The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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Good morning Horde, I hope that you an enjoyable Independence Day celebration. If not we can pray for your recovery from fireworks gone wrong.

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How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War - The North’s fruitful partnership with Liberian farmers fueled a steady supply of an essential beverage

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy and morale was considered almost as vital as gunpowder; Union General Benjamin Butler ordered his soldiers to carry coffee with them always, saying it guaranteed success: “If your men get their coffee early in the morning, you can hold” your position.

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Before we enter the Prayer Revival. Just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Park Falls, WI)

1. This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2. Even trolls have feelings, be nice to one another.
3. Running with sharp objects and/or flaming projectiles is not recommended.
4. Have a great weekend!

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
5/25 – Tonypete asked for prayers for an elderly neighborhood couple. They are in failing health and abilities. They insist on living independently, yet they can’t do it. Tonypete and his wife are torn between respecting their wishes and privacy, but there are numerous LEO wellness checks each week.
6/8 – Tonypete and R have been subpoenaed to give testimony at the competency hearing in a few weeks, called by the elderly couple’s children. The elderly couple is still fighting against going to an assisted living facility. It’s just a very sad situation.
6/11 – Sponge’s wife, “The First Lady” has breast cancer, and the initial prognosis is good, as it is Stage 1 and caught early.
6/20 Update – The meeting with the surgeon was moderately frightening, as she ‘s been declared Stage 1B ,which means it’s a relatively aggressive form and can spread quickly.
6/28 Update – The blood test came negative on hereditary cancer markings, so that is good. They meet with the oncologist on 7/11 and surgery is scheduled for 7/22. Hopefully it will be just a lumpectomy and 5 days of radiation.
6/14 – Perfessor Squirrel requests prayers for his friend from church. Jimmy has been suffering some issues with his lungs and could use prayers for healing.
6/15 – Jewells posted that she has decided to end her cancer treatments. She had 6 months to go on her 2 year palliative care program, but the chemo drug is ruining her quality of life.
6/22 Update – They are going to get a second opinion. She still doesn’t want to do any more chemo, but maybe another doctor can come up with something else.
6/29 Update – Jewells will get a CT scan 7/2 and will see the new doctor on 7/8. She is losing weight, which is a concern.
6/15 – Grumpy and Recalcitrant asked for continued prayers for J.J. Sefton of the Morning Report. He is about to begin chemo and radiation therapy.
6/27 Update – J.J. posted: “On a personal note: for those who have been asking about me, I’m four days into treatment and mercifully not feeling any side effects so far. Thank you for your continued support and prayers.” Grumpy and Recalcitrant sends a big thank you to God for helping to keep J.J. strong at this time, and asks that we all keep J.J. in our prayers as he continues with his chemo and radiation therapy for his cancer.
6/29 – J.J. posted that he’d completed week 1 and has 5 more to go. He asked God to bless everyone for their prayers and well wishes.
6/19 – DangerGirl lost the SanityProd requests prayers for her father, who was admitted to the hospital with respiratory issues. He’s been struggling for the past year, on and off, with shortness of breath and could use prayers for both healing and a proper diagnosis. (The doctors can’t figure out what is causing it.) Thank you!
6/27 Update – Dad is back home, on oxygen as needed and other meds. The doctor thinks it is an allergic raction to something that is causing his bronchial tubes to spasm and create mucous, which results in low oxygen levels and breathing issues. Future plans include appointments with allergists and cleaning out the HVAC.
6/22 – Our country is screwed offered prayers of thanksgiving that their daughter, age 27, battling breast cancer, is on her last chemo treatment. She has tolerated it very well. She still will have surgery in August.
6/22 – Aetius451AD sent thanks to the Horde for the prayers, and thanks to God, for the healing of his dad after a heart attack and surgery. Dad is cleared for normal activity now.
6/22 – Tonypete requested prayers for Sandy, a friend from church who passed suddenly.
6/22 – Gushka asked for prayers for herself and for her husband’s soul. His body was found in the river. He had been missing since 12/8. The coroner is ruling it a suicide.
6/23 – Steck asked for prayers for a former co-worker named Allen. Before Allen was transferred back to his former job, Allen became cold and distant after hearing that Steck is a born again Christian. As a former atheist, Steck’s experience is that there’s often a nearby “support system” of fellow atheists. Please pray hard to bring Jesus into this fine man’s life, and into the lives of those around him and change their hearts as well.
6/25 – TP asked for prayers for JT, who is ill and in need of prayer.
6/25 – Alberta Oil Peon posted that he has a lump of some sort impinging on one of his vocal cords. He is booked for surgery on 7/31.
6/26 – VM requested prayers for 2 co-workers. Mrs. C, who is hospitalized for an unspecified illness. And Mrs L, whose teen daughter is in the hospital for a seizure.
6/29 – Misanthropic Humanitarian asked for prayers for our local, state, and federal officials.
6/29 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for her son’s university. They are facing financial difficulties. It is a small “farm school”, founded by a rabbi, and has a steady enrollment of students studying farm/dairy/animal science. Fenelon’s son was happy there, and the professors are good.
6/29 – Reforger is looking for a job. He quit after 6 years of being treated poorly.
6/29 – bluebell posted that she had the following message from BitterClinger: It is my most fervent prayer that those there that are struggling would find relief, that those that strive would find success, and that those that worry would find comfort, that those that are ill would find healing, and most of all that the truth of the Savior of the world, our Lord Jesus Christ, would live in the hearts of them all, throughout all trials and storms and in every jubilant and celebratory moment and even in the dull times. We shall see each other on the other side, and what a glorious time it will be, when our strivings cease and death and corruption is defeated.”
6/28 – Sal asked for prayers for Karen, age 11, who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. Her prognosis is good, but this is a big hurdle for a kid. Petitions for courage and patience would be great. Thank you!
6/29 – bluebell passed along a request from grammie winger requested prayers for her husband, Rev, who is having open heart surgery on 7/8 to take care of his aortic aneurysm. Recovery time is expected to be 6-8 weeks.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

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Thank you Annie for organizing the Prayer List every week.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:42 AM

Comments

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1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:43 AM (omVj0)

2 Well, whaddaya know! Made it, Ma! Top o' the thread!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:43 AM (omVj0)

3 BRCC AK47

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 06, 2024 08:44 AM (ENQN6)

4 Working on my second cup of coffee. Good morning.

Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 08:44 AM (Oy/m2)

5 I'm actually with you sipping a little coffee for a change. Instead of staggering out in the heat to wash the car, which got rained on last night anyway, I went for a shave and shower, and am relaxing a bit before errands. Stirling the big black cat is on the cushion next to me.

Grocery today, then exercise and car wash tomorrow. I hope.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:45 AM (omVj0)

6 Top 6!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 06, 2024 08:46 AM (6gW4D)

7
Ah, Parry's "Jerusalem", words by William Blake.

And did those feet in ancient time,
Walk upon Englands mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!

And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these[c] dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold:
Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:47 AM (1Nxff)

8 Oops. Need to run out and put up the car's sun shades. The sun will be hitting the vehicle before I am ready to leave, and the interior heats up fast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:47 AM (omVj0)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:48 AM (1Nxff)

10 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

11 Lonesome in here.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 06, 2024 08:48 AM (hKoQL)

12 Good morning, Horde! Thank you Mis Hum and Annie for doing the Lord's work here.

Prayers offered for all of you, for the listed intentions, and for the souls of the recently departed including Kenny, my friend and former coworker. He was the source of one of my favorite sayings: "if you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough".

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 06, 2024 08:49 AM (kOluj)

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Copied and pasted the text without checking for footnote markers. Apologies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:49 AM (1Nxff)

14 At least it was until I posted that.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 06, 2024 08:50 AM (hKoQL)

15 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde
Thinking ice water, coffee pot is gone

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:50 AM (fwDg9)

16 "Made it, Ma! Top o' the thread!"

What is the prize for that anyway?

Posted by: Ju at July 06, 2024 08:50 AM (aTmM/)

17 Commence the French toast supplies buying spree in SE Texas! Beryl is a-comin'

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 06, 2024 08:51 AM (6gW4D)

18 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!
And prayers up even for all "our" politicians who have apparently decided that the 10% money and power are far more desirable than honor or integrity, may they see the error of their ways and repent!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 08:51 AM (hOUT3)

19 Good Saturday morning, horde.

Prayers for all, especially JT, J.J. Jewels, mindful webworker, Mrs. Sponge. And any other of the horde who are fighting critical medical battles.

I pray for general blessings for the rest of youse.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 08:51 AM (OX9vb)

20 Art thread !

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 08:51 AM (V13WU)

21 Good morning, Horde, Miklos requested prayers for his Mama last night on the ONT, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

If I remember correctly from the other night today is also the day to wish Mr. and Mrs. Muldoon a very happy anniversary.

Prayers for all of the Horde, and enjoy a nice day.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 06, 2024 08:52 AM (Sgq8y)

22 *Big yawn* *glug* *glug*

youtube.com/watch?v=A0LyzOh3ya8

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:53 AM (2UBPP)

23 FYI:
On the WDONT, our Miklos asked for prayers for his mother just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on July 4th!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 08:53 AM (hOUT3)

24 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 08:54 AM (u82oZ)

25 "Made it, Ma! Top o' the thread!"

What is the prize for that anyway?

Posted by: Ju at July 06, 2024

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Durned if I know. Bragging rights? Avoidance of The Barrel?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:54 AM (omVj0)

26 I saw this morning that Mindful Webworker is back in the hospital too.

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 08:54 AM (vFG9F)

27 21
Well done DDS!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 08:54 AM (hOUT3)

28 Prayers for those on the prayer list and all those who suffer and need the strength the Lord can give.

Please add a prayer for Mindful Webworker who is in the hospital right now with complications from his previous issues. It may be an easy fix or it may require surgery. Please pay for an easy fix. He's been though so much already.

Thanks to all who pay and to God for his love and mercy.

Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at July 06, 2024 08:55 AM (G77LY)

29 Grocery today, then exercise and car wash tomorrow. I hope.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:45 AM (omVj0)

Damn, you live on the edge.

Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 08:55 AM (Oy/m2)

30 https://youtu.be/ZedhoqYdfTM
Bring Me Sunshine
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 08:55 AM (u82oZ)

31 Today's Americano began as City+ roasted SO from Mexico.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (rHxhM)

32 Willowed: "We" knew Joe was a vegetable a long, long time ago. But we incorporated that into our worldview, and eventually ignored it, because "they" were ignoring it. It was part of the furniture to our political view.

It was like the hypnotist snapped his fingers on debate night. The spell has been broken! This is devastating to the media, or ought to be. The most amazing 180 turn we've witnessed in the "news" certainly.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024

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It is peculiar. Like a logjam breaking up, or a dam bursting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (omVj0)

33 >>"Made it, Ma! Top o' the thread!"

What is the prize for that anyway?
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thread explodes in massive fireball
roll credits

Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (/7KEl)

34 Thanks for the prayer thread MisHum!

Now off to work outside while it is still almost possible to do so and yet survive!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (hOUT3)

35 Mornin' Horde. Another request to pass along from last night's ONT is for mindful webworker, who's in the hospital again. I'll see if I can find the post...

Prayers for the Horde and our loved ones.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (iZbyp)

36 And please add Mama Miklos, who has cancer. And Mindful Webworker is in the hospital again.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (xjTDL)

37 Also, mindful webworker is back in the hospital. His daughter posted last night that he has another blockage, add him to your prayers.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (2NHgQ)

38 Grocery today, then exercise and car wash tomorrow. I hope.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024
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Damn, you live on the edge.
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024

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In a town where, even in the suburbs, you can stop a bullet in broad daylight? I sure do.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:57 AM (omVj0)

39 Hadrian the Seventh

Thank you. That is beautiful music, and an example of Muscular Christianity. I think of a POMS performance when I think of it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 08:58 AM (u82oZ)

40 here's a post from mindful webworker's daughter Sugar Plum Fairy from last night's ONT -

"Yes, he had major emergency surgery on October and then a follow up in March. Seems to have an obstruction now in the small intestine- not good because of ostomy... blah blah (I guess dad doesn't mind me telling his friends in little hey boxes how he is...) maybe an easy fix with no surgery of they can clear it... if not then maybe another surgery due to his "complicated condition"

Please pray for the easiest solution for him. He has only just been putting weight back on.
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy "

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 08:58 AM (iZbyp)

41 Willowed: "We" knew Joe was a vegetable a long, long time ago. But we incorporated that into our worldview, and eventually ignored it, because "they" were ignoring it. It was part of the furniture to our political view.

It was like the hypnotist snapped his fingers on debate night. The spell has been broken! This is devastating to the media, or ought to be. The most amazing 180 turn we've witnessed in the "news" certainly.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024

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It is peculiar. Like a logjam breaking up, or a dam bursting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:56 AM (omVj0)

. . . glacier calving

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 06, 2024 08:58 AM (6gW4D)

42 Kidding

movie cliche- cornered villain always climbs the nearby tall thing, like that's an escape plan

Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:58 AM (/7KEl)

43 Morning.
Prayers for those asking and those needing but not asking.

On my job front. I don't want anyone to worry about me. I'm almost solvent and could really, almost, possibly get away with never working again.
My wife, however, does not agree with that.

I'm really in no hurry and am looking for that last job that I can live with for another 6 to 10 years. I have eyes on two places right now.
Monday I go see both. One making bullets and one making AR's.
I'm torn between finding a shithead job to just do and being willing to take on 'sponsibility type stuff. I did Administration at my last place (someone saw something in me I never did) and really turned out pretty good at it.
It's been a month and the yard is cleaned up now so Monday I get off my ass and do something.

Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (xcIvR)

44
I typed my Ph.D. thesis on an IBM Selectric.

Acid-free paper and absolutely, positively NO use of the correction tape.

The job went slowly, to say the least.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (i4sOa)

45 Donna Summer's "She Works Hard for the Money" is playing from a 1983 Casey Kasem episode on my local '80s oldies station. Grand, exciting stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (omVj0)

46 What did confederate soldiers drink?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (Ka3bZ)

47 "We" knew Joe was a vegetable a long, long time ago. But we incorporated that into our worldview, and eventually ignored it, because "they" were ignoring it. It was part of the furniture to our political view.

This statement can easily be applied to homeless encampments.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (rHxhM)

48 Anyway, best wishes and positive vibes to all who are in distress this day.

Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (/7KEl)

49 Good morning!

Of late I've added the following to my daily prayers:

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

I've noticed a discernable improvement in mood since I started saying it and highly recommend it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:00 AM (llXky)

50 FYI, the Prayer List has to be put together by Wednesday. I'm sure she has some of these additions but they won't show up till next week.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 09:00 AM (xjTDL)

51 Prayers for all the Horde and specially for mindful webworker

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 09:00 AM (Ka3bZ)

52 Kidding

movie cliche- cornered villain always climbs the nearby tall thing, like that's an escape plan
Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:58 AM (/7KEl)

Form experience, I can say it's not a winning move.

Posted by: King Kong at July 06, 2024 09:00 AM (6gW4D)

53 Prayers ascending for those on the list, and those disclosed in the thread.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 09:01 AM (u82oZ)

54 *From* My fingers are too big for this laptop keyboard.

Posted by: King Kong at July 06, 2024 09:01 AM (6gW4D)

55 ...too bad Annie does not have the ability to cross reference requests with the banned and troll list....

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (V13WU)

56 20 Art thread !
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 08:51 AM (V13WU)

Thats funny!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (QXQ4l)

57 Woke up to a bunch of pictures and short videos of the granddaughter on her first camping trip with her parents and aunt.
Local state park, Myles Standish, in case the needed to bail.
Looks like fine time for all.
My heart soars like a hawk.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (4780s)

58 Praise GOD, creator of all things! Let us give thanks for his many blessings. Let us humbly petition him at this time for peace, grace, understanding, and if it be his will, healing for our brothers and sisters. In addition we pray for restoration of our nation and a return to the covenant our fathers had with almighty GOD.
Amen

Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (o2ZRX)

59 The final words of Jimmy Cagney's Cody Jarrett in White Heat are usually misquoted as "Top o' the world, Ma!" But he actually says, "Made it, Ma! Top o' the world!" before the exploding fuel tank consumes him.

The film is the best cops-and-robbers movie ever made. Oddly, it was written by the two guys who much later created Charlie's Angels, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. A classic, and it should be. Cagney deserved an Oscar nod; did he get one? Come to think of it, did he ever win an Oscar, or even get nominated?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (omVj0)

60 Thank you to all of you for thinking of Mindful and adding him to your prayers! It means so much!

Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at July 06, 2024 09:03 AM (G77LY)

61 Reforger

Good luck. I have a Plan C job idea if that fails.

Companies need good workers, not DEI unlearned head cases.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 09:03 AM (u82oZ)

62 Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (xcIvR)

Sounds like you have a plan in place, may it succeed in every respect!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 06, 2024 09:04 AM (hOUT3)

63 What did confederate soldiers drink?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024

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I wouldn't be surprised if their coffee was toast crumbs steeped in water heated over a campfire.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:04 AM (omVj0)

64 Thats funny!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (QXQ4l)

that is a beautiful photo ! would hang, as the kids say...

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:04 AM (V13WU)

65 46 What did confederate soldiers drink?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (Ka3bZ)

You are an inquisitive 'ette this morning.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:04 AM (QXQ4l)

66 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (omVj0)

Yankee Doodle Dandy, I think.

Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:04 AM (Oy/m2)

67 confederate soldiers drank..chicory coffee !

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:05 AM (V13WU)

68 Oh, right; Cagney won an Oscar for playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. He began his career in show business as a dancer, after all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (omVj0)

69 Reforger, prayers for exactly the right job for you.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (iZbyp)

70 Zod Faulkner has transformed the Story Of Joe into a gothic novel last thread, and that carpentry noise you hear is Chairman Xi making our coffin outside the window as Joe lies around in senile denial.

Posted by: Addie Bundren at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (hj1Oi)

71 I never thought French Toast supplies for a hurricane, mainly because your power goes out how would you make it?

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (fwDg9)

72 All hail the Keurig machine.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)

73 At the White House, they serve Chock Full Of Nuts

Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (/7KEl)

74 What did confederate soldiers drink?

Lets Ask AI !!1!

Substitutes for Coffee:
• Coffee was scarce during the war, leading soldiers to find creative substitutes.
• Confederate soldiers roasted various ingredients to make a coffee-like brew. These included rye, rice, sweet potatoes, beets, chicory, peas, dandelions, acorns, and even peanuts3.

In summary, Confederate soldiers relied on whiskey and other spirits for both sustenance and comfort during their challenging wartime experiences.

If you have more questions or need further information, feel free to ask!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (rHxhM)

75 That coffee in the picture is in the process of being contaminated.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)

76 It was like the hypnotist snapped his fingers on debate night. The spell has been broken! This is devastating to the media, or ought to be. The most amazing 180 turn we've witnessed in the "news" certainly.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024
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I'm increasingly viewing the world through spiritual lenses. Leave out politics, personalities, and just focus on the big picture.

If we start with the foundational belief that all love comes from God and that He moves in ways we cannot fathom, the "dam bust" was inevitable and it was always just a question of timing. Biden himself has profaned the Host many times, blasphemously crossed himself when referring to abortion, so his continued torment in the public eye is right and just.

The cabal of evil people desperately trying to backstab one another is likewise predictable. The key is to keep praying and focus on family, parish and community and let the talking heads continue to tie themselves in knots.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:08 AM (llXky)

77 Going back for seconds on blueberry pancakes... brb

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:08 AM (iZbyp)

78 Again this week only could get the large coffee creamer, so use a smaller plastic bottle to split it and freeze the rest.

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:08 AM (fwDg9)

79 Before we enter the Prayer Revival. Just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Park Falls, WI)

3. Running with sharp objects and/or flaming projectiles is not recommended.
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MisHum, maybe add to 3 or make a new 5 in view of a very recent Genius/Darwin Award:
Exploding large firework 'bombs' on ones skull is very strongly not recommended.

Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, apparently loss of hair is the least probleme at July 06, 2024 09:08 AM (qfLjt)

80 Coffee was also made rare in the South by the blockade.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:09 AM (8sMut)

81 Fill it to the rim-with Brim!

Posted by: Not Awake Yet at July 06, 2024 09:09 AM (V5BDR)

82 77 Going back for seconds on blueberry pancakes... brb
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:08 AM (iZbyp)

With blueberry syrup?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:09 AM (8sMut)

83 All hail the Keurig machine.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)

Are those Keurig coffee makers any good?

Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:10 AM (Oy/m2)

84 confederate soldiers drank..chicory coffee !
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:05 AM (V13WU)
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A lot of Confederate troops drank coffee, having traded with Union soldiers to get it.

Huge amounts of cotton (and other crops) continued to flow out of the South and into Union hands because there was money to be made and folks wanted to eat.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:10 AM (llXky)

85 70 Zod Faulkner has transformed the Story Of Joe into a gothic novel last thread, and that carpentry noise you hear is Chairman Xi making our coffin outside the window as Joe lies around in senile denial.
Posted by: Addie Bundren at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (hj1Oi)

Surpass Britain and catch up with America.

Posted by: Mao Zedong (1893-1976) at July 06, 2024 09:10 AM (8sMut)

86 >I never thought French Toast supplies for a hurricane, mainly because your power goes out how would you make it?
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easy
you get a fire going (sheltered from the wind, duh) and let it burn down to coals
place the head of a shovel on the hot coals
there's your skillet

Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 09:11 AM (/7KEl)

87 I've noticed a discernable improvement in mood since I started saying it and highly recommend it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

--

The 3 essential prayers- Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 09:11 AM (Ka3bZ)

88 Companies need good workers, not DEI unlearned head cases.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 06, 2024 09:03 AM (u82oZ)

There are a lot of jobs around here.
All amazingly paying better that what I was making at my last gig.
After six years of loyal service.
Worst case I could go get my old job back. Friend from work said they had a whole company meeting over me leaving.
Benig I was actually running the place most of the time I'd bet if I went in and made my demands they would fold.
I demand that the President quit fucking my "supervisor" on company time.

That would be my first demand.

Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 09:11 AM (xcIvR)

89 For all of you and your loved ones who are ill, I send prayers for speedy and complete recovery.

As for me, week two of treatment is in the books, four more to go. Thank you for the continued support, prayers and kindness you have shown me.

One day at a time. Live in the present, not in the past or the future. God bless you all.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (x0n13)

90 Coffee was also made rare in the South by the blockade.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024

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The AI item quoted above mentioned chicory. That's probably when Southerners developed a taste for the stuff and continued later putting it into coffee. (I approve.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (omVj0)

91 83 All hail the Keurig machine.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)

Are those Keurig coffee makers any good?
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:10 AM (Oy/m2)

Yes.

But you can purchase off name brands that work just as well.
Also you can use your own coffee most of the time in the provided ground coffee basket.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (QXQ4l)

92 Confederates got their booze one way or another, even if it wasn't as easy. Maybe more than us on average. Per capita alcohol consumption was higher then than now. I think the peak was actually around 1830, but it still would've been higher during the civil war than today.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (Dm8we)

93 all the best to you J.J.

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (V13WU)

94
One day at a time. Live in the present, not in the past or the future. God bless you all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (x0n13)

How ya feeling J.J?

Thanks for stopping in.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (QXQ4l)

95 83 All hail the Keurig machine.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)

Are those Keurig coffee makers any good?
Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:10 AM (Oy/m2)

I like them. The beauty of the Keurig machine is that if I just want one cup of coffee, I can produce one cup of coffee. The Keurig machine that I have can produce coffee the traditional way as well, so if I want 10 cups, I just switch to the decanter. If I am in the mood for tea, well, I got tea K-cups here as well.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (8sMut)

96 With blueberry syrup?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
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Nah just Aunt Jemima

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (iZbyp)

97 Good morning again dear horde and thank you mh and annie and morons for your prayers

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (RIvkX)

98 Oh, right; Cagney won an Oscar for playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. He began his career in show business as a dancer, after all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (omVj0)
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That was back when to even qualify for films you had to be multi-talented. I mean, yeah the casting couch, but you still had to be pretty damn good.

Hollywood has been coasting on the fumes of WW II patriotism for a long time. I think they've finally dissipated.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (llXky)

99 ... if I just want one cup of coffee ....
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
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I do not understand these words in this order

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (iZbyp)

100 Fill it to the rim-with Brim!
Posted by: Not Awake Yet at July 06, 2024

***
Kava Kava!

Posted by: 1970s Instant Coffee Not Even Rebels Would Drink at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (omVj0)

101 Good morning JJ!
God bless you and Mrs Sefton

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (Ka3bZ)

102 46 What did confederate soldiers drink?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (Ka3bZ)

Water.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (8sMut)

103 I do not understand these words in this order
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (iZbyp)

JUST ONE FIX

Posted by: Ministry at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (8sMut)

104 I saw there is a documentary out about Faye Dunaway. i always thought she was a very talented and unusual actress. beautiful in her own way , stylish. always interesting to watch.

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (V13WU)

105 Hollywood has been coasting on the fumes of WW II patriotism for a long time. I think they've finally dissipated.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024

***
I had something to do with that

Posted by: 1980s Cocaine at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (omVj0)

106 I like them. The beauty of the Keurig machine is that if I just want one cup of coffee, I can produce one cup of coffee. The Keurig machine that I have can produce coffee the traditional way as well, so if I want 10 cups, I just switch to the decanter. If I am in the mood for tea, well, I got tea K-cups here as well.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (8sMut)
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There's a conventional coffee maker in my office as well as a Keurig (brought in by a since departed employee).

The pot got heavy use for a long time, but Covid, retirements, remote work, etc. has left it so that I'm the only coffee drinker in that part of the office. So the Keurig makes sense.

We also have one at home for the same reason. Trying to make one cup in a regular coffee maker is annoying.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (llXky)

107 Grammie, Prayers are sent for you and Rev. As with most medical matters, having a book, kindle, or seek-a-word at hand is helpful.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (zudum)

108 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (SuNbA)

109 She is in her 80s now...

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (V13WU)

110 J.J. Sefton - kicking ass and chewing bubblegum, and he's all out of gum.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (2UBPP)

111 >>> 105 Hollywood has been coasting on the fumes of WW II patriotism for a long time. I think they've finally dissipated.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024

***
I had something to do with that
Posted by: 1980s Cocaine at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (omVj0)

Hey! I thought you Morons liked me.

*pouts*

Posted by: Caddyshack at July 06, 2024 09:16 AM (llON8)

112 71 I never thought French Toast supplies for a hurricane, mainly because your power goes out how would you make it?

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (fwDg9)
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Bread toasted over a wood fire is delicious. Ask boys in boarding schools. In Uganda, on the odd occasion that there was no power in the early morning, my Mom would take an Al frying pan with butter and eggs in it, go outside the kitchen, light some crumpled newspapers and fry the eggs.

Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, no probleme as longas we have feu at July 06, 2024 09:16 AM (qfLjt)

113 One day at a time. Live in the present, not in the past or the future. God bless you all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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Lovely to see you JJ!

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:16 AM (iZbyp)

114 Nah just Aunt Jemima
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (iZbyp)

YOU RACIST MONSTER!!! THAT IS PEARL MILLING COMPANY!!!

SWEEP AWAY ALL MONSTERS AND DEMONS!!! DEATH TO THE FOUR OLDS!!!

Posted by: Red Guards at July 06, 2024 09:16 AM (8sMut)

115 Like everything else, there is a web page devoted to that. Or at least an article or two.

Coffee was a serious issue for the Rebs. The embargo or Union blockade saw to that. It disappeared virtually overnight, and cost a fortune when you could get it. Coffee substitutes - Kentucky "coffee tree" or Chicoy, well ... acorns roasted .... that ain't coffee.

What the Rebs did have was Tobacco, and that led to both Union and Confederate trading parties, which were discouraged naturally. There were a couple notable battles where the Rebs routed the Yanks, and along with that, the supply trains and depot stores of things like Coffee, which they enjoyed very much.

Confederate soldiers wrote home about Coffee in their letters, that's how important it was. They would search for spilled roasted beans. Soldiers on either side who halted even briefly on the march were sure to get a fire going to get a boil on. The problem was, an order to halt might not last long enough to get a good pot of joe going, and worse - you can't get back on the march with a pot of half done coffee, it will spill. Be careful!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:16 AM (HHI2d)

116 What did confederate soldiers drink?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024
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Water.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024

***
"If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies what ain't drunk water from a hoofprint, I'll shake his hand and . . . buy him a Daniel Webster ceegar."

Posted by: Rooster Cogburn at July 06, 2024 09:17 AM (omVj0)

117 Added prayers for Mindful Webworker and Mama Miklos to my list.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 09:17 AM (SuNbA)

118 Morning all.
Blueberry pancakes sound wonderful. Maybe if I drink more coffee....

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 09:18 AM (t/2Uw)

119 I had something to do with that
Posted by: 1980s Cocaine at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (omVj0)
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Nepotism is the correct answer. The early generations did even know what film was, but they knew business and how to please a crowd. They hired the best, particularly emigres from Europe. Add in people who had lives outside of show business and you get great works of art.

That lasted into the 1980s because the kids who grew up on the classics wanted to build on that, but by the 1990s it was all who you know, and so we have box-checking numb nuts and perverts who hate the audience and can't write dialog beyond self-inserts of anxiety.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:18 AM (llXky)

120 94 How ya feeling J.J?

Thanks for stopping in.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (QXQ4l)

Not too bad at all. No nausea or other severe side effects from treatment. That said, I'm fatigued. On top of it, emotionally, it's challenging to try and tune out the negative thoughts.

One day at a time.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (x0n13)

121 75 That coffee in the picture is in the process of being contaminated.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:07 AM (8sMut)

It's as if you read my mind.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (OX9vb)

122 >>> 106 I like them. The beauty of the Keurig machine is that if I just want one cup of coffee, I can produce one cup of coffee. The Keurig machine that I have can produce coffee the traditional way as well, so if I want 10 cups, I just switch to the decanter. If I am in the mood for tea, well, I got tea K-cups here as well.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:13 AM (8sMut)
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There's a conventional coffee maker in my office as well as a Keurig (brought in by a since departed employee).

The pot got heavy use for a long time, but Covid, retirements, remote work, etc. has left it so that I'm the only coffee drinker in that part of the office. So the Keurig makes sense.

We also have one at home for the same reason. Trying to make one cup in a regular coffee maker is annoying.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:15 AM (llXky)

fwiw they tried to force the coffee sellers to adopt a "proprietary" system so you could only use their machine with the approved pods, but that is easily defeated. There are also several variations of a permanent funnel to sit on top of your cup holding the coffee filter. I have the Melitta ceramic version and like it.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (llON8)

123 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (x0n13)

Good to see you doing well, JJ. Prayers sent for continued progress.

Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (Oy/m2)

124 I recently happened across this song "Linda James", which reminds me of my mom (and a lot of wonderful ladies cut from similar cloth). I also think it just has a great message in general. I eventually wondered about the namesake and found this post by the singer/songwriter explaining it (also has embedded video of the song):

https://tinyurl.com/29txedzu

Hopefully some of you will enjoy this as much as I have.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (kOluj)

125 59 The final words of Jimmy Cagney's Cody Jarrett in White Heat are usually misquoted as "Top o' the world, Ma!" But he actually says, "Made it, Ma! Top o' the world!" before the exploding fuel tank consumes him.

The film is the best cops-and-robbers movie ever made. Oddly, it was written by the two guys who much later created Charlie's Angels, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. A classic, and it should be. Cagney deserved an Oscar nod; did he get one? Come to think of it, did he ever win an Oscar, or even get nominated?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:02 AM (omVj0)

Cody Jarrett was one of the most heartless and evil bad guys ever in cops 'n robbers movies. Cagney did a terrific acting job in White Heat. I'll wager he had a lot of fun going over-the-top playing the over-the-top criminal, Cody Jarrett.

Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at July 06, 2024 09:20 AM (5fDan)

126 69 Reforger, prayers for exactly the right job for you.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:06 AM (iZbyp)

Thank you SiD.
It wil find the right one.
Looking for a job is the worst job out there.

Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 09:20 AM (xcIvR)

127 I'm increasingly viewing the world through spiritual lenses. Leave out politics, personalities, and just focus on the big picture.

When you are ready to take it to the next level, may I suggest you listen to some podcasts (start with the earliest) from these two Orthodox Fathers as they discuss the spiritual world through the lens of the Orthodox faith. I'm not Orthodox, but they have a very rich history in church thought on the matter and consider books like Enoch and other non canon church texts.

The series: "Lord of Spirits".

It is definitely eye opening, mainly because the past century or so of culture shift towards Materialism that has effectively erased what was the common foundation to civilizational thought.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:21 AM (rHxhM)

128 One day at a time. Live in the present, not in the past or the future. God bless you all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (x0n13)

A little each day.

Wednesday is one year since I called my oldest sister at the insistence of my middle sister via text. I was spent after working all night but I knew to make the call because I suspected it would either be very good or very bad. Turns out...she was in the room, along with my mom, when my father succombed to cancer.

I say all this because, well, cancer is personal to me. It's just taken too many of my friends and family. Therefore, J.J., I want you to take it down. Wishing you all the best, as well as all who have this terrible illness, and all who have been effected in some way by it.

Good seeing you here.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (8sMut)

129 Off yesterday's Billy Jeff sock!

Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (5fDan)

130 DEI killed Hollywood. It was creeping in, unofficially, then it became dogma. There is a Manifesto telling directors and producers who they should hire and in what quantities, and make Oscar nominations dependent on it. Someone clever should sue. SCOTUS already ruled against affirmative action programs in colleges. Might as well do it for everything else, yes ?

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (V13WU)

131
One day at a time. Live in the present, not in the past or the future. God bless you all.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM

In an underappreciated James Taylor song he sings:

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time
Any fool can do it
There ain't nothing to it
Nobody knows how we got to the top of the hill
But since we're on our way down
We might as well enjoy the ride

/ helps me get through some days sometimes

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (RKVpM)

132 Had a great Independence Day celebration. I live on a cul de sac and about 8:30 pm tons of people begin to show up with coolers and contraband. Within an hour there is a conflagration underway with kids running around, sparklers, poppers, dogs barking, music, laughter, and all of it punctuated by the occasional oooh and aaah of the assembled multitude.

It's all built on the fundamental American celebratory food pyramid: pizza, snacks, amateurs, minors, gunpowder and alcohol.
What could go wrong?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (dg+HA)

133 Grammie winger, I trust your hubby has a good surgical team. All the best for Monday.

Posted by: Ciampino at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (qfLjt)

134 Looking for a job is the worst job out there.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 09:20 AM (xcIvR)

Truth.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (8sMut)

135 One day at a time.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 09:19 AM (x0n13)

Keep the spirit my friend!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:23 AM (QXQ4l)

136 Another Democrat rep, Angie Craig of Minnesota, is calling on Joe to bow out of the race.

This is the best possible outcome, Democrats publicly asking Joe to get out and he keeps refusing.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:23 AM (LkLld)

137 >>> 136 Another Democrat rep, Angie Craig of Minnesota, is calling on Joe to bow out of the race.

This is the best possible outcome, Democrats publicly asking Joe to get out and he keeps refusing.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:23 AM (LkLld)

Note to self - buy more popcorn

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 06, 2024 09:24 AM (llON8)

138 The series: "Lord of Spirits".

It is definitely eye opening, mainly because the past century or so of culture shift towards Materialism that has effectively erased what was the common foundation to civilizational thought.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:21 AM (rHxhM)
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Been there, done that.

I stopped listening to the show a while ago. They'd largely run out of material and started a series on Why the Catholic Church is Wrong, which was intellectually dishonest and also dull. I mean, I can get anti-Catholic stuff anywhere, so why waste my time with them?

The first couple of years were great, though. Loved them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:24 AM (llXky)

139 I better get to work if I'm going to have blueberry pancakes this morning.

*ahem*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:25 AM (RIvkX)

140 And Wolfus being a Yankee never tried chicory in coffee

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:25 AM (fwDg9)

141 It's all built on the fundamental American celebratory food pyramid: pizza, snacks, amateurs, minors, gunpowder and alcohol.
What could go wrong?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM (dg+HA)
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What's more American than German food? Bratwurst and Hamburgers, Kartoffelsalat and some Pommes Frites, amirite?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:26 AM (llXky)

142 A lot of union soldiers had coffee grinders built into the stock of their rifles, that’s how important it was. Confederates mostly drank chicory and other not so good substitutes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 09:27 AM (pgG81)

143 American Thinker- Can Biden even consent?
Lays out this didn't help Sundowner a bit if you spell this interview out

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:27 AM (fwDg9)

144 "...but by the 1990s it was all who you know, and so we have box-checking numb nuts and perverts who hate the audience and can't write dialog beyond self-inserts of anxiety."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:18 AM (llXky)

All business is this way now, and Americans want it this way. Americans love living in a corrupt society where sincerity is out the window and making strategic friends is the way to go. "It's not what you know it's WHO you know!" they very cheerfully chirp. If it leads to the degradation/destruction of business? So be it. It just so happens that Hollywood is the most visible as their business is being seen on screen.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:28 AM (8sMut)

145 I think it all went to hell for them when Pat Caddell died. In 2019

They can't be this stupid, or this smart? I keep looking for the eleventy dimensional game plan here, because everyone assumed Joe was going to step aside, Harris becomes President, and then appoints Mrs. Clinton as her royal highness. Wasn't that the plan in 2020? It was for the tin-foil hat brigade and other hard pipe-hitting leftists.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:28 AM (HHI2d)

146 We also have one at home for the same reason. Trying to make one cup in a regular coffee maker is annoying.

This is why God taught man how to make an espresso machine. Dial in a double shot and water it down to whatever dilution best works for you.

If you want to emulate that authentic Keurig taste, you will need to use stale beans and sprinkle in fine plastic shavings into the final result.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:29 AM (rHxhM)

147 A lot of union soldiers had coffee grinders built into the stock of their rifles, that’s how important it was. Confederates mostly drank chicory and other not so good substitutes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 09:27 AM (pgG81)

The Sharps company offered a rifle that had a grinder in the butt of the rifle, but it was never an issue item. In testing it was found to be extra heavy and not terribly useful. The grinder was advertised for grains, corn and coffee. Can you imagine trying to operate the grinder in camp, or having the handle come adrift in battle so it could clobber you when marching or shooting?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:30 AM (D7oie)

148 'I demand that the President quit fucking my "supervisor" on company time.

That would be my first demand.'

What about during breaks?

Posted by: President of Reforger's former workplace at July 06, 2024 09:30 AM (3wi/L)

149 All business is this way now, and Americans want it this way. Americans love living in a corrupt society where sincerity is out the window and making strategic friends is the way to go. "It's not what you know it's WHO you know!" they very cheerfully chirp. If it leads to the degradation/destruction of business? So be it. It just so happens that Hollywood is the most visible as their business is being seen on screen.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:28 AM (8sMut)
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No, the oligarchs forced it on us by crushing small and mid-sized businesses and creating massive conglamorates that would make the Rockefellers blush.

It's interesting consider how much of our societal changes happened with no public input. It was alll administrative law and judicial fiat. Muh Democracy? Nope, not even on the ballot.

The screeching you're hearing about bumpstocks and Chevron is the fact that these turds (of both parties) will have to put their names on it at last.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:31 AM (llXky)

150 Fine plastic shavings? What the hell are you using???

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:31 AM (8sMut)

151 I also think a whole bunch of Americans have seen the results of the professional caste of Didn't Earn It, and are recoiling. The entire bench for "replacement" is a Who's Who of folks who are credentialed. Note the two biggest alternative names, their chief qualification appears to be that they were married to a president, or they are "gay", or they are some sort of reasonably human appearing anodyne governor nobody ever heard of two weeks ago.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:31 AM (HHI2d)

152 16 "Made it, Ma! Top o' the thread!"

What is the prize for that anyway?

Posted by: Ju at July 06, 2024 08:50 AM (aTmM/)
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Well there's no Wall o' Shame Top Ten for First Commenter at the moment. Just a lot of effort for nothing other than wearing out the various 'refresh' key combos.

Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, c'est premiere position is much sought after at July 06, 2024 09:33 AM (qfLjt)

153 Cody Jarrett was one of the most heartless and evil bad guys ever in cops 'n robbers movies. Cagney did a terrific acting job in White Heat. I'll wager he had a lot of fun going over-the-top playing the over-the-top criminal, Cody Jarrett.
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at July 06, 2024

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Oh, he had *some* heart when it came to his (equally-criminal) mother. And something in him, a need to mentor a kid brother maybe, responded to Edmond O'Brien's undercover cop. Aside from that, no.

[Cody, eating a sandwich as he calls out to the snitch locked in the trunk of a car:] "Kinda stuffy in there? Need some air? I'll give you some air." [Draws revolver, shoots into the trunk several times, holsters gun, strolls off finishing sandwich]

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:33 AM (omVj0)

154 Frigginfraggin torsion spring on garage door snapped...my pu is trapped.

Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 09:33 AM (AwYPR)

155 State of the race today: Ross Douthat has an op/ed in the NYT, “Do we really need a President today?”

Since his party can’t come up with a plausible candidate, he’d rather let a nameless bureaucracy made up of his cocktail party friends run everything forever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 09:34 AM (pgG81)

156 ✅ whining skills

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:34 AM (RIvkX)

157 I have a Moka pot, a cafetera, that is similar to a Keurig, but it is cheaper and I can use it over a gas burner while camping.
The main thing is to take it off the heat when it is done or you will cook the rubber seal, and that makes your coffee taste vile.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:34 AM (D7oie)

158 They can't be this stupid, or this smart? I keep looking for the eleventy dimensional game plan here, because everyone assumed Joe was going to step aside, Harris becomes President, and then appoints Mrs. Clinton as her royal highness. Wasn't that the plan in 2020? It was for the tin-foil hat brigade and other hard pipe-hitting leftists.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:28 AM (HHI2d)
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Using our "They Live" spirit shades, we can see that the core weakness of the Dems is that only one can wield the Ring of Power at a time. While they could band together to drive Trump out, it was inevitable that they would turn on each other because they are at their core, selfish, wicked individuals.

Students of history will recall how the Popular Front in Spain swept to power in 1936, went on a rampage of destroying businesses, assassinations, and emptied the prisons before the July Rising.

Predictably, the hodge-podge of alphabet groups fell upon each other before in May, 1937 because they hated each other more than the Nationalists.

Trump is Jose Calvo Sotelo, and if they ice him, watch for Mola.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:34 AM (llXky)

159 No, the oligarchs forced it on us by crushing small and mid-sized businesses and creating massive conglamorates that would make the Rockefellers blush.

Even those sainted, virtuous small and mid-size businesses act the same way. There is a virtuous small business down the road that coulda hired me, but they'd rather hire people they knew. Their first hire was fired through incompetence, their second for theft. But they Didn't Know Me so they wouldn't DARE hire me. (How did that work out?)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (8sMut)

160 Prayers are up for everyone. Clearly, we are being chastised. May we all see our sins and repent.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (VuZH8)

161 Thinking about Wyoming this morning. If I were still there, I'd probably be getting ready for the first hike of the season up in the Snowies right now. Usually that would be the Lakes Trail, #296. Followed by a burger or pizza at the Bear Bottom Bar & Grill in Centennial (formerly the Bear Tree - I think it was better then) and ice cream at the Country Junction. Good times.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (iZbyp)

162 "It's not what you know it's WHO you know!" they very cheerfully chirp. If it leads to the degradation/destruction of business? So be it.

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This isn’t new. Knowing the right people has always been key to getting ahead.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (wCYy7)

163 Another Democrat rep, Angie Craig of Minnesota, is calling on Joe to bow out of the race.

Send in the SWAT team!

Posted by: Hunter "I'm Not Leaving" Biden! at July 06, 2024 09:36 AM (uxCna)

164 And Wolfus being a Yankee never tried chicory in coffee
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024

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Huh? Though I'm not a Southerner (I've never felt like I belonged in this benighted town), I've been drinking chicory coffee since I was young. (With the exception of French Truck's version of the stuff. In one cup I loaded three sweeteners and milk, and still couldn't stand it. Though I've never been fond of French Truck coffee anyway.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:36 AM (omVj0)

165 American Thinker- Can Biden even consent?
Lays out this didn't help Sundowner a bit if you spell this interview out
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:27 AM (fwDg9)
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Never accept the signature of anyone who has a formal diagnosis of dementia, they are not legally competent to consent to anything. Don't ask how I know.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (RIvkX)

166
The first couple of years were great, though. Loved them.

I thought it was just me. Spotify really, really want people to listen in reverse chrono order. So when episode two was over it immediately jumped to something made last month.

it was NOT good. It ran three hours, I felt trapped in a nerd convention with Star Trek and SciFi movie references. Then I whined to the dude who steered me to that series and said - "stay with the earliest".

it must be run at least 1.3x and best when going for a walk or some other concurrent thing.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (rHxhM)

167 I also think a whole bunch of Americans have seen the results of the professional caste of Didn't Earn It, and are recoiling. The entire bench for "replacement" is a Who's Who of folks who are credentialed. Note the two biggest alternative names, their chief qualification appears to be that they were married to a president, or they are "gay", or they are some sort of reasonably human appearing anodyne governor nobody ever heard of two weeks ago.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:31 AM (HHI2d)
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The student loan forgiveness is an unintentional admission that higher education is worthless. You can't make that money back, and the university-industrial complex is collapsing as a result. The small schools are already closing and the mid-grade ones are next.

Skilled trades are a much better investment, and people are figuring it out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (llXky)

168 I have: a French press, two coffee makers (by Mr. Coffee so they will last forever) and the beloved Keurig machine, that has one side for Keurig and one side for the decanter for traditional brewing.

Am I happy that I have about a dozen cans of coffee I bought at $7 a can. Now? The exact same can goes for $12.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (8sMut)

169 Romney / Harris 2024
The only way forward .

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (wCYy7)

170 >>>What's more American than German food? Bratwurst and Hamburgers, Kartoffelsalat and some Pommes Frites, amirite?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

>Bratwurst for lunches, Braunschweiger sandwiches for fishing. It's summertime in America!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 09:38 AM (2UBPP)

171 Never accept the signature of anyone who has a formal diagnosis of dementia, they are not legally competent to consent to anything. Don't ask how I know.

Some states make a diagnosis the predicate to a Red Flag law intervention where the State can swoop in and invalidate all of your previously held 2nd Amendment Rights.

Dementia = 2nd Class Citizen, on par with a convicted felon.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:39 AM (rHxhM)

172 Even those sainted, virtuous small and mid-size businesses act the same way. There is a virtuous small business down the road that coulda hired me, but they'd rather hire people they knew. Their first hire was fired through incompetence, their second for theft. But they Didn't Know Me so they wouldn't DARE hire me. (How did that work out?)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (8sMut)
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Family-owned small business go back to Roman times, and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

They have nothing to do with our current problems.

The issue is people seeding government offices, contractors and interlocking directorates which are obviously trusts but get protection from other nepotists.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:39 AM (llXky)

173 BignJames have had that happen many times.
Pull the garage door up, clamp it thread the spring back on.
Now it's shorter by inches and will break again, not if but when.

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:40 AM (fwDg9)

174 131-In an underappreciated James Taylor song he sings:

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time
Any fool can do it
There ain't nothing to it
Nobody knows how we got to the top of the hill
But since we're on our way down
We might as well enjoy the ride

/ helps me get through some days sometimes
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:22 AM

That’s one of my all-time favorites of his. I know he wouldn’t like me for my politics but I have every album he ever made. There are a lot of hidden gems like that.

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 06, 2024 09:40 AM (rbKZ6)

175 Some states make a diagnosis the predicate to a Red Flag law intervention where the State can swoop in and invalidate all of your previously held 2nd Amendment Rights.

Dementia = 2nd Class Citizen, on par with a convicted felon.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:39 AM (rHxhM)
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The "tell" on Red Flag Laws is whether they take the car keys away.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (llXky)

176 Skilled trades are a much better investment, and people are figuring it out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (llXky)

With any luck those schools expand so that when I get back into the classroom, I can point students in those directions. When I was teaching I was up front about not everyone needing to go to college.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (8sMut)

177 @155 Tom Servo, isn't Ross Douthat supposed to be a somewhat "conservative " voice. Big gov conservatism is an oxymoron

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (2i9gl)

178
Seeing the picture at the top of the cream being poured into the coffee reminds me that I stopped putting cream and sugar in my coffee about two months ago.

Slowly, slowly, slowly I've lost a couple of pounds. If I eat a hot buttery bagel while I sip the coffee the taste is not too bad. The half and half was 40 calories, the sugar 32. Three cups of coffee per day times 72 less per cup equals 216 less calories per day. Every 20 days equals a pound.

I think it was Jane D'oh who was the diehard black coffee drinker who got on me once about adding cream and sugar. ((Miss her))

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (RKVpM)

179 *Knowing the right people has always been key to getting ahead.*

Ahead of who?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (dg+HA)

180 164 And Wolfus being a Yankee never tried chicory in coffee
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024

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Huh?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:36 AM (omVj0)

Heh. Wolfus, I'm pretty sure Skip uses his phone to comment, and frequently shortens his sentences and bypasses punctuation. I read this as Skip is a yankee himself, and has never tried chicory in coffee.

Carry on.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (OX9vb)

181 BignJames have had that happen many times.
Pull the garage door up, clamp it thread the spring back on.
Now it's shorter by inches and will break again, not if but when.

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:40 AM (fwDg9)

It's 15 yo...so replacing.

Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (AwYPR)

182 San Franpsycho so that's why they don't want to know.
Make Sundowner test, declare him incompetent and they are screwed.

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (fwDg9)

183 Funny thing about the coffee. Union generals didn't like all the noise the troops were making in the morning grinding the whole beans. The Union tried to buy ground coffee. The suppliers (profiteers) just could not be trusted not to adulterate it with chicory and other things.

My source for this story is Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (VuZH8)

184 Don't ask how I know.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (RIvkX)

You play an attorney both on tv and real life.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (QXQ4l)

185 179 *Knowing the right people has always been key to getting ahead.*

Ahead of who?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (dg+HA)

Uhm the people who know the right people?

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (wCYy7)

186 BignJames my springs are all original from the 70s

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (fwDg9)

187 Some states make a diagnosis the predicate to a Red Flag law intervention where the State can swoop in and invalidate all of your previously held 2nd Amendment Rights.

Dementia = 2nd Class Citizen, on par with a convicted felon.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:39 AM (rHxhM)
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They should also have only supervised access to sharps, knives, or caustic substances including mouthwash and safety razors.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (RIvkX)

188 ✅ whining skills
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:34
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I had faith in you.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 09:43 AM (SuNbA)

189 The AI item quoted above mentioned chicory. That's probably when Southerners developed a taste for the stuff and continued later putting it into coffee. (I approve.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:12 AM (omVj0)

My current "breakfast brew" is chicory, roasted barley, roasted carob, and roasted rice. It's not coffee, but at least it has a little body unlike tea. With a dash of protein shake it makes a decent iced coffee substitute as well.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 06, 2024 09:43 AM (XjtdB)

190 I womder if Confederate soldiers invented Postum.

Quick search....no.

I miss Postum. I wish I could get it here. But that's another reason Canada is a shithole.

Posted by: Stateless at July 06, 2024 09:44 AM (jvJvP)

191 Never accept the signature of anyone who has a formal diagnosis of dementia, they are not legally competent to consent to anything. Don't ask how I know.
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*nods*

My mother's diagnosis is currently "mild cognitive impairment," but I'm thankful my SIL had the wisdom to get POA set up for me before it got too late. And thankful my mom trusts all 3 of us.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 09:44 AM (iZbyp)

192 Morning Horde. Prayers to the Horde and their loved ones in need. I pray for our nation with this insane junta in control , but the mess they and the propaganda ministries have gotten themselves into is schadenfreude on steroids

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 09:44 AM (2i9gl)

193 Well, that and I had to stop a demented surgeon from digging out and slicing his own femoral artery with a scalpel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:44 AM (RIvkX)

194 BignJames my springs are all original from the 70s

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (fwDg9)

Stuff was better made back in the old days.

Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (AwYPR)

195 I thought it was just me. Spotify really, really want people to listen in reverse chrono order. So when episode two was over it immediately jumped to something made last month.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM (rHxhM)
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The early episodes are great, and the D&D stuff is funny and appropriate. They probably should have wound it up after two years because they were running out of material and so started doing a more blatant advertisement for the Orthodox Church - which is fine, but if you want to rip on Catholics, at least get your facts straight and be consistent.

I mean, I get it. The great thing about being Orthodox is that you get all the traditions, saints, Church Fathers and sacraments without having to give up your anti-Catholic hate. But it does get tedious.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (llXky)

196 What's telling, is the media fed into the confusion I think.
The real political wonks have been discussing this debacle for a while now, months if not even years. It seems like years anyhow.

And then we get to watch the entire left spazz out, within about 2 minutes on debate night, and go through all this stuff at the granular level, a voyage of Discovery, on just how absoutely fucked they are, when this was known by people who should have known a long, long time ago. Political reliability and yes-men are nice, but they are all amateurs now even though they are highly paid. Our own JackStraw and many others were pointing all this shit out.

They are literally just figuring this shit out now. Too weird for me, when random j. bloggers have and has a better take on things then the professional pundit class.

"Didn't Earn It" indeed. We're going to have to CrowdSource our country back, I guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (HHI2d)

197 I knew I’d seen a coffee grinder rifle in a museum somewhere.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (pgG81)

198 Speaking of "Caddyshack" and Cody Jarrett--

We've had an informal film festival here on these hot summer afternoons in Texas. Most afternoons we watch a silly comedy. Yesterday it was "Caddyshack." A couple of weeks ago it was "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," which includes a scene from "White Heat" where Cody is talking to his mom in the visitor's pen in the prison.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (FEVMW)

199 There is some nepotism at the top of a company I used to work for.

My boss once explained it like this: "The good thing about nepotism is that you really do know the strengths and weaknesses of the members of your family.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 09:46 AM (VuZH8)

200 Family-owned small business go back to Roman times, and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

They have nothing to do with our current problems.

The issue is people seeding government offices, contractors and interlocking directorates which are obviously trusts but get protection from other nepotists.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:39 AM (llXky)

Yes, but there is a mistaken belief in these times that small and mid-size businesses are sainted and virtuous. (On Shop Small Business Day I make it a point to hit the biggest businesses I can find because I hate virtue signaling bullshit like that.) Yes, I know you did not say that, but neither are businesses inherently evil even if they reach a size that would make Rockefeller blush.

Perhaps the spiritual lens would help businesses of all sizes, be they Apple or my "Rolodex" of small businesses I frequent?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:46 AM (8sMut)

201 Kava Kava!
Posted by: 1970s Instant Coffee Not Even Rebels Would Drink at July 06, 2024 09:14 AM (omVj0)

Lol, that's what Inspector drinks if his muscles are super tense and his mind is racing. Especially mixed with chamomile. Practically guarantees a good night's sleep.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 06, 2024 09:47 AM (XjtdB)

202 My wife will drink roasted barley tea called Boricha, and I will drink it in the winter when I need something warm. She will leave a pot on the stove or even better on the woodstove to keep warm.
The oddest sort of "tea" is to make it out of the newest blackberry tips you can find. I pick mine out of the thicket on the back fence. It vaguely tastes the way blackberries smell, and has a decent mouth feel. It isn't offensive and it make boiled water less boring.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:47 AM (D7oie)

203 You know you're off into the weeds when you're drinking coffee out of the ass of a cat. It's gourmet, ya'll!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 09:47 AM (2UBPP)

204 "Didn't Earn It" indeed. We're going to have to CrowdSource our country back, I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (HHI2d)

Develop a parrallel economy that gets strong enough to consume the other, more corrupt one.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:47 AM (8sMut)

205 @155 Tom Servo, isn't Ross Douthat supposed to be a somewhat "conservative " voice. Big gov conservatism is an oxymoron
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 09:41 AM (2i9gl)
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He is considered a "religious conservative" and so along with David French and Rod Dreher, appears in publications along more serious types. There's still this big collegiality thing on those circles, though French has managed to get himself ostracised to a certain extent (for obvious reasons).

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:48 AM (llXky)

206 44
I typed my Ph.D. thesis on an IBM Selectric.

Acid-free paper and absolutely, positively NO use of the correction tape.

The job went slowly, to say the least.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (i4sOa)
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I had three different ladies doing mine, all on IBM golfballs - only way to get all the Greek symbols in the text and experimental. I started the longhand version in April using my legible chicken-scratch calligraphy.* Soon realized that 2 part-time typists were not going to make it by the early December deadline for submission so I found a third. Just made it.
A great time for me.

* really calligraphy and my longhand should not appear in the same sentence/page. Ugly but legible.

Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, le Grec langue est utilise at July 06, 2024 09:48 AM (qfLjt)

207 The current theory on the Left is that Biden's mental decline is sudden and very unexpected, which explains why they didn't publicize Biden's incapacity earlier.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 09:48 AM (uxCna)

208 I mean, I get it. The great thing about being Orthodox is that you get all the traditions, saints, Church Fathers and sacraments without having to give up your anti-Catholic hate. But it does get tedious.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (llXky)

Do ALL Orthodox hate Catholics?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:49 AM (8sMut)

209 136 Another Democrat rep, Angie Craig of Minnesota, is calling on Joe to bow out of the race.
This is the best possible outcome, Democrats publicly asking Joe to get out and he keeps refusing.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:23 AM (LkLld)

Every day DOCTOR Jill and Hunter tell Joe big lies reduces the amount of sympathy Joe will receive when he does resign. Those two either don't realize it, or they don't care as long as THEY can continue to live in the White House.

Does Joe's personal doctor, Kevin O'Connor, now still believe his official statement in February, that Joe is fully capable of performing the duties of President? If not, what is he going to do or say about it? He is a retired U.S. Army Colonel. What does he see as his duty right now?

The annual NATO Summit will be held next week in DC, Tuesday through Thursday. I believe this is why on Thursday the Dems gave Joe four days to prove himself capable of the job. If Kamala is inevitably going to be President soon, it would be extremely helpful to her to attend this summit as POTUS. I do not like her politics but do want her to be capable as possible at some of her tasks, for the good of the nation.

Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 09:49 AM (5fDan)

210 Heh. Wolfus, I'm pretty sure Skip uses his phone to comment, and frequently shortens his sentences and bypasses punctuation. I read this as Skip is a yankee himself, and has never tried chicory in coffee.

Carry on.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 06, 2024

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Ah! Now that I reread his sentence, I see what you mean. I wasn't offended; I've never thought of myself as "Southern" (or "Northern" either, just what I am).

The stuff was available (at a slighty higher price than other blends) in Denver grocery stores 25 years ago, so it's not impossible to try it in other locales, I'd guess. At one office where I worked, though, when I put it in the coffeemaker to treat everybody, they thought the coffeemaker was malfunctioning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:49 AM (omVj0)

211 Made it, Ma! Top o' the thread!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:43 AM (omVj0)

James Cagney. White Heat.

"look Ma!!! Top a the world!!"

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (GPtBB)

212
Never accept the signature of anyone who has a formal diagnosis of dementia, they are not legally competent to consent to anything. Don't ask how I know.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:37 AM

That makes me wonder about these assisted living establishments with dementia patients. They always seem to be voting locations.

Are the dementia patients even competent to vote? Or are the nurses filling out the ballots for them?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (RKVpM)

213 Since I missed the Biden interview last night, how bad was it? How much editing was done?

Posted by: dantesed at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (Oy/m2)

214 Cody Jarrett was one of the most heartless and evil bad guys ever in cops 'n robbers movies. Cagney did a terrific acting job in White Heat. I'll wager he had a lot of fun going over-the-top playing the over-the-top criminal, Cody Jarrett.
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at July 06, 2024

The mess hall scene, when Cody finds out his mom had died and he freaks out, was totally improvised by Cagney. Only he and the director knew that his character would begin screaming, and go into total freak-out mode. It shook up many of the other actors and the nearly 600 extras on set! The entire scene was shot in three hours. Incredibly powerful.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (iODuv)

215 Not realizing Biden's dementia has to be the worst case of Cognizant Dissonance in history.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (VuZH8)

216 Kava Kava!
Posted by: 1970s Instant Coffee Not Even Rebels Would Drink at July 06, 2024
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Lol, that's what Inspector drinks if his muscles are super tense and his mind is racing. Especially mixed with chamomile. Practically guarantees a good night's sleep.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 06, 2024

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I didn't know they still made that stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (omVj0)

217 ...though French has managed to get himself ostracised to a certain extent (for obvious reasons).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:48 AM (llXky)
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Tentacle porn?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (RIvkX)

218 44
I typed my Ph.D. thesis on an IBM Selectric.

Acid-free paper and absolutely, positively NO use of the correction tape.

The job went slowly, to say the least.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (i4sOa)

My very first typewriter was a manual Opympia typewriter. When I went to a typing class in seventh grade on Selectrics the teacher was rather concerned over how hard I was hitting the keys.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:51 AM (8sMut)

219 Seattle Pike Place used to have "market spice" Tea, a very strong cinnamon kinda thing that I liked.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:51 AM (HHI2d)

220 46 What did confederate soldiers drink?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 06, 2024 08:59 AM (Ka3bZ)

Parched corn, ground up.
Scarlett hated the Yankees for many things, but not
being able to have a cup of hot coffee with cream was high on the list.

When she kills the Yankee at Tara and they go through his pockets, they find coffee, which Melanie "sniffed as it the finest of perfumes".

Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 09:51 AM (y7DxH)

221 And Wolfus being a Yankee never tried chicory in coffee
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024

Chicory coffee goes very well with whatever they call the Vietnamese version of satay chicken. Lots of Vietnamese restaurants only serve the powdered sweet iced coffee, but the Cafe du Monde stuff goes great with the flavor of the foods.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:51 AM (D7oie)

222 Well, I'm off to run errands, folken. Back for the Pet Thread for sure!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 09:51 AM (omVj0)

223 The annual NATO Summit will be held next week in DC, Tuesday through Thursday. I believe this is why on Thursday the Dems gave Joe four days to prove himself capable of the job. If Kamala is inevitably going to be President soon, it would be extremely helpful to her to attend this summit as POTUS. I do not like her politics but do want her to be capable as possible at some of her tasks, for the good of the nation.
Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 09:49 AM (5fDan)

She needs to be positioned for success.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:52 AM (8sMut)

224 Yes, but there is a mistaken belief in these times that small and mid-size businesses are sainted and virtuous.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:46 AM (8sMut)
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Nope, just less dangerous. We've seen big businesses actually tell municipal governments what laws they can have - and the regulators are cheering them on.

I mean, look at Sodomy Month vs Bake the Cake, Hater.

I know whose side I'm on.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:52 AM (llXky)

225 Good morning all! Prayers for all those listed on the prayer list and mindful webworker. Sorry to hear he's having issues again. Any updates on JT?

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at July 06, 2024 09:53 AM (iF0sF)

226 But they Didn't Know Me so they wouldn't DARE hire me. (How did that work out?)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (8sMut)

Even worse is trying to move up in a company like that.

And I wouldn't have noticed the fucking if those two did it on breaks.
Wouldn't even have bothered me.
I'd be closing some paperwork and, I'll just call her the bitch..., bitch.... messed something up, as usual.
I can't find anyone with the access to the system to fix numbers.
I know how to do it. Had access to do it and when the pres brought in his side piece they took it away. While I'm doing 70% of her job.
Insulting. And now I have to sit on it untill...
Anyway. When bitch... would return. Ima call her bedhead from here on out.
When bedhead returned one day she had an... issue with her voice.
Nevermind. I should have quit right then.

Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 09:53 AM (xcIvR)

227 An exec VP at my company hired his son as an intern. Whatever, it’s how the world works.

I had two summer jobs in college that I got via friends of the family. And throughout my career I got work through connections at companies.

I’ve done the reverse as well multiple times.

The who you know vs what you know saying is right in the macro sense but wrong in its implication. The implication is only bad choices are made due to knowing the right people. I don’t think that’s true. What having a good network does is put you at the top of the list. It doesn’t guarantee you get the job or the contract.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:53 AM (wCYy7)

228 Do ALL Orthodox hate Catholics?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:49 AM (8sMut)
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The guys on "The Lord of Spirits" podcast are evangelical converts to Orthodoxy, and that is the attitude I am describing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (llXky)

229 Ari Fleischer had the best summary of the interview. Biden wasn't a complete disaster and therefore the Dems are stuck with him.
Cue Nelson Muntz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (2i9gl)

230 Are the dementia patients even competent to vote? Or are the nurses filling out the ballots for them?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (RKVpM)

the assisted living places for the developmentally disableds are also really good for harvesting ballots.
The attendants help them fill them out. You know the guy who rocks and has no interaction with the world voted for Tina Kotek for governor, so no changes will be made anytime soon.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (D7oie)

231

coffee grinder rifle !

https://tinyurl.com/3t228hcf

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (V13WU)

232 Got a Keurig and a couple of French presses (1 and 2 cup). The Keurig is awfully convenient; I like the coffee from the presses a bit more, but being lazy I find them annoying to clean.

Am partial these days to Gevalia Signature Blend k-cups and Gevalia Guatemalan coarse grind for the press. The strong dark roasts play hob with this kid's aging gut.

Now and then I find myself tempted to give up all the devices and just go to fixing a cup of hot chocolate in the microwave and tossing in a spoonful of instant coffee. Abomination, I know, but...

Good morning, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 06, 2024 09:55 AM (q3u5l)

233 Every evil big company started as a virtuous and saintly “small business”.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:55 AM (wCYy7)

234 The problem is the "Internet is Forever", and the juxtaposition of these very same people saying, alternately, "He's Fine" and "He needs to step down" are extant going back a couple years. By trying to cover all the bases they look really bad. And selfish. And stupid, and dangerous.. The all consuming desire to go after one person causing people to sacrifice the perception of trustworthiness or institutional credibility is pretty astonishing. The news media used to pride themselves on their trusted status with the people, or claimed to anyhow. Credibility is their only stock in trade.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:55 AM (HHI2d)

235 doesn't anybody have Nespresso ???

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (V13WU)

236 Are the dementia patients even competent to vote? Or are the nurses filling out the ballots for them?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (RKVpM)
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No, because you would have to sign your ballot.

Staff would lack access to the ballot, if there is ballot fraud here, it is the family doing it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (RIvkX)

237 Sal, I was thinking about those same two passages from GWTW, too

Prayers for all.

Posted by: skywch at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (uqhmb)

238 >>That’s one of my all-time favorites of his. I know he wouldn’t like me for my politics but I have every album he ever made. There are a lot of hidden gems like that.

My first concert was seeing James Taylor at Princeton University when I was but a wee lad. Good size crowd but not a stadium thing, maybe a couple thousand people in a small auditorium.

Middle of the first song there was a loud BOOM and the whole amplification system died. So he played the rest just acoustically. You could hear a pin drop people were so quiet. He did write some great old songs.

He just built a house in my town a couple of years ago but he's pretty under the radar. Life is coming full circle.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (LkLld)

239 Every evil big company started as a virtuous and saintly “small business”.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:55 AM (wCYy7)
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Wait, wut?

Posted by: Sergey Brin at July 06, 2024 09:57 AM (RIvkX)

240 Democrats Convention is Aug 19, guess this will be a interesting month

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:57 AM (fwDg9)

241 Viktor Orban is President of the EU for six months.

For some reason, he thinks that it would be a good thing to have a negotiated settlement of the Ukraine War, instead of the Forever War that the Deep State wants, so first he went to Keeev to talk to Zelensky, and yesterday he went to Moscow to talk to Putin.

The unelected leaders of the EU are furious with him, of course, and the Ukrainian government is furious that Orban didn't ask their permission before going to Moscow.

Orban has now been added to the semi-official Ukrainian Myrotvorets kill list.

Always nice to have an "ally" that maintains assassination lists of prominent foreigners that they don't like.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 09:57 AM (uxCna)

242 194 BignJames my springs are all original from the 70s

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 09:42 AM (fwDg9)

Stuff was better made back in the old days.
Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 09:45 AM (AwYPR)

***SNORT***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 06, 2024 09:58 AM (QXQ4l)

243 Praise GOD, creator of all things! Let us give thanks for his many blessings. Let us humbly petition him at this time for peace, grace, understanding, and if it be his will, healing for our brothers and sisters. In addition we pray for restoration of our nation and a return to the covenant our fathers had with almighty GOD.
Amen
Posted by: Eromero
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Amen!

Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (PZo5T)

244 Just in time to wish everyone's prayers are answered before the next thread!

Prayers for both the spoken and unspoken needs of the Horde and their friends.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (pPOh9)

245 I've been obsessed with the news lately. I sincerely hope that the Dems are finally getting what they deserve for putting the country through Hell after stealing the election. I will never forget how I felt when I was so sure we had won, only to find out millions of votes appearing out of nowhere changed everything.
I hope this becomes a RepublicanReaganlike landslide election that produces an ocean of leftist tears.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (t/2Uw)

246 Tentacle porn?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 09:50 AM (RIvkX)
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No, that was a reporter who somehow got to keep his job.

(Nods to the "competence is no longer required" discussion.)

French's problem is that his dishonesty makes him a dull debating partner. It's clear that he is just playing word games and has no actual interest in defending Christianity.

He got disinvited from the PCA convention because people knew he was just going to stir the pot and add nothing substantive to the discussion.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (llXky)

247 No, because you would have to sign your ballot.

LOL. Democratic activists hit all the old-age homes in Portland every election, and harvest mail-in ballots from the residents.

Since it's Portland, there is no point complaining.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (uxCna)

248 We had a policy whereby the child of an employee would automatically get a Summer internship if he/she was in college.

At the end of the Summer, the deadwood are "thanked and excused." The good one's are offered part-time jobs 15-16 hours / week during the school year. It works out great. When they graduate, we already know their work ethic and skills. They already know our culture.

My son got into Software Development that way. He was only a Freshman at the time, and a very bad student.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (VuZH8)

249 Mocha is good stuff! Easy to make with freeze-dried and tastes fantastic.

I recently discovered an espresso roast and ground coffee can make a decent cup in a minute and 30 seconds. Place a large tablespoon of coffee in a mug with cold water. Nuke it till it just starts to boil a little bit. Top it off with a splash or two of ice cold water, this will further settle the grounds after a boil. This makes a surprisingly tasty brew. Not the best way to make a cup, but it does work in a pinch. Cowboy coffee 21st century style.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 09:59 AM (HHI2d)

250 Fuck that Orban guy. He’s messing with our bidness. I mean he hates democracy.

Posted by: Military Industrial Complexes at July 06, 2024 10:00 AM (wCYy7)

251 The guys on "The Lord of Spirits" podcast are evangelical converts to Orthodoxy, and that is the attitude I am describing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (llXky)

See also: ex-Catholics who went over. They can be pretty harsh, too. but for different reasons.

time for Farmer's Market. Have a good day, all.

Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 10:00 AM (y7DxH)

252 The typewriter I used in high school was a 1950s Underwood.

I can poke a forefinger through six inches of concrete.

Posted by: Sergey Brin at July 06, 2024 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

253 @LevineJonathan
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1h
NEW from me

President Biden's physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, met with a top Parkinson's disease specialist at the White House residence clinic in January, according to White House visitor logs

Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 10:01 AM (LkLld)

254 /evil sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

255 Weird vid of Biden yesterday in Wisconsin at GP. Biden wanders around goes back to the mic and yells "I'm going to come in the overflow room" . TMI Joey TMI

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM (2i9gl)

256
He just built a house in my town a couple of years ago but he's pretty under the radar. Life is coming full circle.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM

I thought he lived in Maine as it's mentioned in one of his songs. Or is he the Bernie Sanders of singers?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM (RKVpM)

257 A new rallying cry from the left is that not only will Trump destroy our oh so precious democracy , he will also destroy Ukrainian “democracy”. lol. The democracy of a country that banned elections.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM (wCYy7)

258 James Taylor played in the lounge of one of the dorms at my college. Audience maybe 50 people. He played his peyote song. I don't remember much else. 😉

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM (t/2Uw)

259 >>> When I went to a typing class in seventh grade on Selectrics the teacher was rather concerned over how hard I was hitting the keys.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

>Sir, forgive me for trespassing upon your lawn. I shall make an effort to respect your boundaries in the future.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 10:03 AM (2UBPP)

260 President Biden's physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, met with a top Parkinson's disease specialist at the White House residence clinic in January, according to White House visitor logs

Before Biden's physical in February.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:03 AM (uxCna)

261 Dementia patients: in “20th Century Limited”, one of John Barrymore’s last good films, there’s a comic character, an older millionaire who’s gone nuts and been confined to an institution by his family. He spends his time posting religious stickers on everything and writing $10,000 checks to everyone he meets, including the train porters. Much hilarity when they all find out he’s nuts and and men are there trying to capture him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:03 AM (pgG81)

262 Sharon I hope so too but I'm not holding my breath. I have stayed away from the news. I'm trying to keep anything negative out of my life right now. I know just enough to keep up (thanks to hubby) but I refuse to watch or read any news.

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at July 06, 2024 10:03 AM (iF0sF)

263 >>I thought he lived in Maine as it's mentioned in one of his songs. Or is he the Bernie Sanders of singers?

I think he also has a house out in the Berkshires. He's obviously pretty wealthy.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (LkLld)

264 A new rallying cry from the left is that not only will Trump destroy our oh so precious democracy , he will also destroy Ukrainian “democracy”. lol. The democracy of a country that banned elections.

Our Sacred Democracy is rapidly progressing to the point where elections will no longer be necessary!

Posted by: The New York Times, Tomorrow! at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (uxCna)

265 The who you know vs what you know saying is right in the macro sense but wrong in its implication. The implication is only bad choices are made due to knowing the right people. I don’t think that’s true. What having a good network does is put you at the top of the list. It doesn’t guarantee you get the job or the contract.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 09:53 AM (wCYy7)
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People are social creatures, and they natural prefer people they know (or who have person references) to complete strangers.

The problem with "meritocracy" is not only that it is just as easily subverted, but it also breeds that sense of unearned superiority we've been talking about. If you were hired because your brother is president, you know how you got there (and how you could be bounced).

But the "meritocratic" hires are starting to think they're some sort of Ubermenchen, and the lessers deserve the crumbs.

TL;DR - it's a fallen world. Pray more.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (llXky)

266 My first concert was seeing James Taylor at Princeton University when I was but a wee lad.
....
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (LkLld)
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I am so sorry you were hurt this way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (RIvkX)

267 Here's a couple of milbloggers discussing the Biden interview.

https://www.youtube.com/live/9A8VaUWoAVo

One thing I noticed in clips of the interview was how Biden kept a large pen clutched in his left hand. He wasn't taking notes, so I assume it was to hide a tremor in that hand.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (23272)

268 coffee grinder rifle !

https://tinyurl.com/3t228hcf
Posted by: runner
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I think J and I saw this at the firearms museum in Cody! I had forgot about that...

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:05 AM (iZbyp)

269 Maybe the memory is playing tricks, but I seem to recall sacking out on election night in 2012 with Romney nicely ahead of Obama and waking up to find Obama had won. Romney was certainly no Reagan or Trump, but he was preferable to Obama. (Jeez, I'd be better than Obama and I'd be terrible at the job.)

They've been 'finding' uncounted ballots when & where needed for decades, I think. Who'd have thought the whole freakin' country would turn into Chicago?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 06, 2024 10:06 AM (q3u5l)

270 Taylor did something really cool for guitarists. "Fire and Rain" is a popular tune for fingerstyle guitarists who want to learn Travis style guitar picking. It's one of those things that takes 10 years, and then it's easy.

Well there are plenty of guitar lessons on "Fire and Rain" on YouTube, some of them are pretty good. Guess what, James Taylor decided to make his OWN video on how to play it. He even installs a camera INSIDE his guitar, so you can watch how he picks the pattern. Completely unnecessary really, but he breaks the entire tune down, and you can see how he does it.

One thing he does, he makes the "A" chord shape very much different than most. This makes hammering on the note possible, a distinctive thing about the tune. His finger style has been described as "Watching a Spider play Twister" LOL, it's true.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 10:06 AM (HHI2d)

271 But they Didn't Know Me so they wouldn't DARE hire me. (How did that work out?)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 09:35 AM (8sMut)

You must spend a lot of time brooding on this. Is it helping?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 10:06 AM (D7oie)

272 A new rallying cry from the left is that not only will Trump destroy our oh so precious democracy , he will also destroy Ukrainian “democracy”. lol. The democracy of a country that banned elections.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM (wCYy7)
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It's pretty amazing that the same party that decried wasteful wars for oil are now all about wars for whatever the hell Ukraine is selling. Hookers? Drugs?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:06 AM (llXky)

273 I was just wondering where my cell phone was while I was actually reading my cell phone. Oh og.

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 06, 2024 10:07 AM (JLq/1)

274 Weird vid of Biden yesterday in Wisconsin at GP. Biden wanders around goes back to the mic and yells "I'm going to come in the overflow room" . TMI Joey TMI
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Biden had maybe 150 people in that audience but he bragged to Stephanopoulos that he could draw huge crowds like that. Haha. Half the crowd was media.
He did the same thing at the July 4 th thing where on his way out he grabbed a mic and babbled something.
He is getting high off the crowds and thinks he is doing fine, the poll numbers are wrong, he's winning.
He gets that manic grin....
He's done.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:07 AM (t/2Uw)

275 doesn't anybody have Nespresso ???
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (V13WU)

I learned to drink coffee with Nestle's instant, boiled milk, and far too much sugar.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 10:07 AM (D7oie)

276 An honest opposition party would be looking into the legalities of an obviously mentally challenged president with properly diagnosed dementia and overturning every EO and piece of legislation he signed.

Yet... here we are.

Because you can bet the left will use the exact same challenges to a Trump presidency. That narrative is already simmering in the background.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 10:07 AM (Q4IgG)

277 This unfair advantage must end!

https://is.gd/xccFhf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:07 AM (L/fGl)

278 A new rallying cry from the left is that not only will Trump destroy our oh so precious democracy , he will also destroy Ukrainian “democracy”. lol. The democracy of a country that banned elections.

There are trillions of dollars of oil, natural gas, and other valuable minerals in Eastern Ukraine, which is why we should go to war with Russia over them!

Posted by: Miss Lindsey! at July 06, 2024 10:09 AM (uxCna)

279 "Who'd have thought the whole freakin' country would turn into Chicago?"

Oh, pretty much everybody paying attention. I recall Gregoire in Washington state kind of started the ball rolling, at least for obvious in your face "F You, We Win" kind of stuff. My suspicion is that electoral fraud is a lot deeper than anyone supposed. They don't have to hide it any longer is the main difference.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 10:09 AM (HHI2d)

280 coffee grinder rifle !“

If we could post images here, I would have followed that up with “organ grinder monkey!”

And posted a picture of Joy Reid.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:09 AM (pgG81)

281 >>I am so sorry you were hurt this way.

At the time my best friend had an older sister who was very nice to us for some unknown reason. She was also very cute.

She took us with a couple of her friends. If she had invited me to hear two alley cats shrieking at each other I would have gone.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 10:09 AM (LkLld)

282 I still have every typewriter I have been able to get ahold of.
My favorite is my wife's grandmas' Smith Corona.
She did typing for Generals when Generals hired typists.
Incredible piece of machinery.
I've often wondered if I could pull the tape and see if it is readable.

Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 10:10 AM (xcIvR)

283
There was this very pretty girl I worked a part time job with whose taste in music was just like mine. I heard that JT was coming to Philly so I called up a ticket place and the guy said, 'Yeah, we still have tickets.' So I find pretty girl and ask her if she'd go with me to JT concert. She said sure, but do you really think you can get tickets? I said think so.

Drove into the city. Black dude at counter, same dude I talked to. I mentioned tickets and at exact moment his boss comes out of office. Suddenly, sold out. I know the truth, he was gonna scalp me. I woulda paid dearly because I already asked the girl. Poor planning on my part.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:11 AM (RKVpM)

284 Chicory and blends with coffee are very popular in Southern Africa. One well known brand is Ricoffy now owned by Nestle. The blends are actually quite nice.

Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, cafe at July 06, 2024 10:11 AM (qfLjt)

285 I haven't been on this thread for a while.

Occasionally I have given up coffee for a while, my go to coffee is No Name stuff I bought at $6 Canadian and there's a lot of No Name decaf in the cupboard too.

Simple tastes..?

Posted by: Stateless at July 06, 2024 10:12 AM (jvJvP)

286 Biden had maybe 150 people in that audience but he bragged to Stephanopoulos that he could draw huge crowds like that. Haha. Half the crowd was media.

Ann Althouse lives in Madison, where the "rally" was held, and noted that there was absolutely no information made public about how to attend the rally, despite the fact that Madison is about 90% Democrat.

I'm sure Biden's people live in fear that Biden will completely melt down if somebody heckles him, so they only invite pre-screened individuals to their "rallies".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:12 AM (uxCna)

287 I if Joe Shmoe off the street applies for a job I have no idea who he is what he’s like.
Total crapshoot hiring him.

If someone I know well recommends him,
I have to assume he’s at least somewhat competent. Otherwise he wouldn’t be recommended. That person’s reputation is in a way on the line.

It doesn’t guarantee the guy will be an amazing employee but it reduces some of the risk he won’t be.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (wCYy7)

288 My mother has a Royal typewriter from the 20's or 30's. It seems to weigh about 25-30 lbs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (qZEuM)

289 My late wife was a Registered Dietitian and worked as a consultant in probably 30 nursing homes over the years. There was always a couple "helpful" black ladies who would visit in October to "help" fill out absentee ballots for the residents. Do you honestly think even one Republican vote made it out of those places?

Posted by: Fraud Is Nothing New at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (V5BDR)

290 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (KOTG6)

291 Spotify keeps playing these James Taylor tracks from a concert he did that I would have walked out of. He did all his Greatest Hits, but changed the rhythm and meter so nobody could sing along, because he's a dick like that. Every one of them is nearly unrecognizable and impossible to even follow.

Mark Knopfler made a great point about changing up Sultans of Swing one time at a concert. He told his wife that nobody liked it, and she said "They came to hear their song." He said at some point a song becomes the fans' song, not the author's. It defined moments of their lives, and they paid to hear you play their song.

J.T. doesn't get it, because unlike Mark, he's a narcissist.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (iRX3h)

292 272. Or not telling the world about stolen elections and bioweapons

Posted by: Enough BS at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (2NXcZ)

293 Descartes confronts today's Democrat Party.

https://is.gd/Yflntp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:14 AM (L/fGl)

294 A relative told my dad, the only reason he didn't get into the Infantry in WWI was they found out early on he knew how to type. They made him some Colonel's secretary or whatever. Might have saved his life. In any case he enjoyed the war more than most, if such a thing is possible.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 10:14 AM (HHI2d)

295 I still have every typewriter I have been able to get ahold of.
My favorite is my wife's grandmas' Smith Corona.
She did typing for Generals when Generals hired typists.
Incredible piece of machinery.
I've often wondered if I could pull the tape and see if it is readable.
Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 10:10 AM (xcIvR)
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My agency is seeing the retirements of the last of the typist pool hires.

Can't expect an executive to type, so "take a letter" and all that. The ladies moved into clerical, then did career enhancement and some are now directors, all with 40 years at the same job, having been hired out of high school. They actually have a pretty good work eithic.

The ones replacing them, not so much.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:14 AM (llXky)

296 JOE YOU ANSWERED EVERY ONE OF GEORGE'S QUESTIONS

Posted by: DOKTOR Jill Biden at July 06, 2024 10:14 AM (kbyy+)

297
I looked up the 'pretty girl' during the pandemic. I knew she went to nursing school as I visited her there. Dead in her early 50's. History of drug abuse and vehicle accidents. Shame.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:15 AM (RKVpM)

298 i'd be lying if i told that i am not enjoying dem insiders and deepstaters bamboozling each other over over the reins of power

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:15 AM (V13WU)

299 In American Thinker article the Doctor explains hallucinations are a symptom, Sundowner going to shake hands with a imagination person which he seems to do often.

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:15 AM (fwDg9)

300 J.T. doesn't get it, because unlike Mark, he's a narcissist.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus

Hey! James Taylor single handedly defeated Islamic terrorism!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:16 AM (L/fGl)

301 It’s probably obvious, but I don’t think Biden’s big interview last night did him any good.

My prediction for what happens next : the Party won’t be able to make Biden to step down as a candidate until it’s too late for anyone else to make a real run for it, and then suddenly he’ll step down. Yes, that makes no sense - but that’s what dysfunctional people and dysfunctional organizations do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:16 AM (pgG81)

302 Slept in until 9 for the first time in awhile. Coffee in bed even. Who says the elites have all the fun.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 06, 2024 10:16 AM (Aoykm)

303 If someone I know well recommends him,
I have to assume he’s at least somewhat competent. Otherwise he wouldn’t be recommended. That person’s reputation is in a way on the line.

Yep - I've seen people with wonderful resumes who were awful on the job, as well as people who interviewed wonderfully.

The only thing that works is getting a recommendation from someone who has worked with the candidate that you know well enough that they are willing to give you a negative recommendation, if justified.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:17 AM (uxCna)

304 258 James Taylor played in the lounge of one of the dorms at my college. Audience maybe 50 people. He played his peyote song. I don't remember much else. 😉
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:02 AM
What kind of idiot loses blue sweater-era Carly Simon?

Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 10:17 AM (o2ZRX)

305 I’m. Same world Trump would be leading Biden by 50 points.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:17 AM (wCYy7)

306 The weather experts prove their expertise again!

The projected track of Tropical Storm Beryl changed a large amount from what it was 24 hours ago. Now landfall of the center is projected near Corpus Christi; then, a little south of Brownsville (it's on the US- Mexico border). About 300 miles as the crow flies farther-up the Texas Gulf Coast!

24 hours ago the Houston area was predicted to get less than one-half inch of rain from Beryl; now, over 3 inches with severe thunderstorms.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (5fDan)

307 It doesn’t guarantee the guy will be an amazing employee but it reduces some of the risk he won’t be.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:13 AM (wCYy7)
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When I was unemployed long ago, my dad got me a book on finding a job, and one of the things it hammered home was that deep down, all employers just want someone who won't steal from them or quit.

Personal references that you work hard and aren't a thief are a huge help in this, and almost all my serious jobs were obtained by networking, and I've used my network to help friends and relatives.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (llXky)

308 Look, Fat, the sun was in my eyes. The dog ate my homework. My feet hurt.

No malarkey, man.

Posted by: President Potatohead at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (kbyy+)

309
James Taylor, like Robert Kennedy Jr, is a former heroin addict. It's like a permanent brain injury.

Still, helluva voice and guitar skills.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (RKVpM)

310 doesn't anybody have Nespresso ???
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09

I have one!

Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (p4NUW)

311 A relative told my dad, the only reason he didn't get into the Infantry in WWI was they found out early on he knew how to type.

A Vietnam vet I know observed that all you had to do to stay out of combat in Vietnam was to take a typing course in high school.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:19 AM (uxCna)

312
Staff would lack access to the ballot, if there is ballot fraud here, it is the family doing it.

A woman I know is doing reverse ballot harvesting, she is heavy duty GOTV among the apathetic "cares" saying that she will help them fill out their ballots along with helping whatever "inmates" at the home need help. Recruiting ballots from the memory care section too (since our voting laws make it legal).

The staff can't fill out patient ballots, but no one prohibits patients from filling out other patients and staff ballots - as long as the ballots are legitimately signed by the individual voters, all is well.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 10:19 AM (rHxhM)

313 301. The people who control Biden understand that most of DC knows who they are and always have. Possibly revealing that most of DC is in on it gives them the power to continue.

Posted by: Enough BS at July 06, 2024 10:19 AM (2NXcZ)

314 >>>I haven't been on this thread for a while.

Occasionally I have given up coffee for a while, my go to coffee is No Name stuff I bought at $6 Canadian and there's a lot of No Name decaf in the cupboard too.

Simple tastes..?

Posted by: Stateless

>Canadian coffee? Jebus. If it can work up a bowel movement like Folgers we'll cut you some slack.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 10:19 AM (2UBPP)

315

What happened to Jane? IIRC her husband passed unexpectedly and she never came back...

Posted by: Elderly Git at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (aspIq)

316 Hubby nec is being watched for signs of Parkinson's escalating, currently he only has one thumb that start shakes. It eventually stops. I'm guessing that the spud clutches that pen to mask the shaking in that hand. I know it's different then what's been speculated on the spud, Coach Corso fiddles with a pencil during College Game Day on ESPN. I assume his is from his stroke.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (2NHgQ)

317 261 Dementia patients: in “20th Century Limited”, one of John Barrymore’s last good films, there’s a comic character, an older millionaire who’s gone nuts and been confined to an institution by his family. He spends his time posting religious stickers on everything and writing $10,000 checks to everyone he meets, including the train porters. Much hilarity when they all find out he’s nuts and and men are there trying to capture him.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Played by Donald Meek, and yes, it was very funny. Twentieth Century is a very funny film.

Posted by: Train, Train... at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (V5BDR)

318 115 Like everything else, there is a web page devoted to that. Or at least an article or two.

Coffee was a serious issue for the Rebs. The embargo or Union blockade saw to that. It disappeared virtually overnight, and cost a fortune when you could get it. Coffee substitutes - Kentucky "coffee tree" or Chicoy, well ... acorns roasted .... that ain't coffee.

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Did you mean chicory? Chicory is a root, not acorns, and after being roasted and dried it could be ground like coffee and used to supplement dwindling coffee supplies. Cafe du Monde in Nawlins still makes and sells coffee with chicory.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (2xB3Z)

319 I can't type by touch....I hunt and peck. I even took a typing class in HS a hundred years ago but it didn't take. After HS I didn't have a need to type.

Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (PZo5T)

320 the assisted living places for the developmentally disableds are also really good for harvesting ballots.
The attendants help them fill them out. You know the guy who rocks and has no interaction with the world voted for Tina Kotek for governor, so no changes will be made anytime soon.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 09:54 AM (D7oie)

Yep. Saw that happen in MO. Conservative, or at least Republican, town but the the mentally disabled guy who went to our church was so *pleased* that the helpers at the home helped him vote. For Obama. Just like they told him to.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (XjtdB)

321 Personal references that you work hard and aren't a thief are a huge help in this, and almost all my serious jobs were obtained by networking, and I've used my network to help friends and relatives.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (llXky)

Yep. Which is why you should never burn professional bridges. Your reputation is everything.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:21 AM (wCYy7)

322 Timothy is my favorite 7-year-old.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zAAfKQOwL-4

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 06, 2024 10:21 AM (lhenN)

323 What kind of idiot loses blue sweater-era Carly Simon?
Posted by: Eromero

Heroin is a helluva drug.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 06, 2024 10:21 AM (qZEuM)

324 I have one!
Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (p4NUW)

*high fives Piper

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:22 AM (V13WU)

325 297
I looked up the 'pretty girl' during the pandemic. I knew she went to nursing school as I visited her there. Dead in her early 50's. History of drug abuse and vehicle accidents. Shame.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:15 AM (RKVpM)

Going to a wake next weekend for one just like that.

Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 10:23 AM (xcIvR)

326 Yep. Which is why you should never burn professional bridges. Your reputation is everything.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:21 AM (wCYy7)
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I still get together with my coworkers from my first "real" job 20 years ago. We meet at a local bar every three months or so and catch up. It's pretty cool.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:23 AM (llXky)

327 Heroin is a helluva drug.

Why would you bother with sex, when you have heroin?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:23 AM (uxCna)

328 Mornin', Horde.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 06, 2024 10:23 AM (Wnv9h)

329 James Taylor, like Robert Kennedy Jr, is a former heroin addict. It's like a permanent brain injury.

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RFK Jr. has his head on straight.

https://is.gd/iWIa9P

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:24 AM (L/fGl)

330 >>>I can't type by touch....I hunt and peck. I even took a typing class in HS a hundred years ago but it didn't take. After HS I didn't have a need to type.

Posted by: lin-duh

>It's okay if you're skills as a typist are substandard. Do you have a nice rack?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 10:24 AM (2UBPP)

331 No, I wasn't maybe very clear. What I meant was, roasted acorns, chicory, and kentucky coffee tree are all coffee "substitutes" that don't contain any caffeine. They suck, as far as that goes.

If the letters sent home by the Rebs is any guide, the article I read on the subject was they were dreaming of Coffee all the time. It was a sore subject for both. Another article I read somewhere, when WWII started kicking off, one of the big US Navy guys, maybe Mitscher or somebody like that, sailed right into Brazil harbor and bought the whole year's crop and loaded it up.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 10:24 AM (HHI2d)

332 Did you mean chicory? Chicory is a root, not acorns, and after being roasted and dried it could be ground like coffee and used to supplement dwindling coffee supplies. Cafe du Monde in Nawlins still makes and sells coffee with chicory.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (2xB3Z)

there are a number of coffee substitutes. Acorns, chicory, roasted field peas. Chicory is the one that is used commercially.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 06, 2024 10:24 AM (D7oie)

333 538 has upped Trump to 54% chance of winning. It was 50/50 pre debate.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:25 AM (wCYy7)

334 “ So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”

Corinthians 10:31

Posted by: Marcus T at July 06, 2024 10:25 AM (oSFyF)

335 My prediction for what happens next :

==

forget Biden.. EURO 24 - Spain v France, who wins ??

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:25 AM (V13WU)

336 >It's okay if you're skills as a typist are substandard. Do you have a nice rack?
Posted by: Dr. Bone
----
I can shoot and what ever I miss my spawn will take out....😎

Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:25 AM (PZo5T)

337 >>What kind of idiot loses blue sweater-era Carly Simon?

Blue sweater era Carly was the partner in a club on Martha's Vineyard in those days, Hot Tin Roof. Quite a place.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 10:26 AM (LkLld)

338
JOE YOU ANSWERED EVERY ONE OF GEORGE'S QUESTIONS
Posted by: DOKTOR Jill Biden

And it's PUDDING POP night! YAAAAAYYYY!!!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2024 10:26 AM (i4sOa)

339 When asked about my typing I describe it as "High speed hunting pecker".
Get's odd looks.

Posted by: Reforger at July 06, 2024 10:26 AM (xcIvR)

340 {{{Jewells}}}
My granddaughters have taken to wearing multiple bracelets, so,e of which they make and some of which are gifted. The first ones were ones that you had made that I gave to them. I always think of you when I see that or when I take out the keys to my car with the AOSHQ logo.
Hoping for positive outcome with this new doctor.
❤️❤️❤️

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:27 AM (t/2Uw)

341 There's video of Biden in Madison hollering out "I'm coming into the overflow room!"

THANK YOU Dr. Jill!! She's the bestest parasitic ..... ever!

Posted by: Stateless at July 06, 2024 10:27 AM (jvJvP)

342 I can't type by touch....I hunt and peck. I even took a typing class in HS a hundred years ago but it didn't take. After HS I didn't have a need to type.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM (PZo5T)
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I can type and converse at the same time, but that's rude.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 10:27 AM (RIvkX)

343 Cafe du Monde in Nawlins still makes and sells coffee with chicory.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 10:20 AM

I have a can in the fridge. That's great stuff.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 06, 2024 10:27 AM (Wnv9h)

344 Blue sweater era Carly was the partner in a club on Martha's Vineyard in those days, Hot Tin Roof. Quite a place.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2024 10:26 AM (LkLld)
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I did a blog post a while ago on how Simon's music evolved over the years, from being skeptical of marriage, to lamenting the other woman, to "it's coming around again," and finally urging fidelity because it's 'the stuff that dreams are made of.'

Quite a story arc.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:28 AM (llXky)

345 I can shoot and what ever I miss my spawn will take out....😎
Posted by: lin-duh

I can verify this as accurate.🤠

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:28 AM (t/2Uw)

346
Why would you bother with sex, when you have heroin?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:23 AM

I enjoyed the hell out of the movie Trainspotting, and saw it as more of an anti-drug movie. But there's one scene where some young woman gets tied off and injected and she moans "That beats any meat injection. That beats any f***ing cock in the world."

Meanwhile her baby dies. IIRC it was hers.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 10:30 AM (RKVpM)

347 Morning.

Coffee is being made.

Praise coffee.

Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 10:31 AM (1Yy3c)

348 still get together with my coworkers from my first "real" job 20 years ago. We meet at a local bar every three months or so and catch up. It's pretty cool.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author

We still have a Facebook group. Nobody is really ever on FB but every now and then someone will find a photo or something and post it. And the. There’s a 2 day, 200 comment discussion about how awesome that time was.

This was a late 90s/early 2000s timeframe. Tech start up. That group of about 100 of us we’ve all orbited in each others’ circles over the years. Even today I can call up most of those guys (and they were almost all guys, hateful I know) and said I need a job is your place hiring, I’d have a job within a week.

It was a special place and time. Bunch of 20-somethings who had no clue what we were doing but somehow made it work.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:31 AM (wCYy7)

349 I've tried chicory...don't care for it, but I'll bet it's better than acorns.

Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 10:32 AM (AwYPR)

350 I can tell the interview last night went badly for Biden since no one on the left is talking about it this morning. They’re locked into Let’s try to pretend this never happened.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:33 AM (pgG81)

351 Posted by: Gref at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (5fDan)

I'd like the rain. Hasn't rained at all since the *last* tropical storm two weeks ago.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 06, 2024 10:33 AM (XjtdB)

352 Cafe du Monde in Nawlins still makes and sells coffee with chicory.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert

I am drinking coffee with chicory right now, it’s pretty common in the south. Mine is Community, but there is Cafe Orleans, CDM, Luzianne. Local brewers have it, too.

Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:33 AM (p4NUW)

353 My typing skill is probably 0 not even using a typing keyboard in over a decade

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:33 AM (fwDg9)

354 *The news media used to pride themselves on their trusted status with the people, or claimed to anyhow. Credibility is their only stock in trade.*

Haha haha hahaha haha hahaha!

Posted by: Ow. My sides hurt at July 06, 2024 10:34 AM (dg+HA)

355 I can tell the interview last night went badly for Biden since no one on the left is talking about it this morning. They’re locked into Let’s try to pretend this never happened.”

Tactically, that is their only real plan.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 10:34 AM (rHxhM)

356 349 I've tried chicory...don't care for it, but I'll bet it's better than acorns.
Posted by: BignJames at July 06

I always add a little more coffee so it’s less chicory. I do like it though, but it’s something I have always been around and maybe that is why.

Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:35 AM (p4NUW)

357 Watch out! Cruella de Jill is angry!

Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom
Martha Raddatz reports that Dr. Jill is "lashing out" at those who want Crooked Joe to get out of the race.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

358
My aunt of blessed memory could type 120 words per minute without a mistake on any manual typewriter.

She worked for years for both Carnegie and Inland steel, yet she changed her name to hide her Judaism to get the jobs.. I think they knew she was Jewish but due to her skills they looked the other way.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 10:36 AM (x0n13)

359 Martha Raddatz reports that Dr. Jill is "lashing out" at those who want Crooked Joe to get out of the race.

You Go, Girl!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:36 AM (uxCna)

360 Martha Raddatz reports that Dr. Jill is "lashing out" at those who want Crooked Joe to get out of the race.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

She'll sic DOJ/IRS on 'em.

Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2024 10:37 AM (AwYPR)

361 331 No, I wasn't maybe very clear. What I meant was, roasted acorns, chicory, and kentucky coffee tree are all coffee "substitutes" that don't contain any caffeine. They suck, as far as that goes.

If the letters sent home by the Rebs is any guide, the article I read on the subject was they were dreaming of Coffee all the time. It was a sore subject for both. Another article I read somewhere, when WWII started kicking off, one of the big US Navy guys, maybe Mitscher or somebody like that, sailed right into Brazil harbor and bought the whole year's crop and loaded it up.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 10:24 AM (HHI2d)
If you want to read how a Confederate Private saw things, try Company Aytch, by Sam R. Watkins.

Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 10:37 AM (o2ZRX)

362 "...Democrat rep, Angie Craig of Minnesota, is calling on Joe to bow out of the race."

I wonder if another Minnesota Democrat...opps
I mean Republican...Pete Stauber of Minnesota is against that idea ? since he joined with Pelosi and Schumer in voting "Yes" to confirm "Penetrating Fingers" into the Oval Office in 2020.

Of course, Pete now brags about how he, "Stooper Duck" Stauber is busily fighting for us deplorables against pResident Biden's destructive policies.

You go, Pete. No, I mean "go." As in away.

Posted by: Ju at July 06, 2024 10:37 AM (aTmM/)

363 I can tell the interview last night went badly for Biden

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nikki mccann ramírez
@NikkiMcR
Stephanopoulos: If you stay in, and Trump is elected and everything you're warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?

Biden: I'll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that's what this is about.

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It's all about the Biden, the Biden, the Biden.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

364 I was going to ask for prayers for Miklos' Old Mama, but I see that others here were on the ONT last night. He will no doubt email Annie's Stew to make it official.

Maybe this seems flippant compared to medically-oriented prayers, but we really need rain. Yesterday, they got 1" down the road, but all we got here was 1/4" and we're in the first stages of drought. We're expecting thunderstorms over the next few days, but we need them to deliver!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (w6EFb)

365 In all the celebrating, MSM forgot to mention Labor’s “landslide” win was done with 34% of the vote.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (wCYy7)

366 Jill doesn't want to leave the White House

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (fwDg9)

367 My aunt of blessed memory could type 120 words per minute without a mistake on any manual typewriter.

She worked for years for both Carnegie and Inland steel, yet she changed her name to hide her Judaism to get the jobs.. I think they knew she was Jewish but due to her skills they looked the other way.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 10:36 AM (x0n13)

I saw this in Gentleman's Agreement !

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (V13WU)

368 Biden: I'll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that's what this is about.

-----------

Regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to pronounce.

Posted by: President Potatohead at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (kbyy+)

369 Thank you Sharon!

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (iF0sF)

370 Not too bad at all. No nausea or other severe side effects from treatment. That said, I'm fatigued. On top of it, emotionally, it's challenging to try and tune out the negative thoughts.

One day at a time.
***************
You have that right JJ. Those negative thoughts are the enemy, just as much as the cancer. Refuse to allow them to torment you. Find the joy and laughter in your life. It will boost your immune system. And combat those negative thoughts. Prays continue for you and for all who battle this scourge of a disease.

Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (IQ6Gq)

371 366 Jill doesn't want to leave the White House
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (fwDg9)

Think of all the tacky dresses she can make with the draperies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (x0n13)

372 >What kind of idiot loses blue sweater-era Carly Simon?

Somebody does it better.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (lhenN)

373 I can shoot and what ever I miss my spawn will take out....😎
Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:25 AM (PZo5T)

--------

The HAWTest possible answer.....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (kOluj)

374 Posted in previous thread:

Lovely setting ( in woods by water) of a song based on Psalm 23:

https://tinyurl.com/yc43fwep

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (oUxZc)

375 An "environmental journalist" in Seattle:

To be clear up front: I don’t give one tiny hot fuck who the Dem nominee is. I truly don’t. Biden’s fine. Harris is fine. A warm puddle of vomit is fine. *There is no conceivable resolution to the nomination fight that could change the basic calculus of this race.*

Preventing a fascist takeover of the US is my top priority–as a journalist, as a voter, as a human. If it isn’t yours too, you should feel bad about yourself. If you haven’t made the stakes of this election clear to everyone within the sound of your voice, you should feel bad.

Moar popcorn!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (uxCna)

376 370 Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 10:40 AM (IQ6Gq)

Thank you!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (x0n13)

377 My heart hurts for Miklos. I pray for his mama’s release from pain. This is what my sweet mama had.

Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (pZEOD)

378 @366 Dr Jill is addicted to those expensive looking dresses

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2024 10:42 AM (2i9gl)

379 Well she is a Doctor, so we must trust the Jill science.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:42 AM (wCYy7)

380 Martha Raddatz is ABC ! Same network as the Stephanappopuloupos !

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:42 AM (V13WU)

381 LOL

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:42 AM (V13WU)

382 Maybe this seems flippant compared to medically-oriented prayers, but we really need rain. Yesterday, they got 1" down the road, but all we got here was 1/4" and we're in the first stages of drought. We're expecting thunderstorms over the next few days, but we need them to deliver!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (w6EFb)
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In 2009, US Air Forces Africa Command hosted a delegation from Botswana. Interesting guys from one of Africa's most stable, functioning countries. Anyhow the big thing for them is the start of the rains, and if they are late, a national day of prayer is proclaimed. It always works. (They're Anglicans, btw, but African, so not okay with teh ghey.)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:42 AM (llXky)

383 Miley, I thought we'd get some rain here yesterday. Storms all around on the radar. Not a drop at my place. I've enjoyed a bit of a break from constant mowing but would love to see some rain.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:43 AM (iZbyp)

384 Hi Jewells! My daughter wore her necklace and sent me a picture. She said it brings her strength, we all have you in our prayers daily. I am so hopeful you get useful news at the new doctor.

Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:44 AM (pZEOD)

385 I think Joe is showing clear signs of early-onset rigor mortis..

😅

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2024 10:45 AM (uCfKO)

386 Miklos, not sure if you're here this morning but if there's anything I can do for y'all please let me know. Email in nic.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:45 AM (iZbyp)

387 I am rather pleased with my rack:

https://tinyurl.com/rzx4efmr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM (oUxZc)

388 Miley, I thought we'd get some rain here yesterday. Storms all around on the radar. Not a drop at my place. I've enjoyed a bit of a break from constant mowing but would love to see some rain.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:43 AM (iZbyp)

Howdy new neighbors.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM (qZEuM)

389 Howdy new neighbors.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM (qZEuM)
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Howdy! Someday, I will try to get my shit together and have a little SC MoMe. But it is not this day....

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (iZbyp)

390 387 Ha!

Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (pZEOD)

391 She worked for years for both Carnegie and Inland steel, yet she changed her name to hide her Judaism to get the jobs.. I think they knew she was Jewish but due to her skills they looked the other way.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2024 10:36 AM (x0n13)
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I'm related to a bunch of Jewish artists in New York. Edwin Franko Goldman being the most famous.

My great-great-great grandmother decided to go full assimilation and became an Anglican, later Catholic (at least the kids were).

I'm sure this created some family drama!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (llXky)

392 Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:44 AM (pZEOD)

Amen. I have a beautiful crystal bracelet with a cross on it and the word "faith" which had been carefully crafted by Jewell. It makes me feel close to God to wear it and I have gotten compliments on it. Thanks, Jewells. Prayers continue for you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (oUxZc)

393 New residence in TR.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (qZEuM)

394 I'm convinced the powers that be have given up on this race knowing they are going to lose no matter who the candidate is. This way they get rid of Kamala which was their big mistake. That way they can try for 2028 with no incumbent and let Newsom, Pritzger, the Witch battle it out .
This way the Rs have to clean up the mess they made just in time to bring in what they think is their fabulous bench.
Meanwhile we have DeSantis, Youngkin, hopefully VP Vance🤞 waiting to take over.
I think thei left's time has passed.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:48 AM (t/2Uw)

395 Mentioned yesterday Winston Marshall has a video explaining the British election on YouTube.
He was the one who destroyed Hildabeast in the debate a couple months ago.

The Labour party will have what's left of Great Britain overrun with Muslims before they get tossed out.

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (fwDg9)

396 Has there been anything further on the medical incident aboard AF1?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (JLq/1)

397 387 I am rather pleased with my rack:

https://tinyurl.com/rzx4efmr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM (oUxZc)

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I see your rack a raise you an iron maiden.
https://tinyurl.com/4fhjmy9a

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (2xB3Z)

398 291
Sultans of Swing - the ultimate, very bestest version evah!!!

https://youtu.be/8Pa9x9fZBtY

around 7 minutes to the end is bliss.
Fight me.

Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur, cafe oui at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (qfLjt)

399 Preventing a fascist takeover of the US is my top priority–as a journalist, as a voter, as a human. If it isn’t yours too, you should feel bad about yourself. If you haven’t made the stakes of this election clear to everyone within the sound of your voice, you should feel bad.

Moar popcorn!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 10:41 AM (uxCna)
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Note that this heroic struggle will be fought behind a keyboard, perhaps at family reunions and in coffee shops.

Such is the degraded state of society that people have to imagine themselves heroes for just bitching online.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (llXky)

400 Agree to disagree, Megs. Agree to disagree.

Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly
I’m genuinely sad/angry over what these ppl around him are doing to Joe Biden. He deserves better than to go out like this. The answer is to let him retire w/some dignity. Not to keep forcing the critically wounded racehorse to run more.

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I, for one, want abject, public humiliation.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

401 They can't spell Labor. How can they run a country?

Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at July 06, 2024 10:50 AM (55boN)

402 I am rather pleased with my rack:

https://tinyurl.com/rzx4efmr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM (oUxZc)

Is that going to have enough space for shoes?

Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 10:50 AM (1Yy3c)

403 Fen has a nice full rack!

Posted by: Most guys at July 06, 2024 10:50 AM (dg+HA)

404
387 I am rather pleased with my rack:

https://tinyurl.com/rzx4efmr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:46 AM

LOL I had to look but I knew that was coming! It’s like Monty Pythons Spanish Inquisition, “give her the rack!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (pgG81)

405 What is greatly amusing about this problem of what to do with demented creepy pervy Uncle Joe Biden is that they all KNEW he was going... going... when they stole the 2020.
Now that he is gone they are freaking out trying to figure what to do as it may be too far to steall 2024 too. But regardless of what they do with Biden try to steal it they will because that is what they do for decades.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (cOq4q)

406 Prayers up for all the Horde.

My typing skills are decent, but my 10 key skills are unparalleled. Do I get the job?

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (16NmB)

407 >>>doesn't anybody have Nespresso ???
Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 09:56 AM (V13WU)
*******
Runner: we have one. It makes very good coffee. Wide variety of coffees, but the pods are pricey.

Posted by: Some Boxer Guy at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (qxlax)

408 There was no medical incident on AF 1. Loomer is a nutcase.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (t/2Uw)

409 Is that going to have enough space for shoes?

I am not Imelda Marcos.

I have two pairs of shoes-a black pair and, a brown pair

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:52 AM (oUxZc)

410 Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom
Martha Raddatz reports that Dr. Jill is "lashing out" at those who want Crooked Joe to get out of the race.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

I don't wish suffering on anyone, but this is obviously painful for her. And him. To the extent one considers sympathy for them, they make it impossible to care that this all must be terribly bitter for that rotten family.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 06, 2024 10:52 AM (tZwal)

411 Has there been anything further on the medical incident aboard AF1?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (JLq/1)

The phony made up one that a bunch of idjits on Twatter were making up?

No. No new phony made up details have come out yet.

Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (1Yy3c)

412 Jordan, I hope you feature your Bacon Wench credentials and experience on your resume.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (iZbyp)

413 Note that this heroic struggle will be fought behind a keyboard, perhaps at family reunions and in coffee shops.

Such is the degraded state of society that people have to imagine themselves heroes for just bitching online.

Not to worry, the Molotov cocktails are coming soon.

Somebody detonated an IED as a surburban Portland police car drove by a couple of days ago, injuring the cop.

A glimpse of the near future.

Posted by: Antifa! at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (uxCna)

414 “Preventing a fascist takeover of the US is my top priority”

Well you’re about 4 years too late for that one, aren’t you?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (pgG81)

415 Fen, you are such a joy to have around the hq.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (2NHgQ)

416 I'm convinced the powers that be have given up on this race knowing they are going to lose no matter who the candidate is. This way they get rid of Kamala which was their big mistake. That way they can try for 2028 with no incumbent and let Newsom, Pritzger, the Witch battle it out .
==

Very plausible. Of course the like of Jeffries and Clyburn genuinely think that Kamala is the bestest choice evah.

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (V13WU)

417 Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (2xB3Z)

Thanks, I think. That certainly is creepy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:54 AM (oUxZc)

418 The Marxists probably will just go with The Ho, pick a new VP and fight with the cash Sundowner leaves and fraud votes and hope for the best

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:54 AM (fwDg9)

419 Good news, everyone!

Lucas Tomlinson
@LucasFoxNews
Biden tells ABC: “I’m the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

420 I, for one, want abject, public humiliation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)
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We should pray for them to repent their sins, and seek to redress all the evils they have done. Until that point, I have no sympathy for someone who sins, keeps sinning, celebrates sinning and wants to persecute people who share their nominal faith.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:54 AM (llXky)

421 396 Has there been anything further on the medical incident aboard AF1?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where

Everything I have seen is there was nothing. He was seen going into his house in DE for the weekend. As usual.

Posted by: Piper at July 06, 2024 10:55 AM (pZEOD)

422 I have long thought that Stephanopoulos was sent out to administer the coup de grace to Biden.

It seems that others agree.

After watching the 23-minute interview, it was obvious that Stephanopoulos was sent out to stab Caesar to death on [pre-recorded] television. There's no other way to spin it. After the interview, ABC political hacks piled on. Rather than reassuring skittish Democrat operatives (let alone the public) that Biden is fine, it reinforced the narrative that he is too old and feeble to remain as the nominee.

On Thursday, my esteemed colleague Stephen Green wrote:

Some argue that Stephanopoulos has been brought on not to help Biden but to commit the System's coup de grâce and "rhetorically assassinate" their flailing POTUS. Let George trip him up a couple of times in front of the TV cameras, the thinking goes, and even DOCTOR Jill Biden will have no choice but to relent and tell Joe to go Full LBJ.

https://tinyurl.com/8xvtnd3h

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 10:55 AM (xCA6C)

423 408 There was no medical incident on AF 1. Loomer is a nutcase.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2024 10:51 AM (t/2Uw)

Alternatively, everyone on AF1 got their fill of the journos and came up with an excuse to kick them all off the plane for a couple hours.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 06, 2024 10:55 AM (pgG81)

424 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (2NHgQ)

Thanks. It's always great to see you as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 10:55 AM (oUxZc)

425 Biden tells ABC: “I’m the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen.”

I shut down the Taliban, too!

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at July 06, 2024 10:56 AM (uxCna)

426 The Marxists probably will just go with The Ho

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Go With the Ho, Twenty Twenty Fo!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

427
https://youtu.be/8Pa9x9fZBtY

LOVE the Alchemy version of SOS.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 10:57 AM (dg+HA)

428 The Ho will go LGBQXYZ for VP Buttabuddy?

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:57 AM (fwDg9)

429 Preventing a fascist takeover of the US is my top priority
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We are already there... bless your heart!

Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:57 AM (PZo5T)

430 Lucas Tomlinson
@LucasFoxNews
Biden tells ABC: “I’m the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

That's true. No one thought it could happen. Because it hasn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 06, 2024 10:57 AM (tZwal)

431 Go With the Ho, Twenty Twenty Fo!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

Got to admit, that's catchy. Just tighten it up a bit.

"The Ho in Twenny-fo!"

There. Much better.

Posted by: Robert at July 06, 2024 10:58 AM (1Yy3c)

432 Lucas Tomlinson
@LucasFoxNews
Biden tells ABC: “I’m the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen.”
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Then why are we sending billions more to Ukraine???!

Posted by: lin-duh at July 06, 2024 10:59 AM (PZo5T)

433 >Biden tells ABC: “I’m the guy that shut Putin down.

how, exactly

Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 10:59 AM (/7KEl)

434
Somebody detonated an IED as a surburban Portland police car drove by a couple of days ago, injuring the cop.

Coming soon, sectarian violence?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 11:00 AM (RKVpM)

435 > Has there been anything further on the medical incident aboard AF1?
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no incident
The President just spilled his juicebox

Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 11:01 AM (/7KEl)

436 Stephanopoulos comes not to praise mumblefuck but to bury him.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 06, 2024 11:01 AM (lhenN)

437 There's quite a disagreement between the Democrat's propaganda arm and the White House (including some rank and file Democrats) about *biden's future.

Usually there's lock-step agreement.

I'm enjoying it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 11:01 AM (Q4IgG)

438 Good morning, Horde. Career lurker here. There's a thing sports fans say when their team is terrible. "It's a rebuilding year." I think deep down inside, this is how the commies are consoling themselves.

Posted by: 144 at July 06, 2024 11:03 AM (ErnYL)

439 Coming soon, sectarian violence?

It's very weird - no one has claimed responsibility for the IED.

We'll see if this is a one-off, or the start of an organized campaign.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 06, 2024 11:03 AM (uxCna)

440 Stephanopoulos comes not to praise mumblefuck but to bury him.

One wonders if this was purely a Clinton initiative, or if it had buy-in from the Obamanites as well. My guess is the latter.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 11:03 AM (xCA6C)

441 I must say I have to agree with President Biden's ability to "shut people down". I certainly came away from our encounter a better man.

Posted by: Corn Pop at July 06, 2024 11:03 AM (PiwSw)

442 "...Biden’s fine. Harris is fine. A warm puddle of vomit is fine...."

**********

Have we seen any recent polling data on this?

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2024 11:05 AM (uCfKO)

443 Biden 20%
Harris 18%
WPOV 60%
Undecided 2%

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2024 11:05 AM (uCfKO)

444 Not to worry, the Molotov cocktails are coming soon.

Somebody detonated an IED as a surburban Portland police car drove by a couple of days ago, injuring the cop.

A glimpse of the near future.
Posted by: Antifa! at July 06, 2024 10:53 AM (uxCna
This type of action will initiate an opposite reaction which oddly enough might not be equal

Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 11:05 AM (o2ZRX)

445 Nood Social worker!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 06, 2024 11:05 AM (pPOh9)

446 Watch out! Cruella de Jill is angry!

Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom
Martha Raddatz reports that Dr. Jill is "lashing out" at those who want Crooked Joe to get out of the race.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

Jill needs to be told to get bent. AND, to STFU.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 06, 2024 11:06 AM (iODuv)

447 Nood

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 06, 2024 11:07 AM (23272)

448 401 They can't spell Labor. How can they run a country?
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Comment of the day!

Posted by: Grateful at July 06, 2024 11:09 AM (IQ6Gq)

449 I will also second the Nespresso. Even though the pods are a bit pricey, it's a bit difficult to go back to keurigs after a few cups.

Posted by: 144 at July 06, 2024 11:10 AM (ErnYL)

450 The thing about irony is it's so ironic.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
Pro-abortion Democrats march to “Born in the USA,” blissfully unaware of the searing irony.

https://is.gd/aszt7g

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 06, 2024 11:10 AM (L/fGl)

451 89. One day at a time. Live in the present, not in the past or the future. God bless you all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Amen.

Prayers for all on the Weekly Prayer List, their families and good friends. Prayers for comfort for Mama Miklos & strength for family, and for mindful webworker with his most recent hospitalization.

Prayers for all others in need - including those of the Horde who are not presently appearing on the Weekly Prayer List - strength, comfort, hope.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at July 06, 2024 11:11 AM (NFX2v)

452 Vivek and DeSantis nail the whole debate affair and why it worked out as it did.

Vivek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PatIoAocZsA

DeS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ-q_WM7wcM

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2024 11:12 AM (xCA6C)

453 I also told Little George that I created NATO! no joke, said it right before the Putin thing

Posted by: Whispering Walter at July 06, 2024 11:21 AM (GpUII)

454 The Labour party will have what's left of Great Britain overrun with Communists before they get tossed out. Then the Muslims will move in.
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 10:49 AM (fwDg9)

FIFY

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 11:44 AM (nJTSw)

455 365 In all the celebrating, MSM forgot to mention Labor’s “landslide” win was done with 34% of the vote.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 06, 2024 10:39 AM (wCYy7)

Yeah but IIRC 411 of 650 seats in Commons.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 11:49 AM (nJTSw)

456 Personal references that you work hard and aren't a thief are a huge help in this, and almost all my serious jobs were obtained by networking, and I've used my network to help friends and relatives.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 06, 2024 10:18 AM (llXky)

So you like making strategic friends as well. You benefit from the corruption you decry.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 06, 2024 11:55 AM (nJTSw)

457 Thanks for the thread K.T. Best wishes for a complete recovery and a happy summer.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 06, 2024 01:03 PM (qxlax)

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