy Behar And Wanda Sykes Fear Trump Will Put Comedians In Jail: “It Could Really Happen - He Wants To Be A Dictator”
Communists have already killed comedy Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 28, 2024 11:39 AM (FfSAJ) 39
Fran Liebowitz, is she still alive,
now Putin is not a Communist, if he was he would much more support in the West is he an authentic culture warrior, he knows the Wests cultural contribution has been thin gruel at Best poison at worst, Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 11:39 AM (PXvVL) 40
Ah, the Anabaptists of Muenster. Great story. You have to be serious badboys for the Catholics and Lutherans to JOIN FORCES to get rid of you.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 28, 2024 11:39 AM (+H2BX) 41
The German people are done with migrant crime and harassment of young women, and recent elections make their wishes clear: close the borders and eject illegals.
No problem, we'll just ban the Alternative for Germany party, and things will go on unchanged. Posted by: The German Establishment! at September 28, 2024 11:39 AM (uxCna) 42
Communism was an actual ideology. I think we're beyond that now. Any coherent set of ideas is something that the vast majority of people now would find incomprehensible.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 11:40 AM (nv4jJ) 43
Fatima warned about the errors of Russia.
Because communism is evil, it will always be with us and it always needs to be fought. Our times are quite evil, and thus...communism gains a foothold. We are losing this war, and won't win until we return to Gods fold. Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 11:32 AM (vjxXT) --- The Russian Orthodox Church was reduced to an arm of the state by Peter the Great, who refused to allow a Patriarch of Moscow to be appointed when the post fell vacant. His successors continued the practice, resulting in what was effectively a state church, depending on the monarchy, unresponsive to the people. The Bolsheviks allowed a Patriarch to be appointed, which quieted Church objections until it was too late, and by then the peasants were burning the churches rather than defending them. Now look at Spain. The Catholic Church was independent, and provided a rallying point against the Reds. Just as in Russia, the Marxists went on a killing spree, burning churches, lynching clergy (a higher percentage of Spanish clergy were killed than Russian - that's how bad it was). The Church's response? A Crusade. Spain holds. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 11:40 AM (llXky) 44
Joy Behar And Wanda Sykes Fear Trump Will Put Comedians In Jail: “It Could Really Happen - He Wants To Be A Dictator”
- Well, you've got to admit, Joy Behar And Wanda Sykes are jokes. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:34 AM (L/fGl) The funny thing is, I pay some attention to the actual comedy business, and none of them seem to be all that concerned about it. Most of them avoid politics altogether. Except the dinosaurs, who cling (bitterly?) to the notion that teevee is the pathway to comedy stardom. The actual comedians now view teevee comedy platforms as a joke. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:41 AM (2l8ZD) 45
Fran Lebowitz. Gross. What a pig.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 11:41 AM (awTae) 46
The amazing thing is that central Saint Petersburg is basically unchanged from 1917, so you can still see all the locations where the February and October Revolutions took place.
Posted by: The ARC of History Much of Russia is like that. The only enduring structures were built before the revolution; they will outlast all of the Soviet era shoddy constructions. Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 11:41 AM (/5iXv) 47
Ever since Wilson, America has has a technocratic political impulse that is little distinguishable from fascism. Totalitarians are taking advantage of that thinking, and are wearing the skin suit of the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 11:42 AM (GzV24) 48
45 Fran Lebowitz. Gross. What a pig.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 11:41 AM (awTae) ------------ She was going to make me a pot. Posted by: Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman at September 28, 2024 11:43 AM (+o2mc) 49
You look at the hagiography of John Reed, the man got things wrong at a spectacular level, he would not learn from his mistakes from allies like Emma Goldman,
Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 11:43 AM (PXvVL) 50
Freedom is hard.
Being a slave is easier. Posted by: The Man from Athens at September 28, 2024 11:44 AM (jxVvT) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:44 AM (L/fGl) 52
Meanwhile, Rashida Tlaib shows the picture of the Israelis blowing up Nasrallah's bunker, and had this to say two hours ago:
Our country is funding this bloodbath. Sending more of our troops and bombs to the region is not advancing peace. The U.S. government are conspirators to the war criminal Netanyahu's genocidal plan. Not a word about the death of Nasrallah. Oh, and she's whining that although there are still commercial flights out of Beirut, the tickets are too expensive, as her constituents flee Lebanon. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 11:45 AM (uxCna) 53
The Church's response? A Crusade. Spain holds.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 11:40 AM (llXky) Yup. It's why I am heartened to see the rejection of the "church of nice". We need something far more "muscular" to get us out of this mess. A clear unequivocal stand for the Truth. Evil must be vanquished. No other way. Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 11:46 AM (vjxXT) 54
Professor Jimbo has the best, most entertaining summation of the Russian Revolution on YT:
Part 1 of 3 here: https://tinyurl.com/4jmj2fxe But even he can't make it entertaining in certain parts it's so fvcking depressing. Posted by: McLurkerson at September 28, 2024 11:46 AM (CjgNg) 55
You look at the hagiography of John Reed, the man got things wrong at a spectacular level, he would not learn from his mistakes from allies like Emma Goldman,
Hey, he managed to get buried in the Kremlin Wall, the only person from Portland, Oregon to do so. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 11:46 AM (uxCna) 56
Wait. I though she died in a Kiln explosion?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 11:46 AM (R3wAr) 57
37 Lenin
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 11:47 AM (fwDg9) 58
I’ve never heard Joy Behar say anything remotely funny. Wanda Sykes can be occasionally amusing but she’s mostly raunchy and a very mediocre comedian….. if Trump starts throwing comics in prison they’re safe; the line is long and they’d be near the back if they’re in it at all….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2024 11:47 AM (i5Vkf) 59
Communism was an actual ideology. I think we're beyond that now. Any coherent set of ideas is something that the vast majority of people now would find incomprehensible.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 11:40 AM (nv4jJ) --- What is an ideology but a faith? Why do we make this artificial distinction between religion and politics? The one informs the other, and Communism openly seeks to supplant all other religions with itself. The reason Communism survives is that Western elites bought into was that there was some sort of tangible line between ideology and faith, and that faith should be kept quiet, not expressed in public or in schools. But people are spiritual animals, so when Christianity gave ground, the Marxists heretics were ready to take it. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 11:47 AM (llXky) 60
A Crisis of Competence in the U.S. Military
- Leave Bearclaw alone! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:38 AM (L/fGl) I watched the Jack Ryan movies this past week, and got to the Ben Aflac version. I seem to recall at the time, they said the movie changed the bad guys from muslim terrorists (?) to neo-nazis. Which wasn't the silliest thing about the movie. For those of you who haven't seen it, *Spoiler Alert* the Russians think the Americans started it, the Americans thought the Russians started it, and it was those pesky nazzies! At one point, the Rooskies launch a conventional missile strike from planes, and they totally surprise an aircraft carrier, hitting it but not sinking it. Huh? You had no warning? You just saw the planes, saw the missiles launched, and THEN you thought you might want to take defensive action? But yeah, no. Maybe that's our modern military. They're doing DEI training with some tranny officer below deck, while the bad guys are approaching with sincere intent. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:47 AM (9mG4Y) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:48 AM (L/fGl) 62
Ever since Wilson, America has has a technocratic political impulse that is little distinguishable from fascism. Totalitarians are taking advantage of that thinking, and are wearing the skin suit of the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 11:42 AM (GzV24) The fatal flaw of America has been the lust for money. It has made us the best for a time. And now the worst. Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 11:48 AM (nv4jJ) 63
for example the Constiiution of 1940 was certainly Cuba's contribution to Social Democracy, some wise men sadly contributed to it both parties tried to strive to fulfill it,
the Orthodox and the Authentics, but it was a pipe dream, Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 11:48 AM (PXvVL) 64
52 Meanwhile, Rashida Tlaib shows the picture of the Israelis blowing up Nasrallah's bunker, and had this to say two hours ago:
------ Dear Mossad: Do it. Do it now. Tlaib. That's where your next pager needs to go. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 11:48 AM (awTae) 65
Fran Liebowitz is the living embodiment of the phrase "that is so stupid only an intellectual could believe it"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2024 11:49 AM (RTfY1) 66
Communism is the surest way for evil to seize and hold power. When you look at the leaders all they want to do is exercise power against their enemies and communism encourages that. It's why evil people like Hillary should never be given power.
Posted by: Beckoningchasm Phone at September 28, 2024 11:49 AM (0kMM3) 67
Is Travis Kelce A Cautionary Tale For American Men Everywhere?
- Don't stick your dick in crazy? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:44 AM (L/fGl) They're both gay, so I doubt there's been an dick sticking. Everyone knows that. Come on, man. Or as Travis prefers, cum on man. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:51 AM (9mG4Y) 68
Would the emasculation of both Protestant and Catholic churches (and it sounds as if some of the Synagogues are a bit sketchy, too, if comments here are any indication)
.... was this the natural order of things, or was there a little help along the way? I always found it "interesting" reading period political pieces clearly vette through the spook agencies of the day, lamenting how much power organized religion had in America. The "religious" folks had to be neutered, at least politically. They didn't get around to producing actual Eunuchs until just a few years ago. The Pervs first tried to get traction with "UniSex" fashion in the US in the early 70s, along with everything else, but it didn't get anywhere. They took notes, though. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 11:51 AM (R3wAr) 69
Joy Behar is stupid, nasty and miserable.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 28, 2024 11:52 AM (FfSAJ) Posted by: Kamala Harris! at September 28, 2024 11:52 AM (uxCna) 71
I think its largely a managerial and information class that is so guilty about it's success that it sells them the ropes,
Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 11:52 AM (PXvVL) 72
Why hasn't Communism gone away?
********* Is this the room for the free lunch? I was promised a free lunch! Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:52 AM (uCfKO) 73
Macron embodies the political contradictions facing the west. He's smarter and more urbane than his lapdog follower, Castreau, younger and smarter than America's leader (whoever that is right now) and he is in favor of state economic dictates/"leadersip" of the economy, in favor of open borders, in favor of censorship, but he falls short of being totalitarian. He would be a moderate Democrat were he in America, and a solid Deep State uniparty guy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 11:52 AM (pH3In) 74
The fatal flaw of America has been the lust for money. It has made us the best for a time. And now the worst.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 11:48 AM (nv4jJ) ----------- Everything was much better before coinage. Damn Lydians ruined everything. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2024 11:53 AM (+o2mc) 75
they infiltrated every institution that would seek to resist them, gramsci or alinsky take your poison,
Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 11:53 AM (PXvVL) 76
Oh, and she's whining that although there are still commercial flights out of Beirut, the tickets are too expensive, as her constituents flee Lebanon.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 11:45 AM (uxCna) Can we get Israel to stop bombing Lebanon, and bomb Michigan instead? We want the fleeing going in the other direction. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:54 AM (9mG4Y) 77
Notice nobody talks about making things "better" except very vaguely. No, people want revenge, for something that never happened, perpetrated against people who didn't do anything. Envy never dies Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2024 11:54 AM (63Dwl) Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 11:54 AM (i514R) 79
Churches were certainly part of it, whether what is attributed to Tocqueville and before him Adams, is true, the substance is,
Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 11:54 AM (PXvVL) 80
"Hillary"
It is telling, even when the strongest possible terms are used against this person, the antagonist has her on a first name basis. Ya hafta have a bit of grudging admiration for people who can pull that off. The way around this of course - you can try it for yourself - refer to her as "Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife" in front of your favorite oh-so easily triggered neurotic wind up leftist toy. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 11:55 AM (R3wAr) 81
Tlaib is jordanian, not Lebanese as far as one can determine,
Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 11:55 AM (PXvVL) 82
Communism is a Religion and was set up to be.
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 11:55 AM (fwDg9) 83
81 Tlaib is jordanian, not Lebanese as far as one can determine,
Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 11:55 AM (PXvVL) ---------- Impossible. When I was in Jordan the women were quite attractive. Maybe they kicked her out. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2024 11:57 AM (+o2mc) 84
Old Marxism used secularism as its sword and shield, proclaiming "scientific socialism" would triumph over "mindless tradition and superstition."
People think it failed because capitalism proved itself a superior economic system, but they have it wrong. It failed because the society it produced was hollow, without anything to sustain the spirit. The West was still religious, prayers were said in school, obscenity and libel laws were still in force, but all of that is gone, and we stand before the ancient foe naked and unarmed. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 11:57 AM (llXky) 85
As a young Reagan fan boy it's "ironic" to see that America has become the reining Evil Empire.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 11:58 AM (nv4jJ) 86
the televangelist scandals of the mid 80s did help them out to a degree, but the secular preachers like donahue and teh Oprah, and their moral uncertainty,
Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 11:58 AM (PXvVL) 87
Would the emasculation of both Protestant and Catholic churches (and it sounds as if some of the Synagogues are a bit sketchy, too, if comments here are any indication)
.... was this the natural order of things, or was there a little help along the way? Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 11:51 AM (R3wAr) I can’t point to a root cause, but I have seen an implosion in American Protestantism in my lifetime… roughly the last 30-40 years. The church and preachers stopped emphasizing sin and the gospel and started doing anything and everything to entertain and attract crowds and maximize attendance. The so-called “seeker friendly” marketing approach to Christianity…. It was poison and greatly weakened the church. Joel Osteen is the worse example but there are lesser versions everywhere….. and as the church has weakened, secularism has risen… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 28, 2024 11:58 AM (i5Vkf) 88
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Associated Press:
Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 11:58 AM (uxCna) 89
The best way I have been able to make lefties begin to change their minds is to point out that socialist systems are a net loss system. It can be easily proven in example after example.
Every communist or socialist system produces less than the inputs, every time. There is no growth or expansion of the economic pie. Even where slightly leftist power structures are in place, like democrat cities in the US, there is a visible decline in lifestyle associated with leftist control. Even in the US as a whole, every time the left is in charge, there is a decline in living standards. Every time. Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 11:59 AM (/5iXv) 90
Tlaib is jordanian, not Lebanese as far as one can determine,
Doesn't matter - Tlaib supports all terrorist organizations that are trying to destroy Israel. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 11:59 AM (uxCna) 91
Ever since Wilson, America has has a technocratic political impulse that is little distinguishable from fascism. Totalitarians are taking advantage of that thinking, and are wearing the skin suit of the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 11:42 AM (GzV24) Good point. Many roads lead back to that unrepentant racist and progressive. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 28, 2024 12:00 PM (d9fT1) 92
IMO the biggest adherents of theoretic communism are women. That's because of the innate socialistic and empathetic gene. They also have the abused wife paradox.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:00 PM (i514R) Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 12:01 PM (vFG9F) 94
Tricksy Jews!
Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig BREAKING: Senior Israeli officials report PM Netanyahu’s trip to the UN General Assembly “was part of a diversion” to lead Nasrallah into believing he was safe while the PM was in New York. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 12:02 PM (L/fGl) 95
Why hasn't Communism gone away?
************* Consider that men who were young adults at the end of WWII in 1945 (say 21 years old) who are still alive are now 100 years old. Very few remain. The passing of a generation and the generational ethos of that generation may have left a vacuum that needed to be filled by something, and the pipe dream of communism fit the bill. Or at least that could be part of the answer. Hard men create soft times, soft times create... Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 12:02 PM (uCfKO) Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 12:02 PM (PXvVL) 97
92 IMO the biggest adherents of theoretic communism are women. That's because of the innate socialistic and empathetic gene. They also have the abused wife paradox.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:00 PM (i514R) ----------- IIRC, they were the majority of the cadres who wielded the hammers in the killing fields. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2024 12:02 PM (+o2mc) 98
Even the Soviets didn't pay people to lay around and take drugs. They weren't that stupid. They (in theory) wanted their system such as it was, to succeed.
And so, unemployment was not allowed. They found you a job. They sent you a letter, ordering you to report to the Fabulous Widget Factory no. 46 on Monday, no later than 7 AM. If you don't show up, they will arrest you. So you showed up. Pretended to work. And they pretended to pay you. Russians were (and are) much better suited for Mad Max, because they always knew everything was a scam, and they had to have a second gig or two to get by. Our current "welfare class" regardless of race, creed, or ethnicity will be completely fooked when or if the existing economic system starts to fracture. Within hours, I'd expect. This would be considered high entertainment around the world, by the way. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 12:03 PM (R3wAr) 99
Tlaib supports all terrorist organizations that are trying to destroy Israel.
Posted by: The ARC of History! And the US. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 12:03 PM (L/fGl) Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 12:03 PM (PXvVL) 101
Wouldn't doubt this is a good book, but think for some time am done my quota of books on Bolsheviks
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 12:04 PM (fwDg9) 102
IMO the biggest adherents of theoretic communism are women. That's because of the innate socialistic and empathetic gene. They also have the abused wife paradox.
One of the huge, huge achievements of the Left has been to delegitimize marriage, and reduce its frequency. Single women view the State as their husband, and overwhelmingly support extensions of State power. Every woman who gets married is a blow to the Left, since married women are far, far more conservative than single women. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 12:04 PM (uxCna) 103
Communism hasn't gone away because it's a very nasty combination of fantastical thinking, elitism, criminality and pure unadulated hate/envy.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at September 28, 2024 12:05 PM (TEC4P) 104
the educational systems we have been using since the 80s, are of soviet design, that is true,
Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 12:05 PM (PXvVL) 105
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 12:03 PM (R3wAr)
Am I communist because I too would require abled bodied persons to work in exchange for government benefits. Lot of highways need cleaning up . Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:06 PM (i514R) 106
Communism is a manifestation of the will to power, and as such it is inseparable from the human condition.
Power unconstrained by law was the effective policy of the French Revolution. Lenin made it official policy, and like the French before him, he proved the legitimacy of his power by sheer terror. Lenin and Stalin took terror and paranoia to a whole new level, but there isn't much of a difference in principle from what Russia was before. Russia was a feudal empire, held together by terror. The Tsars exercised power in the form of extreme violence, without constraint of law or any other institution. People splutter about what an awful person Putin is. Fair enough, but he is by far the most liberal and enlightened government Russia ever had. Posted by: Tom Perry at September 28, 2024 12:06 PM (MX0bI) 107
93 " Did Communism win? "
It says something about human nature that it persists. Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 12:01 PM (vFG9F) ------------- The fantasy that "someone will finally do it right" will never be extinguished. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2024 12:07 PM (+o2mc) 108
It would be helpful, if the victims of communism (and all the totalitarian, collectivist regimes) around the world were made available to testify in the public arena, the political world, and state in no uncertain terms that these ideologies have never worked, and cannot be made to work even at the point of a gun, because that's what they did. Food was "free" but you couldn't get it. Stealing even a single wheat berry from a collectivist farm was meted out with a death sentence and sending the rest of your family off to a Gulag camp.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 12:08 PM (R3wAr) 109
Even where slightly leftist power structures are in place, like democrat cities in the US, there is a visible decline in lifestyle associated with leftist control. Even in the US as a whole, every time the left is in charge, there is a decline in living standards. Every time.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 11:59 AM (/5iXv) High living standards are a white western Christian imperialist exploitation of people of color that must be stopped BAMN. Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 12:09 PM (nv4jJ) Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:09 PM (i514R) 111
or the "unofficial collaborators" the East German Stasi relied on to snitch out neighbors and even family members. . .
I suspect *this* is something most people don't think about happening here at ALL, let alone realize how much it's probably happening and for how long. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2024 12:09 PM (FnneF) 112
People splutter about what an awful person Putin is. Fair enough, but he is by far the most liberal and enlightened government Russia ever had.
Nah, the West would prefer another Yeltsin, under whom living standards and life expectancies collapsed in Russia. Coming up, Putin will be visiting the Central Synagogue in Moscow for High Holy Days - the only Russian leader in history to do so. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 12:09 PM (uxCna) 113
For the Ruling Elite, communism is an ideological excuse for amassing total power over the plebes.
The masses who support it in the naive belief that it will improve their condition are just Lenin's Useful Idiots. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2024 12:09 PM (+o2mc) 114
The rainbow mob would have been regarded as parasites by the Stalininists and Maoists.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 28, 2024 12:09 PM (FfSAJ) 115
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Associated Press:
Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 11:58 AM (uxCna) You spent decades, building up your "military" to be able to finally stand up to Israel, and on Day 1 you get deaded. How shrewd is that? Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 12:10 PM (E7J9X) 116
The masses who support it in the naive belief that it will improve their condition are just Lenin's Useful Idiots.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2024 12:09 PM (+o2mc) Antifa and the rest of the American Left. Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:11 PM (i514R) 117
As said, my opinion is the Cultural Marxists think they can make the world equal, and the ruling class the pervayors of that equality.
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 12:11 PM (fwDg9) 118
Am I communist because I too would require abled bodied persons to work in exchange for government benefits. Lot of highways need cleaning up .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth No, but I would rather that benefits were removed for those that don't work, putting the onus on them to find a job, instead of the government becoming the taskmaster. Nobody other than aged widows, handicapped, or orphaned children should get paid while not working. Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 12:11 PM (/5iXv) 119
The rainbow mob would have been regarded as parasites by the Stalininists and Maoists.
If they take power, I'm sure they'll find the equivalent of the White Sea Canal for the rainbow mob to work on. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 12:11 PM (uxCna) 120
There will always be an endless supply of people that think they should get what others have acquired with no work. Also an endless supply of people promising those people they will do that for them.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 28, 2024 12:12 PM (17s+e) 121
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Associated Press:
Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 11:58 AM (uxCna) Is there nothing too stupid for the media? Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 28, 2024 12:12 PM (FfSAJ) 122
It's pretty simple actually, communism, socialism, whateverism, etc. is simply a means of control and power over the masses. That's all it has been and ever will be.
And it usually comes with a death toll in the millions every time it has been tried in the past. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2024 12:12 PM (QNSds) 123
95 Why hasn't Communism gone away?
************* Consider that men who were young adults at the end of WWII in 1945 (say 21 years old) who are still alive are now 100 years old. Very few remain. The passing of a generation and the generational ethos of that generation may have left a vacuum that needed to be filled by something, and the pipe dream of communism fit the bill. Or at least that could be part of the answer. Hard men create soft times, soft times create... Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 12:02 PM (uCfKO) I agree with this. Many different directions to go, but continuing on here: The generation immediately after this one had access to something new - The Pill. Coincident with that, the following generation was the vanguard of the 60s. Sex served to sever the ties between these generations, and Communism, which already had a foothold in the media, exploited this division to the hilt. As a result, the 21 year olds in the 60s had nothing in common with their Greatest forebears. Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 28, 2024 12:13 PM (yOqAp) 124
The promise of something for nothing.
Posted by: davidt at September 28, 2024 12:13 PM (i0F8b) 125
Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 11:58 AM (uxCna) ------------ "Even the shrewd man sometimes forgets to duck." -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2024 12:14 PM (+o2mc) 126
Charismatic and screwed.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 12:14 PM (uCfKO) 127
One of the huge, huge achievements of the Left has been to delegitimize marriage, and reduce its frequency.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 12:04 PM (uxCna) --- Yes. Birth control, sex outside of marriage, abortion, no-fault divorce - all of these struck at the heart of the family, just as Our Lady said it would. People who treat Marxism as anything other than a rival religion are playing the enemy's game. The line between "ideology" and "faith" was drawn specifically to disqualify religion as an organizing principle for society. By buying into that, we reduce ourselves to nonsense phrases like "cultural marxism" while being unable to articulate in secular materialist terms why marriage and children are positive goods and why traditional morality isn't oppressive to perverts and freaks. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:14 PM (llXky) 128
"Even the shrewd man sometimes forgets to duck."
-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War Bibi won't try anything while he is in New York! Posted by: Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 12:15 PM (uxCna) 129
It used to be, asking a man what his salary was, beyond bounds. "Mind your business" was the standard. A man was free to worship, or not worship, as he saw fit, too. Secret ballots for voting. How a man votes is his business.
Today, everything is fair game. People will voluntarily divulge their deepest personal opinions and preferences, record them on video, and upload them for the whole world to see. It is expected, or actually required. One doesn't hear much talk about "Privacy" any longer. Not that long ago, it was one of the Most Important Things Ever. In fact, it is an article of faith amongst some, that if you don't have a very thorough and robust "online presence" that in itself is actually prima facie evidence of criminality. Again, you have to admire how everything can get turned around absolutely upside down, backwards, and inside out. And people don't even blink. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 12:16 PM (R3wAr) 130
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 12:11 PM (/5iXv)
I am of the belief that working a crap job will make one want to look for something better. The people who would rather just be on the street with no benefits would continue though in either situation. I also think that we should have a work system for paroles instead of just throwing them back into society. In both recommendations the persons are free to look for other employment. Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:18 PM (i514R) 131
No, but I would rather that benefits were removed for those that don't work, putting the onus on them to find a job, instead of the government becoming the taskmaster.
Nobody other than aged widows, handicapped, or orphaned children should get paid while not working. Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 12:11 PM (/5iXv) The problem with that is, "They Took Er Jerbs" is real! So many able-bodied men don't work, because there IS no work! Sure, you could be a greeter at Wally World, or drive for Uber, but the mass of male jobs are gone. Never to return. So if you want some of these able-bodied men to get off the weed, alcohol and meth, and get off their arses and get to work, you have to have jobs for them to work. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 12:18 PM (E7J9X) 132
for every mcmeekin or a pipes theres a thousand apologists for marxisms, like fitzgerald or clarke,
Posted by: no 6 at September 28, 2024 12:18 PM (PXvVL) 133
One of the ways that "nice" Christians and libertarians undermined the West was by banning the language of morality and pretending that all faiths were of equal value and discriminating between pedo pagans and orthodox Christians was morally wrong.
David French relies heavily on this line of reasoning with the conclusion that religion is something you must do at home and out of sight but politics and ideology is everywhere valid and applicable. Happily, people are on to him and the fact that Christianity was never meant to be "nice." Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:18 PM (llXky) 134
There will always be an endless supply of people that think they should get what others have acquired with no work. Also an endless supply of people promising those people they will do that for them.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 28, 2024 12:12 PM (17s+e) Leftist intellectuals would call that a dog whistle. That's how they "keep them in chains". Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 12:18 PM (nv4jJ) 135
Hilarious video on X of two people weeping on the Hezbollah TV channel over Nasrallah's death, with the Israeli anti-Nasrallah song "Come On Nasrallah" as the soundtrack.
Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 12:19 PM (uxCna) 136
So many able-bodied men don't work, because there IS no work! Sure, you could be a greeter at Wally World, or drive for Uber, but the mass of male jobs are gone. Never to return.
So if you want some of these able-bodied men to get off the weed, alcohol and meth, and get off their arses and get to work, you have to have jobs for them to work. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 12:18 PM (E7J9X) --- And what jobs there are have been taken by 10 million healthy young migrant men who are paid under the table. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:20 PM (llXky) 137
The left's ideology, be it communism, socialism, fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism or whatever flavor of the day they're pushing has taken the place of religion for them. They're very passionate about it. When we use the term "true believer" to describe someone that's all-in on one of the 'isms' you have to consider how they look at us, as "non-believers."
These "true believers" in whatever 'ism' they're pushing are indistinguishable from Islamic jihadi's. In every way. Relentless. They never, ever stop pushing. In my opinion they've moved past a political movement and treat it as a religious one. "Religious" being subjective. To them. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 12:20 PM (Q4IgG) 138
While he was forced into it, I have to give some credit to Clinton to for signing the work to welfare program Gingrich put on his desk. A clearly established timeline for when welfare payments will stop encouraged millions of those on welfare to find a job on their own, and brought about a jump in GDP.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 12:20 PM (/5iXv) 139
People who treat Marxism as anything other than a rival religion are playing the enemy's game. The line between "ideology" and "faith" was drawn specifically to disqualify religion as an organizing principle for society.
By buying into that, we reduce ourselves to nonsense phrases like "cultural marxism" while being unable to articulate in secular materialist terms why marriage and children are positive goods and why traditional morality isn't oppressive to perverts and freaks. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:14 PM (llXky) According to Larry Taunton, while Charles Spurgeon and Karl Marx didn't know each other, there was little doubt of the irreconcilable nature of the messages each proclaimed. Spurgeon went after socialism, fully aware of its anti-Christian nature. At the end of Engel's life, in fact, Marx's daughter asked him whom he disliked most in the world, he answered her with a single word: Spurgeon. Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 28, 2024 12:21 PM (yOqAp) 140
Obama longed for the ability to rule like they do in China.
Listening to Razorfist go on about Lincoln, it seems old Abe had that same tendency to raw power. Our "free markets" made a lot of Too Big To Fail/Jail oligarchs, and we kept policies going that bailed out the richest. Seems we squandered our post WW2 position of strength and grew our own internal DeepState domestic enemies. We spent 40 years lowering interest rates all the way to zero, and we continued to run up unsustainable debt. Much of that is in the hands of a few oligarchs, as they actively destroy the country with a criminal invasion and destruction of our Christian norms. It is insidious and technological, always some shiny new toy to distract the masses. The murders and perversions are happening in different ways now, but they're perhaps even more destructive to our nation. DEI and the trans crap, education now just indoctrination ... need some sort of revolution and/or Revival. Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2024 12:22 PM (Cus5s) 141
One of the ways that "nice" Christians and libertarians undermined the West was by banning the language of morality and pretending that all faiths were of equal value and discriminating between pedo pagans and orthodox Christians was morally wrong.
David French relies heavily on this line of reasoning with the conclusion that religion is something you must do at home and out of sight but politics and ideology is everywhere valid and applicable. Happily, people are on to him and the fact that Christianity was never meant to be "nice." Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:18 PM (llXky) The term toxic empathy comes to mind. Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 28, 2024 12:22 PM (FfSAJ) 142
>>> 105 Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 12:03 PM (R3wAr)
Am I communist because I too would require abled bodied persons to work in exchange for government benefits. Lot of highways need cleaning up . Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:06 PM (i514R) All cows have four legs (barring cow-ish accidents, birth defects, etc). Therefore: All animals with four legs are cows. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2024 12:23 PM (FnneF) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 12:23 PM (AGxUO) 144
And what jobs there are have been taken by 10 million healthy young migrant men who are paid under the table.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:20 PM (llXky) Where I live, lots of trucks on the roads, landscrapers, roofies, even skilled labor jobs... the guys behind the wheels of these trucks are often quite brown skinned. How many of them are legal? Hell if I know. I don't believe anyone else knows either. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 12:24 PM (E7J9X) 145
So if you want some of these able-bodied men to get off the weed, alcohol and meth, and get off their arses and get to work, you have to have jobs for them to work.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 12:18 PM (E7J9X) --- And what jobs there are have been taken by 10 million healthy young migrant men who are paid under the table. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd Yes, the first order of business is a mass deportation of illegals. We can't heal a wound until we stop the bleeding. Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 12:24 PM (/5iXv) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 12:25 PM (AGxUO) 147
The term toxic empathy comes to mind.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 28, 2024 12:22 PM (FfSAJ) Maybe somebody should write a book. Oh wait! https://is.gd/ak8cFG Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2024 12:25 PM (PiwSw) 148
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Listening to pre-launch for Dragon. Can't take it anymore. They all use uptick when talking. I thought that fad went away.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 12:25 PM (wILM4) 150
138 While he was forced into it, I have to give some credit to Clinton to for signing the work to welfare program Gingrich put on his desk. A clearly established timeline for when welfare payments will stop encouraged millions of those on welfare to find a job on their own, and brought about a jump in GDP.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 12:20 PM (/5iXv) The book that hasn't been written yet, AFAIK, is the one focusing on the relationship between Clinton and Gingrich. They were alike in many ways, and bitter rivals as well. Their partnership, however, was responsible for some good things in America. Their respective falls had some measure of similarity as well. A historian could do well by getting to interview the players while they're still above ground. Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 28, 2024 12:26 PM (yOqAp) 151
Obama longed for the ability to rule like they do in China.
Listening to Razorfist go on about Lincoln, it seems old Abe had that same tendency to raw power. Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2024 12:22 PM (Cus5s) --- I find Razorfist to be an pretty standard-issue provocateur with midwit arguments for his positions. Civil wars are inherently messy and the proof that he wasn't a dictator can be found in his profound desire to offer the South lenient peace terms and quick reintegration. His death killed that dream. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:26 PM (llXky) 152
Just in:
IDF eliminates senior Hezbollah intelligence officer in pinpoint strike in Beirut; he was in charge of designating targets for attack in Israel, @idfonline says. Ironically he became a target himself, and is now gone. Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 12:26 PM (uxCna) Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 12:26 PM (uCfKO) 154
Blacks are the dumbest voters and it's condescending to say otherwise. When you go 90% for those who have utter contempt for your collective intelligence it speaks for itself.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 12:27 PM (nv4jJ) 155
Yes, the first order of business is a mass deportation of illegals. We can't heal a wound until we stop the bleeding.
Cut off all the subsidies, and most of them will self-deport. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 12:27 PM (uxCna) 156
David French relies heavily on this line of reasoning with the conclusion that religion is something you must do at home and out of sigbvht but politics and ideology is everywhere
------- He's a Spook. Painfully obviously so. Like Tim Leary, going back several years. If you took the time to read leftist thought and thesis and papers, you will see their acolytes "in the field" some time later, often several years but it is obvious lots of groups were getting very well funded behind cutout groups and shadowy orgs. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 12:28 PM (R3wAr) 157
The term toxic empathy comes to mind.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 28, 2024 12:22 PM (FfSAJ) --- Marxism is a Christian heresy and uses many of the same concepts and language to assume a mantle of morality. We live in an age of performative religion, so showcasing your righteous beliefs has replaced corporal acts of charity and mercy. This is why I use the term Yard Sign Calvinists to describe the people who live in 4,000 sq ft houses and have yard signs demanding "climate action" and post secular creeds about "love is love." By their signs they show they are of the Elect. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:29 PM (llXky) 158
Best tweet of the day. Israel lulled Nasrallah into thinking he was safe because Bibi was at the UN. Rep Brian Mast responded "the UN is finally good for something"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2024 12:29 PM (RTfY1) 159
Cut off all the subsidies, and most of them will self-deport.
You are ineligible for Kamala's proposed $25,000 payment to help you buy a house if any of your grandparents, parents, or siblings have bought a house. Gee, I wonder who this is targeted at? Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 12:30 PM (uxCna) 160
All cows have four legs (barring cow-ish accidents, birth defects, etc).
*********** Son, that there cow is a hero. Saved my life by mooing for help when my tractor rolled over on top of me down on the back forty. You don't eat a hero cow all at once. Posted by: muldoon, proud owner of a three-legged cow at September 28, 2024 12:31 PM (uCfKO) 161
"When you go 90% for those who have utter contempt for your collective intelligence it speaks for itself."
For those filling out score cards at home, what we have here is a thinly-veiled antisemite in his natcherl element. That thin veil looks quite fetching on you, dahlink. Oh, did you think for a moment you had someone here bullshitted? You lose. Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 28, 2024 12:32 PM (zdLoL) 162
BBC features a Beirut correspondent hectoring Ehud Omert over "Israeli targeting children". He, naturally, objects, making the obvious point Hezbollah uses human shirlds and Israel warned all those civilians to get out two hours before the attack, but she doesn't buy it. Now we have some Irish babe decrying Israeli traumatizing the poor children.
These BBC people make me sick Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 12:32 PM (E1rj4) 163
Just got the net back after none yesterday and this AM.
I have to say I'm leery of taking any one historian too strictly as getting things right. Not even my favorites, like N A M Rodger or J H Hexter. I've been looking at some Brit history, and it's a bit shocking how many will (a) be dismissive of the Official Government Narrative today, while (b) wholly accepting uncritically the Official Government Narrative of yesterday. Posted by: Eeyore at September 28, 2024 12:33 PM (1bNHn) 164
The New Sexual Revolution needs to be -- "Get married young and have a lot of kids, with a male and female traditional role model".
The Free Love and Free Abortion, or even free sex change at age 10 without parental consent ... has to Die. We also need a revolution in actual education, not indoctrination in "The Evils of our American Heritage". We need more keto diets, no sugar/carb addictions. And end the fentanyl war against America, by shutting down the China supply chain. Many fundamentals are perverted to destroy US, and many could be quickly changed ... with a will to do so. Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2024 12:33 PM (Cus5s) 165
Communism attracts the redundant and morally corrupt. It's leaders are tyrants wearing a different suit. It's followers are those, regardless of intellect, that are attracted to the safety of another's decision. It's corrupt in its origins and corrupting in its existence.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 12:34 PM (wILM4) 166
It gives power to the elites.
Posted by: Zombie Vladimir Lenin! at September 28, 2024 11:22 AM (uxCna) Because the end result is a totalitarian dictatorship, but you get to enlist dumb college students in helping you achieve it first. Then they all get the Trotsky treatment. Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2024 12:36 PM (QZThv) 167
The New Sexual Revolution needs to be -- "Get married young and have a lot of kids, with a male and female traditional role model".
Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2024 12:33 PM (Cus5s) --- This is what I mean by saying we need to reclaim the language of morality. We need to start telling teenage boys not to marry a slut who isn't a virgin. We need to tell girls that guys who want to get into their pants are rakes who will knock them up and leave and that this isn't "empowering," it make you damaged goods and no desireable man will want you. I mean, we all know that abortion was about girls in the 1960s who got knocked up in college and wanted to hide it from the Nice Guy they wanted to marry. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:37 PM (llXky) 168
These BBC people make me sick
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 12:32 PM (E1rj4) And all of the US talent Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 28, 2024 12:37 PM (P4Pk9) 169
A note on Scott Johnson here. He was entirely swept away by Andrew Roberts's book on George III. While it is surely true that we Americans are overly critical, it is no better to fall on our knees and worship. And Roberts is a paradigm of hagiography as history. It's what he does.
I will, if I have time, get around to Meekin, though. But I'm always leery of those who see only the "venality, stupidity and conniving" of the losers. All too common. A friend pointed out to me ages ago that the better sort of revisionism was of the "X had a clue after all" sort. That which gives the reasons people made the choices they did. Posted by: Eeyore at September 28, 2024 12:39 PM (1bNHn) 170
just as Our Lady said Sure enough wish y'all boys could keep your in-house civil war amongst yourselves until the last martyr dies. Just this morning we had one of Our Lady's supplicants claiming Louisiana is a mess because of all the French catholics there. Just naturally lazy bums, those Frenchies.
You back stabbing sons of bitches suck so hard. Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 28, 2024 12:39 PM (zdLoL) 171
Just thought of a bumper sticker/t-shirt: "I'd never date a girl who had an abortion."
Heads. Would. Explode. We need to popularize that sentiment. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:39 PM (llXky) 172
This is why I use the term Yard Sign Calvinists to describe the people who live in 4,000 sq ft houses and have yard signs demanding "climate action" and post secular creeds about "love is love."
I saw on Twitter a few days ago that some people were directing illegals to go set up shop in the yards of houses with performative liberal signs and/or Harris/Walz signs. Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2024 12:41 PM (QZThv) 173
Good morning dear morons. Communism has not gone away because it has simply converged with state capitalism in the West.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 12:41 PM (zG664) 174
Christianity led to the greatest good for people at any time. That is why the worst hate it. Communism is a catch all for the base desire to destroy all goodness. That is the motivation of the humanist left. Destruction for its own sake.
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 12:41 PM (nv4jJ) 175
Just thought of a bumper sticker/t-shirt: "I'd never date a girl who had an abortion."
Heads. Would. Explode. We need to popularize that sentiment. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:39 PM (llXky) And a vote for Trump bumper sticker Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 28, 2024 12:42 PM (P4Pk9) 176
just as Our Lady said Sure enough wish y'all boys could keep your in-house civil war amongst yourselves until the last martyr dies. Just this morning we had one of Our Lady's supplicants claiming Louisiana is a mess because of all the French catholics there. Just naturally lazy bums, those Frenchies.
You back stabbing sons of bitches suck so hard. Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 28, 2024 12:39 PM (zdLoL) --- The chief of staff for Popular Army was a Catholic who went to Mass regularly in Madrid, which was held by one of the few surviving priests in the Republican Zone. What else is new? Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:42 PM (llXky) 177
Communism is the promise of other people supporting you.
Posted by: davidt at September 28, 2024 12:43 PM (i0F8b) 178
Resource Depleted Seattle Police Department Won’t Respond to Burglary Alarms Anymore
- I'm sure this'll work out well. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:31 AM (L/fGl) Well, in the interest of fairness, they should also stop responding to the fatal shootings of burglars by homeowners and shopkeepers. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2024 12:44 PM (yLiuJ) 179
Good morning dear morons. Communism has not gone away because it has simply converged with state capitalism in the West.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 12:41 PM (zG664) --- That's my point: it was never about economics, which is why Communist regimes can shift to market economies. It's a rival religion, and cannot allow dissent. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:44 PM (llXky) 180
Good morning dear morons. Communism has not gone away because it has simply converged with state capitalism in the West.
Michael Malice noted recently that woke corporations have done more to spread Maoism than Mao. Capitalism always wins, ironically. Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2024 12:45 PM (QZThv) 181
" Civil wars are inherently messy and the proof that he wasn't a dictator can be found in his profound desire to offer the South lenient peace terms and quick reintegration. His death killed that dream." Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Trump once spoke on the CW, thought there could have been a better resolution than a civil war. That was my position before hearing Razorfist. From my limited historical knowledge, it seems Lincoln ended a lot of State's Rights and marched us toward Centralized Authority over states. Lincoln also considered sending slaves back to Africa, but failed at that dream as well. Blacks had a hard time after the CW ... a slower drift away from slavery could have avoided a lot of that, in some different world. My perception is Lincoln was also serving some monied interests. Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2024 12:45 PM (Cus5s) 182
Communism is the promise of other people supporting you.
Posted by: davidt at September 28, 2024 12:43 PM (i0F8b) --- When you get down to it, it's a grab bag of evil that seeks to destroy Christianity by whatever means prove effective. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:45 PM (llXky) 183
I was an idiot student when I was in the USSR in the early 80s and the signs of economic collapse were everywhere visible yet officially ignored.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 12:46 PM (zG664) 184
22 Joy Behar And Wanda Sykes Fear Trump Will Put Comedians In Jail...
Comedians... I don't think Joy and Wanda have anything to worry about. Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 28, 2024 12:46 PM (gfztU) 185
Communism is the promise of other people supporting you.
Posted by: davidt at September 28, 2024 12:43 PM (i0F8b) Until they deem you no longer useful. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 12:46 PM (nv4jJ) 186
Just read the obituary for the OG Red Guard student, Song Binbin. She led the students who killed their headmaster with nail-studded boards, inspiring Mao and the killing of teachers across the country as part of his Cultural Revolution.
Was she prosecuted, jailed, by the ICC or called out by the UN? No, she came to America, got a degree at MIT, and had a long career as a scientist for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Maybe Communism wouldn't be so prevalent today if we hadn't welcomed them into our communities, institutions, local and federal government? Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 12:46 PM (scDBq) 187
Kamala "Forward" Harris is using that commie slogan again. It was used by Obama in 2012. I recall back then that that was the slogan of Portugal's communist agitators back in 1917 (During Fatima events) and the Obama campaign tweaked it to "Lean Forward."
Posted by: Rex B at September 28, 2024 12:47 PM (592Pr) 188
Song Binbin's activities are detailed in "Red Memory" by Tania Branigan.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 12:47 PM (scDBq) 189
As long as there are 'elites' who would rule under name other than 'communism' there will communism. Ruled by elites.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 28, 2024 12:48 PM (/lPRQ) 190
I was an idiot student when I was in the USSR in the early 80s and the signs of economic collapse were everywhere visible yet officially ignored.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 12:46 PM (zG664) lol I can see some visitor saying this about us forty years from now. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 12:49 PM (nv4jJ) 191
Well, you've got to admit, Joy Behar And Wanda Sykes are jokes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:34 AM (L/fGl) I doubt "Droopy Deranged Dykes in Jail" will be a popular pr0n title. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2024 12:49 PM (yLiuJ) 192
Trump once spoke on the CW, thought there could have been a better resolution than a civil war. That was my position before hearing Razorfist.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2024 12:45 PM (Cus5s) --- The South seceded because it lost an election. That's not how a Republic works. South Carolina seceded three months before Lincoln took office, so I'm not sure what he was supposed to do. There was an obvious option: call for an Article 5 convention of the states. This would have been the lawful thing to do. The South chose war, and in unleashing war, lots of things got broken. But even a cursory reading of the war and Lincoln's fights with disobedient generals, rival politicians and his tolerance of dissent within his cabinet shows he was far from an autocrat. After the war, the central government reverted to being a minor player. It was Wilson who laid the groundwork for the federal state, and Prohibition created the FBI, etc. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:51 PM (llXky) 193
SpaceX and NASA are scheduling the launch of SpaceX Crew-9 on September 28; lift-off is set for 1:17 p.m. EDT, 1717 UTC, 19:17 CEST, and the booster will make a landing at LZ-1, Cape Canaveral SFB.
https://www.youtube.com/live/bvMUVxflvxI Now live commentary. Posted by: Ciampino - Toast is a stapled food at September 28, 2024 12:25 PM (qfLjt) Thanks! Posted by: MrExcitement at September 28, 2024 12:53 PM (hOOi9) 194
Very good explanation of Lebanon's situation by a Lebanese Christian podcaster interviewed on BBC decrying the war between Iran and Israel that uses Lebanon as their battlefield. For forty years Hezbollah has metastasized into ever-larger tumors in Lebanon, backed totally by Iran, and provoking Israeli attacks.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 12:53 PM (QRgMb) 195
"Government is the great fiction, where everyone can live at someone else's expense." HL Mencken
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 12:54 PM (2bEw1) 196
"Comment: What if the Russian Revolution had never happened? Or was stopped in its tracks?" -A good read along these alternate history lines is The Romanov Rescue by Tom Kratman and Kacey Ezell and Justin Watson. The sequel is coming out this winter.
Posted by: JoshO at September 28, 2024 12:54 PM (LmUpe) 197
What we accept teaches the younger generation what we are.
When it's acceptable for gays to marry how do they understand that none of its proclivities are unacceptable? When laws are passed eliminating the sanctity of a holy day what example toward holiness does it exemplify? What value does it express? Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 12:54 PM (wILM4) 198
Wilson who laid the groundwork for the federal state, and Prohibition created the FBI, etc.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:51 PM (llXky) It started with Lincoln. The States should have been free to leave. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 12:55 PM (nv4jJ) Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 12:55 PM (scDBq) 200
Well, gotta go. See folks at the Book Thread!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 12:56 PM (llXky) 201
2 Why is communism rising again?
It gives power to the elites. Posted by: Zombie Vladimir Lenin! at September 28, 2024 11:22 AM (uxCna) I believe too many people dream of becoming a high-level apparatchik in a Communist state. Directing the work and lives of others, relatively well-paid, prestige, free of harassment by the police and other state departments and agencies as long as you don't stray out of bounds, getting a very nice free home/apartment and a vehicle, shopping in stores only for high-level party officials (more and better foods and goods, no lines), and moar! The good life! While believing you are working to build Utopia and make the lives of the plebs better! Posted by: Gref at September 28, 2024 12:57 PM (aBgBM) 202
The attraction to communism is largely from the academic classes, the so called intellectual elites. They think they will all be running things (nomenklatura) when in fact they will be very quickly shot and fed to the hogs.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 28, 2024 12:57 PM (MeG8a) 203
Our oldest communists (FDR era) have about died off. Their kids (red diaper babies) are dying off now. The red diaper babies’ kids and grandkids are romantic communists, they may not even see themselves as communists. They just know they hate Constitutional Republican types. They hate people like us. They see no problem with killing us off, and they don’t realize they will be Trotskyed after we’re gone.
Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2024 12:57 PM (LHPAg) 204
Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd, on the Civil-War, this commentary, filled with citations, was an eye opener to me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pZG7snE7tU Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 12:58 PM (wILM4) 205
199 Ah yes, "Forward" is a slogan with a history:
https://tinyurl.com/j6v4tap7 Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 12:55 PM (scDBq) I can't believe it's back already with Harris's campaign. I guess it's easier to pronounce than "fweedom!" Posted by: Rex B at September 28, 2024 12:59 PM (592Pr) 206
[Why hasn't Communism gone away?
Because not many governments are willing to take the steps required to get rid of it. Posted by: NR Pax at September 28, 2024 01:00 PM (lXCUP) 207
A big reason I think we have a hard time understanding what has happened is that we treat it as an intellectual failure, when in fact it is a spiritual failure. Not just of individuals, but of entire societies. A wicked and faithless people must have a wicked and faithless government.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 01:01 PM (2NaVH) 208
I believe too many people dream of becoming a high-level apparatchik in a Communist state.
Just about every thread where people are asked what they would be doing under a glorious communist paradise, they think they'll be writers, poets, artists or teachers. Posted by: NR Pax at September 28, 2024 01:02 PM (lXCUP) 209
Capitalism improves average outcomes across the board.
Socialism improves the outcome for a small selection of people. This incentivizes the socialists. If they win they get literally everything and more importantly each step along the way gives them more power and more money. But the costs of each of those victories are mostly scattered across society so people have only a little incentive to really fight back. So if we were to get rid of the socialist elements of our society the average person might be 10X wealthier in real terms. But...if we remove one regulation, one tax, or fire one bureaucrat the impact might be a few dollars...not enough to fight for. Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 01:02 PM (oZhjI) 210
Our oldest communists (FDR era) have about died off. Their kids (red diaper babies) are dying off now. The red diaper babies’ kids and grandkids are romantic communists, they may not even see themselves as communists. They just know they hate Constitutional Republican types. They hate people like us. They see no problem with killing us off, and they don’t realize they will be Trotskyed after we’re gone.
Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2024 12:57 PM (LHPAg) At least the old time leftists had an intellectual basis. Now we're oppressed by automatons with zero thinking. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:03 PM (nv4jJ) 211
Because not many governments are willing to take the steps required to get rid of it.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 28, 2024 01:00 PM (lXCUP) No government has ever deposed a system that gave that much power to government, and no government ever will. Only popular revolt or military coups can put paid to regimes that strong. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 01:03 PM (awTae) 212
Apparently Israel is planning on imposing an air and sea blockade on Lebanon to keep Iranian arms from coming in (they'll continue to bomb land convoys, of course).
Civilian craft are fine - but nothing carrying military hardware. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 01:04 PM (uxCna) 213
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184 22 Joy Behar And Wanda Sykes Fear Trump Will Put Comedians In Jail...“ And the best part of that, of course, is that it’s Hillary and Gavin Newsome who want to put people producing parodies in jail. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 01:04 PM (2NaVH) 214
Just about every thread where people are asked what they would be doing under a glorious communist paradise, they think they'll be writers, poets, artists or teachers.
It is always fascinating running through this with socialist LIVs. Fine, no one has to work at a job they don't like since everyone will get a "living wage". How do you get people to do the jobs no one wants like emptying septic tanks or climbing utility polls in the winter? And the answers you will get are all vapid - "oh some people will just want to do it" or even worse "well no one has to do that work anyway right?" Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 01:04 PM (oZhjI) 215
208 I believe too many people dream of becoming a high-level apparatchik in a Communist state.
________ Gary from Woonsocket just dreams of being a Reeducation Camp Commandant. Oh, the pain he'll inflict. For "our" own good, of course. Posted by: 019673371 at September 28, 2024 01:05 PM (qUkBO) 216
And the best part of that, of course, is that it’s Hillary and Gavin Newsome who want to put people producing parodies in jail.
And this conversation with lefties goes something like We are just telling jokes and making funny skits THEY are spreading disinformation and hate speech! Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 01:05 PM (oZhjI) 217
It started with Lincoln. The States should have been free to leave.
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 12:55 PM (nv4jJ) There was an argument, even at the time, that if they felt that way they shouldn't have pushed the runaway slave laws on Free states via the federal government. But they weren't, because it would have been the end of slavery as an institution Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 01:05 PM (D7oie) 218
We ended up with a variant of Chinese style socialism because after the collapse of the Soviet Union, instead of learning from it, our left instead just went looking for the next authoritarian system they could emulate.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 01:06 PM (oZhjI) 219
These innocent people Columbus encountered in the Bahamas are quite a contrast to the Comanche and Apache tribes. They would have been eaten for lunch.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 01:07 PM (wILM4) 220
Is communism evil? Yes.
Is communism opposed to hashem? Yes. Should communists be thrown into the sea? Yes. Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 01:07 PM (zG664) 221
How do you get people to do the jobs no one wants like emptying septic tanks or climbing utility polls in the winter?
They assume that the proles will be forced to do that, while they, the Elite, get to do whatever they want. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 01:08 PM (uxCna) 222
It is always fascinating running through this with socialist LIVs. Fine, no one has to work at a job they don't like since everyone will get a "living wage". How do you get people to do the jobs no one wants like emptying septic tanks or climbing utility polls in the winter?
And the answers you will get are all vapid - "oh some people will just want to do it" or even worse "well no one has to do that work anyway right?" Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 01:04 PM (oZhjI) It'll go real well for them once they're rid of all those troublesome white guys. Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:09 PM (nv4jJ) 223
Just about every thread where people are asked what they would be doing under a glorious communist paradise, they think they'll be writers, poets, artists or teachers.
The Soviet Union literally prosecuted the poet Joseph Brodsky for failing to have an officially-approved job. Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2024 01:10 PM (uxCna) 224
43 ...
--- The Russian Orthodox Church was reduced to an arm of the state by Peter the Great, who refused to allow a Patriarch of Moscow to be appointed when the post fell vacant. His successors continued the practice, resulting in what was effectively a state church, depending on the monarchy, unresponsive to the people. ... Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd _______ That is what happened in every Western Protestant monarchy, with the Reformation. And very nearly in France under the Bourbons. The latter didn't want to break with Rome, but did want a subservient Church. Kind of like China today. To the credit of the Orthodox, while the hierarchy often caved, the monks tended to hold out. Posted by: Eeyore at September 28, 2024 01:10 PM (1bNHn) 225
Just about every thread where people are asked what they would be doing under a glorious communist paradise, they think they'll be writers, poets, artists or teachers.
------ This is the conceit of people who don't know that anything beyond subsistence and self-defense are luxuries. Even a thatched roof over a couple of bent over trees where you can stash a couple chickens next to your bed is a luxury. Artists and poets and technicians and architects, from the time of cavemen, have been a tiny number of people with enough raw talent to exempt them from immediate calorie-producing tasks. Only when you have a glitzy, modern industrial base big enough to feed large numbers of those people, do they get the idea that they exist in large enough numbers to control society, and they are still WRONG. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 01:11 PM (awTae) 226
So if we were to get rid of the socialist elements of our society the average person might be 10X wealthier in real terms. But...if we remove one regulation, one tax, or fire one bureaucrat the impact might be a few dollars...not enough to fight for.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 01:02 PM (oZhjI) Not completely true, there is a push to not fix things at the highest level, since fixing small things leads to demand fixing larger things, and unmasks the things that are deeply broken that are being depended on to preserve power. Gorbachev did the "openness" and "restructuring" but the problem was that the previous system had hidden the massive inflation in the soviet system, and the complete dysfunction of the centralized economy. That Milei was able to get what he has done through so far depends on the oddities of Argentina being run as a supposedly democratic society to elect oligarchs, and enough institutional memory of collapse that enough high power bureaucrats decided they didn't want to do it again. Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 01:12 PM (D7oie) 227
Trotsky seemed to live in NY years after the Revolution free as a bird.
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 01:13 PM (fwDg9) 228
These innocent people Columbus encountered in the Bahamas are quite a contrast to the Comanche and Apache tribes. They would have been eaten for lunch.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 01:07 PM (wILM4) Are you talking about the Tainos or the Caribes? Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 01:14 PM (D7oie) 229
And so, unemployment was not allowed. They found you a job. They sent you a letter, ordering you to report to the Fabulous Widget Factory no. 46 on Monday, no later than 7 AM. If you don't show up, they will arrest you. So you showed up. Pretended to work. And they pretended to pay you.
... Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 12:03 PM (R3wAr) ==== Most people I encountered paid someone else to do their official "job" while they ran around finding ways to make money and get food. Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 01:17 PM (zG664) 230
> Joy Behar And Wanda Sykes Fear Trump Will Put Comedians In Jail...“
--------- Then neither of them has anything to worry about. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 01:19 PM (Q4IgG) 231
>>>Now we're oppressed by automatons with zero thinking.
Posted by: Mr Ray ---------------------------- I don't understand it. Don't understand how it happens. I've had employees, encountered others with full, common, mental facilities; math, reading, grammar, entirely functional and they are total drones. Teach them a complex formula and they work it, ask them why or how or to abstract/extrapolate the formula to something else. Forget about it. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 01:20 PM (wILM4) 232
92 IMO the biggest adherents of theoretic communism are women. That's because of the innate socialistic and empathetic gene. They also have the abused wife paradox.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:00 PM (i514R) _______ Chesterton wrote about that a lot. "If you read even the best of the intellectuals of to-day you will find them saying that in the mass of the democracy the woman is the chattel of her lord, like his bath or his bed. But if you read the comic literature of the democracy you will find that the lord hides under the bed to escape from the wrath of his chattel." "Men represent the deliberative and democratic element in life. Woman represents the despotic." There is lots more. If for millennia you have to deal with children, you become naturally despotic. Posted by: Eeyore at September 28, 2024 01:21 PM (1bNHn) 233
Are you talking about the Tainos or the Caribes?
Posted by: Kindltot -------------------------- I'm referring to the islanders described by Columbus in the article K.T. linked. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 01:21 PM (wILM4) 234
The Civil War was in the making over 40 years before Lincoln took office. If there is a person more to blame it was Pierce.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 01:23 PM (i514R) 235
Joy Behar And Wanda Sykes Fear Trump Will Put Comedians In Jail...“
--------- Then neither of them has anything to worry about. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 01:19 PM (Q4IgG) Hah. Reminds me of the Bee Headline about Taco Bell during the beef shortage. Something like 'Taco Bell Not Effected By Beef Shortage' Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 01:26 PM (i514R) 236
...Notice nobody talks about making things "better" except very vaguely. No, people want revenge, for something that never happened, perpetrated against people who didn't do anything.
What could go wrong? Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 11:29 AM (R3wAr) I think this is the gist of it. Resentment and revenge. Nothing more. There is no compromising with people like this. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 28, 2024 01:28 PM (cZRYl) 237
The purpose of a totalitarian society is to enshrine a tiny leadership class in positions of permanent power and give them control over everything in the country, including the wealth.
It's no more complicated than that. Communism doesn't create prosperity, but it doesn't have to. Even the most miserable, poverty-stricken hellhole on Earth can eke out enough wealth to support a small elite in the style of billionaires. I call this the "Dagny Taggart Epiphany" after the time I first realized this while reading a sequence in "Atlas Shrugged." From the point of view of the leadership class, North Korea is not a failed socialist state, it is a perfected one. Posted by: MartynW at September 28, 2024 01:29 PM (+W6G0) 238
130 Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 12:11 PM (/5iXv)
I am of the belief that working a crap job will make one want to look for something better. The people who would rather just be on the street with no benefits would continue though in either situation. ... Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:18 PM (i514R) ______ The trouble is that some companies actually succeed in breaking their employees' morale to the point they give up hoping for better. I've seen this happen in the 90s and 2000s. I don't have an explanation, but it may be (inversely) related to the "revolution of rising expectations" theory. Posted by: Eeyore at September 28, 2024 01:30 PM (1bNHn) Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2024 01:33 PM (FnneF) 240
Eventually we'll lose the battle with entropy. The goal is to take as many people with us to Christ.
Posted by: Marybel Smiles at September 28, 2024 01:35 PM (b2Tnl) 241
Nobody is going to go to work and put up with a ration of shit for 12 bucks an hour when their material needs can be met with a combination of federal, state, and local Free Food, Rent, Insurance, Obie-Care Plus, and the rest of it.
Stay "home". Eat Funyuns. Smoke dope, talk shit about the government. Chase poon, play video games. I don't know what it would take to reverse this, but "Welfare" was deployed against Black folks, and then perfected and set out to destabilize everybody. Government Dependents. They will always Vote The Right Way. Coupled with a phony baloney "elastic currency", it's only a matter of time. No legislation can resist, nobody can swear of the Federal Confetti-Buck Generator set to "Brrrrrrrrrr". I was of the naïve belief that if the normies could capture the legislature, the lawfare could be used for its intended purpose. Want to be a "Sanctuary city"? Fine. No federal soup for YOUR city. Have at it. As we've all seen, our betters only ever allow the ratchet to turn one direction. It was all smoke and mirrors, a kind of grand illusion. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 01:37 PM (U+NeW) 242
The short answer to the title question is "Because it is easily couched, by would-be tyrants, in terms that appeal to the ignorant". The only real solution to communism's appeal is to make people less ignorant overall. Unfortunately, we've been going the wrong direction there for decades.
Posted by: Cortillaen at September 28, 2024 01:41 PM (6kADi) 243
"The Civil War was in the making over 40 years before Lincoln took office. If there is a person more to blame it was Pierce." Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
I've heard that, and presume it to be true (knowing little of the details). But Lincoln did nothing to reverse the tensions (tariffs and whatever else). If SC seceded legally, then that is the essence of The United States, where states have that right. Today we still have states speaking of secession, or forming a new state, or joining another state. But Democrats love their Chicago vice grip on the rest of the state. Not sure how Western Oregon is doing (or is it W Washington?). Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2024 01:55 PM (Cus5s) 244
Is Tlaib a communist or just a nasty, ugly, stupid, antisemitic hate monger?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 28, 2024 01:55 PM (FfSAJ) 245
Is Tlaib a communist or just a nasty, ugly, stupid, antisemitic hate monger?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 28, 2024 01:55 PM (FfSAJ) All this, and much, much more. She's easily the worst of a very bad bunch of women in Congrefs. Posted by: Pugsley Hudson Mahon, Telling War Stories at September 28, 2024 02:17 PM (Ad8y9) 246
Not sure if Tliab is Muslim or Communist or Muslim but Communist leaning
I have always contended Barky dropped Islam for Marxism but still has a soft heart for Islam Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 02:22 PM (fwDg9) 247
In case anyone is still here, this is what's happening in Springfield:
https://tinyurl.com/bdfb34s8 Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 02:31 PM (MpVUb) 248
Communism hasn’t gone away because its dedicated zealots have embedded themselves in the halls of govt, the media organs of propaganda, and especially academia. And they have elevated the practice of rigging and stealing elections to an art.
Posted by: kallisto at September 28, 2024 02:44 PM (9CXxi) 249
Notsothoreau interesting read
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 02:45 PM (fwDg9) 250
See Frankfurt School
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 02:45 PM (fwDg9) 251
Sure looks to me the Marxists took over Universities, taught their students in it, that continued so no they start in Kindergarten
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 02:47 PM (fwDg9) 252
He says, 'Down the Corruption Rabbit Hole: On the ground in Springfield, Ohio', but these corrupt organizations are at the end point and in port of illegals all over this nation.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 02:53 PM (wILM4) 253
"If SC seceded legally, then that is the essence of The United States, where states have that right."
I'm pretty sure that right was forfeited the instant the first cannonball crashed into the walls of Fort Sumter. That's my take on it. Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 28, 2024 02:55 PM (89Sog) 254
Didn't the NYT celebrate Marx's birthday a few years ago?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 28, 2024 03:18 PM (M+LfK) 255
I miss LenNeal.
He would have spiced up this thread. Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2024 03:35 PM (kex3D) Posted by: KT at September 28, 2024 03:42 PM (xekrU) 257
"I'm pretty sure that right was forfeited the instant the first cannonball crashed into the walls of Fort Sumter. That's my take on it." Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later
yeah, maybe so. But moving troops to the fort to perhaps control the port was also a military act against SC, not part of accepting the secession? I don't really know the history in enough detail. Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2024 03:45 PM (Cus5s) 258
>>> The way around this of course - you can try it for yourself - refer to her as "Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife" in front of your favorite oh-so easily triggered neurotic wind up leftist toy.
Crowder does this, on his show he calls Biden "former vice president Joe Biden" and says it's to give him the respect he's due. He has done this for 3.5 years--years! I admire the dedication. Posted by: LizLem at September 28, 2024 03:45 PM (hZogW) 259
Communism will never die out because resentment and envy are hard-wired human instincts.
Posted by: Lickmuffin at September 28, 2024 04:05 PM (QHFzy) 260
I know I'm late here but there WAS a book about the Clinton Gingrich frenemy partnership. STEVEN GILLON, The Pact (Oxford: 200
Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo, not dead at September 28, 2024 04:33 PM (f0LQH) 261
The basis for communism/socialism “(From each/To each, etc) comes from on of one Biblical Epistles of Paul. I don’t recall which and I’m too lazy to perform even a cursory search.
What is missing from what we see today is one of two key features: 1). The group must be small, the size of a congregation at most, and of a single mind concerning the material goods of that congregation and their disposition, or 2). The leader administering the process must be perfect, understanding the needs and abilities of everyone involved, which excludes everyone in history but one. Otherwise, it’s doomed to fail and destined to be repeated because if history teaches us anything, it’s that people are fucking stupid. Posted by: Misanthropic Misanthrope at September 28, 2024 04:35 PM (Y2NGV) 262
Everyone needs to see this!!
In case anyone is still here, this is what's happening in Springfield: https://tinyurl.com/bdfb34s8 Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 02:31 PM Posted by: pawn at September 28, 2024 04:36 PM (QB+5g) 263
To understand why Communism survives you need to see that Communism is not fundamentally different from dictatorship. As well ask yourself why dictatorships survive.
Posted by: JackWayne at September 28, 2024 05:32 PM (iUX6L) 264
It never really died. It still exists because so many people prefer the security of state control to the responsibilities that come with being free.
Posted by: teejuss at September 28, 2024 06:03 PM (V9chC) 265
Because it is a religion. It is a Christian gnostic heresy, as weird as that sounds. That's their first objective has always been to destroy the old faith.
Posted by: azhar at September 28, 2024 06:22 PM (hJ98U) The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer RevivalHOLY SH*T! Watch moment enormous ‘POO-CANO’ sends human waste shooting 33ft into air before raining and drenching cars Before we enter the Prayer Revival, just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Wakefield.) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away. 2) Be kind, be nice. Please don't jump on the couch. 3) Running and/or jogging with sharp objects is frowned upon here. 4) Have a great weekend! A special "Thank you Annie" for providing the AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List this week. And every week, week in, week out.
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I'll go let the others know.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 08:21 AM (O7YUW) 2
brcc ak47 with exploding pager bayonete.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:23 AM (gbOdA) 3
Passing out virtual sweets to my phantom friends in boxes this morning. Nasrallah is dead. Am Yisrael Chai!
Posted by: Eff Bee Lie at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (1FWWQ) 4
Good morning fine people. I like the sign, Mis Hum.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (SfhV1) 5
Prayer request:
I kept meaning to submit this, but I procrastinated. A family of missionaries from my church is currently on their way to Kenya today to begin training Kenyans on how to engage in Christian missionary work in Africa. The son-in-law of our pastor, his wife (the pastor's daughter), and their three small daughters will be in a rather dangerous country for the foreseeable future and could use prayers for safety and success in their missionary work. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (BpYfr) 6
By replacing your
morning coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 89% of what little joy you still have left in your life. I love this. Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:25 AM (64Zez) 7
Perfessor, I left you an idea for that student paper on the other thread....yourwelcome!
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:26 AM (V13WU) 8
Remember, you have to be nice or some regular is going to shake their finger at you and tell you you're a bitter old hater. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:26 AM (BkEzK) 9
Only in a place like this could "Anderson Coopers Giant Anus" ask for prayers.
Posted by: Eff Bee Lie at September 28, 2024 08:26 AM (1FWWQ) 10
The son-in-law of our pastor, his wife (the pastor's daughter), and their three small daughters will be in a rather dangerous country for the foreseeable future and could use prayers for safety and success in their missionary work.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (BpYfr) I'll pray for safety and that their work for the Lord will be fruitful. My daughter has done mission work in Africa, so I'm familiar with the concerns that come along with that. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:26 AM (SfhV1) 11
Thanks again, everyone. Just finished the first month of maintenance. Amazing that it's just a pill I take at bedtime. 5 straight days per month, for 6 months. Now three weeks off until the next round, just to clarify. I assume I will have another MRI sometime in the coming weeks. Reminds me that I need to contact my oncologist to see when. Anyone in and around the area affected by Helene, prayers for safety and a return to normalcy ASAP. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (x0n13) 12
well, Wakefield ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (UWgy2) Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (Q4IgG) 14
Sorry, I left my Eff Bee Lie sock on.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (1FWWQ) 15
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (fwDg9) 16
Willowed Wasn't Connie Mack the manager for one of them? Posted by: dantesed at September 28, 2024 08:23 AM (Oy/m2) Connie Mack was the manager of the Philadelphia A's from their inaugural season in 1901 to his retirement in 1950, when he was 87. He was also the owner along with the Shibe family. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (BkEzK) 17
Thanks again, everyone. Just finished the first month of maintenance. Amazing that it's just a pill I take at bedtime. 5 straight days per month, for 6 months.
I'm so delighted by your progress, JJ. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (SfhV1) 18
Perfessor, I left you an idea for that student paper on the other thread....yourwelcome!
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:26 AM (V13WU) --- I saw your comments. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (BpYfr) 19
5 Prayer request:
I kept meaning to submit this, but I procrastinated. A family of missionaries from my church is currently on their way to Kenya today to begin training Kenyans on how to engage in Christian missionary work in Africa. The son-in-law of our pastor, his wife (the pastor's daughter), and their three small daughters will be in a rather dangerous country for the foreseeable future and could use prayers for safety and success in their missionary work. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (BpYfr) Blessings on them! Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:29 AM (64Zez) 20
Is it Saturday already? Cool. What cartoons are worth watching these days, if any?
Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2024 08:29 AM (g7NHK) 21
I have to go pour myself a second cup. Don't say anything witty until I get back.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1) 22
I knew I should’ve waited a few more minutes to post.
Willowed: On most recent weekends Encore Westerns has taken to broadcasting the “Lone Star” production company’s John Wayne westerns. I assume because A) they’re either very cheap to license or free in the public domain and B) everybody loves a young John Wayne. And man is he young and skinny as a rail. It’s a big contrast compared to watching him in say, El Dorado, where the little horse he rode in that was almost as big as Wayne. The plots are barebones and the acting stiff, but still entertaining in a quaint way. “Randy Rides Alone” on now, with “The Trail Beyond”, where Wayne goes to Canada to fight off French-Canadian outlaw kidnappers, up next at 9 a.m. EDT. Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 08:30 AM (6ydKt) 23
Thanks again, everyone. Just finished the first month of maintenance. Amazing that it's just a pill I take at bedtime. 5 straight days per month, for 6 months.
Anyone in and around the area affected by Helene, prayers for safety and a return to normalcy ASAP. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (x0n13) --- Side effects may include snarky commenting on AoSHQ and providing extensive links about politics, society, and culture first thing in the morning 5 days a week. Consult your doctor if these persist for more than eight years. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:30 AM (BpYfr) 24
21 I have to go pour myself a second cup. Don't say anything witty until I get back.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1) We'll preserve all the witty comments! Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:31 AM (64Zez) 25
I'm so delighted by your progress, JJ.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (SfhV1) Thanks Grammie. Just to clarify, now three weeks off until the next round. I assume I will have another MRI sometime in the coming weeks. Reminds me that I need to contact my oncologist to see when. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:32 AM (x0n13) 26
We'll preserve all the witty comments!
Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:31 AM (64Zez) Thank you! I'm here now. You may commence. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:32 AM (SfhV1) 27
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. Amen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:33 AM (llXky) 28
I will have another MRI sometime in the coming weeks. Reminds me that I need to contact my oncologist to see when.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:32 AM (x0n13) I hope you're in the best hospital center in Wisconsin. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:34 AM (SfhV1) 29
What if I'm in a non-witty mood?
Posted by: dantesed at September 28, 2024 08:34 AM (Oy/m2) 30
Connie Mack was the manager of the Philadelphia A's from their inaugural season in 1901 to his retirement in 1950, when he was 87. He was also the owner along with the Shibe family. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM Yup, eventually a stadium was built with his name, now sadly gone. To see a baseball hit over the top of the right field wall/scoreboard was amazing. It was fun to watch the scores change on the scoreboard, occasionally you could see the person who was changing the numbers. Ah, technology back then. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:35 AM (RKVpM) 31
What has been happening in Lebanon is truly astounding, and the most enjoyable part is that it’s the opposite of what EVERYONE predicted. (Well except for Bibi, who’s smiling like the cat who ate the canary). I’m having a bit of fun searching out old predictions of disaster for Israel if they messed with Hezbollah - but even none of Israel’s friends could have predicted a victory this stunning, this fast!
Of course at this point it’s still a strategic victory, it will take time to make it a tactical victory. But Hezbollah has now been reduced to an angry, still armed but leaderless mob. Dangerous to civilians but no match for any disciplined military forces. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:35 AM (S6gqv) 32
Hezbollah chief is mort?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:36 AM (SfhV1) 33
*He was also the owner along with the Shibe family.*
They painted one my cars many years ago. $29.95. Posted by: It was a Buick at September 28, 2024 08:37 AM (dg+HA) 34
32 Hezbollah chief is mort?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:36 AM (SfhV1) Org Chart looks like shooting range target. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:37 AM (gbOdA) 35
33 *He was also the owner along with the Shibe family.*
They painted one my cars many years ago. $29.95. Posted by: It was a Buick at September 28, 2024 08:37 AM (dg+HA) I will paint any royal carriage for 2 pounds sterling. Posted by: Earl of Scheib at September 28, 2024 08:38 AM (gbOdA) 36
grammie winger, he is very mort. as is their entire military chain of command :
https://tinyurl.com/ytndu7dd Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:38 AM (V13WU) 37
The son-in-law of our pastor, his wife (the pastor's daughter), and their three small daughters will be in a rather dangerous country for the foreseeable future and could use prayers for safety and success in their missionary work.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (BpYfr) --- I hope it goes well for them. One of the chaplains in my squadron transferred out because his family was doing mission work in the Pacific islands. I think evangelization is important, but I don't think uprooting families and making them involuntary participants is the way to go. Maybe it's just the popular culture, but a lot of vocal apostates seem to be the children of missionaries. I also think that where we are right now, we need more missionaries in the US. The country is re-paganizing at a frightful pace. A lot of our social problems would go away if we had levels of faith like those in the 1950s. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:39 AM (llXky) 38
Yup, eventually a stadium was built with his name, now sadly gone. The stadium was built in 1908 and was named Shibe Park, after co-owner Ben Shibe. In 1938, the Phillies also played there. After Mack retired, it was renamed Connie Mack Stadium. The Phillies purchased the stadium (reluctantly) and used it until 1970. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:39 AM (BkEzK) 39
off painter sox
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (gbOdA) 40
32 Hezbollah chief is mort?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:36 AM (SfhV1) Sing it like a munchkin: “He’s not only merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead!” Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (S6gqv) 41
They painted one my cars many years ago. $29.95. Posted by: It was a Buick at September 28, 2024 08:37 AM Buick is the preferred vehicle of 9 out of 10 ballot 'fortifiers'. Accept no less when it's 3 am Election Night and it's time to let the rubber hit the road. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (RKVpM) 42
Israel, of course, will not post what they know, but feels safe to post the dead ones. there might be a few targets yet alive.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (V13WU) 43
Prayers up for those that have asked us for them;
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! Prayers up even for all "our" politicians who have apparently decided that the 10% graft and power are far more desirable than honor or integrity, may they see the error of their ways and repent! And lastly, prayers up for former (and hopefully future) President Trump, keep him safe from harm and may the many forces of evil arrayed against him and our country be made ineffective and come to naught! And bless all the families, Morons, and friends impacted by this vicious destructive storm. Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (hOUT3) 44
Sing it like a munchkin:
“He’s not only merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead!” Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (S6gqv) ha Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:41 AM (gbOdA) Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 08:42 AM (QXQ4l) 46
I think someone is concerned...
"Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been transferred to a secure location after Israel claimed to have killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Reuters reports, citing local sources. Unnamed officials also told the agency that Iran is maintaining close contact with the Lebanese-based Islamist group to determine what to do next." Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (V13WU) 47
The Week In Pictures never disappoints
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (/7KEl) 48
Israel has really dismembered Hezbollah. IYKWIM
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (Q4IgG) 49
Iran for sure is now going to ramp up its efforts at interfering in our elections to prevent a Trump victory. And that doesn't include yet another assassination attempt, with or without assistance/collusion from the Deep state. Perhaps it's not a bad idea to vote early in case they do hack the voting machinery and crash the system on Election Day, by themselves or with assistance from Dao-Min-Yen et. al Yikes. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (x0n13) 50
yes, maintain very close contacts, why don't you
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (V13WU) 51
Of course at this point it’s still a strategic victory, it will take time to make it a tactical victory. But Hezbollah has now been reduced to an angry, still armed but leaderless mob. Dangerous to civilians but no match for any disciplined military forces.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:35 AM (S6gqv) --- The reason Israel has turned things around is that they've stopped listening to the hypocrites who demand absolute moral perfection from Western militaries while excusing the crimes and atrocities of our enemies. Whenever someone brings up Israel doing something naughty, I cut them short by asking what Hamas' or Hezbullah & etc. use for uniforms. What are their ranks? What units do the field? Uniforms and ranks and units are there to protect civilians. If you don't use them, you want civilians to die. The reason why civilians losses in Ukraine are so much lower is that both sides do this. It's pretty simple stuff. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (llXky) Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (dg+HA) 53
36 grammie winger, he is very mort. as is their entire military chain of command :
https://tinyurl.com/ytndu7dd Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:38 AM (V13WU) Wow. Posted by: MrExcitement at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (hOOi9) 54
Good morning everyone! Praying for all, especially those in specific need, but also generally. What a difference time and God (but especially God) has made for me. Maintaining gains, maintaining positive outlook, slowly, gently cultivating a relationship with a remarkable woman. Did have a bit of a relapse yesterday, a moment of bitterness. Daily Bible verse and prayer (online) miraculously on target, reminded me to love and trust him. Yesterday was autistic son’s birthday and youngest daughter’s last week. I brought him home from his group home and she’s home for the weekend (evacuated from school for hurricane). Just brought on negative feelings towards the one who abandoned us (especially them- I’ve moved on, but they’ll never have another mother and she’s forgotten them, made no contact with either). We are commanded to love and forgive each other, and I’m trying, but it’s been difficult and I certainly failed. Every day I count down from 490 whenever I catch myself being bitter or arguing with “ghosts.” Nowadays I rarely get below 485, mostly just feel pity if I think of her at all, but yesterday was tough. Today, however, is a new day, and I trust Him to give me daily bread.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (fiUiH) 55
After Mack retired, it was renamed Connie Mack Stadium. The Phillies purchased the stadium (reluctantly) and used it until 1970. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:39 AM The 'new' stadium which replaced Connie Mack Stadium has already been demolished in 2004. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (RKVpM) 56
En mi casa toman Bustelo!
Posted by: Caffiend at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (CV8a5) 57
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (hOUT3)
Thank you for that moving prayer Hrothgar. Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (QXQ4l) 58
If we want to with a WW2 analogy for the war in the Middle East, this would have been like killing Hitler and his entire general staff in 1940.
On X last night: “Israeli Sources have confirmed that besides Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, several other Senior Hezbollah Leaders as well as a Group of Advisors from the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) were inside the Command Bunker when it was Targeted. With all Occupants expected to have been Killed by the Strike.” Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:45 AM (S6gqv) 59
Wishing you continued good health, J.J.
I’m still amazed you could continue with the Morning Report through all of your procedures and therapy. For all its faults at least modern medicine has made surviving cancer a lot easier in the past few decades. Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 08:45 AM (6ydKt) Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:46 AM (gbOdA) 61
Today, however, is a new day, and I trust Him to give me daily bread.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (fiUiH) God be with you, sir. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:46 AM (SfhV1) 62
Doggeh sez its wake up time
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 08:47 AM (dE3DB) 63
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (x0n13)
I have only voted early/absentee once when I was a freshman in college. But I will be voting early this year as soon as I can Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 08:47 AM (QXQ4l) 64
JJ, Iran is an incompetent and backward regime, only able to terrorize, but will not withstand and Israeli onslaught if Israel so chooses. When I see vids from Iran, their daily lives look like something out of the 70s . Think USSR 1976 sheek.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:48 AM (V13WU) 65
*an Israeli onslaught
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:48 AM (V13WU) 66
43 Prayers up for those that have asked us for them;
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! Prayers up even for all "our" politicians who have apparently decided that the 10% graft and power are far more desirable than honor or integrity, may they see the error of their ways and repent! And lastly, prayers up for former (and hopefully future) President Trump, keep him safe from harm and may the many forces of evil arrayed against him and our country be made ineffective and come to naught! And bless all the families, Morons, and friends impacted by this vicious destructive storm. Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (hOUT3) Thank you! Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:48 AM (64Zez) 67
Yeah, we should be just like China, so we can have exploding sewage systems too. For fairness, ya know. Vote Kamala!
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 28, 2024 08:48 AM (XMwZJ) 68
31 What has been happening in Lebanon is truly astounding
------------------------------ I can't find the video. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (wILM4) 69
We are commanded to love and forgive each other, and I’m trying, but it’s been difficult and I certainly failed. Every day I count down from 490 whenever I catch myself being bitter or arguing with “ghosts.” Nowadays I rarely get below 485, mostly just feel pity if I think of her at all, but yesterday was tough. Today, however, is a new day, and I trust Him to give me daily bread.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (fiUiH) --- Forgiveness is difficult, especially when we ask too much of ourselves and seek to do it too soon. Especially early on, it is important to explore one's feelings and think about why things happened, what we could have done differently, and also accept that what is done is done. A big part is just moving on and filling that space with other things, which gradually push out the old anger because you've replaced it with new joy. For me, forgiveness doesn't really happen until I've moved on and have some distance from what happened. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (llXky) 70
SpaceX Crew-9 launch scheduled for 1:17 EDT today.
They should play the Gilligan's Island theme, considering who they're going to go pick up. Posted by: MrExcitement at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (hOOi9) 71
Iran is swearing revenge, but at the moment Khameini in Iran is reportedly in hiding at a “secure location”.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (S6gqv) Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (b82nJ) 73
tff ? Texas Fishin' Forum ???
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (V13WU) 74
51 The reason Israel has turned things around is that they've stopped listening to the hypocrites who demand absolute moral perfection from Western militaries while excusing the crimes and atrocities of our enemies.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (llXky) - - - - Well ya know, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, and all that… Moral equivalency in furtherance of ideological and political agendas is what is ultimately dooming the west. Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (6ydKt) 75
Best wishes and positive vibes to all who are in distress this day
sidenote: The new toaster performed flawlessly no more throwing toast around the kitchen and it's red like a fire engine matches my stapler Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (/7KEl) 76
So happy to hear your good news JJ. Keep the faith, stay positive, and G_d bless you (I think it’s okay to name Him in my faith, respect your’s).
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (fiUiH) 77
There's nothing wrong with the White Sox that a brand spanking new $2 billion publicly-funded stadium for Reinsdorf can't fix. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:51 AM (BkEzK) 78
I always vote early. Much more convenient. We have something like a two week window for early voting where I live. But never by mail...that's just retarded.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 28, 2024 08:51 AM (XMwZJ) 79
JJ it's so wonderful that you are responding so well to treatment.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 08:52 AM (dE3DB) 80
67 Yeah, we should be just like China, so we can have exploding sewage systems too. For fairness, ya know. Vote Kamala!
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent Sewage equity now! Posted by: Spread the filth at September 28, 2024 08:52 AM (dg+HA) 81
>but at the moment Khameini in Iran is reportedly in hiding at a “secure location”.
--- to quote Pat Benatar: you better run you better hide Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:52 AM (/7KEl) 82
Biden was a thorn in Israel's side, he withheld ammo and military aid, forced other countries to do the same, and the Hamas situation took a year longer than it should have. What a fkng bastard.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:52 AM (V13WU) 83
Wish words, Lloyd. That’s certainly been my experience. Thank you.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:52 AM (fiUiH) 84
Khameini is in a “secure location”. A Command Bunker!
Posted by: davidt at September 28, 2024 08:53 AM (i0F8b) 85
Iran needs a healthy revolution.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:53 AM (V13WU) 86
Connie Mack Stadium was replaced by 'Veteran's Stadium': As the stadium aged, its condition deteriorated. A hole in the wall allowed visiting teams' players to peep into the dressing room of the Eagles Cheerleaders.[11] So many mice infested the stadium that the security force employed cats as mousers. Fat, happy cats? Posted by: Hungry Haitian at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (RKVpM) 87
*wise
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (fiUiH) 88
“ Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.” Then the man got up and went home.”
Matthew 9:4-7 Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (b82nJ) 89
The day they finally knock off that ayatollah Khakamamie will be a day to rejoice
I just hope IDF doesn't run out of bombs Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (/7KEl) 90
Well now.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (cPejy) 91
I can't find the video.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (wILM4) It’s easy to find, my phone makes it difficult to post links. Looks like about 6 apartment buildings in Beirut getting blown up with some secondary explosions. Israel says that Hezbollah’s primary command and control complex was built underneath those buildings, and since Nasrallah is dead, it looks like they were right. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (S6gqv) 92
Woman caught smuggling more than 700 pounds of bologna at Texas border
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:55 AM (gbOdA) 93
here is what is driving everything (from R T - the russian outlet , so grain of salt) : "A key goal of the Israeli bombardment of Beirut aimed at Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other top members was to avoid a full-scale ground invasion of Lebanon, a senior unnamed Israeli official has said, as quoted by the Times of Israel. He added that Israel is seeking to “break” Hezbollah, claiming that Israeli intelligence had uncovered an Iranian plan to encircle Israel and eliminate it by 2040 " I hope that 2025 the Islamic Republic of Iran is fkg gone.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:56 AM (V13WU) 94
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sidenote: The new toaster performed flawlessly no more throwing toast around the kitchen and it's red like a fire engine matches my stapler Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (/7KEl) ; ) Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:56 AM (64Zez) 95
Iran needs to go. It really does.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:56 AM (V13WU) 96
I imagine Israel, unlike us, is wise enough to husband its ammunition resources prudently, as opposed to, say, giving them all to Ukraine.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (fiUiH) 97
I just hope IDF doesn't run out of bombs Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM elect me and they will Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (tljrc) 98
Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.” Then the man got up and went home.”
Matthew 9:4-7 Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (b82nJ) 'The Chosen' does a beautiful job with that scene. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (SfhV1) 99
Morning everyone. Prayers to the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Nice work by the Israelis taking out Nasrallah. Given how leaderless Hezbollah is now , any attacks against Israeli by them will be unfocused and not strategic. I'm still surprised that we haven't seen any suicide bombers either in Israel or here. That's about what the terrorists have been reduced to Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (RTfY1) 100
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Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:58 AM (64Zez) Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:59 AM (gbOdA) 102
Take over the middle, run it like a Boss and charge them, in oil, for it.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 09:00 AM (wILM4) 103
Iran's chain of command will now take over the remnants of Hezbollah. Perfect. Now Israel can bomb the shiite out of Iran (SWIDT??)
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:00 AM (V13WU) 104
92 Woman caught smuggling more than 700 pounds of bologna at Texas border
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:55 AM (gbOdA) - - - - I really don’t wanna know where she was hiding the bologna. Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 09:00 AM (6ydKt) 105
He added that Israel is seeking to “break” Hezbollah, claiming that Israeli intelligence had uncovered an Iranian plan to encircle Israel and eliminate it by 2040 " I hope that 2025 the Islamic Republic of Iran is fkg gone.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:56 AM (V13WU Okay that part is kind of funny, since everyone else figured that out 15 years ago when Iran backed Hamas, helped Hezbollah dominate Lebanon, and backed the Houthi rebellion in Yemen. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 09:00 AM (S6gqv) 106
My view is your vote gets there when it gets there, early does nothing that late won't. But that early opportunity opens up fraud possibilities.
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 09:01 AM (fwDg9) 107
and that's what a decapitation strike looks like
IDF playing for keeps Just keep Washington DC in the dark about your plans Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:01 AM (/7KEl) 108
Why is Trump promising to undo his reform of SALT deductions? Only northeastern Democrat voters want that to happen and PDJT will never get their votes, whereas the reform was bigly popular with everyone else, and none of those voters want to see this reform undone.
Ah well... Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 09:01 AM (5++NP) 109
“ Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (SfhV1)”
Matthew 9 is one of my favorite chapters. Especially this; “ On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” -Matthew 9:12-13 Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 09:01 AM (b82nJ) 110
As the stadium aged, its condition deteriorated. A hole in the wall allowed visiting teams' players to peep into the dressing room of the Eagles Cheerleaders.[11] So many mice infested the stadium that the security force employed cats as mousers.
Fat, happy cats? Posted by: Hungry Haitian In 1969, the Mets were coming from behind and were in the process of catching and passing the Cubs, who were in first place most of the year. Cubs were visiting the Mets at Shea Stadium, when a black cat came out from under the stands, stood in front of the visitors dugout, and stared at Leo Durocher for a few seconds. The Mets swamped them from that time on and the Cubs folded. It's an important part of Mets lore since. Posted by: Here, Kitty! at September 28, 2024 09:02 AM (CV8a5) 111
An isolated and agitated Iran would be a concern, I'd think. Israel may take out Khameini, and that would be good news, but the US has no interest in fostering a more sane government there.
It'd be in Israel's interests to step in and do that and not let the US have a foothold. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 09:02 AM (Q4IgG) 112
Additional Requests:
Joe Kidd asked for prayers for his brother Mike’s soul. Mike passed away from stomach cancer on Thursday. Prayers of comfort for Mike’s wife Irene and adult son Michael are also appreciated. Coelacanth asked for prayers for his son. He is suffering from fibromyalgia and his work environment is toxic. He is pushing through his troubles and is praying, but feels like God has abandoned him. Posted by: Annie Stew at September 28, 2024 09:02 AM (Gfol1) 113
Matthew 9 is one of my favorite chapters. Especially this;
The whole Gospel of Matthew is so wonderful. I love it. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:03 AM (SfhV1) 114
What has your life been reduced to if you're actually watching "RT?"
Posted by: Still too early for deep questions at September 28, 2024 09:03 AM (dg+HA) 115
- A few comments have been made concerning our Lord's reply on how many times to forgive.
Until 70 times 7. Was He saying 490 times then after that...? Consider another possibility. That He was referring back to another time the phrase seventy sevens, or seventy weeks, was used. Telling us to forgive until the end of this current, evil age. Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:04 AM (/vvA5) 116
113 even the geneologies. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:04 AM (SfhV1) 117
Farmer Bob, prayers for you and your son and daughter. I hope they each have a counselor or therapist they can talk to?
I Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 09:05 AM (GhIJO) 118
The Mets swamped them from that time on and the Cubs folded. It's an important part of Mets lore since.
Posted by: Here, Kitty! at September 28, 2024 09:02 AM (CV8a5) We don't talk about 1969 in this house. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:05 AM (SfhV1) 119
118 The Mets swamped them from that time on and the Cubs folded. It's an important part of Mets lore since.
Posted by: Here, Kitty! at September 28, 2024 09:02 AM (CV8a5) We don't talk about 1969 in this house. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:05 AM (SfhV1) Because you were a child Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 09:06 AM (QXQ4l) Posted by: The Kopechne family at September 28, 2024 09:07 AM (dg+HA) 121
What has your life been reduced to if you're actually watching "RT?"
Posted by: Still too early for deep questions at September 28, 2024 09:03 AM (dg+HA) I do it so you can continue watching FOX and CNN. You are welcome Quarter Twenty . Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:07 AM (V13WU) Posted by: callsign claymore at September 28, 2024 09:07 AM (2Q8YY) 123
Because you were a child
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 09:06 AM (QXQ4l) You're very generous, Mis Hum Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:08 AM (SfhV1) 124
Sunday is The Feast of the 7 Archangels. If you are looking for a healing, remember the Archangel St. Raphael whose name means “God Heals”.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 09:09 AM (b82nJ) 125
Got rid of my TV a couple years ago. It's been glorious.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 09:09 AM (dg+HA) 126
Noah Berry Sr. and Jr. in the Wayne film “The Trail Beyond” with Jr. playing Wayne’s character’s best friend.
I have never seen Berry, Jr. this young in a film. He looks like a teenager. Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 09:09 AM (6ydKt) 127
Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.” Then the man got up and went home.”
Matthew 9:4-7 Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (b82nJ) 'The Chosen' does a beautiful job with that scene. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (SfhV1) While The Chosen does interject speculation in order to tell a story, the treatment of Jesus is well done. There is no doubt that He is the Word Made Flesh. Every time Jonathan Roumie is on the screen, his presence is riveting. I've heard him speak in person and seen several interviews. In all cases, he thanks God for being given the gift of portraying Jesus Christ. Roumie states that it is very humbling for him to be approached by people telling him that he changed their life, and seeing his image on devotional materials. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:11 AM (pJWtt) 128
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sidenote: The new toaster performed flawlessly no more throwing toast around the kitchen and it's red like a fire engine matches my stapler Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (/7KEl) ---- Is it networked to the stapler? Better watch that! Toast is a staple food Posted by: Ciampino - Toast is a staple food at September 28, 2024 09:12 AM (qfLjt) 129
We don't talk about 1969 in this house. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:05 AM 1964 Philadelphia. The Phillies only needed to win one more game to clinch first place. My Dad and I sitting in the left field bleachers of Connie Mack Stadium, capacity crowd. The opposing team hitting home runs in our direction. They never did win that one more game. https://is.gd/aB95vQ Posted by: Hungry Haitian at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (RKVpM) 130
- "even the geneologies"
I would say especially. Sad that a certain someone refuses to read anything from that book onward. But then, they also deny the literalness of Genesis 1 so... Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (/vvA5) 131
Thanks Vmom! Daughter has been in counseling since her psychiatric hospitalization for suicidal ideation last year. Son has moderate to severe autism and doesn’t understand. He’s mostly non-verbal. Has excellent receptive communication skills (understands what you say to him, follows directions) but very limited expressive communication skills (will sign critical needs and desires, makes binary choices when presented, does picture exchange communication).
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (fiUiH) 132
The SpaceX launch is live right now - prepping the astronauts, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/live/bvMUVxflvxI Posted by: Ciampino - Toast is a staple food? at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (qfLjt) 133
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113 even the geneologies. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:04 AM (SfhV1) Ruths great great or so grandson is David. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (gbOdA) 134
Good morning good people. Prayers for all intentions - those asked and those known but to God.
Prayers also requested for my wife's best buddy Mike. He is on death's door as a result of bone cancer. His kids have all been called in so, you know. . . . Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:15 AM (WXNFJ) 135
I would say especially.
Sad that a certain someone refuses to read anything from that book onward. But then, they also deny the literalness of Genesis 1 so... Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (/vvA5) who ? Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:16 AM (V13WU) 136
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sidenote: The new toaster performed flawlessly no more throwing toast around the kitchen and it's red like a fire engine matches my stapler Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (/7KEl) ---- Is it networked to the stapler? Better watch that! Toast is a staple food Posted by: Ciampino - Toast is a staple food at September 28, 2024 09:12 AM (qfLjt) A toaster that side launched to toward the table would be nice. And WTF is that thingy the brits have to hold cold hard toast? Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:16 AM (gbOdA) Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:17 AM (WXNFJ) 138
What Israel accomplished is precisely what should have happened after the very first terror attack. Had the retaliation been on that scale I seriously doubt we would have had to witness the sick charade of the following decades.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (hKoQL) 139
Such wonderful news this morning...Israel got Nasralla and JJ beat the beast.
Extra prayers for Jewells and hubby. We need to bear down harder on this one. Posted by: creeper at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (M6moH) 140
Red toaster sounds subversive to me unless you are a fireman. Probably full of Chinese spyware.
Posted by: Decline and Fall of the West at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (CV8a5) 141
- "who?"
If I wanted to say, runner, I would have. Comment was meant for them, not to slam them to everyone else. Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (/vvA5) 142
Well ya know, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, and all that…
Moral equivalency in furtherance of ideological and political agendas is what is ultimately dooming the west. Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (6ydKt) --- I would say we've now moved onto self-loathing. The West is the source of all evil, and world will be redeemed when America as it was ceases to exist and becomes Brazil 2.0. It's also clear that a lot of the left believe there is no place in the world for Jews. They don't want them in Israel, and they don't want them here. But they're not anti-Semitic. How dare you call them that! Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:21 AM (llXky) 143
139 Such wonderful news this morning...Israel got Nasralla and JJ beat the beast.
Extra prayers for Jewells and hubby. We need to bear down harder on this one. Posted by: creeper at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (M6moH) Agreed for Jewells and spouse!!!! As for me, it's very good and encouraging. Have I vanquished the beast, only time will tell. Gd bless you all. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:21 AM (x0n13) 144
123 Because you were a child
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 09:06 AM (QXQ4l) You're very generous, Mis Hum Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:08 AM (SfhV1) That's a name I've never been called. Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 09:21 AM (QXQ4l) 145
May the peace and the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with you all on this day. Walk in the light of Truth, my friends.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 09:21 AM (b82nJ) 146
I also have bamboo toast tongs
I really like toast Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:22 AM (/7KEl) 147
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A toast rack. I had one in Africa. Our so-called 'Government loaf' was pretty good bread and toast only went hard if it was almost burnt or actually charcoaled! It was called a government loaf as it was considered staple food for poor people so had to be a certain minimum weight and of a certain nutritional value. Definitely not gluten free. Real bread!!!! Posted by: Ciampino - Toast is a staple food but you knew that at September 28, 2024 09:22 AM (qfLjt) 148
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (6ydKt)
If only we put our heads on the chopping block or march into the gas chambers whistling a happy tune, then we demonstrate our superiority! Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:22 AM (x0n13) Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:24 AM (WXNFJ) 150
146 I also have bamboo toast tongs
I really like toast Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:22 AM (/7KEl) I saw Bamboo Toast tongs open for Yellow Magic Orchestra at Budokan in '79! Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:24 AM (x0n13) 151
If I wanted to say, runner, I would have. Comment was meant for them, not to slam them to everyone else.
Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (/vvA5) if that was meant to be a private comment, why did you post it on a public board ? Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:24 AM (V13WU) 152
What Israel accomplished is precisely what should have happened after the very first terror attack. Had the retaliation been on that scale I seriously doubt we would have had to witness the sick charade of the following decades.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (hKoQL) --- Civilized, affluent people have to be pushed into wartime thinking. There's also a reluctance on the part of elites to do this because other, more traditional beliefs will re-emerge, like how wars require serious military organizations, not armed Human Resources departments bedecked with rainbow flags. Most importantly, the chaos of combat remind us that of how little we control, and that our present prosperity and freedoms are fragile, and perhaps there is a greater power sustaining us that we have all but forgotten? Never forget that Dubya's response to the War on Terror was to tell us to go the mall, not go to church. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:24 AM (llXky) 153
"Government loaf."
This is about us, isn't it? Posted by: Federal workers at September 28, 2024 09:25 AM (dg+HA) 154
OT: I returned to Christ and was baptized on 9/1
Posted by: Halfhand at September 28, 2024 09:26 AM (x/nfO) 155
Whenever someone brings up Israel doing something naughty, I cut them short by asking what Hamas' or Hezbullah & etc. use for uniforms. What are their ranks? What units do the field?
------ I was recently talking to someone who was mouthing the usual weak Western crybullying tropes... " Oh, look at the devastation, this can't continue, Israel must surely agree to a ceasefire at some point soon, to stop the carnage blah blah." I told her "they do not have to. They may or may not do so, but they don't have to. You're only seeing it this way because all you've known is the American way of war, and we're the only country who does it this way, and it's why we haven't won one in close to century - we're the only people who pretend this thing can be humane. War is never pretty, but if you want to see the most hideous face of it, pit two opponents with an iron will to victory against each other. Because they don't roll up shop and go home when Walter Cronkite tells them to. You're seeing an actual, really bad war, and you're not getting it because you don't have the frame of reference to understand people who need to win, and that's both sides here." Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 09:26 AM (awTae) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:27 AM (/7KEl) 157
OT: I returned to Christ and was baptized on 9/1
Posted by: Halfhand at September 28, 2024 09:26 AM (x/nfO) How wonderful!! Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:28 AM (SfhV1) 158
Why on a public board?
I'll just let you think that one through yourself. Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:29 AM (/vvA5) 159
Good Morning!
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere. Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:29 AM (u82oZ) 160
Good morning, Horde, offering prayers for all of you, especially those affected by hurricane Helene, and as always Jewells and her hubby.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2024 09:30 AM (Sgq8y) 161
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:29 AM (u82oZ)
Did you see that Jordy has a new job with the NFL? Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:30 AM (SfhV1) 162
I also think that where we are right now, we need more missionaries in the US. The country is re-paganizing at a frightful pace. A lot of our social problems would go away if we had levels of faith like those in the 1950s.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:39 AM (llXky) You are absolutely correct. The success of the television show, The Chosen is showing that there is a void to be filled. Jonathan Roumie is becoming a very articulate proponent of the Catholic Church, and taking the message of Jesus Christ's salvific sacrifice to unexpected places. There is a growing realization that the happy-clappy Catholic Church of the 1970s has been a failure. I'm chairman of my local parish's Worship Commission and at a local meeting, I stated that we needed to examine why former congregants weren't coming to Mass. One of the responses was that those people no longer believed in the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. I answered why should they: there is nothing to usher them into a sacred space (walking into this church building feels like walking into an office building), and the supernatural is not promoted. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:31 AM (pJWtt) 163
Yudhishthira's Dice
Two good arguments, although I expect the first is couched in knowing the Laws of Land Warfare. Shermanesque statements. Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:31 AM (u82oZ) 164
132 The SpaceX launch is live right now - prepping the astronauts, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/live/bvMUVxflvxI Posted by: Ciampino - Toast --------------------------------- Thanks. They are talking about the Starliner. Never a word about the cabin conditions of Starliner during re-entry. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 09:31 AM (wILM4) Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:32 AM (WXNFJ) 166
When 'the wall' came down in 1989 I was so overjoyed as I had a son soon approaching draft age. I figured peace with the USSR could last 20 or 30 years at which time he'd too old for combat. Which it has, barely. Posted by: Hungry Haitian at September 28, 2024 09:32 AM (RKVpM) 167
Enjoying a good cup of coffee and a monster slice of bread I made yesterday. Homemade blueberry jam on it too.
The simple pleasures are the best. Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:34 AM (WXNFJ) 168
{{{grammie winger}}}
????! Off to look. May you and the Rev enjoy your togetherness and have others cook your meals. Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:34 AM (u82oZ) 169
Okay, all of you Coffee Maniacs can put down your cups of Cat-Poop Coffee you're drinking cuz there's a new Caffiene-Dispensing Sheriff in town! The lovely and caffeine-addicted Mrs naturalfake returned to her Gourmet Coffee Shop Employee During College Days of Yore and brought home some snazzy gourmet coffee beans to go with our snazzy, newish gourmet coffee brewer. The coffee is....Ascension's "Pearl Snap" (I don't get it either) which contains hints of: *reads label* Panela (Mexican cheese) Fruit Punch Vanilla Now, I don't admit to tasting any of that, though Mexican Cheese Coffee does have a certain ring to it. But- That got to be better than swishing civet bile around your taste buds, amirite? So, try it today. Now! Right Now! Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (eDfFs) 170
>Enjoying a good cup of coffee and a monster slice of bread I made yesterday.
--- did you toast the bread Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (/7KEl) 171
As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (LkLld) 172
OT: I returned to Christ and was baptized on 9/1
Posted by: Halfhand at September 28, 2024 09:26 AM (x/nfO) --- Praise be to God! Welcome home! Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:36 AM (llXky) 173
have others cook your meals.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:34 AM (u82oZ) Amen to that! Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:36 AM (SfhV1) 174
Prayers up also for our Brethren and Sisteren in eastern TN and western NC. They are suffering greatly due to the storm. Some of the little towns have been completely wiped out.
I40 and I65 are completely closed in spots so transport and help will have a tough time getting to them. Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:36 AM (WXNFJ) Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:37 AM (WXNFJ) 176
As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (LkLld) --- The Left is far more evil than most people can possibly imagine. They are minions of the Devil, no question. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 09:37 AM (BpYfr) 177
Looking at the devastation in NC and TN from the flooding. Just horrible. I wonder how the junta will treat those people? *
* I don't wonder. Wrong race and political persuasion. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (Q4IgG) 178
As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent. Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM I don't think there has ever been an election that can be categorized so easily as 'good versus' evil. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (RKVpM) 179
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A toast rack. I had one in Africa. Our so-called 'Government loaf' was pretty good bread and toast only went hard if it was almost burnt or actually charcoaled! It was called a government loaf as it was considered staple food for poor people so had to be a certain minimum weight and of a certain nutritional value. Definitely not gluten free. Real bread!!!! Posted by: Ciampino - Toast is a staple food but you knew that at September 28, 2024 09:22 AM (qfLjt) Toast Out of Africa Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (gbOdA) 180
I Just got some Seattle's Best cuz it was on sale
now, my toast was actually an English muffin- raspberry jam on one half and Grecian honey on the other Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (/7KEl) 181
This coming week is my favorite saints week: tomorrow the Archangels, then St, Therese, the Guardian Angels, and St. Francis.
There’s a college nearby run by Franciscans where I used to bring my kitteh to get blessed. It was so cute to see the conglomeration of pets around the circle: German Shepherds to lizards and everything in between Posted by: kallisto at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (ghk1f) 182
170 >Enjoying a good cup of coffee and a monster slice of bread I made yesterday.
--- did you toast the bread Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (/7KEl) So you made a monster slice of bread yesterday. How did you keep it fresh. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:39 AM (gbOdA) 183
iiiinteresting..
"Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has relocated within the Gaza Strip after learning about the Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, according to a Saturday report by Saudi state-owned television channel Al Arabiya. The report also claimed that Sinwar's security circles have changed in the past few days and that Hamas leaders also reportedly decided to stop communicating with high officials abroad "until further notice." On the day Israel smokes sinwar , I am buying everyone a drink. Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:39 AM (V13WU) 184
"Paging Hassan NasrallaH! Please pick up a white courtesy walkie-talkie!"
Posted by: IDF at September 28, 2024 09:39 AM (uCfKO) 185
Good Saturday morning, horde. This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!
Prayers said for all who've asked, and those who haven't. Prayers for the destruction of satanic forces throughout the world. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 09:39 AM (OX9vb) 186
Grecian honey???
Posted by: dantesed at September 28, 2024 09:40 AM (Oy/m2) 187
Woman caught smuggling more than 700 pounds of bologna at Texas border
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:55 AM *The Paolo, he makes the shifty eyes* Posted by: Paolo at September 28, 2024 09:41 AM (Wnv9h) 188
grammie winger
So Jordy Nelson is an appeal-hearing officer in player-discipline cases. He is a good man, and will be a good judge for that. Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:41 AM (u82oZ) Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:42 AM (WXNFJ) Posted by: ToTo at September 28, 2024 09:42 AM (dg+HA) 191
The reason Israel has turned things around is that they've stopped listening to the hypocrites who demand absolute moral perfection from Western militaries while excusing the crimes and atrocities of our enemies.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (llXky) Honestly, I thought Israel was never going to take the measures the Oct 6 attack required. The number one job of any gov't is to protect its citizens. (A job now forgotten by the current US gov't) After a senseless, animalistic attack like Israel experienced, it is incumbent on the leader to bring as much pain, violence, horror, and death to the attackers, their countrymen, and their supporters and anyone within sniffing distance of these folk as is humanly possible, until they unconditionally surrender and the thought of attacking you again is simply painful to consider when you know what will follow. Good for Israel for finally taking their number one job seriously. Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (eDfFs) 192
The Left is far more evil than most people can possibly imagine. They are minions of the Devil, no question.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 09:37 AM This man gets it. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (Wnv9h) 193
I answered why should they: there is nothing to usher them into a sacred space (walking into this church building feels like walking into an office building), and the supernatural is not promoted.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:31 AM (pJWtt) --- I'm very pleased at the direction our diocese is taking, and the efforts to restore the church interiors, filling them with sacred images, icons and creating a sense of awe. I know some here may have issues with that, but there are times during the Mass when my mind wanders, the distractions of the world try to intrude, and having the Holy Family or Our Lady of Guadalupe or the image of Divine Mercy at hand suddenly refocuses my thoughts. There is also a sustained effort for people to receive the Eucharist on the tongue and I have started to do so (remember, I'm a convert, so was taught to receive it in the hand). People are embracing it, which is great. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (llXky) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (/7KEl) 195
I don't wonder. Wrong race and political persuasion.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (Q4IgG) One of the executives at my company signed off on an all hands meeting (where four of us are in the storm's path of destruction) yesterday: "That's it, everyone go enjoy some beautiful fall weather this weekend. Well, except those of you in the Southeast, but I don't know why you'd choose to live in the path of a storm." I will guarantee she'd never say that to people about a disaster anywhere else. The hatred some people have of Southerners is palpable. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (awTae) 196
I mentioned 'James Woods' as someone to follow on Twitter/X yesterday... Midnight last night: @RealJamesWoods I just noticed that I gained 100,000 more friends on X today. These are trying times, and having this forum where smart and concerned folks can mingle and discuss issues is vitally important. I so appreciate each and every one of you. Ace have that many lurkers? Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 09:44 AM (RKVpM) 197
I don't think there has ever been an election that can be categorized so easily as 'good versus' evil.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (RKVpM) --- A few weeks ago Catholic twitter was wringing its hands about Trump watering down the right to life plank and threatening to stay home. How they're calling for a crusade. Life comes at you fast. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:45 AM (llXky) 198
the local honey here is hit or miss
the last batch of local honey I bought turned to crystals, which is useless Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:45 AM (/7KEl) 199
As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (LkLld) --- We're learning a lot about how "good Germans" were able to close their eyes to the evils around them, even convincing themselves that everything they are doing is just fine. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:46 AM (llXky) 200
Trump political ads using Harris's own words. Link goes to YouTube.
https://tinyurl.com/y5cvt4rn Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 28, 2024 09:46 AM (iODuv) 201
did you toast the bread
Posted by: Don Black Of course! I'm not an animal! Posted by: Tonypete ************ I just had a slice of homemade sourdough bread with butter and triple berry jam with my second cup of coffee. I did NOT toast the bread. Not because I'm an animal but because my toaster is broke. I couldn't muster the effort to pan toast the bread. Plus, I have a nearly awesome hash. Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 09:47 AM (uCfKO) 202
Heywood Banks
https://t.ly/la6Yp Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:24 AM (WXNFJ) LOL. I didn't click, but I don't need to. Every time I make toast, and Mr. Dmlw! asks the obvious: Are you having toast? I reply, I like toast! It's the best, from coast to coast! Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 09:47 AM (OX9vb) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:47 AM (x0n13) 204
Buick is the preferred vehicle of 9 out of 10 ballot 'fortifiers'. Accept no less when it's 3 am Election Night and it's time to let the rubber hit the road.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 *** Maybe the older, 1960s-1970s models. Recent model Buick sedans don't have trunks any bigger than other cars in the same class. And now you can't even get sedans from them; it's got to be an SUV. Which I suppose would hold even more ballots. Don't tell the Demonrats. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (omVj0) 205
"That's it, everyone go enjoy some beautiful fall weather this weekend. Well, except those of you in the Southeast, but I don't know why you'd choose to live in the path of a storm."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (awTae) --- It's Yard Sign Calvinism. The Elect make good choices, the damned make poor ones. "Think like I do, live as I do, and you will be saved just as I am." Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (llXky) 206
198 the local honey here is hit or miss
the last batch of local honey I bought turned to crystals, which is useless Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:45 AM (/7KEl) Star Trek episode? Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (x0n13) 207
"That's it, everyone go enjoy some beautiful fall weather this weekend. Well, except those of you in the Southeast, but I don't know why you'd choose to live in the path of a storm." I will guarantee she'd never say that to people about a disaster anywhere else. The hatred some people have of Southerners is palpable. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice Throw that comment back in her face when she has a panic buying spree getting ready to endure the next winter storm. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (xG4kz) 208
>I did NOT toast the bread. Not because I'm an animal but because my toaster is broke.
---- I am sorry you are experiencing toasterlessness Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (/7KEl) 209
Looking at the devastation in NC and TN from the flooding. Just horrible.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (Q4IgG) **** My goodness, you've come a long way from your dismissive, flippant comment in last Saturday's coffee thread regarding the at-that-point forecasted storm. Something about it being nothing more than a trip to Waffle House for people to wait out a little wind and rain, wasn't it? Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (Y1sOo) 210
Ace have that many lurkers?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 09:44 AM (RKVpM) I used to make Photoshop parodies of stuff. I'd typically get a few thousand views. Ace found one funny and posted the link in the sidebar. Over 400k views, and then the hosting site banned me. Might have ended up being more. A lot of people lurk. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 09:49 AM (awTae) 211
Plus, I have a nearly awesome hash.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 09:47 AM (uCfKO) Pixy taunts us with "nearly". Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2024 09:49 AM (Wnv9h) 212
I must not be in on the joke
Grecian does mean a thing that is from Greece, right? Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:49 AM (/7KEl) Posted by: mindful webworker's cell at September 28, 2024 09:49 AM (FSAM+) 214
Ace have that many lurkers?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 09:44 AM (RKVpM) --- You'd be surprised at how many people read AoSHQ. The commenters only represent a tiny fraction of the readership. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 09:49 AM (BpYfr) 215
Good morning, all. Great news about the successful strike against Hezbollah; unfortunately, that part of the world has a well-stocked Strategic Asshole Reserve so someone will step into the void (or crater) left by Nasrallah's departure.
I have a busy weekend ahead of me, but hopefully at the end of it I'll have everything done at my old house so we can put it on the market soon. The insurance company says they're dropping coverage in mid-December since it's unoccupied. Posted by: PabloD at September 28, 2024 09:50 AM (3hKsl) 216
Speaking of Angels: the car prayer
St. Gabriel with Mary, St. Raphael with Tobias, St. Michael and all the heavenly host, be our safeguard and protection on this journey. May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. In the Name, etc. Posted by: sal at September 28, 2024 09:50 AM (f+FmA) 217
As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (LkLld) --- The Left is far more evil than most people can possibly imagine. They are minions of the Devil, no question. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 09:37 AM (BpYfr) This is a spiritual conflict and the battle lines are becoming very obvious to those with eyes to see. Just look at what the Lefties want: unlimited abortion, and elimination of "surplus" population to "save da Erf (tm)." If you don't have any scruples against killing unborn babies, you have no scruples against killing anyone you regard as inconvenient. Now the Lefties are getting spun-up on the problem of those pesky Jews, and are seeking a Final Solution. Oppression of Jews is always a leading-indicator of bad stuff coming down the pike. The Lefties get all worked up about the Spanish Inquisition but have no idea that it started as a means to root-out Jews that had insincerely converted to Christianity. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:50 AM (pJWtt) 218
A good way to toast bread is with a hot cast iron skillet or griddle, and spread mayonnaise on the bread before you toast it. Seriously.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 09:50 AM (dg+HA) 219
I bought turned to crystals, which is useless
Posted by: Don Black ******** I'm no honey expert but I did drive past a Holiday Inn last month. I believe you can rehabilitate crystalized honey by putting the container in hot water. Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 09:51 AM (uCfKO) Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 28, 2024 09:51 AM (+H2BX) 221
I'm back from washing and polishing the big red Buick; it looks good. As I passed my usual convenience store gas station, I saw that regular E10 was down to $2.65 (and I get .10/gal. off with my card), and that their E0 was -- $2.75! Even though I hadn't planned to, I pulled in -- and saw that the pump read $3.49. Either they haven't bothered to update the pumps to match the sign, or it's a bait-and-switch.
No point in asking the staff about the discrepancy. They speak as little English as they can get by with. My kittens understand more English words. Anyway, I've had enough coffee for now, and am sipping some ice sparkling mineral water as I wait for Miss Linda to arrive. What's going on around here? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:52 AM (omVj0) 222
You're a good dad, Farmer Bob.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 09:52 AM (gDlxJ) 223
I bought turned to crystals, which is useless
Posted by: Don Black ******** I'm no honey expert but I did drive past a Holiday Inn last month. I believe you can rehabilitate crystalized honey by putting the container in hot water. Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 09:51 AM (uCfKO) --- Honey is one of the most incredible foods nature ever produced. Practically indestructible with indefinite shelf life. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 09:53 AM (BpYfr) 224
More Grecian Honey - During HS, we'd party at the Sons of Percales and Daughters of Penelope hosted dances. Honestly, great fun. The Dads would play poker and the Mommas would play canasta while keeping an eye on us.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:53 AM (WXNFJ) 225
did you toast the bread Posted by: Don Black Of course! I'm not an animal! Posted by: Tonypete My mother, may G*d rest her soul, would obsess over how YOU prepared YOUR toast. After admonishing me one time that what I had just pulled from the toaster was "raw toast", as she put it, I responded with, "And what is 'raw toast', Mom? Bread!" Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2024 09:54 AM (xG4kz) 226
>I believe you can rehabilitate crystalized honey by putting the container in hot water.
Posted by: muldoon --- yeah I did that, but it certainly detracted from the overall honey experience Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:54 AM (/7KEl) 227
I'm no honey expert but I did drive past a Holiday Inn last month. I believe you can rehabilitate crystalized honey by putting the container in hot water.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 *** I've tried that, but only the bottom portion seems to de-crystallize. The last bottle of honey I had with that problem, I settled for scraping some partly-crystalline portions out and putting them on toast. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:54 AM (omVj0) 228
More Grecian Honey - During HS, we'd party at the Sons of Percales and Daughters of Penelope hosted dances. Honestly, great fun. The Dads would play poker and the Mommas would play canasta while keeping an eye on us.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:53 AM *Hellenic fistbump* Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2024 09:54 AM (Wnv9h) 229
Soft-boiled egg, half a toasted roll with a shmear of Philly on it. Fortunately, the chemo meds haven't messed too badly with my stomach. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:55 AM (x0n13) 230
170 >Enjoying a good cup of coffee and a monster slice of bread I made yesterday.
--- did you toast the bread Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (/7KEl) ha! Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 09:55 AM (64Zez) 231
I'm back from washing and polishing the big red Buick. . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius We're not doing phrasing this morning? Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:55 AM (WXNFJ) 232
Trump political ads using Harris's own words. Link goes to YouTube.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 28, 2024 09:46 AM (iODuv) --- Youtube suggested a video of Harris getting interviewed by MSNBC and even the sycophantic interview was visibly cringing from her rambling non-answers, which ALWAYS had to reference her middle class upbringing and being raised by her mom. My take is that the Establishment is bailing on her because she and Walz are too stupid to be good puppets. Biden was obedient but went senile. Harris doesn't understand that she's owned. She really thinks that everything she has was earned by her own merits, which is why she wants to impose price controls on housing and stuff. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:55 AM (llXky) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:56 AM (x0n13) 234
No hints of hazlenut or blueberries here, no sir. Hy-Vee "Medium Roast", on sale. I didn't do a 105 degree pourover with reverse-osmotized gluten free water this time around. More's the pity.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 09:56 AM (R3wAr) 235
I am sorry you are experiencing toasterlessness
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (/7KEl) There is probably a govt program to get you toast or a toaster. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:57 AM (gbOdA) 236
seriously, I don't get it
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:57 AM (/7KEl) 237
I know some here may have issues with that, but there are times during the Mass when my mind wanders, the distractions of the world try to intrude, and having the Holy Family or Our Lady of Guadalupe or the image of Divine Mercy at hand suddenly refocuses my thoughts.
There is also a sustained effort for people to receive the Eucharist on the tongue and I have started to do so (remember, I'm a convert, so was taught to receive it in the hand). People are embracing it, which is great. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (llXky) The opposition to religious art is a form of Manicheaism in which the physical is regarded as inferior, or bad, as compared to the spiritual. My pastor gave a recent homily in which he stated that the preferred method of receiving the Eucharistic host was upon the tongue. I had less resistance from the octogenarians in the Worship Commission than I expected when I stated that we needed more reverent Communion and the church building needed to be foster a more reverent environment. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:57 AM (pJWtt) 238
This is a spiritual conflict and the battle lines are becoming very obvious to those with eyes to see.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:50 AM (pJWtt) --- There is a concerted effort in England to ban *silent prayer* near abortion mills. Just someone standing there thinking about God has been criminalized. If you're jailing people for prayer, you're objectively on the side of the devil. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:58 AM (llXky) 239
I did NOT toast the bread. Not because I'm an animal but because my toaster is broke. I couldn't muster the effort to pan toast the bread. Plus, I have a nearly awesome hash. Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 *** Not my family, but the kids I grew up with at school would refer to the item as "toast bread." Not "toasted," mind you, but "toast" bread. Of course, many of them pronounced the name of the basins in bathroom and kitchen as "zink." "Worsh dat shirt out in da zink." I speak more like Michael J. Fox and William Shatner. No wonder I always felt like an alien here. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:59 AM (omVj0) 240
167 Enjoying a good cup of coffee and a monster slice of bread I made yesterday. Homemade blueberry jam on it too.
The simple pleasures are the best. Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:34 AM (WXNFJ) Sigh. I am doing that Whole 30 thing. Pray for me. Hope to relieve chronic inflammation. You can bet the first thing I will re-introduce is going to be a fresh loaf of sourdough. *threeweeks Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 09:59 AM (OX9vb) 241
Jack Straw you might think then letting criminals out of jails and importing illegal criminals has to be part of the plan then.
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 09:59 AM (fwDg9) 242
but if you mean Rita Wilson, she was quite the dish back in her day
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:59 AM (/7KEl) 243
My pastor gave a recent homily in which he stated that the preferred method of receiving the Eucharistic host was upon the tongue.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop I have to admit that I can't force myself to receive the Blood of Christ at all. All those drinking from the chalice before me. . . Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (WXNFJ) 244
I grew up with a middle class toaster. We put middle class bread into it and after it was toasted Mom would spread it with middle class honey.
Posted by: Comma Lah at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (dg+HA) 245
If you've run out of dairy butter, mayo makes a passable sammich spread for "grilled" or skillet. I remain unimpressed overall. It does work, however.
Sometimes I put a big dollop of butter in the pan, melt it, and then sort of sop it up with the bread when making grilled sandwiches. Saves time and effort. Besides, the butter is hard as a rock if it hasn't been sitting out. I tend to think a better result is achieved by spreading soft butter on the bread first, with a knife, despite the laborious effort required* *all threads devolve to Food Thread, given enough time. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (R3wAr) 246
Anyway, I've had enough coffee for now, and am sipping some ice sparkling mineral water as I wait for Miss Linda to arrive. What's going on around here?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:52 AM (omVj0) Traded a vintage lantern and few other items for 4 nice vintage pipes. At our local antique shop. A blonde Grabow, Kaboodie, Brewster. Started restoring them yesterday. Salt and alcohol in the bowls to loosen tar, stems in oxyclean and then polish them. Need a pipe for each day. And then some. Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 28, 2024 10:01 AM (uBb4f) 247
I had less resistance from the octogenarians in the Worship Commission than I expected when I stated that we needed more reverent Communion and the church building needed to be foster a more reverent environment.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:57 AM (pJWtt) --- The pitch they are using here is that it is more certain (less risk of it being dropped), more reverent, and faster. I've found all three to be true. My old parish across town is almost finished with its restoration to pre-Vatican II layout, complete with Communion rail. A friend of mine who recalls those days said they didn't need extraordinary ministers because the priests were able to do just go up and down the line. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:01 AM (llXky) 248
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said:
“The killing of the defenseless in Lebanon once again revealed the ferocity of the rabid Zionist dog before everyone and proved the shortsightedness and stupidity of the policy of the leaders of the usurping regime. he heap big mad Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 10:02 AM (gbOdA) 249
Yard Sign Calvinism
************ I don't live in a hurricane-prone reegion of the Rockies. But I do live in an area with heavy cumulative snowfall, mountain lions and rattlers and bears (Oh my!). The sane thing to do is to understand the natural environment in which you do live and have a plan and a backup plan and a worst case contingency plan. There is no virtue in saying "Only dummies would live where a hurricane might hit." Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:02 AM (uCfKO) 250
69 For me, forgiveness doesn't really happen until I've moved on and have some distance from what happened.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (llXky) I have often heard that forgiveness helps you to move on. It's like setting a fracture- yes the bone will mend itself if you don't set it, but it won't heal properly. Of course, I am also of the opinion that forgiveness should be sought by the perpetrator before it is granted by the victim, though I acknowledge thst is not a universal belief. Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2024 10:02 AM (g7NHK) Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 28, 2024 10:03 AM (zdLoL) 252
Close to a half million illegals *biden/Harris let into the country are convicted criminals.
About 15,000 of them murderers. And this isn't much of a controversy as far as the MSM is concerned. If Trump is successful in reclaiming the White House his administration faces a huge uphill battle with the deep state to rid the country of these killers. And all the other illegals. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 10:03 AM (Q4IgG) 253
I would love to see Bibi rolling into Gaza with a intro like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfL4xKQeSfo Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 10:03 AM (gbOdA) 254
I think someone is concerned...
"Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been transferred to a secure location after Israel claimed to have killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Reuters reports, citing local sources. ..." Posted by: runner He's hiding in a picante salsa factory in New York City? Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 28, 2024 10:03 AM (VNX3d) 255
There is a concerted effort in England to ban *silent prayer* near abortion mills. Just someone standing there thinking about God has been criminalized.
If you're jailing people for prayer, you're objectively on the side of the devil. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:58 AM (llXky) There is little doubt in my mind that we will see Christian martyrdom in Europe and the U.S. I stumbled across a Ewe-Tube video in which a U.S. Army Lt. General was being grilled about training materials being used a Fort Bragg (he got huffy at Congressman that used that name and said, no it's Fort Liberty) from 2017 to early 2024 in which people opposed to abortion were labeled as "potential terrorists." Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 10:04 AM (pJWtt) 256
Is it Saturday already? Cool. What cartoons are worth watching these days, if any?
Classic Looney Tunes and Cowboy Bebop. That's about it. Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 10:04 AM (/y8xj) 257
He's hiding in a picante salsa factory in New York City?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf NEW YORK CITY!!?? Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:04 AM (WXNFJ) 258
Good morning, and prayers for the horde!
Extra prayers for COMountain Marie (fighting cancer is a long haul) and Jewells and her husband!!. >>As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent. "Allowed" That verb is far too passive -- they have been flying them in and setting up their lives for them, so they don't even have to make the effort to trek across South and Central America, across the border and past out BPS. Our leaders, using our tax dollars, are facilitating the invasion. SMFH Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (scDBq) 259
>>Jack Straw you might think then letting criminals out of jails and importing illegal criminals has to be part of the plan then.
I have no doubt it is Skip. Trump has been saying during his rallies for quite some time that countries like Venezuela are emptying their prisons and asylums and sending the people here and as usual the left wrote him off as crazy and lying. But now we know he was right all along. I'm quite sure the leadership on the left has known this was true all along but the average schleps on the left are going to have to deal with this just like us and they are just ignoring it. There is no politician or political movement I would excuse and support for doing this. Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (LkLld) 260
People are embracing it, which is great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (llXky How about veils? Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (vjxXT) 261
I tend to think a better result is achieved by spreading soft butter on the bread first, with a knife, despite the laborious effort required*
*all threads devolve to Food Thread, given enough time. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (R3wAr) In the dining hall in college I saw many fires from buttered breast being put in the assembly line toaster. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (gbOdA) 262
I have to admit that I can't force myself to receive the Blood of Christ at all. All those drinking from the chalice before me. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (WXNFJ) --- There is a woman who attends the same Mass that I do who discretely moves up to the front of the pews when the Eucharist is being prepared so she is usually first in line. I've gone last several times and for a couple of months was an extraordinary minister serving the Precious Blood. If there is extra, we are expected to consume it, and on one particularly low-turnout Sunday, the Sacristan and I were feeling a little giddy during the final blessing. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (llXky) 263
The key to a great grilled cheese sandwich is toasting the bread before you even build the sandwich in the skillet or on the grill-
then you let the heat melt the cheese, low and slow this results in a crunchy grilled cheese I'm tellin' ya- fellas- you're gonna want that crunch Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (/7KEl) 264
I grew up with a middle class toaster. We put middle class bread into it and after it was toasted Mom would spread it with middle class honey. Posted by: Comma Lah And did you not have a middle class neighbor woman who owned a middle class business? Did she not have a middle class toaster, too? Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (xG4kz) 265
As a dedicated cro-magnon, I can authoritatively state a passable toast can be effected merely by placing the bread on the coils of an electric burner style stove or range.
Alternatively, those with gas (no jokes pliz) can accomplish this task with a little ingenuity, and perhaps a coat hanger or wire device. Coleman co. sells these little toasters for the 2 burner suitcase stoves that actually work pretty well. A dedicated Toast Enthusiast might find relief with a propane torch and some patience. Hand Crafted Artisanal Toast! You bastards talking about Toast reminds me I have a whole package of Thomas English Muffins, dairy butter, and a Sunbeam T20 toaster (with the ability to fully and completely toast an English muffin in one crack) Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:06 AM (R3wAr) 266
People are embracing it, which is great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd How about veils? Posted by: Derak We are seeing more and more veils during Mass these days. Especially among the younger women. Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:06 AM (WXNFJ) 267
124 Sunday is The Feast of the 7 Archangels. If you are looking for a healing, remember the Archangel St. Raphael whose name means “God Heals”.
Posted by: Marcus T Thank you for the reminder! Michael - who is like God? Gabriel - God's strength This traditional Litany of the angels is pretty cool because it includes all the events involving angels https://tinyurl.com/5fy6hw4j Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 10:06 AM (dE3DB) 268
"Allowed" That verb is far too passive -- they have been flying them in and setting up their lives for them, so they don't even have to make the effort to trek across South and Central America, across the border and past out BPS.
Our leaders, using our tax dollars, are facilitating the invasion. SMFH Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (scDBq) This is a plan to make a national popo IMHO Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 10:07 AM (gbOdA) 269
>>There is a concerted effort in England to ban *silent prayer* near abortion mills. Just someone standing there thinking about God has been criminalized.
"Makes sense." -- Lois Lerner, who interrogated pro-life group's prayer content while at FEC Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:08 AM (scDBq) 270
On the day Israel smokes sinwar , I am buying everyone a drink.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:39 AM (V13WU) Make it 2 more. I'll buy one in CBD's honorr and another for JJS. Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (89Sog) 271
this toast and communion wine thread makes me want a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (gbOdA) 272
I tend to think a better result is achieved by spreading soft butter on the bread first, with a knife, despite the laborious effort required*
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (R3wAr) This is the way. Down twinkles on the mayo. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (OX9vb) 273
have to admit that I can't force myself to receive the Blood of Christ at all. All those drinking from the chalice before me. . .
This is not required. Traditionally, only the priest was required. There is the not so small problem of spilling the Blood. The Blood is present in the Host. You're covered. Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (vjxXT) 274
How about veils?
Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (vjxXT) --- There are a few. All younger women, and I recently noticed a family embracing it. My wife got one, but is too nervous to use it. She's also going through a desolation (it happens) and with the grandkids here, I'm usually there alone, though my daughters tag along when the mood strikes them. I get it, I was young and stupid and didn't enter the Church until I was 33. They're doing much better than I was, so I give them space. They're very strict about grace before meals, which is nice. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (llXky) 275
good morning! have to head out for weekend FH soon - interesting news on that front - yesterday the LaSalle-SLU had to be stopped due to a massive shooting nearby.
yay Philly! well done! the worst part is LaSalle was using the Temple field b/c their field is getting torn up to make a new basketball stadium on their (also ghetto) campus. Those poor girls. that's a lot of travel every day to get from Ghetto A to Ghetto B to play/practice. when we were being courted by Drexel there was a shooting/lockdown during the play day - middle of the afternoon. yeah sorry that decided that. So, another field in a dangerous spot. Penn's isn't great shakes either! the data is WRONG. crime here is CRAZY. also WP sucks and I hope they finally die. Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (s3qiR) 276
*many fires from buttered breast being put in the assembly line toaster.* Now it's a boob thread! Posted by: Beavis at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (dg+HA) 277
How about veils?
Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (vjxXT) Depends on the parish. At my "hippy" parish, very few veils (mainly young women). At the local Latin Mass parish, almost all women and girls wear chapel veils. I expect that the use of chapel veils will increase as the old generations die-out, and the younger Catholic become more prominent in their parishes. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (pJWtt) 278
Half hand, big hugs of joy to you!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (dE3DB) 279
>>I grew up with a middle class toaster. We put middle class bread into it and after it was toasted Mom would spread it with middle class honey.
And their kitchens? Did your family and middle class neighbors are for their kitchens, keep the fridge stocked and the counters clean. . . ? Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (scDBq) 280
When the 70s inflation took off in earnest (and this was in Iowa!) dairy butter was off the menu. Margarine it was. Mom couldn't abide margarine, but we were forbidden to use her stash.
Meal times were pretty regimented, and looking back I understand why now. Orange Juice was rationed or issued in those teeny glass tumblers, the kind Cheese-Whiz was offered in those days. It wasn't Depression era poverty in no way, but .... Welfare in those days was still a dirty word, even with Democrats. Nobody was on the dole, nobody was being paid not to work. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (R3wAr) 281
Traded a vintage lantern and few other items for 4 nice vintage pipes. At our local antique shop. A blonde Grabow, Kaboodie, Brewster. Started restoring them yesterday. Salt and alcohol in the bowls to loosen tar, stems in oxyclean and then polish them. Need a pipe for each day. And then some.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 28, 2024 *** Once upon a time Kaywoodies were considered some of the best pipes in America -- higher quality than Dunhills, for instance. I don't have any of those yet, but my two Dr. Grabows are excellent. I was tempted by a new 1960s Heibe short billiard with a horn stem and meerschaum insert bowl on eBay this week, but decided to pass. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (omVj0) 282
Re:Israel
They gotta be running out of virgins in Paradise as fast as the IDF is creating martyrs. Posted by: Jak Sucio at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (Aoykm) 283
Jack Straw- my parents see nothing but Democrats Propaganda Ministry since forever. My dad believes even 1 million illegals can't be here. If the Democrats Propaganda Ministry doesn't say it it can't be true then.Every story they don't want known never gets spoken about.
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (fwDg9) Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 10:11 AM (dE3DB) 285
We are seeing more and more veils during Mass these days. Especially among the younger women.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:06 AM (WXNFJ) ===== Same here. Posted by: Jordan61 at September 28, 2024 10:11 AM (2ZJmF) 286
I've gone last several times and for a couple of months was an extraordinary minister serving the Precious Blood. If there is extra, we are expected to consume it, and on one particularly low-turnout Sunday, the Sacristan and I were feeling a little giddy during the final blessing. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd When I was a younger lad and served as an altar boy in our Episcopal parish, the minister was prone to preparing and blessing more of the wine for communion than was needed for the number of parishioners at the service. It was not unusual for him to down a healthy belt (please excuse my crassness) of said wine after all had partaken of the Lord's Supper. That said, it was not great surprise when both he and his wife checked into rehab to dry out several years later. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2024 10:11 AM (xG4kz) 287
Only dummies would live where a hurricane might hit."
Side eye left, side eye right, lives in California earthquake country. Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 10:12 AM (xDXWF) 288
Austere Hezbollah chief Nasrallah goes on to a glorious martyrdom
Posted by: SMOD at September 28, 2024 10:12 AM (GITLP) 289
Jack Straw- my parents see nothing but Democrats Propaganda Ministry since forever. My dad believes even 1 million illegals can't be here. If the Democrats Propaganda Ministry doesn't say it it can't be true then.Every story they don't want known never gets spoken about.
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (fwDg9) --- You cannot talk people out of denial. It is impossible. People have to choose to embrace reality and there are countless instances of people on the point of death who still cannot accept what is happening. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:12 AM (llXky) 290
He's hiding in a picante salsa factory in New York City?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf NEW YORK CITY!!?? Does anybody but me remember that the first version of that commercial was "New Jersey?!" but they changed it apparently because NJ whined about it? Or is that a Mandela Effect thing that only I have? Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 10:13 AM (/y8xj) 291
I am sorry you are experiencing toasterlessness
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (/7KEl) There is probably a govt program to get you toast or a toaster. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:57 AM (gbOdA) --- Oh, sure...YOU get a $15 toaster and the NGO gets $150,000 to process the request. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 10:14 AM (BpYfr) 292
The best toast is made with cinnamon swirl bread.
And before toasting it, you dip it in an egg mixture, then toast it in a pan, and when done, top it with maple syrup. Heh. Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:15 AM (scDBq) 293
Does anybody but me remember that the first version of that commercial was "New Jersey?!" but they changed it apparently because NJ whined about it? Or is that a Mandela Effect thing that only I have?
Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 *** No, all I can recall is the "Noo York City??!!" line. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (omVj0) 294
The sane thing to do is to understand the natural environment in which you do live and have a plan and a backup plan and a worst case contingency plan. There is no virtue in saying "Only dummies would live where a hurricane might hit."
***** You accept the risk that it may happen, but "accepting the risk" loses its vagueness when it actually does happen. Bugging out in the middle of the night due to an approaching hurricane, only to return in a couple of days to find your home pretty much obliterated is a train wreck on one's emotions. But, then, once you get past that, a totally different mindset kicks in as you go about the rebuilding process, at least for mission-oriented people. After that, "accepting the risk" turns into "law of averages says it won't happen again..." Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (Y1sOo) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (x0n13) 296
A better crunch can be achieved by using "stale" bread maybe. "Sandwich" bread is so cheaply made now it isn't really good for anything at all.
French Toast relies on a slightly stale or dried bread for best results. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (R3wAr) 297
Eastern Tennessee near Knoxville and south may end up as the biggest tragedy of HC Helene. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (RKVpM) 298
With all this talk of toast, does anyone else remember this?
(Red Dwarf Talkie Toaster) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 10:17 AM (BpYfr) 299
In the dining hall in college I saw many fires from buttered breast being put in the assembly line toaster.
********* Talk about getting yer tits in a wringer!! Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:17 AM (uCfKO) 300
293 Does anybody but me remember that the first version of that commercial was "New Jersey?!" but they changed it apparently because NJ whined about it? Or is that a Mandela Effect thing that only I have?
Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 *** No, all I can recall is the "Noo York City??!!" line. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (omVj0) I remember it only because it was a supposed dig at NYC. Never saw any version with Jersey. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 10:18 AM (x0n13) 301
>>Jack Straw- my parents see nothing but Democrats Propaganda Ministry since forever. My dad believes even 1 million illegals can't be here. If the Democrats Propaganda Ministry doesn't say it it can't be true then.Every story they don't want known never gets spoken about.
Our corrupt media is a huge part of the problem. This should be the biggest story of the years. If Trump had done something this treasonous they would be calling for his head yet it is not being talked about by the media at all and if Musk hadn't bought Twitter it wouldn't even be on social media. The biggest thing working in our favor is that many if not most of these illegals are ending up in cities, Democrat strongholds, and it is taking a toll on minority communities. I think that's a big reason the Springfield cats and dogs issue got so much traction. Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:18 AM (LkLld) 302
>> In the dining hall in college I saw many fires from buttered breast being put in the assembly line toaster.
That seems like a litmus test for whether or not you belong in college, no? Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:18 AM (scDBq) 303
Biscotti is toast in a different shape
I have other toast tips, but it's football season now, and the Sunday food thread coincides with football- I mean, I like toast as much as the next guy, but I really like watching football games Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:18 AM (/7KEl) 304
Eastern Tennessee near Knoxville and south may end up as the biggest tragedy of HC Helene.
Posted by: Divide by Zero Has FEMA responded yet to the TN and NC governors declaring states of emergency? Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:19 AM (WXNFJ) 305
I expect that the use of chapel veils will increase as the old generations die-out, and the younger Catholic become more prominent in their parishes.
This. I wore one when very very young and shortly thereafter the practice fell away. The younger women in my parish are starting to wear the veil. I would like to resume this practice but it feels....overly pious? Conspicuous? BUT, women should cover their hair in the presence of God. See the passion of the Christ when Mary Magdelen instinctively covers her hair with her veil when Christ passes. Instructive. Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 10:19 AM (vjxXT) 306
>>Biscotti is toast in a different shape
Oh man, now you've planted the idea. . . and I really need to be making zucchini bread this weekend. Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:19 AM (scDBq) 307
My wife got one, but is too nervous to use it. She's also going through a desolation (it happens) and with the grandkids here, I'm usually there alone, though my daughters tag along when the mood strikes them.
I get it, I was young and stupid and didn't enter the Church until I was 33. They're doing much better than I was, so I give them space. They're very strict about grace before meals, which is nice. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (llXky) The younger Catholics are rejecting the Church of nice and embracing being happy warriors for Christ. My youngest grandson (aged 13) is converting to Catholicism and he has a Bible passage on his phone as a screen-saver. Don't feel bad about not converting until you were 33 years old. I was a cradle Catholic and drifted away for decades. I'm almost 63 and am now a lay brother in the Order of Preachers, chairman of my local parish's Worship Commission, and my pastor knows me by name. God has a a plan, it is up to us to permit him to use the talents he granted us. It took me a while! Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 10:20 AM (pJWtt) 308
Good morning all. Husband had his EDG Thursday. The doctor said she didn't see anything in his stomach that would cause concern but took a biopsy anyway. Praise God! As I was waiting for him I got dizzy and nauseas and passed out in the waiting room. My poor daughter freaked out but handled it all just fine.
Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at September 28, 2024 10:21 AM (iF0sF) 309
The good thing my dad has never voted even once in his life. Bad thing is my mom doesn't miss one and is sure Trump supporters are a cult ( her words)
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 10:21 AM (fwDg9) 310
It's difficult for me to imagine that anyone hates bread so much they would force Zuchinni into it. Why
Just throw that stuff away. Or, alternatively if you don't grow it you won't have to try and stick it in everything and hide it. You're not fooling anyone Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:21 AM (R3wAr) 311
Don't feel bad about not converting until you were 33 years old. I was a cradle Catholic and drifted away for decades. I'm almost 63 and am now a lay brother in the Order of Preachers, chairman of my local parish's Worship Commission, and my pastor knows me by name. God has a a plan, it is up to us to permit him to use the talents he granted us. It took me a while!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop I too fell away for decades before I returned. Upon my first Confession when I came back, after I said to the priest "It has been 25 years since my last confession. . . " he broke in and said "Ah, the prodigal son returns!!" Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:22 AM (WXNFJ) 312
Classic Looney Tunes and Cowboy Bebop. That's about it. Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 10:04 AM (/y8xj) That sounds about right. Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2024 10:22 AM (g7NHK) 313
There is also a sustained effort for people to receive the Eucharist on the tongue and I have started to do so (remember, I'm a convert, so was taught to receive it in the hand). People are embracing it, which is great. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (llXky) _________ If, as a Catholic, you take things seriously, you believe that even the tiniest particle of the Eucharist contains the whole of the Body and Blood of Christ. Therefore, Communion and how the Host is handled are very serious matters. After Communion, the priest performs the Ablutions, first rinsing the chalice and receiving it, then having the fingers with which the Host was handled washed and received. This turns the hand back to "normal" use and means that no trace of the Host has not been received. There are two problems with Communion in the hand. One is the increased danger of inadvertent profanation of the Host. The other is that the recipient has no recourse to purify his fingers (or hand). The problem with Extraordinary Ministers is that almost no one receives on the tongue in the Novus Ordo Mass and thus the ministers don't know how to place it. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 10:23 AM (BkEzK) 314
>>It's difficult for me to imagine that anyone hates bread so much they would force Zuchinni into it. Why
Lol!! More zucchinin bread for me! Do you like any quick breads - banana bread, pumpkin bread, lemon bread . . .? Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:23 AM (scDBq) 315
There is no virtue in saying "Only dummies would live where a hurricane might hit."
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:02 AM (uCfKO) As if there is any place to live that is safe from natural disasters of one kind or another. Even southeast Ohio gets the occasional tornado or flash flooding. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 10:24 AM (OX9vb) 316
Don't feel bad about not converting until you were 33 years old. I was a cradle Catholic and drifted away for decades. I'm almost 63 and am now a lay brother in the Order of Preachers, chairman of my local parish's Worship Commission, and my pastor knows me by name. God has a a plan, it is up to us to permit him to use the talents he granted us. It took me a while!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 10:20 AM (pJWtt) --- I don't feel bad about it at all. Better late than never! My point is that I'm giving my kids space so that it becomes their affirmative choice because that's the way it ought to be. So long as they go to Mass on the holidays, and go to Reconciliation from time to time, I'm content. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:24 AM (llXky) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (/7KEl) 318
Bugging out in the middle of the night due to an approaching hurricane, only to return in a couple of days to find your home pretty much obliterated is a train wreck on one's emotions.
But, then, once you get past that, a totally different mindset kicks in as you go about the rebuilding process, at least for mission-oriented people. After that, "accepting the risk" turns into "law of averages says it won't happen again..." Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2024 *** My local Fox outlet ran a snippet of a FL woman who said she'd lived through seven hurricanes in ten years. Believe me, if my house got badly damaged, I rebuilt, and then it happened again, I'd be looking to move. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (omVj0) 319
308 Good morning all. Husband had his EDG Thursday. The doctor said she didn't see anything in his stomach that would cause concern but took a biopsy anyway. Praise God! As I was waiting for him I got dizzy and nauseas and passed out in the waiting room. My poor daughter freaked out but handled it all just fine.
oh Jewells that sounds rough. prayers to you and yours Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (s3qiR) 320
Put down your coffee ...
Boris Johnson: I planned to invade the Netherlands during Covid Ex-prime minister believed it was his duty to seize British-developed vaccines that had been ‘kidnapped’ by the EU Posted by: SMOD at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (GITLP) 321
Prayers for our sweet Colorado Mountain Marie. Try not to be afraid, sweet lady. God will be with you. One step at a time.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (+10YP) 322
Classic Looney Tunes and Cowboy Bebop. That's about it.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 10:04 AM (/y8xj) That sounds about right. Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2024 10:22 AM Cowboy Bebop is a little past my time, but it's my firm conviction that cartoons went to hell after Looney Tunes. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (Wnv9h) 323
Isn't the communion wafer a kind of toast? Or no? asking for a heathen friend Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (/7KEl) __________ Unleavened bread. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (BkEzK) 324
Prayers up also for our Brethren and Sisteren in eastern TN and western NC. They are suffering greatly due to the storm. Some of the little towns have been completely wiped out. I40 and I65 are completely closed in spots so transport and help will have a tough time getting to them. Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:36 AM Looks like the southbound lane of I40 is in the river: https://is.gd/y53yBk Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (RKVpM) 325
You cannot talk people out of denial. It is impossible. People have to choose to embrace reality and there are countless instances of people on the point of death who still cannot accept what is happening.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:12 AM (llXky) As my mother in law would say, "You don't know that" Posted by: Auspex at September 28, 2024 10:26 AM (j4U/Z) 326
>> There is no virtue in saying "Only dummies would live where a hurricane might hit."
"Especially those trailer park hicks -- why would they live in a hurricane/flood/tornado zone, amirght?!" Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:26 AM (scDBq) 327
Take care Jewells.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 10:27 AM (+10YP) 328
> The biggest thing working in our favor is that many if not most of these illegals are ending up in cities, Democrat strongholds, and it is taking a toll on minority communities. I think that's a big reason the Springfield cats and dogs issue got so much traction.
-------- I recall back in the late winter, early spring of this year blacks in Chicago were pretty agitated about the influx of illegals there. The city government basically told them to shut up and pound sand. Then moved the illegals up to the front of the free shit line. Then, later, the cartel gangs showed up. Regardless who ends up in the White House next year I think there's going to be violence in the cities as our former welfare demographic fights with the new welfare demographic. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 10:27 AM (Q4IgG) 329
I love monkey bread. But it can be hard to find fresh monkey.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 10:27 AM (dg+HA) 330
>>. . . As I was waiting for him I got dizzy and nauseas and passed out in the waiting room. My poor daughter freaked out but handled it all just fine.
Oh my!! Glad your husband is gettin good care, and that you have a daughter there with you, Jewells. Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:27 AM (scDBq) 331
I grew up with a middle class toaster. We put middle class bread into it and after it was toasted Mom would spread it with middle class honey.
Posted by: Comma Lah at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (dg+HA) Us too! Why...why, you're just like me! Like all Middle Class families, we were proud of our toast! Because toast is the place where butter must go and butter's home is toast! Sometimes butter invites jelly to the toast! Butter invites jelly right onto its home! Our Middle Class breakfast with butter and toast and jelly was just like this great nation! And thank to us, America is toast! Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM (eDfFs) 332
The problem with Extraordinary Ministers is that almost no one receives on the tongue in the Novus Ordo Mass and thus the ministers don't know how to place it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 10:23 AM (BkEzK) --- When I was trained, we learned to serve it in the hand, on the tongue, and on the tongue while kneeling using unconsecrated Hosts. The tongue is very easy and reliable once you get the hang of it. That was before the big push, so mostly it was served in the hand. Now it's not quite 50-50 but that depends on which Mass. The daily Mass I attended on Tuesday had almost everyone receive it on the tongue. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM (llXky) 333
304 Eastern Tennessee near Knoxville and south may end up as the biggest tragedy of HC Helene.
Posted by: Divide by Zero Near Knoxville isn't so bad. It seems like the devastation is a small portion of east TN, and then widespread wreckage in western NC. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM (awTae) 334
Banana bread can be quite tasty indeed.
I would caution the reader, this does not, therefore, make Zucchini tasty. Don't be fooled! It's a Trap! Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM (R3wAr) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:29 AM (/7KEl) 336
>>Regardless who ends up in the White House next year I think there's going to be violence in the cities as our former welfare demographic fights with the new welfare demographic.
I agree. It's inevitable. It seems the left wants it. And any heretics like Adams in NYC will be crushed. Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:31 AM (LkLld) 337
If you slap a label on it and call it Tuscan Toast, you can charge five bucks a slice for it.
Posted by: $$$$ at September 28, 2024 10:32 AM (CV8a5) 338
Ever notice there are people who can, indeed, f$%8k up Toast?
It's true. Toast must be buttered during that brief time period right after toasting, while it is still hot and still yet retains some residual moisture. Otherwise, a dry crunchy toast. Common in Diners, who get a pass because of the volume of product. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:32 AM (R3wAr) 339
Our Middle Class breakfast with butter and toast and jelly was just like this great nation! And thank to us, America is toast!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM (eDfFs) Is today Talk Like Cummala Harrass Day? Nobody told me. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 10:33 AM (1fDEF) 340
Well that music means we're all out of time for today.
Tune in next week for another exciting episode of "Toast Talk" when our topic will be: crust... cut it or leave it? Posted by: NPR Announcer Voice at September 28, 2024 10:35 AM (dg+HA) 341
The "Just Stop Oil" fucktards who threw soup on the Van Gogh painting to "protest climate change" have gotten some actual prison time. One got 2 years, plus three months for a different "protest". The other got 20 months.
How throwing soup on a painting actually does anything to "stop climate change" is beyond me. It's hard for me to think like a stupid person. They're not getting a lot of sympathy on Twatter. https://tinyurl.com/ym8t5rb9 LOL! Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2024 10:35 AM (W5ArC) Posted by: Jordan61 at September 28, 2024 10:35 AM (2ZJmF) 343
I don't care for boutique toast- I find it elitist and condescending
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:36 AM (/7KEl) 344
The only jelly Commie Lay is familiar with is KY.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2024 10:36 AM (W5ArC) 345
My local Fox outlet ran a snippet of a FL woman who said she'd lived through seven hurricanes in ten years. Believe me, if my house got badly damaged, I rebuilt, and then it happened again, I'd be looking to move.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (omVj0) ************** Ivan destroyed my house while it was under construction in 2004. Only the framing was up at the time. All the lumber blew into the water with only the concrete pad remaining. No big deal, as they weren't that far into the build. Sixteen years later, to the day, Sally's winds beat it up and the storm surge flooded it. I'm not sure if the next one will be the third time or only the second, since I wasn't living in it when Ivan hit. Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2024 10:36 AM (Y1sOo) 346
>>I would caution the reader, this does not, therefore, make Zucchini tasty. Don't be fooled! It's a Trap!
Ha! Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:37 AM (scDBq) 347
I have a whole package of Thomas English Muffins, dairy butter, and a Sunbeam T20 toaster (with the ability to fully and completely toast an English muffin in one crack)
Posted by: Common Tater I like my English muffins well done, which always seems to entail two toast cycles. Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 10:37 AM (/5iXv) 348
My ex-wife couldn't make toast to save her life. Or much of anything else. It's why I did most of the cooking.
I used to lament that she could burn water yet lost the recipe for boiling it. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 10:37 AM (Q4IgG) 349
Try this:
after your toast pops up, leave it in the toaster it sort of bakes in there for a minute or so it gets even toastier- very crunchy this is good when using a heavier spread like peanut butter, or Vegemite Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:38 AM (/7KEl) 350
Only helps in someone talks about it even if it's smashing apples to save oranges
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 10:38 AM (fwDg9) 351
Ah. Coffee is brewed. On the big 'puter, not the cell. Ready for some classy music. Let's see… was that other element? Oh, yeah.
You know, it's a funny thing, but sometimes I'll be going along, like on my morning walk with Daisy Dog, and it occurs to me to pray about one thing or another, but then when I open my mouth to say something, what comes out almost automatically is, "Thanks." Despite all that needs praying for, it's hard to not just be grateful. Of course, walking with the dog in the country on a nice day sorta works that way. Posted by: mindful webworker - more or less here now at September 28, 2024 10:38 AM (bqxS+) 352
So nice that Mis Hum serves us the Coffee Thread every Saturday AM-he is your host while you eat your toast!
Posted by: Bred In Old Kentucky-Just a Crumb Around Here at September 28, 2024 10:38 AM (CV8a5) 353
>>How throwing soup on a painting actually does anything to "stop climate change" is beyond me. It's hard for me to think like a stupid person.
Right? Think it's a combination of "LOOK AT ME!" + "YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED NICE THINGS WHILE [insert their cause here]!!" In other words, crazy, destructive brats. Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:39 AM (scDBq) 354
>I like my English muffins well done, which always seems to entail two toast cycles.
Posted by: Thomas Paine ---- me new toaster, which is red, goes up to 6 6 does an English muffin nicely Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:40 AM (/7KEl) 355
You people sure have a lot of rules for toast.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:41 AM (LkLld) 356
me new toaster, which is red, goes up to 6
6 does an English muffin nicely Posted by: Don Black Mine's a Marshall-goes to 11. Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at September 28, 2024 10:42 AM (CV8a5) 357
You people sure have a lot of rules for toast.
Posted by: JackStraw You should see the rules for chili. Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 10:43 AM (/5iXv) 358
Near Knoxville isn't so bad. It seems like the devastation is a small portion of east TN, and then widespread wreckage in western NC. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM I used Knoxville as a starting point to find I40, where the road collapsed, and there is/are dam(s) in TN that if broken would flow into Western NC. Things are a little less then definitive if the dams broke, but they were certainly topped. Ventusky had kinda predicted the HC would travel north then stall over that area. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 10:43 AM (RKVpM) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:44 AM (/7KEl) 360
Anyone heard from Mike Hammer since the storm?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:44 AM (LkLld) 361
I've tried that, but only the bottom portion seems to de-crystallize. The last bottle of honey I had with that problem, I settled for scraping some partly-crystalline portions out and putting them on toast.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:54 AM (omVj0) Yes, I did that this morning. Didn't work, too crystalized. Tossed the bear and opened a new one. Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2024 10:44 AM (0eaVi) 362
On my toaster, 6 is like 11
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (/7KEl) 363
Tuna on toast:
https://youtu.be/cKUvKE3bQlY Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (dg+HA) 364
The Lord hears our prayers. 🙏
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (NFX2v) 365
Well that music means we're all out of time for today.
Tune in next week for another exciting episode of "Toast Talk" when our topic will be: crust... cut it or leave it? Posted by: NPR Announcer Voice at September 28, 2024 10:35 AM (dg+HA) If your toast is made from cheap store bought bread, then sure. Cut it off. The "crust" if fake anyway, I think they just paint it to look like crust. But if your toast is a lovely baked bread, home made, or from some neighborhood bakery? Cutting off the crust would be like dating Sydney Sweeney and suggesting she cut off her nipples. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (ysdM/) 366
It's not even that the lady hates the South. That's fine. I hate Denver and it makes me laugh to see it destroyed by their precious illegals, now that I'm no longer cursed with living there. I couldn't care any less if they take over her fancy house and start charging her rent to live there like they do to poor people in Aurora.
The thing that got me is saying it to people's faces, in a meeting where *a bunch of your own team is hours away from serious trouble.* That's HATE, baby. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (awTae) 367
>>>I agree. It's inevitable. It seems the left wants it. And any heretics like Adams in NYC will be crushed.
Posted by: JackStraw -------- Curious. Who did P Diddy pizzoff? Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (wILM4) 368
Honey crystalizes over time. It's not hard to deal with it. You just need to leave the container in hot water till it is liquid again. I do this with 11 pound pails of honey. Just takes time.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 10:46 AM (MpVUb) 369
359 There are no rules
Toast is open to every person's interpretation Posted by: Don Black Ha! You'd still be toasting your bread in the bathtub, if not for us! Posted by: Toaster Regulatory Board at September 28, 2024 10:46 AM (CV8a5) 370
My toaster has a 'Bagel' button, which you press when you insert a bagel. It then lights up red, which tells you you have a bagel in the toaster. It has no other function. The technology anymore is simply amazing. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 10:46 AM (RKVpM) 371
Cowboy Bebop is a little past my time, but it's my firm conviction that cartoons went to hell after Looney Tunes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (Wnv9h) But what about Thundarr the Barbarian??? Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 10:46 AM (S6gqv) 372
Bagel function just toasts one side.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 10:47 AM (MpVUb) 373
I generally only have English muffins at home,that I toast myself, as restaurants can't seem to prepare them to my liking, bringing me a lightly toasted, non-crunchy failure.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 10:47 AM (/5iXv) 374
There are no rules
Toast is open to every person's interpretation Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:44 AM (/7KEl) Except in Alabama. There's still a law on the books that you can't sodomize it. Although I don't think anyone has been convicted with the law since 1968. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 10:48 AM (ysdM/) 375
Space workers, making the impossible nominal.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 10:48 AM (wILM4) Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:49 AM (LkLld) 377
There are no rules
Toast is open to every person's interpretation Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:44 AM (/7KEl) --- No one expects the Toast Inquisition! Posted by: Toastemada at September 28, 2024 10:49 AM (BpYfr) 378
All this toast talk made me want toast, so I scrambled up some eggs, sliced a fresh tomato, and toasted some bread (with butter and honey). I probably won't need to eat until dinner time.
Posted by: PabloD at September 28, 2024 10:49 AM (DDP4b) 379
Bagel function just toasts one side. Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 10:47 AM Wires on both sides of this toaster glow red. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 10:50 AM (RKVpM) 380
Cowboy Bebop is awesome
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 10:50 AM (fwDg9) 381
I'm reading from the owner's manual to my toaster, and it describes the bagel function as 'shortening' the toasting time
This presumes that one wants a lightly toasted bagel I'll have to look into this- no bagels on hand right now Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:51 AM (/7KEl) 382
>All this toast talk made me want toast, so I scrambled up some eggs, sliced a fresh tomato, and toasted some bread
--- what kind of bread Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:52 AM (/7KEl) 383
Nearly 400 comments, and not one Pumpkin Spice reference. Keep it up!
Posted by: Down With the Spice! at September 28, 2024 10:52 AM (CV8a5) 384
I need to look into that Coleman toast attachment. Out camping, I have had to resort to a butane torch toast manufacturing process, which is less than satisfactory.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 10:53 AM (/5iXv) 385
On my toaster, 6 is like 11
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (/7KEl) Sounds like my waffle maker Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2024 10:53 AM (W/lyH) Posted by: Public Service Announcement at September 28, 2024 10:53 AM (RKVpM) 387
Curious. Who did P Diddy pizzoff?
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (wILM4) I still think Jeffrey Epstein isn't dead. But that doesn't matter, he's middle management. Word is, Quincy Jones runs the black Hollowood pedo ring. Oprah is a primary mover/procurer. But really, as with everything else, you gotta ask what the CIA is doing, and when are they doing it. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 10:53 AM (ysdM/) 388
Bagel function just toasts one side.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 10:47 AM --- What if you put the bagel slices in backwards? Or one slice correctly and the other slice incorrectly? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 10:54 AM (BpYfr) 389
In TN, the NWS said the Waterville dam was going to breach, but then Duke Energy said "stop panicking, the dam will hold."
Nolichucky dam appears to be on the razor's edge. Not as bad as last night, but people are still holding their breath on that one. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 10:54 AM (awTae) 390
Just remembered there are some sausages in the fridge. Toast, cheese, and sausage sandwich it is. I'm not feeling motivated enough to scramble eggs just yet.
Later, folks. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2024 10:55 AM (W5ArC) 391
I'm making bread. Another YouTube recipe, this one with a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in the mix.
Four small round loaves baked on a pan atop parchment paper, small bowl of water in middle to make a little steam while baking. Posted by: Mr Gaga at September 28, 2024 10:55 AM (N7QIs) 392
In 2018, approximately 17.4 million toasters were sold over retail channels in the United States.
--- This was the last year for which there is complete data Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:56 AM (/7KEl) 393
> Curious. Who did P Diddy pizzoff?
--------- He may not have pissed anyone off. Rather he's a loose cannon with kompromat on the state actors TPTB are trying to install in the national government. Not necessarily Harris and/or Walz... but who knows. Certainly would include many members of congress, assorted fedgov people, various state governments and so on. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 10:56 AM (Q4IgG) 394
Have any of you used one of the 'smart' toasters? Do they work well? I'm hesitant to scan the UPC code and download the Toaster App to my phone.
I've heard the FTA can access your settings and limit how toasty you make your toast, out of an overabundance of caution. Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:58 AM (uCfKO) 395
I just did that. It's the outside that is on for bagel. My toaster has a cancel button, so I used that. Turned them around. Won't hurt to have the outside warmed up.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 10:59 AM (MpVUb) 396
I've heard the FTA can access your settings and limit how toasty you make your toast, out of an overabundance of caution.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:58 AM (uCfKO) It's all those Pop-Tart fires what prompted this. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 10:59 AM (OX9vb) 397
What if you put the bagel slices in backwards? Or one slice correctly and the other slice incorrectly?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 10:54 AM (BpYfr) Then you're messing with the space/time continuum. We then live in a timeline where Athens wins the Peloponnesian War, and of course that changes everything. Including the fact that toast is not invented. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 10:59 AM (ysdM/) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:00 AM (/7KEl) 399
In 2018, approximately 17.4 million toasters were sold over retail channels in the United States.
--- This was the last year for which there is complete data Posted by: Don Black And that doesn't include sales of used toasters. Since most toasters are junk these days, I went to a goodwill to find a 1970s-80s model. They knew how to toast properly in the old days Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 11:00 AM (/5iXv) 400
[shouting:] You cannot petition the Lord with prayer! -Jim Morrison, noted theologian and flasher
Going in for minor surgery on Monday morning. I've been bothered for quite a while by a lower eyelid that curls inward, so the eyelashes are constantly irritating the eyeball. Just a little snip and stitch, a quick outpatient procedure, they tell me. Of course, there is no guarantee. Risks involve unbalanced appearance, bleeding, infection, double vision, dry eye, numbness, loss of vision, anger, anxiety, depression, and, of course, death. The alternative is living with the symptoms and appearance of droopy, saggy lower lid, with tearing, red eyes, and mucous discharge. Heh. Life is full of choices, eh? I put this off a year ago, being wary of surgery. Shortly thereafter I had major bowel surgery, and another major operation six months later. So, this doesn't seem like such a big deal now! Prayers welcome, for successful snippage, quick recovery, and what we really need prayers for is that we can get there on time. It's an 8am appointment and we live an hour and a half away, so that should be "fun." Posted by: mindful webworker - pre-cataract surgery surgery at September 28, 2024 11:01 AM (bqxS+) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:01 AM (/7KEl) Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at September 28, 2024 11:01 AM (dg+HA) 403
Bagel "setting" on toasters is a Deep State Op to keep the plebes in line.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 11:01 AM (nv4jJ) 404
> I went to a goodwill to find a 1970s-80s model. They knew how to toast properly in the old days
Posted by: Thomas Paine --- it was a toastier, simpler time Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:02 AM (/7KEl) 405
Austere Hezbollah chief Nasrallah goes on to a glorious martyrdom
Hezbollah officially confirms that Nasrallah is dead. The head of Iran's Quds force in Lebanon, along with other senior Iranians, were meeting with Nasrallah and were also killed. Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 11:02 AM (uxCna) 406
Have any of you used one of the 'smart' toasters? Do they work well? I'm hesitant to scan the UPC code and download the Toaster App to my phone.
I've heard the FTA can access your settings and limit how toasty you make your toast, out of an overabundance of caution. Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:58 AM (uCfKO) Sure, but you can sync up your toaster with your washing machine. Don't tell me you people don't have your toaster synced up with your washing machine. How do you live? Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:03 AM (ysdM/) Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:03 AM (uCfKO) 408
At a large employee gathering, I once heard a Marketing drone tout the features and capabilities of a new toaster about to launch, and how it would improve . . . "the toasting experience. "
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2024 11:04 AM (8AONa) 409
Have any of you used one of the 'smart' toasters? Do they work well? I'm hesitant to scan the UPC code and download the Toaster App to my phone.
I've heard the FTA can access your settings and limit how toasty you make your toast, out of an overabundance of caution. Posted by: muldoon I'm sure the Toast Council has been infiltrated with federal lackeys who are trying to abolish any carbonization on the toast surface as a cancer risk, much like they went after the barbecue industry. Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 11:04 AM (/5iXv) 410
The North Carolina State Board of Elections announced that it found 747,000 ineligible people on its voter rolls over the past 20 months. The findings come after the board faces a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee (RNC) over the state’s voter rolls.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (wILM4) 411
Common Tater, you forgot the opportunities that heat guns offer for making toast.
about 20 years ago there was an blog that was dedicating itself to making equipment to sinter sugar for 3d objects, and they were using a modified heat gun as the heat source. The software they were adapting let them do images on toast, which is how they were calibrating their hacks on the software and hardware. Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (D7oie) 412
Everybody raise your mugs...
...here's to well-browned bread with melty butter and jam or honey! Cheers! Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (uCfKO) 413
Damn creeping Christians!
Clara Jeffery @ClaraJeffery Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a “blessed” night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic… As my rowmate said, “this ain’t Montgomery, sweetie.” Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (L/fGl) 414
He may not have pissed anyone off. Rather he's a loose cannon with kompromat on the state actors TPTB are trying to install in the national government. Not necessarily Harris and/or Walz... but who knows.
Certainly would include many members of congress, assorted fedgov people, various state governments and so on. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 10:56 AM (Q4IgG) --- Rogue elements of the FBI have recognized that Congress is toothless, the senior leadership is unaccountable and completely corrupt, so they are rolling up the regime from the outside in. The thing about bad guys is that they never trust each other, and that's why they need all the dirt and if it gets out, they have problems. The timing is important and it's no coincidence that late September is when this stuff is being released. It's not just some sort of random thing. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (llXky) 415
Umm...no. We don't do "smart" toasters.
Posted by: Few remaining members of Hezbollah at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (dg+HA) 416
SWIDT?
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (uCfKO) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:06 AM (/7KEl) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:07 AM (/7KEl) 419
Creeping Christian nationalism alert:
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (L/fGl) --- "Nice" Christianity is dead. Old tactics won't work. God wins in the end. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 11:08 AM (llXky) 420
approximately 17.4 million toasters were sold over retail channels in the United States.
--- This was the last year for which there is complete data Posted by: Don Black Thanks for the info, but it's the black market Toaster Show loophole we need to address. Posted by: Bureau of Alcohol Toasters and Firearms at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (CV8a5) 421
400 Posted by: mindful webworker - pre-cataract surgery surgery at September 28, 2024 11:01 AM (bqxS+)
Prayers! I know you'll find relief. this brings back memories. When I lived in LA 25 years ago, I briefly fostered what I thought was an injured/possibly abused liver-spotted Dalmatian who was wandering the neighborhood. Long story short, he was suffering from that same eyelid condition, and quite a bit of my own money later, the vets operated on his lids, and he then went on to a very happy long life up in a home in Topanga Canyon. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (x0n13) 422
Best way to brown bread. Sizzling hot pan. Butter liberally applied to bread. Quick sear.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (nv4jJ) Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (uxCna) 424
The FTA is in the pay of Big Bread.
Posted by: And everyone knows it at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (dg+HA) 425
I will also bring up that commercial bread toasts easier than home-made because of the sugar the bakers put into commercial bread to keep it softer. The additional sugar absorbs moisture and keeps the bread from going dry and stale longer, and also caramelizes better, at lower temperature.
Home made bread, at least mine, is made without sugar so all the browning is done via Maillard reaction alone, with reduced sucrose sugars so there is no additional caramelization, so it takes more energy. I honestly thought the really nice toaster I got for Christmas one year was a lemon since it was crappy at toasting my bread Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (D7oie) 426
>Common Tater, you forgot the opportunities that heat guns offer for making toast.
---- Most of the toast trade magazines, and certainly the Toast Council, view heat guns as cheating Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:10 AM (/7KEl) 427
One toaster a month ought to be enough for anybody.
Posted by: Your neighborhood Karen at September 28, 2024 11:11 AM (dg+HA) 428
@ClaraJeffery Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a “blessed” night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic… As my rowmate said, “this ain’t Montgomery, sweetie.” Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks What the hell is a rowmate, sweetie? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2024 11:11 AM (63Dwl) 429
Nearly 400 comments, and not one Pumpkin Spice reference. Keep it up!
Posted by: Down With the Spice! at September 28, 2024 10:52 AM (CV8a5) Kneaders has a BOGO on pumpkin bread this week. Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2024 11:11 AM (0eaVi) 430
And that doesn't include sales of used toasters. Since most toasters are junk these days, I went to a goodwill to find a 1970s-80s model. They knew how to toast properly in the old days
I saw one of those old kind of A-frame toasters in an antique shop a few weeks ago. Complete with the frayed fabric covered cord and Bakelite plug. No timer or rheostat of course. I kind of hate that stuff from my mom's kitchen are now "antiques." Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 11:12 AM (/y8xj) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:12 AM (/7KEl) 432
Wow, sounds like things are changing in Lebanon, bigly:
Iranian plane headed to Beirut turns around. Lebanon's transportation minister bans entry of all Iranian aircraft, @N12News reports. IDF takes over control tower comms at Beirut airport, warns Iranian plane to stay away, MTV Lebanon reports. via @N12News Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 11:13 AM (uxCna) 433
Two hours till launch, the astronauts are sealed in and it's raining.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 11:13 AM (wILM4) 434
This is a Hamilton Beach toaster from Amazon. In three years, I bought one from Dollar Store (didn't work) and one from the local hardware store, which recently died. This did a good job on my bagel.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 11:13 AM (MpVUb) 435
She's getting smoked as burned toast in the comments below her tweet.
I particularly liked Jack P going through her timeline and pulling up tweet-after-tweet of her using the term "blessed." Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2024 11:13 AM (Y1sOo) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 11:14 AM (AGxUO) 437
>>The thing about bad guys is that they never trust each other, and that's why they need all the dirt and if it gets out, they have problems.
Diddy's lawyer said yesterday that he can't wait to take the stand and testify. Assuming he stays alive long enough this might not work out the way some wanted. Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 11:14 AM (LkLld) 438
Clara Jeffery
@ClaraJeffery Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a “blessed” night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic… As my rowmate said, “this ain’t Montgomery, sweetie.” Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (L/fGl) She wasn't talking to you, pal. You can go to hell. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:14 AM (2l8ZD) 439
If everybody just ate untoasted bread, the energy saved would help save the rainforest, or don't you care about endangered species?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:14 AM (L/fGl) 440
>I saw one of those old kind of A-frame toasters in an antique shop a few weeks ago.
--- I think you are referring to a 'honeymoon toaster' Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:15 AM (/7KEl) 441
Toaster? I just met her!
Posted by: Rimshot at September 28, 2024 11:15 AM (dg+HA) 442
Most of the toast trade magazines, and certainly the Toast Council, view heat guns as cheating
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:10 AM (/7KEl) There will always be a new sensation. Always more pretentiousness than the last. Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 11:15 AM (nv4jJ) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:16 AM (/7KEl) 444
Most of the toast trade magazines, and certainly the Toast Council, view heat guns as cheating
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:10 AM (/7KEl) You ain't cheatin' you ain't eatin', son. So grab your jam and knife and get back in there! Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 11:16 AM (D7oie) 445
Yes, but was the bread made from organic free range fair trade wheat?
Posted by: Viewers from Seattle at September 28, 2024 11:17 AM (dg+HA) 446
Field expedient method for making toast:
Use the magnifying glass attachment on your Swiss Army knife to focus the sun's rays on the surface of the bread. You will need to be patient, and move the hotspot around the surface of the bread to avoid localized scorching. Or just wait for the Burning Times. Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:17 AM (uCfKO) 447
What the hell is a rowmate, sweetie?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2024 11:11 AM (63Dwl) Aren't all those Brits on rowing teams? I assume they bugger each other. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:18 AM (2l8ZD) 448
They called it 'honeymoon toaster' because your bride is on one side of the table, toasting her slice, and you are on your side of the table toasting your slice
since the toaster was a simple on/off device, each person just left their slice of bread in toaster for as long or short as desired custom toast led to marital harmony Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:18 AM (/7KEl) 449
he then went on to a very happy long life up in a home in Topanga Canyon.
Like that farm upstate where they took Old Shep? Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 11:18 AM (AGxUO) 450
Thanks for the Coffee Thread and the Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!
Prayers up for all of our dear brothers and sisters, whether we know them or not. Felt so good to sleep in this morning! May God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel. Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 28, 2024 11:18 AM (CiNoz) 451
Some coffee shops had toasters on each table.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 11:20 AM (AGxUO) 452
She wasn't talking to you, pal. You can go to hell.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:14 AM (2l8ZD) --- It's one of those things that proves the power of God and how sensitive people possessed by evil are to it. Look at the absurd arrests of people praying silently at abortion mills in England. No outward sign, just standing there, thinking about God. The only way anyone knows is when they are asked what they are doing and tell the truth. That's now a crime. If that doesn't prove the efficacy of prayer, I don't know what would. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 11:20 AM (llXky) 453
"The head of Iran's Quds force in Lebanon, along with other senior Iranians, were meeting with Nasrallah and were also killed."
Wow. (breaks into song) Oh what a beautiful morning. Oh what a beautiful day... Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 28, 2024 11:20 AM (+H2BX) 454
Most of the toast trade magazines, and certainly the Toast Council, view heat guns as cheating
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:10 AM (/7KEl) You ain't cheatin' you ain't eatin', son. So grab your jam and knife and get back in there! Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 11:16 AM (D7oie) This is why we need national toasting laws, to ban heat guns. Quick, get Lindsay Graham to co-sponsor a bill with Maria Cantwell. Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:20 AM (2l8ZD) Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 11:20 AM (O7YUW) 456
What the hell is a rowmate, sweetie?
$20, same as in town. Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 11:21 AM (AGxUO) Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:21 AM (/7KEl) 458
Here it is
https://tinyurl.com/64vts6x6 OK my mom's wasn't that old. It at least had enclosed doors. I would have bought that one just for the Deco styling. Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 11:21 AM (/y8xj) 459
The head of Iran's Quds force in Lebanon, along with other senior Iranians, were meeting with Nasrallah and were also killed.
Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 11:02 AM (uxCna) Well, there's the actual news in this. That's like if Gen. Westmoreland had been killed in Saigon. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 11:22 AM (awTae) 460
Oh, the much venerated Sunbeam T20 may cause a peak-load natural gas plant to be brought back online to ensure them damn English Muffins is burnt right and proper, but that's how it goes. If you ask a Brit what an English Muffin is, they won't know what you are on about. Really.
But they have to be crispy. With lots of butter. One reason the "Egg McMuffin" isn't all that. They seem to think it is a goofy round bread substitute. Wrong! Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 11:22 AM (R3wAr) 461
Clara Jeffery
@ClaraJeffery Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a “blessed” night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic… As my rowmate said, “this ain’t Montgomery, sweetie.” I mean, Wiccans say "blessed" too. She should know that because Karens of all Karenness usually claim to be Wiccan vegans. Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2024 11:22 AM (Yqpb4) 462
I prefer my toast medium rare, with just a bit of pink in the middle.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:22 AM (uCfKO) 463
At one time Armalite gave away a logoed toaster with the purchase of an AR-15.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 11:23 AM (/y8xj) Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:23 AM (uCfKO) 465
Toastman OUT
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:24 AM (/7KEl) 466
GREEK HONEY ... Honey produced in Greece is claimed to be highly nutrient-dense with many immune system benefits ... Often touted is the age longevity of people who include Greek honey in their regular diet ... YMMV.
Posted by: Kathy at September 28, 2024 11:26 AM (qpw89) 467
Resource Depleted Seattle Police Department Won’t Respond to Burglary Alarms Anymore
- I'm sure this will work out well. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:26 AM (L/fGl) 468
Rogue elements of the FBI have recognized that Congress is toothless, ...
But also rubber stamps for evil. If the FBI claimed they needed a new billion dollar facility to harvest adrenochrome from immigrant children, the Congress would allocate two billion, identify a contractor to build the facility and then demand a cut of the action. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2024 11:27 AM (rHxhM) 469
So at one time a toaster was considered a "marital aid?"
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 11:28 AM (dg+HA) 470
So at one time a toaster was considered a "marital aid?"
Posted by: Quarter Twenty ********* I think that is a bun warmer. Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:30 AM (uCfKO) 471
Prayers for all.
Posted by: Mick at September 28, 2024 12:24 PM (KOTG6) 472
Thirty minutes ago:
Reports from Lebanon: IDF targeted Nabil Qaouk, senior member of Hezbollah's executive council, in Beirut strike this evening. via @kaisos1987 Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 12:33 PM (uxCna) 473
Prayers up for morons and moron-friends.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2024 12:35 PM (bz8Vd) 474
Flowers nood
Posted by: Mr Ray at September 28, 2024 01:11 PM (nv4jJ) 475
Late arriving, I have really enjoyed Don Black's toast thread and I wonder if it could maybe be a regular feature.
In the meantime, here is Grecian toast: ΤΟΣΤ Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 03:56 PM (64Zez) Daily Tech News 28 September 2024Top Story
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Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 04:02 AM (64Zez) 2
g'day everyone
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 04:02 AM (fwDg9) 3
On the ONT, the comments from Morons in the path of the hurricane are really worth reading. I'm about halfway through.
Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 04:03 AM (64Zez) 4
HI
Posted by: Ciampino - 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz! at September 28, 2024 04:06 AM (qfLjt) 5
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR SEPTEMBER 28
SpaceX and NASA are scheduling the launch of SpaceX Crew-9 on September 28; lift-off is set for 1:17 p.m. EDT, 1717 UTC, 19:17 CEST, and the booster will make a landing at LZ-1, Cape Canaveral SFB. https://www.youtube.com/live/bvMUVxflvxI Anyone know what the weather is like at Cape Canaveral? I'm wondering if this manned launch will happen today. Posted by: Ciampino - no firecracker at September 28, 2024 04:12 AM (qfLjt) 6
I don't want to be but think I am up,
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 04:28 AM (fwDg9) 7
I do think it's French Toast this morning
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 04:44 AM (fwDg9) 8
Good evening Pixy from soggy Sydney. We brought our weather here.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 04:53 AM (zG664) 9
Happy Caturday, all!
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 04:53 AM (njWTi) 10
NYP confirms Nasrallah is dead.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 04:53 AM (zG664) 11
Sky News comfirms
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 04:53 AM (zG664) 12
Starting up on the Earl Grey, with cinnamon.
Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 04:59 AM (64Zez) 13
Last toddy of the night, here...
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 04:59 AM (njWTi) 14
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 04:53 AM (zG664)
Are you visiting family or just wanted to see Sydney? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 05:00 AM (ERdWw) 15
Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at September 28, 2024 05:06 AM (dg+HA) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 05:07 AM (ERdWw) 17
g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at September 28, 2024 05:09 AM (tljrc) Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 05:12 AM (I1GXe) 19
We use WP at work to send out newsletters. The software’s fine for what we do.
Posted by: kallisto at September 28, 2024 05:13 AM (tON+x) 20
"He has assumed room temperature."
~ Rush Limbaugh Posted by: I miss Rush at September 28, 2024 05:13 AM (dg+HA) 21
Nasrallah, may all your virgins be Rachael Levine clones.
------------ Better yet, Helen Thomas is already there to greet him! Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 05:14 AM (njWTi) 22
Fen, our son in law is from Sydney, and we are here with him and Girl F. We had shabbat dinner at their house last night and tomorrow we are all flying up north to visit the Great Barrier Reef.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 05:15 AM (zG664) 23
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 05:15 AM (zG664)
Sorry; I forgot that. Have a lovely visit! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 05:17 AM (CudnY) 24
G'morning Horde!
Ciampino: Thanks again for the launch notification. Pixy: Intel just can't stop putting quarters in the "kick me in the nuts" machine. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 05:18 AM (O7YUW) 25
24 Intel just can't stop putting quarters in the "kick me in the nuts" machine.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 05:18 AM (O7YUW) LOL that took me by surprise Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 05:19 AM (64Zez) 26
Pixy: Intel just can't stop putting quarters in the "kick me in the nuts" machine.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 05:18 AM (O7YUW) They should have give me the Wurlitzer prize For all the silver that I let slide Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 05:20 AM (gbOdA) Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 05:20 AM (gbOdA) Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 05:20 AM (gbOdA) 29
Thank you dear.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 05:21 AM (zG664) 30
Good morning! Back home after a short trip to Big Sky country to visit a completion in progress. Nice place, but kinda windy. Gotta spend today doing all the yard work I didn't get done during the week.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 05:21 AM (3Ope8) 31
Warm and Nuzzi RFK Jr. and star journalist Olivia Nuzzi had ‘incredible’ FaceTime sex, said they loved each other: sources
FOFT Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 05:22 AM (gbOdA) 32
Bozo > Krusty > Pennywise > Sam Altman
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 05:22 AM (zG664) 33
22 Fen, our son in law is from Sydney, and we are here with him and Girl F. We had shabbat dinner at their house last night and tomorrow we are all flying up north to visit the Great Barrier Reef.
Posted by: San Franpsycho Good time of year for it. It looks like the weather should be better up there. Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 28, 2024 05:22 AM (BLOW1) Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 05:25 AM (zG664) 35
Woman caught smuggling more than 700 pounds of bologna at Texas border
/punchline I dont know if I can kick his ass if he can eat that much Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 05:26 AM (gbOdA) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 05:26 AM (CudnY) 37
19 We use WP at work to send out newsletters. The software’s fine for what we do.
Posted by: kallisto It does work, and the security issues these days are mostly with the plugins due to the terrible design, rather than WordPress itself due to terrible code. But I had reason to set it up recently and to do anything but the most basic installation you are expected to modify the code. The PHP code. Had my own personal 'Nam flashback. Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 28, 2024 05:26 AM (BLOW1) 38
34 Everyone keeps apologizing for the weather as if they were at fault!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 05:25 AM (zG664) Every where she goes She always take the weather Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 05:27 AM (gbOdA) 39
Yes, very much looking forward to being in that water. I haven't been in the ocean since 2021. And that was in Jersey, so...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 05:27 AM (zG664) 40
He has assumed room temperature.
Judging from the size of the blast in the videos, he's well above STP. Well done, Israel. No pun intended. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2024 05:27 AM (3Ope8) 41
34 Everyone keeps apologizing for the weather as if they were at fault!
Posted by: San Franpsycho It's Australia. It's not supposed to rain. Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 28, 2024 05:28 AM (BLOW1) 42
Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 28, 2024 05:29 AM (hoCmQ) 43
28, 72 Virginians? I hope they were the Jamestown types that didn’t mess around with blasphemers or heathens,
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 05:30 AM (BYMwh) 44
We had dinner al fresco in Watson's Bay this evening and there was a little shower. The crowd panicked and fled.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 05:30 AM (zG664) 45
41 34 Everyone keeps apologizing for the weather as if they were at fault!
Posted by: San Franpsycho It's Australia. It's not supposed to rain. Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 28, 2024 05:28 AM (BLOW1) Where once it never rained til after sundown. Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 05:32 AM (64Zez) 46
I like Virginia weather get all four seasons with none of the extremes. In my part of the Dominion protect us from extreme weather events. The big Weather is the same thing A quick rain storm. That beats some of the stuff other people deal with like hail and hurricanes.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 05:36 AM (BYMwh) 47
"Yay, weekend, and nothing super important to do, I'm gonna sleep in!"
Yeah. Sure. I think my body clock is wirelessly connected to some atomic whizzbang doodad at NIST. Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 28, 2024 05:41 AM (DDGz9) 48
Shipuilder Newport News Shipbuilding, Va., informed the Department of Justice of faulty welds that may have been made intentionally on non-critical components on in-service Navy submarines and aircraft carriers.
Drawn and quartered Brazen Bull Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 05:46 AM (gbOdA) 49
Speaking of Virginia doubt there is a state that has so many people from another state that has moved there. When I moved to Northern Virginia, it was northern Virginia people and other states.
You have the immigration illegal illegal everyone talking about Virginia is getting a ton of that. But in Virginia, you get an American from other states that just keep pouring in. By the nature of my work, I already knew that a significant percentage of upstate New York has moved here. Also, a bunch of I know they’re exactly subtle. They had the Dallas Cowboys New York Giants game on Buffalo wild wings last night. There were probably people cheering on the Giants. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 05:46 AM (BYMwh) 50
"They" say-- old people sleep less & less... go to sleep early & wake super-early, etc etc...
I'm waiting! Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 05:46 AM (njWTi) 51
@47-Warai-otoko: Same here. My alarm clock does set itself from the WWVB radio signal out of Colorado (which is a really nice feature.)
Normal alarm time: 04:00. I had the alarm off since it's Saturday. When did I wake up? 04:07. *sighs* Circadian rhythms are stubborn cusses. I honestly don't know how shift-workers that swap shifts by 8 to 12 hours every two weeks don't go utterly stark raving mad. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 05:47 AM (O7YUW) 52
"The United States is a sovereign nation and I believe we have a duty to set rules at our border and enforce them. And I take that responsibility very seriously."
Anyone can claim that wearing a $62K Tiffany neckless. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 05:50 AM (gbOdA) 53
Look again is the free country and we are allowed to move around. But my apologies for staying I feel bad when certain cultures no longer exists because of the cultures. I know people in northern Virginia in the DC area that legitimately didn’t even know what state they lived in or what a state is.
By the way, in my area of Virginia, no where near the dc swamp, You see five Buffalo Bills for every Redskins flag. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 05:50 AM (BYMwh) 54
Seems to me using white phosphorus at work could be very dangerous
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 05:51 AM (fwDg9) 55
49 Speaking of Virginia doubt there is a state that has so many people from another state that has moved there. When I moved to Northern Virginia, it was northern Virginia people and other states.
You have the immigration illegal illegal everyone talking about Virginia is getting a ton of that. But in Virginia, you get an American from other states that just keep pouring in. By the nature of my work, I already knew that a significant percentage of upstate New York has moved here. Also, a bunch of I know they’re exactly subtle. They had the Dallas Cowboys New York Giants game on Buffalo wild wings last night. There were probably people cheering on the Giants. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 05:46 AM (BYMwh) duh TExas Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 05:51 AM (gbOdA) 56
Circadian rhythms are stubborn cusses. I honestly don't know how shift-workers that swap shifts by 8 to 12 hours every two weeks don't go utterly stark raving mad.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant One of our local union-shops has a 8-day rotation: 2 (12hr) days/2 (12hr) nights/4 days off. The first "day off" is likely spent sleeping off the previous night shift. Ugh. That schedule would killme! Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 05:52 AM (njWTi) 57
Sorry for my posts, the talk to text experiment has failed. I will type them going forward.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 05:53 AM (BYMwh) 58
Kamala Harris thinks that aid for floods, hurricanes, tornados, & fires should be distributed based on race:
"Communities of color need more" Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 05:53 AM (gbOdA) 59
We use WordPress at my institution, but it's mostly for students, faculty, and staff who need a website for university-related websites that are not tied to the core institution websites. Research centers, student organizations, design teams, etc.
The core campus websites use TerminalFour. It's OK and has a few nice features once you get used to the quirks of the interface. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 05:53 AM (BpYfr) 60
55, yeah we need the ban hammer. Why should one culture destroy a better one?
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 05:58 AM (BYMwh) 61
faulty welds that may have been made intentionally on non-critical components on in-service Navy submarines and aircraft carriers.
Drawn and quartered Brazen Bull Posted by: rhennigantx Build another OceanGate and have them visit the Titanic ... Better karma, as it were ... Posted by: Adriane the What Goes Around Critic . . . at September 28, 2024 06:01 AM (TX4bP) 62
Hezbollah leader lifetime<<<<<<<Spinal Tap Drummer
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 06:01 AM (gbOdA) 63
When did Krakatoa leave us? I've not been paying attention I guess...
No more Happy Saturdays/Sundays Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 06:02 AM (njWTi) 64
As a Cultural Marxist would think
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 06:02 AM (fwDg9) 65
I get this is a country, And I am happy we all move. I understand we are mostly focused, illegal immigrants crossing the border. But I am sick and tired of the Yankees moving to the south, whether it be Virginia or Texas, but in Virginia originally from Texas. I have seen this in North Carolina entire culture disappeared. There are small towns where there are 20 puperserias for every bbq joint. And says the thing about it because they will be publicly shamed for standing up for the culture they grew up with.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 06:03 AM (BYMwh) Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 06:03 AM (zG664) 67
"Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah," read a Friday headline from Bassem Mroue that the Associated Press.
and dead Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 06:03 AM (gbOdA) 68
And the next leader of Hezbollah? Oh, he died in a bizarre gardening accident.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 06:04 AM (O7YUW) Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 06:04 AM (njWTi) 70
Virginia is inexorably becoming New Jersey.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 06:05 AM (dg+HA) 71
Evening and morning to all the early risers and Saturday toilers! 'Tis Saturday, glorious Saturday, with all the universe and infinite possibilities ahead me!
Well, after I wash and polish the car, and hit the grocery store, and run a couple of return merchandise errands, and . . . Still, I can do it on my own schedule. Mostly. The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space say hi in their own peculiar feline thug way. How's everybody? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 06:06 AM (omVj0) 72
Good evening Pixy from soggy Sydney. We brought our weather here.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 *** It's early spring there, after all. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 06:07 AM (omVj0) Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 06:07 AM (njWTi) 74
I keep running into these Long Island types in rural Virginia. They say they hate Trump. I think half of NY decided to go down I 81 until the taxes didn’t hurt so much.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 06:07 AM (BYMwh) 75
On the ONT, the comments from Morons in the path of the hurricane are really worth reading. I'm about halfway through.
Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 *** Those in NC, SC, and WV? I think by the time the storm dissipates, even SW Indiana will get a lot of rain. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 06:08 AM (omVj0) 76
Breakfast today will be a three egg omelet with fried bologna.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 06:08 AM (dg+HA) 77
Meta stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text.
Anything free is worth what you pay for it ... Posted by: Adriane the What Goes Around Critic . . . at September 28, 2024 06:08 AM (TX4bP) 78
Show us the celebrations in Beirut. In Syria.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 06:10 AM (zG664) 79
Breakfast today will be a three egg omelet with fried bologna.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty --------- Wow. Should try that for hubby-- he *loves* fried baloney sammiches. Something new & different, right? Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 06:11 AM (njWTi) 80
Mornin'
Going to McConnells Mill State Park today. Haven't been there in decades. I'm sure my fat, out of shape, middle aged, physique will be fine on those steep, narrow, rocky, paths. No problem at all. Before that, I'm going to a gun show. A friend of mine is working it. Probably won't buy anything. I live in NoVA and buying a gun in PA, having them ship it to a NoVA gun shop to pick it up seems tedious, but I can look! My sister is in the market for a boom stick (AR-15). Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 06:12 AM (/Djer) 81
I consciously use WordPress once a month near its end (tomorrow, actually) to run a brief app briefly that barfs out the log of purchases made and monies received by our lapidary society. I guess that there are others in the society who use it more, but "not my problem". Raining here now. Occurs today here in Wilmington the marriage of a second niece this month. This time it she is from my wife's family. The bride to be was in our care when she took her first steps. I, myself, bring 29 now, was 2 at the time and extremely precocious, having a drivers license, car, advanced degree and a well paying job. "Krebs, you're a marvel!" was a phrase that I heard quite often in those days. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2024 06:13 AM (xG4kz) 82
Fried bologna goes great with eggs. Make sure to cut a notch in each slice so it fries up flat and crispy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 06:14 AM (zG664) 83
My son has applied for a part time joo be the groundskeeper at a church cemetery that dates from the 1700s. I think that would be a cool job.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 06:15 AM (NY56L) 84
"We are totally gonna get you back, I'm cereal this time you guys!"
-Khameini Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 06:15 AM (zG664) 85
Persevere." A reflection on Job 19:23-27
tinyurl.com/5b3w6zp8 Posted by: FenelonSpoke The only easy day was yesterday. Lord give us the strength to endure difficult circumstances. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 28, 2024 06:17 AM (iziaj) 86
My son has applied for a part time joo Part time joos are never entrusted with the keys to the weather machine. He will be disappoint. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2024 06:17 AM (xG4kz) 87
My son has applied for a part time joo be the groundskeeper at a church cemetery that dates from the 1700s. I think that would be a cool job.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 06:15 AM (NY56L) === I also wanted to suggest if there are any zoos nearby, they have a lot of nice landscaping for patrons as well as maintaining proper environments for the animals. Plenty of plant knowledge needed... Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 06:17 AM (zG664) 88
People are dying to get in there.
Posted by: Just the punchline at September 28, 2024 06:18 AM (dg+HA) 89
My sister is in the market for a boom stick (AR-15).
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 06:12 AM (/Djer) get the chainsaw bayonet Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 06:19 AM (gbOdA) 90
83 My son has applied for a part time joo be the groundskeeper at a church cemetery that dates from the 1700s. I think that would be a cool job.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 06:15 AM (NY56L) Only has to wear a yarmulke till noon. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 06:20 AM (gbOdA) Posted by: Clueless member of the "media" at September 28, 2024 06:20 AM (dg+HA) 92
68 And the next leader of Hezbollah? Oh, he died in a bizarre gardening accident.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 06:04 AM (O7YUW) Best leave it unsolved. Posted by: The Mossad at September 28, 2024 06:21 AM (PiwSw) 93
Sky News reporting Lebanon aviation ministry turned back an Iranian jet destined for Beirut.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 06:22 AM (zG664) 94
There are currently more than 7 million people on that docket.
The data says that, among those not in detention, there are 425,431 convicted criminals and 222,141 with pending criminal charges. Who voted for this? Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 06:25 AM (gbOdA) 95
93 Sky News reporting Lebanon aviation ministry turned back an Iranian jet destined for Beirut.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 06:22 AM (zG664) Hopefully with ground to air missiles. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 06:25 AM (gbOdA) 96
Sky News reporting Lebanon aviation ministry turned back an Iranian jet destined for Beirut.
Posted by: San Franpsycho Trying to imagine the "discussions" happening within the Iranian inner circle right now. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 28, 2024 06:26 AM (iziaj) 97
The Iranian people are ready to once again ready overthrow the mullahs and now is the perfect time to support them. Pahlavi has been spreading this message everywhere. They don't want foreign engagement just support when they make the move.
Now is the time to slap some hot iron to the problem. Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2024 06:26 AM (I1GXe) 98
Hopefully with ground to air missiles.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 06:25 AM (gbOdA) ==== The Israelis theatened to bomb the airport if it landed. Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 06:27 AM (zG664) 99
There are small towns where there are 20 puperserias for every bbq joint.
Guess I'm one of those dreaded 'Yankees' who has changed the culture in NoVA. I've lived in NoVA longer than I've lived anywhere else now so I guess I'm considered a local. Fairfax County is more DC than Virginia anyway. I do have to say, I'm not aware of pupserserias as being a 'Yankee' staple food wise. Around where I grew up it was Primainti Brothers, chipped ham, and pierogis. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 06:28 AM (/Djer) 100
@75 We've had continuous rain here for 32 hours. It was light early yesterday, heavier from mid-morning til evening, then lighter since. Probably about 2-3 inches, and it is supposed to rain all day.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 28, 2024 06:30 AM (9XWKq) Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 28, 2024 06:31 AM (iziaj) 102
Pupuserias? I know of one on my side of the river. Haven't been there, though. The Web definition (once I got past one weird AI-generated listing that said it means "bunny") says "a shop selling stuffed tortillas." Stuffed with good things, I'll warrant.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 06:32 AM (omVj0) 103
In time for tech. Ye Haw, Good morning all.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 06:33 AM (wILM4) 104
Love me a pupusa.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 06:34 AM (zG664) 105
US Navy warships shot down a barrage of Houthi missiles and drones in the Red Sea on Friday in what a Pentagon spokesperson described as a "complex attack."
We know where they came from within meters. (< 7 miles) BLOW THEM UP Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 06:35 AM (gbOdA) 106
wtf is a papusa
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 06:35 AM (gbOdA) 107
mornin yall. Yardwork today. Mucho yardwork. Maybe we will have a bonfire.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 06:35 AM (vFG9F) 108
Anyway, today I have to return that T-shirt the running shoe store sold me with me thinking it was complimentary. Also the Adidas lunch bag I bought on Amazon, only to find it was (a) too small, and (b) sounded like it was full of loose paper behind the insulated lining. It sounded and felt cheap. Amazon offers an arrangement where you print out a QR code and take the object in its packaging to any Whole Foods. The plastic shipping bag isn't intact, but I had to cut it open to get to the item. With luck there will be no trouble.
Then we might visit that Italian bakery again for some gelato and coffee. All of these are within a few minutes' drive of each other. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 06:35 AM (omVj0) 109
102 Pupuserias? I know of one on my side of the river. Haven't been there, though. The Web definition (once I got past one weird AI-generated listing that said it means "bunny") says "a shop selling stuffed tortillas." Stuffed with good things, I'll warrant.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 06:32 AM (omVj0) Wolfus, did you know the Southern phrase "I swannee" comes directly from the Northern English "I shall warrant ye?" Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2024 06:36 AM (PiwSw) 110
wtf is a papusa
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 *** The word, unfortunately, reminds me of "pupa." That's hardly appetizing. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 06:36 AM (omVj0) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 06:36 AM (BkEzK) 112
99, I guess we got at crossed wires. No insult to you Puddlegum. I was just starting off. I was born in Texas but moved to NOVA many decades ago, like for of them. Even back then no one considered NOVA real Virginia, but little did they know.
The pupuseria thing was about Eastern NC, a culture II used to know. Maybe I am a jerk maybe I am a relic, but I think Eastern North Carolina and the Shenandoah valley of Virginia have a particular culture that a lot of people found appealing. I don’t want those cultures to disappear for no good reason. This point the northern Virginia I knew in the 1980s and on is gone. There’s no debate to be had because I know for a fact, the culture I grew up with there does not exist. Now I see people from failed areas of the north moving into rural areas in Virginia, North Carolina, etc. and I wonder to myself, Why can’t they live where they grew up? Why can’t they live where their culture is from? Maybe I am in the wrong. You ask anyone from France or Italy or Greece if someone immigrates there they should take on the culture of that place. They moved to. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 06:37 AM (BYMwh) 113
Wolfus, did you know the Southern phrase "I swannee" comes directly from the Northern English "I shall warrant ye?"
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2024 *** I did not. "Well, I swan!" Of course, there is nothing really Southern about me. I've lived here most of my life and always felt like an alien. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 06:38 AM (omVj0) 114
https://tinyurl.com/4d3af4mh
Powerline week in pictures Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 06:39 AM (fwDg9) 115
I'm not sure what it is, but I usually have 2 stuffed with pollo and topped with pickled cabbage
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 06:39 AM (zG664) 116
US Navy warships shot down a barrage of Houthi missiles and drones in the Red Sea on Friday in what a Pentagon spokesperson described as a "complex attack."
We know where they came from within meters. ( Posted by: rhennigantx Wonder what the US response would be if the Houthis redirected their Iranian toys at the Ghawar oil fields? Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 28, 2024 06:40 AM (iziaj) Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 06:41 AM (BpYfr) 118
Netanyahu: 'Ooh, we're afraid to go with you, Benjamin, we might get in trouble.' (shouting) Well, just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this! Haniyeh, he's a dead man! Sinwar, dead! Nasrallah...dead!' Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2024 06:42 AM (xG4kz) 119
You ask anyone from France or Italy or Greece if someone immigrates there they should take on the culture of that place. They moved to.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 *** When I get out of here (please, God, let Trump win, so I can), and flee to someplace sane, I intend to become the most fervent member of that culture I can. If it's Indiana, I'm gonna be the best Midwesterner you ever saw. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 06:42 AM (omVj0) 120
Quint,
I get it. No problems. Just you know, Western PA has/had it's own distinct little culture that is being swallowed up. At some point, I will flee Babylon DC. Not sure where I'll wind up but I do want to get out of that town. I'm currently visiting family in Western PA. It's nice, quiet, rural. Its surrounded by Amish farms. I would hate to see that go. A lot of it has. Very blue Pittsburgh and Allegheny County has pushed lots of people out to the surrounding counties. That causes some unwelcome changes. The Harrisburg bunch hates this part of the state. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 06:43 AM (/Djer) 121
We know where they came from within meters. (
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 06:35 AM (gbOdA) --- I'm guessing they came from an extensive complex of schools, hospitals, and mosques. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 06:43 AM (BpYfr) 122
The classic Nawlins "culture" of distinct neighborhoods and "Where'd ya go to school, dawlin?" and the "Yat" dialect has pretty much faded. Ever since Katrina we've had people moving here who want to gentrify everything, and I wouldn't mind except it makes everything more expensive. The remnants of the old culture peek out in Mardi Gras this and gumbo that, but that just feels like tourist trap stuff. "An economy based on T-shirts" said the recovery czar guy the city hired for a brief time in 2006, and the storm of fury that brought up was amazing -- even though he was simply telling the exact truth.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 06:48 AM (omVj0) 123
Rocky Mountain cracked me up
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 06:49 AM (fwDg9) 124
If you look at the Democrat candidates and representatives in Virginia over the last 20 or 30 years, almost every single one of them who has one statewide is not from Virginia originally. They are Yankees who left their state, but kept their left-wing politics and brought them to Virginia. I am not talking about a small group I’m talking 80 even 90% of Democrats in high office in Virginia in the general assembly congressman the Governor ship, etc. are not from Virginia. I might take the time to actually do the research, but I already know about this, but I might do the research to back it up because it is incredible.
People on our side are talking about a takeover or invasion, I am saying Virginia already has had that happen. And I’m not criticizing any that moved to Virginia? I already said I’m not originally from Virginia. But I do find it weird that people pour in in mass to change the culture of a state to the state they left. If I am wrong about that, so be it but I standby. It is a problem. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 06:49 AM (BYMwh) 125
106 wtf is a papusa
Posted by: rhennigantx ----------------------------- A Mexican, hand made, hot pocket. If you're lucky it's delicious. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 06:52 AM (wILM4) 126
@124/Quint: "But I do find it weird that people pour in in mass to change the culture of a state to the state they left."
I call this "Locust syndrome" Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 06:52 AM (O7YUW) 127
120, puddlegum. I am a big PA fan. I’ve probably been to Gettysburg 28 times and I’m being serious there probably 28 times I made an effort to prostate lines to go to Gettysburg. I really like Pennsylvania and it is definitely part of my list as well. Certainly, it would be the one northern state I would move to.
I saw in 2016 that for sure Pennsylvania had the most hard-core Trump supporters and yes, it was the central western part of the state. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 06:53 AM (BYMwh) Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 06:55 AM (gbOdA) 129
If I am wrong about that, so be it but I standby. It is a problem.
Posted by: Quint ------------------------ Some eons ago there were bumper stickers saying, 'I don't care how you did it back home'. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 06:55 AM (wILM4) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 06:55 AM (BkEzK) 131
Hung Cow!
Posted by: Goodbye Tim Kaine at September 28, 2024 06:56 AM (dg+HA) 132
I believe Pupusas are mostly known as El Salvador thing or maybe it’s Honduras. Since we’re being politically incorrect here in my mind whenever you see a place say it is Tex-Mex, but they also offered Pupusas. You know they’re not real Mexicans, Honduras or El Salvadorans. I’m not saying a pupusa Is bad but from the ones I’ve tried they’re not particularly great.
Real Mexican food, but also real Tex-Mex food crushes pretty much anything else in Central America or South America in my opinion. I do give Mexico credit for being one of the four or five best food countries. There’s no question about that one. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 06:57 AM (BYMwh) 133
O e more time! Great hymn from the Protestant hymn singing tradition; about taking our burdens to the Lord, "Leave it there::
https://tinyurl.com/mpr2dkkc Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 06:58 AM (zkj3E) 134
Just you know, Western PA has/had it's own distinct little culture that is being swallowed up. At some point, I will flee Babylon DC. Not sure where I'll wind up but I do want to get out of that town. Guess who the newest residents of Charleroi are? Haitians. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 06:58 AM (BkEzK) 135
I don't mind the migration but they should not be allowed to vote until the third generation.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 06:58 AM (wILM4) Posted by: t-bird at September 28, 2024 06:58 AM (OkFiN) 137
130, heh
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 06:59 AM (BYMwh) Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 06:59 AM (dg+HA) Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2024 06:59 AM (PiwSw) 140
Surely there are some people who go South who want to escape the high taxes and other craziness of the North who settle elsewhere?. In fact, I know some.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:00 AM (zkj3E) 141
140, I probably know 3000 in my small town. I see five Buffalo Bills flags for any flight from any other team in the NFL and I’m probably understating it. Maybe if they put up a Redskins flag it wouldn’t stand out to me so much.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:02 AM (BYMwh) 142
135, at least don’t make your first act posting your flag. It kind of is not the ingratiating message. You might think it is.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:03 AM (BYMwh) 143
Charleroi is a shit hole to begin with.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 28, 2024 07:04 AM (tmpaY) 144
140 Surely there are some people who go South who want to escape the high taxes and other craziness of the North who settle elsewhere?. In fact, I know some.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke ------------------------------ For sure but they can't escape the mindset of the environment that they came from. Regulation - I don't like regulation but we need a rule for ... Taxes - I don't like taxes but we need more money for the school... Freedom - I believe in freedom, freedom for all, even the weirdos to express themselves. on and on Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 07:06 AM (wILM4) 145
This sounds funny- a game in which you make a chicken move by cackling:
https://tinyurl.com/3v59f7ww Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:07 AM (zkj3E) 146
Guess who the newest residents of Charleroi are? Haitians.
I saw that. Purposeful destruction by are 'betters'. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 07:07 AM (/Djer) 147
@ 135
No, let them vote AFTER they've become citizens by LEGAL means and have followed voting requirements. The time it takes is what it takes. Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 28, 2024 07:08 AM (hKoQL) 148
The classic Nawlins "culture" of distinct neighborhoods and "Where'd ya go to school, dawlin?" ...
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 06:48 AM (omVj0) === It's the first thing San Franciscans want to know when they meet you. Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 07:09 AM (zG664) 149
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 07:06 AM (wILM4)
Probably but if I moved South I would not bring that mindset with me. The people I know who just moved to Florida are conservatives and string advocates for parental autonomy over sexual issues in schools. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:09 AM (zkj3E) 150
A Mexican, hand made, hot pocket. If you're lucky it's delicious.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 06:52 AM (wILM4) ==== Those are fighting words to any Salvadoran. Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 07:10 AM (zG664) 151
Charleroi, a small town in Pennsylvania, has seen a 200% increase in its immigration population in the past two years...
There's talk about City Council and real estate promoters see this as a cash cow. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 07:10 AM (wILM4) 152
re: Ubislop
It never occurred to me because I do not think in those terms. Had to be pointed out to me. But Assassin's Creed: Shadows being released now on 14 Feb 2025 means Ubislop is publishing the game right in the middle of Black History month in the US. Pander much you Yasuke lovers? Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2024 07:11 AM (q/K3e) 153
I would like to thank the friendly people at ASHQ who are pleasant to me and don't feel a need to lambast me .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:11 AM (zkj3E) 154
I do give Mexico credit for being one of the four or five best food countries. There’s no question about that one.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 06:57 AM (BYMwh) === Refried Beans and rice? I don't think so. Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 07:12 AM (zG664) 155
143 Charleroi is a shit hole to begin with.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory Its, sadly, like a lot of towns in Western PA. West PA is overwhelmingly pro-Trump. It used to be very Democrat. The media, mostly, hasn't bothered to ask why. They just say they've been brainwashed. That's what the Cult of the god-state in DC say all the time. I hear it. I have to tell them its not brainwashing. It's seeing the results of decades of lies by the dominant party of the state (Democrat). That is considered heresy among the 'smart' set in DC. Conservative voters have undergone a similar reveal among there own 'smart' set. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 07:12 AM (/Djer) 156
The only things I wanted to bring with me to Colorado were chicory coffee (though you could buy it in certain stores) and widespread air conditioning (though I always rented apartments that had it). I felt no nostalgia for high crime, broken and potholed streets, humid hot weather, whirling storms, or Mardi Gras.
It amused me that one year, some group in an area of the Denver metro actually put on a parade on Fat Tuesday. They didn't throw stuff, though, so that wasn't very authentic. But I did not miss parades and the traffic snarls that came with it. If I could have lived in the older part of Golden, with steep hilly streets and the Coors brewery, I'd have done that. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 07:13 AM (omVj0) 157
138, did I really say that? lol. Ok, now for real I am off it!
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:13 AM (BYMwh) 158
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Those are fighting words to any Salvadoran. Posted by: San Franpsycho ------------------------------- I stand corrected. Around here Mexican restaurants appropriate any other similar food. There aren't any distinct south of the border restaurants other than Mexican. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 07:14 AM (wILM4) 159
*Ok, now for real I am off it!*
I can quit. I can quit anytime I want. I quit three times last week. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 07:16 AM (dg+HA) 160
Free Press showing celebrations in Idlib.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 07:17 AM (zG664) 161
That Peruvian chicken is pretty good.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 07:17 AM (dg+HA) 162
@ 153 Very easy to be amenable towards you, Fen.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 28, 2024 07:17 AM (hKoQL) 163
What's Idlib?
Is it like an Aleppo? Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 28, 2024 07:19 AM (dg+HA) 164
“ Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
-1 Corinthians 3:18-20 Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 07:20 AM (gG76v) 165
154, A famous chef I won’t mention his name because he’s now controversial, but he was very well regarded back in the day. He said the five great world cuisines were French. Italian, Chinese Mexican and I think Indian. The point he was making is there are only a handful of world cuisines where people from other countries go out of their way to pay money to eat those cuisines. Mexican is one of those. I personally have had at least attempts at Mexican and Tex-Mex in the UK and France. But you can go to Mexican restaurants in Japan, Australia, India, etc.
No one goes out for Canadian food. And to be honest, very few people go out for German food. So yes, I do think Mexican cuisine is one of the top five or 10 or whatever great world cuisines. And unlike the pretentious liberal snobs, who say they only like “real Mexican” Tex-Mex is also an amazing cuisine I would never go without. I like good Cal-Mex too. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:20 AM (BYMwh) 166
153 I would like to thank the friendly people at ASHQ who are pleasant to me and don't feel a need to lambast me .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:11 AM (zkj3E) It is very hard to miss out on a joo joke. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:20 AM (gbOdA) 167
It amused me that one year, some group in an area of the Denver metro actually put on a parade on Fat Tuesday. They didn't throw stuff, though, so that wasn't very authentic. But I did not miss parades and the traffic snarls that came with it. If I could have lived in the older part of Golden, with steep hilly streets and the Coors brewery, I'd have done that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 07:13 AM (omVj0) Show us your pits never really took off! Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:21 AM (gbOdA) 168
153 I would like to thank the friendly people at ASHQ who are pleasant to me and don't feel a need to lambast me .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke No problem. I usually just leave and come back later if things get a bit too sporty around here. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 07:21 AM (/Djer) 169
*Polite cough*
Posted by: Ethiopian food at September 28, 2024 07:22 AM (dg+HA) 170
158, no worries, my man actually you made a good point, Kind of the point I’ve made also up thread. There are tons of restaurants, run by El Salvadorans, but they say there are Tex-Mex or Mexican. If they offer Pupusas, that’s a giveaway that they are actually El SalvadoranS. I’m being a jerk but people here want real opinions and yes, that means the food isn’t that great.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:22 AM (BYMwh) 171
I am rather fatigued by some Republicans in my area who say lyou need to do this, you need to do that. As far as campaigning "They are nice people but we are outnumbered by Democrats by at least 3 to one and have multiple more thousands of dollars and a better organization .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:23 AM (zkj3E) 172
Hard to find video of Israeli airstrike on the most holy war room occupied by Hassan Nasrallah.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 07:23 AM (wILM4) 173
*Polite cough*
Posted by: Ethiopian food at September 28, 2024 07:22 AM (dg+HA) === Filipino food Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 07:23 AM (zG664) 174
Meant " They have more money and a better organization"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:24 AM (zkj3E) 175
I felt no nostalgia for high crime, broken and potholed streets, humid hot weather, whirling storms, or Mardi Gras. Don't forget being constantly wet. Louisiana is a sad case. No reason for it not to be industrious and prosperous like Texas. A great waterway runs through it. There's timber, fishing, oil and natural gas. Except that the inhabitants are laissez-le-bon-temps-rouler layabouts too busy cultivating the image of being lazy and ignorant to improve themselves, coupled with a political class whose corruption is as astounding as its stupidity. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 07:24 AM (BkEzK) 176
Missed out on all of the news yesterday, just too busy. RIP Maggie Smith and roast in hell nasrallah.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2024 07:25 AM (2NHgQ) 177
*Polite cough* Posted by: Ethiopian food at September 28, 2024 07:22 AM (dg+HA) Her Majesty and I stopped on a whim at a Nigerian restaurant. One time was enough, thank you. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 07:26 AM (BkEzK) 178
you could switch out Japanese for Indian or add it at least
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:26 AM (BYMwh) 179
Louisiana is a sad case. No reason for it not to be industrious and prosperous like Texas. A great waterway runs through it. There's timber, fishing, oil and natural gas. Except that the inhabitants are laissez-le-bon-temps-rouler layabouts too busy cultivating the image of being lazy and ignorant to improve themselves, coupled with a political class whose corruption is as astounding as its stupidity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 07:24 AM (BkEzK) See Haiti vs DR. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:28 AM (gbOdA) 180
Louisiana is a sad case. No reason for it not to be industrious and prosperous like Texas. A great waterway runs through it. There's timber, fishing, oil and natural gas. Except that the inhabitants are laissez-le-bon-temps-rouler layabouts too busy cultivating the image of being lazy and ignorant to improve themselves, coupled with a political class whose corruption is as astounding as its stupidity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 *** + 1000 The usual excuse the locals use for the corruption is that the culture of it descends from the French and Spanish, whose public officials demanded bribes before they would even do their jobs. They expected to be paid for showing up for work; anything beyond that required a bribe. All true. But Texas was once ruled by Mexico, and Florida was Spanish for quite a long while. How come they're doing better? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 07:28 AM (omVj0) 181
FenelonSpoke, Democrats by nature are communalists whereas Republicans are not. Democrats are much more herd animals than Republicans. Democrats will sacrifice ideals and money for the win whereas Republicans are more circumspect.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 07:28 AM (wILM4) 182
"Federal Judge Sets July 20, 2026, Trial Date in Ashli Babbitt $30 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit"
Justice delayed. I doubt we even get that. Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 07:29 AM (vFG9F) 183
All true. But Texas was once ruled by Mexico, and Florida was Spanish for quite a long while. How come they're doing better? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere Texas got the Germans and Czechs. Louisiana stuck with the French. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 07:29 AM (BkEzK) 184
And because the Mayor built a cricket court for the Indian community and the developer on the committee will have an Asian market in the community is no reason to vote for Democrats who save illegal immigration isn't a problem. Really?!!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:30 AM (zkj3E) 185
183
All true. But Texas was once ruled by Mexico, and Florida was Spanish for quite a long while. How come they're doing better? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere Texas got the Germans and Czechs. Louisiana stuck with the French. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 07:29 AM (BkEzK) Six Flag over Texas is not just an adventure park. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:31 AM (gbOdA) 186
I apologize for venting. I will never run for local office again.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:32 AM (zkj3E) 187
And the Mexicans got the French and the Germans messing around. They mostly don’t like us, but you would have to at least allow it if they were a bit pissed that foreign countries messed around there.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:32 AM (BYMwh) Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 07:32 AM (zG664) 189
184- "say" not "save".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:33 AM (zkj3E) Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:33 AM (gbOdA) 191
And because the Mayor built a cricket court for the Indian community *polite cough* Cricket pitch Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 07:33 AM (BkEzK) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:34 AM (zkj3E) 193
185, yep the French, thé confédérâtes. I know I hear it’s just six American flags because of I guess Black Lives Matter. So dumb.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:34 AM (BYMwh) 194
We have a anchor baby running for President
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 07:35 AM (fwDg9) 195
Rosanne Boyland was beaten to death and they still say it was an overdose.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:35 AM (gbOdA) 196
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 07:33 AM (BkEzK)
Thanks for the correction. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:36 AM (zkj3E) 197
One reason my typed to text sucks so bad is I have I think five different languages on my keyboard and it keep switching. Not an excuse, I’ll do better.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:36 AM (BYMwh) 198
200
Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 07:36 AM (64Zez) 199
200!
Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 07:36 AM (64Zez) 200
Did you sleep on a pea WWD?
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 07:37 AM (vFG9F) 201
Her Majesty and I stopped on a whim at a Nigerian restaurant. One time was enough, thank you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 07:26 AM (BkEzK) The monkey monkey monkey beans and monkey does not have much monkey in it. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:38 AM (gbOdA) Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 07:38 AM (64Zez) 203
Some humor.
I'm visiting the USA and these people are really nosy. I took my girlfriend to the restaurant and before anything else she went to the ladies room. I'm sitting there and this waiter comes over and says would I like to order. So I told him that my girl was in the boghouse. He asked me if I knew what she was having. So I looked at him a little taken aback but then told him she had been in the loo for over 10 minutes so she was probably having a shit. Talk about nosy. Posted by: Ciampino - culture shock at September 28, 2024 07:38 AM (qfLjt) Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 07:39 AM (64Zez) 205
I may be angry but I don't think I'm that bad) but last time I checked I wasn't a man
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:40 AM (zkj3E) Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:40 AM (gbOdA) 207
195 The morning hategasm is on at AoS!
Sneering assholes who will suddenly get religion for the prayer thread. You're lucky to have a place to get you withered rocks off. Wouldn't last long out in the real world. Angry, sick old men. Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 28, 2024 07:35 AM (zdLoL) Well then why in the sequined tap dancing fuck are you here then, shitnuts? Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 28, 2024 07:40 AM (DDGz9) 208
195: Dude. It's Saturday. Chill out.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 07:41 AM (/Djer) Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 07:41 AM (RKVpM) 210
dontquotethetrollsdontquotethetrolls
Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 07:42 AM (64Zez) 211
I could use a bit of withering. I'm fat.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 07:43 AM (/Djer) 212
Hate has a home here.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:43 AM (gbOdA) 213
212 Hate has a home here.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:43 AM (gbOdA) Hate Is Hate. Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 07:43 AM (64Zez) 214
212: LoL! Give Hate a chance!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 07:44 AM (/Djer) 215
Good Morning, Pixy and the 'Rons!
My life is full of worries, so thanks for the dailies, Fen. I will pray that your son gets the job he needs. Currently, politics is my hobby because it's strangely less chaotic than my life. There's a write-in campaign for local elections because all the primary winners were new to the area, narrowly won, and have no platform. One seems oddly supportive of planned parenthood's picks for judges. I know the judges because a "nonpartisan" PAC sent me a flyer with PP's glowing endorsements on top. The pro-life men (boo hiss) judges were at the bottom. Now I know their names. Thanks, PP!! Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 28, 2024 07:44 AM (bBcXd) 216
211 I could use a bit of withering. I'm fat.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 07:43 AM (/Djer) ahem Ain't no sunshine when she's gone Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 07:44 AM (64Zez) 217
I've never seen a shortage of good pupusas wherever I've gone.
Or maybe I'm mistranslating that. Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 28, 2024 07:44 AM (g8Ew8) 218
213 212 Hate has a home here.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:43 AM (gbOdA) Hate Is Hate. Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 07:43 AM (64Zez) 214 212: LoL! Give Hate a chance! Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 07:44 AM (/Djer) War is not the answer. What if the question is Hilter? Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:44 AM (gbOdA) 219
War is not the answer.
What if the question is Hilter? Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:44 AM (gbOdA) Time machines and infanticide. Duh. Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 28, 2024 07:45 AM (DDGz9) 220
203, ba doom ba!
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:45 AM (BYMwh) 221
Texas got the Germans and Czechs. Louisiana stuck with the French.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 *** Oh, there were plenty of German settlers. There's a town way outside the big city called Des Allemands, which literally means "the Germans." And my father's ancestors were German, and came here to be stairmakers and other skilled trades. Outside the city and toward the northern part of the state, I expect there are fewer layabouts. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 07:46 AM (omVj0) 222
Hate has an apartment in my crawl space.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 07:46 AM (vFG9F) 223
Six Flag over Texas is not just an adventure park.
Posted by: rhennigantx ------------------------------ Also a good dose of first & second generation Americans. Sam Houston fought in the war of 1812 and many others from 'back east' participated in that experiment. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 07:46 AM (wILM4) 224
Outside the city and toward the northern part of the state, I expect there are fewer layabouts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 07:46 AM (omVj0) Shreveport and Bossier are East East Texas. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:47 AM (gbOdA) 225
WordPress?
I used to do some pro bono website stuff for a friend. It was Joomla. It has it strengths. My friend had the whole thing converted to Wordpress. Eh. It has it's strengths and weaknesses. I quit when she let an intern destroy some of my work. Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 28, 2024 07:48 AM (+H2BX) 226
And I like and/or love a number of men- including ones on here, but I don't want to BE a man . . What is the musical that had a line: "I enjoy being a girl'?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:48 AM (vE10Y) 227
Off to wash and polish the Buick. Back later.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 07:48 AM (omVj0) 228
Texas had the French too. That’s one of the flags with Six Flags over Texas. The Czechs made more of an impact I mean, who doesn’t like a good kolache?
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:48 AM (BYMwh) 229
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 07:46 AM (vFG9F)
LOL. I"Hate had no home here, but irritability sometimes crashes on my couch." Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:50 AM (6hSeg) 230
Texas had the French too. That’s one of the flags with Six Flags over Texas. The Czechs made more of an impact I mean, who doesn’t like a good kolache?
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 07:48 AM (BYMwh) We have a great kolache festival every year here in OKC. Luv dem kolaches. Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 28, 2024 07:52 AM (g8Ew8) 231
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 05:00 AM (ERdWw) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 05:17 AM (CudnY) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 06:15 AM (NY56L) etc. etc. Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 07:52 AM (64Zez) 232
Epoch News article: "Forgiveness heals mental and physical health." You know what heals it faster and better? Revenge.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 28, 2024 07:53 AM (fUsWh) 233
How many times do you have to forgive someone before you beat them with a tire iron?
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 07:56 AM (vFG9F) 234
222 Hate has an apartment in my crawl space.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 07:46 AM I thought it was a squirrel, but I'll need a bigger trap to catch Hate. Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 28, 2024 07:57 AM (bBcXd) 235
Morning, all.
A number of older people in our tiny town are refugees from the huge urban areas. The good thing is we didn't bring an entitled mindset with us and don't care that you can't get good Thai food here. When we discover each other, our conversation is: How awful the cities have gotten How we dread even going back to see beloved kids and grandkids, due to traffic How much we love living here Posted by: sal at September 28, 2024 07:57 AM (f+FmA) 236
How many times do you have to forgive someone before you beat them with a tire iron?
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 07:56 AM Seven times seventy-seven. After that, it's game on! Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 28, 2024 07:58 AM (bBcXd) 237
LOL the downward spiraling BBC
Have more than 20 million illegal migrants crossed the US border? As Kamala Harris visits the border, BBC Verify assesses a Trump claim about the Biden administration's -->immigation record Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 07:58 AM (64Zez) 238
Today is NATIONAL DRINK BEER DAY!
Celebrate Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 07:58 AM (wILM4) 239
Posted by: m at September
Sorry: I don't know what that means. If my cell phone is acting up I apologize and if I'm being redundant- well I'm old. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:59 AM (xPAPn) 240
Posted by: m at September
Sorry: I don't know what that means. If my cell phone is acting up I apologize and if I'm being redundant- well I'm old. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 07:59 AM (xPAPn) 241
236 How many times do you have to forgive someone before you beat them with a tire iron?
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 07:56 AM -------------- Fool me once shame on me. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 07:59 AM (wILM4) 242
233 How many times do you have to forgive someone before you beat them with a tire iron?
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 07:56 AM (vFG9F) We supposedly had a $7 million hit job on the Marine Barracks bomber. And he live another 30 something years. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 07:59 AM (gbOdA) 243
Sorry. It is a cell Phone glitch. I apologize I'll sign off now
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2024 08:00 AM (xPAPn) Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 08:00 AM (vFG9F) 245
Italian cooking doesn't count as it is what I grew up with so I and my taste buds are biased. Of the others, Indian is #1 by far (I like really hot food), than Chinese (the meat dishes). French is in the same league as Italian so I don't rate it as foreign, specially since my Dad was from Turin, lots of French influence and different dishes to Rome. I do not eat Mexican if I have a choice. However the only Mexican restaurant food I've had has not been from the South so it may bear little relation to what some willl say is real Mexican. My biggest gripe is too much tomato and I'm a tomato lover.
Posted by: Ciampino - culture shocks at September 28, 2024 08:00 AM (qfLjt) 246
233 How many times do you have to forgive someone before you beat them with a tire iron?
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 07:56 AM (vFG9F) You can forgive someone and yet beat them with a tire iron, if justice is served. Have to meet some conditions, though. Posted by: sal at September 28, 2024 08:02 AM (f+FmA) 247
Pixy: Intel just can't stop putting quarters in the "kick me in the nuts" machine.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant --- They must be doing something right. They just got a contract with Amazon and a contract with IBM and one with the government. All in the last month. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 08:02 AM (wILM4) 248
Ugh...
I'm grading a student paper written about ovarian cancer. It was written by a young woman who insists on referring to "individuals with a uterus" instead of, ya know, WOMEN. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:02 AM (BpYfr) 249
Checked in with relatives in Naples FL area yesterday. Mainly a wind storm for them, palm fronds everywhere though. Further north in Tampa area had huge flooding. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:03 AM (RKVpM) 250
If I start drinking beer now, no yardwork will get done. I suppose I could sacrifice for NATIONAL DRINK BEER DAY though.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 08:03 AM (vFG9F) 251
244 "Today is NATIONAL DRINK BEER DAY!"
What about tonight? Posted by: fd --------------------------- You have until midnight. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 08:05 AM (wILM4) 252
248
I haven't heard them mentioning men with ovaries so you could get her on that basis. Posted by: Ciampino - tit for tat at September 28, 2024 08:06 AM (qfLjt) 253
At Drudge
Iran's Supreme Leader moved to secure location under heightened security... ha fuckin haha Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:06 AM (gbOdA) 254
The French were here for like fifteen minutes, but it's fun to have six flags.
We may be going to the Fair, and I will make my annual visit to the Hall of State to make sure no one has messed with the murals or plaques. Posted by: sal at September 28, 2024 08:06 AM (f+FmA) 255
Give her an F, Perfessor, and tell her it identifies as a A.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 08:06 AM (vFG9F) 256
You have until midnight.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 08:05 AM (wILM4) Make it michaelalode. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:07 AM (gbOdA) 257
I'm grading a student paper written about ovarian cancer. It was written by a young woman who insists on referring to "individuals with a uterus" instead of, ya know, WOMEN.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:02 Point out that not all individuals with a uterus have ovaries. In large, red architectural letters. Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 28, 2024 08:07 AM (bBcXd) 258
Is "going to polish the Buick" a euphemism?
Posted by: Wally at September 28, 2024 08:08 AM (mEVJP) 259
Odd thing noticed yesterday, gas in Pa Wawa was cheaper than Delaware Wawa by 15 cents. Usually more than that the other way around.
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 08:08 AM (fwDg9) 260
248 Ugh...
I'm grading a student paper written about ovarian cancer. It was written by a young woman who insists on referring to "individuals with a uterus" instead of, ya know, WOMEN. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:02 AM (BpYfr) I hope one day 51% of ovarian cancer research goes to men. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:08 AM (gbOdA) 261
Are the RFK Jr allegations to be believed? He couldn't be that much of an idiot, could he?
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 28, 2024 08:10 AM (WF8ae) 262
They must be doing something right. They just got a contract with Amazon and a contract with IBM and one with the government. All in the last month.
Posted by: Braenyard 10%? Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 28, 2024 08:10 AM (hOUT3) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:10 AM (BkEzK) 264
And still have yet to see a Presidential sign anywhere in Delaware. In Pa there are at least Trump signs in the highway divides, there nothing.
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 08:10 AM (fwDg9) 265
I should note that this year, so far, all my students have accepted that this new language is divided into singular/plural and masculine/feminine, so "they" is not an option for an individual.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 28, 2024 08:10 AM (bBcXd) 266
261: he's a Kennedy. Yes, he could.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 08:11 AM (/Djer) 267
255 Give her an F, Perfessor, and tell her it identifies as a A.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2024 08:06 AM (vFG9F) And this is why y'all are the best... Yard work, with a mask (the pollen is SO bad) awaits. Have a good one, all. Posted by: sal at September 28, 2024 08:11 AM (f+FmA) 268
What crawled up WWD's posterior and died? That's a little much for the morning.
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 28, 2024 08:12 AM (89Sog) 269
I recently was referring to those getting an abortion... and I couldn't use the term 'Mom' because maybe they didn't already have kids, and if they didn't have kids already, then post abortion they certainly couldn't be call Mom. So I used some gender unspecific word and got thanked by none other then 'dylan mulvaney' in the comments for my sensitivity. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:12 AM (RKVpM) 270
WHITE SOX lose 121st game this season; Most in baseball history... Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:13 AM (gbOdA) 271
245 Posted by: Ciampino - culture shocks at September 28, 2024 08:00 AM (qfLjt)
Huge fan of Thai cuisine. Here in my part of southern Wisconsin, to my great surprise and delight, we actually have an outstanding Thai restaurant. As good as any of the eateries I had access to when I lived in NYC and LA. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:13 AM (x0n13) 272
I will assume MacDill AB in Tampa is evacuated. Its at the end of a peninsula, surrounded by Tampa Bay. It's either at sea level or below it.
I was stationed there for 5 years Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2024 08:13 AM (/Djer) 273
WHITE SOX lose 121st game this season; Most in baseball history... Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:13 AM (gbOdA) The 1916 Philadelphia A's will still hold the record for the worst winning percentage in the modern era (.235). Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:14 AM (BkEzK) 274
White Sox needs some Diversity prospects, some Trannies could help them
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 08:15 AM (fwDg9) 275
248 Ugh...
I'm grading a student paper written about ovarian cancer. It was written by a young woman who insists on referring to "individuals with a uterus" instead of, ya know, WOMEN. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:02 AM (BpYfr) Can't even imagine the shit-storm you'd face if you dare point this out to the student. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:15 AM (x0n13) 276
And still have yet to see a Presidential sign anywhere in Delaware. In Pa there are at least Trump signs in the highway divides, there nothing. Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 08:10 AM On my street, there are two homes that traditionally put out signs for the (D)'s. I drove by them yesterday and one says "Not Voting" and the other ''Vote Blue". No love for Kamala. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:15 AM (RKVpM) 277
Thia Me Kangaroo would be a great name for an aussie kanga steakhouse.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:16 AM (gbOdA) 278
262 They must be doing something right. They just got a contract with Amazon and a contract with IBM and one with the government. All in the last month.
Posted by: Braenyard 10%? Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3 --------------------- Don't know. But it seems that these companies wouldn't strike billion dollar contracts if they think intel is going to fail. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 08:17 AM (wILM4) 279
Forgive me for not knowing what day it is.
I kept looking for the Morning Report. "What's wrong!?..." More coffee. I think. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 08:17 AM (TC8RU) 280
Can't even imagine the shit-storm you'd face if you dare point this out to the student.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:15 AM (x0n13) --- Which is why I'm going to let it slide... I'm just an adjunct. Even a tenured professor is at risk pushing against this nonsense... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:18 AM (BpYfr) 281
The 1916 Philadelphia A's will still hold the record for the worst winning percentage in the modern era (.235). Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:14 AM Back in those days Philadelphia had two major league teams, one in the NL, one in the AL. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:18 AM (RKVpM) 282
Can't even imagine the shit-storm you'd face if you dare point this out to the student.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:15 AM (x0n13) My Baylor Healthcare site wants me to select my sex assigned at birth. Guess Baylor does not have 9th grade biology. Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:18 AM (gbOdA) 283
279 Forgive me for not knowing what day it is.
I kept looking for the Morning Report. "What's wrong!?..." More coffee. I think. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 08:17 AM (TC8RU) I feel your pain. Yesterday afternoon I actually started gathering links until I realized what day it was. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:19 AM (x0n13) 284
Can't even imagine the shit-storm you'd face if you dare point this out to the student.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton ------------------------------ Deduct points for poor/awkward/wordy form. Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 08:19 AM (wILM4) 285
>What crawled up WWD's posterior and died? That's a little much for the morning.
--- I wanted to read the offending post, but it looks like it was removed Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:20 AM (/7KEl) 286
>>Huge fan of Thai cuisine.
Satay with peanut sauce is as good as it gets for an appetizer, followed by Panang chicken coconut curry at 4-stars on the hot-o-meter. Heaven... Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2024 08:20 AM (Y1sOo) 287
something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it
Noun borrowed from Latin adjunctum "concomitant factor," from neuter of adjunctus adjunct Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:21 AM (gbOdA) 288
I well recall all the gnomes in Academe waxing enthusiastic about Tenure. "Controversial opinions must not be silenced! Sunlight is the best disinfectant, we need to explore the guts of an idea in order to blah blah blah!!". They really thought they were all that, and a bag of chips.
All those university cockbites rolled over without a shot, with very very few exceptions. It is unbelievable. Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 08:21 AM (TC8RU) 289
Israel did not just get Nasrallah, I think between the exploding pagers, and walkies, and goats, and who knows what else, they decapitated the entire organization. The head of the snake is islamic republic of iran, of course. I hope that poisonous boil will be taken care of as well.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:21 AM (V13WU) 290
Today is the best day of the week because 🏈
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:21 AM (/7KEl) Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 08:22 AM (O7YUW) 292
Israel did not just get Nasrallah, I think between the exploding pagers, and walkies, and goats, and who knows what else, they decapitated the entire organization. The head of the snake is islamic republic of iran, of course. I hope that poisonous boil will be taken care of as well.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:21 AM (V13WU) --- Well, the leaders in Iran did announce an emergency meeting.... Target of opportunity? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:22 AM (BpYfr) Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:22 AM (gbOdA) 294
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:18 AM (RKVpM)
Wasn't Connie Mack the manager for one of them? Posted by: dantesed at September 28, 2024 08:23 AM (Oy/m2) 295
I wanted to read the offending post, but it looks like it was removed Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:20 AM Someone cut and pasted it into comment #207. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:23 AM (RKVpM) 296
Ugh...
I'm grading a student paper written about ovarian cancer. It was written by a young woman who insists on referring to "individuals with a uterus" instead of, ya know, WOMEN. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:02 AM (BpYfr) Give her a "C", or and "F." If she asks, tell her she lacks originality in the overall theme and structure, logical coherence and that her paper is void of facts and citations. Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (V13WU) 297
*an F
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (V13WU) 298
wow that was f***ed up
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:26 AM (/7KEl) 299
296 Ugh...
I'm grading a student paper written about ovarian cancer. It was written by a young woman who insists on referring to "individuals with a uterus" instead of, ya know, WOMEN. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:02 AM (BpYfr) Give her a "C", or and "F." If she asks, tell her she lacks originality in the overall theme and structure, logical coherence and that her paper is void of facts and citations. Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (V13WU) ... and points off for jargon. Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (64Zez) 300
Wasn't Connie Mack the manager for one of them? Posted by: dantesed at September 28, 2024 08:23 AM Mack managed the Philadelphia Athletics for the club's first 50 seasons of play, starting in 1901, before retiring at age 87 following the 1950 season, and was at least part-owner from 1901 to 1954. Yup, eventually a stadium was built with his name, now sadly gone. To see a baseball hit over the top of the right field wall was amazing. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (RKVpM) 301
300
Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (64Zez) 302
... or not.
Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (64Zez) 303
291 .
NOOD Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival thread is up NOOD Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 08:22 AM (O7YUW) Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (64Zez) 304
On most recent weekends Encore Westerns has taken to broadcasting the “Lone Star” production company’s John Wayne westerns. I assume because A) they’re either very cheap to license or free in the public domain and B) everybody loves a young John Wayne.
And man is he young and skinny as a rail. It’s a big contrast compared to watching him in say, El Dorado, where the little horse he rode in that was almost as big as Wayne. The plots are barebones and the acting stiff, but still entertaining in a quaint way. “Randy Rides Alone” on now, with “The Trail Beyond”, where Wayne goes to Canada to fight off French-Canadian outlaw kidnappers, up next at 9 a.m. EDT. Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (6ydKt) 305
It’s actually pretty funny to watch someone launch into a rant for no reason, except that the voices in their head told them to do it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:29 AM (S6gqv) 306
who insists on referring to "individuals with a uterus" instead of, ya know, WOMEN.
She's not a biologist but she can identify a uterus?! Posted by: t-bird at September 28, 2024 08:29 AM (KBusA) 307
No one NOODed
Posted by: Ciampino - tit for tat for tot at September 28, 2024 08:29 AM (qfLjt) 308
307 No one NOODed
Posted by: Ciampino - tit for tat for tot at September 28, 2024 08:29 AM (qfLjt) See comments 291 and 303: NOOD Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival thread is up NOOD Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 08:22 AM (O7YUW) Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:33 AM (64Zez) 309
@247/Braenyard on Intel: "They must be doing something right. They just got a contract with Amazon and a contract with IBM and one with the government. All in the last month.
That's a matter of scale. Large customers require large volume and there are very few chip producing companies that can produce to meet that level of demand. Intel's one of them. Intel's main problem seems to be flaws in the design process which leads to quality problems in the final products. When these problems result in hardware and software instability and inaccurate results, the customers expect Intel to address and fix these issues, and we've seen a repeated cycle of this lately. They can overcome this, maybe. Oh, and the United States Government is still buying from Boeing. Again, scale sometimes trumps a certain amount of quality issues because you've got no other good option for what you need. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 08:34 AM (O7YUW) 310
Virginia is inexorably becoming New Jersey.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 06:05 AM (dg+HA) So, an improvement. And actual pizza. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 28, 2024 09:09 AM (iODuv) 311
"Rubble Don't Cause Trouble" - new IDF motto
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 28, 2024 09:53 AM (gfztU) 312
Every organization that is not explicitly committed to being right-wing eventually ends up far left. It’s true.
Posted by: Advo at September 28, 2024 06:37 PM (jO4mz) If I Had An ONT Of My Own, Everything Would Be NonsenseWelcome to the Friday meme ONT. Those Morons in the path of the hurricane, please sound off in the comments and let us know you're safe. We've been praying for you. So, what are your plans for the weekend? — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 27, 2024 Fido Friday: Good boy Storytime This is amazing — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 27, 2024 Today we can't even count ballots in one night Civics Lesson Kamala goes to the border — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 27, 2024 Personally, I loved dodgeball Accurate It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 27, 2024 New from J&J Chesterton's meme Just deserts — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 27, 2024 Protip Headline news We used to be a proper country — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 27, 2024 This is apparently a Japanese show with over 1000 episodes Looking for attention Impressive — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 27, 2024 When I first saw those decals, I thought they said “Slut Life” Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by chaos engineering — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 27, 2024 Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Yay, German Butterbrot Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 27, 2024 10:02 PM (lUFok) 2
Meep meeep!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 10:02 PM (m3rAb) 3
ONT and the Tigers made the post season! Great start to the weekend!
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at September 27, 2024 10:03 PM (J8OCH) 4
Thank you WeirdDave!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 10:03 PM (O7YUW) Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 27, 2024 10:04 PM (uxCna) 6
Good evening good people.
In an great show of irony, Dollywood is pretty much underwater from the storm. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:04 PM (WXNFJ) 7
Friday! Thanks WD!
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 27, 2024 10:04 PM (rbKZ6) 8
Top 10?
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 10:04 PM (elaR+) Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 27, 2024 10:05 PM (uxCna) Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 10:07 PM (V13WU) 11
Good evening horde. Thanks WD.
Posted by: TRex at September 27, 2024 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq) 12
Somehow I knew the baby oil meme would show up.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 10:08 PM (IG4Id) 13
That sure was dumb engineering.
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 10:08 PM (gKDq2) 14
Somehow I knew the baby oil meme would show up.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 10:08 PM (IG4Id) How could it not? Dude bought out Costco. Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 10:09 PM (gKDq2) 15
How to Speak MD was cracking me up. Ya All left out "zinc" for sink (that was prevalent in S. Balto.)
Posted by: The Walking Dude at September 27, 2024 10:11 PM (HCPyl) 16
Hey, what are these 72 goats doing here?
https://tinyurl.com/fne5md8p Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! You sure it wasn't a 72 year old Triggypuff? Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 27, 2024 10:12 PM (VNX3d) 17
Give that bulldog the "Dog of the Year" award (assuming there is one).
Posted by: Dr. T at September 27, 2024 10:12 PM (lHPJf) 18
Thank you WD and I have laid in RUM provisions for tonight so be forewarned.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 10:13 PM (TDvv2) 19
A two-minute gap in posting this early on a Friday Night ONT? I don't know about yuse 29-year-olds.
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 10:13 PM (gKDq2) 20
Anyone else ever rationalize playing craps and blackjack is a great practical application of statistics?
Posted by: Pete Bog on his way to Vegas at September 27, 2024 10:13 PM (XmiHQ) 21
Wow, Helene was a big 'un
Posted by: Zeera , becoming ungovernable by choice at September 27, 2024 10:13 PM (PE9AN) 22
I'm gonna write you a letter
On a dusty boxcar wall Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2024 10:13 PM (JkO4W) 23
20 Anyone else ever rationalize playing craps and blackjack is a great practical application of statistics?
Posted by: Pete Bog on his way to Vegas at September 27, 2024 10:13 PM (XmiHQ) Yeah, knowing some math... I rationalize NOT to play... Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 10:14 PM (QAkQ3) 24
Me and the cat just watched a great John Wayne movie, "The Shootist". Funny and poignant.
"The day they lay you away, what I'll do on your grave won't pass for flowers." Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 27, 2024 10:14 PM (kpS4V) Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2024 10:15 PM (Aqu9a) 26
I am so stupid--read and watched everything, then on to read the comments.
...? Where are the comments? D'OH! Posted by: barbarausa at September 27, 2024 10:15 PM (enw9G) 27
Fine where we are now, but things have been INTERESTING down near the tri-cities where we used to live.
Tho someone stole our car this week, that sucked. RF-Cloned the keyfob right after I parked it, the bastards. Got two more from the same lot. Let's hope W. NC comes through ok. Posted by: Piercello at September 27, 2024 10:15 PM (qLcmG) 28
Mmmm. Steerburger.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2024 10:15 PM (JkO4W) 29
Evenin'
Got to see my aunt tonight. She's lives out in Nevada. Hadn't seen her since the last time I was in Nevada (1995). It was good to see her. Rheumatoid arthritis has really messed her up, but she gets around ok. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (/Djer) 30
24 Me and the cat just watched a great John Wayne movie, "The Shootist". Funny and poignant.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 27, 2024 10:14 PM (kpS4V) “I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (QAkQ3) Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (kpS4V) 32
Yeah, knowing some math... I rationalize NOT to play...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 10:14 PM (QAkQ3) How else are you going to get the $25 free beer? Posted by: Pete Bog with his tongue in his cheek at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (XmiHQ) Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (TDvv2) 34
White boyz be crazy.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (i514R) 35
25 Outstanding ONT!
A+++! Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2024 10:15 PM (Aqu9a) ---------- Yes, yessss! Posted by: Ralphie at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (JkO4W) 36
I actually had to educate a guy on Facebook earlier this week about the Electoral College and why it was important.
I think he really thought the electors could decide who was President all on their own. Posted by: Dr. T at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (lHPJf) 37
Almost forgot, internet service restored today. Turns out the whole neighborhood was down, I was just the only one to complain.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (lUFok) 38
Dad's a good shot.
Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2024 10:17 PM (aBgBM) 39
I40 was washed out in the easternmost portion of Tennessee and is currently closed to all traffic.
It's a real cluster. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:17 PM (WXNFJ) 40
Yeah, knowing some math... I rationalize NOT to play...
Posted by: Romeo13 I'm sure there's math in this statement: The house always wins. Posted by: Some Rat at September 27, 2024 10:17 PM (vJiyU) 41
Sorry I'm late... Tried to watch all the videos.
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at September 27, 2024 10:17 PM (gWAUD) 42
32 Yeah, knowing some math... I rationalize NOT to play...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 10:14 PM (QAkQ3) How else are you going to get the $25 free beer? Posted by: Pete Bog with his tongue in his cheek at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (XmiHQ) I only gamble with my life, not my money... Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 10:18 PM (QAkQ3) 43
“I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (QAkQ3) ---- It's a good code to live by still. Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 27, 2024 10:18 PM (kpS4V) 44
41 Sorry I'm late... Tried to watch all the videos.
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at September 27, 2024 10:17 PM (gWAUD) --------- It's not mandatory, you know. This isn't MCLE. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2024 10:18 PM (JkO4W) 45
Diddy had the baby oil dosed with THC and the drug ecstasy.
Transdermal dosing. It would cause them to pass out and not remember what happened to them. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 10:18 PM (elaR+) 46
Me and the cat just watched a great John Wayne movie, "The Shootist". Funny and poignant.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 27, 2024 10:14 PM (kpS4V) His last movie. Humphrey Bogart's last movie was also very good. The Harder They Fall Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 10:18 PM (i514R) 47
>>> 36 I actually had to educate a guy on Facebook earlier this week about the Electoral College and why it was important.
I think he really thought the electors could decide who was President all on their own. Posted by: Dr. T at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (lHPJf) Well duh, of course they can, unless it's picking OrangeManBad the Election Denier and Insurrectionist. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 10:18 PM (FnneF) 48
In an great show of irony, Dollywood is pretty much underwater from the storm.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:04 PM (WXNFJ) She's wearing her water wings on the front. She will be OK. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 10:18 PM (pJe2/) 49
3 days of rain from a stationary front, and THEN Helene. Asheville got almost 2 feet of rain.
Rivalling the Great Flood of 1916, if not worse. https://www.ourstate.com/flood-of-1916 Posted by: Piercello at September 27, 2024 10:18 PM (qLcmG) 50
Evening Rick...may the bowl glasses of rum connect.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (TDvv2) I have no idea what that means. No offense. Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 10:19 PM (gKDq2) 51
36 I actually had to educate a guy on Facebook earlier this week about the Electoral College and why it was important.
I think he really thought the electors could decide who was President all on their own. Posted by: Dr. T at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (lHPJf) IMO the bestest thing we could do, would be to make each Congressional District its own little Electoral College Election... and then whoever wins the State gets the two Senatorial Electoral Votes. Makes it a truly National Election... and would be closer to what the Founders intended. Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 10:20 PM (QAkQ3) 52
14 Somehow I knew the baby oil meme would show up.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 10:08 PM (IG4Id) How could it not? Dude bought out Costco. Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 10:09 PM (gKDq2) ------------- Costco has 12 year-old hookers now? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2024 10:20 PM (JkO4W) 53
I-26 is cut at Unicoi, all four lanes. Nolichucky River went wild.
Posted by: Piercello at September 27, 2024 10:20 PM (qLcmG) 54
31 "tars" yep. That made me laugh.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at September 27, 2024 10:20 PM (lvHv8) 55
What!
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 27, 2024 10:20 PM (QSrLX) 56
I only gamble with my life, not my money...
Posted by: Romeo13 I diagnosed PMS out loud, close one. Posted by: Some Rat at September 27, 2024 10:21 PM (vJiyU) 57
45 Diddy had the baby oil dosed with THC and the drug ecstasy.
Transdermal dosing. It would cause them to pass out and not remember what happened to them. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale Love is Love, Yo! Posted by: Diddy, I did not kill myself at September 27, 2024 10:21 PM (/Djer) 58
I just read an i teresting article that Kammie doesn't really need to do any interviews. We can get everything we need to know about her from her pick of Waltz as VP. He's as leftist as they come and she loves him, so he will champion any of the radical leftist proposals she (or her masters) decide to vomit out. He has so many ideas to totally transform America and she loves them all.
Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2024 10:21 PM (VihIQ) Posted by: EFG at September 27, 2024 10:22 PM (0fs9V) 60
48
Dolly don't need "waterwings" she has all that natural bouncy up front...hell she on her own could pull a sunkin car outa the river. Yes... Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 10:22 PM (TDvv2) 61
Ive lost my love for my Huskies becuase of UWs insanity, but it still hurts to see them reduced to flying across country to play New Jersey... and losing
Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2024 10:22 PM (SDHg4) 62
That's quite a couch if it can support an 800-lb grizzly and a fat guy at the same time.
What can the ottoman do? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2024 10:23 PM (JkO4W) 63
Diddy had the baby oil dosed with THC and the drug ecstasy.
Transdermal dosing. It would cause them to pass out and not remember what happened to them. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 10:18 PM (elaR+) That I did not know. Sheesh. No wonder there's no bail. But I do think there's another Epstein in our future. And no one will ever know what really happened. In the 21st Surveillance Century. Amazing. Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 10:23 PM (gKDq2) 64
45 Diddy had the baby oil dosed with THC and the drug ecstasy.
Transdermal dosing. It would cause them to pass out and not remember what happened to them. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 10:18 PM I still feel like I’m missing something in this story. If Diddy brought in women to do these raves with male prost*tutes, where do the celebrities fit in? Watchers? Posted by: Moonbeam at September 27, 2024 10:23 PM (rbKZ6) 65
>>> 31 My fave Murrylanderisms are:
Snay tars Downy ocean Ambuhlance Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (kpS4V) Bawlimoar (Colts or Ravens) Woarshington (Redskins) Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 10:23 PM (FnneF) 66
Well done WD!
Thanks Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at September 27, 2024 10:23 PM (hOUT3) 67
Good luck weather impacted horde. More reports piling up that this hurricane was a beast.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 27, 2024 10:24 PM (XmiHQ) 68
36 I actually had to educate a guy on Facebook earlier this week about the Electoral College and why it was important.
I think he really thought the electors could decide who was President all on their own. Posted by: Dr. T at September 27, 2024 10:16 PM (lHPJf) I believe many, maybe most, can vote for whoever they wish. Which is why D and R state party committees select very reliably partisan persons to be Electors. Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2024 10:24 PM (aBgBM) 69
IMO the bestest thing we could do, would be to make each Congressional District its own little Electoral College Election... and then whoever wins the State gets the two Senatorial Electoral Votes.
Makes it a truly National Election... and would be closer to what the Founders intended. Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 10:20 PM (QAkQ3) I don't know. I'm sure the Uniparty would find a way to tamper with that system too. Posted by: Dr. T at September 27, 2024 10:24 PM (lHPJf) 70
still feel like I’m missing something in this story. If Diddy brought in women to do these raves with male prost*tutes, where do the celebrities fit in? Watchers?
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 27, 2024 10:23 PM (rbKZ6) A lot of the women were some of his music development projects. Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 10:24 PM (i514R) 71
Ive lost my love for my Huskies becuase of UWs insanity, but it still hurts to see them reduced to flying across country to play New Jersey... and losing
Posted by: LASue I think they heard you. Posted by: Some Rat at September 27, 2024 10:25 PM (vJiyU) 72
That I did not know. Sheesh. No wonder there's no bail.
But I do think there's another Epstein in our future. And no one will ever know what really happened. In the 21st Surveillance Century. Amazing. Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 10:23 PM (gKDq2) You can tell who is worried by who Nukes their X accounts... going back years. LOTS of Celebs doing that this last week... What a Co Ink E Dink!!!! Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 10:25 PM (QAkQ3) 73
On that top picture, I thought it was Ellie May Clampett at first!
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 27, 2024 10:25 PM (rbKZ6) 74
That I did not know. Sheesh. No wonder there's no bail.
But I do think there's another Epstein in our future. And no one will ever know what really happened. In the 21st Surveillance Century. Amazing. Posted by: RickZ Diddy did not beat himself unconscious then hang himself. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 10:25 PM (elaR+) 75
When I first saw those decals, I thought they said “Slut Life”
------- So you saw them at your mom's house?* *Sorry I couldn't help it. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 10:25 PM (awTae) 76
An oldie...
What does an Florida hurricane and Florida divorce have in common? Either way you lose the trailer. Too soon for this? I will be outside in the trailer park self-denouncing if needed. Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at September 27, 2024 10:26 PM (LrWnf) 77
A lot of the women were some of his music development projects.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 10:24 PM (i514R) Maybe the celebs were there for sloppy seconds? From either the wimmenz or the male pros? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 10:26 PM (pJe2/) Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:26 PM (WXNFJ) 79
73 On that top picture, I thought it was Ellie May Clampett at first!
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 27, 2024 10:25 PM (rbKZ6) ---------- That's just mah dumb old cousin. Posted by: J. Bodine, Double-Aught Spy at September 27, 2024 10:26 PM (JkO4W) 80
I40 was washed out in the easternmost portion of Tennessee and is currently closed to all traffic.
It's a real cluster. Posted by: Tonypete Spent the day with a chainsaw.. Greenville, Spartanburg, most of upstate SC is trashed. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 27, 2024 10:27 PM (4oXVn) 81
Me and the cat just watched a great John Wayne movie, "The Shootist". Funny and poignant.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 27, 2024 10:14 PM (kpS4V) ------ His last movie. Humphrey Bogart's last movie was also very good. The Harder They Fall Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 10:18 PM (i514R) Robert Preston's ('The Music Man') last film was 'The Last Starfighter', a pretty interesting movie for a last hurrah. Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 10:27 PM (gKDq2) 82
So, I am soon going to let my cat, "Duke", trap me in my wife's favorite chair, as I wait for coverage from dawn in Beirut. Then I will fall asleep (the chair is ridiculously comfy) in that chair and drag myself to bed around 2 AM. Yup, I'm living the dream...
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 10:27 PM (2cS/G) 83
"Salt Life"? Is that about homeless folks camped at Bonneville?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 10:27 PM (pJe2/) 84
Ive lost my love for my Huskies becuase of UWs insanity, but it still hurts to see them reduced to flying across country to play New Jersey... and losing
Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2024 10:22 PM (SDHg4) My very delayed flight precluded a sentimental bet on the Dawgs plus the points but I hope there is a circle in hell for those who destroyed college football. Posted by: Pete Bog at September 27, 2024 10:27 PM (XmiHQ) 85
Holy cow Fido!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 27, 2024 10:28 PM (6cGZq) 86
78 Costco has 12 year-old hookers now?
Posted by: Cicero Yes - they are sold in Tu-Pacs though. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:26 PM (WXNFJ) ---- *laffs* *pneumatic tube delivers me straight to Hades* Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 27, 2024 10:28 PM (kpS4V) Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 10:28 PM (mH6SG) 88
Diddy had one big annual party that the celebrities attended. The White Party and then he had the secret Freak ladies. I'm sure there was some overlap of the attendees of each.
The celebrities are deleting their White Party posts. Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 10:28 PM (i514R) 89
"It was created by slave owners who died when they were forty!"
Ben Mankiewicz on the Electoral College Nov 8, 2016 Posted by: sal at September 27, 2024 10:29 PM (f+FmA) 90
70- A lot of the women were some of his music development projects.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 10:24 PM I get that but I don’t see the connection that’s going to take down Hollywood, Capitol Hill and media biggies as some accounts have suggested that his hidden videos will do. I haven’t read the full indictment so maybe there are multiple angles to the story. Posted by: Moonbeam at September 27, 2024 10:29 PM (rbKZ6) 91
I believe many, maybe most, can vote for whoever they wish. Which is why D and R state party committees select very reliably partisan persons to be Electors.
Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2024 10:24 PM (aBgBM) According to Wikipedia, 33 states require the electors to vote in accordance with the election results in those states. SCOTUS upheld those laws in 2020, after the "faithless electors" brouhaha when Trump first got elected. Posted by: Dr. T at September 27, 2024 10:30 PM (lHPJf) 92
I have heard that drinks were drugged as well.
Diddy's people got clean drinks while the "guests" got the drugged ones. Don't be surprised if some of the guests were stars. Also, I have heard stars were invited to watch or even help record the "activities". Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 10:30 PM (elaR+) 93
>>> 39 I40 was washed out in the easternmost portion of Tennessee and is currently closed to all traffic.
It's a real cluster. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:17 PM (WXNFJ) That's a lot of rain so far inland. Last time I can think of an interstate being fcked up was when we had the 100-year flooding in CO (2013?) and the Little Thompson was flowing 6 feet or so above I25 near Loveland. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 10:30 PM (FnneF) 94
My very delayed flight precluded a sentimental bet on the Dawgs plus the points but I hope there is a circle in hell for those who destroyed college football.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 27, 2024 10:27 PM (XmiHQ) Agreed This cannot stand Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2024 10:30 PM (SDHg4) 95
Ladies = parties
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 10:30 PM (i514R) 96
Be back in a bit.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 10:30 PM (TDvv2) 97
Isn't the White Party kind of racist?
Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2024 10:31 PM (VihIQ) 98
82 So, I am soon going to let my cat, "Duke", trap me in my wife's favorite chair, as I wait for coverage from dawn in Beirut. Then I will fall asleep (the chair is ridiculously comfy) in that chair and drag myself to bed around 2 AM. Yup, I'm living the dream...
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 10:27 PM (2cS/G) MadisonTheCat does not like videos. She wants the lights out and noise stopped. Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 10:31 PM (LHPAg) 99
Nice doggeh!
Used to walk a pair of Akitas. If another dog attacked, the male went for the throat, the female would bite the nuts. Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 27, 2024 10:31 PM (s/jXJ) 100
@tonypete, I hadn't heard that until you posted it. I just said to my wife," did you hear..." and she finished my sentence with "I-40 is washed out"?! I hope it's a relatively quick fix.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 10:33 PM (2cS/G) Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 10:33 PM (TDvv2) 102
*BING!*
Posted by: Ned Ryerson at September 27, 2024 10:33 PM (JkO4W) 103
I've seen Salt Life all over the west, AZ, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah. Not just for the coast.
Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2024 10:33 PM (VihIQ) Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:33 PM (WXNFJ) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 27, 2024 10:34 PM (s/jXJ) 106
Having grown up in MD those are too true.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2024 10:34 PM (Q4IgG) 107
BIG MIKE is left to pack up the house stateside...
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 10:34 PM (TDvv2) 108
That's a lot of rain so far inland. Last time I can think of an interstate being fcked up was when we had the 100-year flooding in CO (2013?) and the Little Thompson was flowing 6 feet or so above I25 near Loveland.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 10:30 PM (FnneF) I had to walk through the Bear Creek flooding in Evergreen. I got on my bus, and went to work. Didn't realize til I had to hike home from the ruined road that Evergreen Dam had overflowed literally behind my feet as I was walking toward town at dawn, just that the creek was very, very high and cresting the bank off to my right... Floods are weird. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 10:35 PM (awTae) 109
The lowest pressure part of Helene ran right over the Knoxville area. Barometric pressure got down to 28.98" this morning.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 27, 2024 10:35 PM (/HDaX) 110
Its not like state election 🙄 laws won't be strictly adhered to in the 2024 presidential election.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 10:36 PM (nv4jJ) 111
Nothing says Salt Life like East Liverpool, O
H or Lusk, WY. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 27, 2024 10:36 PM (4oXVn) 112
FUN FACT: Agamemnon was a Hellene.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2024 10:36 PM (JkO4W) 113
It will stand. Within 10 yrs. a 14 team super conference with 4 playoff weekends (allowing two at large teams) and championship game.
Too much money. Posted by: Some Rat at September 27, 2024 10:37 PM (vJiyU) 114
@tonypete, I hadn't heard that until you posted it. I just said to my wife," did you hear..." and she finished my sentence with "I-40 is washed out"?! I hope it's a relatively quick fix.
Posted by: Lincolntf With I40 and I26 fubared, mid-south transport will be a logistical nightmare for a time. The roads used to bypass those closings are two-lane state/US routes and run through every little town in the sticks. Most of them run along creeks and rivers also. Drivers may divert hundreds of miles around the area just to keep moving. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:37 PM (WXNFJ) 115
89 "It was created by slave owners who died when they were forty!"
Ben Mankiewicz on the Electoral College Nov 8, 2016 Posted by: sal And blacklists of actors and directors who were commies. Ben always mentions that. Putz. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 27, 2024 10:39 PM (/Djer) 116
Drivers may divert hundreds of miles around the area just to keep moving.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:37 PM (WXNFJ) From what I can see, everyone is skirting closures in Western NC by going through Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. I'm sure the traffic is nightmarish. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 10:39 PM (awTae) 117
Wait! There's an ONT tonight?
I wish somebody had tol' me! 😒 Was busy watching café videos. Fortunately, a bunch were Instagrams, which I could skip. Then there's all those links Morons provided. Time-suckers. Belated howdy, y'all. Posted by: mindful webworker - you didn't try to call me at September 27, 2024 10:40 PM (wPLcW) 118
That Diddy Oil bottle isn't nearly big enough, by accounts. It needs to be Costco-sized.
Posted by: GWB at September 27, 2024 10:41 PM (DDSgs) 119
From what I can see, everyone is skirting closures in Western NC by going through Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. I'm sure the traffic is nightmarish.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice Would a port strike help or hinder? Posted by: Some Rat at September 27, 2024 10:41 PM (vJiyU) Posted by: Weirddave at September 27, 2024 10:41 PM (lXRbX) 121
In an great show of irony, Dollywood is pretty much underwater from the storm.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:04 PM (WXNFJ) Good thing the Jolly crew visited before it. Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2024 10:42 PM (0eaVi) 122
That Diddy Oil bottle isn't nearly big enough, by accounts. It needs to be Costco-sized.
Posted by: GWB Tanker truck? (just spitballing here) Posted by: Some Rat at September 27, 2024 10:42 PM (vJiyU) 123
We had almost 7 inches of rain here (an hour west of Knoxville) but we are up high so no real problem with flooding. Spotty power outages but our linemen kept up with it pretty well.
I did discover that every second pickup in the area totes a chainsaw as standard equipment. The locals didn't wait for the road crews or line trucks to show up before they got started clearing the roads. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:42 PM (WXNFJ) 124
All ways said traditions are solutions to forgotten problems.
Posted by: javems at September 27, 2024 10:42 PM (8I4hW) 125
113 It will stand. Within 10 yrs. a 14 team super conference with 4 playoff weekends (allowing two at large teams) and championship game.
Too much money. Posted by: Some Rat at September 27, 2024 10:37 PM (vJiyU) probably etch in 10 permanent teams minimum Posted by: a dude in MI at September 27, 2024 10:43 PM (+I6Y/) 126
@tonypete. I just checked, if I-40 is still out in a few weeks, when we are headed to Western NC (Lake James), it only adds a half-hour to the trip. I'm just hoping the property is still intact when we get there. (We don't own it, but it's a nice spot, hate to see it flood ravaged).
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 10:44 PM (2cS/G) 127
What the hell is Salt Life?
Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 27, 2024 10:44 PM (Ad8y9) 128
Strange times we are living in. A major storm does massive destruction to a number of states and the president is nowhere to be found. On the same day ICE releases a report that claims over 400,000 convicted criminals including over 13,000 murderers have been released in the country by the sitting VP who is running for the presidency and it barely causes a ripple.
The left has shifted the Overton window so far it's on a whole different building. Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 10:44 PM (LkLld) Posted by: GWB at September 27, 2024 10:45 PM (DDSgs) 130
About Salt Life | Designed to Withstand | Livin Salty
Salt Life is a brand that represents a passion for the ocean, the salt air, and a way of life. It offers apparel, gear, accessories, and events for fishing, diving, surfing, and beach fun. -:^v^v^v^v^v^:- Salt Life closing retail stores: full list of locations, map, states ... 1 day agoDelta Apparel Inc., parent company of the Salt Life activewear brand, was sold in a bankruptcy auction for $38.74 million on September 16 to brand management firm Iconix International and business ... Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 10:45 PM (gdH0L) 131
Anyone send that video of the dad taking out the trash to Inman?
And all of youse Southerners/people affected by Helene: stay safe! Posted by: SimoHayha at September 27, 2024 10:46 PM (KfVMM) 132
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 10:42 PM (WXNFJ)
I think I'm not so far from you. West side of town here, a little debris, some high winds, and those spotty outages. East side? Nothing. Just a typical fall rain storm. East of here by an hour or two? Wreckage. Mother nature is a chaotic, fickle bitch. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 10:46 PM (awTae) 133
This vid from UK's Telegraph says one reason Netanyahu travelled to NY was to make Nasrallah think he'd be safe.
Very clever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu_uCKXsd-U Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at September 27, 2024 10:48 PM (paSBy) 134
What can the ottoman do?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2024 10:23 PM (JkO4W) Attack Vienna? Posted by: GWB at September 27, 2024 10:49 PM (DDSgs) 135
OBAMA may have already skipped to other places...seems logical for him.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 10:33 PM (TDvv2) If true, good. He needs to be run out if not. He doesn't belong here. Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2024 10:50 PM (0eaVi) 136
108
Boyohboy...that climate change stuff, huh??? No doubt it's Trump's fault!! Because humans can so totally control the whole universe.... Sorry... Just being feisty tonight.... Hi Horde 😂 Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 27, 2024 10:50 PM (6cGZq) 137
Prayers for our FL morons.
Hopefully they made it thru unscathed. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 10:51 PM (elaR+) 138
This vid from UK's Telegraph says one reason Netanyahu travelled to NY was to make Nasrallah think he'd be safe.
------ Oh, c'mon. Why would he think that? I get that he's an Arab, so he's borderline retarded from birth. But he couldn't possibly think that Netanyahu had to be physically present in Israel to kill him. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 10:51 PM (awTae) 139
>>>Very clever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu_uCKXsd-U Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, --------------------- Good clip. Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 10:52 PM (gdH0L) 140
Lincolntf no need to wait til dawn in Beirut, IAF has been administering explosive therapy all night. Apparently in Dahiya, where HQ strike was.
Of course there are a dozen other unrelated possible explanations, but wondering if the IAF targeting naval missile stocks/sites today, I think their first strikes following the HQ festivities, implies a possible Israeli naval component in the days/weeks ahead? Coastal southern Beirut would be a logical location to put surface craft coming from the south at risk. Significant out-migration apparently happening in Dahiya, after the Israeli warnings to scoot! from that area were given some force by ..... exploding buildings. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 10:52 PM (GcNJ2) Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 10:52 PM (mH6SG) 142
Boyohboy...that climate change stuff, huh??? No doubt it's Trump's fault!!
Because humans can so totally control the whole universe.... Sorry... Just being feisty tonight.... Hi Horde 😂 Posted by: COMountainMarie Heh! You just sit right here. Sorry, the table wobbles a little. Posted by: Some Rat at September 27, 2024 10:52 PM (vJiyU) 143
Best close to a career was Edward G. Robinson in “Soylent Green”. His heart rending death scene in that movie is all the more poignant because he died from cancer just 2 weeks after that scene was filmed, and most everyone on the set knew it. Charlton Heston’s tears were real.
On that topic, Maggie Smith passed away today, and her death scene at the end of Downton Abbey was very well done as well. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 10:52 PM (S6gqv) 144
If two vegan cyclists get in an altercation, is it still called a beef?
Posted by: 26X1 3/8 at September 27, 2024 10:52 PM (CV8a5) 145
> From what I can see, everyone is skirting closures in Western NC by going through Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. I'm sure the traffic is nightmarish.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice ---------- I honestly don't remember a time driving through either of those tourist traps and traffic NOT being fucked. Even during covid. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2024 10:52 PM (Q4IgG) 146
Well, I've spent the last 20 minutes trying to game out Romeo13's idea of one electoral vote per Congressional district, plus two electoral votes per state.
Based on the 2016 results (it's surprisingly hard to find out how many districts each candidate won), Trump won 230 districts and 30 states, so 290 EVs, as compared to the 306 he actually won. Of course, that's just one election. Can't really make an accurate estimate for 2020, for obvious reasons. Posted by: Dr. T at September 27, 2024 10:52 PM (lHPJf) 147
7.7" here. Barometer was 29.34" or so when power went out. Damned bitch jogged 30 miles east of forecast track. When I saw that, I said oh shit.
Power soon went out. Tree took out power line at my mother's but power was off before. 7-9 am was major pucker factor. TS winds here, horizont rain sheets. Cleared out by noon. This was a 100yr rain/wind/flood event for the upstate. NC even worse. Cell data is spotty. Hope this posts. Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at September 27, 2024 10:53 PM (1PtzY) 148
The video labeled impressive was, indeed, impressive. No lies detected.
Posted by: 496 at September 27, 2024 10:53 PM (+hZv5) 149
But he couldn't possibly think that Netanyahu had to be physically present in Israel to kill him.
Israel normally makes war decisions by committee. Nasrallah figured that if the war cabinet didn't meet he was safe - it didn't occur to him that the decision had already been made, and that Bibi travelled to New York to preserve the impression of normality. Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 27, 2024 10:54 PM (uxCna) 150
Y's Dice, I obviously don't know and we may never know, but it wouldn't exactly be retarded to think leadership travel out of Israel might represent some window of reduced activity, or deferral of big actions. As I recall this happened a few times regarding Gaza since 10/7. Hezb may have had other (intentionally deceptive?) indicators that Israeli attacks would paus. In fact there was a brief pause, on both sides, just before the post-beeper leadership big hit. Impossible to say.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 10:55 PM (GcNJ2) Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 10:56 PM (gdH0L) 152
Cleared out by noon. This was a 100yr rain/wind/flood event for the upstate. NC even worse. Cell data is spotty. Hope this posts.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at September 27, 2024 10:53 PM (1PtzY) Thanks for checking in. Glad you and yours are safe. Still waiting for word from Mike Hammer and Miklos. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 10:57 PM (pJe2/) 153
Nasrallah figured that if the war cabinet didn't meet he was safe
Also, since the obvious response to Nasrallah being killed would be an all-out attack on Tel Aviv, he figured Bibi would want to be there to respond. The most striking thing is that Hezbollah's leadership has been wiped out - no announcements, no public instructions to Hezb areas under attack, only minor attacks on Israel - there is no one to give orders. Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 27, 2024 10:57 PM (uxCna) Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 27, 2024 10:57 PM (6cGZq) 155
I ducked and dodged the process servers fer pert near a week. But in the end, I called up the US Marshalls and set an appointment to be served, peaceful like.
I'm crafty like that. Super Genius, even. Posted by: Nathan Wade at September 27, 2024 10:57 PM (Aqu9a) 156
One comical part of the backstory this week is that Biden and Blinken and the US establishment have been begging Netanyahu to stand down and negotiate a ceasefire, because Kamala’s campaign needs it.
So Netanyahu said “ok I’ll negotiate.” BOOM!!!!! “How do you like the way I negotiate?” (He’s been taking lessons from Corbin Dallas) Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 10:58 PM (S6gqv) Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 27, 2024 10:58 PM (lUFok) 158
Nasrallah figured that if the war cabinet didn't meet he was safe - it didn't occur to him that the decision had already been made, and that Bibi travelled to New York to preserve the impression of normality.
Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 27, 2024 10:54 PM (uxCna) That's what I mean. How could he possibly be so dumb? Did he think the Israelis woke up on the 17th, had a meeting at dawn, and said "that's it. Get those pagers into everyone's hands and blow them up by brunch?" These operations tend to be planned some time in advance, with primary, alternate, contingency and emergency fail overs. Jews aren't Arabs. They do things before breakfast rolls around on the day of the attack. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 10:58 PM (awTae) 159
TS winds here, horizont rain sheets.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at September 27, 2024 10:53 PM (1PtzY) Not to make light but I've never seen a painting of a hurricane, one that properly conveys 'horizontal sheets of rain'. There's weather art with lightning, storm clouds, frothy turbulent waters and plain old rain. But no hurricane. At least to my knowledge. Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 10:58 PM (gKDq2) 160
If two vegan cyclists get in an altercation, is it still called a beef?
Posted by: 26X1 3/8 If two vegan cyclists have a baby, is it a Cabbage Patch kid? Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 27, 2024 10:59 PM (VNX3d) 161
I'd put the odds at something like %15 Trump is assassinated before the election. About one in six. It's going to get interesting when the Democrats go after Vance.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 10:59 PM (nv4jJ) 162
there is no one to give orders.
Some wit noted that the only people left in Hezbollah were those not important enough to get a pager. Iowahawk: Join Our Team! Now hiring for all positions, no experience necessary. Starting at $15 per hour plus great fringe benefits. Send applications to Tehran Temp Services Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 27, 2024 10:59 PM (uxCna) 163
Parts of Beirut look like Dresden, other parts look like Times Square.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 10:59 PM (2cS/G) 164
The most striking thing is that Hezbollah's leadership has been wiped out - no announcements, no public instructions to Hezb areas under attack, only minor attacks on Israel - there is no one to give orders.
Posted by: Zombie Hassan Iran is shipping new pagers to the new leaders right now! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2024 10:59 PM (ivQtu) 165
Believe Bibi was given authority to order the strike a few days prior. Most of the big decisions have been done this way since 10/7, though recently the security cabinet delegated authority to Bibi and DefMin Galant to make big war decisions.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:01 PM (GcNJ2) 166
These operations tend to be planned some time in advance, with primary, alternate, contingency and emergency fail overs.
And I'm sure that Israel was engaging in maskirovka to convince Hezbollah that action was not imminent. Sending Bibi to New York was only part of that. Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 27, 2024 11:01 PM (uxCna) 167
89 "It was created by slave owners who died when they were forty!"
Ben Mankiewicz on the Electoral College Nov 8, 2016 Posted by: sal at September 27, 2024 10:29 PM (f+FmA) So was the Democrat Party Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 27, 2024 11:01 PM (pIfcn) 168
Parts of Beirut look like Dresden
Parts of Beirut look like the US Marine Barracks in Lebanon in 1983, after the truck bomb. 'Eff 'Em. Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 27, 2024 11:03 PM (uxCna) 169
The AP has struck again. The color revolution continues.
Charismatic and Shrewd https://tinyurl.com/4wpukymd Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 11:04 PM (LkLld) Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 27, 2024 11:05 PM (uxCna) 171
Tom Servo, oh yes, the best comical part of all this is that the most recent, absurd "ceasefire" push was just barfed up a few days back. For the Nth time since 10/7, US claims about "diplomacy" were baseless and quickly dismissed by the Israelis. Then, a few days later - boom. Biggest hit* so far
Of course the idiotic policy in the Red Sea continues, the overall indefensible insanity of the Iran policy continues. A shame there's no press any more, and really not much of a public either it seems, to enjoy and highlight and ridicule this clown show. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:05 PM (GcNJ2) 172
Pressure here in KY bottomed out at 29.11 inHg. Winds were 30+ MPH. 4" rain. More to come.
The system is more or less sitting right over us. Rains came from the east, then north, then west, now south. Not too bad, actually. The rain fell on very dry ground so it soaked a lot of it up. We'll see what tomorrow brings. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2024 11:05 PM (Q4IgG) 173
I'm in East Tennessee. We had tons of rain and some flooding. Power went out now and then. Then the sun came out and it got dull. Went home. Cat is horrible, if he was a person he would drink all your beer and crash on your couch and say you were a cheap bastard because your streaming subscriptions were crap.
This is the worst cat ever. Here's a pic of a good cat. https://tinyurl.com/2s387bsa Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2024 11:05 PM (CHHv1) 174
Oh.
* one could easily argue several of the recent hits were of greater direct military value, and of course Op Grim Beeper stands alone in history, but for political/diplomatic impact, offing the Marshmallow Mullah is a biggie Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:06 PM (GcNJ2) 175
I surely hope all of our pals down southeast are ok...
Best prayers to you all if you're here on the ONT. I've been down this flood road here in Colo... no fun. No fun at all.... Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 27, 2024 11:06 PM (6cGZq) 176
Live shots show Beirut, sunrise. Lots of residual smoke, a bit of overhead noise. Nothing going off at the moment.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 11:07 PM (2cS/G) 177
"It was created by slave owners who died when they were forty!"
Ben Mankiewicz on the Electoral College Nov 8, 2016 Posted by: sal at September 27, 2024 10:29 PM (f+FmA) ----- So was the Democrat Party Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 27, 2024 11:01 PM (pIfcn) I read somewhere recently where Planned Abortionhood took Margaret Sanger's name off of one of their main buildings. Sanger's getting a lot of exposure with those 'who said this quote' videos on YouTube. Gotta hide that racist Democrat past, too. Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 11:08 PM (gKDq2) 178
I thought IowaHawk had the tweet of the day regarding Nasrallah:
Knock, knock Who's there? Netanya Netanya... Posted by: 496 at September 27, 2024 11:08 PM (zAQjJ) 179
Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. The Ukrainian fortress city of Vuhledar has been surrounded, and the Russians are trying to get the defenders to surrender. Vuhledar is most notable for being the site of multiple failed Russian attacks in the winter of 22-23. At the time, this was taken as evidence of the Russians being incompetent. Perhaps they were, but it was a grim preview of how bloody difficult attacking well-prepared defences would be for the rest of the war. 2. Seven hypersonic missiles were used during two attacks on an airfield in western Ukraine, destroying "up to" eight F-16 fighters. They probably didn't get eight, but the Russians thought it was worth using multiple hypersonics, which they haven't done before. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 27, 2024 11:08 PM (aSDr4) 180
169 The AP has struck again. The color revolution continues.
Charismatic and Shrewd https://tinyurl.com/4wpukymd Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 11:04 PM (LkLld) Charismatic and Shrewd and DAID!!!! Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 11:08 PM (S6gqv) 181
Believe Bibi was given authority to order the strike a few days prior. Most of the big decisions have been done this way since 10/7, though recently the security cabinet delegated authority to Bibi and DefMin Galant to make big war decisions.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:01 PM (GcNJ2) Netanyahu has been calling the shots since 10/7. It remains to be seen how it will benefit Israel. Trump win would seem a benefit but who knows? Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 11:11 PM (nv4jJ) 182
Well, made it through that hearty ONT - nice work as usual, WD.
Between the FAFO videos in the café and the instant karma videos here, and the Hezbollah wipeout in Beirut, my schadenfreude appetite is sated. Also read about 100 comments. Probably 100 more now. But I have to wander off to watch today's Zeducation. Y'all don't have to wait up for my return.... Posted by: mindful webworker - and his fate is still unlearned (poor ol' Charlie)... at September 27, 2024 11:11 PM (wPLcW) 183
Open Source Intel @Osint613 Sep 27
NYC: A mob has flooded the streets of NYC, waving Hezbollah and Hamxs flags. A new generation has been born https://tinyurl.com/44e8pjmz 2:27 loud assholes Meanwhile: Clark_a 🎗️ @clarkA418 Sep 27 New York is allowing Hezbollah while Lebanon is kicking them out. Crazy times. Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain Sep 27 Displaced partisans of #Hezbollah decided to parade on motorbikes while waving Hezbollah flags. The locals gave them a beating. https://tinyurl.com/2s4ahy3t 33 seconds; loudish Arabic children's song accompaniment. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 11:11 PM (CEzQx) 184
When [adult swim] started showing anime, there was a show called Inuyasha. I immediately dropped the series when I found out there were 800 episodes IIRC.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 27, 2024 11:11 PM (lhenN) 185
Good evening morons and thanks for Friday Night Memes
Mrs. F. has been monitoring Beirut and she says it looks like war. Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2024 11:12 PM (zG664) 186
A note to the Arabs: if you want to stop being killed, blinded, and castrated, the easiest way would be to quit provoking the Jews.
But, failing that, you could stop acting like this is a game. Take it more seriously. You can't run wars from luxury suites in hotels. You have to wake up before ten in the morning. Just because the Bad Man is in NYC doesn't mean his army is. Get a fucking clue. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 11:12 PM (awTae) 187
Good evening, y’all! What?!? I know! It’s past 10 and I am still awake!
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2024 11:14 PM (p4NUW) 188
Losing Ugledar along with a few other developments could unhinge things in the south even as the russkis close in on Pokrovsk to the north. Mud season isn't far off (fall version), question is how far with the russkis get the seasonal time-out.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:15 PM (GcNJ2) 189
Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 5h
Iranian dissidents are out in the streets celebrating what they think is the upcoming announcement of Nasrallah’s death in today’s airstrike. On the streets of Zahedan, they are chanting “Khamenei is next” Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain 6h This is how happy Syrians are after reports that Nasrallah is presumably killed. They call him “Hassan Zummeyrah”, Arabic for “Hassan the Trumpet” poking fun at his long speeches. https://tinyurl.com/3hrfed5p 26 seconds; loud Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 11:16 PM (CEzQx) 190
From what I can see, everyone is skirting closures in Western NC by going through Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg.
I'd stay away from there. Posted by: Becky at September 27, 2024 11:17 PM (FjtTl) 191
Speaking of One Piece, the live action version is gearing up for Season Two.
Ands the Terminally Offended and Online have found a new molehill to die on. A Russian actress, Abrova, was hired to play a character the mangaka of One Piece says is Russian. Abrova is now getting death threats. Why? "Ukraine good! Russia bad!" Probably the same troglodytes want to eliminate the Electoral College and think "Orange Man bad!" Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2024 11:18 PM (q/K3e) 192
On the streets of Zahedan, they are chanting “Khamenei is next”
------ It would be pretty cool if Israel assassinated an Ayatollah, but I doubt that's in the cards Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 11:18 PM (awTae) 193
So Harris was in Douglas AZ.
I wonder if anyone took her to see the well where the cartel threw a family that wouldn't cooperate. (Some years ago) Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2024 11:19 PM (W/lyH) 194
Joe Truzman @JoeTruzman 6h
Residents of Azaz in northwestern Syria are celebrating the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah despite no official confirmation that he is dead. https://tinyurl.com/bde7wnpf two short videos; Mmm -- free pastries. David Collier @mishtal 5h While journalists at outlets such as @skynews @guardian @bbcnews appear devastated by news of Nasrallah's probable demise much of the middle east is partying. This from Idlib in Syria. Nasrallah was a mass murderer who many hated. Something UK journos seem to have forgotten. https://tinyurl.com/4hewkza9 17 seconds; loud Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 11:19 PM (CEzQx) 195
Israel has been operating under various arrangements WRT the security cabinet and then delegations to smaller subsets including the PM. Bibi has not been deciding alone since 10/7.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:20 PM (GcNJ2) 196
I'd stay away from there.
Posted by: Becky at September 27, 2024 11:17 PM (FjtTl) Eh, I got reunited with my father there. Posted by: Sue at September 27, 2024 11:20 PM (pJe2/) 197
Not only did Bibi fly to NY, he is flying back on shabbat and the religious parties were making a big stink about it. Perhaps that was part of the op.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2024 11:21 PM (zG664) 198
As for the anime Inu-Yasha there is not 800 episodes.
But like many anime based off the manga of Takahashi Rumiko, they do tend to have a good run starting with her series Urusei Yatsura. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2024 11:21 PM (q/K3e) Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2024 11:22 PM (q/K3e) 200
That chaos engineering is slicker than a door handle at Diddy's condo.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2024 11:23 PM (W/lyH) 201
Did Iowahawk renounce his previous Never-Trump stance? Just a uniparty idiot otherwise.
Posted by: hart at September 27, 2024 11:23 PM (nv4jJ) 202
Cat is horrible...
This is the worst cat ever... Posted by: BeckoningChasm ---------- This makes me sad. I hope you're just kidding. You talk so much about how awful it is. But if you're not kidding about it-- Can I have your cat? Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2024 11:23 PM (njWTi) 203
Errr, whut?
@Breaking911 6m BREAKING: North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson hospitalized after “burning” incident at a campaign event; he’s in ‘good spirits’ - NewsNation Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 11:24 PM (IG4Id) 204
Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig 5h
BREAKING: Senior Israeli officials report PM Netanyahu’s trip to the UN General Assembly “was part of a diversion” to lead Nasrallah into believing he was safe while the PM was in New York. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 11:24 PM (CEzQx) 205
Nasrallah was a mass murderer who many hated.
Something UK journos seem to have forgotten. ------ Western journalist: "he is a brown person. Sort of brown. Hard to say. But Nasrallah sounds pretty brown to me, so that'll do. Anyway, he was killed by Jews, so he's also a baby. Just a poor little brown baby who was turning his life around, and studying to be an austere religious scholar." Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 11:24 PM (awTae) 206
Amjad Taha @amjadt25 7h
Congratulations to humanity! Verified sources in Lebanon confirm that Israel has successfully eliminated Hezbollah's leader, Nasrallah. This marks a historic victory for the world, signaling a lasting shift in the Middle East. Iran and its proxies are now gripped by fear, and instead of regional war, a new era of peace is on the horizon. Hezbollah's reign is over. What remains are its final, desperate rockets and bullets. The Middle East, long tormented by Hezbollah's terrorism—killing millions of Syrians, forcibly displacing 9 million Christians, Muslims, and Druze, targeting Kurds, aiding the Houthis' attacks on Saudi Arabia, supporting radical Islamists to strike Bahrain, and slaughtering innocent babies and women in Israel and Iraq—has tonight witnessed the storm of justice. Tonight, justice has stormed in the hands of those who survived the October 7th massacre. Palestinian terrorist Hamas must surrender, free the hostages, and hand over Sinwar—or face the same fate. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 11:24 PM (CEzQx) 207
Did Iowahawk renounce his previous Never-Trump stance?
Iowahawk proudly has a Never-Anybody stance. Inappropriate, given current circumstances. Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 27, 2024 11:25 PM (uxCna) 208
Chesterton's meme
It is fascinating to watch this play out in our unfortunately very real world. I don't know how many of what are now "regular" occurrences were solved problems 20 years ago. Want to see a doctor in a reasonable amount of time? Don't want to get killed by an illegal alien? And on and on... Posted by: Jeb Bush at September 27, 2024 11:25 PM (oZhjI) 209
Did Iowahawk renounce his previous Never-Trump stance? Just a uniparty idiot otherwise.
Posted by: hart Seems like just decided to become "above it all" after people gave him a lot of shit for his 2016 spaz-out. Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 11:25 PM (IG4Id) 210
Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig 5h
BREAKING: Senior Israeli officials report PM Netanyahu’s trip to the UN General Assembly “was part of a diversion” to lead Nasrallah into believing he was safe while the PM was in New York. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 11:24 PM (CEzQx) OpSec. You're doing it wrong. Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2024 11:26 PM (Aqu9a) 211
Israel has been operating under various arrangements WRT the security cabinet and then delegations to smaller subsets including the PM. Bibi has not been deciding alone since 10/7.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:20 PM (GcNJ2) If true that's a problem. One decision maker would be ideal. Posted by: hart at September 27, 2024 11:26 PM (nv4jJ) 212
Let's not celebrate Nasrallah's death just yet.
Let's wait until the IAF cluster bombs his funeral procession. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2024 11:27 PM (q/K3e) Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2024 11:28 PM (oZhjI) Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 11:29 PM (IG4Id) Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 27, 2024 11:29 PM (QSrLX) 216
If true that's a problem. One decision maker would be ideal.
Posted by: hart at September 27, 2024 11:26 PM ( Israel has distributed this kind of decision making since 1973, in order to avoid the kind of tunnel vision that led to that debacle. It has downsides. Obviously, it didn't avoid 10/7. But it's better than nothing, IMO. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 11:30 PM (awTae) 217
"Israel is killing top leaders in Hezbollah faster than the time it takes me to learn how to pronounce their names."
- some wag on the twatters Related - still not publicly confirmed one way or the other whether the replacement for the Syria/Lebanon Quds Force commander of the IRGC Zahedi (offed in the strike on an Iranian "diplomatic facility" a few months ago) was in the meeting this morning in Beirut. IDF has said Quds Force was represented. As the replacement's name is much worse than Zahedi's to pronounce, I won't bring it up until we know he's pushing up daisies. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:30 PM (GcNJ2) 218
Seems like just decided to become "above it all" after people gave him a lot of shit for his 2016 spaz-out.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 11:25 PM (IG4Id) Lol. Above it all. The ultimate cop-out. Posted by: hart at September 27, 2024 11:30 PM (nv4jJ) 219
I gotta try that grilled cheese sammich in the waffle maker thing.
Although I don't think I have any tomato soup around. Mushroom, yes. On the food front, here is how we are surviving. Buy a Costco roasted chicken. $4.99 Have it for dinner with either rice or potatoes and salad. Day 2. Eat sandwiches made from chicken salad for lunch. Frozen pizza for dinner with salad. Day 3 everything remaining goes to chicken soup with either noodles or rice. 3 ppl get fed for 3 days for $5 plus sides. Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 27, 2024 11:31 PM (MeG8a) 220
When I first saw those decals, I thought they said "Slut Life"
Good to know I'm not the only one. Posted by: Chuck C at September 27, 2024 11:32 PM (yOPBE) 221
Oh is this the place for Diddley memes? Here's one I caught in 50cent's comments
From 2024, back in time comes... THE LUBRICATOR tinyurl.com/3edj7vw8 Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 11:32 PM (gKWVE) 222
Vegan cyclists. WTF?
This guy has got to be the biggest jerk around. Who friggin' cares asshole? Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2024 11:33 PM (W/lyH) 223
Security cabinet and various iterations don't hamstring Israeli leadership, and PM is still the big swinging, um, player. And in this case obviously by dint of personality (and actually ability) Bibi clearly dominates.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:33 PM (GcNJ2) 224
Leading Report @LeadingReport 2h
BREAKING: Kamala Harris says illegal immigrants who have been living in the U.S. are “American in every way.” ---- They are! See #183 first link. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 11:34 PM (CEzQx) 225
Did Iowahawk renounce his previous Never-Trump stance? Just a uniparty idiot otherwise.
Posted by: hart ----- Seems like just decided to become "above it all" after people gave him a lot of shit for his 2016 spaz-out. Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 11:25 PM (IG4Id) So he took his Illinois politics and brought it to the state of Texas. Another one of those people. Full disclosure: I met Iowahawk in a NYC bar in 2003, arranging our meeting at that snotty green place. He was decent in person back then but Trump broke a lot of people. And honestly, I could never figure that out, especially from what I once considered 'normal' people. Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 11:34 PM (gKDq2) 226
Leading Report @LeadingReport 11h
BREAKING: Biden’s DOJ has sued two rural Wisconsin towns after they switched from including electronic voting machines to using only paper ballots in their elections and counting them by hand. Leading Report @LeadingReport 6h BREAKING: Michigan ballots will now only be counted after proof that signatures have been verified, following a GOP lawsuit. Leading Report @LeadingReport 5h BREAKING: Following a GOP lawsuit, a North Carolina court has ruled that digital student IDs cannot be used as voter ID. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 11:35 PM (CEzQx) 227
Buy a Costco roasted chicken. $4.99
Have it for dinner with either rice or potatoes and salad. Day 2. Eat sandwiches made from chicken salad for lunch. Frozen pizza for dinner with salad. Day 3 everything remaining goes to chicken soup with either noodles or rice. 3 ppl get fed for 3 days for $5 plus sides. Posted by: gourmand du jour Have you folks been looking over my shoulder whilst I'm in the kitchen? Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 11:35 PM (WXNFJ) 228
Attention World War II historians and hangers on.
The last Japanese survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack has passed away. Masamitsu Yoshioka flew off Soryu in a B5N Kate torpedo plane as part of the second wave to hit American forces. His target was the retired battleship USS Utah which was being used as a target ship and was berthed where the US Navy aircraft carriers were usually berthed. USS Utah would be sunk with 58 dead. Like Arizona she would never be raised. Masamitsu Yoshioka was 106. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2024 11:37 PM (q/K3e) 229
201 Did Iowahawk renounce his previous Never-Trump stance?
Last I saw him on Insty's comments, this year, he was calling Trump supporters cultists so, no. He's still the same corny Beltway douche he always was. Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 11:38 PM (gKWVE) 230
I ducked and dodged the process servers fer pert near a week. But in the end, I called up the US Marshalls and set an appointment to be served, peaceful like. I'm crafty like that. Super Genius, even. Posted by: Nathan Wade Are you being served? Posted by: Captain Peacock at September 27, 2024 11:39 PM (63Dwl) 231
Thanks Anna, that's really something. Wondering whether maybe there's a crewman from the Kido Butai out there still alive - maybe a 17-yr old at the time or something.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:40 PM (GcNJ2) 232
From a casual reading of the Bible one would think that the Orthodox men would be the first to join the military and not conscientious objectors.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 11:40 PM (gdH0L) 233
Chris Rufo, the anti-CRT and DEI warrior, had a nice comment today:
"It’s interesting to watch leaders of small countries accomplish what, in the United States, we are told is impossible: Bukele dismantling organized crime; Orban stopping illegal migrants at the border; Milei slashing the bureaucratic state; Netanyahu destroying his enemies." Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:41 PM (GcNJ2) 234
I was today looking at pictures of myself, my wife, my mom from 10 to 12 years ago.
We are all heavier. I had a paunch. Wife too, mom, not so much. She always eats like a bird. Today I am slim, no paunch. Waist size is down from 44" to 34". Nothing jiggles when I walk. I'll take it. Gravity is a stone cold unrelenting bitch. Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 27, 2024 11:42 PM (MeG8a) 235
He was decent in person back then but Trump broke a lot of people. And honestly, I could never figure that out, especially from what I once considered 'normal' people.
Posted by: RickZ I don't really know about his particular situation, but the most consistent feature of NeverTrumpers seems to be latent narcissism. Trump's arrogance gave them license to rip the masks off. Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 11:42 PM (IG4Id) 236
232 From a casual reading of the Bible one would think that the Orthodox men would be the first to join the military and not conscientious objectors.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 11:40 PM (gdH0L) I believe the orthodox are fine with military service, the problems come with the ultra-orthodox and some other fringe groups. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 11:43 PM (S6gqv) 237
Thank you for that, Anna. Surviving the Pacific air war, I'm sure Mr. Masamitsu Yoshioka saw . . . things.
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 11:43 PM (gKDq2) 238
R A W S G L 🌎 B A L @RawsGlobal 4h
🚨#BREAKING: The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) says it has killed the head of Hezbollah's rocket and missile units in southern Lebanon and his deputy, in addition to other Hezbollah commanders. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 11:44 PM (CEzQx) 239
The History Guy --
When the US Government Tried to Control Hurricanes: Project Stormfury https://youtu.be/k3BYSZQG0R4 There was a brief period- actually more than two decades,- when the US government thought that they may actually be able to limit the awesome power of nature’s vortex. The ambitious "Project Stormfury" deserves to be remembered. Controlling the hurricanes - the idea was... all wet. Posted by: mindful webworker - when the rain comes, they run and hide their heads at September 27, 2024 11:45 PM (wPLcW) 240
That dad blowing away that robber was pretty cool. Good for him. Guess that asshole picked the wrong place to rob.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 27, 2024 11:45 PM (iODuv) 241
I don't really know about his particular situation, but the most consistent feature of NeverTrumpers seems to be latent narcissism. Trump's arrogance gave them license to rip the masks off.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 11:42 PM (IG4Id) Self styled "intellectuals" looking for a new tribe. Posted by: hart at September 27, 2024 11:46 PM (nv4jJ) 242
I don't really know about his particular situation, but the most consistent feature of NeverTrumpers seems to be latent narcissism. Trump's arrogance gave them license to rip the masks off.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 11:42 PM (IG4Id) Interesting observation. Fits Ann Coulter in 2020, too. Thank you. Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 11:46 PM (gKDq2) 243
Geert Wilders @geertwilderspvv 9h
Very wise that Israel ignores unjust and unwise international advice and attacks the poisonous terror of Hezbollah. Israel is in an existential battle for survival of the Jewish homeland. Hopefully Hezbollah terror leader Nasrallah sees his 72 virgins. #AmIsraelChai Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 11:47 PM (CEzQx) 244
I don't really know about his particular situation,
------ You don't need to. The ConInc situation is simple. ConInc scribblers eat quite well by keeping the rubes on the Uniparty plantation, and Trump showed them the bottom of that particular rice bowl in 2016. As of the moment when Cruz was finished off in the IN primary, they've never forgiven him for putting the lie to their little charade, and exposing them as worthless. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 11:47 PM (awTae) 245
I just report the news as I stumble across it.
Just like I now can't find this video posted three months ago on YouTube of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force band embarked aboard a warship playing the Space Battleship Yamato theme and the first scene is several ships raising the Rising Sun flag. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2024 11:49 PM (q/K3e) 246
Self styled "intellectuals" looking for a new tribe.
Posted by: hart at September 27, 2024 11:46 PM (nv4jJ) Yep. Wanting to be a part of the 'cool kids' tribe. Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 11:51 PM (gKDq2) 247
They want to keep being invited to all the good parties inside the Beltway.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2024 11:52 PM (q/K3e) 248
🚨#BREAKING: The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) says it has killed the head of Hezbollah's rocket and missile units in southern Lebanon and his deputy, in addition to other Hezbollah commanders.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 11:44 PM (CEzQx) ----------- You want lots of opportunities for rapid advancement? Consider whether Hezbollah might be the place for you! Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2024 11:53 PM (JkO4W) 249
Controlling the hurricanes - the idea was... all wet.
Hmm would I rather the government try to figure out how to control hurricanes or how to get school children to cut their private parts off...? Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2024 11:54 PM (oZhjI) 250
Nope. I'm not touching that, girls.
Posted by: Virgin #17 at September 27, 2024 11:54 PM (JkO4W) 251
Career opportunities are exploding at Hezbollah Inc.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2024 11:55 PM (q/K3e) 252
They just want to keep hammering checks, and their stock dropped big time when they failed at their key objective. If they can't keep people like Trump out of Our Sacred Democracy, then they serve no purpose.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 11:55 PM (awTae) 253
andycanuck, beat me to it.
No word on strikes in the Bekaa last night but the tempo of attacks doesn't seem to be decreasing. Probably limited by target factors. Tehran is approaching the point reached by Delta house in the movie - time for "a really futile and stupid gesture on somebody's part". They have yet to "retaliate" for the Haniyeh hit in Tehran - one of the most audacious hits in modern history. And they're now behind by several additional IRGC officers sent to their reward. I'd bet 10 - but not 100 - $ that what we're seeing is a Hezb eviscerated and in shock, and an Iran still terrified of getting into a serious scrum with Israel. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:55 PM (GcNJ2) 254
@225
>>I could never figure that out, especially from what I once considered 'normal' people. They're just a bunch of jaggoffs Waiting For Jack Kemp, except, Jack Kemps dead and his kind is a thing of the distant past. The thing is, if they think things are bad now, wait till after Trump, Trump will seem like a prim and proper gent compared to what's coming after him. Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 27, 2024 11:55 PM (XV/Pl) 255
I saw Signs again tonight and...its still a pretty great movie.
I noticed one of the child actors looks just like the Home Alone kid and...he's one of his brothers. Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2024 11:56 PM (oZhjI) 256
251 Career opportunities are exploding at Hezbollah Inc.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2024 11:55 PM (q/K3e) Lots of promotion opportunities constantly opening up Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 11:57 PM (gKWVE) 257
(borrowed from an incident many moons ago in a different part of the world)
Observer in Dahiya, watching Hezb HQ getting vaporized: "now that's what I call an outgoing administration" Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:58 PM (GcNJ2) 258
We'd strike e back hard and fast, except that coded messages travel slowly by Special Messenger Goat.
Posted by: The Hezbollah High Command at September 27, 2024 11:58 PM (JkO4W) 259
Nope. I'm not touching that, girls.
Posted by: Virgin #17 I would like to know what islam has to say about what the 72 virgins did to deserve THAT! Posted by: Some Rat at September 27, 2024 11:59 PM (vJiyU) 260
IIRC in Islam they aren't really 72 human women. They are 72 spirits that look and feel like human virgins.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 12:00 AM (oZhjI) 261
Career opportunities are exploding at Hezbollah Inc.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2024 11:55 PM (q/K3e) Lots of promotion opportunities constantly opening up Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 11:57 PM (gKWVE) For those willing to work part-time. Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:01 AM (nv4jJ) 262
Well messengers, and point-point radio (umm, check the radios first, would you, Ahmed?) using one-time pads, are about the only options Hezb has for secure comms.
Not easy to coordinate operations against an adversary like Israel with those methods. Posted by: rhomboid at September 28, 2024 12:01 AM (GcNJ2) 263
Sorry. Signs is not a great movie.
Yes, the tension and drama are there. But the premise is pure schlock. Aliens who can travel to other worlds but are not smart enough to realize that almost 80% of the planet they want to invade is lethal to them. Right. I'll take H.G. Wells' Martians weakness to microorganisms over that. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2024 12:01 AM (q/K3e) 264
The thing is, if they think things are bad now, wait till after Trump, Trump will seem like a prim and proper gent compared to what's coming after him.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 27, 2024 11:55 PM (XV/Pl) I love hindsight with foresight. Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:02 AM (gKDq2) 265
Signs has to have one of the biggest plot holes ever. An alien species capable of interstellar travel, but also allergic to water, tries to invade Earth, of all the planets in the universe.
It's like people who are allergic to sand invading Arizona. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 12:02 AM (awTae) 266
For those willing to work part-time.
Posted by: hart Part over here, part over there, part whose location is yet to be determined.... Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2024 12:02 AM (vJiyU) 267
Aliens who can travel to other worlds but are not smart enough to realize that almost 80% of the planet they want to invade is lethal to them. Right.
They aren't aliens. They are demons. M Night S makes you think the former by borrowing from the alien mythos but a few points make it clear they aren't...like the whole weakness to water. Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 12:03 AM (oZhjI) 268
260 IIRC in Islam they aren't really 72 human women. They are 72 spirits that look and feel like human virgins.
---------- Sorry, but what a stupid theology. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2024 12:03 AM (JkO4W) 269
First pic had me LOLing; I was singing a version of that song in my head the last few days...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:03 AM (ynpvh) 270
If demons are allergic to water, how do you explain the Chesapeake Bay?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 12:05 AM (awTae) 271
Aliens who can travel to other worlds but are not smart enough to realize that almost 80% of the planet they want to invade is lethal to them. Right.
We used Windows 94 as our operating system....sigh Posted by: Independence Day Aliens at September 28, 2024 12:05 AM (vJiyU) 272
"Austere religious scholar" worthy...
Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze 2h AP mourns the loss of a co-worker. https://tinyurl.com/y2dcsxka screencap Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:06 AM (CEzQx) 273
Tehran is approaching the point reached by Delta house in the movie - time for "a really futile and stupid gesture on somebody's part". They have yet to "retaliate" for the Haniyeh hit in Tehran - one of the most audacious hits in modern history. And they're now behind by several additional IRGC officers sent to their reward.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 11:55 PM (GcNJ2) That's a good point. We heard a lot after the Haniyeh capital punishment incident about how there was a lot of intel chatter that Iran was going to really put the boots to Israel ... and fortunately, so far there's been nothing. I wonder if the mullahs blew their load in that big attack in April (?) and are gunshy now about a repeat of that exercise in impotence. Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 12:06 AM (FjtTl) 274
Signs has to have one of the biggest plot holes ever. An alien species capable of interstellar travel, but also allergic to water, tries to invade Earth, of all the planets in the universe.
It's like people who are allergic to sand invading Arizona. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 12:02 AM (awTae) At least in 'Alien Nation', the Tectonese, to whom salt water was deadly acid, crash landed here by accident. While the spoiled milk may have had alcoholic appeal, I don't they'd choose to live on a planet composed of about 70% salt water. Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:07 AM (gKDq2) 275
Have you folks been looking over my shoulder whilst I'm in the kitchen?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 11:35 PM (WXNFJ) Day 3 should be "cook the remaining carcass in the pressure cooker with water to just cover, plus a tablespoon of vinegar for twenty minutes at 15 lbs pressure" the bits of meat you clean off the bones can be used in soup, and the broth can be used to cook dried beans which are served with rice for another two days worth of eating. Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 12:07 AM (D7oie) 276
260 IIRC in Islam they aren't really 72 human women. They are 72 spirits that look and feel like human virgins.
After the 'brave' jihadi deflowers his 72 virgins, what then? Plot holes, you say? Posted by: Gref at September 28, 2024 12:07 AM (aBgBM) 277
drat
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 12:07 AM (D7oie) 278
Does the Barrel have virgins?
Posted by: gKWVE at September 28, 2024 12:07 AM (gKWVE) 279
That census record reminded me of this...
In the last presidential election, my Dad couldn't vote. Even though he was born in Missouri, fought in WW2, voted in previous elections (in Missouri in the 40's and 50's, California thereafter), he had no passport and could not give Missouri a valid birth certificate. Why? His birth record had "baby [xxxx]"... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:08 AM (ynpvh) 280
278 Does the Barrel have virgins?
Posted by: gKWVE at September 28, 2024 12:07 AM (gKWVE) Not once they've been in the Barrel... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:08 AM (ynpvh) 281
Signs was bad. A big miss by M Night.
Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:08 AM (nv4jJ) Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2024 12:09 AM (q/K3e) 283
Ok so the 72...things...men get in Muslim Heaven are odder then I thought.
The Koran mentions they are pretty and have large breasts (quite the holy book guys) but notes their skin is transparent - you can see their bones through their skin. Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 12:09 AM (oZhjI) 284
All your nonsense are belong to us!
Posted by: The Aliens at September 28, 2024 12:09 AM (mH6SG) 285
If demons are allergic to water, how do you explain the Chesapeake Bay?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 12:05 AM (awTae) Or Ted Kennedy's Miracle on the Chappaquiddick? Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 12:09 AM (FjtTl) 286
View screen off!
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2024 12:10 AM (q/K3e) 287
283 Ok so the 72...things...men get in Muslim Heaven are odder then I thought.
The Koran mentions they are pretty and have large breasts (quite the holy book guys) but notes their skin is transparent - you can see their bones through their skin. Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 12:09 AM (oZhjI) \ So you can see their boners?... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:10 AM (ynpvh) 288
Are you folks talking 'houri' now?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2024 12:10 AM (q/K3e) 289
285 If demons are allergic to water, how do you explain the Chesapeake Bay?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 12:05 AM (awTae) Or Ted Kennedy's Miracle on the Chappaquiddick? Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 12:09 AM (FjtTl) Maybe it's a mild allergy... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:10 AM (ynpvh) 290
76 An oldie...
What does an Florida hurricane and Florida divorce have in common? Either way you lose the trailer. Too soon for this? I will be outside in the trailer park self-denouncing if needed. Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at September 27, 2024 10:26 PM (LrWnf) ---- It's the tornado rather than the hurricane, as it is more choosy. Any redneck could tell you that. /LOL Posted by: Ciampino - water, water everywhere at September 28, 2024 12:11 AM (qfLjt) 291
288 Are you folks talking 'houri' now?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2024 12:10 AM (q/K3e) Kamala would put the Hoor in Houri... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:11 AM (ynpvh) 292
282 Demons?
For that to work it has to be Holy Water. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2024 12:09 AM (q/K3e) MERRIN!!!!! Posted by: Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name! at September 28, 2024 12:11 AM (aBgBM) 293
Virgins... LOL, brings back a memory. (shaddup!!)
Late BF was a construction worker, so apologies for crudeness, but here was his take on *72 virgins*: "Why the h3ll would any guy want THAT? Bunch of screaming little girls, whining that 'it hurts' and trying to get away. Give me a full-grown WOMAN that knows what she's doing, and LIKES IT! Sheesh!" Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 12:12 AM (njWTi) 294
IIRC in Islam they aren't really 72 human women. They are 72 spirits that look and feel like human virgins.
----- Sorry, but what a stupid theology. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2024 12:03 AM (JkO4W) How else do you sell a 'No sex now but eternal sex when you kill yourself and a few Jews or Infidels, or bothif you're lucky' death cult? I heard decades ago it was 72 raisins, but what do I know? I don't speak Arabic. Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:12 AM (gKDq2) 295
Vegan cyclists. WTF?
This guy has got to be the biggest jerk around. Who friggin' cares asshole? Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2024 11:33 PM (W/lyH) No, the biggest jerk around would be the vegan tranny cyclist, competing in the Women's division. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 28, 2024 12:13 AM (aSDr4) 296
We used Windows 94 as our operating system....sigh
Posted by: Independence Day Aliens at September 28, 2024 12:05 AM (vJiyU) LOL! Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:13 AM (gKDq2) 297
Should have tried Windows ME...
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2024 12:14 AM (q/K3e) 298
So, worked on the on-again, off again El Camino project car. Between yesterday and today, I got all the exterior lamps working. Much splicing in the tail lamp department. Today was the turn of the side marker lamp in the right front fender. Take battery out to gain access. Change bulb. OK, it works. Now, tucked into the fender cavity there was a big mess of wire harness, going nowhere. Cut the plugs off, and stripped it all out, and traced it back to a firewall grommet under the heater. Inside the car, it went to a few harness plugs, and to the ECM, tucked into the right kick panel. Car was not running on the ECM; it had an engine swap to an older 350, which is wired 1970's style. Out comes the ECM. Out comes the harness across the dash. Out comes the radio, which was scabbed in really nastily. Out comes the diagnostic connector. Out comes the instrument cluster. The pointer on the speedometer was broken, but the speedo works. Found a '55 Studebaker speedo with a broken glass, took it apart. Pried the needle off the spindle. Pried the Chevy needle off its spindle. The Studie needle fit on the Chevy spindle just perfect! Color is right, pointer length is right, too. Happy day!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2024 12:14 AM (zTh/f) 299
It is a shame we don't have records of Muhammed for his first go around in Mecca. He pissed off the local so they threw him out. In Medina he improved his act and won over the locales.
Oh and on a related note I again ran across a map of where all Roman coins have been found. Obviously all over Europe and the Med region but also India, Yemen and Ethiopia. But NOT Mecca. The Muslim claim is that Mecca was a major city and trading hub before the rise of the Caliphate but then why no Roman coins? Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 12:16 AM (oZhjI) 300
IDF published a map showing range of anti-ship missiles targeted in Beirut last night - extends down to Ashdod, meaning essentially most of Israel's Med coast is in range.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 28, 2024 12:16 AM (GcNJ2) 301
297 Should have tried Windows ME...
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2024 12:14 AM (q/K3e) #Windows ME too Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:17 AM (ynpvh) 302
Jessica Tarlov is vile. Reminiscent of so-called Jewish women who served totalitarian regimes. Would have been a proud Stalinist.
Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:18 AM (nv4jJ) 303
Signs was bad. A big miss by M Night.
Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:08 AM (nv4jJ) IMAO, EVERY movie by M. Night Shyamalan is a humongous miss and a great waste of 90 plus minutes of my time. I have never seen the appeal. Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:18 AM (gKDq2) 304
303 Signs was bad. A big miss by M Night.
Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:08 AM (nv4jJ) IMAO, EVERY movie by M. Night Shyamalan is a humongous miss and a great waste of 90 plus minutes of my time. I have never seen the appeal. Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:18 AM (gKDq2) If you thought "Sines" was bad, wait until you see "Cosines"...but that's going on a tangent. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:19 AM (ynpvh) 305
Islamic theology is wholly based on dominance, submission, reward and punishment. It's an extremely shallow worldview. It's the Hookd On Fonix version of monotheism.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 12:19 AM (awTae) 306
New video, to me at least:
BNO News Live @BNODesk 4h Secondary explosions at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut https://tinyurl.com/3756rz9j 19 seconds BNO News Live @BNODesk 4h WATCH: More footage of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut. https://tinyurl.com/4zynerxv 21 seconds Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:19 AM (CEzQx) 307
I heard decades ago it was 72 raisins, but what do I know? I don't speak Arabic.
Posted by: RickZ I think that factoid is taken from the fact that ancient arabic didn't have an vowels. So words were routinely mistranslated because not everyone understood the context. Then they literally had a vowel movement *** GOOD NIGHT AND TRY THE VEAL~! I'll show myself out. Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2024 12:20 AM (IG4Id) 308
Iran’s in a pickle - they need to attack Israel to save their credibility, but now they’re shocked at how easily Israel has shredded Hezbollah’s leadership. They now realize they have no idea what the Israelis are planning, and realize by now that the Israelis are trying hard to goad them into an attack.
And yet if they nothing they look cowardly and weak to their people, and they are already deeply unpopular. Quite a nice little dilemma they’ve put themselves in. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 12:21 AM (S6gqv) 309
Hezb's only official statement since the hit was that no weapons are stored in civilian buildings in the Beirut area.
Which would make one 'a them great split screen thinggers on twitter, with the statement on the left, and a large number of video clips on the right showing prolonged secondaries from buildings hit, including rockets cooking off etc. Posted by: rhomboid at September 28, 2024 12:22 AM (GcNJ2) 310
307 I heard decades ago it was 72 raisins, but what do I know? I don't speak Arabic.
Posted by: RickZ I think that factoid is taken from the fact that ancient arabic didn't have an vowels. So words were routinely mistranslated because not everyone understood the context. Then they literally had a vowel movement *** GOOD NIGHT AND TRY THE VEAL~! I'll show myself out. Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2024 12:20 AM (IG4Id) Some languages seem to have vowel diarrhea...others, like Welsh seem to have consonant constipation. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:22 AM (ynpvh) 311
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2024 12:14 AM
Nice work! I enjoy reading about backyard mechanical successes! Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 12:22 AM (njWTi) Posted by: Old commercial at September 28, 2024 12:22 AM (63Dwl) 313
AOP, Gingy wanted to know if you could bring a few bags of Humpty Dumpty party mix to the TexMoMe for her.
Posted by: Weirddave at September 28, 2024 12:23 AM (lXRbX) 314
309 Hezb's only official statement since the hit was that no weapons are stored in civilian buildings in the Beirut area.
Which would make one 'a them great split screen thinggers on twitter, with the statement on the left, and a large number of video clips on the right showing prolonged secondaries from buildings hit, including rockets cooking off etc. Posted by: rhomboid at September 28, 2024 12:22 AM (GcNJ2) OR... The Hezzies admit that all buildings are military. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:23 AM (ynpvh) 315
If you thought "Sines" was bad, wait until you see "Cosines"...but that's going on a tangent.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:19 AM (ynpvh) I see -- can't you be more specific? Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:23 AM (gKDq2) 316
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72 raisins in each box of Post Raisin Bran. Posted by: Old commercial at September 28, 2024 12:22 AM (63Dwl) There are virgin olives...are there virgin raisins? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:23 AM (ynpvh) 317
Sixth Sense was something. M has been coasting since.
Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:23 AM (nv4jJ) 318
Well, Virgin Wool, too, until the Jihadi's have their way.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:24 AM (ynpvh) 319
IDF published a map showing range of anti-ship missiles targeted in Beirut last night - extends down to Ashdod, meaning essentially most of Israel's Med coast is in range.
-------- Speaking of missiles... Israel Defense Forces @IDF 6h Hezbollah’s surface-to-sea missiles not only endanger our civilians, but also our seas. When our civilians are targeted, we will defend them—from land, air or sea. https://tinyurl.com/53h7h5ah 43 seconds Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:26 AM (CEzQx) 320
302 Jessica Tarlov is vile. Reminiscent of so-called Jewish women who served totalitarian regimes. Would have been a proud Stalinist.
Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:18 AM (nv4jJ) This afternoon Gutfeld asked her a question that left her speechless for a second. She had no talking point ready to spew out, not even an unrelated one. She was defending Kamala, saying Kamala's "Opportunity Economy" plan is terrific. Gutfeld then asked her, (paraphrasing) "There are no opportunities in the current economy?" Tarlov was flummoxed. I think that's the right word. Posted by: Gref at September 28, 2024 12:26 AM (aBgBM) 321
Tom I think Tehran has been scared and intimidated nearly from the get-go (last October). Certainly as Israel took down Hamas systematically, while mostly ignoring the idiotic peace-mongering interference from the US and other pernicious outsiders. Their fear certainly ramped up as Israel started a systematic campaign against Hezb leadership and assets in Lebanon and Syria, including highly prized ones, with IRGC personnel attached (and killed in the strikes). Then Zahedi, and of course now Grimp Beeper and the command holocaust that followed.
And there was a strong hit on the Houthis, and a mostly ignored one on an Iraqi militia, along the way to reinforce the point. Posted by: rhomboid at September 28, 2024 12:26 AM (GcNJ2) 322
Not only did the A-rabs have to invent the diacritical marks to denote vowels for their borrowed Assyrian script, they then had to invent something like 5 more consonants. Not the stuff of consistency.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2024 12:26 AM (IG4Id) 323
Secondary explosions at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut
https://tinyurl.com/3756rz9j 19 seconds That was just a gas stove used to warm children's milk going off! Posted by: Sandy Cortez, Hezbollah PR Inc. at September 28, 2024 12:26 AM (FjtTl) 324
Quite a nice little dilemma they’ve put themselves in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 12:21 AM (S6gqv) It's a shitty dilemma. For them and Israel. We have to presume at least some nuclear capabilities, after our insane foreign policies regarding their program. That makes all of this an exceedingly dangerous proposition, when it comes to grabbing Iranian goat by the horns. Not that it shouldn't be done. But belling that particular cat got a lot harder after Obama, Ben Rhodes, and all his precious know-nothings got us the JCPOA. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 12:27 AM (awTae) 325
Well, Virgin Wool, too, until the Jihadi's have their way.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:24 AM (ynpvh) I'm too sexy for my hooves, Too sexy for my hooves. . . Posted by: Arabic Runway Model at September 28, 2024 12:27 AM (gKDq2) 326
IMAO, EVERY movie by M. Night Shyamalan is a humongous miss and a great waste of 90 plus minutes of my time. I have never seen the appeal.
Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:18 AM (gKDq You didn’t like The Sixth Sense? Posted by: Sebation Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:27 AM (D6PGr) 327
325 Well, Virgin Wool, too, until the Jihadi's have their way.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:24 AM (ynpvh) I'm too sexy for my hooves, Too sexy for my hooves. . . Posted by: Arabic Runway Model at September 28, 2024 12:27 AM (gKDq2) I hear there's lots of camel toe, too... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:28 AM (ynpvh) 328
Signs was bad. A big miss by M Night.
Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:08 AM (nv4jJ) *** I think Signs was his best since The Sixth Sense. The only stupid part was making the aliens allergic to water. Didn't they look out of the space ship window at the big blue ball? Posted by: Megthered at September 28, 2024 12:28 AM (VihIQ) 329
I enjoy reading about backyard mechanical successes!
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 12:22 AM (njWTi) Thanks! I replaced several dead lamps in the instrument cluster. About ready to start putting things back. I clipped off the ECM wires where they merged into the fat main dash harness. I don't think I cut anything vital. At worst, some of the warning lights mediated by the ECM will now not work. I will use compressed air to blow dust and crud from the space behind the dash before I put all the parts back in. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2024 12:28 AM (zTh/f) 330
#319 addendum:
OSINTdefender @sentdefender 3h Lebanese Media is reporting that Israeli Navy Vessels off the Coast of Beirut are participating in the Widespread Strikes currently against the City. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:28 AM (CEzQx) 331
I left out the Haniyeh hit - in the regime's most secure inner sanctum area in Tehran.
Staff meetings have gotta be interesting. Posted by: rhomboid at September 28, 2024 12:28 AM (GcNJ2) 332
326 IMAO, EVERY movie by M. Night Shyamalan is a humongous miss and a great waste of 90 plus minutes of my time. I have never seen the appeal.
Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:18 AM (gKDq You didn’t like The Sixth Sense? Posted by: Sebation Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:27 AM (D6PGr) His best was his first. It's been hard for him to hit cinematic story-making magic again. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:29 AM (ynpvh) Posted by: Ciampino - carpet bombing at September 28, 2024 12:30 AM (qfLjt) 334
331 I left out the Haniyeh hit - in the regime's most secure inner sanctum area in Tehran.
Staff meetings have gotta be interesting. Posted by: rhomboid at September 28, 2024 12:28 AM (GcNJ2) I suggest they start using pagers... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:30 AM (ynpvh) 335
Christianity has produced the best results as opposed to any other system if human happiness is the goal. But it's forbidden somehow now to notice it.
Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:30 AM (nv4jJ) 336
I expect Israel to use some amphibious operations as this unfolds. Maybe small. But they own the ocean there, stupid not to use it. They have made good use of it off Gaza. And Hezb has naval commandos - well, at least they used to, not sure about today.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 28, 2024 12:30 AM (GcNJ2) 337
AOP, Gingy wanted to know if you could bring a few bags of Humpty Dumpty party mix to the TexMoMe for her.
------- You can take the gal out of Canada but not... Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:30 AM (CEzQx) 338
Not only did the A-rabs have to invent the diacritical marks to denote vowels for their borrowed Assyrian script,
Admittedly the Jews had to do the same. My/our ancestors had a fine alphabet from the Canaanites but had to switch to the Imperial Aramaic alphabet to keep up with the new Babylonian masters. Which didn't have all the consonants. And the vowels were barely there at all, so had to be dotted-and-dashed by the Masoretes. Posted by: gKWVE at September 28, 2024 12:30 AM (gKWVE) 339
AOP, Gingy wanted to know if you could bring a few bags of Humpty Dumpty party mix to the TexMoMe for her.
Posted by: Weirddave at September 28, 2024 12:23 AM (lXRbX) I see it is sold at WalMart here. If I can find it, I will bring it, for sure. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2024 12:31 AM (zTh/f) Posted by: Ciampino - shag carpet bombing at September 28, 2024 12:31 AM (qfLjt) 341
I'd love to go with the kid to the TxMoMe, but don't know if I can pull it off...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:32 AM (ynpvh) 342
>>Iran’s in a pickle - they need to attack Israel to save their credibility, but now they’re shocked at how easily Israel has shredded Hezbollah’s leadership. They now realize they have no idea what the Israelis are planning, and realize by now that the Israelis are trying hard to goad them into an attack.
Trump shredded ISIS in a few weeks. We've been lied to for years about the strength of our enemies. Russia hasn't taken Ukraine in more than 2 year but they are going to march on Europe when they do. Shake weights motion. There's not that much money in winning wars quick. Probably why our corrupt government keeps funding both sides. Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 12:32 AM (LkLld) 343
His best was his first. It's been hard for him to hit cinematic story-making magic again.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2024 12:29 AM (ynpvh) Split was my second favorite. The Village was okay. Posted by: Sebation Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:32 AM (D6PGr) 344
Michael Young @BeirutCalling 4h
Throughout the present bombings of the southern suburbs, the silence of Hezbollah is deafening. No statements, no recommendations to targeted neighborhoods, no comments on the assassination attempt against Hassan Nasrallah, nothing. This speaks (or rather doesn’t) volumes. Israel Radar @IsraelRadar_com 3h The lack of Hezbollah response so far is stunning. At this stage we were supposed to be deep into heavy missile barrages on central Israel. Maybe this will come later, but Hezbollah's ability to deter Israel from attacking Beirut is completely gone. OSINTdefender @sentdefender 3h It’s pretty funny that Hamas’s Command Structure and Fighting Effectiveness lasted longer than Hezbollahs, Iran wasted Billions to create an Ineffective Fighting Force. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:32 AM (CEzQx) Posted by: Persian Goat at September 28, 2024 12:33 AM (awTae) 346
You didn’t like The Sixth Sense?
Posted by: Sebation Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:27 AM (D6PGr) Honestly, no. And I've seen more than a couple of his films. He's one of those directors I just don't get. All this buildup for so little payoff, like a Stephen King novel. It happens. There's a few others I'm not crazy about that I don't remember at the moment, I guess not that I want to. Posted by: Arabic Runway Model at September 28, 2024 12:33 AM (gKDq2) 347
Shit! Off Arabic sex slave.
Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:34 AM (gKDq2) 348
X Blocks Links to Story on Leaked JD Vance Dossier, Suspends Author
https://tinyurl.com/4fxnve89 Posted by: Ciampino - tire iron for the author at September 28, 2024 12:35 AM (qfLjt) 349
Wish I had a neighbor like you, AOP.
I need to pull the heater core assembly in me old '70 F100 and straighten out the ducting what runs to windshield defrost outlets... kinked them and one is mangled against the hot/cold slider so it won't move now... f'd it all up when I replaced the leaky heater core a decade ago & didn't pay attention when reassembling. Don't drive the old truck in winter 'cause it's not 4wd anyway, but can't defrost/de-mist without the air flow. It's a 2 person job, but hubby can't help me. Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 12:36 AM (njWTi) 350
For what it's worth: RIP Schwan's Guy: Mourning An American Frozen Food Icon
https://tinyurl.com/4h6tnhkz Posted by: Ciampino - was it ever worth it? at September 28, 2024 12:37 AM (qfLjt) 351
Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:34 AM (gKDq2)
That’s like garrett hating The Godfather. Or me not liking Field of Dreams. Posted by: Sebation Melmoth at September 28, 2024 12:38 AM (D6PGr) 352
AOP, Gingy wanted to know if you could bring a few bags of Humpty Dumpty party mix to the TexMoMe for her.
------- You can take the gal out of Canada but not... Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:30 AM (CEzQx) Humpty-Dumpty was always second-tier. Hostess Potato Chips FTW. When you've got the Munchies, nothing else will do! Sadly it all went slowly down the drain with the PepsiCo hookup. Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 12:39 AM (FjtTl) 353
off sock
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2024 12:41 AM (vJiyU) 354
For what it's worth: RIP Schwan's Guy: Mourning An American Frozen Food Icon
https://tinyurl.com/4h6tnhkz Posted by: Ciampino - was it ever worth it? at September 28, 2024 12:37 AM (qfLjt) Schwan's was pretty big in Alberta for a while, too. Good food, but they were mighty proud of it. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2024 12:41 AM (zTh/f) 355
Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom 1h
#BREAKING: Sirens in northern Israel https://tinyurl.com/4yz3e89u Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom 2 minutes #BREAKING: Sirens in central Israel. https://tinyurl.com/yc68pewt Maps for both links. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:41 AM (CEzQx) Posted by: Ciampino - vegan and all that at September 28, 2024 12:43 AM (qfLjt) 357
Mrs VIA says 'How 'bout dem O's dare, hon?"
Sittin' back drinking a Natty Boh dare, hon. Dave understands what this means Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 28, 2024 12:44 AM (L7gdA) Posted by: DAN at September 28, 2024 12:45 AM (ioi84) 359
Alpha News @AlphaNewsMN 7h
Rep. Pam Altendorf and Sen. Steve Drazkowski respond "after a man drove into the parking lot at the Trump Store in Red Wing and proceeded to rip signs, throw rebar and verbally assault an employee." Local reports say 31-year-old Broderick Watson was cited for property damage. https://tinyurl.com/468kd7n6 screencap of statement Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:45 AM (CEzQx) 360
I need to pull the heater core assembly in me old '70 F100
There is a joke that carmakers start with the heater core and then build the rest of the vehicle around it. Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 12:46 AM (FjtTl) 361
Hostess Potato Chips FTW. When you've got the Munchies, nothing else will do!
Sadly it all went slowly down the drain with the PepsiCo hookup. Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 12:39 AM (FjtTl) Um, thought Hostess were pastries broadly interpreted. Chips? Did I miss something? Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:47 AM (nv4jJ) 362
Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 4h
Lebanon turns off all lights at the Beirut Airport https://tinyurl.com/ba7yw2bh 10 seconds Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:52 AM (CEzQx) 363
Hostess Potato Chips FTW. When you've got the Munchies, nothing else will do!
Sadly it all went slowly down the drain with the PepsiCo hookup. Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 12:39 AM (FjtTl) ----- Um, thought Hostess were pastries broadly interpreted. Chips? Did I miss something? Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:47 AM (nv4jJ) Yeah, same here. Never heard of Hostess chips. Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 12:52 AM (gKDq2) 364
Um, thought Hostess were pastries broadly interpreted. Chips? Did I miss something?
Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 12:47 AM (nv4jJ) In Canada, Hostess was a company that made potato chips. It is interesting that they had the same name as the US maker of Twinkies etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostess_Potato_Chips Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 12:52 AM (FjtTl) 365
There is a joke that carmakers start with the heater core and then build the rest of the vehicle around it.
Posted by: spindrift Hahaha, I believe it. Not so funny, though. Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 12:53 AM (njWTi) 366
Demons?
For that to work it has to be Holy Water. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2024 12:09 AM (q/K3e) Not necessarily, it may have been just a matter of acting on faith and letting God handle the rest (like the whole bronze serpent thing-it wasn't the metal that did anything, it was obedience, in this case recognizing the message from his dying wife wasn't random gibberish). There's a news report in passing about a ritual solution in Israel, that wasn't elaborated on, which supports the notion that M Night meant the whole thing to have been a spiritual matter. The practice of exorcism wouldn't have applied here since the bodies being used by the demons weren't humans created in God's image. Posted by: Methos at September 28, 2024 12:55 AM (Dnobf) 367
Mohammed Hijab @mohammed_hijab 11h
Where is the Christian outrage on the bombing of Beruit? 30% of the city is Christian. Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 8h Lebanon used to be a majority Christian country and Beirut used to be a majority Christian city before the arrival of Muslims. Hezbollah has been systematically oppressing the Christian Lebanese population. Where is your outrage? Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 3h Lebanon. A paradise lost… 🇱🇧💔 https://tinyurl.com/3kh7sas5 pretty women photo Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:55 AM (CEzQx) 368
Some in Lebanon are saying they don’t think Nasrallah is dead, he just can’t be “found”. Given the size of that explosion, I don’t think he’s ever going to be “found”.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 12:56 AM (S6gqv) Posted by: gKWVE at September 28, 2024 12:56 AM (gKWVE) 370
The Simpsons are a treasure trove of truth.
Posted by: Archer at September 28, 2024 12:56 AM (IDphi) 371
There is a joke that carmakers start with the heater core and then build the rest of the vehicle around it.
Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 12:46 AM (FjtTl) Certainly true of Volvo, LOL. You know, Studebakers of the late 40's and 50's had one of the best heaters in the industry. There was a large heater core under the passenger seat (and dual heaters were optional!). Air from a fender vent went through a blower and into the heater core from below. If it was really cold out, you could close the exterior fender vent, and open an interior door to recirculate inside air. The defroster was a small water-heated coil on the firewall, with its own 2 speed fan, and it took in interior air, and reheated slightly, which increased its capacity to absorb moisture, so it cleared the windshield quite well, even if the heater was not in use. And all the parts were easy to reach for service. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2024 12:56 AM (zTh/f) 372
Oh and before the election,
If some Conservative of true Conservative values could take Mitch McConnell on a long, long road trip west deep into the The Mojave Desert and just drop him off with a sack lunch and his favorite juice box and drive away... An AMERICAN FREEDOM MEDAL AWAITS!! Posted by: Nightwatch at September 28, 2024 12:58 AM (TDvv2) 373
368 Mohammed Hijab @mohammed_hijab 11h
Where is the Christian outrage on the bombing of Beruit? 30% of the city is Christian.” Stupid criticism. Like the rest of Lebanon, Beirut is highly segregated by group. Christian neighborhoods aren’t being harmed at all, only Hezbollah neighborhoods and areas. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 12:59 AM (S6gqv) 374
Some in Lebanon are saying they don’t think Nasrallah is dead, he just can’t be “found”. Given the size of that explosion, I don’t think he’s ever going to be “found”.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 12:56 AM (S6gqv) He may be buried under tons of rubble. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2024 12:59 AM (zTh/f) 375
Oh, and I'll add that I know the junk food aisles. Sad days for me were the demise of Taco flavored Doritoes, and Nabisco's Bacon Thins.
Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 01:00 AM (gKDq2) 376
Local reports say 31-year-old Broderick Watson was cited for property damage.
------- Cited for a few dollars of damage. Not even a misdemeanor. Feh. They should've treated him like he vandalized a Harris/Walz sign. Tased, beaten, hauled across the boards, and hastily sentenced to five years in a squalid dungeon, behind poorly defined charges of Insurrection Against Our Sacred Democracy. It's the American Way. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 01:01 AM (awTae) 377
Lebanon. A paradise lost… 🇱🇧💔
https://tinyurl.com/3kh7sas5 pretty women photo Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 28, 2024 12:55 AM (CEzQx) There was a time when Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. Based on that picture, the Nice of the Middle East might be more accurate. Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 01:02 AM (FjtTl) 378
I think I can re-do the heater by myself if I use heavy duty clamps on the ends where they stick thru the firewall, to hold the core in place while I dink around with all the other stuff before bolting down the housing. Ugh, it's been a long time.
Maybe next Spring. I've got so many other things to do before Winter sets in! Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 01:02 AM (njWTi) 379
Got a call tonight from a buddy in New Port Richey. He spent the evening taking care of his mom, who lives about an hour north up near Hudson. The storm passed there without too much drama, so he drove home and noted everything was fairly quiet there, too.
About ten minutes later, the lights went out. Goes outside to investigate, and there's about two feet of water covering the area he had earlier walked across. By the time he grabbed the cat, the water was up to his thighs as he slogged over to his girlfriend's SUV. Got the cat in and went back to hurry his girlfriend along. Fortunately, she was parked on higher ground, but even so, the water was lapping over the doorframe as they climbed in. Drove out to the road and he went back to see if he could get his car out too. By then, he saw the water was up to the door handles, so nah. He went back today and confirmed that the water flooded his home up to a foot in back, half that in the front, which spared the living room furniture. Power is still out Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 28, 2024 01:02 AM (Cbio9) 380
There was a time when Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East.
Based on that picture, the Nice of the Middle East might be more accurate. Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 01:02 AM (FjtTl) 'Secret Agent Man' was always going to Beirut. Paris (or Nice) of the Middle East and hub of spies. Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2024 01:04 AM (gKDq2) 381
Some in Lebanon are saying they don’t think Nasrallah is dead, he just can’t be “found”. Given the size of that explosion, I don’t think he’s ever going to be “found”.
He's still there, he's just spread a little thin right now. Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 28, 2024 01:04 AM (lUFok) 382
Listening some MSNBS hags who are worried that a few black women are going to vote for Trump. 98% vs 99% for Kamala seems to be their preferred outcome.
Posted by: hart at September 28, 2024 01:06 AM (nv4jJ) 383
Well, past 2300 here, and I am getting sleepy. Off to bed I go. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2024 01:08 AM (zTh/f) 384
G'night, AOP. Thanks for sharing your adventures!
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 01:08 AM (njWTi) 385
Cited for a few dollars of damage. Not even a misdemeanor. Feh.
Guy stole a gay flag and got 19 years in prison Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2024 01:09 AM (oZhjI) 386
Cited for a few dollars of damage. Not even a misdemeanor. Feh.
They should've treated him like he vandalized a Harris/Walz sign. Tased, beaten, hauled across the boards, and hastily sentenced to five years in a squalid dungeon, behind poorly defined charges of Insurrection Against Our Sacred Democracy. It's the American Way. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 01:01 AM (awTae) Imagine if he had chirped his tires over a rainbow crosswalk. Posted by: spindrift at September 28, 2024 01:10 AM (FjtTl) 387
Guy stole a gay flag and got 19 years in prison
Cue the Mike Oblabla clip of it saying "all that for just a flag?!" Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 01:12 AM (njWTi) 388
Amazon video has "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" available. I watched the pilot episode and saw the most amazingly dirty joke they managed to slip past the censors.
Set up was a few short skits of a man getting into an elevator and having minor mishaps as the two door halves slide closed horizontally. Final skit was the man enters the elevator, then two Japanese geishas scurry in to join him. Then the doors slide closed vertically. The old sailors will get it. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 28, 2024 01:14 AM (aSDr4) 389
This is a few hours old, but... NC post-Helene:
tinyurl.com/3usxm4ew Prayers up for our NC Morons! Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 01:24 AM (njWTi) 390
From another site I visit:
"I'm in Grovemont. We have cell service, but no power or water. We are completely cut off, old 70 is impassable in either direction. No emergency or first responders can access us. In my neighborhood off Westwood Ave we had major mudslides. 3 or 4 houses went down the mountain with their inhabitants. One woman died (confirmed), and there was possibly another death. Also serious injuries. All we have here now is Neighbor helping neighbor, trying to help aid and cope. We are completely on our own right now. F&J Market, the laundromat, and everything on the river side of the road in that area is destroyed. It looks like bombs went off all over the community. My neighbor saw a man floating down old 70 on top of his mobile home this morning, screaming for help. There was no way to help him. The water was so fast. I'm sure there will be more casualties. My God, I've never seen anything like this." Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 01:25 AM (njWTi) 391
Gotta get some z's so I can be up in time to pray and drink coffee...
Is it just me, or is the daytime getting shorter? Probably just me. https://youtu.be/WuzGds5t92U G'nite, y'all. Posted by: mindful webworker - lastly but not leastly at September 28, 2024 01:27 AM (wPLcW) 392
Biden's migrant 'super-highway' revealed: Millions in US taxpayer cash turned the world's deadliest smuggling route into a 'safe' passage... how TODD BENSMAN was threatened for exposing it.
https://mol.im/a/13895773 I wonder who the real architect(s) is/are? Posted by: Ciampino - what's the plan? at September 28, 2024 01:41 AM (qfLjt) 393
Horror on campus as Arizona college student is randomly stabbed by classmate who thought she was an 'easy target'
https://mol.im/a/13898831 Stabber? Ugly bitch too. Posted by: Ciampino - what was her plan for after? at September 28, 2024 01:48 AM (qfLjt) 394
BBC airs Nova massacre film after insisting references to Hamas as terrorists removed
https://tinyurl.com/msyz5r8r Posted by: Ciampino - don't call the SS Nazis either at September 28, 2024 01:53 AM (qfLjt) 395
The last Japanese survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack story is pretty amazing, especially considering how few of the pre war IJN flying personnel even survived the war. From then on they took heavy losses and never trained enough replacements so they pretty much flew til they couldn't. Wonder if he was injured badly at some later point and that's how he survived the war...
Posted by: azjaeger at September 28, 2024 01:53 AM (3/XaG) 396
The carrier fliers had it worst. Imagine returning, low on fuel, to some point in the deep blue sea (without GPS and fancy radar) and no carrier. Unbeknownst to you, carrier was sunk. At night it would have been an even worse horror trying to even see the ocean in a moonless period.
Posted by: Ciampino - did Jap airmen have flotation vests? at September 28, 2024 02:04 AM (qfLjt) 397
Knock knock?
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la cucina adesso e pulita #99 at September 28, 2024 02:07 AM (qfLjt) 398
Knock knock who?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 02:09 AM (zG664) Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2024 02:11 AM (DgGvY) 400
Aha, it's alive!
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non e morto at September 28, 2024 02:11 AM (qfLjt) 401
Every pedophile (including members of any organization promoting pedophilia and their "allies") should have their balls chewed off by Fido.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2024 02:11 AM (zG664) 402
I wonder who the real architect(s) is/are?
Posted by: Ciampino - what's the plan? at September 28, 2024 01:41 AM (qfLjt) Don't blame that crap on us. Engineers do this sort of junk, not architects. Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 28, 2024 02:13 AM (sRfrW) 403
Stabber? Ugly bitch too.
Posted by: Ciampino - what was her plan for after? at September 28, 2024 01:48 AM (qfLjt) She seems nice. Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 28, 2024 02:14 AM (sRfrW) 404
Not only did the A-rabs have to invent the diacritical marks to denote vowels for their borrowed Assyrian script,
Admittedly the Jews had to do the same. My/our ancestors had a fine alphabet from the Canaanites but had to switch to the Imperial Aramaic alphabet to keep up with the new Babylonian masters. Which didn't have all the consonants. And the vowels were barely there at all, so had to be dotted-and-dashed by the Masoretes. Posted by: gKWVE Parallel evolution. Halfway around the world..... well, maybe 1/3 of the way around..... the Koreans wrote Hangul the same way. Consonants, with other marks around them to add vowels to them. Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2024 02:15 AM (DgGvY) 405
Horror on campus as Arizona college student is randomly stabbed by classmate who thought she was an 'easy target'
https://mol.im/a/13898831 Stabber? Ugly bitch too. Posted by: Ciampino - what was her plan for after? at September 28, 2024 01:48 AM (qfLjt) And it wasn't random. The other person on its list was a veteran so it chose the little white girl instead. Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at September 28, 2024 02:20 AM (l7Kbv) 406
JQ, Thanks for posting that stuff from North Carolina, I am worried about Mike Hammer, he is very close to Asheville, I think that another poster is too. Prayers to all of our Horde family in Florida, and the Carolinas, especially publius and Miley, Miklos, Screaming In Digital and Mike Hammer and NCKate, I am sure that I am forgetting some people, Dave in Florida and Insom. We worry about you guys and want you to be safe, damp maybe, but safe!!!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2024 02:25 AM (Sgq8y) 407
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Amazing that with a few thousand years, Africans south of the Sahara never developed a written language, or if they did then it disappeared along the way. Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non avevano la lingua scritta at September 28, 2024 02:26 AM (qfLjt) 408
I thought the clock read 3:30
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 02:31 AM (fwDg9) 409
Hi, DDS!
Yes, I'm worried about our NC fambly also... Looks like Asheville got hit hard. Just gotta wait n see... Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 02:34 AM (njWTi) 410
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR SEPTEMBER 28
SpaceX - NASA and SpaceX are scheduling the launch of SpaceX Crew-9 on September 28; lift-off is set for 1:17 p.m. EDT, 1717 UTC, 19:17 CEST, and the booster will make a landing at LZ-1, Cape Canaveral SFB. https://www.youtube.com/live/bvMUVxflvxI Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il lancio e oggi at September 28, 2024 02:36 AM (qfLjt) 411
I have a cousin near Marietta, GA-- not really 'in touch' with him, but praying for his family now... Hope they're OK!
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 02:37 AM (njWTi) 412
I hope Mike is ok; pretty sure he's cutoff from everything, too. Isn't he in Hendersonville? They're cutoff in both directions, as near as I can tell.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at September 28, 2024 02:40 AM (Vvh2V) 413
My brother's best friend lives in Marietta, I shall pray for him and his family too.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2024 02:40 AM (Sgq8y) 414
406 JQ, Thanks for posting that stuff from North Carolina, I am worried about Mike Hammer, he is very close to Asheville, I think that another poster is too. Prayers to all of our Horde family in Florida, and the Carolinas, especially publius and Miley, Miklos, Screaming In Digital and Mike Hammer and NCKate, I am sure that I am forgetting some people, Dave in Florida and Insom. We worry about you guys and want you to be safe, damp maybe, but safe!!!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2024 02:25 AM (Sgq8y) Agreed on all this! Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 02:45 AM (64Zez) 415
It's so scary, even here @1000s of miles away!
I pray for our acquaintances & realize that it could be a while before we know anything about their circumstances. Hope you're safe, fellow Morons!!!! Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 02:50 AM (njWTi) 416
379 Got a call tonight from a buddy in New Port Richey. He spent the evening taking care of his mom, who lives about an hour north up near Hudson. The storm passed there without too much drama, so he drove home and noted everything was fairly quiet there, too.
About ten minutes later, the lights went out. Goes outside to investigate, and there's about two feet of water covering the area he had earlier walked across. Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 28, 2024 01:02 AM (Cbio9) Wow! Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 02:50 AM (64Zez) 417
Anyone else ever rationalize playing craps and blackjack is a great practical application of statistics?
----- Playing caps and blackjack requires the practical application of *probability*, not statistics. Statistics is what the casino uses to detect funny business. Probability is the future (will he make his point?), while statistics is the past (is this dealer going bust more than she should?). They are related, but require... different... mindsets to use. I aced probability in math, but struggled to a (just barely) B in using stats in a measurement class. Posted by: buddhaha at September 28, 2024 03:03 AM (7F+09) 418
Turned on Primer Impacto today. Haven't seen it in years. Jackie Guerrido's ass during the weather segment was as big as Louisiana.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 28, 2024 03:08 AM (ufFY8) 419
Every armed robber needs to meet such instant justice.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 28, 2024 03:10 AM (ufFY8) 420
The Netflix version of One Piece was pretty good, and true to the source. The chick was easy on the eyes, too.
I wonder when season 2 will be teady. Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 28, 2024 03:11 AM (ufFY8) 421
For sure blackjack and poker are great examples of probability, statistics, and even game theory. Poker can open up game theory that can even be applied to warfare, and other human pursuits.
On the other hand, When you look at legal gambling, such as blackjack or poker in a casino or sports betting or example, You realize it is not complicated. It is simple. In blackjack or sports betting, the player makes a risk that won’t be paid off in relation to the risk he takes. The mask makes it impossible for the large group of players to win, As a group, they are simply paying a toll for the entertainment. Casino pokers even more simple, You play against each other not the house in the house charges you a fare. The house wins every dealt. If they charge too much, Even the best player in the world cannot possibly win, They try to keep the charge just enough that you think it is possible to have a chance. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 03:25 AM (BYMwh) 422
Played blackjack only a little while in Reno. I'm not a pro, so just had some fun.
Was winning, until dealer changed... scooped all my chips after that first failing hand. Haha, the "house" paid for my gasoline there & back from ID, and all my souvenirs. Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 03:29 AM (njWTi) 423
There are many movies about casinos going after blackjack card counters. The reality in Vegas is they do go after card counters. I like this a bit to Trump derangement syndrome. The casinos go after blackjack card counters because they think that is what they’re supposed to do.
The reality is 90% of people counting cards in Vegas have no clue what they’re doing and are long-term losers. Also, when other players sees someone win, it makes them bet more and it helps that casino. The number show the casinos are winning, and if you don’t trust the numbers, check out the skyscrapers. Even the idea of card counting has made billions for Las Vegas. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 03:32 AM (BYMwh) 424
Well Horde I am off to bed, sleep beckons, it will be an uneasy sleep, thinking about the Horde family tonight. I will hit the prayer thread in the morning before I am out the door to my bridge, God Bless You all, you are great people.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2024 03:37 AM (Sgq8y) 425
youtu.be/bkvOvBOP3MU
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 03:37 AM (njWTi) 426
G'night, Debby!
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 03:38 AM (njWTi) 427
I hope I am.not up yet
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 03:42 AM (fwDg9) Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 03:52 AM (njWTi) 429
422, people win every day in casinos, that is why they do it, they have a chance, The casinos have the odds with them. They’re just not about the up-and-down based on the individual not even the up-and-down based on the day or a week. They know that overtime they will get all the money and that is why they do everything they can to get every player to simply keep betting. One of the differences between casinos and players is players believe there’s a thing called a streak.
You’ll get players and even people that ride about gambling talk about amplifying a streak or never giving up when you’re on a hot streak. Casinos think otherwise, They know in the end, they will get it all as long as you play the more you pay them. In the end, it is not talent or luck the numbers of the games are already cooked in. When you look at gambling and the impact of variance, you realize even the games were even, Which they are not, It would still be extremely unlikely to win in the long term unless you had a bankroll of billions like the casinos do. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 03:55 AM (BYMwh) Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 03:59 AM (64Zez) 431
Pixy's up!
Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 04:02 AM (64Zez) 432
Of course, Quint. I understand.
Gambling is not my *thing*-- I only went the one time, had some fun, and managed to come out ahead. Because I *walked away.* The allure of Free Money is very strong, and so many sacrifice their financial security for that elusive payoff.... very sad. Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 04:05 AM (njWTi) 433
432, you did the right thing, you quit when you were ahead. I wasn’t trying to bash gambling, and I do realize people win. In fact, the gambling industry needs people to win.
I’m glad you won. That is cool. I’ve known many people that did just that same thing and then they have a really great memory. I will say this one thing if you ever look into people who have lost millions of gambling, Those same people won millions as well, That is how the thing works. When you look at casino games clearly you see how the casino advantage is built-in. The more welcoming the game, the greater the casino advantage. You see this was slot machines and roulette. They have the greatest advantage because they are the most welcoming. Games like blackjack and craps are less welcoming in the casino has a slightly less strong advantage. Sure, there are legit professional gambler, who make a living they do exist, but they are less common than even the average professional baseball player. Probably professional poker players of the most famous and many of them are extremely smart. But it is also well-known that many of them are gambling addicts that will piss away their Poker winnings Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 04:14 AM (BYMwh) 434
At a blackjack table just to get that gambling high. I have no problems with gambling. I think learning basic strategy at blackjack is a good idea, I think learning about poker is an excellent idea because poker can teach you a lot about life game theory and so many challenging issues we all face they use it even for warfare.
If I thought I was a great poker player, which I don’t, even though I played for 30 years, I would try to find a local game that doesn’t have the casino. Rake, The casino rake is in all games. That’s how they built the skyscrapers. When I look at people talking about or going along with sports betting, I really kinda have to laugh in a sad way. It is simply impossible to beat sports betting and anyone who says otherwise is lying to you. If you do it for fun then great a lot of people blow 100 bucks on a meal at a French restaurant. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 04:18 AM (BYMwh) 435
The worst are: the non-pro gamblers, what *think* they know it all, and spend ALL their earnings on That Elusive Payoff what *never* happens...
Have known only 2 such, in my life, and that was enough. Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 04:20 AM (njWTi) 436
435, in my opinion, one of the most dangerous times in life is to be kind of knowledgeable of a subject. When you are kind of an intermediate learner, whether it be a language or learning about wine or gambling or whatever that is the most dangerous time because that’s when you think you know a lot, but you do not. Better to be a total beginner or an expert, who is dealt with decades of the stuff. I think there’s an old saw about that but sometimes a little knowledge is the worst.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 04:23 AM (BYMwh) 437
Quint, I'm only referring to the casual gambler-- you know, they guy with a family but low-income & thinks he can 'beat the house with this one cool trick' that he heard from a friend of a friend, and then loses the rent money.
Semi-pros have a better chance. I was once married to a gambling type. "Number Two" is how I refer to him. Never will speak his name again-- Gambled everything he could, and thank God we didn't live near any LEGAL casinos, the ill iggles were costly enough! Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 04:29 AM (njWTi) 438
437, I think everyone should sit at a blackjack table, low price blackjack table for a few hours. You will hear people spew the most incredible nonsense and they take it seriously.
They will criticize some random person. “Taking their card” Because that person made its choice that other Rando would not have made. Pro tip, If you ever hear someone at a blackjack table, say someone else “took their card”, Then you know for sure that person knows nothing about gambling. They could be good people probably they are, but they don’t know anything about gambling. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 04:36 AM (BYMwh) 439
Took me many years after that, to even purchase a scratch ticket-- saw Number Two buy up 20 bucks' worth, scratch, collect, buy another 20... until he'd burnt a hundred dollars!
And then he wanted to "borrow" (hah! as if!) more from me.... Fk that! Dude was an addict. Good riddance. I only buy *occasionally* like, couple times A YEAR. Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 04:37 AM (njWTi) 440
I'd rather *watch* blackjack, than play it.
Like you say, Quint, the players blab stupidly, and it's better to be able to walk by. Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 04:40 AM (njWTi) 441
Jq, all kidding aside the new one who thinks you can make a living up of gambling. It’s slide out delusional. Yes, you could be better at poker than the average person, but you also have to deal with the casino rake which mentioned above. There is also this thing called variance, which newbies to gambling don’t seem to care about, but the reality is variance is probably the most important thing when it comes to Winning at gambling.
The theory the varied and the reality is that even if you are playing better than your opponents, you can still continue to lose for a very long time. Play poker, for example, for a living, you have to have so much money to cover various that could last for months or even years that you can continue to lose. That is the reality and legitimate poker pro would tell me that is the case. Who has so much money that they can lose for months and years at their job? Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 04:41 AM (BYMwh) 442
440, Watch for sure have some fun. I won’t lie I once thought that maybe I could be a poker pro or a blackjack pro. Even the best poker pros will tell you it’s a horrible way to make a living. You’re sitting at a casino with some really shady characters at 12 hours a day just to eat out some advantage that you created studying and working for years.
Every poker pro will tell you the person you want to be is the guy that already has a great living and is just showing up at the table to have fun. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 04:43 AM (BYMwh) 443
Exactly, Quint.
Bottom line? I don't have enough money, to 'make money' at gambling. Few people do. Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 04:44 AM (njWTi) 444
I send scratch tickets to my siblings, in their Christmas cards. Sometimes, will add Pow3rball or Meg@millions tickets... Telling them: Keep it all! Buy a house or whatever. I can only afford the ticket right now, but would do that for you if I could.
Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 04:49 AM (njWTi) 445
444, very cool, you are a nice person.
Do I have a scratch ticket story. I needed to get some change and decided to put 20 bucks into a scratch machine. My plan was to buy a one dollar ticket and get the rest in change. I quickly learned that the machine offered survivor sports Dubai from the dollars Worth a ticket. I “won” $20, so I broke even. I was lucky there, lesson learned. Most of gamblers Would. I made a mistake, and was lucky to.Break even on it. Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 05:24 AM (BYMwh) 446
The scratch ticket vending machines here, do NOT give change!
Only deposit as much as you intend to spend! Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 05:37 AM (njWTi) 447
446, you are too kind. I looked at some of my posts up thread and say the type to text made a mess of things. Thanks for not pointing that out.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 05:40 AM (BYMwh) 448
LOL, Quint!
Wasn't sure what to make of all that, so figured I wouldn't mention it. Hahaha, hope you're having a good night/morning/whatever... Posted by: JQ at September 28, 2024 05:42 AM (njWTi) 449
448, whatever for sure at this point lol.
Posted by: Quint at September 28, 2024 06:18 AM (BYMwh) 450
WeirdDave!!
Posted by: Candidus at September 28, 2024 09:42 AM (QDqzB) FAFO Friday Cafe"The Markhor, an under-appreciated amazing animal Via Chris Henry Parrot plays peak-a-boo with cat. This parrot is pining for the fjords. Or so the Russians would have you believe. Dog knows who its master really is. Cat contortionists. Bulldog is all about that skateboarding life. Sometimes sea otters wrap themselves in seaweed as blankets. Border collies are now herding my heart. Bison rush hour. Not to beat a dead horse, but these bears. Their out-of-controlness is not diminishing. Cow thinks it's a puppy. (IG) Jumping off a high bridge (into a river). (IG) Dog has a couch-tantrum over not getting to go for a ride. (IG) From Steve Inman: Some f***ed around. Some found out. A pinata full of justice. Sometimes justice comes in the form of a kick to the melon.
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Yay, Cafe! Thank you!
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2024 07:27 PM (njWTi) 2
Fancy goat.
Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2024 07:28 PM (VGOMa) 3
Hola
Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 27, 2024 07:29 PM (8RNuU) 4
Top pic goat species looks like the classic devil/goat imagery.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:29 PM (PDf99) 5
Is that top pic a shot of what Nasrallah saw after checking his pager earlier today? And a voice saying "Hello big boy! There's 71 more just out the door!"
Posted by: SimoHayha at September 27, 2024 07:29 PM (KfVMM) Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2024 07:30 PM (sF9/m) 7
Wooot! Friday Cafe!
Posted by: Toni at September 27, 2024 07:30 PM (ugzWe) 8
Big Bada Boom
Posted by: jsg at September 27, 2024 07:30 PM (hBlxk) 9
Corgis called.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 07:30 PM (CEzQx) 10
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 07:30 PM (fwDg9) 11
Karakoram, haven't been there in a spell. I liked those mtns, and the highway (highest in the world) that runs through it. I think it runs south out of Kashgar straight down through China to Pakistan but it used to be a dirt rut when you crossed the Chinese border into Paki land. I wonder if its any better now.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at September 27, 2024 07:30 PM (5kqzw) 12
Man, 35, found dead on conveyor belt at recycling facility
- Maybe we will finally solve the mystery of reincarnation. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 07:32 PM (L/fGl) 13
lol, are the genius iranians really trying to bait Israel into bombing the supposed, lol, "supreme leader's" home? Are they going to bomb the home themselves and report it was filled with orphans and medical supplies? Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:32 PM (oeozt) 14
even ol' Stan bows to that goat
Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 07:32 PM (gKWVE) 15
Doggies are God's gift to humans
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 07:32 PM (fwDg9) 16
Hello cafe! Animals are the best.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2024 07:34 PM (p4NUW) 17
12 Man, 35, found dead on conveyor belt at recycling facility
- Maybe we will finally solve the mystery of reincarnation. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 07:32 PM (L/fGl) Soylent Green. Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 07:34 PM (QAkQ3) 18
A doorman for a cat? That poor dog is being humiliated!
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 07:34 PM (vFG9F) 19
>>> Doggies are God's gift to humans
As someone whose sweet doggo is napping on their legs right now, I'd say yes. Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 07:34 PM (0+96D) 20
One of those goats had a starring role in "The King's Man"
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:35 PM (I1GXe) 21
Willowed:
@251 { previous thread }/Erebus: It's been ... quite a number of years since I lost my grandparents, and they were a huge positive influence in my life. I regularly tell stories of things I saw when they were alive, of the good things they did for me, and what I learned from them, and how that benefits me even today. I still miss them, and this doesn't fill the hole of them being gone, but it helps some. Keep your mother's memory alive for yourself and others in the same way. And I'm so glad to hear she was a great mother to you. My mom's still alive, and we live in the same town so I get to visit with her pretty often, and we talk on the phone for half an hour to an hour every couple of days. She's getting pretty up there in years, and I'm doing more and more for her, while she still tries to do things for me (Moms, ya can't stop 'em from helping when they want to, right?) :-) Everyone: Call your mother. Tell her you love her even if you haven't said that in a while. Enjoy time with her while they're here, and while you can. This is the time to do so. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 07:35 PM (O7YUW) 22
Shots of bourbon or Irish and a Shiner Bock for everyone on me!
Doubles for anyone with an E-ticket for the Horse Trailer at the upcoming TXMoMe. Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2024 07:38 PM (a3Q+t) 23
Does it make me a bad person that I enjoyed the Inman video so much? Probably but I'll live with it.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2024 07:38 PM (/y8xj) 24
LASue, everyday.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:39 PM (I1GXe) 25
the FAFO vid has a soundtrack
youtu.be/YmhokOijOok Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 07:39 PM (gKWVE) 26
Oh no! Glass cleaner-dog video goes to a different [though still cute] one!
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 07:39 PM (CEzQx) Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:39 PM (oeozt) 28
Goat's got crazy eyes.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 07:40 PM (gdH0L) 29
As someone whose sweet doggo is napping on their legs right now, I'd say yes.
Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 07:34 PM They're asleep standing up? Mom says dogs can't do that. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 27, 2024 07:40 PM (a3Q+t) 30
Duncanthrax, gladly accepted. Some people are just not ready for the outdoor life.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:42 PM (I1GXe) Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 27, 2024 07:42 PM (3wi/L) 32
So I will be inheriting one dog and one kitty soon.
That means I will have a total of two dogs and three kitties. Lord help me and the wife. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:43 PM (elaR+) 33
Someone needs to tell WeirdDave to not link Instagram. I ain't making a account there.
And good evening Horde. Posted by: redchief at September 27, 2024 07:43 PM (6z24t) Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 07:44 PM (CEzQx) 35
Cat goes under door like a lizard.
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 07:45 PM (LHPAg) 36
Dog tantrum cracks me up.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 07:46 PM (OX9vb) 37
Hey, All. Evenin’.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 07:46 PM (v6JzV) 38
20 days!!! to MoMe.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:47 PM (I1GXe) 39
OK, music lovers.
Get ready for some Japanese Bluegrass Or, is it Brue Grass? https://tinyurl.com/5n6ezusm Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 27, 2024 07:47 PM (MeG8a) 40
12 Man, 35, found dead on conveyor belt at recycling facility
- Maybe we will finally solve the mystery of reincarnation. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 07:32 PM (L/fGl) *snort **extra snort Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 07:47 PM (OX9vb) 41
That's definitely a service dog opening the door for the cat. I see the oxygen machine in the corner.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 07:47 PM (i514R) 42
>>Everyone: Call your mother. Tell her you love her even if you haven't said that in a while. Enjoy time with her while they're here, and while you can. This is the time to do so.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 07:35 PM My folks are gone, but I have a 97 year old aunt that I go visit about once a week. Conversation can get repetitive, but she doesn't hold it against me. Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2024 07:48 PM (VGOMa) 43
My dog is snoring and farting at my feet, as I watch Beirut being decimated. Survived the hurricane, I've got beer, cigars and some Blackberry ice cream to get me through the night. Not a shabby Friday, if I do say so myself.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 07:48 PM (2cS/G) Posted by: Duh at September 27, 2024 07:49 PM (aF1zo) 45
huerfano, best comment ever.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:49 PM (I1GXe) 46
Off dumb sock!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 07:49 PM (aF1zo) 47
Ben Had, any update on JT?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 07:50 PM (v6JzV) 48
Inman video:
The second one in black and white- that is from Russia. IIRC the guy is a boxer and the guys he dropped messed with him and his wife so he stepped out back with them to "talk". Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:50 PM (elaR+) Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:50 PM (0uleR) 50
My mom has been gone longer than I had her.
Her brother is still alive though. I should call him. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 07:51 PM (aF1zo) 51
Everyone: Call your mother. Tell her you love her even if you haven't said that in a while. Enjoy time with her while they're here, and while you can. This is the time to do so.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant What he said. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:52 PM (elaR+) 52
Bulgaroctonus, Not at the moment. He has received an outpouring of love and well wishes from the Horde.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:52 PM (I1GXe) 53
50 My mom has been gone longer than I had her.
Her brother is still alive though. I should call him. Posted by: nurse ratched at September I miss my mom every day. Which reminds me, I should call my dad and my stepdad. Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2024 07:52 PM (p4NUW) 54
Evening, Cafe-goers, and Ace, of course!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 07:53 PM (pJe2/) 55
@Soothsayer We got a few inches of hard rain in Central NC, but our occasional place in the Blue Ridge (Linville, Lake James, etc. ) got soaked bad. Lots of patios and docks gone. The dams couldn't keep up.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 07:53 PM (2cS/G) 56
My family has been replaced by all of you.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:54 PM (I1GXe) 57
Am I the first to mention this? Is this genius of the Trump campaign? Notice how all the "town hall" rallies he's been having is with Women. Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:54 PM (0uleR) 58
38 20 days!!! to MoMe.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:47 PM (I1GXe) I haz a sad. It is looking like I have to cancel my MoMe vacation. Cow-orker has a rapidly deteriorating heart condition, and chances are good she's going to be off work a lot in October. So, disappointed for myself, but prayers are in order for my coworker and friend. Adopted her grandchildren after their mother died of a drug overdose. These children need her. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 07:55 PM (OX9vb) Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 07:55 PM (aF1zo) 60
We got a few inches of hard rain in Central NC, but our occasional place in the Blue Ridge (Linville, Lake James, etc. ) got soaked bad. Lots of patios and docks gone. The dams couldn't keep up. Posted by: Lincolntf No flooded basements? Doesn't sound too bad. Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:55 PM (0uleR) 61
Miss my Mom and Dad big time. Every day.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 07:55 PM (mH6SG) 62
The president is live now in Michigan: https://www.youtube.com/live/Z-wlEEx70qE?si=osWkJd5DsIPe3Q5g Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:56 PM (0uleR) 63
here's an AI song about our Vice President
youtu.be/eShxGMD1bJY Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 07:58 PM (gKWVE) 64
Basements? They are all slab/stilt built that close to the water. Were you kidding? Even in Winston, my sump ran most of the day, and I'm at the top of a hill.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 07:58 PM (2cS/G) 65
56 All Christmas wish lists go to Ben Had! Woohoo!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 07:58 PM (v6JzV) 66
Mammy Eromero died 23 years ago at 72. Tomorrow I'm I'm taking my good friend's widow to breakfast. She's a feisty 94.
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 07:59 PM (LHPAg) 67
That horny goat is screwed.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 07:59 PM (IG4Id) 68
nurse, just the opposite . You all bring me such memories and so much laughter and I can't even keep up the the knowledge.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:59 PM (I1GXe) 69
Oh, that's right! I forgot that houses in the South are on slabs or have "crawl spaces" underneath, no basements. Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:59 PM (0uleR) 70
"Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) said Friday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that the changing climate is causing hurricanes to become more severe when discussing the aftermath of Hurricane Helene."
It's like there have never been big hurricanes before. Idiot. Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 08:00 PM (vFG9F) Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2024 08:00 PM (VGOMa) 72
Notorious BFD, been missing my dad, and even tho she stopped recognizing me two years ago and couldn't talk this last year, I still had my mom in a way.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 08:00 PM (elaR+) 73
Man, 35, found dead on conveyor belt at recycling facility
At least he wasn't bound and gagged and alive. Good news abounds! Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2024 08:01 PM (OkFiN) 74
61 Notorious, I don’t think a day goes by when I don’t think of my departed parents.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 08:01 PM (v6JzV) 75
Parents, grandparents & favorite aunts/uncles are now gone.
The only remaining aunts/uncles are covidiot karens & we no longer speak. Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2024 08:02 PM (njWTi) 76
"Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) said Friday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that the changing climate is causing hurricanes to become more severe when discussing the aftermath of Hurricane Helene."
It's like there have never been big hurricanes before. Idiot. Posted by: fd Last I heard this year was pretty mild as far as hurricanes went. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 08:02 PM (elaR+) 77
70 "Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) said Friday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that the changing climate is causing hurricanes to become more severe when discussing the aftermath of Hurricane Helene."
It's like there have never been big hurricanes before. Idiot. Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 08:00 PM (vFG9F) And I'm sure no one bothered to Fact Check that statement. Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 08:02 PM (QAkQ3) 78
Do baby Markhors like to jump on your back?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2024 08:02 PM (63Dwl) 79
But doggie throwing ball over to dozens of strangers is good
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 08:03 PM (fwDg9) 80
Dash, I will not give up hope.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 08:04 PM (I1GXe) 81
"Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) said Friday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that the changing climate is causing hurricanes to become more severe when discussing the aftermath of Hurricane Helene."
It's like there have never been big hurricanes before. Idiot. Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 08:00 PM (vFG9F) He sounds just like a Deranged Democrat. Fuck him, and the electric car he rode in on. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 08:05 PM (pJe2/) 82
Man, 35, found dead on conveyor belt at recycling facility
At least he wasn't bound and gagged and alive. Good news abounds! Posted by: t-bird What? They don't recycle that either? Jeeeez! Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 08:05 PM (elaR+) 83
>>>Parrot plays peak-a-boo with cat.
Yes, the parrot is "playing". Or taunting, if you prefer. Watching the cat's tail and body language, it is not in play mode. It's in kill that thing mode. Posted by: No Name Today at September 27, 2024 08:06 PM (vlXMQ) 84
Watching the cat's tail and body language, it is not in play mode. It's in kill that thing mode.
Posted by: No Name Today Hah! Yep. Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2024 08:07 PM (njWTi) 85
One sorta big hurricane comes along and it's supposedly our damn fault for using gasoline and charcoal while Camela flies all over the place spewing carbon and idiocy across the planet and it's ok because she's important and were not.
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 08:07 PM (vFG9F) 86
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Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 08:07 PM (vFG9F) 87
Do baby Markhors like to jump on your back?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2024 08:02 PM (63Dwl) Sounds like a Mississippi river boat pilot when Kamala comes into sight on the bank: "Mark, whore!" Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 08:08 PM (pJe2/) 88
The president had a good town hall -- even went into specifics on some things. Sounded good, looked good. Good crowd. Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 08:08 PM (0uleR) Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2024 08:09 PM (6ydKt) 90
Thank you Ace for the cafes. It's one of the few things on the intertubes that doesn't leave me feeling miserable. And for the rest of the site for 20-25 years? probably more, it's a good place, moron island, mostly better morons than me. I'm a submoron.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 27, 2024 08:10 PM (Y6IkP) 91
If I saw a goat like the one in that top photo, I think I'd be the one who faints and tips over.
Posted by: Paco at September 27, 2024 08:10 PM (njExo) 92
80 Dash, I will not give up hope.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 08:04 PM (I1GXe) Same! There's still a chance! Not going to reserve that hotel room, though. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 08:12 PM (OX9vb) 93
You know when I was told this morning we were making a run to the border I thought we were going to Taco Bell for lunch. to my surprise when we got off of AF-2 we were in Arizona????
Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 27, 2024 08:17 PM (hbjSA) 94
Man, a bear will trash your s**t and then just drop and start baggin' z's on your front porch.
Posted by: Paco at September 27, 2024 08:17 PM (njExo) 95
I'm not a violent person, but those Steve Inman videos have me screaming "kill him, kill him!"
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 27, 2024 08:19 PM (XMwZJ) 96
My Mom and Dad were not my birth parents. My sis and I were adopted. I am grateful beyond words to this day that it played out that way. Never met my biological parents and never felt a need to do so. I have been truly blessed.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 08:20 PM (mH6SG) 97
When you're placed on the conveyor of life you never know how far you'll go. You may know where the conveyor is headed but not how far you'll go.
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 08:20 PM (LHPAg) 98
Rick Scott is, apparently, an idiot. Hurricanes have been declining in frequency and severity for the past two decades.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 27, 2024 08:21 PM (XMwZJ) 99
My Mom and Dad were not my birth parents. My sis and I were adopted. I am grateful beyond words to this day that it played out that way. Never met my biological parents and never felt a need to do so. I have been truly blessed.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 08:20 PM (mH6SG) My step mom was a far better parent than my birth mom. It happens. Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2024 08:22 PM (D7oie) Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2024 08:25 PM (dIske) 101
The Live feed from Lebanon is brutal. A major city, unlike Gaza, just having airstrikes next to their McDonald's, AT&T buildings, etc. Big booms, big plumes. Any rational nation would surrender/sue for peace, but Lebanon is a slave to Iran. They get what they tolerated.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 08:25 PM (2cS/G) 102
Those fight videos gets my blood up. Make me want to kick some bad guys ass. I'd probably just fall down.
https://tinyurl.com/yc5sm72w Posted by: javems at September 27, 2024 08:25 PM (8I4hW) 103
Natural Climate change happens. Man Made Climate Change is a scam. As simple as that.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 08:25 PM (i514R) 104
The Live feed from Lebanon is brutal. A major city, unlike Gaza, just having airstrikes next to their McDonald's, AT&T buildings, etc. Big booms, big plumes. Any rational nation would surrender/sue for peace, but Lebanon is a slave to Iran. They get what they tolerated.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 08:25 PM (2cS/G) Lebanon has little choice in this matter, Hezbolla is not Lebanese, and what government there is in Lebanon has no control over its actions. Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2024 08:27 PM (D7oie) 105
Although rare, penguins will occasionally nest on front porches. If you should find penguins on your porch, do not approach or feed them. They can give a nasty bite, and will spew a deadly mephitic missile at the slightest provocation. The combination will result in a severe infection and probable death. Call you local animal control and ask for the offending creatures to be removed and relocated to the front porch of someone you don't like.
Posted by: Penguin at September 27, 2024 08:27 PM (vFG9F) 106
Nic fix
Posted by: Penguin Facts at September 27, 2024 08:28 PM (vFG9F) Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 08:28 PM (OX9vb) 108
So, we had a relatively short power outage here in Bourbon Country. Hats off to the linesmen who work tirelessly to keep the power on. It wasn't like this years ago. If power went down, due to trees or weather, we'd be out for days/weeks. Sometimes months.*
*Not us... but I do know of people who where without electricity for 2+ months. Huge damage. That sucked. Bigly. Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2024 08:28 PM (Q4IgG) 109
My father was not kind to me.
It is what it is. I try to not say I envy others' relationships with their parents. But I do. God bless y'all who have amazing parents. And even more for those who didn't. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 08:29 PM (q4Gku) 110
61 Miss my Mom and Dad big time. Every day.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 07:55 PM (mH6SG) When we first had our daughter home after her car wreck TBI, I told my SIL when she called to check on us that what would be the biggest help would be if I could just talk to our late mom. Fifteen minutes, that's all I need. So she could say we were not the worst incompetent parents in the world, that we would figure this out and that she WOULD get better- and I would believe her. Posted by: sal at September 27, 2024 08:31 PM (f+FmA) 111
Lebanon has little choice in this matter, Hezbolla is not Lebanese, and what government there is in Lebanon has no control over its actions.
There once was a time when Lebanese Christians had some impact in fighting to save their country. I worked with one who had come here for a better life. Dude was a badass but a hell of a great guy. I often wonder where he is right now. Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 08:31 PM (mH6SG) 112
Trump meets with Zelensky after all and thanks him for ending ‘impeachment hoax’
Former President Donald Trump thanked a surprised-looking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for ending the “impeachment hoax” ahead of their Friday meeting. “[Zelensky] said, ‘President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong,'” Trump said as Zelensky stood silently by his side ahead of their New York City meeting. “He said it loud and clear, and the impeachment hoax died right there.” The comment referred to Trump’s first impeachment in 2019, which centered on accusations that Trump pressured Zelensky to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden, in exchange for military aid from the United States to fight off Russian-backed separatists. Posted by: SMOD at September 27, 2024 08:33 PM (GITLP) 113
There is iron in the words of Penguin Facts for all Morons to see.
Posted by: Duncanthrax Ten Bats at September 27, 2024 08:33 PM (a3Q+t) 114
Holy crap, Israel is saying they killed Nasrullah today. In WW2 terms, this is like killing Hitler in 1940.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 08:34 PM (S6gqv) 115
Yes, Kindltot, that was my implication. Lebanese people will die because Hezbollah runs their shit with direction from Iran. But the Lebanese are not blameless, they had chances to reject Hezbollah, but never mustered the courage to do it. They would have had all of the important allies on their side. Too late for them now, they will sink or swim with Hezbollah. Or, they will capitulate to Israel by force.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 08:34 PM (2cS/G) 116
Everyone: Call your mother. Tell her you love her even if you haven't said that in a while. Enjoy time with her while they're here, and while you can. This is the time to do so.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant Excellent advice. My Momma is gone now but she taught me all I know about kindness. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 08:36 PM (WXNFJ) 117
"Israel is saying they killed Nasrullah today. In WW2 terms, this is like killing Hitler in 1940.
Posted by: Tom Servo" Will they have a replacement? Who would want the job? Posted by: Penguin Facts at September 27, 2024 08:38 PM (vFG9F) 118
Holy crap, Israel is saying they killed Nasrullah today.
Man, you hate to see that. Oh, wait. No you don't. Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2024 08:38 PM (xCA6C) 119
>>Holy crap, Israel is saying they killed Nasrullah today. In WW2 terms, this is like killing Hitler in 1940.
My guess is that Hizballah / Iran are/were planning on a 10/7 Anniversary attack and Israeli Intel caught wind of it and decided to finally roast that Fat Goat Fucker for good. Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 08:38 PM (25t0L) 120
I thought to myself why are they bombing Lebanon?
Isn't that a County in Southern Pennsylvania??? Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 27, 2024 08:39 PM (rcLES) 121
"Israel is saying they killed Nasrullah today. In WW2 terms, this is like killing Hitler in 1940.
Posted by: Tom Servo" Will they have a replacement? Who would want the job? Replacement for Mr. Nasrullah. Paging the replacement for Mr. Nasrullah... Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2024 08:39 PM (xCA6C) 122
Still waiting on the Nasrallah confirmation. Are we sure?
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 08:39 PM (2cS/G) 123
In the west we don’t really understand what Lebanon has become; it’s not a real nation any more, but rather a loose collection of mini states that mostly despise each other. Hezbollah is much stronger than the others, which is why they act with impunity, but where do you think all the intelligence on Hezbollah installations are coming from? Israel has thousands of informers in Lebanon who are loving what’s happening. And no, there is no need for Israel to attack Druze or Maronite areas.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 08:40 PM (S6gqv) 124
What did the commenter say? All those deemed too incompetent to be awarded a pager are now in charge.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 08:40 PM (gdH0L) 125
Israel is saying they killed Nasrullah today. In WW2 terms, this is like killing Hitler in 1940.
More like killing Yamamoto. The Hitler analogy is the head Iranian mullah. Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2024 08:40 PM (xCA6C) 126
'I thought to myself why are they bombing Lebanon?
Isn't that a County in Southern Pennsylvania??? Posted by: Kamal Harris Hey! I thought they were talking about Lebanon James. Man, that boy can shoot! Posted by: Joe Biteum at September 27, 2024 08:40 PM (vFG9F) 127
My guess is that Hizballah / Iran are/were planning on a 10/7 Anniversary attack and Israeli Intel caught wind of it and decided to finally roast that Fat Goat Fucker for good.
Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 08:38 PM (25t0L) Maybe. My guess is, Israel WANTS to go all in, and they've been getting pressure from the U.S. to tone it down before the election, and this was their way of saying F YOU to the little pissants in our foreign policy establishment. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 08:41 PM (J/Spy) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 08:42 PM (L/fGl) 129
God bless y'all who have amazing parents. And even more for those who didn't.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 08:29 PM (q4Gku) My parents were not perfect. Hell, nobody is perfect. I was the oldest, the practice kid. They raised 7 kids in a good Catholic home. I am blessed to be in this family. Posted by: Pugsley Hudson Mahon, Telling War Stories at September 27, 2024 08:42 PM (Ad8y9) 130
107 javems, I can't stop laughing.
I'd love to see Steve Inman narrate that one. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 08:28 PM (OX9vb) One of the funniest one's I've ever seen. I laughed till I cried. Still am. Posted by: javems at September 27, 2024 08:43 PM (8I4hW) 131
Roof replacement is finished. It was a mess, but they did a good job of cleaning up when they were done. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 08:43 PM (BkEzK) 132
>>>>this was their way of saying F YOU to the little pissants in our foreign policy establishment.
Posted by: BurtTC -------------- They need to say it more and louder. Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 08:43 PM (gdH0L) Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 08:43 PM (25t0L) 134
Truly, a lot of so-called experts have been saying how formidable Hezbollah is, and behind them is the threat of Iran, Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Chi Nah, and everyone else's brother... threats that have so far been all talk.
Are they going to stay all hat and no cattle? I don't know, but Israel sure looks like they're betting on it. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 08:44 PM (J/Spy) 135
Interesting times.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 08:45 PM (mH6SG) 136
I learned kindness from what my parents DIDNT do.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 08:46 PM (Qysoj) 137
This is some of my family members.
They believe it all. J6 insurrection Dictator on day one bloodbath fine people sucker's and losers. To them it's all real. We are dealing with something that is beyond reason. Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 08:47 PM (nv4jJ) 138
132 >>>>this was their way of saying F YOU to the little pissants in our foreign policy establishment.
Posted by: BurtTC -------------- They need to say it more and louder. Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 08:43 PM (gdH0L) My whole thing throughout all of this is that Israel would be substantially better off if they could break away from U.S. influence and interference. Now, maybe they know better, and believe they need U.S. money and weapons. I'm not sure they do, but maybe they think they do... or if it IS their intention to escalate this as far as they can, they are going to need it for survival. So rather than pussyfoot around with U.S. election whims, they went ahead and said "now. We do this now." Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 08:47 PM (J/Spy) 139
Will they have a replacement? Who would want the job?
Replacement for Mr. Nasrullah. Paging the replacement for Mr. Nasrullah... Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2024 08:39 PM (xCA6C) They won't lack for those vying for the job. Million$ are at stake. There will be those clans who think they can do it better. Think Whack-a-Mole. Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2024 08:47 PM (W/lyH) Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 08:47 PM (v6JzV) 141
I got a phone call today that I hope turns into an interview. Pray for me horde.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 27, 2024 08:47 PM (lhenN) 142
The Palestinians ought to be packed up and sent to Antarctica or Mars. They're completely and utterly useless. They poison every place they reside. The Arabs love them so much they've expelled them when they wandered in. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 08:48 PM (BkEzK) 143
Instapundit: 21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: RFK Jr. and star journalist Olivia Nuzzi had ‘incredible’ FaceTime sex, said they loved each other: sources.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 08:48 PM (TGPs7) 144
FAFO.
My coworker picked up a garter snake that happen to get lost in the break room and I warned him, "careful, they'll bite the fuck out of you." And he's like, "yeah, whatever," as he picks it up. The snake strikes like a bolt of lightning, and he screams like a fucking girl. Funny as hell. Posted by: Dr. Puffy Combs at September 27, 2024 08:49 PM (nDTFN) 145
Holy crap, Israel is saying they killed Nasrullah today.
- I don't know how accurate this is but this chart from Iowahawk is amusing. https://is.gd/ngGz5y Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 08:49 PM (L/fGl) 146
In the west we don’t really understand what Lebanon has become; it’s not a real nation any more, but rather a loose collection of mini states that mostly despise each other.
On the surface at least, the same thing can be said about Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya. "Diversity " in the ME is limited to what tribe are you from? Been that way forever. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 27, 2024 08:49 PM (iziaj) 147
Having gone to these lengths, I don't see why Israel would stop now. They have laid the groundwork with the pagers, walkies, targeted strikes and now the urban airstrikes. If this isn't the softening up period for Israel to create a buffer zone within Lebanon (using ground troops) then what else is it? Another ultimately impotent gesture that extends the conflict for decades? I don't think so this time.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 08:50 PM (2cS/G) 148
Penguin Facts is late getting back to his facility again. No fruit cup for him.
Posted by: Penguin Pete at September 27, 2024 08:51 PM (CV8a5) 149
When I am elected your King, one of His Majesty's first Decrees shall read as follows:
"Hear Ye, Hear Ye!! By Royal decree, the King has bestowed a task of great importance to you, His subjects: For all Enemies, follow the following ROEs: (This page intentionally left blank)" Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 08:51 PM (WXNFJ) 150
RFK Jr. and star journalist Olivia Nuzzi had ‘incredible’ FaceTime sex, said they loved each other: sources. Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 08:48 PM (TGPs7) _________ Imagine the hellspawn produced from the mating of politicians and journalists. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 08:52 PM (BkEzK) 151
So many sad family stories on this blog. I’m glad that so many members of the Horde turned out so well despite the unhappy circumstances of their childhoods.
I raise a glass to you all: Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 08:52 PM (v6JzV) 152
The Bee: Experts Warn Hurricane In Hurricane Alley During Hurricane Season Clear Sign Of Climate Change
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at September 27, 2024 08:53 PM (DTX3h) 153
I got a phone call today that I hope turns into an interview. Pray for me horde.
Posted by: BourbonChicken Of course!! Wear pants during your Zoom interview. Just saying. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 08:53 PM (WXNFJ) 154
I got a phone call today that I hope turns into an interview. Pray for me horde.
Posted by: BourbonChicken Prayers sent Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 08:54 PM (bZ6rR) 155
Conspiracy theory involving Kiddy Diddy. (Maybe 2 minutes)
https://is.gd/LBynqv Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 08:42 PM (L/fGl) If you ever want to go down the rabbit hole... and I mean all the way down, there's a yootoob channel called "Jamie Dlux." Jamie is very unpolished, but he does his homework. Pretty much any conspiracy you want to explore, he's done it, but he was kicked off all the platforms until recently, and many of his videos have been disappeared. I know he's done Puff Daddy stories before, but I just checked, and don't see any. A lot of stuff on his channel is re-uploaded from the past few years. I'm not recommending anyone go down this hole. I have, and there are things I wish I didn't know. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 08:55 PM (S6yU5) 156
144 The salmonella on reptiles gives me far more creeps than any bite they could inflict on me. At least in North America.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 08:55 PM (v6JzV) 157
And he's like, "yeah, whatever," as he picks it up. The snake strikes like a bolt of lightning, and he screams like a fucking girl. Funny as hell.
Posted by: Dr. Puffy Combs at September 27, 2024 08:49 PM (nDTFN) They are not so good on tile, but in their native habitat those little buggers move like greased lightning. Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2024 08:55 PM (D7oie) 158
"Hear Ye, Hear Ye!! By Royal decree, the King has bestowed a task of great importance to you, His subjects: For all Enemies, follow the following ROEs: (This page intentionally left blank)" Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 08:51 PM (WXNFJ) *** From this day hence, you are commanded to put one in the pump house and one in the junction box. For those subjects using calibers commonly call 22, consider doubling up. Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2024 08:55 PM (W/lyH) 159
Is there nothing that damn Trump won't do?
Culture Crave @CultureCrave Paul Feig says he investigated the fans mad about his female #Ghosbusters reboot and 'so many were Trump supporters' "Then Donald Trump came out against us. He was like ... 'They’re making Ghostbusters with only women. What’s going on?’ and got all upset. Everybody went fucking cannibal. It turned the movie into a political statement, as if to say: ‘If you’re pro-women, you’re going to go see this. If you’re not, then …’ I didn’t think it mattered at all that the main characters were women, but people brought a lot of baggage"⁰ Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 08:55 PM (L/fGl) Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 08:56 PM (CzhWp) Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2024 08:56 PM (Wnv9h) Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 08:56 PM (i514R) 163
I don't know how accurate this is but this chart from Iowahawk is amusing. https://is.gd/ngGz5y Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 08:49 PM The text is from Iowahawk, but that chart is straight from the IDF. (They love that in your face attitude) Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 08:56 PM (S6gqv) 164
On the surface at least, the same thing can be said about Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya. "Diversity " in the ME is limited to what tribe are you from? Been that way forever.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 27, 2024 08:49 But, I've been told Diversity Is Our Strength. Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 08:56 PM (nv4jJ) 165
Lincolntf you are right - the way you lay out the dynamic - and it's been recognized by the Israelis for some time. The threat Iran built in Hezbollah was - for Iran - their key proxy and insurance policy against direct Israeli action against Iran and its nuclear program, etc (obviously not against the many and successful Israeli special operations against that program).
Of course it was, viewed soberly, an intolerable threat in itself, even leaving aside its value to Israel's main enemy as a deterrent. The evacuation of the north, caused only by Hezb's more primitive and short-range systems, may prove to be a blessing, as the absolutely politically untenable situation that has to be resolved. Maybe we'll know in due course, but could well have been a confluence of increased Israeli capabilities, the insanely disastrous Obama/Biden policy towards Iran, and the jolt of realism and urgency that 10/7 was to a complacent Israeli military establishment - and public. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 08:57 PM (GcNJ2) 166
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 08:55 PM (L/fGl)
So most of the fans of the original Ghost Busters were Trump fans because that's who criticized the female reboot the most. The Left have no ability to determine cause and effect. Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 08:58 PM (i514R) 167
On the surface at least, the same thing can be said about Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya. "Diversity " in the ME is limited to what tribe are you from? Been that way forever.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 27, 2024 08:49 PM (iziaj) I would suggest, the extent to which those four countries, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya, are basket cases, is largely due the the U.S. of A. and our habit of de-stabilizing places around the globe for not much reason other than it gets people like Torrie Nuland moist. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 08:59 PM (S6yU5) 168
Replacement for Mr. Nasrullah. Paging the replacement for Mr. Nasrullah...
Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2024 08:39 PM ISWYDT. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2024 08:59 PM (Wnv9h) 169
Has Iowahawk gotten over his TDS? He lost me with it.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 09:00 PM (nv4jJ) 170
RFK Jr. and star journalist Olivia Nuzzi had ‘incredible’ FaceTime sex, said they loved each other: sources.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 08:48 PM (TGPs7) Jeez. He's 70. She's 31. Tabloid garbage. He's a typical Kennedy, and she's screwing her way into access and a bigger paycheck. Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2024 09:00 PM (W/lyH) 171
I would suggest, the extent to which those four countries, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya, are basket cases, is largely due the the U.S. of A. and our habit of de-stabilizing places around the globe for not much reason other than it gets people like Torrie Nuland moist.
Posted by: BurtTC But we're spreading dEmOcRaCy~~! Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 09:00 PM (IG4Id) 172
My family has been replaced by all of you.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:54 PM {{{Ben Had}}} Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2024 09:01 PM (Wnv9h) 173
The text is from Iowahawk, but that chart is straight from the IDF. (They love that in your face attitude)
My city my people 😂🇮🇱 Tel Aviv “Yalla ya Nasrallah, We will f*ck you Inshallah, We will return you to Allah, With the entire Hezbollah” https://tinyurl.com/3ts3kxdz Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2024 09:01 PM (xCA6C) 174
But, I've been told Diversity Is Our Strength.
Posted by: Mr. Ray "Diversity " is the acetone dissolving the glue that holds our society together. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (iziaj) 175
Speaking of dEmOcRaCy...
@LeadingReport 1m BREAKING: Kamala Harris says illegal immigrants who have been living in the U.S. are “American in every way.” Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (IG4Id) 176
Andy Grewal
@ProfGrewal "If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" https://afru.com/a-plea-for-my-life/ Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (TGPs7) 177
Paul Feig says he investigated the fans mad about his female #Ghosbusters reboot and 'so many were Trump supporters'
"Then Donald Trump came out against us. He was like ... 'They’re making Ghostbusters with only women. What’s going on?’ and got all upset. Everybody went fucking cannibal. It turned the movie into a political statement, as if to say: ‘If you’re pro-women, you’re going to go see this. If you’re not, then …’ I didn’t think it mattered at all that the main characters were women, but people brought a lot of baggage"⁰ Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 08:55 PM (L/fGl) You're right, you gay homosexual clown, it didn't matter that all the characters were women. It mattered that you poured a crappy movie into a mold, and let those women adlib their way to a mess of a piece of shit of non-story ripoff movie that nobody wanted or asked for. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (S6yU5) 178
I saw Moist Torrie Nuland open for Wet Willie at the Palladium in '93.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (pJe2/) 179
Andy Grewal
@ProfGrewal "If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" https://afru.com/a-plea-for-my-life/ Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (TGPs7) Ok, bye. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 09:03 PM (S6yU5) 180
"If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" https://afru.com/a-plea-for-my-life/
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (TGPs7) Well. Bye. Posted by: Curly Bill at September 27, 2024 09:03 PM (PDf99) 181
The US had nothing to do with Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya being basket cases. That is all Britain, France, Islam and tribalism.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 09:03 PM (i514R) Posted by: Kamala at September 27, 2024 09:03 PM (xCA6C) 183
The energy from the wind of an average hurricane (itself a small fraction of the total energy of the storm) is about half that of the annual worldwide electricity consumption. There are 20 or so hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones in an average year. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 09:04 PM (BkEzK) 184
Maybe. My guess is, Israel WANTS to go all in, and they've been getting pressure from the U.S. to tone it down before the election, and this was their way of saying F YOU to the little pissants in our foreign policy establishment.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 08:41 PM (J/Spy) I have been thinking they need to invade soon, but they are pounding the hell out of hezbollah every day, so what’s the hurry? Neither Hezbollah or Iran is doing shit about it. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 09:04 PM (S6gqv) 185
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The Palestinians ought to be packed up and sent to Antarctica or Mars. They're completely and utterly useless. They poison every place they reside. The Arabs love them so much they've expelled them when they wandered in. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh ------------------------ Not Mars. Mars is going to be a nice, clean place with decent people. Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 09:04 PM (gdH0L) 186
Andy Grewal
@ProfGrewal "If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" https://afru.com/a-plea-for-my-life/ Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (TGPs7) Why wait, Sport? Can somebody lend him a gun, and one round? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 09:04 PM (pJe2/) 187
"If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life"
Thanks for the advance notice. Good luck. Posted by: The Coroner at September 27, 2024 09:04 PM (mH6SG) 188
You're right, you gay homosexual clown, it didn't matter that all the characters were women. It mattered that you poured a crappy movie into a mold, and let those women adlib their way to a mess of a piece of shit of non-story ripoff movie that nobody wanted or asked for.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (S6yU5) *ahem* I believe it says right here it should be 'gay homosexual ass clown.' Assclown is also permissible. Please make a note of it. Posted by: AOSHQ Style Majordomo at September 27, 2024 09:04 PM (PDf99) 189
I'd watch "War and Peace, The Musical", if it featured the cast of Baywatch. So maybe I'm not the best critic of chick movies...
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:05 PM (2cS/G) 190
RFK Jr. and star journalist Olivia Nuzzi had ‘incredible’ FaceTime sex, said they loved each other: sources.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 08:48 PM (TGPs7) Jeez. He's 70. She's 31. Tabloid garbage. He's a typical Kennedy, and she's screwing her way into access and a bigger paycheck. Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2024 09:00 PM (W/lyH) There's no evidence I've heard or seen this was reciprocal. None. She's a filthy skank stalker, and the evidence of RFK's guilt is roughly equivalent to the evidence Trump felt up that creepy broad in a New York department store. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 09:05 PM (S6yU5) 191
"If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life"
1. Fanaticism. 2. I'll believe it when I see it. Posted by: davidt at September 27, 2024 09:05 PM (i0F8b) 192
"If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" https://afru.com/a-plea-for-my-life/
Posted by: Mister Ghost Canada will help you; but, we can't. We're very sorry we can't help, too. Really we are... Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2024 09:05 PM (MnHeR) 193
*ahem* I believe it says right here it should be 'gay homosexual ass clown.' Assclown is also permissible.
Please make a note of it. Posted by: AOSHQ Style Majordomo at September 27, 2024 09:04 PM (PDf99) I didn't want to overdo it. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 09:06 PM (S6yU5) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 09:06 PM (BkEzK) 195
Bostonians Against Mayor Wu @AntiWuCoalition Illegals are sleeping in the airport costing MA taxpayers $1B, lawless animals assault mothers bringing their children to daycare, windmills break off into the ocean killing our wildlife… Meanwhile let’s take a peek at what Maura Healey is up to today (@MassGovernor) http://tiny.cc/6fqnzz Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 09:06 PM (TGPs7) 196
Andy Grewal
@ProfGrewal "If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" https://afru.com/a-plea-for-my-life/ Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (TGPs7) Andy has anyone suggested to you that you literally need mental health treatment? Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 09:06 PM (i514R) 197
"If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" https://afru.com/a-plea-for-my-life/
Posted by: Mister Ghost Are you trying to get me to be a vote mule because... Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:06 PM (VLPl3) 198
179 Andy Grewal
@ProfGrewal "If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" https://afru.com/a-plea-for-my-life/ Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (TGPs7) Promises promises Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 09:06 PM (ZgUvY) 199
I would suggest, the extent to which those four countries, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya, are basket cases, is largely due the the U.S. of A. and our habit of de-stabilizing places around the globe for not much reason other than it gets people like Torrie Nuland moist.
Posted by: BurtTC We didn't start it. The British, French and Turks have as much culpability as we do. We're just the latest player. Refence the scene in Lawrence of Arabia where the Arab legions capture Damascus. That was relatively historically accurate. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 27, 2024 09:06 PM (iziaj) 200
174 But, I've been told Diversity Is Our Strength.
Posted by: Mr. Ray "Diversity " is the acetone dissolving the glue that holds our society together. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (iziaj) So what's the MEK dissolving the glue that holds our society together? Communism? Hedonism? Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:07 PM (PDf99) 201
189 You DO NOT want to see the Kutuzov Shuffle.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 09:07 PM (v6JzV) 202
Kamala knows who the movers and shakers, the Acronym bosses, are.
She will have them removed first. Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 09:08 PM (gdH0L) 203
There's no evidence I've heard or seen this was reciprocal. None. She's a filthy skank stalker, and the evidence of RFK's guilt is roughly equivalent to the evidence Trump felt up that creepy broad in a New York department store.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 09:05 PM (S6yU5) She's also in no way a "star" journalist. Third-rate tabloid 'ho. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 09:08 PM (pJe2/) 204
The US had nothing to do with Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya being basket cases. That is all Britain, France, Islam and tribalism.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 09:03 PM (i514R) Of course we did. See: Century, 21st, the. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 09:08 PM (S6yU5) 205
Andy Grewal
@ProfGrewal "If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" https://afru.com/a-plea-for-my-life/ Better just you than a bunch of innocents in addition. Fuck off, you twat. Posted by: Pugsley Hudson Mahon, Telling War Stories at September 27, 2024 09:09 PM (Ad8y9) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 09:09 PM (L/fGl) 207
Big giant goat reminds me of Krampus.
Posted by: Pugsley Hudson Mahon, Telling War Stories at September 27, 2024 09:09 PM (Ad8y9) 208
Andy Grewal
@ProfGrewal "If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" - Well, bye. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 09:10 PM (L/fGl) 209
Libya- we kind of fucked with the stable if insane order there, then washed our hands of it.
Iraq- well, then we get into the whole GWII debate. Make rubble not trouble vs rebuild. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:10 PM (PDf99) 210
These lefty loons just suck at delivering on their promises.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 09:10 PM (mH6SG) 211
Meanwhile let’s take a peek at what Maura Healey is up to today (@MassGovernor)
http://tiny.cc/6fqnzz Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 09:06 PM (TGPs7) They are obviously in need of Pepto-Bismol. Posted by: javems at September 27, 2024 09:11 PM (8I4hW) Posted by: four seasons at September 27, 2024 09:12 PM (3ek7K) 213
199 Agree. The inevitable result of civilized Wester n powers trying to govern bloodthirsty barbarians.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 09:12 PM (v6JzV) 214
200 174 But, I've been told Diversity Is Our Strength.
Posted by: Mr. Ray "Diversity " is the acetone dissolving the glue that holds our society together. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 27, 2024 09:02 PM (iziaj) So what's the MEK dissolving the glue that holds our society together? Communism? Hedonism? Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:07 PM (PDf99) Humanism. The denial of God. Or of anything transcendent. Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 09:12 PM (nv4jJ) 215
So what's the MEK dissolving the glue that holds our society together? Communism? Hedonism?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:07 PM (PDf99) Cancel culture. It doesn't really work either, because every morning when I get up and look in the mirror...I'm still here. No matter what the PTB says. Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 09:13 PM (LHPAg) 216
Neither Hezbollah or Iran is doing shit about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo I'm not convinced they can. Hezbollah is a terrorist snake and the snake's head has apparently been severed. Another embarrassing failure on Iran's part will seriously weaken their status. The mullahs will talk sh*t and lay awake at night, hoping the 12th Iman will show up soon. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 27, 2024 09:13 PM (iziaj) 217
Humanism. The denial of God. Or of anything transcendent.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 09:12 PM (nv4jJ) I'll take it. Or Nihilism. Just straight up Nihilism. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:13 PM (PDf99) 218
Diversity is Divisive.
Posted by: davidt at September 27, 2024 09:14 PM (i0F8b) Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 27, 2024 09:14 PM (iziaj) 220
If you're not going to listen to Justin Trudeau, who are you going to listen to?
Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau Canada is calling for an immediate ceasefire along the Lebanon-Israel border. It has been devastating to the civilians in harm’s way, including the two innocent Canadians killed. We will support all diplomatic efforts towards de-escalation and a peaceful resolution. Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 09:15 PM (TGPs7) 221
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:10 PM (PDf99)
When a doctor tries to treat a patient who has cancer caused by exposure to carcinogens but the patient gets worse or dies you don't blame the doctor for giving the patient cancer. That's my point of view. Tired of people blaming America for everything . Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 09:16 PM (i514R) 222
213 199 Agree. The inevitable result of civilized Wester n powers trying to govern bloodthirsty barbarians.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus --------------------------------- Barbarians can't be ruled, or taught or managed. Barbarian is the human (really?) equivalent to a feral animal and should be treated as such. Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 09:16 PM (gdH0L) 223
We will support all diplomatic efforts towards de-escalation and a peaceful resolution.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 09:15 PM (TGPs7) No mention of Israeli casualties from the Hezbollah rocket barrages for what the past 10-15 years? Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:16 PM (PDf99) 224
In war of course a key is to seize the initiative and maintain it. Israel has had total dominance since even before Op Grim Beeper. Operationally, and in the clear hesitation of Iran/Hezb to even attempt a meaningful "retaliation" (since the embarrassingly ineffective "retaliation" for the hit on the IRGC scum in the Syria embassy annex).
Of course in the last week there has been an incredibly rapid increase in the margin of Israel's dominance. Tonight IAF aircraft loiter above both Beirut and the Bekaa Valley, ready to pounce on any systems being readied for launch (most of the most worrisome systems they have are not simply ready to go, and the prep for launch of course is something Israel has worked on ID'ing for years). Israel announced no air resupply via Beirut airport will be allowed. This, as they systematically take out elaborate coastal missile arrays hidden (well, not so hidden I guess) under civilian buildings in south Beirut. This is about as total a control of the initiative as you can get in these circumstances. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 09:17 PM (GcNJ2) 225
I just had a firsthand account of how effective the Media lies are.
It's kind of impressive in it's own way. Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 09:17 PM (nv4jJ) 226
It has been devastating to the civilians in harm’s way, including the two innocent Canadians killed.
We will support all diplomatic efforts towards de-escalation and a peaceful resolution. Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 09:15 PM (TGPs7) Anybody want to bet the two "Canadians" aren't Lebanese goat-rapers by birth? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 09:18 PM (pJe2/) 227
That's my point of view. Tired of people blaming America for everything .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 09:16 PM (i514R) I would blame us because we had a poorly thought out idea and stuck to it re: Iraq. On the other hand, one could argue that the decapitation of Libya is what some of us argued we SHOULD have done with regards to Iraq- and that did not work out great either. ALL of this is always Monday morning quarterbacking. BUT, we should acknowledge our failures and use it to do better the next time- and there is always a next time. It may be that there IS no good solution, just the least bad. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:19 PM (PDf99) 228
til about /r/reallyshittycopper, a subreddit dedicated to . . . Ea-Nasir.
Some of us will enjoy Immortality better than others. Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 09:19 PM (gKWVE) 229
Diversity is Divisive.
Posted by: davidt at September 27, 2024 09:14 PM (i0F8b) Catchy and true. I like it. Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 09:19 PM (nv4jJ) 230
I just had a firsthand account of how effective the Media lies are.
It's kind of impressive in it's own way. Posted by: Mr. Ray Do tell. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:20 PM (elaR+) 231
NYT helpful as always , "Mr. Nasrallah is believed to live modestly and rarely socializes outside Hezbollah’s ruling circles, eschewing public appearances and the telephone "...
you know who else lived modestly ? Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 09:20 PM (V13WU) Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:21 PM (PDf99) 233
My friends, NYT is telling us that this sordid butcher is practically a feminist ! "He comes across as less dour than most Shiite clerics, partly because of his slight lisp and a propensity to crack jokes. He has never pushed hard-line Islamic rules, like veils for women...." whatta a guy !
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 09:22 PM (V13WU) 234
That's my point of view. Tired of people blaming America for everything .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 09:16 PM (i514R) Sure, we're doctors. Doctors without borders, just trying to help. If you're tired of people blaming America, do something about your country being in a perpetual state of war. Otherwise, you're just going to have to accept that we have blood on our hands. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 09:22 PM (9nrPR) 235
you know who else lived modestly ?
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 09:20 PM (V13WU) Rose Wilder Lane. What do I win? Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2024 09:22 PM (D7oie) 236
'slight lisp'? Are they making a 'he sounds gay and that's ok!' argument?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:22 PM (PDf99) 237
Casey Attacks GOP’s McCormick For Holding Father Gov. Casey’s Pro-Life Views
In PA Senate race, Democrat son attacks views of late Democrat governor dad. I voted for the father for Governor For the son, nothing Posted by: SMOD at September 27, 2024 09:22 PM (GITLP) 238
Justin Trudeau
@JustinTrudeau Canada is calling for an immediate ceasefire along the Lebanon-Israel border. And I call for monkeys to fly out of his butt. Both are equally likely. Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2024 09:23 PM (xCA6C) 239
Another joke, and he was definitely a candidate for the funniest islamic cleric of the year award!
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 09:23 PM (V13WU) 240
233 My friends, NYT is telling us that this sordid butcher is practically a feminist ! "He comes across as less dour than most Shiite clerics, partly because of his slight lisp and a propensity to crack jokes. He has never pushed hard-line Islamic rules, like veils for women...." whatta a guy !
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 09:22 PM (V13WU) Sure, he's a fag. Gotta watch his step. Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 09:23 PM (LHPAg) Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 09:24 PM (V13WU) 242
Beautiful if true, though I wonder. Some Israeli officials claim Bibi's trip to the UNGA in NYC was part of the plan to make Iran/Hezb think no major attack was in store for a few days. Even if true, the learning curve for Israel's enemies appears to be quite flat. Imagine, yesterday, thinking any kind of meeting of leadership in any normal location would be secure. Wow.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 09:24 PM (GcNJ2) 243
We will support all diplomatic efforts towards de-escalation and a peaceful resolution.
Posted by: Mister Ghost Trudeau understands diplomacy like I understand neuro surgery. I would suggest Justin look into penis enlargement. Canada has never sat in the front row seats on the world stage. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 27, 2024 09:25 PM (iziaj) 244
NYT helpful as always , "Mr. Nasrallah is believed to live modestly and rarely socializes outside Hezbollah’s ruling circles, eschewing public appearances and the telephone "...
And why is that you terrorist loving shitstains? Hmmmm? Is it because he deserves to die for all the innocents whose blood he is covered in? I know you wank it to the thought of merely being in his presence, but that is because you are human garbage. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:25 PM (elaR+) 245
There's nothing wrong with a slight lisp. Baaa.
Posted by: Goats at September 27, 2024 09:25 PM (mH6SG) 246
@rhomboid, How far do you think, ultimately, Israel will go? I ask that both geographically and "use of power-wise"? Are we talking Israeli tanks in Beirut in the coming days/weeks? Hard to picture, but inevitable?
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:25 PM (2cS/G) 247
Another joke, and he was definitely a candidate for the funniest islamic cleric of the year award!
Posted by: runner "So I said, take my goat. Please!!" Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 09:26 PM (WXNFJ) 248
my friends, the mad grew up in a middle class family! JUst like Kamal(a) ! "Born in 1960 in Beirut, Mr. Nasrallah grew up in a mixed neighborhood of impoverished Christian Armenians, Druse, Palestinians and Shiites. His father had a small vegetable stand..." vegetable stand ?? maybe he had Italian roots....
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 09:26 PM (V13WU) 249
Ray
Do tell. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:20 PM (elaR+) Usual lies. J6 insurrection Dictator day one sucker's and losers. All taken at face value. Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 09:26 PM (nv4jJ) 250
One of the few bright parts of the bush term was all the lunatics lighting themselves on fire because bush and iraq. I hope that comes back. The call it Self-Immolation. I like that. Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 09:26 PM (0uleR) 251
ALL of this is always Monday morning quarterbacking. BUT, we should acknowledge our failures and use it to do better the next time- and there is always a next time. It may be that there IS no good solution, just the least bad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:19 PM (PDf99) I think at the very least people could acknowledge, the U.S. deserves some time in the penalty box for fighting, even if one doesn't want to give them a double major for instigating. Team U.S. of A.... no more wars for you, for six months. After you get out of the box, you better be on your best behavior! Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 09:27 PM (ggASZ) 252
246 @rhomboid, How far do you think, ultimately, Israel will go? I ask that both geographically and "use of power-wise"? Are we talking Israeli tanks in Beirut in the coming days/weeks? Hard to picture, but inevitable?
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:25 PM (2cS/G You know who fcuked up Beirut? Ysassir Afafat, the Mufti (nazi sympathiser) of Jerusalem's nephew. Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 09:28 PM (LHPAg) 253
Usual lies. J6 insurrection Dictator day one sucker's and losers. All taken at face value.
Posted by: Mr. Ray Oh, a non-thinker. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:28 PM (elaR+) 254
Anna P still around? Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 09:28 PM (0uleR) 255
He was a real social , liked to spend time with people, and stuff - "When he granted a rare interview to The New York Times in 2002, the reporter and photographer were blindfolded and driven around the southern suburbs of Beirut for a short time before the meeting..."
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 09:28 PM (V13WU) 256
As we march our way to the 2024 elections, there is the past training, the use of weapons', earthquake supplies that I need to pick up to replenish my stock, but, mostly, is to keep my faith, be engaged with my family in a positive way and to leave my griping at the doorstep cuz they don't need that.
That's why I come here. And I have to thank you all for putting up with my griping because I know it gets pretty over the top sometimes. But don't think this means I am going to stop. Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 09:29 PM (TDvv2) 257
246 @rhomboid, How far do you think, ultimately, Israel will go? I ask that both geographically and "use of power-wise"? Are we talking Israeli tanks in Beirut in the coming days/weeks? Hard to picture, but inevitable?
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:25 PM (2cS/G) Israel is talking about taking control of the area south of the Litani River, roughly the southern 40 km of Lebanon. This is Hezbollahs stronghold, and does NOT include Beirut. This also was supposed to be demilitarized under a 2006 UN resolution, which Hezbollah has ignored. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 09:29 PM (S6gqv) 258
I heard today that US Ships were fired upon in the Red Sea?? I said the Red Sea???
You mean Cincinati that has the Reds Baseball Team?? I asked then SecDef Austin why do we have Navy ships in the Mississippi River off the Reds Baseball Stadium? Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 27, 2024 09:30 PM (Mig/N) 259
Yes, Eromero, I am very familiar with Arafat.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:30 PM (2cS/G) 260
oh man, Ea-Nasir lore
archiveofourown.org/works/57832096 Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 09:30 PM (gKWVE) 261
he had a gift of prophecy !! "in his most recent televised remarks, he blamed Israel for the exploding pagers and walkie-talkies that killed dozens of his foot soldiers and wounded several thousand more in the days before. “This retribution will come,” he said. “Its manner, size, how and where — these are things we will certainly keep to ourselves, in the narrowest circles even among us.”
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 09:31 PM (V13WU) 262
Ray
Oh, a non-thinker. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:28 PM (elaR+) Yup. Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 09:31 PM (nv4jJ) 263
Lincolntf there are some similarities to Gaza. In that no real permanent solution is probable, given the pathologies of the enemy. To some extent, "mowing the lawn" will remain the correct metaphor.
Lebanon's more complicated but that has positive potential - i.e. the plurality of actual or potential power players might create a situation where Israeli dismantling of Hezb military power leads to the other communities reasserting themselves, preventing a return to status quo ante. De-militarization up to the Litani has to be the minimum goal, I would think. If re-establishment of the long-range missile threat can be prevented, Israel will have an imperfect but tolerable situation. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 09:32 PM (GcNJ2) 264
@ProfGrewal "If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" What's that song that goes so long, farewell, adios, auf wiedersehen, good night, au revoir, and adieu? Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 09:34 PM (0uleR) 265
@Tom Servo, the guy I was watching Live from Beirut said that same thing about the city limits, but the "metro area" extends way beyond that. Satellite pics confirmed what he was saying. "Metro Beirut" is within a few k's of the border.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:34 PM (2cS/G) 266
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 09:19 PM (PDf99)
You're talking about an entirely different subject. America publicizes its dirty laundry more than any country in history . That's different than blaming America for the worlds problems. Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 09:34 PM (i514R) 267
Any high-roller will tell you it's commonplace tor a guy to get unique insights into seven-figure short sales right after a gay Canadian hammer hobo beats a hole in his skull. It's Wall Street shaman magic.
Posted by: Paulie P at September 27, 2024 09:34 PM (awTae) 268
@ 250 From "The Empire of Jeff"- make a man a fire and he is warm for a night, set him on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 27, 2024 09:35 PM (hKoQL) 269
Thank you @rhomboid.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:35 PM (2cS/G) 270
Andy Grewal @ProfGrewal
"If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life" Buck up, you massive sissy. Posted by: Boy George at September 27, 2024 09:35 PM (gKWVE) 271
Oh - and no Israeli ground presence in Beirut, don't think. No need for it. If the Hezb-dominated parts of southern Beirut end up looking like Gaza today, well that's the way it will be. But ground presence up to the Litani - or beyond - would seem necessary, at least for a time.
As Tom Servo points out, there's even a handy UN Resolution (1701) that has never been implemented, demilitarizing the south. Israel will just be enforcing a slightly amended version, in a way. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 09:36 PM (GcNJ2) 272
Oh, a non-thinker.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:28 PM (elaR+) Yup. Posted by: Mr. Ray Anyone that unquestioningly believes what the leftist media tells them is either an idiot or gullible beyond help. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:36 PM (elaR+) 273
leave my griping at the doorstep cuz they don't need that.
That's why I come here. And I have to thank you all for putting up with my griping because I know it gets pretty over the top sometimes. But don't think this means I am going to stop. Posted by: Nightwatch If you stop, we may have to degrade your AosHq membership to cardboard so don't even consider it. I wholeheartedly agree that this place is my pressure relief valve. Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 27, 2024 09:37 PM (iziaj) 274
trepanning
Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 09:37 PM (gdH0L) 275
Anyone that unquestioningly believes what the leftist media tells them is either an idiot or gullible beyond help.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale Willfully ignorant. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 09:38 PM (WXNFJ) 276
257 246 @rhomboid, How far do you think, ultimately, Israel will go? I ask that both geographically and "use of power-wise"? Are we talking Israeli tanks in Beirut in the coming days/weeks? Hard to picture, but inevitable?
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:25 PM (2cS/G) Israel is talking about taking control of the area south of the Litani River, roughly the southern 40 km of Lebanon. This is Hezbollahs stronghold, and does NOT include Beirut. This also was supposed to be demilitarized under a 2006 UN resolution, which Hezbollah has ignored. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 09:29 PM (S6gqv) *** I believe the buffer zone is the goal, along with the decimation of as much of Hezbollah. A city the size of Beirut would swallow most of the IDF and urban war is, as we have seen, brutal. And slow. And the slower it goes, the more outside nations (UN) will try to interfere. Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2024 09:38 PM (W/lyH) 277
Metro Beirut" is within a few k's of the border.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:34 PM (2cS/G) There is a fascinating map on X somewhere which shows which groups control which sections of Lebanon, and in Beirut it is a neighborhood by neighborhood thing. As I wrote up thread, Israel has no need to go into Druze or Maronite areas, and I suspect that rather than go into Beirut itself, they’ll just bomb the hell out of the Hezbollah areas. (While taking control of the south) Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 09:38 PM (S6gqv) 278
274 trepanning
Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 09:37 PM (gdH0L) I always wondered where they got the square drill bit. Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 09:39 PM (LHPAg) Posted by: Piercello at September 27, 2024 09:39 PM (qLcmG) 280
Anyone that unquestioningly believes what the leftist media tells them is either an idiot or gullible beyond help.
----- Oh, most of them are only pretending to believe. State media provide instructions, not data or arguments. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 09:40 PM (awTae) Posted by: four seasons at September 27, 2024 09:40 PM (3ek7K) 282
One problem with Lebanese Maronites is that a lot of them are allies with the Hizb. Same with Christian Syrians. Joo hate goes waaay back in the western Near East.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 09:40 PM (gKWVE) 283
Yeah, a buffah zone.
Posted by: Cicci at September 27, 2024 09:40 PM (i0F8b) 284
You just knew that every hurricane was going to be the worst ever. Its the same as how tornadoes are much more numerous and destructive. There has only been national weather radar coverage since the late 70s. Many, many more human structures along the coasts and out in the country. Unless a weather event hit a city, no-one really knew about it but the locals. This is akin to the temp hype, where a good proportion of the old home monitoring stations have been shut down and their reports "estimated" and the weather stations in the cities have been surrounded by ever growing heat islands. Everything is all about tbe benjamins
Posted by: azjaeger at September 27, 2024 09:40 PM (3/XaG) 285
I probably saw a version of the same map, Tom Servo. Let's just say that my version didn't fill me with hope for a quick ending to this.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:41 PM (2cS/G) 286
If you stop, we may have to degrade your AosHq membership to cardboard so don't even consider it. I wholeheartedly agree that this place is my pressure relief valve.
Posted by: Sock Monkey Cardboard?! I'm still a charcoal member! It's so darned messy and the cards keep breaking. I need to speak to the assistant manager. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:42 PM (elaR+) 287
Tom Servo you're correct. This does not rule out special ground operations (or heliborne), commando stuff, in Hezb areas. In fact I'll be surprised if those don't happen (may well have happened already).
The Bekaa Valley is another major Shi'a area, and has been a center of IRGC activity since the civil war. Israel has been paying aerial visits to military targets there, and that may be a regular thing for the foreseeable future. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 09:42 PM (GcNJ2) 288
Has anyone heard from Mike Hammer?
Posted by: four seasons at September 27, 2024 09:40 PM (3ek7K) I believe he is on fairly high ground, but he may have lost power and/or Internet coverage. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 09:43 PM (pJe2/) 289
Biblical flooding. Posted by: Piercello at September 27, 2024 09:39 PM (qLcmG) Oh ... So the weather is hitting the Blue Ridge instead of the Smokies. They were saying we'd get hit with lots of rain, but we got a little drizzle. They got smacked by the punch that was supposed to land on us. Sorry, Western NC people Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2024 09:43 PM (awTae) 290
Anyone that unquestioningly believes what the leftist media tells them is either an idiot or gullible beyond help.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:36 PM (elaR+) Never taught or learned to think. Which is sad. Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 09:43 PM (nv4jJ) 291
IBM, I think, bought Wunderground and screwed it up.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 09:44 PM (gdH0L) 292
The other day I was at an Intel Briefing I found out the Hooties were firing missiles at US Warships from Yemen??
I asked why did Hootie and the Blowfish move to Yemen and why are they firing missiles at US ships? I mean some of their songs were really good and I have some of their CDs??? Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 27, 2024 09:44 PM (1t11C) 293
"If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life"
Why, it's just like the old New Yorker cartoon captions. Two Harris/Walz signs have appeared on my road in the last week. I am acquainted with the posters of both, and can state with some assurance that they might just as well have the above slogan instead of the candidate symbols. There's a sign-war going on with one of them. Every time she adds another local Dem candidate, her new neighbor puts up a more outrageous Trump slogan. "I'm voting for the convicted felon" has her scratching a bald spot on her head. She does not get it. Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 27, 2024 09:44 PM (zdLoL) 294
284 You just knew that every hurricane was going to be the worst ever. Its the same as how tornadoes are much more numerous and destructive. There has only been national weather radar coverage since the late 70s. Many, many more human structures along the coasts and out in the country. Unless a weather event hit a city, no-one really knew about it but the locals. This is akin to the temp hype, where a good proportion of the old home monitoring stations have been shut down and their reports "estimated" and the weather stations in the cities have been surrounded by ever growing heat islands. Everything is all about tbe benjamins
Posted by: azjaeger at September 27, 2024 09:40 PM (3/XaG) Fear. It's the building up of fear. That's what the hurrican channel is all about, not weather forecasting. When the hurricane channel was first started most of the forecasters were military-trained professionals, not gaaia worshippers. Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 09:44 PM (LHPAg) 295
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The Palestinians ought to be packed up and sent to Antarctica or Mars. They're completely and utterly useless. They poison every place they reside. The Arabs love them so much they've expelled them when they wandered in. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 08:48 PM (BkEzK) Yep. The Palestinians have always been nothing more than subsistence-wage, Islamic-brainwashed, mercenaries. Originally mercenaries for the Arab nations in the region; now for Iran. You'd think they'd wise-up. But the brain-washing (and local murder squads) have prevented it. Worse still, the UN long-ago became enablers of the low-wage mercenary status of the Palestinians. A mess that won't end in my remaining lifetime. Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2024 09:45 PM (aBgBM) 296
Never taught or learned to think. Which is sad. Posted by: Mr. Ray Sadly, I have met people who don't WANT to think. They want things spoon fed to them. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:45 PM (elaR+) 297
EASY now fellow Horde...don't forget, we have a BOOMER and a Ohio Class scraping paint on the bottom of the RED SEA currently...either one capable of taking out the majority of the middle east +countries north...go ahead and break out your classroom WORLD GLOBE and draw a red line north of Tajikistan and then go east of Turkmenistan and then again east to Tehran then south to Karbala... All of that
Yes...All of that. Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 09:45 PM (TDvv2) 298
azjaeger one of my favorite things in this categoy - out of context and illiterate exaggeration of current trends to demonstrate something (always "climate change") - is the western wildfire story. Too lazy to go look it up now, think I bookmarked it, but geological studies show that wildfires in the west peaked in the 19th century (that is, "recent" wildfires). A combo of (non-anthropogenic) climate trends and things like forest management and development meant that such fires have declined steadily for well over a century.
There was some typically brainless screeching idiot making claims about wildfires and "climate change", and somebody bothered to dig up the actual data to nuke them. It was hilarious. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 09:46 PM (GcNJ2) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 27, 2024 09:46 PM (s/jXJ) 300
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 09:44 PM (LHPAg)
The headline continually repeated was 'Unsurvivable Storm Surge'. Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 27, 2024 09:46 PM (i514R) 301
285 I probably saw a version of the same map, Tom Servo. Let's just say that my version didn't fill me with hope for a quick ending to this.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:41 PM (2cS/G) Israel has been so successful at taking out Hezbollah’s command level that it may come to an end faster than any of us thought possible. I think there is no way that Hezbollah, or the Iranians that are there, can now offer any kind of organized resistance. There will be fighters with weapons of course, but none of them will be able to maintain contact with each other. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 09:47 PM (S6gqv) 302
And...I looked it up. The "Canadians" killed in Lebanon were an older couple, in their 70's, who had immigrated to Canada in the 1980's, and lived in Ottawa for many years, and got Canadian citizenship. But they moved back to a village in southern Lebanon a few years ago, and made occasional, but diminishing visits to Canada. They were trying to escape the war zone, and allegedly were hit by an Israeli bomb while stuck in traffic.
So "hotel Canadians". Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 09:48 PM (pJe2/) 303
I am foregoing my TRUMP signs in my neighborhood as it will lead to using ammo that I need for AFTER the elections.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 09:49 PM (TDvv2) 304
Live Feed from Southern outskirts of Beirut still shows burning facilities, jets are heard overhead, occasional secondary explosions, but much less action than an hour ago. Dawn is a couples hours away.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:49 PM (2cS/G) 305
Ace- I loved all of the videos! What a great assortment! Have a wonderful weekend!
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 27, 2024 09:50 PM (rbKZ6) 306
On X just now:
“Israeli Sources have confirmed that besides Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, several other Senior Hezbollah Leaders as well as a Group of Advisors from the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) were inside the Command Bunker when it was Targeted. With all Occupants expected to have been Killed by the Strike.” Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 09:50 PM (S6gqv) 307
I am foregoing my TRUMP signs in my neighborhood as it will lead to using ammo that I need for AFTER the elections.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 27, 2024 09:49 PM (TDvv2) Yup. I am staying gray. No stickers on my truck, no flags flying. Gonna get more ammo. Posted by: Pugsley Hudson Mahon, Telling War Stories at September 27, 2024 09:50 PM (Ad8y9) 308
I hope so, Tom S.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:51 PM (2cS/G) 309
Well, as far as my links go Nitter is down.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 09:51 PM (gdH0L) 310
Yep. Fear. And the Hurricane Channel turns into the Nor’Easter Channel in December.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 27, 2024 09:52 PM (4oXVn) 311
Tom many have been wondering the same thing, and of course the Israelis are actually making careful assessments of same - this historic evisceration of leadership and communications in a brief period may well have left Hezb and its Iranian masters unable to mount a serious response. And given astonishing Israeli intel penetration and coverage of the relevant targets, a very virtuous cycle is established, wherein Hezb's prep for an attack triggers quick Israeli pre-emption (this may be the case with the "coastal missile array" in south Beirut today).
When you are completely dominated operationally, and penetrated and surveilled, the worse it gets, the worse it gets, as you try to regain some initiative. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 09:53 PM (GcNJ2) 312
306 On X just now:
“Israeli Sources have confirmed that besides Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, several other Senior Hezbollah Leaders as well as a Group of Advisors from the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) were inside the Command Bunker when it was Targeted. With all Occupants expected to have been Killed by the Strike.” Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 09:50 PM (S6gqv) 'Command bunker, hey? Oh wow, look at the time! I have to feed my girlfriend's goldfish. See you tomorrow, Abduhl.' Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 09:53 PM (LHPAg) 313
I try to stay grey man at all times.
Like they say in Devil's Advocate, "don't let them see you coming." Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 09:54 PM (elaR+) 314
Tikisha Stewart arrested for 6th DUI and charged her with aggravated driving under the influence, illegal transportation of alcohol, operating an uninsured vehicle, driving with a revoked license, and possession of a controlled substance, in Charleston, released from jail by judge.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 09:56 PM (gdH0L) 315
311 Tom many have been wondering the same thing, and of course the Israelis are actually making careful assessments of same - this historic evisceration of leadership and communications in a brief period may well have left Hezb and its Iranian masters unable to mount a serious response. And given astonishing Israeli intel penetration and coverage of the relevant targets, a very virtuous cycle is established, wherein Hezb's prep for an attack triggers quick Israeli pre-emption (this may be the case with the "coastal missile array" in south Beirut today).
When you are completely dominated operationally, and penetrated and surveilled, the worse it gets, the worse it gets, as you try to regain some initiative. Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 09:53 PM (GcNJ2) Looks like Iran and its mercenaries will have to wait some more for Al--h to destroy their enemies. Will they ever tire of waiting? Nope. Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2024 09:56 PM (aBgBM) 316
Israel maintained a CAP over Beirut and the Bekaa this night (their time). Wonder if they'll keep it during the day.
One Iranian outlet denying that Quds Force commander was iced in the strike. But now (thanks Tom) that Israel claims Quds Force presence, hope is kept alive .... Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 09:56 PM (GcNJ2) 317
Nasrallah? I hardly knew ya'...nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2024 09:57 PM (2cS/G) 318
>>>Never believe what a lefty says unless they say we're assholes.
Posted by: four seasons >Now listen here, bub. You take that kind of talk somewhere else, or I'm going to bend you over the veranda and show you the Greek isles. Posted by: Dr. Puffy Combs at September 27, 2024 09:57 PM (nDTFN) Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 09:58 PM (FnneF) 320
"If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life"
How to respond, to such as this? "Promise?" -or- "Well, 'bye." Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2024 09:58 PM (njWTi) 321
“Israeli Sources have confirmed that besides Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, several other Senior Hezbollah Leaders as well as a Group of Advisors from the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) were inside the Command Bunker when it was Targeted.
The thing I wonder about is that Hezbollah could have just stayed out of the whole thing. It's not like they give a flyin' f*ck about Hamas or the Palis. But nooooo, they just had to try to sucker punch Israel while they thought they were too busy to do anything about it. FAFO Cafe indeed. Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2024 09:58 PM (/y8xj) 322
Thing is
After the Covid hysteria and global warming hysteria, and every other "oh my gawd we are all going toDIE" hysteria...... the only way to get anyones attention is to go batshit fucking crazy. No one pays attention anymore. May as well tone it down and tell the truth. Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 09:59 PM (m3rAb) 323
It's weird that Sean Hannity still has a nightly platform on Fox. As an "influencer" I'd guess well outside the current top 100.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 10:00 PM (nv4jJ) 324
I have heard the speculation that in addition to explosives, the Israelis may have planted trackers in the pagers too.
If they did, imagine what the Israelis know. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 10:00 PM (elaR+) 325
When the internet destroyed the traditional media financial model by removing their traditional income sources, it made them vulnerable. Bought up by conglomerates and if they wanted to stay alive they must do what their masters tell them. Add in college graduates taught by the enemy and dangle money in front of them and we end up with what we have now: fascist state media that will only say what they are told to say. They don't even seem to care about making money with the media anymore, that's not where the money is coming from.
Posted by: azjaeger at September 27, 2024 10:00 PM (3/XaG) 326
May as well tone it down and tell the truth.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 09:59 PM (m3rAb) They can’t do it. It’s not in their programming. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 27, 2024 10:01 PM (4oXVn) 327
"If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life"
How to respond, to such as this? "Promise?" -or- "Well, 'bye." [ Willie Wonka voice ] stop. don't do that. [ /Willie Wonka voice ] Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2024 10:01 PM (/y8xj) 328
But nooooo, they just had to try to sucker punch Israel while they thought they were too busy to do anything about it. FAFO Cafe indeed.
Posted by: Oddbob --------------------- Classic pincer move; Gaza from the south and Hezzbowlah from the north. Missed it by -| |- that much. Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 10:01 PM (gdH0L) 329
321 “Israeli Sources have confirmed that besides Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, several other Senior Hezbollah Leaders as well as a Group of Advisors from the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) were inside the Command Bunker when it was Targeted.
The thing I wonder about is that Hezbollah could have just stayed out of the whole thing. It's not like they give a flyin' f*ck about Hamas or the Palis. But nooooo, they just had to try to sucker punch Israel while they thought they were too busy to do anything about it. FAFO Cafe indeed. Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2024 09:58 PM (/y8xj) Hezbollah is also nothing but an Iranian low-wage mercenary outfit. Mercenaries follow orders or are executed. Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2024 10:01 PM (aBgBM) 330
The other day I ran into former President Clinton and we got into a conversation about Seafood.
I asked him what his favorite Seafood was? He said Bearded Clams.... I said I never heard of them, so I went to a Piggly Wiggly to buy some Bearded Clams. The Seafood Clerk looked at me and said WTF ????? Does anyone know what he meant ??? Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 27, 2024 10:01 PM (hbjSA) 331
So Kamala was down here is SE AZ today.
Here is a funny factoid: She landed on the same airstrip some of the 9/11 hijackers trained from. Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at September 27, 2024 10:02 PM (l7Kbv) 332
Looks like Iran and its mercenaries will have to wait some more for Al--h to destroy their enemies. Will they ever tire of waiting? Nope.
Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2024 09:56 PM (aBgBM) Psst! Pro tip-Allah is merely a moon god, chosen by mohamad out of a group of 3 or 4 gods. Now he's taught to toddlers as the real deal. Kinda like orientals learn chopsticks early. Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 10:02 PM (LHPAg) 333
Probably a bunch of "conservative" normies who still think Hannity is worth listening to, and Hannity wants money, and will say what he is told, so he is still useful to them.
Posted by: azjaeger at September 27, 2024 10:02 PM (3/XaG) 334
Only thing I can think is Hannity inherited something from Limbaugh.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 10:04 PM (nv4jJ) 335
Bearded clams at the Piggly Wiggly?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 27, 2024 10:05 PM (4oXVn) 336
334 Only thing I can think is Hannity inherited something from Limbaugh.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 10:04 PM (nv4jJ) Probably golf clubs. Cause he ain't got nothing else near what Rush was. Quit listening to him 20 years ago. Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 10:07 PM (LHPAg) 337
Since no one else has said it: nood.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2024 10:07 PM (/y8xj) 338
Does anyone know what he meant ???
Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 27, 2024 10:01 PM (hbjSA) everyone knows you don't go to Piggly Wiggly for bearded clams, try Market of Choice, or Whole Foods Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2024 10:09 PM (D7oie) 339
Hannity is intellectually embarrassing to conservatives. I've always thought that was why Fox propped him up.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 27, 2024 10:10 PM (nv4jJ) The Week In WokeNancy Pelosi's husband sold over $500,000 in Visa stock weeks before the DOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit claims Visa monopolized the debit card market. Key Details: Paul Pelosi sold 2,000 shares of Visa stock, valued between $500,000 and $1 million, in early July--less than three months before the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Visa was made public. This sale was recorded in a congressional filing marked "SP," indicating it was conducted by Pelosi's spouse.Lock. Her. Up. Bad Hombre The University of Pennsylvania tried to bribe Amy Wax into not criticizing DEI and affirmative action any more. When she refused to accept their gag order, they punished her for telling the truth. The University of Pennsylvania tried to cut a deal with Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who endured years of disciplinary proceedings over her controversial remarks. The school offered to water down the sanctions against her if she agreed to stop discussing--and criticizing--her treatment at the hands of the university. She refused. So Penn announced Tuesday that it was suspending Wax for a year at half pay and stripping her of an endowed chair. The sanctions, which also include a permanent loss of summer pay, were immediately condemned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which framed them as a precedent-setting blow to academic freedom. "After today, any university under pressure to censor a controversial faculty member need only follow Penn's playbook," the group wrote in a statement. "Faculty nationwide may now pay a heavy price for Penn's willingness to undercut academic freedom for all to get at this one professor." But behind closed doors, the school was prepared to let Wax pay a much lower price--provided she keep her mouth shut about the two-and-a-half-year-long case that made Penn a pariah among academic freedom advocates and compounded the fallout of anti-Israel protests on campus. The quid pro quo was outlined in a draft settlement agreement presented to Wax in August and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. That agreement--the product of months of negotiations between Penn and its embattled gadfly--would have let Wax keep her base salary during the course of her suspension and thrown in a one-time payment of $50,000, partially offsetting the loss in summer pay. In return, Wax would agree "not to disparage the University" over the two-year-long process to which it subjected her. She would also waive her right to sue Penn or disclose the evidence she had presented in internal hearings to clear her name, including testimony from former students who called into question the charges against her. Wax refused to sign the non-disparagement clause, she told the Free Beacon.Defund the fake universities. They're openly encouraging pogroms. n unknown group attacked a Jewish student near the Jewish Resource Center close to the University of Michigan campus on Sunday. According to the Ann Arbor Police Department, which is looking into the incident as a "bias-motivated assault," the student "reported he was walking when a group of unknown males behind him asked if he was Jewish. When the victim replied yes, the group of males proceeded to assault him. The suspects then fled the area on foot. The victim suffered minor injuries, and he did not require hospitalization." During the assault, the assailants reportedly "[threw] him to the ground, kick[ed] him, and spit on him."A town cancelled a pedophile meet-up to take place near a school. The usual "minor attracted persons" advocates are pitching a bitch. After local outcry canceled a camp for "minor-attracted persons" set for last weekend in Vermont, several organizations are publicly defending those who declare a sexual attraction to children. MAP Union, or MU, which represents itself as "an international organization representing the interests of minor-attracted people and their allies," sent a statement to local reporter Guy Page protesting the camp cancelation as "bullying" and violence against "society's most oppressed minority group." "While it is appropriate for law enforcement to investigate crimes when they occur, no-one should face legal sanctions for speaking freely about a sexual orientation they did not choose, nor for meeting up with others who have the same orientation," a self-described MAP Union spokesperson, who called himself "Percy," said in an email to Page he published Monday. Bean noted "Percy" is "likely a pseudonym based on the 19th century English author of Mathilda, a novel about incest between a father and daughter." The person calling himself "Percy" also told Bean, "We hope to provide a more balanced approach to MAP advocacy than groups like NAMBLA have been able to in the past." NAMBLA is the North American Man-Boy Love Association, which effectively disintegrated after a series of FBI stings jailed members for abusing children and trafficking in illegal abuse images. People sexually attracted to children are typically pornography addicts who often get sent to jail for trafficking in illegal abuse images. Porn businesses are complicit, as I detail in my recent book, False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America, as they "deliberately insert transgender partners, children, and opposite-sex partners into pornography aimed at children and heterosexuals, in order to 'see if you can convert somebody, right?'" a senior script writer for a Pornhub company disclosed in 2023. "Many MAPs have a legitimate fear of engaging with law enforcement, even in a progressive state like Vermont," Percy claimed.Wait, are you saying progressives are welcoming of "MAPs?"
We previously discussed Shellyne Rodríguez , the machete-wielding former Hunter College professor. Rodríguez is back with a large following shown in a video with protesters chanting with her about "slitting the throats of the masters."We previously discussed a videotape of Rodríguez trashing a pro-life student display in New York. Before attacking the table, she told the students, "You're not educating s--t [...] This is f--king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? This is bulls--t. This is violent. You're triggering my students." The videotape revealed one other thing. At Hunter College, and at other colleges, it seems that trashing a pro-life student display and abusing pro-life students is not considered a firing offense. Hunter College refused to fire Rodríguez. The PSC Graduate Center, the labor organization of graduate and professional schools at the City University of New York, supported that decision and said Rodríguez was "justified" in trashing the display, which the organization described as "dangerously false propaganda" and "disinformation." Rodríguez later put a machete to the neck of a reporter, threatened to chop him up and then chased a news crew down a street with the machete in hand. Somewhere between the machete to the neck and chasing the reporters down the street, Hunter College finally decided that Rodríguez had to go.
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That chart is hilarious. It needs to be blown up by the artist into a poster size.
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Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 27, 2024 06:18 PM (8RNuU) 5
Oh! Not even close....
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 27, 2024 06:18 PM (3Ope8) 6
Nancy Pelosi says you can never have too much money. And by you, she means herself.
Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2024 06:19 PM (VGOMa) 7
Swap Bill Nye for Gates.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:19 PM (PDf99) 8
A request...
Aww, brings me back to the "Ace studying French* days. It's attractive when people don't stop learning and are always looking to discover new things. [...] Ace, if you're here, anything new you've been studying that fascinates you? Posted by: LizLem Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 06:20 PM (CEzQx) 9
Toyota went pretty hardcore on the Chinese Lung AIDS as well, at least here in Kentucky.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:21 PM (PDf99) Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:21 PM (ynpvh) 11
Sheylene ona dem mutants from Omega Man.
Posted by: FLanole at September 27, 2024 06:23 PM (ZnrCl) 12
Gollum Carville has a point. I hope the team totally ignores his advice.
Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2024 06:23 PM (VGOMa) 13
A town cancelled a pedophile meet-up to take place near a school. The usual "minor attracted persons" advocates are pitching a bitch.
Reminds me of that "Cereal Convention" I saw on a a TV show... https://youtu.be/F_cffJZZsfI Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:23 PM (ynpvh) 14
Pelosi is a mafia don.
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:23 PM (V13WU) 15
Toyota too?
Maybe someone can resurrect Studebaker. It never went out of business, it just stopped producing cars and trucks. Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2024 06:24 PM (0eaVi) 16
James Carville is awfully old and frail to be talking that level of shit to people. It would be quite funny if the gay dude whipped his old ass.
Posted by: UGAdawg at September 27, 2024 06:24 PM (tRd71) 17
Wait, are you saying progressives are welcoming of "MAPs?"
--------------- You can't spell LGBTQI+PEDO-MARKET without "MAPs, H8R!" Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 27, 2024 06:24 PM (YcnDs) 18
>>The fiery barrage of insults included "dumb fat b*tch" directed at Julianna, and "out of touch fag*ots"
I can't stand James Carville, but man that is hysterical. Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:25 PM (6dcSc) 19
Wait, are you saying progressives are welcoming of "MAPs?"
The circle on the Venn diagram for them and Anti-Fa are almost completely super-imposed on each other...So, YES! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:25 PM (ynpvh) 20
My only question is how do they know all the kids who registered are on team Trump and no Faux Joy team?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 06:25 PM (MQJVv) 21
"James Carville is awfully old and frail to be talking that level of shit to people. It would be quite funny if the gay dude whipped his old ass.
Posted by: UGAdawg" Carville looks like he has a bite like a Komodo dragon. Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 06:25 PM (vFG9F) 22
"Many MAPs have a legitimate fear of engaging with law enforcement,
Boo fcking hoo. Pedos *ought* to be in terror of being caught by anyone, and law enforcement should be seen as (relative) protection. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 06:26 PM (FnneF) 23
Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (6PFLl)
Look up the "Panavision" AI versions of modern films. You might like those. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:26 PM (lX8VI) 24
Toyotas for the last decade have been shit. The latest 2025 Tacoma with the high end off road package grenaded the front diff on its first attempt off road.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 27, 2024 06:27 PM (/U5Yz) 25
James Carville's biggest problem is the modern day Democrat Party has left him far behind and couldn't care less what he thinks or does. He knows this and can't handle it.
Not too different from the modern day Republican voters leaving Jonah Goldburger and his ilk behind. Posted by: davidt at September 27, 2024 06:28 PM (i0F8b) 26
>>"Many MAPs have a legitimate fear of engaging with law enforcement,
'One day we will live in a world where you live in fear of the Woodchippers.' a local Resident replied. Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:28 PM (6dcSc) 27
Carville probably has that Loozyanna redneck strength
also- that Greta whatserface is an ugly little spud- she looks like a Dr Seuss character Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 06:29 PM (/7KEl) 28
[]That's not cancel culture, it's capitalism.
-------------- Or, as Ace called it: "consequences culture." Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 27, 2024 06:29 PM (YcnDs) 29
Every pedo, everywhere ought to be afraid to take a breath.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (I1GXe) 30
>>Pelosi is a mafia don.
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:23 PM Nancy's family had connections in Baltimore. Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (VGOMa) 31
MAPs want to not be “discriminated” against.
Ok, let’s assume I agree with this evil bullshit statement. Maybe, just maybe, don’t hold an event by a school. Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (eZwyX) 32
>>James Carville's biggest problem is the modern day Democrat Party has left him far behind and couldn't care less what he thinks or does. He knows this and can't handle it.
I would only disagree in as much as Carville's sole purpose as a Dem Apparatchik has been to Gain Power through Election. He's not a Policy guy. He's an Election guy. His perspective is always on that one aspect of Democrat Power. Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (6dcSc) 33
Huh.
Disney losing $$ and are perverts, Sean Combs is a rapper and a pervert, FBay-yi-yi can keep evidence and are perverts, Secretive Service can't protect people and are perverts...and "maps" and "nambla" are perverts. Do I have that right? Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (Rbu5d) 34
Toyotas for the last decade have been shit. The latest 2025 Tacoma with the high end off road package grenaded the front diff on its first attempt off road.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 27, 2024 06:27 PM Toyota $hit the bed with the 2024 new release of the Tacoma. They suck and every third one needs a new transmission or engine because they are junk. That's what happens when you move the factory to mexico and pay them the equivalent of $2.50 an hour to build trucks. I have my 2016 Tacoma TRD Sport with 76,000 miles on it and I am going to keep it until I get too old to drive. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (QNSds) 35
A MAP is something you can be but not legally practice, so any MAP meet-up should be more like an MAP-anon meeting, where they support each other in not preying on minors. Why do I get the feeling that's not how those meetings go?
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (VGRuw) 36
So Penn announced Tuesday that it was suspending Wax for a year at half pay and stripping her of an endowed chair. The sanctions, which also include a permanent loss of summer pay, were immediately condemned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which framed them as a precedent-setting blow to academic freedom.
__________________ Uh ... isn't the point of tenure to give faculty the protection to express unpopular opinions? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (YqDXo) 37
>>> 33 Huh.
Disney losing $$ and are perverts, Sean Combs is a rapper and a pervert, FBay-yi-yi can keep evidence and are perverts, Secretive Service can't protect people and are perverts...and "maps" and "nambla" are perverts. Do I have that right? Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (Rbu5d) No. And that 'comet pizza' thing was totally bonkers and not real. Posted by: This... is XiNN at September 27, 2024 06:32 PM (FnneF) 38
Oh, and I forgot: Nan and Paul are insider traders and...perverts.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 27, 2024 06:32 PM (Rbu5d) 39
The Department of Justice filed its lawsuit against Visa, accusing the company of monopolizing the debit card market by using its dominance to penalize merchants and consumers who rely on alternative payment processors like Square, Stripe, and PayPal.
___________________ Nothing a fat check to the DNC can't fix. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:33 PM (YqDXo) 40
James Carvile knows which way the leaves are blowing. I'm surprised he was so demure in his criticism. Early night, Jimmy. Maybe Mary can tuck you in by 9:30 pm. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 27, 2024 06:33 PM (RKVpM) 41
Nancy's family had connections in Baltimore.
Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (VGOMa) Had??? Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:34 PM (V13WU) 42
Why would you announce that you have discovered bad welds on ships you are building? Wouldn't you just quietly fix it?
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 06:34 PM (vFG9F) 43
The fiery barrage of insults included "dumb fat b*tch" directed at Julianna, and "out of touch fag*ots" began when the young staffers presented Carville with some social media videos they've been working on to appeal to White male voters. Carville was not impressed by any of them, saying they lacked substance.
When a visibly shaken gay male staffer told Carville he needed to apologize for using the F word, Carville told him to take his camo hat and shove it up his ass before leaving the call. ________________ I'm warming up a bit to this Carville guy. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:34 PM (YqDXo) 44
>>> 39 The Department of Justice filed its lawsuit against Visa, accusing the company of monopolizing the debit card market by using its dominance to penalize merchants and consumers who rely on alternative payment processors like Square, Stripe, and PayPal.
___________________ Nothing a fat check to the DNC can't fix. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:33 PM (YqDXo) What did they do, or not do, that AMEX / Master Card / Discover / Diners Club etc handled 'correctly'? Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 06:34 PM (FnneF) 45
@27
>>Carville probably has that Loozyanna redneck strength He's also 6'2", and even though he's pushing 80, he probably has wiry skinny guy strength. And you put a couple of bourbons in him, he could probably sock a f****t and he'd stay plastered. Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 27, 2024 06:35 PM (XV/Pl) 46
It's a little unfair to assume Nancy Pelosi's husband got that stock tip from his wife. He could have gotten it from some transient he was fucking.
Posted by: Stop. Hammer Time. at September 27, 2024 06:35 PM (9FEtL) 47
Nothing a fat check to the DNC can't fix.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara Read that as "fat chick" and thought, "don't they have enough of those?" Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2024 06:35 PM (DgGvY) 48
Oh, and I forgot: Nan and Paul are insider traders and...perverts.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 27, 2024 06:32 PM (Rbu5d) ________________ Bring back Paul's boyfriend who clobbered him with a hammer. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:35 PM (YqDXo) 49
also- that Greta whatserface is an ugly little spud- she looks like a Dr Seuss character
Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 06:29 PM (/7KEl) Out: Cindy Lou Who, from Whoville In: Greta Von Whore, from Whoreville Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 06:35 PM (QAkQ3) 50
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 27, 2024 06:33 PM (RKVpM)
When Rush passed, Snerdley did this podcast with some of the people Rush knew. I never understood how Mary was with Carville. He also didn’t come across very well in the interview. Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at September 27, 2024 06:36 PM (eZwyX) Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 06:36 PM (mH6SG) 52
31 MAPs want to not be “discriminated” against.
Ok, let’s assume I agree with this evil bullshit statement. Maybe, just maybe, don’t hold an event by a school. Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (eZwyX) I'm sure many of them can't be withing a 1000' of a school anyways... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:36 PM (ynpvh) 53
That’s 9 I won’t never have Thanksgiving meal with.
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 06:37 PM (o2ZRX) 54
Compare and contrast the pathetic voter registration the Dems held at the same spot.
It was like 5 sad puds and choats just standing there. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 06:37 PM (DLyFt) 55
Since MAPs are part of the discussion, the only thing missing in that top picture is an arm coming down from "competent" to fondle "expert."
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2024 06:37 PM (DgGvY) 56
I can't imagine a group of scumbags I'd less want to hang around a campfire with than MAPs and I've not been a kid for several decades.
I hope their pagers (and ankle bracelets, I'm sure they've all got 'em) are proudly Made In Israel. Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 06:37 PM (gKWVE) 57
When a visibly shaken gay male staffer told Carville he needed to apologize for using the F word, Carville told him to take his camo hat and shove it up his ass before leaving the call.
_______________ The faggot probably considered that as sweet talk. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:38 PM (YqDXo) Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:38 PM (V13WU) 59
I never understood how Mary was with Carville. He also didn’t come across very well in the interview. Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at September 27, 2024 06:36 PM A wild guess is that Mary was a 'Bush Republican'. Jeb Bush level. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 27, 2024 06:39 PM (RKVpM) Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 06:39 PM (/7KEl) 61
I'm all for MAP gatherings.
Posted by: Carbon Monoxide Enthusiast at September 27, 2024 06:39 PM (9FEtL) 62
31 MAPs want to not be “discriminated” against.
__________________ Gangbangers and other criminals don't want to be discriminated against, either. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:39 PM (YqDXo) 63
We don't need no Carvilles. We have the cheat machine for the win.
Posted by: Democrat Dumb Fat Bitches and Faggots at September 27, 2024 06:39 PM (i0F8b) Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:39 PM (6dcSc) 65
Elon Musk @elonmusk 2h
True ALX 🇺🇸 @alx 2h TRUMP: “There's no greater act of disloyalty than to extinguish the sovereignty of your own nation” https://tinyurl.com/fary6b73 38 seconds Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 06:39 PM (CEzQx) 66
What in the f*ckity-f*ck is a pedophile "ally?"
When the burning times come, "allies" are going to meet the same fate. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2024 06:40 PM (d9fT1) 67
It would be quite funny if the gay dude whipped his old ass.
Posted by: UGAdawg Think of what you just said. Now picture a young gay dude that works on a Dem campaign.. Not gonna happen. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 06:40 PM (WXNFJ) 68
I'm all for MAP gatherings.
Posted by: Carbon Monoxide Enthusiast at September 27, 2024 06:39 PM (9FEtL) ________________ Hand grenades make a more dramatic statement. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:40 PM (YqDXo) 69
20 My only question is how do they know all the kids who registered are on team Trump and no Faux Joy team?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke Because they were wearing MAGA hats? Posted by: Duh at September 27, 2024 06:40 PM (BApYz) 70
>>I don't give two shits what the Top Marginal Rate gets jacked up to. Same for the Corporate Rate. And screw their Capital Gains ... seize it all.
That is because you are a retard. Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:40 PM (6dcSc) 71
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 27, 2024 06:39 PM (RKVpM
Maybe. But you could tell she truly missed Rush while Carville was just….I dunno it was weird Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at September 27, 2024 06:41 PM (eZwyX) Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2024 06:41 PM (VGOMa) 73
I'm warming up a bit to this Carville guy.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:34 PM (YqDXo) Yup. He is one of the Devil's disciples, but occasionally he says the right thing. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2024 06:41 PM (d9fT1) 74
Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:40 PM (6dcSc)
He’s a little hyperbolic but is he retarded entirely? I’d argue no. Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at September 27, 2024 06:42 PM (eZwyX) 75
Weird how all these MAPs have an inverted moral compass...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2024 06:42 PM (BpYfr) 76
Bumper sticker right now in front of me:
"You could save 30% or more by switching back to TRUMP." Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 27, 2024 06:42 PM (fh8Ks) 77
When a visibly shaken gay male staffer told Carville he needed to apologize for using the F word, Carville told him to take his camo hat and shove it up his ass before leaving the call.
What happened to the much more normal human response: "Hey Carville, you skeletal freak, go f*ck yourself." What has happened to our culture? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2024 06:43 PM (d9fT1) 78
Carville missed his calling. A stand up comedian!
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:43 PM (V13WU) 79
Carville dashes the imagination and Joy of young Dem staffers and sends them to safe spaces to recover.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 06:43 PM (I1GXe) 80
"James Carville is awfully old and frail to be talking that level of shit to people. It would be quite funny if the gay dude whipped his old ass.
Posted by: UGAdawg" _______________ Carville was probably in greater danger of getting a handbagging from him. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:44 PM (YqDXo) 81
73 Carville was not exaggerating about Olivia Julianna.
https://tinyurl.com/yc22xa3y Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2024 06:41 PM (VGOMa) She's why they gotta have late-term abortion. You can't expect her to notice she's preggers before 8 months. Posted by: Chef Boyardee's Sous Chef at September 27, 2024 06:44 PM (9FEtL) Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:44 PM (6dcSc) 83
, if you're here, anything new you've been studying that fascinates you?
Just doing Spanish now. I need to get back to French and Italian. I'm losing those Thanks for asking. You? Posted by: Ace at September 27, 2024 06:45 PM (KRtlO) 84
runner or a acting job as Dracula
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 06:45 PM (fwDg9) 85
What in the f*ckity-f*ck is a pedophile "ally?"
________________ A pedophile who's still in the closet. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:46 PM (YqDXo) 86
James Carville, as hated as he deservedly is, has forgotten more about appealing to white voters than the entire Harris campaign.
It's fantastic, that story: 1) the millennials, Zs and other assortments just had to run to tell on him 2) that they are having to reach out to someone who really hasn't been relevant for 20 years tells you how badly their internals show they are doing with whites 3) and their big idea is? A video, a f'ing ad? Oh, ho! They are even worse off than they know. This is worse than Hillary having her Director of Rural Outreach barricade herself on Manhattan. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 06:46 PM (DLyFt) 87
Posted by: Bleh at September 27, 2024 06:43 PM (ZIgD1)
I remember Perot but I was a kid. My dad IIRC a liked him but knew he didn’t have a chance. Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at September 27, 2024 06:46 PM (eZwyX) 88
acting job as Dracula
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 06:45 PM (fwDg9) really ? more like Renfield, amirite ?? Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:46 PM (V13WU) 89
84 >>What has happened to our culture?
It's been feminized. Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:44 PM (6dcSc) ________ This. And it has been "diversified" too. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:47 PM (YqDXo) Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:47 PM (lX8VI) 91
People called Perot a retard as well. Retard away.
Posted by: Bleh at September 27, 2024 06:43 PM (ZIgD1) You really got your dumb on when you said "And screw their Capital Gains ... seize it all." Capital gains includes the house you bought which appreciated in value over the time you lived in it. And here comes Kamala flanks with a pack of IRS agents to demand 25% of the value. Now you got to sell your house to pay her goons off, and move to some shitty apartment in da hood. Please do not dumb here. Not dumb area here. Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 06:47 PM (gKWVE) 92
Let's ask ace, he is an expert on Dracula, he read the book many times !
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:47 PM (V13WU) 93
What in the f*ckity-f*ck is a pedophile "ally?"
A pedophile who's still in the closet. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara A necrophiliac hoping they're next to be "normalized?" Sorry, "cadaver-attracted person." Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2024 06:47 PM (DgGvY) Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2024 06:48 PM (d9fT1) 95
*who is our "smart" troll ??
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:48 PM (V13WU) 96
>>What has happened to our culture? It's been feminized. Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:44 PM By women who will soon realize it's unsafe to walk the streets of this country without a real man at their side. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 27, 2024 06:48 PM (RKVpM) 97
mikeski, Oh, well done !
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 06:48 PM (I1GXe) 98
A question I've had since the second assassin:
In his note with the bounty and imploring someone to "finish the job" -- how did he know that he would fail? With the idea to only release the note if he did fail? Sure screams patsy to me ... Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 27, 2024 06:48 PM (fh8Ks) 99
Because they were wearing MAGA hats?
Posted by: Duh at September 27 I didn't look closely at the pictures but I just looked again and not everybody is wearing a MAGA and you know some people. An wear a "costume " without endorsing what the costume claims. I am glad, however, if they got mainly Trump voters registered. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 06:50 PM (MQJVv) 100
Greta can audition for a lead role in the remake of "Village of the Damned"
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 06:50 PM (I1GXe) 101
Sure screams patsy to me ... Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 27, 2024 06:48 PM (fh8Ks) Yes it does Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 06:50 PM (IyPmt) 102
>>You really got your dumb on when you said "And screw their Capital Gains ... seize it all."
Not to add that it is Peak Stupid to couple ANY portion of the Federal Economy with the Tax Base. We abandoned that connection entirely the first time we allowed the Government to function without an actual fucking Budget. Taxation is not about cost/spending. It's about punishment. Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:51 PM (6dcSc) 103
77 Bumper sticker right now in front of me:
"You could save 30% or more by switching back to TRUMP." Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 27, 2024 06:42 PM (fh8Ks) I watched a utoob video last night about a 50 dollar meal plan from wallyworld. It was posted 8 months ago. I created the same list on my online shopping cart, and it cost 66.79. A 33 percent increase in 8 months. So yeah, that tracks. Posted by: Moki at September 27, 2024 06:51 PM (wLjpr) 104
Where can I find the proposed "appeal to White male voters" videos shown to Carville? They have to be comedy gold!
Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2024 06:51 PM (aBgBM) 105
Carville is interesting. He seems to be more honest about what the demoncrats are fucking up and bold enough to say it on CNN and the other propaganda networks. He seems a bit naive though. He apparently believes the demoncrats are still pro American, pro worker, and pro peace and security for all. I don't think he really understands what the party has become and thinks it's just a problem of incompetent ideologues who are stupid and extreme.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 27, 2024 06:52 PM (4XwPj) 106
I can see why Trump sold a butt load of his Truth Social stock yesterday, the app is shit. Devin Nunes you're fired.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 27, 2024 06:52 PM (/U5Yz) 107
Moki, Hi, darlin
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 06:52 PM (I1GXe) 108
By women who will soon realize it's unsafe to walk the streets of this country without a real man at their side. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 27, 2024 06:48 PM (RKVpM) They would prefer a bear, fyi Posted by: Moki at September 27, 2024 06:52 PM (wLjpr) 109
108 Moki, Hi, darlin
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 06:52 PM (I1GXe) Hey sweet lady! How are you??? Posted by: Moki at September 27, 2024 06:53 PM (wLjpr) 110
6 Nancy Pelosi says you can never have too much money. And by you, she means herself.
Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2024 06:19 PM (VGOMa) ---- But isn't that the opposite to what bho said back when he was 'president'? Posted by: Ciampino - bho dog eater supreme at September 27, 2024 06:55 PM (qfLjt) Posted by: Ace at September 27, 2024 06:55 PM (KRtlO) Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2024 06:55 PM (njWTi) 113
Moki, in MoMe anticipation mode and lovin it.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 06:55 PM (I1GXe) 114
First record of taxation ? 5000 years ago. Egypt of course. 20% of grain harvest collected by the Pharaoh.
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:55 PM (V13WU) 115
95 *who is our "smart" troll ??
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:48 PM (V13WU) We finally got one? Yay! We have deserved that for a long time, we are much too good for the factory seconds we have been getting. Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2024 06:56 PM (pZEOD) 116
Rosetta stone ? A tax document.
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:56 PM (V13WU) 117
Man, and that story gets better the more I think in it.
Not only was their big f'ing idea a video, but they had the runts who made it "group project" present it to Carville. Not present by the campaign media head, an equal, the runts! No wonder he was pissed. They not only made him take his time--probably as a huge favor--to watch it, but they made him watch the first draft! Lol. But wait, it gets better! He realizes they were sandbagging him, by having all these Checkboxes on the project present it, they were trying to shame him into not criticizing it, and adopting it, so when it fails they could blame him! That's why he was incandescent--shit product, pitched by nobody lessers, that they wanted him to take ownership for. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 06:56 PM (DLyFt) 118
Capital gains includes the house you bought which appreciated in value over the time you lived in it. And here comes Kamala flanks with a pack of IRS agents to demand 25% of the value. Now you got to sell your house to pay her goons off, and move to some shitty apartment in da hood.
________________ Of course, when a whole bunch of people have to sell their houses to pay off the IRS house prices will plummet, thereby lowering your capital gains liability. If Chlamydia ever gets to do this, there will be some interesting calculations going on as house prices drop precipitously. Maybe you won't even have any unrealized capital gains, in which case the IRS agents will have blue balls, and have to go home empty-handed, and muttering. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:56 PM (YqDXo) 119
We finally got one? Yay! We have deserved that for a long time, we are much too good for the factory seconds we have been getting. Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2024 06:56 PM (pZEOD) -------------- Factory seconds? When was the last time a troll even rose to the level of factory second around here? Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 06:57 PM (tT6L1) Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2024 06:57 PM (oeozt) 121
We finally got one? Yay! We have deserved that for a long time, we are much too good for the factory seconds we have been getting.
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2024 06:56 PM (pZEOD) Yes, very sad. We deserve better quality trolls, as befits our standing as the prime destination ..of all the things! Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:58 PM (V13WU) Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:58 PM (PDf99) 123
He seems a bit naive though. He apparently believes the demoncrats are still pro American, pro worker, and pro peace and security for all. I don't think he really understands what the party has become and thinks it's just a problem of incompetent ideologues who are stupid and extreme.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 27, 2024 06:52 PM (4XwPj) _________________ Maybe he's trying to push the Democrat Party back from the abyss. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:59 PM (YqDXo) 124
Capital letter commenter ace?
I am skeptical... Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:58 PM (PDf99) ------------ Friday. I think Ace reserves capital A for the last day of the week. Or, he's rewarding himself for the incredible Disney round up. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 07:00 PM (tT6L1) 125
Factory seconds? When was the last time a troll even rose to the level of factory second around here?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 06:57 PM (tT6L1) Who would we call the worst troll? Couple factors: -longest lasting -most annoying of the longest lasting I'd have to go BSG. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:00 PM (PDf99) 126
The joy is gone.
== Bring back Joy! Posted by: runner ...... I use it to clean ducks after an oil spill. Posted by: wth at September 27, 2024 07:00 PM (v0R5T) 127
Why would you announce that you have discovered bad welds on ships you are building? Wouldn't you just quietly fix it?
Because it's going to cost money to fix. "You paid us to f*ck up, now pay us to fix it." And somebody is going to have to take the blame for that. Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2024 07:00 PM (/y8xj) 128
We really are out of the salad days of trolls.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:01 PM (PDf99) 129
>>What has happened to our culture?
It's been feminized. --- The Harris campaign is peak feminine power. Pure emotion force. Zero action. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 07:01 PM (DLyFt) 130
Factory seconds? When was the last time a troll even rose to the level of factory second around here? Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing I was being nice. I initially went with Temu, then thought bargain basement and settled where I did. Maybe a little prop up will inspire them to be better. A girl can dream! Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2024 07:01 PM (pZEOD) 131
Carville is the type to tell the fringe they're not winning any hearts & minds by blocking highways during rush hour. Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:01 PM (oeozt) 132
We finally got one? Yay! We have deserved that for a long time, we are much too good for the factory seconds we have been getting. Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2024 06:56 PM Over the next four weeks you will see so many new nics it will amaze you. Mainly people who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 but just can't bring themselves to vote for a _______ _____. Madlibs on steroids. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 27, 2024 07:01 PM (RKVpM) 133
I'd have to go BSG.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:00 PM (PDf99) ------------ MUMR Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 07:01 PM (tT6L1) 134
Because it's going to cost money to fix. "You paid us to f*ck up, now pay us to fix it." And somebody is going to have to take the blame for that.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2024 07:00 PM (/y8xj) You paid us to intentionally fuck up. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:01 PM (PDf99) 135
MUMR
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 07:01 PM (tT6L1) But how much of MUMR was really MUMR and not the text changing service the cobs use? Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:02 PM (PDf99) 136
Toyota is starting to F*** over it's customers.
I know of two customers whose cars self destructed with normal use while rather new and Toyota told them to eat Sh**. This is unheard of. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:02 PM (elaR+) 137
Of course, when a whole bunch of people have to sell their houses to pay off the IRS house prices will plummet, thereby lowering your capital gains liability. If Chlamydia ever gets to do this, there will be some interesting calculations going on as house prices drop precipitously. Maybe you won't even have any unrealized capital gains, in which case the IRS agents will have blue balls, and have to go home empty-handed, and muttering.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara -------- Yeah, actual prices will drop.. But you'll still *owe* on whatever value THEY declare-- just like property tax assessment. LOL@ *Chlamydia* Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2024 07:02 PM (njWTi) 138
Gotta clean 'em before you BBQ them.
Posted by: wth at September 27, 2024 07:03 PM (v0R5T) Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 07:03 PM (V13WU) 140
Eh. Discounting for hyperbole, I get what he's saying. I've gotten nothing from the capital gains tax crowd; the supposedly sober economic wing of the party doesn't have much in the way of actual accomplishments, and it despises cultural conservatives like me every bit as much as the Democrats do. Don't expect me to turn out for or even offer grudging rhetorical support for the so-called fiscal hawks who have not reduced spending one iota in my lifetime.
Posted by: It's Why Only Trump Has Broken The Blue Wall at September 27, 2024 07:03 PM (9FEtL) 141
>>> The fiery barrage of insults included "dumb fat b*tch" directed at Julianna, and "out of touch fag*ots" began when the young staffers presented Carville with some social media videos they've been working on to appeal to White male voters. Carville was not impressed by any of them, saying they lacked substance
Wait, the "Kamala-man" song didn't work?! Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 07:03 PM (flHRX) 142
I was being nice. I initially went with Temu, then thought bargain basement and settled where I did. Maybe a little prop up will inspire them to be better. A girl can dream!
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2024 07:01 PM (pZEOD) ----------- Hey hey, now, I know you've a clientele you need to encourage but let's not bring that kind of positive attitude to AoS! Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 07:03 PM (tT6L1) 143
OT: What %#)*%&*)& bird did I see on my patio? Its beak and tail were longer than a Black Rail's and those have a very small range. Its beak was also longer than an American Dipper and its feathers were darker, and those live closer but not in TX.
Stupid bird. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 07:03 PM (FnneF) 144
My neighbor's Toyota EV sounds like a vacuum cleaner on its last legs.
Posted by: wth at September 27, 2024 07:04 PM (v0R5T) 145
Stupid bird.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 07:03 PM (FnneF) He took a wrong turn at Albuquerque. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:05 PM (PDf99) 146
Winning Hearts and Minds... more idiots vandalize Van Gogh paintings! Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, have been sentenced to jail — part of a new crackdown on the radical climate protests that have swept the world in the past few years. Plummer was given two years; Holland got 20 months.
“I made my choices and I’m happy with them,” Plummer said Friday during the sentencing phase of the trial. “I’ve found peace in acting on my conscience.” Just hours later, three protesters wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts threw soup on two other Van Gogh paintings at the National Gallery in London. “There are people in prison for demanding an end to new oil and gas,” one of the protesters shouted in a video posted to social media. Other museum visitors gasped and cried “No!” Pictures of the smug activists defacing the art. https://tinyurl.com/5feyf7n4 https://tinyurl.com/yc6shej4 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 27, 2024 07:05 PM (ycI94) 147
Helena Handbasket, Hurricane blew it all the way to Texas.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:05 PM (I1GXe) 148
132...Mainly people who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 but just can't bring themselves to vote for a _______ _____.
Madlibs on steroids. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 27, 2024 07:01 PM (RKVpM) "I've been a life-long republican, but..." Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 27, 2024 07:05 PM (Rbu5d) 149
144 My neighbor's Toyota EV sounds like a vacuum cleaner on its last legs.
Posted by: wth at September 27, Will you spell that out phonetically for us? Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2024 07:05 PM (pZEOD) 150
Capital gains includes the house you bought which appreciated in value over the time you lived in it. And here comes Kamala flanks with a pack of IRS agents to demand 25% of the value. Now you got to sell your house to pay her goons off, and move to some shitty apartment in da hood.
________________ Of course, when a whole bunch of people have to sell their houses to pay off the IRS house prices will plummet, thereby lowering your capital gains liability. If Chlamydia ever gets to do this, there will be some interesting calculations going on as house prices drop precipitously. Maybe you won't even have any unrealized capital gains, in which case the IRS agents will have blue balls, and have to go home empty-handed, and muttering. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:56 PM Don't forget to include your 401k's, your stock portfolios and your IRA's in the unrealized capital gains tax that kamala is pushing. 24% tax year after year, that is gonna leave a mark. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2024 07:05 PM (QNSds) 151
Homefront update.
DOJ has been investigating Phoenix PD and claims to have found a pattern of abuse of force, against homeless people, against minorities etc. Well Phoenix PD and others were able to find the "incidents" the DOJ were talking about and lo and behold, the DOJ was arbitrarily taking incidents where officers did nothing wrong and declaring them as part of a pattern of abuse. In several cases the officers were lauded for their patience and restraint with combative individuals. When confronted with this evidence the DOJ claimed there were other occurrences not shared that they were referring to. Riiiiiiiiiggggghhhht. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:06 PM (elaR+) 152
Off topic, but if true, Nasrallah being vaporized is the best news I have heard in years. A truly evil thing no longer walking this earth.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2024 07:06 PM (SHAib) 153
But how much of MUMR was really MUMR and not the text changing service the cobs use?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:02 PM (PDf99) ----------------- I guess I'll have to agree it's BSG. I forgot MUMR annoyed the COBS to the point he got that special treatment. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 07:06 PM (tT6L1) 154
The fiery barrage of insults included "dumb fat b*tch" directed at Julianna, and "out of touch fag*ots"
_________________ Those weren't insults, they were observations. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:06 PM (YqDXo) 155
WTF did Van Gogh ever do to them? Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:06 PM (oeozt) 156
Falling asleep
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 07:07 PM (fwDg9) 157
Julius Caesar was the first to administer a sales tax. Across the entire Empire. That pissed off a lot of people and they stabbed him in the pizza.
Posted by: runner's unofficial history of Rome at September 27, 2024 07:07 PM (V13WU) 158
Winning Hearts and Minds... more idiots vandalize Van Gogh paintings! Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, have been sentenced to jail — part of a new crackdown on the radical climate protests that have swept the world in the past few years. Plummer was given two years; Holland got 20 months.
_______________ What's wrong with so many young women these days? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:07 PM (YqDXo) 159
I'd have to go BSG.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:00 PM (PDf99) Palin Steele. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 07:07 PM (OX9vb) 160
>>> Look up the "Panavision" AI versions of modern films. You might like those.
I've see a few of those. They are stunning! I wish I knew how it made them. It's sad when AI produces teasers of fake films I'm salivating to see, and Hollywood all looks like dreck. This is why they're afraid of AI... people with vision and willing to grind will bypass the gatekeepers to get their stories out. And it will be better than Hollywood. And they become irrelevant. Well, goals anyway. Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 07:07 PM (UeYqY) 161
So Harris' Big Tough Border Speech is, she's gonna promise she will take Executive Action to tighten up asylum claims.
Whew-wee! 1) why can't she visit Old Joe and get him to do it now? 2) why is this her 1st idea in 4 years? 3) oh, next year you will, you say? Pinky swear? Excellent. She has no clue this only emphasizes how bad she is on this. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 07:07 PM (DLyFt) 162
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WTF did Van Gogh ever do to them? Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:06 PM (oeozt) He did not like their impromptu Julius Caesar: 'Friends, Romans, Countrymen: lend me your ears!' Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:08 PM (PDf99) 163
146...Pictures of the smug activists defacing the art.
https://tinyurl.com/5feyf7n4 https://tinyurl.com/yc6shej4 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 27, 2024 07:05 PM (ycI94) None of those faces or physiques are surprises. Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 27, 2024 07:08 PM (Rbu5d) 164
Stupid bird.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 07:03 PM (FnneF) ------------- Heron? Had one show in AZ where I worked once. The manager put some fish in an outdoor pond and the bird dropped in to have a snack or three. The Manager was unhappy. I thought it was hilarious. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 07:08 PM (tT6L1) 165
>>> 147 Helena Handbasket, Hurricane blew it all the way to Texas.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:05 PM (I1GXe) Maybe! Whatever it was, it liked running along the ground, so I think it's some type of little shore bird. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 07:08 PM (FnneF) 166
Will you spell that out phonetically for us?
Posted by: Piper at September 27, 2024 07:05 PM (pZEOD) ..... ZZZZZclunkZHZHZHZHZHclunk-zhzhzhzhzhzhzhzh-rattle Posted by: wth at September 27, 2024 07:08 PM (v0R5T) 167
I'd have to go BSG.
Who was the guy who insisted on telling us how wealthy he was? I forget the nic. Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 07:08 PM (mH6SG) 168
159 I'd have to go BSG.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:00 PM (PDf99) Palin Steele. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 07:07 PM (OX9vb) Gabe. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:09 PM (PDf99) 169
WTF did Van Gogh ever do to them?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:06 PM (oeozt) ________________ "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me an ear." Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:09 PM (YqDXo) 170
Good thing ALL those paintings in museums are Fakes. The genuine articles are in the homes of collectors or have been destroyed. Posted by: Soothsayer's Wacky Theories at September 27, 2024 07:09 PM (oeozt) 171
Who was the guy who insisted on telling us how wealthy he was? I forget the nic.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 07:08 PM (mH6SG) Hmmm, we have had a couple iirc. MooMoo, most likely. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:09 PM (PDf99) 172
NGU, not confirmed yet but maybe it's taking a while to scrape up DNA samples.
Hope you are well. Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:09 PM (I1GXe) 173
MAP Union, wood chipper. Some assembly required.
Posted by: Chinaacid at September 27, 2024 07:09 PM (rXp4X) 174
They did it again:
Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil 10h 🥫 BREAKING: 3 YEARS 8 MONTHS COMBINED IN PRISON FOR THROWING SOUP ⛓️ Phoebe and Anna have just been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months in prison respectively after throwing soup over the glass frame of Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'. 🚔 Phoebe received a further 3 months for marching in the road for 20 minutes. “Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil 8h 🚨 BREAKING: 2 VAN GOGH PAINTINGS SOUPED HOURS AFTER PHOEBE AND ANNA SENTENCED 🥫 3 Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over 2 of Van Gogh paintings in the 'Poets and Lovers' exhibition at the National Gallery. ➡️ Support people in resistance: chuffed.org/project/sup... Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 07:09 PM (CEzQx) Posted by: The Walking Dude at September 27, 2024 07:10 PM (lbtdl) 176
Lady Godiva ? Rode a naked horse to protest taxation.
Posted by: runner's unofficial history of the world at September 27, 2024 07:10 PM (V13WU) 177
>>> 164
------------- Heron? Had one show in AZ where I worked once. The manager put some fish in an outdoor pond and the bird dropped in to have a snack or three. The Manager was unhappy. I thought it was hilarious. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 07:08 PM (tT6L1) LOL Not a heron though, this was a tiny little bird; it ran through a fence panel with a 2" wide gap with no trouble. My bantams were quite perturbed by its run-by. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 07:10 PM (FnneF) 178
Winning Hearts and Minds... more idiots vandalize Van Gogh paintings!
Please tell me the paintings had a protective clear glass or lexan layer in front of them? Any gallery today, with knowledge that this is widespread and going on all the time, that doesn't protect their valuable works of art from vandals like this is criminally negligent. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 07:10 PM (O7YUW) Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:10 PM (YqDXo) 180
That is a slightly obscure example of Hordemind.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:10 PM (PDf99) 181
So I honestly don't know. Does Islam accept "minor attraction?" since I believe Muhammed had a six year old "wife" and then consummated it when she was 9? Aisha or something.... who turned out to be a huge deal, since I think the legend is that it was Aisha who managed to get all of the Koran written. So if true, the Koran comes to us via a woman who was sexually abused as a child. Which explains a lot.
I know human culture has gone back and forth on the "proper" age to start having sex, but I think the vast majority of cultures never drop below female puberty. Heck, the King Arthur stories have some princess getting married to the King of Orkney... but they wait until she turns 12 and has her first period. Islam, I don't know. I think any society that legalizes child sex stuff tends to be violently destroyed shortly thereafter, so God clearly doesn't tolerate it very much. Posted by: SimoHayha at September 27, 2024 07:10 PM (KfVMM) Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 07:11 PM (CEzQx) 183
Carville is an ass, but he has a pretty good feel for what works, and how to drag loser candidates across the finish line. He's also an old timer Dem...the new, young, activist moron base probably disgusts him on multiple levels.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 27, 2024 07:11 PM (ycI94) Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 27, 2024 07:11 PM (9X60i) 185
On a personal note:
My mother passed away last night. She is finally at peace. Thank you to all that sent prayers for her. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:11 PM (elaR+) 186
146...Pictures of the smug activists defacing the art.
https://tinyurl.com/5feyf7n4 https://tinyurl.com/yc6shej4 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 27, 2024 07:05 PM (ycI94) None of those faces or physiques are surprises. Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 27, 2024 07:08 PM (Rbu5d) _________________ Some sorry specimens. Darwin was wrong. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:11 PM (YqDXo) 187
Hmmm, we have had a couple iirc. MooMoo, most likely.
Ah, that's the one. I used to ask him if the Brinks truck had arrived for the daily delivery. Heh. Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 07:11 PM (mH6SG) 188
Funny that all of the text messages professing to be disturbed by the voter registration drive at ASU are women. They gone off the deep end.
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 27, 2024 07:12 PM (rbKZ6) 189
So Harris' Big Tough Border Speech is, she's gonna promise she will take Executive Action to tighten up asylum claims. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice In other words, the whole fake visit was about, again, blaming Republicans and Trump for opposing the stupid bullshit "Border Bill." Posted by: Soothsayer's Wacky Theories at September 27, 2024 07:12 PM (oeozt) 190
That MAP meetup in Vermont, I bet there were registered sex-offenders planning to attend. Would they be prohibited from going near a school?
Posted by: Ciampino - have woodchipper, will travel at September 27, 2024 07:12 PM (qfLjt) Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:12 PM (PDf99) 192
Gotta drop off to make dinner... and maybe look at more @*&%*(#^ bird pictures...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 27, 2024 07:12 PM (FnneF) 193
Lady Godiva ? Rode a naked horse to protest taxation.
Posted by: runner's unofficial history of the world at September 27, 2024 07:10 PM (V13WU) ________________ Memo to Lena Dunham: please don't do this. Thanks. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:12 PM (YqDXo) 194
When a visibly shaken gay male staffer told Carville he needed to apologize for using the F word, Carville told him to take his camo hat and shove it up his ass before leaving the call.
A true man of the people. Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 27, 2024 07:13 PM (9X60i) 195
"I've been a life-long republican, but..." Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 27, 2024 Oh, yeah. The 'tard on Pennsylvania YouTube ads with that scam got doxxed. Career Democrat, made up name. I hope he gets sued out of house and home and ends up living in the Kensington section of Philly under the 'el in a tent. Addiction to Fentanyl optional. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 27, 2024 07:13 PM (RKVpM) 196
Funny that all of the text messages professing to be disturbed by the voter registration drive at ASU are women. They gone off the deep end.
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 27, 2024 07:12 PM (rbKZ6) ________________ Hence my comment above. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:13 PM (YqDXo) 197
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me an ear."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:09 PM (YqDXo) ------------ I'm in Holland and it may be a bit ripe before it arrives. Is that okay? Posted by: Van Gogh at September 27, 2024 07:13 PM (tT6L1) 198
Wait, the "Kamala-man" song didn't work?!
- - I feel like you're telling me there is a Village People "Macho Man" song they made? And I'm horrified to know I'll eventually endure it. I mean, I saw that pack of grey hairs and low-T chuds singing "we won't go back" that so enamored DU. And they've gotten worse? Worse than the Beto ad to that Grease song? Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 07:13 PM (DLyFt) 199
194 When a visibly shaken gay male staffer told Carville he needed to apologize for using the F word, Carville told him to take his camo hat and shove it up his ass before leaving the call.
A true man of the people. Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 27, 2024 07:13 PM (9X60i) So, was he telling him to shove Carville's camo hat up his ass or was the gay dude wearing a camo hat? Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:13 PM (PDf99) 200
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:11 PM
God bless and continued prayers for you and your family. Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 07:14 PM (mH6SG) 201
185 On a personal note:
My mother passed away last night. She is finally at peace. Thank you to all that sent prayers for her. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:11 PM So sorry to hear that! RIP. Posted by: Moonbeam at September 27, 2024 07:14 PM (rbKZ6) 202
Thank you Aetius451AD
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:14 PM (elaR+) 203
defacing a Van Gogh is where I draw the line!
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 07:14 PM (V13WU) 204
Memo to Lena Dunham: please don't do this. Thanks.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:12 PM (YqDXo) --------------- I dunno, enough Dunhams show up, Congress might actually be frightened into listening. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 07:14 PM (tT6L1) Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 07:14 PM (LkLld) 206
oh man Erebus that fucking sucks. Do you have friends and family around who can help? prayers up anyway
Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 07:14 PM (gKWVE) 207
What's funny is I wrote this comment before I had heard about the latest terrorism by these fuckfaces: Carville is the type to tell the fringe they're not winning any hearts & minds by blocking highways during rush hour. Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:01 PM Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:15 PM (oeozt) 208
203 defacing a Van Gogh is where I draw the line!
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 07:14 PM (V13WU) Well, de-earing it would be repetitive. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:15 PM (PDf99) 209
163 146...Pictures of the smug activists defacing the art.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 27, 2024 07:05 PM (ycI94) None of those faces or physiques are surprises. Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker You can tell they're European because they aren't morbidly obese, like woke American weirdos would be. Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 27, 2024 07:15 PM (ycI94) 210
Did Van Go use oil-based paints? maybe that was it
Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 07:15 PM (/7KEl) 211
Memo to Lena Dunham: please don't do this [ride a horse naked]. Thanks.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:12 PM (YqDXo) Seconded Posted by: the horse at September 27, 2024 07:15 PM (gKWVE) 212
Delurking to rage at Toyota. Can no corporation not turn into utter garbage? Who is left? I'll need a new truck sooner or later. Who is left?
Chevy/GMC is on my sh*t list after hosing the bond holders. My wife's latest Ford has not impressed me with its quality. Nissan? Meh. I was a Toyota man, where do I go? Do I have to build my own? Actually, maybe AOP could part with a ride? Peon Motors... Nah. Alberta Motors... Hmm. Posted by: I still can't think of anything at September 27, 2024 07:15 PM (bpYFZ) 213
Russian and Chinese warships are operating in the waters around Japan as part of a joint drill, as the People’s Liberation Army Navy Liaoning Carrier Strike Group is operating in the Philippine Sea.
In other developments, Japan’s Ministry of Defense announced that a Russian IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) violated Japan’s territorial airspace three times on Monday, ... ----------------- This is good. The Russ & the Chinese are no more asshole today than they were before showing off. Hopefully this will encourage the Japanese people to pressure their politicians to S. can that pacifist article in their Constitution. Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 07:15 PM (gdH0L) 214
Erebus, may her memory be a blessing and that your pain is replaced with all the good memories.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:15 PM (I1GXe) 215
191 Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:11 PM (elaR+)
Deepest condolences. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:12 PM (PDf99) From me, as well. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 07:16 PM (OX9vb) 216
Thank you Notorious BFD and Moonbeam.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:16 PM (elaR+) 217
Carville . Hmmm
Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2024 07:16 PM (sF9/m) 218
>>> Capital gains includes the house you bought which appreciated in value over the time you lived in it. And here comes Kamala flanks with a pack of IRS agents to demand 25% of the value. Now you got to sell your house to pay her goons off, and move to some shitty apartment in da hood.
I can't verify it, but apparently those home loans Kamala wants to do where they give first time homeowners $25k down? In the fine print, it might say that if your parents , relatives, etc. own a home you're not eligible. Who does that leave? Poor welfare queens who've been in poverty for generations and illegals. I hope it's fake. But all of her plans sound fake. Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 07:16 PM (uvXHg) 219
Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:11
__________________ So sorry. My deepest condolences. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:16 PM (YqDXo) 220
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FBay-yi-yi can keep evidence and are perverts, Do I have that right? Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (Rbu5d) ---- I think you meant can't keep evidence ..... Right? Posted by: Ciampino - have woodchipper, will travel ... at September 27, 2024 07:17 PM (qfLjt) 221
Thank you Notorious BFD and Moonbeam.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:16 PM (elaR+) --------------- Yes, condolences. It's tough. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 07:17 PM (tT6L1) 222
190 That MAP meetup in Vermont, I bet there were registered sex-offenders planning to attend. Would they be prohibited from going near a school?
Posted by: Ciampino We were there, busily recruiting! Posted by: Democrat Voter Registration Booth at September 27, 2024 07:17 PM (ycI94) 223
Left wing Democrat cunts: We have to "save" "our" "democracy" from Trump! Also these cunts: Registering people to vote shouldn't be allowed! Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:17 PM (oeozt) 224
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:11 PM (elaR+)
Thanks for letting us know. It's good her suffering is over, May the Lord comfort all who knew and loved and appreciated her and may they recall the blessings she brought to their lives. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 07:18 PM (gq+Pq) Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:18 PM (elaR+) 226
@185/Erebus: I'm very sorry for your loss.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 07:18 PM (O7YUW) 227
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
BREAKING - Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is holding an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council at his home compound, in response to Israel's strike in Beirut that targeted the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah - NYT Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 07:18 PM (CEzQx) 228
Condolences to you and your family Erebus.
Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 07:19 PM (6dcSc) 229
It's good her suffering is over, May the Lord comfort all who knew and loved and appreciated her and may they recall the blessings she brought to their lives.
Amen. Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 27, 2024 07:19 PM (mH6SG) 230
How funny would it be if Carville turned Benedict Arnold and turned to the "dark side" to get Trump elected, so they can wipe the slate totally clean for the DNC in 2028? Since they are treating him like utter crap.
It'll never happen. Clintons would Arkancide him first. But I'd laugh my head off. Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 07:19 PM (uvXHg) 231
Hmmm, so Jack Smith wants to publicly release Evidence against Trump, 'before the election'.
Even though it would taint the Jury pool? Blatant Election interference... no question. Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 07:20 PM (QAkQ3) 232
227 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
BREAKING - Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is holding an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council at his home compound, in response to Israel's strike in Beirut that targeted the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah - NYT Posted by: andycanuck Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please 🙏 🙏 🙏 Posted by: Harris and Biden, praying for war at September 27, 2024 07:20 PM (ycI94) 233
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h BREAKING - Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is holding an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council at his home compound, in response to Israel's strike in Beirut that targeted the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah - NYT Posted by: andycanuck What the fuckingfuck?? Why would he announce a "meeting" with other higher-ups and its location?? Did he give a time, too? Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:21 PM (oeozt) 234
227 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
BREAKING - Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is holding an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council at his home compound, in response to Israel's strike in Beirut that targeted the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah - NYT Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 07:18 PM (CEzQx) Gee... look... a pile of pagers... Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 07:21 PM (QAkQ3) 235
“I was very disturbed seeing all the MAGA hats everywhere today…confused why there were so many…”
“Made my stomach turn a lil tbh” “I’m scared” _______ It won't occur to them they've been lied to about what make America great again means and the people who support it. Academics and Media are the enemy of the American people. Posted by: NY Times at September 27, 2024 07:22 PM (93cE+) 236
Who does that leave? Poor welfare queens who've been in poverty for generations and illegals.
_________________ You can be sure that if this ever comes to pass (please, God, no) that the legislation and/or the implementation will somehow exclude white Americans from the plan. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:22 PM (YqDXo) 237
231 Hmmm, so Jack Smith wants to publicly release Evidence against Trump, 'before the election'.
Even though it would taint the Jury pool? Blatant Election interference... no question. Posted by: Romeo13 It's worked, didn't it? Posted by: Harry Reid, asshole of the Senate at September 27, 2024 07:22 PM (ycI94) 238
Blatant Election interference... no question.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 07:20 PM (QAkQ3) What's anyone going to do? Arrest him? That seems to be the default these days. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:23 PM (PDf99) 239
BREAKING - Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is holding an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council at his home compound, in response to Israel's strike in Beirut that targeted the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah - NYT Posted by: andycanuck Hold up. Wait a minute. Somethin' ain't right. https://youtu.be/VJ0wXz47XT8?si=ZuwBtlnqVSt_PHn1 Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:23 PM (oeozt) 240
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
BREAKING - Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is holding an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council at his home compound, in response to Israel's strike in Beirut that targeted the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah - NYT Posted by: andycanuck Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please 🙏 🙏 🙏 Posted by: Rocket Attack Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2024 07:23 PM (njWTi) 241
Sorry for your loss Erebus. I lost my mom 6 years ago this month so I know what you're going through.
Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 07:23 PM (/7KEl) 242
Hmmm, so Jack Smith wants to publicly release Evidence against Trump, 'before the election'.
Even though it would taint the Jury pool? Blatant Election interference... no question. Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 07:20 PM (QAkQ3) Smith is a vile left wing POS. And that is on a good day Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2024 07:23 PM (SHAib) 243
>>Hmmm, so Jack Smith wants to publicly release Evidence against Trump, 'before the election'.
Worse. It's Evidence that hasn't been made available to the Defense in his fake case. Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 07:23 PM (6dcSc) 244
Maybe he's trying to push the Democrat Party back from the abyss.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevar That's my take. And say what you will about him the man is not dumb. Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 27, 2024 07:23 PM (4XwPj) 245
@227/andycanuck: "BREAKING - Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is holding an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council at his home compound, in response to Israel's strike in Beirut that targeted the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah - NYT"
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring Explodiphone! Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 07:24 PM (O7YUW) 246
FenelonSpoke, blake, Deplorable Jay Guevara, thank you all.
My dad preceeded her in 2015 and was waiting for her in heaven. She was a devout Conservative until the end. Even while suffering from dementia I was told she couldn't stand Rachel Madcow. Having escaped Communism probably had something to do with it. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:24 PM (elaR+) 247
What the fuckingfuck??
Why would he announce a "meeting" with other higher-ups and its location?? Did he give a time, too? Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:21 PM (oeozt) *watching news after* Well, at least we know that Israel has nukes now. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 07:24 PM (PDf99) 248
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
BREAKING - Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is holding an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council at his home compound, in response to Israel's strike in Beirut that targeted the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah - NYT Posted by: andycanuck What the fuckingfuck?? Why would he announce a "meeting" with other higher-ups and its location?? Did he give a time, too? Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:21 PM (oeozt) _________________ Imagine the scene among the Supremes: drawing back the curtains anxiously to scan the sky for incoming missles or jets. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:24 PM (YqDXo) 249
Visit to the New Republic bubble on the VP debate:
It's gonna be crazy! Their mics will be on the whole time. And Vance is a stumbling dumdum who has struggled to respond to attacks on him. And he's gonna fail so bad when they bring up Haitians. While Walz is a polished genius behind devastating attacks on Vance like "weird." No, seriously, that was an accurate summary of what they wrote. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 07:24 PM (DLyFt) 250
Come on, IAF- do that voodoo that you do so well
Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 07:25 PM (/7KEl) 251
Grumpy and Recalcitrant, thank you.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:25 PM (elaR+) 252
Erebus, that's amazing she escaped communism, and got to build a new life for her family here.
Wishing comfort for your family at such a tough time. Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 07:26 PM (7rXq5) 253
Khamenie is shitting bricks at the moment. There was another non reported on act against the regime.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:26 PM (I1GXe) Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2024 07:26 PM (/y8xj) 255
Imagine the scene among the Supremes: drawing back the curtains anxiously to scan the sky for incoming missles or jets.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:24 PM (YqDXo) Please take this pager, it will light up when your table becomes available... Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 07:26 PM (QAkQ3) 256
While Walz is a polished genius behind devastating attacks on Vance like "weird."
Yes, Walz could have surpassed the brilliancy of calling him "weird" by calling him a "doofus". Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 07:27 PM (uuuiT) 257
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 6m
JUST - Israel bombs Beirut https://tinyurl.com/mrxv6fdt 12 seconds; or did secondary explosions bomb Beirut?? Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 07:27 PM (CEzQx) 258
Sorry about your mum, Erebus ex-killer. Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:27 PM (oeozt) 259
@227/andycanuck: "BREAKING - Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is holding an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council at his home compound, in response to Israel's strike in Beirut that targeted the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah - NYT"
_______________ "Welcome to the emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council. Please leave your pagers, cell phones, and walkie talkies outside. Thanks." Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:27 PM (YqDXo) 260
How big was Nasrallah's pager ?
Posted by: jsg at September 27, 2024 07:27 PM (hBlxk) 261
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Hand grenades make a more dramatic statement. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:40 PM (YqDXo) ---- Whilst the noise and effects are pleasing, the cleanup is a bother. Posted by: Ciampino - Do you like the smell of bleach in the morning? at September 27, 2024 07:28 PM (qfLjt) 262
nood
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2024 07:28 PM (njWTi) 263
"BREAKING - Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is holding an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council at his home compound, in response to Israel's strike in Beirut that targeted the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah - NYT"
Candygram for Khamenei. Posted by: Sheriff Bart at September 27, 2024 07:28 PM (ycI94) 264
>>Worse. It's Evidence that hasn't been made available to the Defense in his fake case.
It's a scumbag move but I wonder how much it even matters anymore. Every lawfare tactic to date has blown up in their faces, Trump has just gotten stronger, and people's minds are pretty much made up about J6 by now and can see the blatant unfairness of what the left is doing. Today we found out that the Harris/Biden administration let in almost 500,000 criminals including over 10,000 rapists and murderers. The economy still sucks, inflation is crushing and on and on. And she absolutely sucks as a candidate. I think most minds are made up and all the momentum is with Trump. Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 07:28 PM (LkLld) 265
The Café is noodly open
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 07:29 PM (CEzQx) 266
242 Hmmm, so Jack Smith wants to publicly release Evidence against Trump, 'before the election'.
Even though it would taint the Jury pool?” The funny part is that he has a case built on nothing but twisting the law. He has no evidence of any actual wrong doing. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 07:29 PM (S6gqv) 267
Remember how many times pencil neck schiff "threatened" to "release" "evidence" on Trump's fake Russia "collusion?" jack smith has JACK SHIT on Trump. Posted by: Soothsayer is really a soothsayer at September 27, 2024 07:29 PM (oeozt) 268
I will be happy when Bibi is back in Israel since his time of departure and airport were announced. Not all of those smuggled rockets are for PDT.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2024 07:30 PM (I1GXe) 269
Why would he announce a "meeting" with other higher-ups and its location??
Did he give a time, too? No need. Bibi probably got BCC'd. Posted by: Oddbob at September 27, 2024 07:30 PM (/y8xj) 270
Yes, Walz could have surpassed the brilliancy of calling him "weird" by calling him a "doofus".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 07:27 PM (uuuiT) __________________ Such a wordsmith. Zombie William F. Buckley Jr. is green with envy. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:30 PM (YqDXo) 271
LizLem, Soothsayer, Oddbob, thank you.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 07:30 PM (elaR+) 272
Whilst the noise and effects are pleasing, the cleanup is a bother.
Posted by: Ciampino - Do you like the smell of bleach in the morning? at September 27, 2024 07:28 PM (qfLjt) _________________ That's their problem. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:30 PM (YqDXo) 273
Toyota has been among the best in their lane - not drinking the EV koolaid. And their products remain excellent. Need to drive something, in a sea of social idiocy I will stick with the least worst.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 07:31 PM (SSuxC) 274
***Well, now she's chanting for people to "slit the masters' throats."***
---------------- They all looked like dumbass whipiple. Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 07:31 PM (gdH0L) 275
What has happened to our culture?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2024 06:43 PM A FWP for sure. Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2024 07:32 PM (a3Q+t) 276
@251/Erebus: It's been ... quite a number of years since I lost my grandparents, and they were a huge positive influence in my life. I regularly tell stories of things I saw when they were alive, of the good things they did for me, and what I learned from them, and how that benefits me even today. I still miss them, and this doesn't fill the hole of them being gone, but it helps some.
Keep your mother's memory alive for yourself and others in the same way. And I'm so glad to hear she was a great mother to you. My mom's still alive, and we live in the same town so I get to visit with her pretty often, and we talk on the phone for half an hour to an hour every couple of days. She's getting pretty up there in years, and I'm doing more and more for her, while she still tries to do things for me (Moms, ya can't stop 'em from helping when they want to, right?) :-) Everyone: Call your mother. Tell her you love her even if you haven't said that in a while. Enjoy time with her while they're here, and while you can. This is the time to do so. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 07:32 PM (O7YUW) 277
242 Hmmm, so Jack Smith wants to publicly release Evidence against Trump, 'before the election'.
Even though it would taint the Jury pool?” The funny part is that he has a case built on nothing but twisting the law. He has no evidence of any actual wrong doing. Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2024 07:29 PM (S6gqv) ________________ My guess: he suspects that his bogus trial will never come to pass, and so he wants to dirty up Trump as much as possible now. Otherwise why taint the jury pool? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 07:33 PM (YqDXo) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 27, 2024 07:37 PM (Mg0K4) 279
270 Yes, Walz could have surpassed the brilliancy of calling him "weird" by calling him a "doofus".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 07:27 PM (uuuiT) __________________ Such a wordsmith. Zombie William F. Buckley Jr. is green with envy. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara I'm standing athwart history yelling "free tampons for boys!" Posted by: Tim Walz at September 27, 2024 07:38 PM (ycI94) 280
85 What in the f*ckity-f*ck is a pedophile "ally?" ________________ A pedophile who's still in the closet. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:46 PM (YqDXo) ---- Eeow! Can you imagine the state of that closet? Posted by: Ciampino - You better like the smell of bleach in the morning at September 27, 2024 07:39 PM (qfLjt) 281
273 Toyota has been among the best in their lane - not drinking the EV koolaid. And their products remain excellent. Need to drive something, in a sea of social idiocy I will stick with the least worst.
Posted by: rhomboid We're not a bad option (not sure if woke, though) Posted by: Honda at September 27, 2024 07:43 PM (ycI94) 282
112 40-oz pack of bacon was $15.99 last week. Yesterday? $19.99, same brand.
FJB Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2024 06:55 PM (njWTi) ---- That's because the price of chicken went up - chicken flu! (Posted by: Woke Economics professors everywhere) Posted by: Ciampino - non-sequitur at September 27, 2024 07:47 PM (qfLjt) 283
I'm not seeing a lot of downsides to letting a bunch of diaper-snipers and their "allies" (closeted diaper-snipers) have a public GT.
At least you can take pictures and notes and know who to keep your kids away from. And if there's enough sane and decent people in the area who want to join the Crowbar Social Club, you could always show up and engage in "aggressive disagreement." Posted by: Prisoner of Cats at September 27, 2024 07:57 PM (vOwFz) FBI Deleted Video of J6 "Bomb" FootageIt's always the "law enforcement officers" who destroy evidence, and the criminals who want to preserve it. Right? Right? Revolver:Just hours ago, we published a breaking report drawing renewed attention to the significance of DNC surveillance footage that the FBI presented to the public in furtherance of its investigation of the January 6 pipe bombs. In late 2022, we published a series of damning articles definitively showing that the FBI was withholding critical DNC surveillance footage from the public, and in all overwhelming likelihood, the footage the FBI presented to the public was deliberately degraded in quality so as to prevent the public from being able to identify the bomber. In the piece in question from earlier today, we broke the news that we learned from a highly trusted source that a government employee (not the FBI) investigating aspects of the January 6 pipe bomb case went to the DNC and viewed its footage from the evening of the 5th. This government employee reported that he or she definitively and clearly saw on the video the pipe bomber planting the bomb. The employee also did not notice any degraded quality, as is evident in the footage the FBI presented to the public of the pipe bomber on the evening of January 5th.The FBI later admitted that it "no longer possessed" the video. They didn't say they deleted the videos, but... how else would they no longer possess it? Meanwhile, the fake Inspector General says that he can't tell us how many federal informants were at the J6 fedsurrection, or how many joined in "storming the Capitol," because he has suspended this investigation while the DOJ (which employs the agents provacateurs) is still imprisoning "insurrectionists." As long as the DOJ continues pursuing grandmas who were in Seattle the day of the "insurrection," they will have the excuse to keep secret how many federal agents participated in the fedsurrection. Also, he says he can't release that information until Biden-Harris declassifies it. So... basically it will remain a state secret unless a non-Democrat is elected president and permitted to actually take office.
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I'll go let 'em know, again.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 05:16 PM (O7YUW) 2
1st
Posted by: GF at September 27, 2024 05:16 PM (j3bch) 3
Afternoon.
Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 05:17 PM (krt76) 4
According to internal CBP data, there have been over 1.9 million known gotaways who successfully evaded apprehension & snuck into the U.S. during the Biden administration, tracked via cameras, sensors, footsign, etc.
Posted by: Ace Don't worry, dude. AEI and Heritage assures me that open borders will increase our GDP by .05%. Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 05:17 PM (IG4Id) 5
When do the masses say enough?
Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 05:18 PM (uJ65b) 6
She's right -- the federal government believes its mission is to surveil, harass, and imprison Republicans, and to run endless operations against them.
---------------------------- We just need better candidates. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:18 PM (lX8VI) 7
But Kamala said today the border is Trump's fault
Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 05:18 PM (IyPmt) 8
Damn nigrants.
Posted by: Rich Lowry at September 27, 2024 05:18 PM (ixA9h) 9
The FBI later admitted that it "no longer possessed" the video. They didn't say they deleted the videos, but... how else would they no longer possess it?
Accidentally recorded the big game on it. Sorry, my bad. - The FBI's Best And Brightest Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 05:19 PM (krt76) 10
Did Kamala promise to finish the wall? This is totally a guess but I'm pretty sure that will have been the messaging.
Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:20 PM (lX8VI) 11
Willowed:
On Assassin's Creed: Shadows: Nobody wants to play a game where a black man goes around killing Asians. There's enough of that in San Francisco. Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 27, 2024 05:17 PM (FAbrK) Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 27, 2024 05:20 PM (FAbrK) 12
>The FBI later admitted that it "no longer possessed" the video.
Someone higher up took possession of it. And destroyed it. Posted by: davidt at September 27, 2024 05:20 PM (i0F8b) Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 27, 2024 05:20 PM (93cE+) 14
Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger 2h
No matter your politics, these new numbers are shocking. Of the 7 million migrants that ICE released while their cases are being processed, 663,000 have criminal histories, 13,000 were convicted of homicide, 16,000 of sexual assault, and 1,845 face homicide charges. 😬 [...] It's hard, if not impossible, to tease out causality. Still, it's notable that California is a sanctuary state for migrants who came to the US illegally, and today has a violent crime rate 31% higher than the national average. Other factors are no doubt at play, including California's policies that deincarcerated, reduced police powers, and decriminalized open air drug dealing, illegal camping, and shoplifting. https://tinyurl.com/s4emf4dz Thread incl. copious crime stats Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 05:21 PM (CEzQx) Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 05:21 PM (/7KEl) 16
10 Did Kamala promise to finish the wall? This is totally a guess but I'm pretty sure that will have been the messaging.
Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:20 PM (lX8VI) I couldn't find much on her "visit" It appears it was brief and she blamed Trump for the mess... Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 05:21 PM (IyPmt) 17
8: LoL 😂😂
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 27, 2024 05:21 PM (/Djer) 18
>- 13,099 M*rder*rs
>- 15,811 R*pists >- 425,431 Convicted Criminals >All let into our country by border czar Kamala. >This is treason. In a normal world this would end Harris' campaign right now and have her brought up on charges. Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 05:22 PM (LkLld) 19
I am concerned that the FBI is continuing to track down J6 participants so that come January Democrat Senators can charge any of Trump's electors were there with "engage[ing] in insurrection or rebellion against the United States" and disqualify them.
Posted by: 29Victor at September 27, 2024 05:22 PM (TL7UX) 20
Darren J. Beattie @DarrenJBeattie
Why won't Kamala talk about how she narrowly avoided political assassination on January 6th? What should have been from beginning Dems number 1 Jan 6 talking point has been their most carefully guarded secret What's the deal with Kamala Harris, the Secret Service, and the Jan 6 pipe bomb? Kamala's brush with the DNC pipe bomb, which should be the Dems' biggest J6 talking point, is their most carefully guarded secret. Why? What did Kamala and her secret service detail know and when did they know it? REMEMBER: Kamala Harris was in the DNC building when the so-called Jan 6 pipe bomb was discovered and removed. The bombshell video below shows that her own secret service detail clearly knew the bombs were fake in advance (how did they know this?) Despite the fact that dems have bent over backward to paint Jan 6 as a domestic terror event, and have lied to support this theory, Kamala has not milked her brush with the J6 pipe bomb for political points In fact, she has studiously covered up her presence in the DNC building. What should be their biggest J6 talking point is their most carefully guarded secret. Why? https://tinyurl.com/rxrm5e7h Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 05:23 PM (CEzQx) 21
>>The FBI later admitted that it "no longer possessed" the video. They didn't say they deleted the videos, but... how else would they no longer possess it?
Didn't they also "lose" all the cellphone data from that area for the time in which the bomb was planted. They've been using the J6 cell phone data to file more charges against people 3 years after the fact, but - woops! woopsie!! - don't have cell phone data for the *air quotes* very serious DNC bombing. Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2024 05:23 PM (scDBq) 22
Negro lady in that clip is the fascist
she can't see it, of course, but she is the threat her and others like her Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 05:23 PM (/7KEl) 23
Jessica Tarlov says Trump let in some of those murderers and rapists. She just doesn't know how many.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2024 05:23 PM (63Dwl) 24
I'd call it a conspiracy, but its all been proven true. Posted by: Frank Barone at September 27, 2024 05:24 PM (+oR7L) 25
Conservatives in Nantucket should be headed to check out the voters rolls, and then going house to house beating the everloving shit out of liberals - THEN charging them as aiding and abetting in all these crimes.
Posted by: The_Hoser at September 27, 2024 05:24 PM (3qNLt) 26
All those gang members in prison in El Salvador will be heading straight here after they get out or before they get arrested, if they're lucky.
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2024 05:24 PM (QB+5g) 27
Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 Aug 14
NEW: Recently discovered video from Jan 6 shows an individual believed to be police carrying a bag toward the location where "pipe bomb" was found at DNC. This is about 15 minutes before another officer "discovered" the device. Another shady moment in this unsolved "mystery" https://tinyurl.com/3b5hj98j [both videos] Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 This happened about 8 minutes after discovery of the RNC "pipe bomb" and 8 minutes before the start of joint session at 1pm on Jan 6. What was he doing? Did he plant the device? If not, how in the world did he miss it? Another Suspicious Moment in DNC Pipe Bomb Mystery An unidentified individual carrying a bag exited a police vehicle then walked toward the location where the device was "found" about 15 minutes later. There are no coincidences. https://is.gd/yKU6br [article link] Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 Media continues to ignore this story despite confirmation Kamala Harris came within 20 feet of the “bomb” that day. FBI has not arrested anyone more than 3 1/2 years later. Bennie Thompson didn’t investigate incident as head of J6 committee. A hoax as clear as day. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 05:24 PM (CEzQx) Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 05:24 PM (LkLld) Posted by: Chlamydia Thundersharts toilet server hard drive at September 27, 2024 05:24 PM (uBBbP) 30
>>Kamala's brush with the DNC pipe bomb, which should be the Dems' biggest J6 talking point, is their most carefully guarded secret.
Why? What did Kamala and her secret service detail know and when did they know it? - - - Excellent questions. Especially when you see how AOC has leveraged the J6 protests to claim she was nearly killed by the mob. Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2024 05:25 PM (scDBq) 31
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
Posted by: Special Agent Costanza at September 27, 2024 05:25 PM (2UnvF) 32
Didn't they also "lose" all the cellphone data from that area for the time in which the bomb was planted. I believe they're saying that data somehow became "corrupted." Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2024 05:26 PM (63Dwl) 33
The FBI later admitted that it "no longer possessed" the video. They didn't say they deleted the videos, but... how else would they no longer possess it?
______ The vid was taken by the DNC and they demanded it back? Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 27, 2024 05:27 PM (93cE+) 34
There's a lot of open space in Nantucket - how much of it is occupied by gangs now?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2024 05:27 PM (scDBq) 35
Where's Muldoon? We have a post where Nantucket is featured prominently. Normally that demands a limerick.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 27, 2024 05:27 PM (r5tfK) 36
28 >>Conservatives in Nantucket
Both of them. Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 05:24 PM (LkLld) --- I know, but not only am I willing to arm both of them to the teeth, I'll come help. I mean, it's liberals. What are the men going to do, male menstruate me to death? Posted by: The_Hoser at September 27, 2024 05:27 PM (3qNLt) 37
Trump is not a twice convicted felon (civil suit, but I forget the correct term).
And Harris is not a "prosecutor", since she (apparently) never prosecuted a single case. Because she is an incompetent dolt, that flucked her way up the ladder, with her DEI qualities the only thing on her resume. Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2024 05:28 PM (Cus5s) 38
We now learn that the FBI has started to destroy evidence to prepare for Trump getting elected.
J6 is one of the worst things in our history as it so conflicts with traditional American ideals. We have rogue agencies jailing Grandmas to send a message to those who would defy them. You know who else was into False Flag Operations. Hitler! Posted by: Ignoramus at September 27, 2024 05:28 PM (nFx0I) 39
"The bombshell video below shows that her own secret service detail clearly knew the bombs were fake in advance (how did they know this?)"
My question is who shot this video and why? Obviously whoever it was knew what the hell was going on. Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2024 05:28 PM (QB+5g) 40
Good evening, horde. Happy Friday!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 05:28 PM (OX9vb) 41
Cover up is the crime
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 05:30 PM (fwDg9) Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:30 PM (lX8VI) 43
@EndWokeness
Trump in 2015 on illegal aliens: "They're bringing drugs, crimes, they're rapists." He was right. https://tinyurl.com/2zfesvsy Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 05:30 PM (LkLld) 44
Both of them.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 05:24 PM (LkLld) ; I'm glad they can keep in contact with the one or two conservatives in RI. Yankee conservatives need to stick together, Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 05:31 PM (MQJVv) 45
>>> Cover up is the crime
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 05:30 PM (fwDg9) That fool Nixon and the American people believed us! Posted by: Dems, making watergate look like a kiddie splash pool at September 27, 2024 05:31 PM (n9v1e) 46
All four of these alleged sex offenders were gotaways, ICE says. They were all arrested by ICE on Nantucket - in sanctuary state Massachusetts.
They are just raping the children Americans won't. Really its an act of love Posted by: Jeb Bush at September 27, 2024 05:32 PM (oZhjI) 47
The ' Bomb Plot' was a plan that didn't come through as it was supposed to be. Remember Harris was in that DNC building.
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 05:32 PM (fwDg9) 48
42 Cover up is the crime
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 05:30 PM (fwDg9) The crime crime is bad enough. If the video could even be traced to one of their faux rheichstag groups like Patriot Front, we would have seen it a million times before now. That means it either did not happen, is so blatantly a planted, contrived Jussie Smollet level hoax and that is apparent on video, or the person who set the bomb is a known, recognizable leftist. Like Chuck Schumer or Mitt Romney. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 05:33 PM (PDf99) 49
You know who I'm more paranoid about, than anyone with those "Love is Love" garden flags ? All the fucks, still, with those "Thin Blue Line" window decals.
------------------------- Not to indulge you on a Friday afternoon when I'm relaxing, but one of those groups will be in the camps and one group will be guarding them so there's that. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:33 PM (lX8VI) 50
TBH I approve of sending sex offender illegals to Nantucket. The households of Dem congresscretins would be better, but if they aren't going to be kept out of the country let's give the gift of diversity to our AWFLs...
Posted by: Jeb Bush at September 27, 2024 05:33 PM (oZhjI) 51
"The ' Bomb Plot' was a plan that didn't come through as it was supposed to be."
I've heard it explained with a convincing timeline, that it was a back-up plan that wasn't needed. And that was a good thing as it's riddled with holes. Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2024 05:34 PM (QB+5g) 52
Joe McCarthy was right, Jon Birch Society was right, Barry Goldwater was right, Rush Limbaugh was right. Hell, even Glen Beck was right. And Alex Jones was right sometimes too.
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 05:34 PM (o2ZRX) 53
52 TBH I approve of sending sex offender illegals to Nantucket. The households of Dem congresscretins would be better, but if they aren't going to be kept out of the country let's give the gift of diversity to our AWFLs...
Posted by: Jeb Bush at September 27, 2024 05:33 PM (oZhjI) Sparks of Divinity as Nancy said Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 05:35 PM (IyPmt) 54
What's a delegate to the U.S. HOR?
Also, the FBI has a long history of destroying evidence. Ask them for the ballistics reports they did on JFK's murder. Ask them for the preserved door panels and ceiling tiles with bullet holes, from the passageway where RFK was shot by the CIA. They don't have those things. Wasn't important enough to keep. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 05:35 PM (dGCAG) 55
Who are we to criticize their culture? These things happen.
——- I took this route on a lefty discussion board recently. With respect to kiddie fuckers and rape, etc. This was met naturally, with righteous indignation, and then radio silence, as no “help” was forthcoming. They are unable to make causal connections or cause and effect. The other night, a lefty started ranting that people without children have no idea what is what. I agreed, and pointed out nobody like say, Angela Merkel, the wacky former Stasi apparatchik in Communist East Germany, should have ever been allowed to run a country. He about had a stroke, as this wasn’t what meant, Or certainly had no idea what he was saying with any clarity. Leftists can spout multiple serial absurdities in a single breath. It is really quite extraordinary to witness. Very fun to engage! Posted by: Common Tater at September 27, 2024 05:35 PM (zIxbW) 56
FBI et al needed to counter the Trump rally/protest ... and to flip it into a "insurrection". They went all out, and have run variations of their Made for TV Drama for four years.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2024 05:35 PM (Cus5s) 57
54 Joe McCarthy was right, Jon Birch Society was right, Barry Goldwater was right, Rush Limbaugh was right. Hell, even Glen Beck was right. And Alex Jones was right sometimes too.
Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2024 05:34 PM You just made the watch list, pal. Posted by: The FBI at September 27, 2024 05:36 PM (+oR7L) 58
Out: Who watchers the watchers?
In: Who Investigates the Investigator Investigating the investigators? Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 27, 2024 05:36 PM (XV/Pl) 59
Latest on Israel bombing Lebanon:
"Updated assessment: "Sources within the IDF, with whom I'm in contact, insist that not only was Nasrallah eliminated, but the entire remaining leadership of Hezbollah was also killed with him. They claim that nothing was left within a 100-meter radius except smoke and dust." https://tinyurl.com/44rrwssu Worthy of the flaming skull, if this is verified true. Posted by: mr_jack at September 27, 2024 05:36 PM (LNPSJ) 60
Looks like we need an IG for our IG.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 27, 2024 05:37 PM (XV/Pl) 61
So... basically it will remain a state secret unless a non-Democrat is elected president and permitted to actually take office.
-----‐ That's the excuse for now. They'll come up with a new one once Trump is elected. Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2024 05:37 PM (Qgr0I) 62
Out: Who watchers the watchers?
In: Who Investigates the Investigator Investigating the investigators? Posted by: Thomas Bender ----------- Out: Can we start with the the press and Hollywood? Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 05:38 PM (uJ65b) 63
> Didn't they also "lose" all the cellphone data from that area for the time in which the bomb was planted.
They claimed the cell phone data was "corrupted" by the cell phone provider. Magically, none of the data they needed to identify hundreds of J6 protesters was corrupted. Posted by: bonhomme at September 27, 2024 05:38 PM (Odg76) 64
My question is who shot this video and why?
Obviously whoever it was knew what the hell was going on. Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2024 05:28 PM (QB+5g) Unless I'm mistaken, there are security cameras all over the place, and the video was accessed almost immediately. So it should have been preserved, whereas if they'd waited a week it might have been automatically deleted. Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 05:39 PM (dGCAG) 65
Almost a million violent convicted criminals or are presently facing charges deliberately let go by ICE.
We are being invaded by our own government. Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 27, 2024 05:39 PM (FFQwN) 66
"Sources within the IDF, with whom I'm in contact, insist that not only was Nasrallah eliminated, but the entire remaining leadership of Hezbollah was also killed with him. They claim that nothing was left within a 100-meter radius except smoke and dust."
It's hot where they're going. And there aren't 72 virgins. Hopefully 72 Madeline Albrights. Posted by: Frank Barone at September 27, 2024 05:39 PM (+oR7L) 67
Yep. Fun Fact ... it'll be the Love is Love bunch inside the wire, if things run to the end. Because that's how it always goes. The Regime always gets rid of the SA. Stalin always purges his biggest threats. And such.
-------------------- I'll be damned you have actually made my night better. Suddenly the air smells sweeter. Things are more colorful. Appreciated. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:40 PM (lX8VI) 68
"Sources within the IDF, with whom I'm in contact, insist that not only was Nasrallah eliminated, but the entire remaining leadership of Hezbollah was also killed with him."
Huge power vacuum has just appeared. Someone needs to fill it pronto. Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2024 05:40 PM (QB+5g) 69
I used to be an 'insider.' The ONLY way the clueless dolts of the USI can carry out a successful OpAct is when the target is even more clueless. That usually means goat-herd terrorists (if we get lucky) or 3rd Worlders.
Posted by: goatexchange at September 27, 2024 05:40 PM (hyS0X) 70
You just made the watch list, pal.
Posted by: The FBI at September 27, 2024 05:36 PM (+oR7L) We've all made it. Some poor schlub with a newly minted Criminal Justice Degree has to check ASHQ everyday. Hopefully, it's a heterosexual male and at least they enjoy the daily boobettes. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 05:41 PM (MQJVv) 71
One of the agents who got his clearance suspended has a pretty good idea who the "bomber" was. He was following a lead to develop evidence and was told to stand down. The man is known to the FBI and may have an association with another 3-letter agency.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 27, 2024 05:41 PM (r5tfK) 72
Paging Mr Nasrallah. Mr Nasrallah to the courtesy white phone bomb...
Posted by: Public Address System at September 27, 2024 05:41 PM (i0F8b) 73
Worthy of the flaming skull, if this is verified true.
Posted by: mr_jack at September 27, 2024 05:36 PM (LNPSJ) I was anticipating a flaming skull all afternoon! Ah, well. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 05:42 PM (OX9vb) 74
If FBI had wanted to investigate Hillary's hard drives, or Hunter's laptop, or the pee pee tapes, etc., they Could Have. Obviously FBI (the real terrorists) have no interest in some felons, but will fabricate evidence against Trump and others.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2024 05:43 PM (Cus5s) 75
77 Worthy of the flaming skull, if this is verified true.
Posted by: mr_jack at September 27, 2024 05:36 PM (LNPSJ) I was anticipating a flaming skull all afternoon! Ah, well. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 27, 2024 05:42 PM (OX9vb) The Flaming Skull knows not the hour, there is always time. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 05:43 PM (PDf99) 76
I saw The Daily Boobettes open up for VP Dollar Store Dollar Whore back in 2008.
Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:44 PM (lX8VI) 77
"Unless I'm mistaken, there are security cameras all over the place, and the video was accessed almost immediately. So it should have been preserved, whereas if they'd waited a week it might have been automatically deleted."
The camera was operated remotely to follow the people. Someone was at the camera control box location on purpose at just the right time. There was a schedule and a plan. Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2024 05:44 PM (QB+5g) 78
I mean it isn't like the fib has anything to hide before Trump wins in November.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2024 05:44 PM (QNSds) 79
I see all of the these congressional testimonies by government officials and it is more clear than ever that we need to reduce the size of government by about 75%. All they do is make our lives miserable, launder our tax money and obfuscate.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 27, 2024 05:44 PM (zzdrL) Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:45 PM (lX8VI) 81
Meanwhile, the fake Inspector General says that he can't tell us how many federal informants were at the J6 fedsurrection, or how many joined in "storming the Capitol," because he has suspended this investigation while the DOJ (which employs the agents provacateurs) is still imprisoning "insurrectionists."
As long as the DOJ continues pursuing grandmas who were in Seattle the day of the "insurrection," they will have the excuse to keep secret how many federal agents participated in the fedsurrection. Also, he says he can't release that information until Biden-Harris declassifies it. "Oh, that's too bad. Well, enjoy your stay in the Congressional jail. Sgt at arms, take him away." Posted by: Not the Ball Less SoH at September 27, 2024 05:45 PM (0eaVi) 82
We've investigated ourselves and found ourselves innocent.
Posted by: Eff Bee Lie at September 27, 2024 05:46 PM (1FWWQ) 83
It's no wonder they don't want Trump to take office.
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 05:46 PM (vFG9F) 84
> Also, the FBI has a long history of destroying evidence. Ask them for the ballistics reports they did on JFK's murder.
FBI "lost" the doors to the Waco Branch Davidian compound. This evidence was crucial to determine who shot first. After the trial was over, the doors were clearly visible in a photograph taken years later in an FBI locker full of Waco evidence. Anyone who had walked into this evidence locker would have to be blind as a bat not to immediately see the doors. Posted by: bonhomme at September 27, 2024 05:46 PM (Odg76) 85
88!
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 05:46 PM (vFG9F) 86
I saw The Daily Boobettes open up for VP Dollar Store Dollar Whore back in 2008.
Posted by: ... ---------- Gravity and eye bleach requesting a word. Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 05:46 PM (uJ65b) 87
Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:44 PM (lX8VI)
I sort of think of the daily boobettes as a chorus line, only bouncier, but perhaps they are multi talented to do rock and guitar solos as well. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 05:46 PM (MQJVv) 88
Seriously, when you combine these actions with the violence of Antifa and BLM, along with lawfare against citizens on abortion protests, the weaponization of IRS/DOJ/IC, the fake FBI kidnap scandal (Whitmer), the anti-Catholic planning, etc. what solution exists to rectify the dissonance between customary law and our rogue government, other than mass prosecutions?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 27, 2024 05:46 PM (rD+22) 89
I hope REVOLVER!!! compares footage of the 'scaffold' builder on J6 compared to the wanna be shooter Routh - who with a history in the construction industry, a truck for transport, and almost undeniable deep state/CIA background - could very well be the skinny fvck all disguised on January 6th building that crap structure. No creds to me required, just compare the images. I see it and a have a certain history in such revelations. Posted by: Public Service Announcement at September 27, 2024 05:46 PM (RKVpM) 90
I guess that makes me a gnat see.
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 05:47 PM (vFG9F) 91
I am all for decapitating hezbollah and Iran , but flaming skull is sooo special, you know ?
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 05:47 PM (V13WU) 92
>>> but one of those groups will be in the camps and one group will be guarding them so there's that.
The Democrats that locked away the Japanese Americans in internment camps at least allowed them a printing press, they made newsletters for each other that have been archived and preserved. So hopefully the dems at least allow us the privilege of still having a printed comments section in the camps, when we go. And the daily morning news, hobby/art/book threads, and the ONT. not sure how they'll look but we'll wing it. Or the camps will be like a MoMee, except less guns and booze. Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 05:47 PM (nqij7) 93
This thread need a blood pressure warning, ace!
Posted by: Max Power at September 27, 2024 05:47 PM (q177U) 94
Please President Trump, please let us have our Reckoning!
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2024 05:47 PM (QB+5g) 95
OSINTdefender @sentdefender 3h
Israeli Sources state that Hezbollah Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah was definitely inside the Command Bunker when the Strikes occurred, with his Chance of Survival determined to be Slim. Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 2h He got debunkered. Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 2h Pro Tip: Never hide from Israel in your well-known Command Bunker. Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 05:47 PM (CEzQx) 96
If I was not on a work computer, I would link Solomia singing songs and playing the guitar and having impressive cleavage.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 05:48 PM (PDf99) 97
I don't think some people know how to play the "I Saw Open .." game.
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 05:48 PM (V13WU) 98
The FBI serves as a check against white fragility? Is "white fragility" (whatever the fvck that is) a crime?
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 27, 2024 05:49 PM (VGRuw) 99
The FeeBeeEye has been a corrupt, criminal organization ever since *goes to research* July of 1908.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 05:49 PM (WXNFJ) 100
We have suffered from Flaming Skull Deflation. There was a time it did not seem like you could swing a dead cat without hitting a post with the whirling bubblegum machine or the flaming skull. Or the Humpbot.
I think ace has lost a bit of his joie de vivre. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 05:50 PM (PDf99) 101
Or the camps will be like a MoMee, except less guns and booze.
Posted by: LizLem So not like a MoMe at all then? Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 05:50 PM (WXNFJ) 102
Who's this Joie guy?
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 05:50 PM (vFG9F) 103
A lot of people are dirty and they didn't go to great lengths to cover their tracks because they thought none of it would ever see the light of day. As the reality of a Trump administration sets in, they're gonna get sporty.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2024 05:51 PM (2UnvF) 104
I'm sure the FIB will rest easy in their new upholstered chairs supplied at their new $100M HQ. There's talk about allowing cigar smoking again at the new HQ.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 27, 2024 05:51 PM (/U5Yz) 105
It's hot where they're going. And there aren't 72 virgins. Hopefully 72 Madeline Albrights.
It's 72 Virgil's. It was a misprint. Could happen to anybody. But they will be surprised when they get bent over. Posted by: Old Blue at September 27, 2024 05:51 PM (X6YhY) 106
103 I don't think some people know how to play the "I Saw Open .." game.
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 05:48 PM (V13WU) When in doubt, use The Butthole Surfers. Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 27, 2024 05:51 PM (VGRuw) 107
Anybody says the FBI is a bunch of commie homos gets a night in the box.
Posted by: Chrissy Wray at September 27, 2024 05:52 PM (paSBy) 108
I sort of think of the daily boobettes as a chorus line, only bouncier, but perhaps they are multi talented to do rock and guitar solos as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 05:46 PM (MQJVv) They have dreams too you know. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:52 PM (lX8VI) 109
We have suffered from Flaming Skull Deflation
There's been so much Flaming Skull material lately that I think if Ace put them up we'd burst into flames Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 05:52 PM (IyPmt) 110
When in doubt, use The Butthole Surfers.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 27, 2024 05:51 PM (VGRuw) Pussy Riot, Steely Dan and the Sex Pistols close second, third and fourth. Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 05:53 PM (V13WU) 111
Jose was a "guest" in Nantucket...
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 27, 2024 05:53 PM (AiZBA) 112
I remember when we had an avalanche of skulls, they were multiplying! It was glorious !!
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 05:54 PM (V13WU) 113
I don't think some people know how to play the "I Saw Open .." game.
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 05:48 PM (V13WU) Know? Or care Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:54 PM (lX8VI) 114
I think ace has lost a bit of his joie de vivre.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop Ask your Doctor if joie de vivre is for you. Do not take joie de vivre if you are allergic to joie de vivre. Possible side effects of joie de vivre are: Anxiety, dry mouth, hyperventilation, irregular heartbeats, irritability, restlessness, shaking, trouble sleeping, buzzing or ringing in the ears, headache (severe) skin rash, hives, or itching, bedwetting and pouring syrup on french toast. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 05:55 PM (WXNFJ) 115
104 I'm sure the FIB will rest easy in their new upholstered chairs supplied at their new $100M HQ. There's talk about allowing cigar smoking again at the new HQ.
--- And their new $2B "alternative headquarters" is still under construction in Huntsville, AL. Yes, two billion dollars. Thank cocksucker Richard Shelby for that. Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at September 27, 2024 05:55 PM (paSBy) 116
If Democrats were gradually uncovering the amount of slime and corruption like this which exudes forth on a daily basis...and it was perpetrated by Republicans...
I truly believe a civil war would be taking place. Not sure of the scale or quite how it would be manifesting, but it would be ugly, and every corporate media hack and Democrat pol and operative would be in full support. They are so used to getting away routinely with their pathetic and vicious double standards, they cannot imagine it coming back on them. Their arrogance and contempt for normal Americans may be what ultimately drives their downfall. Posted by: RM at September 27, 2024 05:55 PM (WXucK) 117
A new FIB must be re-staffed quickly. I submit some new candidates for the open positions.
https://tinyurl.com/8ky2d3dn Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 27, 2024 05:55 PM (/U5Yz) 118
>>Anyone who had walked into this evidence locker would have to be blind as a bat not to immediately see the doors.
I saw The Doors when they opened for me at the Filmore West. Well, I didn't actually see them... Posted by: Roy Orbison at September 27, 2024 05:56 PM (6dcSc) 119
Know? Or care
Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:54 PM (lX8VI) only if you care about the difference between amusing and dumb . but you obviously don't. so I will leave you at what you do best! Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 05:56 PM (V13WU) 120
The only question coming to mind at the moment is to wonder whether the U.S. Federal government has always been this corrupt and they were just better at hiding it all of this time, or if all of this blatant corruption and obvious political persecution started in earnest around 2009 during the beginning of the "fundamental transformation of this nation."?
Because it sure feels like everything going downhill picked up a helluva lot of speed around that time. I'll thank God often for Trump's mere existence exposing these people. If he accomplished nothing else in his life, he deserves much credit for that alone. Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2024 05:57 PM (6ydKt) 121
They have dreams too you know.
Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:52 PM (lX8VI Of course. Is being on a chorus line one of the dreams? And, I think the Rockettes are very talented. I think showing ample cleavage on the internet doesn't require a great deal of talent, although no doubt they may have talents in other ways and they have people that love and like them-even when they aren't showing cleavage Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 05:57 PM (MQJVv) 122
according to Reuters:
Hezbollah's senior leadership was unreachable following Israel's strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday evening, a source close to the Lebanese armed group told Reuters. Hours after the strikes, Hezbollah had not made a statement on the fate of its head, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Hello darkness my old friend..... Posted by: Frank Barone at September 27, 2024 05:57 PM (+oR7L) Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 05:58 PM (uJ65b) 124
The eff bee eye is as crooked as a mountain trail. Fire anyone who isn't a field agent, maybe keep a few secretaries from their HQ, and the janitors. Oh, and the mail room folks. Nobody else deserves to be employed. Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 27, 2024 05:58 PM (2ds6i) 125
why won't Hezbos call home ??
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 05:58 PM (V13WU) 126
Hezbollah's senior leadership was unreachable following Israel's strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday evening, a source close to the Lebanese armed group told Reuters.
If you were alive would you want to use any electrical device ? Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 05:59 PM (IyPmt) 127
Global Warming is responsible for this Weather disaster, and we must convert to Electric cars immediately. Electric cars are safer and will work in flooded areas. I got this information from Dr. Fauci regarding Electric Vehicles.
Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 27, 2024 05:59 PM (15lwl) 128
They admit to 1.9 million 'gotaways'...
Multiply that by at least 10 times to get a real number. Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 05:59 PM (QAkQ3) Posted by: Paul Anka at September 27, 2024 05:59 PM (6dcSc) 130
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: The person who always says that at September 27, 2024 05:59 PM (dg+HA) 131
AP/News: Hezbollah issued a statement: "Hassan Nasrallah was born into a middle class family, he has hopes and dreams......" Posted by: Frank Barone at September 27, 2024 06:00 PM (+oR7L) 132
A new FIB must be re-staffed quickly. I submit some new candidates for the open positions.
https://tinyurl.com/8ky2d3dn Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 27, 2024 05:55 PM (/U5Yz) Those Mexican police officers look more like movie police officers. Leggings and go go boots? Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2024 06:00 PM (0eaVi) 133
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AP/News: Hezbollah issued a statement: "Hassan Nasrallah was born into a middle class family, he has hopes and dreams......" Posted by: Frank Barone at September 27, 2024 06:00 PM (+oR7L) An aspirations.. Don't forget aspirations Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 06:00 PM (IyPmt) Posted by: Old Groundhog at September 27, 2024 06:01 PM (paSBy) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 06:01 PM (MQJVv) 136
Hours after the strikes, Hezbollah had not made a statement on the fate of its head, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
The rest of him isn't doing too good either. Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 06:01 PM (WXNFJ) 137
only if you care about the difference between amusing and dumb . but you obviously don't. so I will leave you at what you do best!
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 05:56 PM (V13WU) I AM the difference between dumb and amusing. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:01 PM (lX8VI) Posted by: Check the garage at September 27, 2024 06:01 PM (dg+HA) 139
I just caught a youtube add wherein a guy claimed he was a Republican but voting for Ruben Gaillago.
One liar deserves another, I guess. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 06:01 PM (tT6L1) 140
Hezbollah, call home ! we are worried !
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:01 PM (V13WU) 141
Those Mexican police officers look more like movie police officers. Leggings and go go boots?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2024 06:00 PM (0eaVi) Badges? We don't need no stinking badges! Posted by: The Real Mexican Police at September 27, 2024 06:01 PM (AiZBA) 142
126 Hezbollah's senior leadership was unreachable following Israel's strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday evening, a source close to the Lebanese armed group told Reuters.
If you were alive would you want to use any electrical device ? Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 05:59 PM (IyPmt) I've said for years that the 'West' needs to destroy the Modern Infrastructure of Moslem Nations that support Militant Islam... If they wish to act like 7th Century Barbarians? They can live like them. Destroy all Power Grids, Modern Roads, Modern Bridges, Trains, Factories... every piece of technology derived from western civilization. Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 06:01 PM (QAkQ3) 143
I AM the difference between dumb and amusing.
Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:01 PM (lX8VI) you are the missing link Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:02 PM (V13WU) 144
>>> Or the camps will be like a MoMee, except less guns and booze.
Posted by: LizLem So not like a MoMe at all then? Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 05:50 PM (WXNFJ) Oh, you're right, wrong description! Hell. I was describing hell. Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 06:03 PM (sklOS) 145
If the IDF didn't have Patsy Cline's "I Go To Pieces" playing on some loudspeaker during the bombing, I'd say they missed an epic opportunity right there.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 06:03 PM (WXNFJ) 146
Female cops in any South American country seems like a bad idea.
Of course, I'm not really sold on the idea of female cops in the US, either. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 06:03 PM (tT6L1) 147
137 only if you care about the difference between amusing and dumb . but you obviously don't. so I will leave you at what you do best!
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 05:56 PM (V13WU) I AM the difference between dumb and amusing. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:01 PM (lX8VI) Hey...... wait a minute..... /slaps his own fact multiple times... Posted by: Curly Howard at September 27, 2024 06:03 PM (QAkQ3) 148
Don't bother me--I'm contemplating the significance of the passage of time.
Posted by: Hasan Nasrallah at September 27, 2024 06:03 PM (paSBy) 149
I saw Dumb and Amusing open for Simon and Garfunkle back in '72.
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 06:04 PM (vFG9F) 150
you are the missing link
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:02 PM (V13WU) That might be the nicest thing you've ever said to me. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:04 PM (lX8VI) 151
I believe that all governments, big or small, feature some degree of corruption
some more than others, to be sure but big govt or small, corruption is always a feature IMO Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 06:04 PM (/7KEl) 152
On tonight's 'stuck in my head' playlist we have Jim Croce's 'I have to say I love you in a song.'
*sigh* The 70s must have been odd. You had sentimental stuff like this along with James Taylor along side Bloodrock's DOA or Iron Butterfly or Led Zepplin. Maybe not on the same station, but still. Cultural Blender. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:04 PM (PDf99) 153
110 When in doubt, use The Butthole Surfers.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 27, 2024 05:51 PM (VGRuw) Pussy Riot, Steely Dan and the Sex Pistols close second, third and fourth. Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 05:53 PM (V13WU) What's especially amusing for me is that I actually attended a Butthole Surfer concert years ago. If I recall correct the Red Hot Chili Peppers opened. Of course it'd be funnier to say I saw the Butthole Surfers open for Red Hot Chil Peppers, but sadly it was the reverse order. Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 27, 2024 06:04 PM (VGRuw) 154
145 If the IDF didn't have Patsy Cline's "I Go To Pieces" playing on some loudspeaker during the bombing, I'd say they missed an epic opportunity right there.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 06:03 PM (WXNFJ) Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang? Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:05 PM (PDf99) 155
Those Mexican police officers look more like movie police officers. Leggings and go go boots?
Posted by: OrangeEnt[/i Do the leggings and boots really matter? Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 27, 2024 06:05 PM (/U5Yz) 156
Was 'Shattered' the Rolling Stones?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:05 PM (PDf99) 157
The FBI comes in our division occasionally. We mostly walk away when they ask us questions.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2024 06:05 PM (fPlxF) 158
So... basically it will remain a state secret unless a
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:06 PM (YqDXo) Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 06:06 PM (/7KEl) 160
Midnight here. Last night in Euroland. See/read ya in a few days.
Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 06:06 PM (uJ65b) 161
>What's especially amusing for me is that I actually attended a Butthole Surfer concert years ago. If I recall correct the Red Hot Chili Peppers opened. Of course it'd be funnier to say I saw the Butthole Surfers open for Red Hot Chil Peppers, but sadly it was the reverse order.
I got to see one Surfers show. It was great. I wish that Gabby had done more work with Jorgensen / Ministry. Posted by: Paul Anka at September 27, 2024 06:06 PM (6dcSc) 162
When I think of Nasrallah, I think of him in a holistic way.
Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2024 06:07 PM (Qgr0I) 163
>>> *ace has lost a bit of his joie de vivre.*
Aww, brings me back to the "Ace studying French* days. It's attractive when people don't stop learning and are always looking to discover new things. I don't know if people here know, but I got married. My husband started learning Japanese on Duolingo, and I was so turned on by it... until I learned that he was only doing it as a competition between another coworker. When they stopped and deleted the app, he stopped too. Oh well, he got to do some brushing up on his kanji at least! Ace, if you're here, anything new you've been studying that fascinates you? Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 06:07 PM (6PFLl) 164
54 145 If the IDF didn't have Patsy Cline's "I Go To Pieces" playing on some loudspeaker during the bombing, I'd say they missed an epic opportunity right there.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2024 06:03 PM (WXNFJ) Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang? Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:05 PM (PDf99) _______________ "Rock the Casbah?" Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:07 PM (YqDXo) 165
Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose "You can try to kill off everyone with Down syndrome by using abortion, but you won’t be any closer to a perfect society. You will just be closer to a cruel, heartless one." Charlotte Helene Fien urges the United Nations to protect people with Down syndrome. Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 06:07 PM (TGPs7) 166
>> If the IDF didn't have Patsy Cline's "I Go To Pieces" playing on some loudspeaker during the bombing, I'd say they missed an epic opportunity right there.
GWAR - Bring Back the Bomb 'New Mecca, New York The Vatican too. Give me a bomb I'll drop it on you! Posted by: Paul Anka at September 27, 2024 06:07 PM (6dcSc) 167
Lawn sign update: We have two confirmed sign planting leftists on my street. So I watched today while driving by. Leftist #1 - Sign says 'Will Not Be Voting' - not sure of the small print below. Leftist #2 - 'Vote Blue' No mention of Harris/Walz on either. Early night November 5th. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 27, 2024 06:07 PM (RKVpM) 168
The FBI comes in our division occasionally. We mostly walk away when they ask us questions.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2024 06:05 PM (fPlxF) -------------- I'm pretty sure most agents realize their employer has earned every single bit of distrust. heck, the FBI set up a sheriff in CA because he refused to play ball with them. I have this from a cop who was on the scene when it happened. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 06:07 PM (tT6L1) 169
I used to think "Ow, My Balls!" was funny.
Posted by: Hasan Nasrallah at September 27, 2024 06:08 PM (paSBy) 170
Yeah.
It reaches a point very, very quickly with each incident what's done on purpose... It's all ops all the way down... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:08 PM (ynpvh) 171
Nasrallah and the rest of them got what they wanted, instant martyrdom! They should thank the IDF. Really.
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:08 PM (V13WU) 172
...Faith is dangerous.
Posted by: Nope at September 27, 2024 06:05 PM (OhRX7) You convinced me. Faithless Hedonism is the only smart thing. Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 27, 2024 06:08 PM (AiZBA) 173
>>> If the IDF didn't have Patsy Cline's "I Go To Pieces" playing on some loudspeaker during the bombing, I'd say they missed an epic opportunity right there.
Hunka hunka burning love? Ring of fire? I might need to make an IDF playlist if we keep getting this kind of good news. Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (6PFLl) 174
HammerSlicingSockOFF
Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (6dcSc) 175
Do the leggings and boots really matter?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 27, 2024 06:05 PM (/U5Yz) Depends on if they're for show or really do police work. Go go boots don't seem to be optimal for patrol work or chasing down a criminal. Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (0eaVi) 176
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Lawn sign update: We have two confirmed sign planting leftists on my street. So I watched today while driving by. Leftist #1 - Sign says 'Will Not Be Voting' - not sure of the small print below. Leftist #2 - 'Vote Blue' No mention of Harris/Walz on either. Early night November 5th. Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 27, 2024 06:07 PM (RKVpM) Lefties have no balls if they can't openly support Walz... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (ynpvh) 177
Konnichiwa, LizLem
Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (lX8VI) 178
By the way, Wyatt, this cop I know who works in LA. He's still working because they're throwing stupid money at him so he'll stay.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (tT6L1) 179
172 ...Faith is dangerous.
Posted by: Nope at September 27, 2024 06:05 PM (OhRX7) You convinced me. Faithless Hedonism is the only smart thing. Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 27, 2024 06:08 PM (AiZBA) As contrasted to faithful hedonism? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: Frank Barone at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (+oR7L) 181
The Jan 5th bomber suspect was tracked by Kyle Seraphim when he was an FBI agent. Seraphim followed him on video to where he entered a Metro station and used a pre-purchased card to ride the Metro to a stop in Va. He then can be seen getting into a vehicle with a license plate belonging to the person who bought the metro card, and then he drives away. The person of interest is a GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR who was an explosive ordinance expert in the military. Kyle was ready to interview him to find out if he loaned his car and metro card to anyone - when the FBI told him FORGET ABOUT THIS GUY, we want you to help track down the Capitol insurrectionists.
EAT SHIT AND DIE FBI. Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (Da7Vv) 182
I don't know what happened at the National Hurricane Center the past few days but they screwed the pooch with Helene once she made landfall.
Their forecast track, the night of the storm mind you, was a good 200 miles off coming through Georgia. That's a big-ass miss during the storm. Instead of this storm plowing through Georgia and steamrolling Atlanta with 90mph winds she turned east onshore and is currently touring the Smokey Mountains. Everybody should be thankful Helene came ashore in the Big Bend. A hundred miles in either direction would've been much larger urban areas getting hammered. It was a bad storm. 140 mph wind, 20 foot storm surge, tornadoes, flash floods are no joke. Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2024 06:10 PM (6ydKt) 183
Austere religious scholar Hassan Nasrallah was sent home to Allah to be anally raped by 72 virgins every day for eternity.
Posted by: NY Times at September 27, 2024 06:10 PM (93cE+) 184
As contrasted to faithful hedonism?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (ynpvh) Faith Based Hedonism. So, Unitarians. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:10 PM (PDf99) 185
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"I want to make it with you" -Bread The worst song to hear while being bombed. Posted by: Frank Barone at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (+oR7L) "You dropped a bomb on me"? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:10 PM (ynpvh) 186
I saw Elon Musk and the Deplorables open for The Who at MSG.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 27, 2024 06:11 PM (nFx0I) 187
this is from past musings of Nasrallah's daughter (reportedly killed in the recent strike) : "We are embarrassed that we have made such a small sacrifice compared to other families of martyrs,"
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:11 PM (V13WU) Posted by: javems at September 27, 2024 06:11 PM (8I4hW) 189
yourwelcome
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 06:11 PM (V13WU) 190
I'd think 'Don't Worry, Be Happy.' would be the worst thing to hear while being bombed. Especially once the chorus kicks in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (PDf99) 191
184 As contrasted to faithful hedonism?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (ynpvh) Faith Based Hedonism. So, Unitarians. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:10 PM (PDf99) Had to look up what they stood for...apparently nothing... "Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive. We have no shared creed. Our shared covenant is expressed through the inseparable and deeply interdependent shared values of interdependence, pluralism, justice, transformation, generosity, and equity." Uh-huh... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (ynpvh) 192
>>> Konnichiwa, LizLem
Backatcha! Pretend I look like one of the girls in this AI film. Someone posted AI red neck LOTR in a previous thread, now I'm mini obsessed with finding good AI parody vids of movies. If strawberry shortcake were an 80s action film: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tZftIfL5Sqw Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (6PFLl) 193
Jonah Jonah Jonah...
Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch If Trump loses, which I think is still a significant if, it’s going to be funny watching all of the people who keep telling me that me and my ilk are irrelevant suddenly insisting that me and my ilk were responsible for him losing. If Republicans lose, it will be because they cared more about Trump and his bullshit than actually winning with a decent candidate — and decent human being. Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (TGPs7) 194
185 180
"I want to make it with you" -Bread The worst song to hear while being bombed. Posted by: Frank Barone at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (+oR7L) "You dropped a bomb on me"? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:10 PM (ynpvh) It's the End of the World, as we know it... Posted by: Curly Howard at September 27, 2024 06:13 PM (QAkQ3) 195
188 "FBI Deleted Video of J6 "Bomb" Footage"
--------- Oopsie..... Posted by: javems at September 27, 2024 06:11 PM (8I4hW) Like all those phones that came back bricked (and erased). Stuff happens, amIright? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:13 PM (ynpvh) 196
Had to look up what they stood for...apparently nothing...
"Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive. We have no shared creed. Our shared covenant is expressed through the inseparable and deeply interdependent shared values of interdependence, pluralism, justice, transformation, generosity, and equity." Uh-huh... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (ynpvh) -------------- Kamala is a Unitarian? Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 06:13 PM (tT6L1) 197
So I just realized why the Dems loudly deployed this "Project 2025" as a Big Thing.
They want people to forget 2016-2019. Duh. It's taken me a while but I got there. Planting "2025" as a big scary with Trump is designed to make it seem like they're not running against all his successes that everyone lived through, but something else entirely. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:13 PM (lX8VI) 198
>>> Austere religious scholar Hassan Nasrallah was sent home to Allah to be anally raped by 72 virgins every day for eternity.
Hello, daddy... Posted by: Trigglypuff at September 27, 2024 06:13 PM (6PFLl) 199
lol, a fake border visit on Friday evening. Keeping it Low Key so's her base doesnt know she's even pretending to care about border security. Posted by: Soothie at September 27, 2024 06:13 PM (B0wx9) 200
"FBI Deleted Video of J6 "Bomb" Footage"
--------- Oopsie..... Posted by: javems at September 27, 2024 06:11 PM No problem the secret service has the footage as well. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2024 06:13 PM (QNSds) 201
Don't Fear the Reaper.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:14 PM (PDf99) Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:14 PM (lX8VI) 203
If Republicans lose, it will be because they cared more about Trump and his bullshit than actually winning with a decent candidate — and decent human being.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (TGPs7) These clowns really think we're going to come back to them if Trump loses? Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 27, 2024 06:14 PM (0eaVi) 204
Deleted with a cloth?
Hillary Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 06:15 PM (fwDg9) 205
Someday Jonah Goldberg will learn to love women again.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 27, 2024 06:15 PM (/U5Yz) 206
192 >>> Konnichiwa, LizLem
Backatcha! Pretend I look like one of the girls in this AI film. Someone posted AI red neck LOTR in a previous thread, now I'm mini obsessed with finding good AI parody vids of movies. If strawberry shortcake were an 80s action film: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tZftIfL5Sqw Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (6PFLl) "Only the boldest, baddest, frutiest can save us"...is this call to all those old homos in SF? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:15 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: Hillary at September 27, 2024 06:15 PM (i0F8b) 208
194 185 180
"I want to make it with you" -Bread The worst song to hear while being bombed. Posted by: Frank Barone at September 27, 2024 06:09 PM (+oR7L) "You dropped a bomb on me"? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:10 PM (ynpvh) It's the End of the World, as we know it... Posted by: Curly Howard at September 27, 2024 06:13 PM (QAkQ3) "Get Down Tonight"... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:15 PM (ynpvh) 209
"FBI Deleted Video of J6 "Bomb" Footage"
_________________ Shouldn't they have a chain of custody type of arrangement? "Oh, you want to view the "bomb" footage? Just sign out the footage right here." And God forbid they make a copy of the original before letting anyone sign out the copy. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:16 PM (YqDXo) 210
'Stayin' Alive' by the Beegees.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:16 PM (PDf99) 211
Jonah really doesn't get he's considered to be a traitor to his country, like much of the of commentariat, by probably thousands of people.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 06:17 PM (tT6L1) 212
210 'Stayin' Alive' by the Beegees.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:16 PM (PDf99) Which, with the exception of one, they couldn't do... Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 06:17 PM (IyPmt) 213
"Welcome to the Jungle"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:17 PM (ynpvh) 214
If Republicans lose, it will be because they cared more about Trump and his bullshit than actually winning with a decent candidate — and decent human being.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (TGPs7) He's a bad human being because he takes zero shit and talks major shit to people (deserving of it) who cross him? Because other than that, I'm not exactly sure what makes the man "indecent"? Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2024 06:17 PM (6ydKt) 215
Seriously are these guys still pretending to be "Republicans"? Is this Day 7,000 in a row of The Last Straw? These people are worse than these aging one hit wonders who won't hang it up despite being dark shadows of their former selves with just the one known thing, doing their One Song in a smoky club to half drunk patrons waiting for the actual act they came to see. They're not even Fat Elvis. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:17 PM (lX8VI) 216
195 188 "FBI Deleted Video of J6 "Bomb" Footage"
--------- Oopsie..... Posted by: javems at September 27, 2024 06:11 PM (8I4hW) Like all those phones that came back bricked (and erased). Stuff happens, amIright? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:13 PM (ynpvh) _______________ Issue pagers to the FBI. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:17 PM (YqDXo) Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:18 PM (PDf99) 218
Who does a better cackle, Hillary or Kamala?
Posted by: davidt at September 27, 2024 06:18 PM (i0F8b) 219
nood week in woke
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 06:18 PM (CEzQx) 220
Ummm... isn't any of the Jan 6 FBI involvement stuff covered by discovery by those who are being persecuted... I mean prosecuted?
You'd think there would be ONE Jude, SOMEWHERE, who had the balls to ask those questions. Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2024 06:18 PM (QAkQ3) Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 06:18 PM (6dcSc) 222
213 "Welcome to the Jungle"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:17 PM (ynpvh) And, just like that, the 8-track in my head skipped to the next track. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:19 PM (PDf99) 223
If Republicans lose, it will be because they cared more about Trump and his bullshit than actually winning with a decent candidate — and decent human being.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (TGPs7) _______________ The Venn diagram of "decent human beings" and "politicians" shows no intersection whatsoever. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:19 PM (YqDXo) 224
214 If Republicans lose, it will be because they cared more about Trump and his bullshit than actually winning with a decent candidate — and decent human being.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (TGPs7) He's a bad human being because he takes zero shit and talks major shit to people (deserving of it) who cross him? Because other than that, I'm not exactly sure what makes the man "indecent"? Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 27, 2024 06:17 PM (6ydKt) Yeah, it's not like he exposed himself to female SS agents while swimming in his pool... Or made a humidor out of female interns... Or wanted his "Chakras" re-aligned... or... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:19 PM (ynpvh) 225
216 195 188 "FBI Deleted Video of J6 "Bomb" Footage"
--------- Oopsie..... Posted by: javems at September 27, 2024 06:11 PM (8I4hW) Like all those phones that came back bricked (and erased). Stuff happens, amIright? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:13 PM (ynpvh) _______________ Issue pagers to the FBI. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:17 PM (YqDXo) Win-Win! The on-site investigations will be lit! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 27, 2024 06:19 PM (ynpvh) 226
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"I want to make it with you" -Bread --- The only thing worse than hearing "I Want to Make it With You" while being bombed is hearing "I Want to Make it With You" while not being bombed. Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at September 27, 2024 06:19 PM (paSBy) 227
Backatcha!
Pretend I look like one of the girls in this AI film. Someone posted AI red neck LOTR in a previous thread, now I'm mini obsessed with finding good AI parody vids of movies. If strawberry shortcake were an 80s action film: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tZftIfL5Sqw Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 06:12 PM (6PFLl) Done. Look up the "Panavision" AI versions of modern films. You might like those. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:20 PM (lX8VI) Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 06:21 PM (/7KEl) 229
PDT has survived two assassination attempts, one of which nearly succeeded, fought several politically motivated trials which cost him tens of thousands if not millions.. but, he's a bad person?
How much have you sacrificed, Jonah? You give sanctimonious jackasses a bad name. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 06:22 PM (tT6L1) 230
Ah the heady days of NRO, when Jonah was thought of as 'hip.'
Dear Lord, we were retards. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:18 PM (PDf99) _________________ It's one equation with two unknowns. How bad was the guy back when, and how much more perspicacious have we become in the meantime? I have that with an old mentor. I thought he was a great guy, but on meeting up with him more recently I realized he's a self-centered egotistical cow's twat out solely for #1. Did he change, or did I? Or most likely, both? There were early indications of his cow twathood back when, but ... I gave him a skip on them. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:23 PM (YqDXo) 231
"Everything I do is right" is not faith. That's hubris. Faith is not hubris.
Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:25 PM (lX8VI) 232
Some people are born into cow twathood.
Others have cow twathood thrust upon them. Posted by: As we all know at September 27, 2024 06:25 PM (dg+HA) 233
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 06:23 PM (YqDXo)
I'd say part of it was what we had to compare him to. He tried to crack jokes. He tried to do bits. I'd say it is a combination of that was the best he could do (which was lukewarm, but by contrast a difference) and once the commentariat splintered due to Trump, he saw no reason to even do the bit any more. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2024 06:26 PM (PDf99) 234
These clowns really think we're going to come back to them if Trump loses?
--- They have had, now, over 8 years to craft and present an alternative to Trump. They have been handed unlimited money and media. Their Big Brains have come up with: 1) critiques that are happily cited with approval only by the left 2) policies that are either "the conservative case for liberalism" or 90% liberalism You know how hard you have to work to fail that badly at what you say your one and only job is, to stop Trump? Literally doing nothing would have had 100% more return. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 06:31 PM (DLyFt) 235
Not semantics, just politely (especially for me) pointing out where your own word use is flawed. You can reason your way into what you meant and what you presume I mean all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that there is a substantial difference between the two words, and it would do you good to see them before you use them again.
And this is where you snap at me for getting holier than thou or know it all etc except that isn't what I'm doing. I'm taking the time to engage with *your* points, which I don't fully reject, and you'll notice that sort of thing is thin on the ground around here. Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 06:38 PM (lX8VI) 236
This same DOJ has been investigating Phoenix PD and claims to have found a pattern of abuse of force, of homeless people, minorities etc.
Well Phoenix PD and others were able to find the "incidents" the DOJ were talking about and lo and behold, the DOJ was arbitrarily taking incidents where officers did nothing wrong and declaring them as part of a pattern of abuse. When confronted with this evidence the DOJ claimed there were other occurrences not shared they were referring to. Riiiiiiiiiggggghhhht. Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 06:54 PM (elaR+) 237
In "Succession" the stupid brother-in-law hired the conniving yet outwardly naive nephew and orders him to destroy the evidence. But the nephew leveraged the task and eventually bargained for more money and title.
The FBI undoubtedly hired one of their "contractors" to destroy the evidence. Rep Loudermilk can't understand why they wouldn't comply with his requests. Posted by: wferrin at September 27, 2024 07:24 PM (whqZE) Disney Is Making "Brutal" Payroll Cuts, Again
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