The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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Before we enter the Prayer Revival, just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Wakefield.)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2) Be kind, be nice. Please don't jump on the couch.
3) Running and/or jogging with sharp objects is frowned upon here.
4) Have a great weekend!

A special "Thank you Annie" for providing the AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List this week. And every week, week in, week out.

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:
8/6 - LMD Outer Banker requested prayers for a son who is undergoing an experimental treatment for chronic Lyme disease, which he has been battling for 25 years. He will be in a clinic abroad for about a month.
8/31 Update – The son is on his way home. After one month of treatment, the tests appear to show he is free of Lyme and its coinfections. For the first time in 15 years, he no longer has to take antibiotics. Now the challenge is for his immune system to repair itself to be able to ward off future problems. The clinic indicates that will take about 6 months of healthy eating and supplements. Thank you for your prayers; LMD Outer Banker and family are crying in joy.
9/7 Update – Someone Else asked for more information about the clinic and location where this treatment was possible, if LMD Outer Banker would be willing to post a comment with that information, or let Annie’s Stew know so she can forward the information. Someone Else has a relative who has suffered for years and was finally diagnosed with Lyme Disease. Someone Else’s relative also needs prayers for healing.
9/14 Update – the Clinic is in Germany, under clinicum.st.georg. (The URL is https://www.klinik-st-georg.de/en). It is extremely expensive. The son said for most of the people there it was life or death.
9/21 Update – CP offered to help with logistics of a Horde member needs to come to the clinic noted here. He is stationed in Germany, within an hour of the clinic. He also knows people at the local U.S. Consulate. He said he can’t promise speed, only friendly assistance and moral support. Contact Annie’s Stew and she can help you get in contact with CP, if you are going to Germany for treatment.
8/23 – Grumpy and Recalcitrant requested continued prayers for J.J. Sefton. J.J. is feeling “not too bad, all things considered”. His post-radiation/chemo MRI is scheduled for the first week of Sept, and this is when he will find out where things are at, concerning his cancer. Please keep praying for complete remission, recovery, and a return to good health.
9/7 Update – J.J. sends his thanks for all the prayers and kind words. He says he is convinced that it has helped him get this far.
9/14 Update – J.J. said the medical team is very pleased with his progress, and the next phase is 6 months of maintenance chemo and continued monitoring via MRIs, presumably for the rest of his life, however long that is to be. He also asks God’s blessing to all.
8/31 – Tonypete requested prayers for his wife’s friend Barb. She is suffering from some type of mental disturbance and is a mess.
8/31 – Huerfano asked for prayers for a nephew, FHC, who sustained a lower back injury in a car accident a couple of months ago. He is running out of treatment options, short of surgery, which no one wants.
8/31 – Jewells45 sent an update. She started on Cyremza 2 weeks ago, and the only side effects are really bad headaches and fatigue. She is praying this works.
9/7 Update – Jewells and her husband had a tough weekend. Jewells had a lesion on her leg that hurt so bad she couldn’t walk, and her husband had to drive himself to the ER. He was unable to urinate, and in terrible pain. The problem was related to his prostate.
9/21 Update – Jewells’ husband got another catheter put back in on Tuesday. On Wednesday, he was very lethargic and barely responsive, so she called 911. It turned out his sodium was dangerously low. If she’d waited, he probably would have had a seizure or slipped into a coma. He stayed at the hospital overnight.
8/31 Zibby requested prayers for her brother-in-law, who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer and given 2 months to live. The family is in shock and Zibby’s husband is devastated. The BIL is the oldest sibling and beloved by everyone. Thank you for your prayers.
8/31 – AnnaS1’s husband died in July, and her heart is shattered. She needs some prayers. If anyone else has lost a spouse, how did you get through it?
9/14 Update – thank you to the people who have responded in comments and contacting Annie to share their email with AnnaS1.
8/31 – Morgan, loyal lurker, just got a new job and is very hopeful. He is requesting prayers that this will work out, that he can prove to be a valuable employee, and that God will bless the firm and its clients.
9/2 – Anderson Cooper’s giant anus has a praise update for the prayer list. His stage 4 esophageal cancer (lymph nodes and lungs secondary) is gone after 6 months of integrated therapy. The new scan is clean. Praise God. Thank you Horde.
9/3 – Ben Had posted that JT is sounding really good and sends his thanks for the prayers and concern. He will be in the rehab facility for a while longer.
9/7 – Tonypete requested prayers for his lovely better half. She had an injury that resulted in 4-5 staples in the back of her head. No permanent damage or serious injury, so they are thankful for that.
9/7 – Sal asked for continued prayers for Pooky’s girl, who is waiting for Lil’ Pooky to be induced (or not), and prayers for her friend J, 80, who could use prayers for healing. J. tripped and face-planted on her patio. She is home, but facing a longish recovery.
9/14 Update – Baby boy Pooky has arrived. Mom and baby are home.
9/7 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for healing for C, a member of her congregation, who is undergoing cancer treatment (chemo right now). She has a positive attitude, but the chemo exhausts her.
9/11 – Jmel asked for prayers for her sister, who was hospitalized, and sent thanks later in the day to those who prayed. Her sister’s blood work is looking good.
9/14 – COMountainMarie had asked for prayers. She was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of weeks ago.
9/14 – MH sent a prayer of thanks for the fire fighters and first responders for tackling the dangerous “Davis Fire” in Reno, NV this past week.
9/14 – Sal asked for prayers for E and her 100-year-old mother, who is being moved into a new care facility this week, that the move will not be too difficult and that she will adjust well.
9/16 – Teresa in Fort Worth asked for prayers for her husband’s coworker, Chuck. He is a young family man in his 40s who received a diagnosis of colon cancer a few months ago, and things are looking pretty bad right now. He had been receiving chemo in preparation for surgery, but now the tumor(s) are intertwined with other organs, so they cannot safely operate. He and his wife divorced a few months before the diagnosis, but she is still helping him out. His two adolescent sons are having a hard time adjusting to all the upheaval. Chuck is planning to sell his house so he can move in with his dad, who is in bad health as well.
9/16 – notsothoreau asked for prayers for a woman from church, R, and her family. R just lost her son to suicide. He left a wife and 3 kids behind. There were no warning signs and R is in shock.
9/17 – PA Dutchman asked for prayers for his sister, Lori, and her husband, Fred. Fred just learned that he has stage 4 lung cancer and there is nothing doctors can do for him.
9/18 – “…” asked for prayers for a friend, “J”, who was injured in a hit and run. He is left with back pain and his arm is numb.
9/19 – Erebus asked for prayers for mom, whose years of suffering from Alzheimer’s are almost over.
9/21 – Commissioner Hrothgar offered prayers up for former (and hopefully future) President Trump, to keep him safe from harm and that the forces of evil arrayed against him and our country be made ineffective and come to naught.
9/21 – Tonypete asked for prayers for the owner of a local diner, Michelle, and her family at the death of her son due to addiction-related ailments.
9/21 – Matthew Kant Cipher asked for prayers for the soul of Alex and Alex’ surviving family. Alex was a fine young man who coached MKC’s son’s youth baseball team for a few years. Alex died in a single vehicle crash this week, leaving behind a pregnant wife and two stepchildren.
9/21 – FenelonSpoke requested prayers for her son, K, to get a job related to his major, which was horticulture. He has been diligently sending out resumes from searches online, but hasn’t heard anything yet. Also, prayers for other morons and ‘ettes looking for jobs.
9/21 – vmom stabby stabby stabby asked for prayers for a young mom who works at her dentist’s office, who is battling a stage 3 brain tumor.
9/21 – RedMindBlueState requested prayers for C, a the two-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter of a friend and fellow parishioner, who recently had a tumor removed from her spine.
9/23 – Lady in Black asked for prayers for her dad. He is 89 and has upcoming cataract surgery. The cataracts are so bad, he is now legally blind. His surgery is 10/1 and he is very afraid and worried. Prayers for his peace of mind, safety, and well-being during the surgery would be greatly appreciated.
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.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:20 AM

Comments

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1 I'll go let the others know.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 08:21 AM (O7YUW)

2 brcc ak47 with exploding pager bayonete.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

3 Passing out virtual sweets to my phantom friends in boxes this morning. Nasrallah is dead. Am Yisrael Chai!

Posted by: Eff Bee Lie at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (1FWWQ)

4 Good morning fine people. I like the sign, Mis Hum.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (SfhV1)

5 Prayer request:

I kept meaning to submit this, but I procrastinated.

A family of missionaries from my church is currently on their way to Kenya today to begin training Kenyans on how to engage in Christian missionary work in Africa.

The son-in-law of our pastor, his wife (the pastor's daughter), and their three small daughters will be in a rather dangerous country for the foreseeable future and could use prayers for safety and success in their missionary work.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (BpYfr)

6 By replacing your
morning coffee with
green tea, you can lose
up to 89% of what
little joy you still have
left in your life.

I love this.

Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:25 AM (64Zez)

7 Perfessor, I left you an idea for that student paper on the other thread....yourwelcome!

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:26 AM (V13WU)

8
Remember, you have to be nice or some regular is going to shake their finger at you and tell you you're a bitter old hater.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:26 AM (BkEzK)

9 Only in a place like this could "Anderson Coopers Giant Anus" ask for prayers.

Posted by: Eff Bee Lie at September 28, 2024 08:26 AM (1FWWQ)

10 The son-in-law of our pastor, his wife (the pastor's daughter), and their three small daughters will be in a rather dangerous country for the foreseeable future and could use prayers for safety and success in their missionary work.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (BpYfr)

I'll pray for safety and that their work for the Lord will be fruitful. My daughter has done mission work in Africa, so I'm familiar with the concerns that come along with that.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:26 AM (SfhV1)

11

Thanks again, everyone. Just finished the first month of maintenance. Amazing that it's just a pill I take at bedtime. 5 straight days per month, for 6 months.

Now three weeks off until the next round, just to clarify. I assume I will have another MRI sometime in the coming weeks. Reminds me that I need to contact my oncologist to see when.

Anyone in and around the area affected by Helene, prayers for safety and a return to normalcy ASAP.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (x0n13)

12 well, Wakefield ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (UWgy2)

13 Morning peeps.

The rain... it persists.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (Q4IgG)

14 Sorry, I left my Eff Bee Lie sock on.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (1FWWQ)

15 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (fwDg9)

16
Willowed

Wasn't Connie Mack the manager for one of them?
Posted by: dantesed at September 28, 2024 08:23 AM (Oy/m2)

Connie Mack was the manager of the Philadelphia A's from their inaugural season in 1901 to his retirement in 1950, when he was 87. He was also the owner along with the Shibe family.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (BkEzK)

17 Thanks again, everyone. Just finished the first month of maintenance. Amazing that it's just a pill I take at bedtime. 5 straight days per month, for 6 months.

I'm so delighted by your progress, JJ.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (SfhV1)

18 Perfessor, I left you an idea for that student paper on the other thread....yourwelcome!
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:26 AM (V13WU)
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I saw your comments.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (BpYfr)

19 5 Prayer request:

I kept meaning to submit this, but I procrastinated.

A family of missionaries from my church is currently on their way to Kenya today to begin training Kenyans on how to engage in Christian missionary work in Africa.

The son-in-law of our pastor, his wife (the pastor's daughter), and their three small daughters will be in a rather dangerous country for the foreseeable future and could use prayers for safety and success in their missionary work.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (BpYfr)

Blessings on them!

Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:29 AM (64Zez)

20 Is it Saturday already? Cool. What cartoons are worth watching these days, if any?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2024 08:29 AM (g7NHK)

21 I have to go pour myself a second cup. Don't say anything witty until I get back.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1)

22 I knew I should’ve waited a few more minutes to post.

Willowed:

On most recent weekends Encore Westerns has taken to broadcasting the “Lone Star” production company’s John Wayne westerns. I assume because A) they’re either very cheap to license or free in the public domain and B) everybody loves a young John Wayne.

And man is he young and skinny as a rail.
It’s a big contrast compared to watching him in say, El Dorado, where the little horse he rode in that was almost as big as Wayne.

The plots are barebones and the acting stiff, but still entertaining in a quaint way.

“Randy Rides Alone” on now, with “The Trail Beyond”, where Wayne goes to Canada to fight off French-Canadian outlaw kidnappers, up next at 9 a.m. EDT.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 08:30 AM (6ydKt)

23 Thanks again, everyone. Just finished the first month of maintenance. Amazing that it's just a pill I take at bedtime. 5 straight days per month, for 6 months.

Anyone in and around the area affected by Helene, prayers for safety and a return to normalcy ASAP.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:27 AM (x0n13)
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Side effects may include snarky commenting on AoSHQ and providing extensive links about politics, society, and culture first thing in the morning 5 days a week.

Consult your doctor if these persist for more than eight years.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:30 AM (BpYfr)

24 21 I have to go pour myself a second cup. Don't say anything witty until I get back.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1)

We'll preserve all the witty comments!

Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:31 AM (64Zez)

25 I'm so delighted by your progress, JJ.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM (SfhV1)

Thanks Grammie. Just to clarify, now three weeks off until the next round. I assume I will have another MRI sometime in the coming weeks. Reminds me that I need to contact my oncologist to see when.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:32 AM (x0n13)

26 We'll preserve all the witty comments!

Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:31 AM (64Zez)

Thank you! I'm here now. You may commence.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:32 AM (SfhV1)

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

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:33 AM (llXky)

28 I will have another MRI sometime in the coming weeks. Reminds me that I need to contact my oncologist to see when.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:32 AM (x0n13)

I hope you're in the best hospital center in Wisconsin.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:34 AM (SfhV1)

29 What if I'm in a non-witty mood?

Posted by: dantesed at September 28, 2024 08:34 AM (Oy/m2)

30
Connie Mack was the manager of the Philadelphia A's from their inaugural season in 1901 to his retirement in 1950, when he was 87. He was also the owner along with the Shibe family.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:28 AM

Yup, eventually a stadium was built with his name, now sadly gone. To see a baseball hit over the top of the right field wall/scoreboard was amazing. It was fun to watch the scores change on the scoreboard, occasionally you could see the person who was changing the numbers. Ah, technology back then.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:35 AM (RKVpM)

31 What has been happening in Lebanon is truly astounding, and the most enjoyable part is that it’s the opposite of what EVERYONE predicted. (Well except for Bibi, who’s smiling like the cat who ate the canary). I’m having a bit of fun searching out old predictions of disaster for Israel if they messed with Hezbollah - but even none of Israel’s friends could have predicted a victory this stunning, this fast!
Of course at this point it’s still a strategic victory, it will take time to make it a tactical victory. But Hezbollah has now been reduced to an angry, still armed but leaderless mob. Dangerous to civilians but no match for any disciplined military forces.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:35 AM (S6gqv)

32 Hezbollah chief is mort?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:36 AM (SfhV1)

33 *He was also the owner along with the Shibe family.*

They painted one my cars many years ago. $29.95.

Posted by: It was a Buick at September 28, 2024 08:37 AM (dg+HA)

34 32 Hezbollah chief is mort?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:36 AM (SfhV1)

Org Chart looks like shooting range target.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

35 33 *He was also the owner along with the Shibe family.*

They painted one my cars many years ago. $29.95.
Posted by: It was a Buick at September 28, 2024 08:37 AM (dg+HA)

I will paint any royal carriage for 2 pounds sterling.

Posted by: Earl of Scheib at September 28, 2024 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

36 grammie winger, he is very mort. as is their entire military chain of command :

https://tinyurl.com/ytndu7dd

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:38 AM (V13WU)

37 The son-in-law of our pastor, his wife (the pastor's daughter), and their three small daughters will be in a rather dangerous country for the foreseeable future and could use prayers for safety and success in their missionary work.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 08:24 AM (BpYfr)
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I hope it goes well for them. One of the chaplains in my squadron transferred out because his family was doing mission work in the Pacific islands.

I think evangelization is important, but I don't think uprooting families and making them involuntary participants is the way to go. Maybe it's just the popular culture, but a lot of vocal apostates seem to be the children of missionaries.

I also think that where we are right now, we need more missionaries in the US. The country is re-paganizing at a frightful pace. A lot of our social problems would go away if we had levels of faith like those in the 1950s.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:39 AM (llXky)

38
Yup, eventually a stadium was built with his name, now sadly gone.

The stadium was built in 1908 and was named Shibe Park, after co-owner Ben Shibe. In 1938, the Phillies also played there.

After Mack retired, it was renamed Connie Mack Stadium. The Phillies purchased the stadium (reluctantly) and used it until 1970.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:39 AM (BkEzK)

39 off painter sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

40 32 Hezbollah chief is mort?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:36 AM (SfhV1)

Sing it like a munchkin:

“He’s not only merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (S6gqv)

41
They painted one my cars many years ago. $29.95.

Posted by: It was a Buick at September 28, 2024 08:37 AM

Buick is the preferred vehicle of 9 out of 10 ballot 'fortifiers'. Accept no less when it's 3 am Election Night and it's time to let the rubber hit the road.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (RKVpM)

42 Israel, of course, will not post what they know, but feels safe to post the dead ones. there might be a few targets yet alive.

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (V13WU)

43 Prayers up for those that have asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that know they need them but have not asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don’t know it yet; and
Prayers up for those who pray alone, asking for help in silence, and whose prayers are known but to God!

Prayers up even for all "our" politicians who have apparently decided that the 10% graft and power are far more desirable than honor or integrity, may they see the error of their ways and repent!
And lastly, prayers up for former (and hopefully future) President Trump, keep him safe from harm and may the many forces of evil arrayed against him and our country be made ineffective and come to naught!

And bless all the families, Morons, and friends impacted by this vicious destructive storm.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (hOUT3)

44 Sing it like a munchkin:

“He’s not only merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (S6gqv)

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

45 12 well, Wakefield ...
Posted by: sock_rat_ee

Next week it may be Bessemer

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 08:42 AM (QXQ4l)

46 I think someone is concerned...

"Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been transferred to a secure location after Israel claimed to have killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Reuters reports, citing local sources.

Unnamed officials also told the agency that Iran is maintaining close contact with the Lebanese-based Islamist group to determine what to do next."

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (V13WU)

47 The Week In Pictures never disappoints

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (/7KEl)

48 Israel has really dismembered Hezbollah. IYKWIM

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (Q4IgG)

49

Iran for sure is now going to ramp up its efforts at interfering in our elections to prevent a Trump victory. And that doesn't include yet another assassination attempt, with or without assistance/collusion from the Deep state.

Perhaps it's not a bad idea to vote early in case they do hack the voting machinery and crash the system on Election Day, by themselves or with assistance from Dao-Min-Yen et. al

Yikes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (x0n13)

50 yes, maintain very close contacts, why don't you

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (V13WU)

51 Of course at this point it’s still a strategic victory, it will take time to make it a tactical victory. But Hezbollah has now been reduced to an angry, still armed but leaderless mob. Dangerous to civilians but no match for any disciplined military forces.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:35 AM (S6gqv)
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The reason Israel has turned things around is that they've stopped listening to the hypocrites who demand absolute moral perfection from Western militaries while excusing the crimes and atrocities of our enemies.

Whenever someone brings up Israel doing something naughty, I cut them short by asking what Hamas' or Hezbullah & etc. use for uniforms. What are their ranks? What units do the field?

Uniforms and ranks and units are there to protect civilians. If you don't use them, you want civilians to die. The reason why civilians losses in Ukraine are so much lower is that both sides do this. It's pretty simple stuff.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (llXky)

52
"Earl of Schieb"
LOL

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (dg+HA)

53 36 grammie winger, he is very mort. as is their entire military chain of command :

https://tinyurl.com/ytndu7dd
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:38 AM (V13WU)

Wow.

Posted by: MrExcitement at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (hOOi9)

54 Good morning everyone! Praying for all, especially those in specific need, but also generally. What a difference time and God (but especially God) has made for me. Maintaining gains, maintaining positive outlook, slowly, gently cultivating a relationship with a remarkable woman. Did have a bit of a relapse yesterday, a moment of bitterness. Daily Bible verse and prayer (online) miraculously on target, reminded me to love and trust him. Yesterday was autistic son’s birthday and youngest daughter’s last week. I brought him home from his group home and she’s home for the weekend (evacuated from school for hurricane). Just brought on negative feelings towards the one who abandoned us (especially them- I’ve moved on, but they’ll never have another mother and she’s forgotten them, made no contact with either). We are commanded to love and forgive each other, and I’m trying, but it’s been difficult and I certainly failed. Every day I count down from 490 whenever I catch myself being bitter or arguing with “ghosts.” Nowadays I rarely get below 485, mostly just feel pity if I think of her at all, but yesterday was tough. Today, however, is a new day, and I trust Him to give me daily bread.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (fiUiH)

55
After Mack retired, it was renamed Connie Mack Stadium. The Phillies purchased the stadium (reluctantly) and used it until 1970.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:39 AM

The 'new' stadium which replaced Connie Mack Stadium has already been demolished in 2004.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (RKVpM)

56 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Caffiend at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (CV8a5)

57 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (hOUT3)

Thank you for that moving prayer Hrothgar.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (QXQ4l)

58 If we want to with a WW2 analogy for the war in the Middle East, this would have been like killing Hitler and his entire general staff in 1940.

On X last night:
“Israeli Sources have confirmed that besides Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, several other Senior Hezbollah Leaders as well as a Group of Advisors from the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) were inside the Command Bunker when it was Targeted. With all Occupants expected to have been Killed by the Strike.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:45 AM (S6gqv)

59 Wishing you continued good health, J.J.
I’m still amazed you could continue with the Morning Report through all of your procedures and therapy.

For all its faults at least modern medicine has made surviving cancer a lot easier in the past few decades.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 08:45 AM (6ydKt)

60 SHALOM

tff

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

61 Today, however, is a new day, and I trust Him to give me daily bread.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (fiUiH)

God be with you, sir.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:46 AM (SfhV1)

62 Doggeh sez its wake up time

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 08:47 AM (dE3DB)

63 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (x0n13)

I have only voted early/absentee once when I was a freshman in college.

But I will be voting early this year as soon as I can

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 08:47 AM (QXQ4l)

64 JJ, Iran is an incompetent and backward regime, only able to terrorize, but will not withstand and Israeli onslaught if Israel so chooses. When I see vids from Iran, their daily lives look like something out of the 70s . Think USSR 1976 sheek.

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:48 AM (V13WU)

65 *an Israeli onslaught

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:48 AM (V13WU)

66 43 Prayers up for those that have asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that know they need them but have not asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don’t know it yet; and
Prayers up for those who pray alone, asking for help in silence, and whose prayers are known but to God!

Prayers up even for all "our" politicians who have apparently decided that the 10% graft and power are far more desirable than honor or integrity, may they see the error of their ways and repent!
And lastly, prayers up for former (and hopefully future) President Trump, keep him safe from harm and may the many forces of evil arrayed against him and our country be made ineffective and come to naught!

And bless all the families, Morons, and friends impacted by this vicious destructive storm.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 28, 2024 08:40 AM (hOUT3)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:48 AM (64Zez)

67 Yeah, we should be just like China, so we can have exploding sewage systems too. For fairness, ya know. Vote Kamala!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 28, 2024 08:48 AM (XMwZJ)

68 31 What has been happening in Lebanon is truly astounding
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I can't find the video.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (wILM4)

69 We are commanded to love and forgive each other, and I’m trying, but it’s been difficult and I certainly failed. Every day I count down from 490 whenever I catch myself being bitter or arguing with “ghosts.” Nowadays I rarely get below 485, mostly just feel pity if I think of her at all, but yesterday was tough. Today, however, is a new day, and I trust Him to give me daily bread.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:44 AM (fiUiH)
---
Forgiveness is difficult, especially when we ask too much of ourselves and seek to do it too soon. Especially early on, it is important to explore one's feelings and think about why things happened, what we could have done differently, and also accept that what is done is done.

A big part is just moving on and filling that space with other things, which gradually push out the old anger because you've replaced it with new joy.

For me, forgiveness doesn't really happen until I've moved on and have some distance from what happened.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (llXky)

70 SpaceX Crew-9 launch scheduled for 1:17 EDT today.

They should play the Gilligan's Island theme, considering who they're going to go pick up.

Posted by: MrExcitement at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (hOOi9)

71 Iran is swearing revenge, but at the moment Khameini in Iran is reportedly in hiding at a “secure location”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (S6gqv)

72 “ Lord my God, I called to you for help, and you healed me.”

Psalm 30:2

Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (b82nJ)

73 tff ? Texas Fishin' Forum ???

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (V13WU)

74 51 The reason Israel has turned things around is that they've stopped listening to the hypocrites who demand absolute moral perfection from Western militaries while excusing the crimes and atrocities of our enemies.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (llXky)

- - - -

Well ya know, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, and all that…

Moral equivalency in furtherance of ideological and political agendas is what is ultimately dooming the west.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (6ydKt)

75 Best wishes and positive vibes to all who are in distress this day

sidenote: The new toaster performed flawlessly

no more throwing toast around the kitchen
and it's red like a fire engine
matches my stapler

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (/7KEl)

76 So happy to hear your good news JJ. Keep the faith, stay positive, and G_d bless you (I think it’s okay to name Him in my faith, respect your’s).

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (fiUiH)

77
There's nothing wrong with the White Sox that a brand spanking new $2 billion publicly-funded stadium for Reinsdorf can't fix.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 08:51 AM (BkEzK)

78 I always vote early. Much more convenient. We have something like a two week window for early voting where I live. But never by mail...that's just retarded.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 28, 2024 08:51 AM (XMwZJ)

79 JJ it's so wonderful that you are responding so well to treatment.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 08:52 AM (dE3DB)

80 67 Yeah, we should be just like China, so we can have exploding sewage systems too. For fairness, ya know. Vote Kamala!
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

Sewage equity now!

Posted by: Spread the filth at September 28, 2024 08:52 AM (dg+HA)

81 >but at the moment Khameini in Iran is reportedly in hiding at a “secure location”.
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to quote Pat Benatar:

you better run
you better hide

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:52 AM (/7KEl)

82 Biden was a thorn in Israel's side, he withheld ammo and military aid, forced other countries to do the same, and the Hamas situation took a year longer than it should have. What a fkng bastard.

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:52 AM (V13WU)

83 Wish words, Lloyd. That’s certainly been my experience. Thank you.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:52 AM (fiUiH)

84 Khameini is in a “secure location”. A Command Bunker!

Posted by: davidt at September 28, 2024 08:53 AM (i0F8b)

85 Iran needs a healthy revolution.

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:53 AM (V13WU)

86
Connie Mack Stadium was replaced by 'Veteran's Stadium':

As the stadium aged, its condition deteriorated. A hole in the wall allowed visiting teams' players to peep into the dressing room of the Eagles Cheerleaders.[11] So many mice infested the stadium that the security force employed cats as mousers.

Fat, happy cats?

Posted by: Hungry Haitian at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (RKVpM)

87 *wise

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (fiUiH)

88 “ Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.” Then the man got up and went home.”

Matthew 9:4-7

Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (b82nJ)

89 The day they finally knock off that ayatollah Khakamamie will be a day to rejoice

I just hope IDF doesn't run out of bombs

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (/7KEl)

90 Well now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (cPejy)

91 I can't find the video.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (wILM4)

It’s easy to find, my phone makes it difficult to post links. Looks like about 6 apartment buildings in Beirut getting blown up with some secondary explosions. Israel says that Hezbollah’s primary command and control complex was built underneath those buildings, and since Nasrallah is dead, it looks like they were right.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (S6gqv)

92 Woman caught smuggling more than 700 pounds of bologna at Texas border

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

93 here is what is driving everything (from R T - the russian outlet , so grain of salt) : "A key goal of the Israeli bombardment of Beirut aimed at Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other top members was to avoid a full-scale ground invasion of Lebanon, a senior unnamed Israeli official has said, as quoted by the Times of Israel. He added that Israel is seeking to “break” Hezbollah, claiming that Israeli intelligence had uncovered an Iranian plan to encircle Israel and eliminate it by 2040 " I hope that 2025 the Islamic Republic of Iran is fkg gone.

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:56 AM (V13WU)

94 75
sidenote: The new toaster performed flawlessly

no more throwing toast around the kitchen
and it's red like a fire engine
matches my stapler
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (/7KEl)

; )

Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:56 AM (64Zez)

95 Iran needs to go. It really does.

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:56 AM (V13WU)

96 I imagine Israel, unlike us, is wise enough to husband its ammunition resources prudently, as opposed to, say, giving them all to Ukraine.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (fiUiH)

97
I just hope IDF doesn't run out of bombs

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM

elect me and they will

Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (tljrc)

98 Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.” Then the man got up and went home.”

Matthew 9:4-7

Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (b82nJ)

'The Chosen' does a beautiful job with that scene.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (SfhV1)

99 Morning everyone. Prayers to the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Nice work by the Israelis taking out Nasrallah. Given how leaderless Hezbollah is now , any attacks against Israeli by them will be unfocused and not strategic. I'm still surprised that we haven't seen any suicide bombers either in Israel or here. That's about what the terrorists have been reduced to

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (RTfY1)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:58 AM (64Zez)

101 100 100
Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 08:58 AM (64Zez)

101 a millimeter longer

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

102 Take over the middle, run it like a Boss and charge them, in oil, for it.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 09:00 AM (wILM4)

103 Iran's chain of command will now take over the remnants of Hezbollah. Perfect. Now Israel can bomb the shiite out of Iran (SWIDT??)

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:00 AM (V13WU)

104 92 Woman caught smuggling more than 700 pounds of bologna at Texas border
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

- - - -

I really don’t wanna know where she was hiding the bologna.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 09:00 AM (6ydKt)

105 He added that Israel is seeking to “break” Hezbollah, claiming that Israeli intelligence had uncovered an Iranian plan to encircle Israel and eliminate it by 2040 " I hope that 2025 the Islamic Republic of Iran is fkg gone.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 08:56 AM (V13WU

Okay that part is kind of funny, since everyone else figured that out 15 years ago when Iran backed Hamas, helped Hezbollah dominate Lebanon, and backed the Houthi rebellion in Yemen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 09:00 AM (S6gqv)

106 My view is your vote gets there when it gets there, early does nothing that late won't. But that early opportunity opens up fraud possibilities.

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 09:01 AM (fwDg9)

107 and that's what a decapitation strike looks like

IDF playing for keeps
Just keep Washington DC in the dark about your plans

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:01 AM (/7KEl)

108 Why is Trump promising to undo his reform of SALT deductions? Only northeastern Democrat voters want that to happen and PDJT will never get their votes, whereas the reform was bigly popular with everyone else, and none of those voters want to see this reform undone.

Ah well...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2024 09:01 AM (5++NP)

109 “ Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (SfhV1)”

Matthew 9 is one of my favorite chapters. Especially this;

“ On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

-Matthew 9:12-13

Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 09:01 AM (b82nJ)

110 As the stadium aged, its condition deteriorated. A hole in the wall allowed visiting teams' players to peep into the dressing room of the Eagles Cheerleaders.[11] So many mice infested the stadium that the security force employed cats as mousers.

Fat, happy cats?
Posted by: Hungry Haitian

In 1969, the Mets were coming from behind and were in the process of catching and passing the Cubs, who were in first place most of the year. Cubs were visiting the Mets at Shea Stadium, when a black cat came out from under the stands, stood in front of the visitors dugout, and stared at Leo Durocher for a few seconds. The Mets swamped them from that time on and the Cubs folded. It's an important part of Mets lore since.

Posted by: Here, Kitty! at September 28, 2024 09:02 AM (CV8a5)

111 An isolated and agitated Iran would be a concern, I'd think. Israel may take out Khameini, and that would be good news, but the US has no interest in fostering a more sane government there.

It'd be in Israel's interests to step in and do that and not let the US have a foothold.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)

112 Additional Requests:
Joe Kidd asked for prayers for his brother Mike’s soul. Mike passed away from stomach cancer on Thursday. Prayers of comfort for Mike’s wife Irene and adult son Michael are also appreciated.

Coelacanth asked for prayers for his son. He is suffering from fibromyalgia and his work environment is toxic. He is pushing through his troubles and is praying, but feels like God has abandoned him.

Posted by: Annie Stew at September 28, 2024 09:02 AM (Gfol1)

113 Matthew 9 is one of my favorite chapters. Especially this;

The whole Gospel of Matthew is so wonderful. I love it.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:03 AM (SfhV1)

114 What has your life been reduced to if you're actually watching "RT?"

Posted by: Still too early for deep questions at September 28, 2024 09:03 AM (dg+HA)

115 - A few comments have been made concerning our Lord's reply on how many times to forgive.
Until 70 times 7.
Was He saying 490 times then after that...?
Consider another possibility.

That He was referring back to another time the phrase seventy sevens, or seventy weeks, was used.
Telling us to forgive until the end of this current, evil age.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:04 AM (/vvA5)

116
113 even the geneologies.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:04 AM (SfhV1)

117 Farmer Bob, prayers for you and your son and daughter. I hope they each have a counselor or therapist they can talk to?
I

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 09:05 AM (GhIJO)

118 The Mets swamped them from that time on and the Cubs folded. It's an important part of Mets lore since.

Posted by: Here, Kitty! at September 28, 2024 09:02 AM (CV8a5)

We don't talk about 1969 in this house.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:05 AM (SfhV1)

119 118 The Mets swamped them from that time on and the Cubs folded. It's an important part of Mets lore since.

Posted by: Here, Kitty! at September 28, 2024 09:02 AM (CV8a5)

We don't talk about 1969 in this house.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:05 AM (SfhV1)

Because you were a child

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 09:06 AM (QXQ4l)

120 *We don't talk about 1969 in this house.*

Neither do we.

Posted by: The Kopechne family at September 28, 2024 09:07 AM (dg+HA)

121 What has your life been reduced to if you're actually watching "RT?"
Posted by: Still too early for deep questions at September 28, 2024 09:03 AM (dg+HA)

I do it so you can continue watching FOX and CNN. You are welcome Quarter Twenty .

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:07 AM (V13WU)

122 good morning MisHum, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at September 28, 2024 09:07 AM (2Q8YY)

123 Because you were a child

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 09:06 AM (QXQ4l)

You're very generous, Mis Hum

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:08 AM (SfhV1)

124 Sunday is The Feast of the 7 Archangels. If you are looking for a healing, remember the Archangel St. Raphael whose name means “God Heals”.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 09:09 AM (b82nJ)

125 Got rid of my TV a couple years ago. It's been glorious.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 09:09 AM (dg+HA)

126 Noah Berry Sr. and Jr. in the Wayne film “The Trail Beyond” with Jr. playing Wayne’s character’s best friend.

I have never seen Berry, Jr. this young in a film. He looks like a teenager.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 09:09 AM (6ydKt)

127 Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.” Then the man got up and went home.”

Matthew 9:4-7

Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 08:54 AM (b82nJ)

'The Chosen' does a beautiful job with that scene.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 08:57 AM (SfhV1)

While The Chosen does interject speculation in order to tell a story, the treatment of Jesus is well done. There is no doubt that He is the Word Made Flesh.

Every time Jonathan Roumie is on the screen, his presence is riveting. I've heard him speak in person and seen several interviews. In all cases, he thanks God for being given the gift of portraying Jesus Christ. Roumie states that it is very humbling for him to be approached by people telling him that he changed their life, and seeing his image on devotional materials.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:11 AM (pJWtt)

128 75
sidenote: The new toaster performed flawlessly

no more throwing toast around the kitchen
and it's red like a fire engine
matches my stapler
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (/7KEl)
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Is it networked to the stapler? Better watch that!

Toast is a staple food

Posted by: Ciampino - Toast is a staple food at September 28, 2024 09:12 AM (qfLjt)

129
We don't talk about 1969 in this house.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:05 AM

1964 Philadelphia. The Phillies only needed to win one more game to clinch first place. My Dad and I sitting in the left field bleachers of Connie Mack Stadium, capacity crowd. The opposing team hitting home runs in our direction.

They never did win that one more game.

https://is.gd/aB95vQ

Posted by: Hungry Haitian at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (RKVpM)

130 - "even the geneologies"

I would say especially.
Sad that a certain someone refuses to read anything from that book onward.
But then, they also deny the literalness of Genesis 1 so...

Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (/vvA5)

131 Thanks Vmom! Daughter has been in counseling since her psychiatric hospitalization for suicidal ideation last year. Son has moderate to severe autism and doesn’t understand. He’s mostly non-verbal. Has excellent receptive communication skills (understands what you say to him, follows directions) but very limited expressive communication skills (will sign critical needs and desires, makes binary choices when presented, does picture exchange communication).

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (fiUiH)

132 The SpaceX launch is live right now - prepping the astronauts, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/live/bvMUVxflvxI

Posted by: Ciampino - Toast is a staple food? at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (qfLjt)

133 116
113 even the geneologies.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:04 AM (SfhV1)

Ruths great great or so grandson is David.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (gbOdA)

134 Good morning good people. Prayers for all intentions - those asked and those known but to God.

Prayers also requested for my wife's best buddy Mike. He is on death's door as a result of bone cancer. His kids have all been called in so, you know. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:15 AM (WXNFJ)

135 I would say especially.
Sad that a certain someone refuses to read anything from that book onward.
But then, they also deny the literalness of Genesis 1 so...
Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:14 AM (/vvA5)

who ?

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:16 AM (V13WU)

136 128 75
sidenote: The new toaster performed flawlessly

no more throwing toast around the kitchen
and it's red like a fire engine
matches my stapler
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (/7KEl)
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Is it networked to the stapler? Better watch that!

Toast is a staple food
Posted by: Ciampino - Toast is a staple food at September 28, 2024 09:12 AM (qfLjt)

A toaster that side launched to toward the table would be nice.
And WTF is that thingy the brits have to hold cold hard toast?

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:16 AM (gbOdA)

137 who ?
Posted by: runner

Who's on First (Corinthians).

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:17 AM (WXNFJ)

138 What Israel accomplished is precisely what should have happened after the very first terror attack. Had the retaliation been on that scale I seriously doubt we would have had to witness the sick charade of the following decades.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (hKoQL)

139 Such wonderful news this morning...Israel got Nasralla and JJ beat the beast.

Extra prayers for Jewells and hubby. We need to bear down harder on this one.

Posted by: creeper at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (M6moH)

140 Red toaster sounds subversive to me unless you are a fireman. Probably full of Chinese spyware.

Posted by: Decline and Fall of the West at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (CV8a5)

141 - "who?"

If I wanted to say, runner, I would have. Comment was meant for them, not to slam them to everyone else.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (/vvA5)

142 Well ya know, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, and all that…

Moral equivalency in furtherance of ideological and political agendas is what is ultimately dooming the west.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (6ydKt)
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I would say we've now moved onto self-loathing. The West is the source of all evil, and world will be redeemed when America as it was ceases to exist and becomes Brazil 2.0.

It's also clear that a lot of the left believe there is no place in the world for Jews. They don't want them in Israel, and they don't want them here.

But they're not anti-Semitic. How dare you call them that!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:21 AM (llXky)

143 139 Such wonderful news this morning...Israel got Nasralla and JJ beat the beast.

Extra prayers for Jewells and hubby. We need to bear down harder on this one.
Posted by: creeper at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (M6moH)

Agreed for Jewells and spouse!!!! As for me, it's very good and encouraging. Have I vanquished the beast, only time will tell.

Gd bless you all.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:21 AM (x0n13)

144 123 Because you were a child

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 09:06 AM (QXQ4l)

You're very generous, Mis Hum
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:08 AM (SfhV1)

That's a name I've never been called.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2024 09:21 AM (QXQ4l)

145 May the peace and the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with you all on this day. Walk in the light of Truth, my friends.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 28, 2024 09:21 AM (b82nJ)

146 I also have bamboo toast tongs
I really like toast

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:22 AM (/7KEl)

147 136
A toast rack. I had one in Africa. Our so-called 'Government loaf' was pretty good bread and toast only went hard if it was almost burnt or actually charcoaled!
It was called a government loaf as it was considered staple food for poor people so had to be a certain minimum weight and of a certain nutritional value. Definitely not gluten free. Real bread!!!!

Posted by: Ciampino - Toast is a staple food but you knew that at September 28, 2024 09:22 AM (qfLjt)

148 Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2024 08:50 AM (6ydKt)

If only we put our heads on the chopping block or march into the gas chambers whistling a happy tune, then we demonstrate our superiority!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:22 AM (x0n13)

149 I really like toast
Posted by: Don Black

Heywood Banks
https://t.ly/la6Yp

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:24 AM (WXNFJ)

150 146 I also have bamboo toast tongs
I really like toast
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:22 AM (/7KEl)

I saw Bamboo Toast tongs open for Yellow Magic Orchestra at Budokan in '79!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:24 AM (x0n13)

151 If I wanted to say, runner, I would have. Comment was meant for them, not to slam them to everyone else.
Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (/vvA5)

if that was meant to be a private comment, why did you post it on a public board ?

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:24 AM (V13WU)

152 What Israel accomplished is precisely what should have happened after the very first terror attack. Had the retaliation been on that scale I seriously doubt we would have had to witness the sick charade of the following decades.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 28, 2024 09:19 AM (hKoQL)
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Civilized, affluent people have to be pushed into wartime thinking. There's also a reluctance on the part of elites to do this because other, more traditional beliefs will re-emerge, like how wars require serious military organizations, not armed Human Resources departments bedecked with rainbow flags.

Most importantly, the chaos of combat remind us that of how little we control, and that our present prosperity and freedoms are fragile, and perhaps there is a greater power sustaining us that we have all but forgotten?

Never forget that Dubya's response to the War on Terror was to tell us to go the mall, not go to church.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:24 AM (llXky)

153 "Government loaf."
This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Federal workers at September 28, 2024 09:25 AM (dg+HA)

154 OT: I returned to Christ and was baptized on 9/1

Posted by: Halfhand at September 28, 2024 09:26 AM (x/nfO)

155 Whenever someone brings up Israel doing something naughty, I cut them short by asking what Hamas' or Hezbullah & etc. use for uniforms. What are their ranks? What units do the field?

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I was recently talking to someone who was mouthing the usual weak Western crybullying tropes... " Oh, look at the devastation, this can't continue, Israel must surely agree to a ceasefire at some point soon, to stop the carnage blah blah."

I told her "they do not have to. They may or may not do so, but they don't have to. You're only seeing it this way because all you've known is the American way of war, and we're the only country who does it this way, and it's why we haven't won one in close to century - we're the only people who pretend this thing can be humane.

War is never pretty, but if you want to see the most hideous face of it, pit two opponents with an iron will to victory against each other. Because they don't roll up shop and go home when Walter Cronkite tells them to.

You're seeing an actual, really bad war, and you're not getting it because you don't have the frame of reference to understand people who need to win, and that's both sides here."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 09:26 AM (awTae)

156 >Heywood Banks
https://t.ly/la6Yp

Posted by: Tonypete
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I enjoyed that
YEAH TOAST

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:27 AM (/7KEl)

157 OT: I returned to Christ and was baptized on 9/1

Posted by: Halfhand at September 28, 2024 09:26 AM (x/nfO)

How wonderful!!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:28 AM (SfhV1)

158 Why on a public board?
I'll just let you think that one through yourself.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 28, 2024 09:29 AM (/vvA5)

159 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:29 AM (u82oZ)

160 Good morning, Horde, offering prayers for all of you, especially those affected by hurricane Helene, and as always Jewells and her hubby.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 28, 2024 09:30 AM (Sgq8y)

161 Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:29 AM (u82oZ)

Did you see that Jordy has a new job with the NFL?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:30 AM (SfhV1)

162 I also think that where we are right now, we need more missionaries in the US. The country is re-paganizing at a frightful pace. A lot of our social problems would go away if we had levels of faith like those in the 1950s.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:39 AM (llXky)

You are absolutely correct. The success of the television show, The Chosen is showing that there is a void to be filled. Jonathan Roumie is becoming a very articulate proponent of the Catholic Church, and taking the message of Jesus Christ's salvific sacrifice to unexpected places.

There is a growing realization that the happy-clappy Catholic Church of the 1970s has been a failure. I'm chairman of my local parish's Worship Commission and at a local meeting, I stated that we needed to examine why former congregants weren't coming to Mass. One of the responses was that those people no longer believed in the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

I answered why should they: there is nothing to usher them into a sacred space (walking into this church building feels like walking into an office building), and the supernatural is not promoted.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:31 AM (pJWtt)

163 Yudhishthira's Dice

Two good arguments, although I expect the first is couched in knowing the Laws of Land Warfare.

Shermanesque statements.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:31 AM (u82oZ)

164 132 The SpaceX launch is live right now - prepping the astronauts, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/live/bvMUVxflvxI
Posted by: Ciampino - Toast
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Thanks.
They are talking about the Starliner. Never a word about the cabin conditions of Starliner during re-entry.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 09:31 AM (wILM4)

165 I returned to Christ and was baptized on 9/1

Posted by: Halfhand

Wonderful news!!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:32 AM (WXNFJ)

166
When 'the wall' came down in 1989 I was so overjoyed as I had a son soon approaching draft age. I figured peace with the USSR could last 20 or 30 years at which time he'd too old for combat.

Which it has, barely.

Posted by: Hungry Haitian at September 28, 2024 09:32 AM (RKVpM)

167 Enjoying a good cup of coffee and a monster slice of bread I made yesterday. Homemade blueberry jam on it too.

The simple pleasures are the best.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:34 AM (WXNFJ)

168 {{{grammie winger}}}

????!

Off to look.

May you and the Rev enjoy your togetherness and have others cook your meals.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:34 AM (u82oZ)

169
Okay, all of you Coffee Maniacs can put down your cups of Cat-Poop Coffee you're drinking cuz there's a new Caffiene-Dispensing Sheriff in town!

The lovely and caffeine-addicted Mrs naturalfake returned to her Gourmet Coffee Shop Employee During College Days of Yore and brought home some snazzy gourmet coffee beans to go with our snazzy, newish gourmet coffee brewer.

The coffee is....Ascension's "Pearl Snap" (I don't get it either) which contains hints of:
*reads label*
Panela (Mexican cheese)
Fruit Punch
Vanilla

Now, I don't admit to tasting any of that, though Mexican Cheese Coffee does have a certain ring to it.

But-

That got to be better than swishing civet bile around your taste buds, amirite?

So, try it today. Now! Right Now!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (eDfFs)

170 >Enjoying a good cup of coffee and a monster slice of bread I made yesterday.
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did you toast the bread

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (/7KEl)

171 As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (LkLld)

172 OT: I returned to Christ and was baptized on 9/1
Posted by: Halfhand at September 28, 2024 09:26 AM (x/nfO)
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Praise be to God! Welcome home!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:36 AM (llXky)

173 have others cook your meals.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:34 AM (u82oZ)

Amen to that!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 28, 2024 09:36 AM (SfhV1)

174 Prayers up also for our Brethren and Sisteren in eastern TN and western NC. They are suffering greatly due to the storm. Some of the little towns have been completely wiped out.

I40 and I65 are completely closed in spots so transport and help will have a tough time getting to them.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:36 AM (WXNFJ)

175 did you toast the bread
Posted by: Don Black

Of course! I'm not an animal!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:37 AM (WXNFJ)

176 As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (LkLld)
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The Left is far more evil than most people can possibly imagine. They are minions of the Devil, no question.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 09:37 AM (BpYfr)

177 Looking at the devastation in NC and TN from the flooding. Just horrible. I wonder how the junta will treat those people? *

* I don't wonder. Wrong race and political persuasion.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (Q4IgG)

178
As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM

I don't think there has ever been an election that can be categorized so easily as 'good versus' evil.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (RKVpM)

179 147 136
A toast rack. I had one in Africa. Our so-called 'Government loaf' was pretty good bread and toast only went hard if it was almost burnt or actually charcoaled!
It was called a government loaf as it was considered staple food for poor people so had to be a certain minimum weight and of a certain nutritional value. Definitely not gluten free. Real bread!!!!
Posted by: Ciampino - Toast is a staple food but you knew that at September 28, 2024 09:22 AM (qfLjt)

Toast Out of Africa

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (gbOdA)

180 I Just got some Seattle's Best cuz it was on sale

now, my toast was actually an English muffin- raspberry jam on one half and Grecian honey on the other

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (/7KEl)

181 This coming week is my favorite saints week: tomorrow the Archangels, then St, Therese, the Guardian Angels, and St. Francis.
There’s a college nearby run by Franciscans where I used to bring my kitteh to get blessed. It was so cute to see the conglomeration of pets around the circle: German Shepherds to lizards and everything in between

Posted by: kallisto at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (ghk1f)

182 170 >Enjoying a good cup of coffee and a monster slice of bread I made yesterday.
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did you toast the bread
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (/7KEl)

So you made a monster slice of bread yesterday. How did you keep it fresh.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:39 AM (gbOdA)

183 iiiinteresting..

"Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has relocated within the Gaza Strip after learning about the Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, according to a Saturday report by Saudi state-owned television channel Al Arabiya.

The report also claimed that Sinwar's security circles have changed in the past few days and that Hamas leaders also reportedly decided to stop communicating with high officials abroad "until further notice."

On the day Israel smokes sinwar , I am buying everyone a drink.

Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:39 AM (V13WU)

184 "Paging Hassan NasrallaH! Please pick up a white courtesy walkie-talkie!"

Posted by: IDF at September 28, 2024 09:39 AM (uCfKO)

185 Good Saturday morning, horde. This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Prayers said for all who've asked, and those who haven't.

Prayers for the destruction of satanic forces throughout the world.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 09:39 AM (OX9vb)

186 Grecian honey???

Posted by: dantesed at September 28, 2024 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

187 Woman caught smuggling more than 700 pounds of bologna at Texas border
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 08:55 AM

*The Paolo, he makes the shifty eyes*

Posted by: Paolo at September 28, 2024 09:41 AM (Wnv9h)

188 grammie winger

So Jordy Nelson is an appeal-hearing officer in player-discipline cases. He is a good man, and will be a good judge for that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 28, 2024 09:41 AM (u82oZ)

189 Grecian honey???
Posted by: dantesed

I loved her spanakopita and ouzo. Wow, that was a weekend!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:42 AM (WXNFJ)

190 I bless the toast down in Africa...

No, that's not it...

Posted by: ToTo at September 28, 2024 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

191 The reason Israel has turned things around is that they've stopped listening to the hypocrites who demand absolute moral perfection from Western militaries while excusing the crimes and atrocities of our enemies.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:43 AM (llXky)

Honestly, I thought Israel was never going to take the measures the Oct 6 attack required.

The number one job of any gov't is to protect its citizens. (A job now forgotten by the current US gov't)

After a senseless, animalistic attack like Israel experienced, it is incumbent on the leader to bring as much pain, violence, horror, and death to the attackers, their countrymen, and their supporters and anyone within sniffing distance of these folk as is humanly possible,

until they unconditionally surrender and the thought of attacking you again is simply painful to consider when you know what will follow.

Good for Israel for finally taking their number one job seriously.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (eDfFs)

192 The Left is far more evil than most people can possibly imagine. They are minions of the Devil, no question.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 09:37 AM

This man gets it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (Wnv9h)

193 I answered why should they: there is nothing to usher them into a sacred space (walking into this church building feels like walking into an office building), and the supernatural is not promoted.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:31 AM (pJWtt)
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I'm very pleased at the direction our diocese is taking, and the efforts to restore the church interiors, filling them with sacred images, icons and creating a sense of awe.

I know some here may have issues with that, but there are times during the Mass when my mind wanders, the distractions of the world try to intrude, and having the Holy Family or Our Lady of Guadalupe or the image of Divine Mercy at hand suddenly refocuses my thoughts.

There is also a sustained effort for people to receive the Eucharist on the tongue and I have started to do so (remember, I'm a convert, so was taught to receive it in the hand). People are embracing it, which is great.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (llXky)

194 >Grecian honey???

Posted by: dantesed
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Attiki
I get it from Amazon
pricey but so good

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (/7KEl)

195 I don't wonder. Wrong race and political persuasion.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (Q4IgG)

One of the executives at my company signed off on an all hands meeting (where four of us are in the storm's path of destruction) yesterday:

"That's it, everyone go enjoy some beautiful fall weather this weekend. Well, except those of you in the Southeast, but I don't know why you'd choose to live in the path of a storm."

I will guarantee she'd never say that to people about a disaster anywhere else. The hatred some people have of Southerners is palpable.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (awTae)

196
I mentioned 'James Woods' as someone to follow on Twitter/X yesterday... Midnight last night:

@RealJamesWoods
I just noticed that I gained 100,000 more friends on X today. These are trying times, and having this forum where smart and concerned folks can mingle and discuss issues is vitally important. I so appreciate each and every one of you.

Ace have that many lurkers?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 09:44 AM (RKVpM)

197 I don't think there has ever been an election that can be categorized so easily as 'good versus' evil.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (RKVpM)
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A few weeks ago Catholic twitter was wringing its hands about Trump watering down the right to life plank and threatening to stay home.

How they're calling for a crusade. Life comes at you fast.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:45 AM (llXky)

198 the local honey here is hit or miss
the last batch of local honey I bought turned to crystals, which is useless

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:45 AM (/7KEl)

199 As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (LkLld)
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We're learning a lot about how "good Germans" were able to close their eyes to the evils around them, even convincing themselves that everything they are doing is just fine.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:46 AM (llXky)

200 Trump political ads using Harris's own words. Link goes to YouTube.

https://tinyurl.com/y5cvt4rn

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 28, 2024 09:46 AM (iODuv)

201 did you toast the bread
Posted by: Don Black

Of course! I'm not an animal!
Posted by: Tonypete

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I just had a slice of homemade sourdough bread with butter and triple berry jam with my second cup of coffee.

I did NOT toast the bread. Not because I'm an animal but because my toaster is broke. I couldn't muster the effort to pan toast the bread.

Plus, I have a nearly awesome hash.

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 09:47 AM (uCfKO)

202 Heywood Banks
https://t.ly/la6Yp

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:24 AM (WXNFJ)

LOL. I didn't click, but I don't need to. Every time I make toast, and Mr. Dmlw! asks the obvious: Are you having toast? I reply, I like toast! It's the best, from coast to coast!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 09:47 AM (OX9vb)

203 Grecian honey???

Posted by: dantesed

Set up for a catamite or Formula16 joke.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:47 AM (x0n13)

204 Buick is the preferred vehicle of 9 out of 10 ballot 'fortifiers'. Accept no less when it's 3 am Election Night and it's time to let the rubber hit the road.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024

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Maybe the older, 1960s-1970s models. Recent model Buick sedans don't have trunks any bigger than other cars in the same class. And now you can't even get sedans from them; it's got to be an SUV.

Which I suppose would hold even more ballots. Don't tell the Demonrats.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (omVj0)

205 "That's it, everyone go enjoy some beautiful fall weather this weekend. Well, except those of you in the Southeast, but I don't know why you'd choose to live in the path of a storm."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (awTae)
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It's Yard Sign Calvinism. The Elect make good choices, the damned make poor ones. "Think like I do, live as I do, and you will be saved just as I am."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (llXky)

206 198 the local honey here is hit or miss
the last batch of local honey I bought turned to crystals, which is useless
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:45 AM (/7KEl)

Star Trek episode?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (x0n13)

207
"That's it, everyone go enjoy some beautiful fall weather this weekend. Well, except those of you in the Southeast, but I don't know why you'd choose to live in the path of a storm."

I will guarantee she'd never say that to people about a disaster anywhere else. The hatred some people have of Southerners is palpable.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Throw that comment back in her face when she has a panic buying spree getting ready to endure the next winter storm.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (xG4kz)

208 >I did NOT toast the bread. Not because I'm an animal but because my toaster is broke.
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I am sorry you are experiencing toasterlessness

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (/7KEl)

209 Looking at the devastation in NC and TN from the flooding. Just horrible.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 09:38 AM (Q4IgG)
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My goodness, you've come a long way from your dismissive, flippant comment in last Saturday's coffee thread regarding the at-that-point forecasted storm.

Something about it being nothing more than a trip to Waffle House for people to wait out a little wind and rain, wasn't it?

Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (Y1sOo)

210 Ace have that many lurkers?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 09:44 AM (RKVpM)

I used to make Photoshop parodies of stuff. I'd typically get a few thousand views. Ace found one funny and posted the link in the sidebar. Over 400k views, and then the hosting site banned me. Might have ended up being more. A lot of people lurk.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 09:49 AM (awTae)

211 Plus, I have a nearly awesome hash.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 09:47 AM (uCfKO)

Pixy taunts us with "nearly".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2024 09:49 AM (Wnv9h)

212 I must not be in on the joke
Grecian does mean a thing that is from Greece, right?

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:49 AM (/7KEl)

213 The classy pray & cafė thread!

Thank God.

Posted by: mindful webworker's cell at September 28, 2024 09:49 AM (FSAM+)

214 Ace have that many lurkers?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 09:44 AM (RKVpM)
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You'd be surprised at how many people read AoSHQ. The commenters only represent a tiny fraction of the readership.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 09:49 AM (BpYfr)

215 Good morning, all. Great news about the successful strike against Hezbollah; unfortunately, that part of the world has a well-stocked Strategic Asshole Reserve so someone will step into the void (or crater) left by Nasrallah's departure.

I have a busy weekend ahead of me, but hopefully at the end of it I'll have everything done at my old house so we can put it on the market soon. The insurance company says they're dropping coverage in mid-December since it's unoccupied.

Posted by: PabloD at September 28, 2024 09:50 AM (3hKsl)

216 Speaking of Angels: the car prayer

St. Gabriel with Mary, St. Raphael with Tobias, St. Michael and all the heavenly host, be our safeguard and protection on this journey.
May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life.
In the Name, etc.

Posted by: sal at September 28, 2024 09:50 AM (f+FmA)

217 As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (LkLld)
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The Left is far more evil than most people can possibly imagine. They are minions of the Devil, no question.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 09:37 AM (BpYfr)

This is a spiritual conflict and the battle lines are becoming very obvious to those with eyes to see. Just look at what the Lefties want: unlimited abortion, and elimination of "surplus" population to "save da Erf (tm)."

If you don't have any scruples against killing unborn babies, you have no scruples against killing anyone you regard as inconvenient. Now the Lefties are getting spun-up on the problem of those pesky Jews, and are seeking a Final Solution.

Oppression of Jews is always a leading-indicator of bad stuff coming down the pike. The Lefties get all worked up about the Spanish Inquisition but have no idea that it started as a means to root-out Jews that had insincerely converted to Christianity.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:50 AM (pJWtt)

218 A good way to toast bread is with a hot cast iron skillet or griddle, and spread mayonnaise on the bread before you toast it. Seriously.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 09:50 AM (dg+HA)

219 I bought turned to crystals, which is useless
Posted by: Don Black

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I'm no honey expert but I did drive past a Holiday Inn last month. I believe you can rehabilitate crystalized honey by putting the container in hot water.

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 09:51 AM (uCfKO)

220 Not because I'm an animal but because my toaster is broke.

You got an oven with a broiler?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 28, 2024 09:51 AM (+H2BX)

221 I'm back from washing and polishing the big red Buick; it looks good. As I passed my usual convenience store gas station, I saw that regular E10 was down to $2.65 (and I get .10/gal. off with my card), and that their E0 was -- $2.75! Even though I hadn't planned to, I pulled in -- and saw that the pump read $3.49. Either they haven't bothered to update the pumps to match the sign, or it's a bait-and-switch.

No point in asking the staff about the discrepancy. They speak as little English as they can get by with. My kittens understand more English words.

Anyway, I've had enough coffee for now, and am sipping some ice sparkling mineral water as I wait for Miss Linda to arrive. What's going on around here?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:52 AM (omVj0)

222 You're a good dad, Farmer Bob.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 09:52 AM (gDlxJ)

223 I bought turned to crystals, which is useless
Posted by: Don Black

********

I'm no honey expert but I did drive past a Holiday Inn last month. I believe you can rehabilitate crystalized honey by putting the container in hot water.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 09:51 AM (uCfKO)
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Honey is one of the most incredible foods nature ever produced. Practically indestructible with indefinite shelf life.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 09:53 AM (BpYfr)

224 More Grecian Honey - During HS, we'd party at the Sons of Percales and Daughters of Penelope hosted dances. Honestly, great fun. The Dads would play poker and the Mommas would play canasta while keeping an eye on us.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:53 AM (WXNFJ)

225
did you toast the bread
Posted by: Don Black

Of course! I'm not an animal!
Posted by: Tonypete

My mother, may G*d rest her soul, would obsess over how YOU prepared YOUR toast.

After admonishing me one time that what I had just pulled from the toaster was "raw toast", as she put it, I responded with, "And what is 'raw toast', Mom? Bread!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2024 09:54 AM (xG4kz)

226 >I believe you can rehabilitate crystalized honey by putting the container in hot water.

Posted by: muldoon
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yeah I did that, but it certainly detracted from the overall honey experience

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:54 AM (/7KEl)

227 I'm no honey expert but I did drive past a Holiday Inn last month. I believe you can rehabilitate crystalized honey by putting the container in hot water.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024

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I've tried that, but only the bottom portion seems to de-crystallize. The last bottle of honey I had with that problem, I settled for scraping some partly-crystalline portions out and putting them on toast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:54 AM (omVj0)

228 More Grecian Honey - During HS, we'd party at the Sons of Percales and Daughters of Penelope hosted dances. Honestly, great fun. The Dads would play poker and the Mommas would play canasta while keeping an eye on us.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:53 AM

*Hellenic fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2024 09:54 AM (Wnv9h)

229
Soft-boiled egg, half a toasted roll with a shmear of Philly on it.

Fortunately, the chemo meds haven't messed too badly with my stomach.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:55 AM (x0n13)

230 170 >Enjoying a good cup of coffee and a monster slice of bread I made yesterday.
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did you toast the bread
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:35 AM (/7KEl)

ha!

Posted by: m at September 28, 2024 09:55 AM (64Zez)

231 I'm back from washing and polishing the big red Buick. . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

We're not doing phrasing this morning?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:55 AM (WXNFJ)

232 Trump political ads using Harris's own words. Link goes to YouTube.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 28, 2024 09:46 AM (iODuv)
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Youtube suggested a video of Harris getting interviewed by MSNBC and even the sycophantic interview was visibly cringing from her rambling non-answers, which ALWAYS had to reference her middle class upbringing and being raised by her mom.

My take is that the Establishment is bailing on her because she and Walz are too stupid to be good puppets. Biden was obedient but went senile. Harris doesn't understand that she's owned. She really thinks that everything she has was earned by her own merits, which is why she wants to impose price controls on housing and stuff.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:55 AM (llXky)

233

Grecian Honey? Not Mrs. Hanks?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 09:56 AM (x0n13)

234 No hints of hazlenut or blueberries here, no sir. Hy-Vee "Medium Roast", on sale. I didn't do a 105 degree pourover with reverse-osmotized gluten free water this time around. More's the pity.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 09:56 AM (R3wAr)

235 I am sorry you are experiencing toasterlessness
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (/7KEl)

There is probably a govt program to get you toast or a toaster.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:57 AM (gbOdA)

236 seriously, I don't get it

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:57 AM (/7KEl)

237 I know some here may have issues with that, but there are times during the Mass when my mind wanders, the distractions of the world try to intrude, and having the Holy Family or Our Lady of Guadalupe or the image of Divine Mercy at hand suddenly refocuses my thoughts.

There is also a sustained effort for people to receive the Eucharist on the tongue and I have started to do so (remember, I'm a convert, so was taught to receive it in the hand). People are embracing it, which is great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (llXky)

The opposition to religious art is a form of Manicheaism in which the physical is regarded as inferior, or bad, as compared to the spiritual.

My pastor gave a recent homily in which he stated that the preferred method of receiving the Eucharistic host was upon the tongue.

I had less resistance from the octogenarians in the Worship Commission than I expected when I stated that we needed more reverent Communion and the church building needed to be foster a more reverent environment.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:57 AM (pJWtt)

238 This is a spiritual conflict and the battle lines are becoming very obvious to those with eyes to see.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:50 AM (pJWtt)
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There is a concerted effort in England to ban *silent prayer* near abortion mills. Just someone standing there thinking about God has been criminalized.

If you're jailing people for prayer, you're objectively on the side of the devil.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:58 AM (llXky)

239
I did NOT toast the bread. Not because I'm an animal but because my toaster is broke. I couldn't muster the effort to pan toast the bread.

Plus, I have a nearly awesome hash.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024

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Not my family, but the kids I grew up with at school would refer to the item as "toast bread." Not "toasted," mind you, but "toast" bread.

Of course, many of them pronounced the name of the basins in bathroom and kitchen as "zink." "Worsh dat shirt out in da zink."

I speak more like Michael J. Fox and William Shatner. No wonder I always felt like an alien here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:59 AM (omVj0)

240 167 Enjoying a good cup of coffee and a monster slice of bread I made yesterday. Homemade blueberry jam on it too.

The simple pleasures are the best.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:34 AM (WXNFJ)

Sigh. I am doing that Whole 30 thing. Pray for me. Hope to relieve chronic inflammation. You can bet the first thing I will re-introduce is going to be a fresh loaf of sourdough. *threeweeks

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 09:59 AM (OX9vb)

241 Jack Straw you might think then letting criminals out of jails and importing illegal criminals has to be part of the plan then.

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 09:59 AM (fwDg9)

242 but if you mean Rita Wilson, she was quite the dish back in her day

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:59 AM (/7KEl)

243 My pastor gave a recent homily in which he stated that the preferred method of receiving the Eucharistic host was upon the tongue.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

I have to admit that I can't force myself to receive the Blood of Christ at all. All those drinking from the chalice before me. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (WXNFJ)

244 I grew up with a middle class toaster. We put middle class bread into it and after it was toasted Mom would spread it with middle class honey.

Posted by: Comma Lah at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (dg+HA)

245 If you've run out of dairy butter, mayo makes a passable sammich spread for "grilled" or skillet. I remain unimpressed overall. It does work, however.

Sometimes I put a big dollop of butter in the pan, melt it, and then sort of sop it up with the bread when making grilled sandwiches. Saves time and effort. Besides, the butter is hard as a rock if it hasn't been sitting out.

I tend to think a better result is achieved by spreading soft butter on the bread first, with a knife, despite the laborious effort required*

*all threads devolve to Food Thread, given enough time.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (R3wAr)

246 Anyway, I've had enough coffee for now, and am sipping some ice sparkling mineral water as I wait for Miss Linda to arrive. What's going on around here?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:52 AM (omVj0)

Traded a vintage lantern and few other items for 4 nice vintage pipes. At our local antique shop. A blonde Grabow, Kaboodie, Brewster. Started restoring them yesterday. Salt and alcohol in the bowls to loosen tar, stems in oxyclean and then polish them. Need a pipe for each day. And then some.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 28, 2024 10:01 AM (uBb4f)

247 I had less resistance from the octogenarians in the Worship Commission than I expected when I stated that we needed more reverent Communion and the church building needed to be foster a more reverent environment.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 09:57 AM (pJWtt)
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The pitch they are using here is that it is more certain (less risk of it being dropped), more reverent, and faster.

I've found all three to be true. My old parish across town is almost finished with its restoration to pre-Vatican II layout, complete with Communion rail. A friend of mine who recalls those days said they didn't need extraordinary ministers because the priests were able to do just go up and down the line.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:01 AM (llXky)

248 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said:

“The killing of the defenseless in Lebanon once again revealed the ferocity of the rabid Zionist dog before everyone and proved the shortsightedness and stupidity of the policy of the leaders of the usurping regime.

he heap big mad

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 10:02 AM (gbOdA)

249 Yard Sign Calvinism

************

I don't live in a hurricane-prone reegion of the Rockies. But I do live in an area with heavy cumulative snowfall, mountain lions and rattlers and bears (Oh my!).

The sane thing to do is to understand the natural environment in which you do live and have a plan and a backup plan and a worst case contingency plan. There is no virtue in saying "Only dummies would live where a hurricane might hit."

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:02 AM (uCfKO)

250 69 For me, forgiveness doesn't really happen until I've moved on and have some distance from what happened.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 08:49 AM (llXky)

I have often heard that forgiveness helps you to move on. It's like setting a fracture- yes the bone will mend itself if you don't set it, but it won't heal properly.

Of course, I am also of the opinion that forgiveness should be sought by the perpetrator before it is granted by the victim, though I acknowledge thst is not a universal belief.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2024 10:02 AM (g7NHK)

251 turned to crystals, which is useless

We're replacing Don's honey. Let's see if he notices!

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 28, 2024 10:03 AM (zdLoL)

252 Close to a half million illegals *biden/Harris let into the country are convicted criminals.

About 15,000 of them murderers. And this isn't much of a controversy as far as the MSM is concerned.

If Trump is successful in reclaiming the White House his administration faces a huge uphill battle with the deep state to rid the country of these killers. And all the other illegals.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 10:03 AM (Q4IgG)

253 I would love to see Bibi rolling into Gaza with a intro like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfL4xKQeSfo

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 10:03 AM (gbOdA)

254 I think someone is concerned...

"Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been transferred to a secure location after Israel claimed to have killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Reuters reports, citing local sources.

..."
Posted by: runner

He's hiding in a picante salsa factory in New York City?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 28, 2024 10:03 AM (VNX3d)

255 There is a concerted effort in England to ban *silent prayer* near abortion mills. Just someone standing there thinking about God has been criminalized.

If you're jailing people for prayer, you're objectively on the side of the devil.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:58 AM (llXky)

There is little doubt in my mind that we will see Christian martyrdom in Europe and the U.S. I stumbled across a Ewe-Tube video in which a U.S. Army Lt. General was being grilled about training materials being used a Fort Bragg (he got huffy at Congressman that used that name and said, no it's Fort Liberty) from 2017 to early 2024 in which people opposed to abortion were labeled as "potential terrorists."

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 10:04 AM (pJWtt)

256 Is it Saturday already? Cool. What cartoons are worth watching these days, if any?

Classic Looney Tunes and Cowboy Bebop. That's about it.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 10:04 AM (/y8xj)

257 He's hiding in a picante salsa factory in New York City?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

NEW YORK CITY!!??

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:04 AM (WXNFJ)

258 Good morning, and prayers for the horde!
Extra prayers for COMountain Marie (fighting cancer is a long haul) and Jewells and her husband!!.

>>As corrupt and evil as the left has become I still find it a bit hard to believe the Biden/Harris regime has allowed over 400,000 convicts including thousands of murderers and sexual predators into the US and the left is silent.

"Allowed" That verb is far too passive -- they have been flying them in and setting up their lives for them, so they don't even have to make the effort to trek across South and Central America, across the border and past out BPS.
Our leaders, using our tax dollars, are facilitating the invasion. SMFH

Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (scDBq)

259 >>Jack Straw you might think then letting criminals out of jails and importing illegal criminals has to be part of the plan then.

I have no doubt it is Skip. Trump has been saying during his rallies for quite some time that countries like Venezuela are emptying their prisons and asylums and sending the people here and as usual the left wrote him off as crazy and lying. But now we know he was right all along.

I'm quite sure the leadership on the left has known this was true all along but the average schleps on the left are going to have to deal with this just like us and they are just ignoring it. There is no politician or political movement I would excuse and support for doing this.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (LkLld)

260 People are embracing it, which is great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (llXky

How about veils?

Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (vjxXT)

261 I tend to think a better result is achieved by spreading soft butter on the bread first, with a knife, despite the laborious effort required*

*all threads devolve to Food Thread, given enough time.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (R3wAr)

In the dining hall in college I saw many fires from buttered breast being put in the assembly line toaster.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (gbOdA)

262 I have to admit that I can't force myself to receive the Blood of Christ at all. All those drinking from the chalice before me. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (WXNFJ)
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There is a woman who attends the same Mass that I do who discretely moves up to the front of the pews when the Eucharist is being prepared so she is usually first in line.

I've gone last several times and for a couple of months was an extraordinary minister serving the Precious Blood. If there is extra, we are expected to consume it, and on one particularly low-turnout Sunday, the Sacristan and I were feeling a little giddy during the final blessing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (llXky)

263 The key to a great grilled cheese sandwich is toasting the bread before you even build the sandwich in the skillet or on the grill-

then you let the heat melt the cheese, low and slow

this results in a crunchy grilled cheese

I'm tellin' ya- fellas- you're gonna want that crunch

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (/7KEl)

264
I grew up with a middle class toaster. We put middle class bread into it and after it was toasted Mom would spread it with middle class honey.
Posted by: Comma Lah

And did you not have a middle class neighbor woman who owned a middle class business? Did she not have a middle class toaster, too?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (xG4kz)

265 As a dedicated cro-magnon, I can authoritatively state a passable toast can be effected merely by placing the bread on the coils of an electric burner style stove or range.

Alternatively, those with gas (no jokes pliz) can accomplish this task with a little ingenuity, and perhaps a coat hanger or wire device. Coleman co. sells these little toasters for the 2 burner suitcase stoves that actually work pretty well.

A dedicated Toast Enthusiast might find relief with a propane torch and some patience. Hand Crafted Artisanal Toast!

You bastards talking about Toast reminds me I have a whole package of Thomas English Muffins, dairy butter, and a Sunbeam T20 toaster (with the ability to fully and completely toast an English muffin in one crack)

Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:06 AM (R3wAr)

266 People are embracing it, which is great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

How about veils?

Posted by: Derak

We are seeing more and more veils during Mass these days. Especially among the younger women.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:06 AM (WXNFJ)

267 124 Sunday is The Feast of the 7 Archangels. If you are looking for a healing, remember the Archangel St. Raphael whose name means “God Heals”.
Posted by: Marcus T

Thank you for the reminder!

Michael - who is like God?
Gabriel - God's strength

This traditional Litany of the angels is pretty cool because it includes all the events involving angels

https://tinyurl.com/5fy6hw4j

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 10:06 AM (dE3DB)

268 "Allowed" That verb is far too passive -- they have been flying them in and setting up their lives for them, so they don't even have to make the effort to trek across South and Central America, across the border and past out BPS.
Our leaders, using our tax dollars, are facilitating the invasion. SMFH
Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (scDBq)

This is a plan to make a national popo IMHO

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 10:07 AM (gbOdA)

269 >>There is a concerted effort in England to ban *silent prayer* near abortion mills. Just someone standing there thinking about God has been criminalized.

"Makes sense."
-- Lois Lerner, who interrogated pro-life group's prayer content while at FEC

Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:08 AM (scDBq)

270 On the day Israel smokes sinwar , I am buying everyone a drink.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2024 09:39 AM (V13WU)

Make it 2 more. I'll buy one in CBD's honorr and another for JJS.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (89Sog)

271 this toast and communion wine thread makes me want a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (gbOdA)

272 I tend to think a better result is achieved by spreading soft butter on the bread first, with a knife, despite the laborious effort required*
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (R3wAr)

This is the way. Down twinkles on the mayo.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (OX9vb)

273 have to admit that I can't force myself to receive the Blood of Christ at all. All those drinking from the chalice before me. . .

This is not required. Traditionally, only the priest was required. There is the not so small problem of spilling the Blood. The Blood is present in the Host. You're covered.

Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (vjxXT)

274 How about veils?

Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (vjxXT)
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There are a few. All younger women, and I recently noticed a family embracing it.

My wife got one, but is too nervous to use it. She's also going through a desolation (it happens) and with the grandkids here, I'm usually there alone, though my daughters tag along when the mood strikes them.

I get it, I was young and stupid and didn't enter the Church until I was 33. They're doing much better than I was, so I give them space.

They're very strict about grace before meals, which is nice.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (llXky)

275 good morning! have to head out for weekend FH soon - interesting news on that front - yesterday the LaSalle-SLU had to be stopped due to a massive shooting nearby.

yay Philly! well done!

the worst part is LaSalle was using the Temple field b/c their field is getting torn up to make a new basketball stadium on their (also ghetto) campus. Those poor girls. that's a lot of travel every day to get from Ghetto A to Ghetto B to play/practice.

when we were being courted by Drexel there was a shooting/lockdown during the play day - middle of the afternoon. yeah sorry that decided that. So, another field in a dangerous spot. Penn's isn't great shakes either!

the data is WRONG. crime here is CRAZY.

also WP sucks and I hope they finally die.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (s3qiR)

276
*many fires from buttered breast being put in the assembly line toaster.*

Now it's a boob thread!

Posted by: Beavis at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (dg+HA)

277 How about veils?

Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 10:05 AM (vjxXT)

Depends on the parish. At my "hippy" parish, very few veils (mainly young women). At the local Latin Mass parish, almost all women and girls wear chapel veils.

I expect that the use of chapel veils will increase as the old generations die-out, and the younger Catholic become more prominent in their parishes.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (pJWtt)

278 Half hand, big hugs of joy to you!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (dE3DB)

279 >>I grew up with a middle class toaster. We put middle class bread into it and after it was toasted Mom would spread it with middle class honey.

And their kitchens? Did your family and middle class neighbors are for their kitchens, keep the fridge stocked and the counters clean. . . ?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (scDBq)

280 When the 70s inflation took off in earnest (and this was in Iowa!) dairy butter was off the menu. Margarine it was. Mom couldn't abide margarine, but we were forbidden to use her stash.

Meal times were pretty regimented, and looking back I understand why now. Orange Juice was rationed or issued in those teeny glass tumblers, the kind Cheese-Whiz was offered in those days. It wasn't Depression era poverty in no way, but .... Welfare in those days was still a dirty word, even with Democrats. Nobody was on the dole, nobody was being paid not to work.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (R3wAr)

281 Traded a vintage lantern and few other items for 4 nice vintage pipes. At our local antique shop. A blonde Grabow, Kaboodie, Brewster. Started restoring them yesterday. Salt and alcohol in the bowls to loosen tar, stems in oxyclean and then polish them. Need a pipe for each day. And then some.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 28, 2024

***
Once upon a time Kaywoodies were considered some of the best pipes in America -- higher quality than Dunhills, for instance. I don't have any of those yet, but my two Dr. Grabows are excellent.

I was tempted by a new 1960s Heibe short billiard with a horn stem and meerschaum insert bowl on eBay this week, but decided to pass.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (omVj0)

282 Re:Israel

They gotta be running out of virgins in Paradise as fast as the IDF is creating martyrs.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (Aoykm)

283 Jack Straw- my parents see nothing but Democrats Propaganda Ministry since forever. My dad believes even 1 million illegals can't be here. If the Democrats Propaganda Ministry doesn't say it it can't be true then.Every story they don't want known never gets spoken about.

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (fwDg9)

284 Plus, I have a nearly awesome hash.
Posted by: muldoon

Lol

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 28, 2024 10:11 AM (dE3DB)

285 We are seeing more and more veils during Mass these days. Especially among the younger women.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:06 AM (WXNFJ)

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Same here.

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 28, 2024 10:11 AM (2ZJmF)

286
I've gone last several times and for a couple of months was an extraordinary minister serving the Precious Blood. If there is extra, we are expected to consume it, and on one particularly low-turnout Sunday, the Sacristan and I were feeling a little giddy during the final blessing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

When I was a younger lad and served as an altar boy in our Episcopal parish, the minister was prone to preparing and blessing more of the wine for communion than was needed for the number of parishioners at the service. It was not unusual for him to down a healthy belt (please excuse my crassness) of said wine after all had partaken of the Lord's Supper.

That said, it was not great surprise when both he and his wife checked into rehab to dry out several years later.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 28, 2024 10:11 AM (xG4kz)

287 Only dummies would live where a hurricane might hit."

Side eye left, side eye right, lives in California earthquake country.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 10:12 AM (xDXWF)

288 Austere Hezbollah chief Nasrallah goes on to a glorious martyrdom

Posted by: SMOD at September 28, 2024 10:12 AM (GITLP)

289 Jack Straw- my parents see nothing but Democrats Propaganda Ministry since forever. My dad believes even 1 million illegals can't be here. If the Democrats Propaganda Ministry doesn't say it it can't be true then.Every story they don't want known never gets spoken about.
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 10:10 AM (fwDg9)
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You cannot talk people out of denial. It is impossible. People have to choose to embrace reality and there are countless instances of people on the point of death who still cannot accept what is happening.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:12 AM (llXky)

290 He's hiding in a picante salsa factory in New York City?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

NEW YORK CITY!!??

Does anybody but me remember that the first version of that commercial was "New Jersey?!" but they changed it apparently because NJ whined about it? Or is that a Mandela Effect thing that only I have?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 10:13 AM (/y8xj)

291 I am sorry you are experiencing toasterlessness
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 09:48 AM (/7KEl)

There is probably a govt program to get you toast or a toaster.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 28, 2024 09:57 AM (gbOdA)
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Oh, sure...YOU get a $15 toaster and the NGO gets $150,000 to process the request.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 10:14 AM (BpYfr)

292 The best toast is made with cinnamon swirl bread.
And before toasting it, you dip it in an egg mixture, then toast it in a pan, and when done, top it with maple syrup.
Heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:15 AM (scDBq)

293 Does anybody but me remember that the first version of that commercial was "New Jersey?!" but they changed it apparently because NJ whined about it? Or is that a Mandela Effect thing that only I have?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024

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No, all I can recall is the "Noo York City??!!" line.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (omVj0)

294 The sane thing to do is to understand the natural environment in which you do live and have a plan and a backup plan and a worst case contingency plan. There is no virtue in saying "Only dummies would live where a hurricane might hit."

*****

You accept the risk that it may happen, but "accepting the risk" loses its vagueness when it actually does happen.

Bugging out in the middle of the night due to an approaching hurricane, only to return in a couple of days to find your home pretty much obliterated is a train wreck on one's emotions.

But, then, once you get past that, a totally different mindset kicks in as you go about the rebuilding process, at least for mission-oriented people.

After that, "accepting the risk" turns into "law of averages says it won't happen again..."

Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (Y1sOo)

295

Hasan chopped!!!!! Bugs and Daffy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (x0n13)

296 A better crunch can be achieved by using "stale" bread maybe. "Sandwich" bread is so cheaply made now it isn't really good for anything at all.

French Toast relies on a slightly stale or dried bread for best results.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (R3wAr)

297
Eastern Tennessee near Knoxville and south may end up as the biggest tragedy of HC Helene.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (RKVpM)

298 With all this talk of toast, does anyone else remember this?

(Red Dwarf Talkie Toaster)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 10:17 AM (BpYfr)

299 In the dining hall in college I saw many fires from buttered breast being put in the assembly line toaster.

*********

Talk about getting yer tits in a wringer!!

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:17 AM (uCfKO)

300 293 Does anybody but me remember that the first version of that commercial was "New Jersey?!" but they changed it apparently because NJ whined about it? Or is that a Mandela Effect thing that only I have?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024

***
No, all I can recall is the "Noo York City??!!" line.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 10:16 AM (omVj0)

I remember it only because it was a supposed dig at NYC. Never saw any version with Jersey.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 10:18 AM (x0n13)

301 >>Jack Straw- my parents see nothing but Democrats Propaganda Ministry since forever. My dad believes even 1 million illegals can't be here. If the Democrats Propaganda Ministry doesn't say it it can't be true then.Every story they don't want known never gets spoken about.

Our corrupt media is a huge part of the problem. This should be the biggest story of the years. If Trump had done something this treasonous they would be calling for his head yet it is not being talked about by the media at all and if Musk hadn't bought Twitter it wouldn't even be on social media.

The biggest thing working in our favor is that many if not most of these illegals are ending up in cities, Democrat strongholds, and it is taking a toll on minority communities. I think that's a big reason the Springfield cats and dogs issue got so much traction.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:18 AM (LkLld)

302 >> In the dining hall in college I saw many fires from buttered breast being put in the assembly line toaster.

That seems like a litmus test for whether or not you belong in college, no?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:18 AM (scDBq)

303 Biscotti is toast in a different shape

I have other toast tips, but it's football season now, and the Sunday food thread coincides with football-
I mean, I like toast as much as the next guy, but I really like watching football games

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:18 AM (/7KEl)

304 Eastern Tennessee near Knoxville and south may end up as the biggest tragedy of HC Helene.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Has FEMA responded yet to the TN and NC governors declaring states of emergency?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:19 AM (WXNFJ)

305 I expect that the use of chapel veils will increase as the old generations die-out, and the younger Catholic become more prominent in their parishes.

This. I wore one when very very young and shortly
thereafter the practice fell away. The younger women in my parish are starting to wear the veil. I would like to resume this practice but it feels....overly pious? Conspicuous?

BUT, women should cover their hair in the presence of God. See the passion of the Christ when Mary Magdelen instinctively covers her hair with her veil when Christ passes. Instructive.

Posted by: Derak at September 28, 2024 10:19 AM (vjxXT)

306 >>Biscotti is toast in a different shape

Oh man, now you've planted the idea. . . and I really need to be making zucchini bread this weekend.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:19 AM (scDBq)

307 My wife got one, but is too nervous to use it. She's also going through a desolation (it happens) and with the grandkids here, I'm usually there alone, though my daughters tag along when the mood strikes them.

I get it, I was young and stupid and didn't enter the Church until I was 33. They're doing much better than I was, so I give them space.

They're very strict about grace before meals, which is nice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:09 AM (llXky)

The younger Catholics are rejecting the Church of nice and embracing being happy warriors for Christ. My youngest grandson (aged 13) is converting to Catholicism and he has a Bible passage on his phone as a screen-saver.

Don't feel bad about not converting until you were 33 years old. I was a cradle Catholic and drifted away for decades. I'm almost 63 and am now a lay brother in the Order of Preachers, chairman of my local parish's Worship Commission, and my pastor knows me by name. God has a a plan, it is up to us to permit him to use the talents he granted us. It took me a while!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 10:20 AM (pJWtt)

308 Good morning all. Husband had his EDG Thursday. The doctor said she didn't see anything in his stomach that would cause concern but took a biopsy anyway. Praise God! As I was waiting for him I got dizzy and nauseas and passed out in the waiting room. My poor daughter freaked out but handled it all just fine.

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at September 28, 2024 10:21 AM (iF0sF)

309 The good thing my dad has never voted even once in his life. Bad thing is my mom doesn't miss one and is sure Trump supporters are a cult ( her words)

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 10:21 AM (fwDg9)

310 It's difficult for me to imagine that anyone hates bread so much they would force Zuchinni into it. Why

Just throw that stuff away. Or, alternatively if you don't grow it you won't have to try and stick it in everything and hide it. You're not fooling anyone

Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:21 AM (R3wAr)

311 Don't feel bad about not converting until you were 33 years old. I was a cradle Catholic and drifted away for decades. I'm almost 63 and am now a lay brother in the Order of Preachers, chairman of my local parish's Worship Commission, and my pastor knows me by name. God has a a plan, it is up to us to permit him to use the talents he granted us. It took me a while!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

I too fell away for decades before I returned. Upon my first Confession when I came back, after I said to the priest "It has been 25 years since my last confession. . . " he broke in and said "Ah, the prodigal son returns!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 10:22 AM (WXNFJ)

312
Classic Looney Tunes and Cowboy Bebop. That's about it.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 10:04 AM (/y8xj)

That sounds about right.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2024 10:22 AM (g7NHK)

313
There is also a sustained effort for people to receive the Eucharist on the tongue and I have started to do so (remember, I'm a convert, so was taught to receive it in the hand). People are embracing it, which is great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 09:43 AM (llXky)

_________

If, as a Catholic, you take things seriously, you believe that even the tiniest particle of the Eucharist contains the whole of the Body and Blood of Christ. Therefore, Communion and how the Host is handled are very serious matters.

After Communion, the priest performs the Ablutions, first rinsing the chalice and receiving it, then having the fingers with which the Host was handled washed and received. This turns the hand back to "normal" use and means that no trace of the Host has not been received.

There are two problems with Communion in the hand. One is the increased danger of inadvertent profanation of the Host. The other is that the recipient has no recourse to purify his fingers (or hand). The problem with Extraordinary Ministers is that almost no one receives on the tongue in the Novus Ordo Mass and thus the ministers don't know how to place it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 10:23 AM (BkEzK)

314 >>It's difficult for me to imagine that anyone hates bread so much they would force Zuchinni into it. Why

Lol!! More zucchinin bread for me!

Do you like any quick breads - banana bread, pumpkin bread, lemon bread . . .?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:23 AM (scDBq)

315 There is no virtue in saying "Only dummies would live where a hurricane might hit."
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:02 AM (uCfKO)

As if there is any place to live that is safe from natural disasters of one kind or another. Even southeast Ohio gets the occasional tornado or flash flooding.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 10:24 AM (OX9vb)

316 Don't feel bad about not converting until you were 33 years old. I was a cradle Catholic and drifted away for decades. I'm almost 63 and am now a lay brother in the Order of Preachers, chairman of my local parish's Worship Commission, and my pastor knows me by name. God has a a plan, it is up to us to permit him to use the talents he granted us. It took me a while!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 28, 2024 10:20 AM (pJWtt)
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I don't feel bad about it at all. Better late than never! My point is that I'm giving my kids space so that it becomes their affirmative choice because that's the way it ought to be. So long as they go to Mass on the holidays, and go to Reconciliation from time to time, I'm content.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:24 AM (llXky)

317 Isn't the communion wafer a kind of toast? Or no?

asking for a heathen friend

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (/7KEl)

318 Bugging out in the middle of the night due to an approaching hurricane, only to return in a couple of days to find your home pretty much obliterated is a train wreck on one's emotions.

But, then, once you get past that, a totally different mindset kicks in as you go about the rebuilding process, at least for mission-oriented people.

After that, "accepting the risk" turns into "law of averages says it won't happen again..."

Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2024

***
My local Fox outlet ran a snippet of a FL woman who said she'd lived through seven hurricanes in ten years. Believe me, if my house got badly damaged, I rebuilt, and then it happened again, I'd be looking to move.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (omVj0)

319 308 Good morning all. Husband had his EDG Thursday. The doctor said she didn't see anything in his stomach that would cause concern but took a biopsy anyway. Praise God! As I was waiting for him I got dizzy and nauseas and passed out in the waiting room. My poor daughter freaked out but handled it all just fine.

oh Jewells that sounds rough. prayers to you and yours

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (s3qiR)

320 Put down your coffee ...

Boris Johnson: I planned to invade the Netherlands during Covid

Ex-prime minister believed it was his duty to seize British-developed vaccines that had been ‘kidnapped’ by the EU

Posted by: SMOD at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (GITLP)

321 Prayers for our sweet Colorado Mountain Marie. Try not to be afraid, sweet lady. God will be with you. One step at a time.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (+10YP)

322 Classic Looney Tunes and Cowboy Bebop. That's about it.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 10:04 AM (/y8xj)

That sounds about right.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2024 10:22 AM

Cowboy Bebop is a little past my time, but it's my firm conviction that cartoons went to hell after Looney Tunes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (Wnv9h)

323
Isn't the communion wafer a kind of toast? Or no?

asking for a heathen friend
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (/7KEl)

__________

Unleavened bread.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (BkEzK)

324
Prayers up also for our Brethren and Sisteren in eastern TN and western NC. They are suffering greatly due to the storm. Some of the little towns have been completely wiped out.

I40 and I65 are completely closed in spots so transport and help will have a tough time getting to them.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2024 09:36 AM

Looks like the southbound lane of I40 is in the river:

https://is.gd/y53yBk

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (RKVpM)

325 You cannot talk people out of denial. It is impossible. People have to choose to embrace reality and there are countless instances of people on the point of death who still cannot accept what is happening.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:12 AM (llXky)

As my mother in law would say, "You don't know that"

Posted by: Auspex at September 28, 2024 10:26 AM (j4U/Z)

326 >> There is no virtue in saying "Only dummies would live where a hurricane might hit."

"Especially those trailer park hicks -- why would they live in a hurricane/flood/tornado zone, amirght?!"

Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:26 AM (scDBq)

327 Take care Jewells.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2024 10:27 AM (+10YP)

328 > The biggest thing working in our favor is that many if not most of these illegals are ending up in cities, Democrat strongholds, and it is taking a toll on minority communities. I think that's a big reason the Springfield cats and dogs issue got so much traction.
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I recall back in the late winter, early spring of this year blacks in Chicago were pretty agitated about the influx of illegals there. The city government basically told them to shut up and pound sand. Then moved the illegals up to the front of the free shit line.

Then, later, the cartel gangs showed up.

Regardless who ends up in the White House next year I think there's going to be violence in the cities as our former welfare demographic fights with the new welfare demographic.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 10:27 AM (Q4IgG)

329 I love monkey bread. But it can be hard to find fresh monkey.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 10:27 AM (dg+HA)

330 >>. . . As I was waiting for him I got dizzy and nauseas and passed out in the waiting room. My poor daughter freaked out but handled it all just fine.

Oh my!! Glad your husband is gettin good care, and that you have a daughter there with you, Jewells.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:27 AM (scDBq)

331 I grew up with a middle class toaster. We put middle class bread into it and after it was toasted Mom would spread it with middle class honey.

Posted by: Comma Lah at September 28, 2024 10:00 AM (dg+HA)

Us too! Why...why, you're just like me!

Like all Middle Class families, we were proud of our toast! Because toast is the place where butter must go and butter's home is toast! Sometimes butter invites jelly to the toast! Butter invites jelly right onto its home!

Our Middle Class breakfast with butter and toast and jelly was just like this great nation! And thank to us, America is toast!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM (eDfFs)

332 The problem with Extraordinary Ministers is that almost no one receives on the tongue in the Novus Ordo Mass and thus the ministers don't know how to place it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2024 10:23 AM (BkEzK)
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When I was trained, we learned to serve it in the hand, on the tongue, and on the tongue while kneeling using unconsecrated Hosts. The tongue is very easy and reliable once you get the hang of it.

That was before the big push, so mostly it was served in the hand. Now it's not quite 50-50 but that depends on which Mass. The daily Mass I attended on Tuesday had almost everyone receive it on the tongue.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM (llXky)

333 304 Eastern Tennessee near Knoxville and south may end up as the biggest tragedy of HC Helene.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Near Knoxville isn't so bad. It seems like the devastation is a small portion of east TN, and then widespread wreckage in western NC.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM (awTae)

334 Banana bread can be quite tasty indeed.

I would caution the reader, this does not, therefore, make Zucchini tasty. Don't be fooled! It's a Trap!

Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM (R3wAr)

335 Thinking of launching a toast-related podcast

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:29 AM (/7KEl)

336 >>Regardless who ends up in the White House next year I think there's going to be violence in the cities as our former welfare demographic fights with the new welfare demographic.

I agree. It's inevitable. It seems the left wants it. And any heretics like Adams in NYC will be crushed.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:31 AM (LkLld)

337 If you slap a label on it and call it Tuscan Toast, you can charge five bucks a slice for it.

Posted by: $$$$ at September 28, 2024 10:32 AM (CV8a5)

338 Ever notice there are people who can, indeed, f$%8k up Toast?

It's true. Toast must be buttered during that brief time period right after toasting, while it is still hot and still yet retains some residual moisture. Otherwise, a dry crunchy toast. Common in Diners, who get a pass because of the volume of product.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 10:32 AM (R3wAr)

339 Our Middle Class breakfast with butter and toast and jelly was just like this great nation! And thank to us, America is toast!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM (eDfFs)

Is today Talk Like Cummala Harrass Day?

Nobody told me.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 10:33 AM (1fDEF)

340 Well that music means we're all out of time for today.

Tune in next week for another exciting episode of "Toast Talk" when our topic will be: crust... cut it or leave it?

Posted by: NPR Announcer Voice at September 28, 2024 10:35 AM (dg+HA)

341 The "Just Stop Oil" fucktards who threw soup on the Van Gogh painting to "protest climate change" have gotten some actual prison time. One got 2 years, plus three months for a different "protest". The other got 20 months.

How throwing soup on a painting actually does anything to "stop climate change" is beyond me. It's hard for me to think like a stupid person.

They're not getting a lot of sympathy on Twatter.

https://tinyurl.com/ym8t5rb9

LOL!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2024 10:35 AM (W5ArC)

342 Yeah toast!

https://is.gd/vZW2mv

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 28, 2024 10:35 AM (2ZJmF)

343 I don't care for boutique toast- I find it elitist and condescending

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:36 AM (/7KEl)

344 The only jelly Commie Lay is familiar with is KY.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2024 10:36 AM (W5ArC)

345 My local Fox outlet ran a snippet of a FL woman who said she'd lived through seven hurricanes in ten years. Believe me, if my house got badly damaged, I rebuilt, and then it happened again, I'd be looking to move.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (omVj0)

**************

Ivan destroyed my house while it was under construction in 2004. Only the framing was up at the time. All the lumber blew into the water with only the concrete pad remaining. No big deal, as they weren't that far into the build.

Sixteen years later, to the day, Sally's winds beat it up and the storm surge flooded it.

I'm not sure if the next one will be the third time or only the second, since I wasn't living in it when Ivan hit.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2024 10:36 AM (Y1sOo)

346 >>I would caution the reader, this does not, therefore, make Zucchini tasty. Don't be fooled! It's a Trap!

Ha!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:37 AM (scDBq)

347 I have a whole package of Thomas English Muffins, dairy butter, and a Sunbeam T20 toaster (with the ability to fully and completely toast an English muffin in one crack)
Posted by: Common Tater

I like my English muffins well done, which always seems to entail two toast cycles.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 10:37 AM (/5iXv)

348 My ex-wife couldn't make toast to save her life. Or much of anything else. It's why I did most of the cooking.

I used to lament that she could burn water yet lost the recipe for boiling it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 10:37 AM (Q4IgG)

349 Try this:

after your toast pops up, leave it in the toaster
it sort of bakes in there for a minute or so
it gets even toastier- very crunchy
this is good when using a heavier spread like peanut butter, or Vegemite

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:38 AM (/7KEl)

350 Only helps in someone talks about it even if it's smashing apples to save oranges

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 10:38 AM (fwDg9)

351 Ah. Coffee is brewed. On the big 'puter, not the cell. Ready for some classy music. Let's see… was that other element? Oh, yeah.

You know, it's a funny thing, but sometimes I'll be going along, like on my morning walk with Daisy Dog, and it occurs to me to pray about one thing or another, but then when I open my mouth to say something, what comes out almost automatically is, "Thanks." Despite all that needs praying for, it's hard to not just be grateful. Of course, walking with the dog in the country on a nice day sorta works that way.

Posted by: mindful webworker - more or less here now at September 28, 2024 10:38 AM (bqxS+)

352 So nice that Mis Hum serves us the Coffee Thread every Saturday AM-he is your host while you eat your toast!

Posted by: Bred In Old Kentucky-Just a Crumb Around Here at September 28, 2024 10:38 AM (CV8a5)

353 >>How throwing soup on a painting actually does anything to "stop climate change" is beyond me. It's hard for me to think like a stupid person.

Right?

Think it's a combination of "LOOK AT ME!" + "YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED NICE THINGS WHILE [insert their cause here]!!"

In other words, crazy, destructive brats.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 28, 2024 10:39 AM (scDBq)

354 >I like my English muffins well done, which always seems to entail two toast cycles.

Posted by: Thomas Paine

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me new toaster, which is red, goes up to 6
6 does an English muffin nicely

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:40 AM (/7KEl)

355 You people sure have a lot of rules for toast.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:41 AM (LkLld)

356 me new toaster, which is red, goes up to 6
6 does an English muffin nicely
Posted by: Don Black

Mine's a Marshall-goes to 11.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at September 28, 2024 10:42 AM (CV8a5)

357 You people sure have a lot of rules for toast.
Posted by: JackStraw

You should see the rules for chili.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 10:43 AM (/5iXv)

358
Near Knoxville isn't so bad. It seems like the devastation is a small portion of east TN, and then widespread wreckage in western NC.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 10:28 AM

I used Knoxville as a starting point to find I40, where the road collapsed, and there is/are dam(s) in TN that if broken would flow into Western NC. Things are a little less then definitive if the dams broke, but they were certainly topped. Ventusky had kinda predicted the HC would travel north then stall over that area.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 10:43 AM (RKVpM)

359 There are no rules

Toast is open to every person's interpretation

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:44 AM (/7KEl)

360 Anyone heard from Mike Hammer since the storm?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:44 AM (LkLld)

361 I've tried that, but only the bottom portion seems to de-crystallize. The last bottle of honey I had with that problem, I settled for scraping some partly-crystalline portions out and putting them on toast.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2024 09:54 AM (omVj0)

Yes, I did that this morning. Didn't work, too crystalized. Tossed the bear and opened a new one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2024 10:44 AM (0eaVi)

362 On my toaster, 6 is like 11

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (/7KEl)

363 Tuna on toast:
https://youtu.be/cKUvKE3bQlY

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (dg+HA)

364 The Lord hears our prayers. 🙏

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (NFX2v)

365 Well that music means we're all out of time for today.

Tune in next week for another exciting episode of "Toast Talk" when our topic will be: crust... cut it or leave it?
Posted by: NPR Announcer Voice at September 28, 2024 10:35 AM (dg+HA)

If your toast is made from cheap store bought bread, then sure. Cut it off. The "crust" if fake anyway, I think they just paint it to look like crust.

But if your toast is a lovely baked bread, home made, or from some neighborhood bakery? Cutting off the crust would be like dating Sydney Sweeney and suggesting she cut off her nipples.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (ysdM/)

366 It's not even that the lady hates the South. That's fine. I hate Denver and it makes me laugh to see it destroyed by their precious illegals, now that I'm no longer cursed with living there. I couldn't care any less if they take over her fancy house and start charging her rent to live there like they do to poor people in Aurora.

The thing that got me is saying it to people's faces, in a meeting where *a bunch of your own team is hours away from serious trouble.* That's HATE, baby.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (awTae)

367 >>>I agree. It's inevitable. It seems the left wants it. And any heretics like Adams in NYC will be crushed.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Curious. Who did P Diddy pizzoff?

Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (wILM4)

368 Honey crystalizes over time. It's not hard to deal with it. You just need to leave the container in hot water till it is liquid again. I do this with 11 pound pails of honey. Just takes time.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 10:46 AM (MpVUb)

369 359 There are no rules

Toast is open to every person's interpretation
Posted by: Don Black

Ha! You'd still be toasting your bread in the bathtub, if not for us!

Posted by: Toaster Regulatory Board at September 28, 2024 10:46 AM (CV8a5)

370
My toaster has a 'Bagel' button, which you press when you insert a bagel. It then lights up red, which tells you you have a bagel in the toaster. It has no other function.

The technology anymore is simply amazing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 10:46 AM (RKVpM)

371 Cowboy Bebop is a little past my time, but it's my firm conviction that cartoons went to hell after Looney Tunes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2024 10:25 AM (Wnv9h)

But what about Thundarr the Barbarian???

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2024 10:46 AM (S6gqv)

372 Bagel function just toasts one side.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 10:47 AM (MpVUb)

373 I generally only have English muffins at home,that I toast myself, as restaurants can't seem to prepare them to my liking, bringing me a lightly toasted, non-crunchy failure.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 10:47 AM (/5iXv)

374 There are no rules

Toast is open to every person's interpretation
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:44 AM (/7KEl)

Except in Alabama. There's still a law on the books that you can't sodomize it.

Although I don't think anyone has been convicted with the law since 1968.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 10:48 AM (ysdM/)

375 Space workers, making the impossible nominal.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 10:48 AM (wILM4)

376 >>Curious. Who did P Diddy pizzoff?

No idea. Hope he lives long enough to start talking.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 10:49 AM (LkLld)

377 There are no rules

Toast is open to every person's interpretation
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:44 AM (/7KEl)
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No one expects the Toast Inquisition!

Posted by: Toastemada at September 28, 2024 10:49 AM (BpYfr)

378 All this toast talk made me want toast, so I scrambled up some eggs, sliced a fresh tomato, and toasted some bread (with butter and honey). I probably won't need to eat until dinner time.

Posted by: PabloD at September 28, 2024 10:49 AM (DDP4b)

379
Bagel function just toasts one side.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 10:47 AM

Wires on both sides of this toaster glow red.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 28, 2024 10:50 AM (RKVpM)

380 Cowboy Bebop is awesome

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2024 10:50 AM (fwDg9)

381 I'm reading from the owner's manual to my toaster, and it describes the bagel function as 'shortening' the toasting time

This presumes that one wants a lightly toasted bagel

I'll have to look into this- no bagels on hand right now

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:51 AM (/7KEl)

382 >All this toast talk made me want toast, so I scrambled up some eggs, sliced a fresh tomato, and toasted some bread
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what kind of bread

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:52 AM (/7KEl)

383 Nearly 400 comments, and not one Pumpkin Spice reference. Keep it up!

Posted by: Down With the Spice! at September 28, 2024 10:52 AM (CV8a5)

384 I need to look into that Coleman toast attachment. Out camping, I have had to resort to a butane torch toast manufacturing process, which is less than satisfactory.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 10:53 AM (/5iXv)

385 On my toaster, 6 is like 11
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (/7KEl)

Sounds like my waffle maker

Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2024 10:53 AM (W/lyH)

386
I'm reading from the owner's manual

Please surrender your 'man card' at the nearest kiosk.

Posted by: Public Service Announcement at September 28, 2024 10:53 AM (RKVpM)

387 Curious. Who did P Diddy pizzoff?
Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 10:45 AM (wILM4)

I still think Jeffrey Epstein isn't dead. But that doesn't matter, he's middle management.

Word is, Quincy Jones runs the black Hollowood pedo ring. Oprah is a primary mover/procurer. But really, as with everything else, you gotta ask what the CIA is doing, and when are they doing it.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 10:53 AM (ysdM/)

388 Bagel function just toasts one side.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 10:47 AM

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What if you put the bagel slices in backwards? Or one slice correctly and the other slice incorrectly?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 10:54 AM (BpYfr)

389 In TN, the NWS said the Waterville dam was going to breach, but then Duke Energy said "stop panicking, the dam will hold."

Nolichucky dam appears to be on the razor's edge. Not as bad as last night, but people are still holding their breath on that one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 10:54 AM (awTae)

390 Just remembered there are some sausages in the fridge. Toast, cheese, and sausage sandwich it is. I'm not feeling motivated enough to scramble eggs just yet.

Later, folks.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 28, 2024 10:55 AM (W5ArC)

391 I'm making bread. Another YouTube recipe, this one with a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in the mix.

Four small round loaves baked on a pan atop parchment paper, small bowl of water in middle to make a little steam while baking.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at September 28, 2024 10:55 AM (N7QIs)

392 In 2018, approximately 17.4 million toasters were sold over retail channels in the United States.

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This was the last year for which there is complete data

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 10:56 AM (/7KEl)

393 > Curious. Who did P Diddy pizzoff?
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He may not have pissed anyone off. Rather he's a loose cannon with kompromat on the state actors TPTB are trying to install in the national government. Not necessarily Harris and/or Walz... but who knows.

Certainly would include many members of congress, assorted fedgov people, various state governments and so on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 10:56 AM (Q4IgG)

394 Have any of you used one of the 'smart' toasters? Do they work well? I'm hesitant to scan the UPC code and download the Toaster App to my phone.

I've heard the FTA can access your settings and limit how toasty you make your toast, out of an overabundance of caution.

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:58 AM (uCfKO)

395 I just did that. It's the outside that is on for bagel. My toaster has a cancel button, so I used that. Turned them around. Won't hurt to have the outside warmed up.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 10:59 AM (MpVUb)

396 I've heard the FTA can access your settings and limit how toasty you make your toast, out of an overabundance of caution.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:58 AM (uCfKO)

It's all those Pop-Tart fires what prompted this.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 28, 2024 10:59 AM (OX9vb)

397 What if you put the bagel slices in backwards? Or one slice correctly and the other slice incorrectly?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2024 10:54 AM (BpYfr)

Then you're messing with the space/time continuum.

We then live in a timeline where Athens wins the Peloponnesian War, and of course that changes everything.

Including the fact that toast is not invented.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 10:59 AM (ysdM/)

398 Wow

here is a whole page of toaster facts and market data

https://tinyurl.com/475sp5pa

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:00 AM (/7KEl)

399 In 2018, approximately 17.4 million toasters were sold over retail channels in the United States.

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This was the last year for which there is complete data
Posted by: Don Black

And that doesn't include sales of used toasters. Since most toasters are junk these days, I went to a goodwill to find a 1970s-80s model. They knew how to toast properly in the old days

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 11:00 AM (/5iXv)

400 [shouting:] You cannot petition the Lord with prayer! -Jim Morrison, noted theologian and flasher

Going in for minor surgery on Monday morning. I've been bothered for quite a while by a lower eyelid that curls inward, so the eyelashes are constantly irritating the eyeball. Just a little snip and stitch, a quick outpatient procedure, they tell me.

Of course, there is no guarantee. Risks involve unbalanced appearance, bleeding, infection, double vision, dry eye, numbness, loss of vision, anger, anxiety, depression, and, of course, death.

The alternative is living with the symptoms and appearance of droopy, saggy lower lid, with tearing, red eyes, and mucous discharge.

Heh. Life is full of choices, eh?

I put this off a year ago, being wary of surgery. Shortly thereafter I had major bowel surgery, and another major operation six months later. So, this doesn't seem like such a big deal now!

Prayers welcome, for successful snippage, quick recovery, and what we really need prayers for is that we can get there on time. It's an 8am appointment and we live an hour and a half away, so that should be "fun."

Posted by: mindful webworker - pre-cataract surgery surgery at September 28, 2024 11:01 AM (bqxS+)

401 you can't 'invent' toast

you discover it

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:01 AM (/7KEl)

402 Kramer making bagels

https://youtu.be/6fkRLXFVIFc

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at September 28, 2024 11:01 AM (dg+HA)

403 Bagel "setting" on toasters is a Deep State Op to keep the plebes in line.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 11:01 AM (nv4jJ)

404 > I went to a goodwill to find a 1970s-80s model. They knew how to toast properly in the old days

Posted by: Thomas Paine
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it was a toastier, simpler time

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:02 AM (/7KEl)

405 Austere Hezbollah chief Nasrallah goes on to a glorious martyrdom

Hezbollah officially confirms that Nasrallah is dead.

The head of Iran's Quds force in Lebanon, along with other senior Iranians, were meeting with Nasrallah and were also killed.

Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 11:02 AM (uxCna)

406 Have any of you used one of the 'smart' toasters? Do they work well? I'm hesitant to scan the UPC code and download the Toaster App to my phone.

I've heard the FTA can access your settings and limit how toasty you make your toast, out of an overabundance of caution.
Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 10:58 AM (uCfKO)

Sure, but you can sync up your toaster with your washing machine.

Don't tell me you people don't have your toaster synced up with your washing machine.

How do you live?

Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:03 AM (ysdM/)

407 These folks are the best source when it comes to browning bread products:

https://is.gd/Hvc8Bk

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:03 AM (uCfKO)

408 At a large employee gathering, I once heard a Marketing drone tout the features and capabilities of a new toaster about to launch, and how it would improve . . . "the toasting experience. "

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2024 11:04 AM (8AONa)

409 Have any of you used one of the 'smart' toasters? Do they work well? I'm hesitant to scan the UPC code and download the Toaster App to my phone.

I've heard the FTA can access your settings and limit how toasty you make your toast, out of an overabundance of caution.
Posted by: muldoon

I'm sure the Toast Council has been infiltrated with federal lackeys who are trying to abolish any carbonization on the toast surface as a cancer risk, much like they went after the barbecue industry.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2024 11:04 AM (/5iXv)

410 The North Carolina State Board of Elections announced that it found 747,000 ineligible people on its voter rolls over the past 20 months. The findings come after the board faces a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee (RNC) over the state’s voter rolls.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (wILM4)

411 Common Tater, you forgot the opportunities that heat guns offer for making toast.

about 20 years ago there was an blog that was dedicating itself to making equipment to sinter sugar for 3d objects, and they were using a modified heat gun as the heat source. The software they were adapting let them do images on toast, which is how they were calibrating their hacks on the software and hardware.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (D7oie)

412 Everybody raise your mugs...

...here's to well-browned bread with melty butter and jam or honey! Cheers!

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (uCfKO)

413 Damn creeping Christians!

Clara Jeffery
@ClaraJeffery
Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a “blessed” night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic…
As my rowmate said, “this ain’t Montgomery, sweetie.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (L/fGl)

414 He may not have pissed anyone off. Rather he's a loose cannon with kompromat on the state actors TPTB are trying to install in the national government. Not necessarily Harris and/or Walz... but who knows.

Certainly would include many members of congress, assorted fedgov people, various state governments and so on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2024 10:56 AM (Q4IgG)
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Rogue elements of the FBI have recognized that Congress is toothless, the senior leadership is unaccountable and completely corrupt, so they are rolling up the regime from the outside in.

The thing about bad guys is that they never trust each other, and that's why they need all the dirt and if it gets out, they have problems.

The timing is important and it's no coincidence that late September is when this stuff is being released.

It's not just some sort of random thing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (llXky)

415 Umm...no. We don't do "smart" toasters.

Posted by: Few remaining members of Hezbollah at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (dg+HA)

416 SWIDT?

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (uCfKO)

417 >Austere Hezbollah chief Nasrallah goes on to a glorious martyrdom
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Yeah, he's toast

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:06 AM (/7KEl)

418 The FTA is a rogue government agency

Toast Free Or Die

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:07 AM (/7KEl)

419 Creeping Christian nationalism alert:
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (L/fGl)
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"Nice" Christianity is dead.
Old tactics won't work.
God wins in the end.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 11:08 AM (llXky)

420 approximately 17.4 million toasters were sold over retail channels in the United States.

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This was the last year for which there is complete data
Posted by: Don Black

Thanks for the info, but it's the black market Toaster Show loophole we need to address.

Posted by: Bureau of Alcohol Toasters and Firearms at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (CV8a5)

421 400 Posted by: mindful webworker - pre-cataract surgery surgery at September 28, 2024 11:01 AM (bqxS+)

Prayers! I know you'll find relief.

this brings back memories. When I lived in LA 25 years ago, I briefly fostered what I thought was an injured/possibly abused liver-spotted Dalmatian who was wandering the neighborhood. Long story short, he was suffering from that same eyelid condition, and quite a bit of my own money later, the vets operated on his lids, and he then went on to a very happy long life up in a home in Topanga Canyon.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (x0n13)

422 Best way to brown bread. Sizzling hot pan. Butter liberally applied to bread. Quick sear.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (nv4jJ)

423 Israelis in Tel Aviv mourn the death of Nasrallah.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-i1nfVIB-Jg

Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (uxCna)

424 The FTA is in the pay of Big Bread.

Posted by: And everyone knows it at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (dg+HA)

425 I will also bring up that commercial bread toasts easier than home-made because of the sugar the bakers put into commercial bread to keep it softer. The additional sugar absorbs moisture and keeps the bread from going dry and stale longer, and also caramelizes better, at lower temperature.

Home made bread, at least mine, is made without sugar so all the browning is done via Maillard reaction alone, with reduced sucrose sugars so there is no additional caramelization, so it takes more energy. I honestly thought the really nice toaster I got for Christmas one year was a lemon since it was crappy at toasting my bread

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 11:09 AM (D7oie)

426 >Common Tater, you forgot the opportunities that heat guns offer for making toast.
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Most of the toast trade magazines, and certainly the Toast Council, view heat guns as cheating

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:10 AM (/7KEl)

427 One toaster a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Your neighborhood Karen at September 28, 2024 11:11 AM (dg+HA)

428
@ClaraJeffery
Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a “blessed” night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic…
As my rowmate said, “this ain’t Montgomery, sweetie.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

What the hell is a rowmate, sweetie?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2024 11:11 AM (63Dwl)

429 Nearly 400 comments, and not one Pumpkin Spice reference. Keep it up!
Posted by: Down With the Spice! at September 28, 2024 10:52 AM (CV8a5)

Kneaders has a BOGO on pumpkin bread this week.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2024 11:11 AM (0eaVi)

430 And that doesn't include sales of used toasters. Since most toasters are junk these days, I went to a goodwill to find a 1970s-80s model. They knew how to toast properly in the old days

I saw one of those old kind of A-frame toasters in an antique shop a few weeks ago. Complete with the frayed fabric covered cord and Bakelite plug. No timer or rheostat of course. I kind of hate that stuff from my mom's kitchen are now "antiques."

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 11:12 AM (/y8xj)

431 "At some point, you have enough toast."

NEVER!

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:12 AM (/7KEl)

432 Wow, sounds like things are changing in Lebanon, bigly:

Iranian plane headed to Beirut turns around. Lebanon's transportation minister bans entry of all Iranian aircraft, @N12News reports.

IDF takes over control tower comms at Beirut airport, warns Iranian plane to stay away, MTV Lebanon reports. via @N12News

Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 11:13 AM (uxCna)

433 Two hours till launch, the astronauts are sealed in and it's raining.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 28, 2024 11:13 AM (wILM4)

434 This is a Hamilton Beach toaster from Amazon. In three years, I bought one from Dollar Store (didn't work) and one from the local hardware store, which recently died. This did a good job on my bagel.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 28, 2024 11:13 AM (MpVUb)

435 She's getting smoked as burned toast in the comments below her tweet.

I particularly liked Jack P going through her timeline and pulling up tweet-after-tweet of her using the term "blessed."

Posted by: one hour sober at September 28, 2024 11:13 AM (Y1sOo)

436 did a good job on my bagel.

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 11:14 AM (AGxUO)

437 >>The thing about bad guys is that they never trust each other, and that's why they need all the dirt and if it gets out, they have problems.

Diddy's lawyer said yesterday that he can't wait to take the stand and testify. Assuming he stays alive long enough this might not work out the way some wanted.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2024 11:14 AM (LkLld)

438 Clara Jeffery
@ClaraJeffery
Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a “blessed” night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic…
As my rowmate said, “this ain’t Montgomery, sweetie.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:05 AM (L/fGl)

She wasn't talking to you, pal. You can go to hell.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:14 AM (2l8ZD)

439 If everybody just ate untoasted bread, the energy saved would help save the rainforest, or don't you care about endangered species?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

440 >I saw one of those old kind of A-frame toasters in an antique shop a few weeks ago.
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I think you are referring to a 'honeymoon toaster'

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:15 AM (/7KEl)

441 Toaster? I just met her!

Posted by: Rimshot at September 28, 2024 11:15 AM (dg+HA)

442 Most of the toast trade magazines, and certainly the Toast Council, view heat guns as cheating
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:10 AM (/7KEl)

There will always be a new sensation. Always more pretentiousness than the last.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at September 28, 2024 11:15 AM (nv4jJ)

443 Here it is

https://tinyurl.com/64vts6x6

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:16 AM (/7KEl)

444 Most of the toast trade magazines, and certainly the Toast Council, view heat guns as cheating
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:10 AM (/7KEl)

You ain't cheatin' you ain't eatin', son. So grab your jam and knife and get back in there!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 11:16 AM (D7oie)

445 Yes, but was the bread made from organic free range fair trade wheat?

Posted by: Viewers from Seattle at September 28, 2024 11:17 AM (dg+HA)

446 Field expedient method for making toast:

Use the magnifying glass attachment on your Swiss Army knife to focus the sun's rays on the surface of the bread. You will need to be patient, and move the hotspot around the surface of the bread to avoid localized scorching.

Or just wait for the Burning Times.

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:17 AM (uCfKO)

447 What the hell is a rowmate, sweetie?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2024 11:11 AM (63Dwl)

Aren't all those Brits on rowing teams?

I assume they bugger each other.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:18 AM (2l8ZD)

448 They called it 'honeymoon toaster' because your bride is on one side of the table, toasting her slice, and you are on your side of the table toasting your slice

since the toaster was a simple on/off device, each person just left their slice of bread in toaster for as long or short as desired

custom toast led to marital harmony

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:18 AM (/7KEl)

449 he then went on to a very happy long life up in a home in Topanga Canyon.

Like that farm upstate where they took Old Shep?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 11:18 AM (AGxUO)

450 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and the Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers up for all of our dear brothers and sisters, whether we know them or not.

Felt so good to sleep in this morning!

May God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 28, 2024 11:18 AM (CiNoz)

451 Some coffee shops had toasters on each table.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 11:20 AM (AGxUO)

452 She wasn't talking to you, pal. You can go to hell.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:14 AM (2l8ZD)
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It's one of those things that proves the power of God and how sensitive people possessed by evil are to it.

Look at the absurd arrests of people praying silently at abortion mills in England. No outward sign, just standing there, thinking about God. The only way anyone knows is when they are asked what they are doing and tell the truth.

That's now a crime.

If that doesn't prove the efficacy of prayer, I don't know what would.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2024 11:20 AM (llXky)

453 "The head of Iran's Quds force in Lebanon, along with other senior Iranians, were meeting with Nasrallah and were also killed."

Wow.

(breaks into song) Oh what a beautiful morning. Oh what a beautiful day...

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 28, 2024 11:20 AM (+H2BX)

454 Most of the toast trade magazines, and certainly the Toast Council, view heat guns as cheating
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:10 AM (/7KEl)

You ain't cheatin' you ain't eatin', son. So grab your jam and knife and get back in there!
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2024 11:16 AM (D7oie)

This is why we need national toasting laws, to ban heat guns.

Quick, get Lindsay Graham to co-sponsor a bill with Maria Cantwell.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 28, 2024 11:20 AM (2l8ZD)

455 .
NOOD

K.T. is here with a new thread: Why is communism rising again?

NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 28, 2024 11:20 AM (O7YUW)

456 What the hell is a rowmate, sweetie?
$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 28, 2024 11:21 AM (AGxUO)

457 custom toast led to marital harmony

and marital harmony led to coital bliss

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:21 AM (/7KEl)

458 Here it is

https://tinyurl.com/64vts6x6

OK my mom's wasn't that old. It at least had enclosed doors. I would have bought that one just for the Deco styling.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 11:21 AM (/y8xj)

459 The head of Iran's Quds force in Lebanon, along with other senior Iranians, were meeting with Nasrallah and were also killed.
Posted by: Zombie Hassan Nasrallah! at September 28, 2024 11:02 AM (uxCna)

Well, there's the actual news in this. That's like if Gen. Westmoreland had been killed in Saigon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 28, 2024 11:22 AM (awTae)

460 Oh, the much venerated Sunbeam T20 may cause a peak-load natural gas plant to be brought back online to ensure them damn English Muffins is burnt right and proper, but that's how it goes. If you ask a Brit what an English Muffin is, they won't know what you are on about. Really.

But they have to be crispy. With lots of butter. One reason the "Egg McMuffin" isn't all that. They seem to think it is a goofy round bread substitute. Wrong!

Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2024 11:22 AM (R3wAr)

461 Clara Jeffery
@ClaraJeffery
Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a “blessed” night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic…
As my rowmate said, “this ain’t Montgomery, sweetie.”

I mean, Wiccans say "blessed" too. She should know that because Karens of all Karenness usually claim to be Wiccan vegans.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2024 11:22 AM (Yqpb4)

462 I prefer my toast medium rare, with just a bit of pink in the middle.

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:22 AM (uCfKO)

463 At one time Armalite gave away a logoed toaster with the purchase of an AR-15.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2024 11:23 AM (/y8xj)

464 All right. Life beckons.

Stay ~~frosty~~ toasty my friends!

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:23 AM (uCfKO)

465 Toastman OUT

Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2024 11:24 AM (/7KEl)

466 GREEK HONEY ... Honey produced in Greece is claimed to be highly nutrient-dense with many immune system benefits ... Often touted is the age longevity of people who include Greek honey in their regular diet ... YMMV.

Posted by: Kathy at September 28, 2024 11:26 AM (qpw89)

467 Resource Depleted Seattle Police Department Won’t Respond to Burglary Alarms Anymore

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I'm sure this will work out well.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 28, 2024 11:26 AM (L/fGl)

468 Rogue elements of the FBI have recognized that Congress is toothless, ...

But also rubber stamps for evil.

If the FBI claimed they needed a new billion dollar facility to harvest adrenochrome from immigrant children, the Congress would allocate two billion, identify a contractor to build the facility and then demand a cut of the action.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2024 11:27 AM (rHxhM)

469 So at one time a toaster was considered a "marital aid?"

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2024 11:28 AM (dg+HA)

470 So at one time a toaster was considered a "marital aid?"
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

*********

I think that is a bun warmer.

Posted by: muldoon at September 28, 2024 11:30 AM (uCfKO)

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