AP Calls Terrorist Leader Nasrallah "Charismatic and Shrewd;" The Washington Post Calls Him "A Moral Compass"

Here is just a partial list of the murders perpetrated by one of history's most prolific serial killers:

Note that Hezballah has killed more Americans than any other terrorist organization, at least before 9/11.

The AP looks right past the thousands of murders he's responsible for and praises him as "charismatic and shrewd."

Associated Press called out for headline on death of terror leader: 'Charismatic and shrewd'

X users contrasted to the headline for the death of a GOP senator: 'Former US Sen. Jim Inhofe, defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a 'hoax,' dies at 89'

Social media users blasted the Associated Press for its recent obituary headline for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, describing it as kinder to the terror leader than the outlet's obituary for late U.S. senator Jim Inhofe.
The AP News headline marking Nasrallah's death this week referred to the Hezbollah boss as "charismatic and shrewd," while the outlet's headline for Inhofe's death in July painted the late lawmaker in a bad light, reminding readers he "called human-caused climate change a 'hoax.'"
Observant X users noticed the difference in tone between the two obituaries. Prominent conservative account @AGHamilton29 remarked, "This is actual enemy of the people stuff." He also noted that the article left out Hezbollah's "entire history of terrorism, describes their mass starvation and murder as 'taken part in the conflict in neighboring Syria', and tries to paint him as a 'moderate.'"

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that Nasrallah was killed in its strike against the group's headquarters in Lebanon on Friday. According to the military group, Nasrallah was responsible for the murder of many Israeli civilians and soldiers, as well as the planning and execution of thousands of terrorist activities around the world.
The IDF said Nasrallah was one of Hezbollah's co-founders as well as its central decision-maker and the strategic leader. The terror group confirmed his death following the IDF's announcement.
The Associated Press published its obituary on Friday for Nasrallah, with the original headline, "Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah." An updated version of the piece featured a new headline, stating, "Who was longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?" But an Internet Archive search confirmed the existence of the more generous title.
In addition to the controversial headline, the outlet waited before referring Hezbollah as a terror group, only referring to the organization's terrorist designation by the U.S. at around the 14th paragraph of the article.
Rather, the outlet referred to Hezbollah as a "Lebanese militant group," and "one of the most powerful paramilitary groups in the Middle East." The report also described the Nasrallah as a "fiery, charismatic leader."

He died as he lived: Fiery.

This is actual enemy of the people stuff.

It leaves out Hezbollah’s entire history of terrorism, describes their mass starvation and murder as “taken part in the conflict in neighboring Syria”, and tries to paint him as a “moderate”

Shameful does not even cover it. https://t.co/P5OY1fwOWU pic.twitter.com/ssvyNV7IVW
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 28, 2024

Hezbollah: Murdered 85 people at a Jewish center in Buenos Aires

Hezbollah: Plane hijacking murdering 21 people

WaPo: "Nasrallah was a moral compass." pic.twitter.com/1Iux7ZykAX
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 30, 2024

The New York Times: Nasrallah just "wanted equality."

Hezbollah’s Founding Charter: “We want the elimination of Israel.”

Hassan Nasrallah: “We will murder every Jew.”

The NYT: “Hezbollah just wanted equality.” pic.twitter.com/bLZUK3HxQU
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 29, 2024

The Muslim terrorism apologists still have the "American" ones beat: They're saying that the Jews only managed to pull off this coup because their intelligence service do deals with genies.

Mostafa Karami, Mullah who regularly speaks on the behalf of the Islamic Regime in Iran says the Israelis were only able to assassinate Nasrallah because “Jews use genies for military operations”

Via @gghamari pic.twitter.com/MXP2rnl2tp
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 30, 2024

Posted by: Ace at 12:09 PM

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1 Howdy!

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 30, 2024 12:09 PM (VGRuw)

2 1

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 12:09 PM (N1DT3)

3 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2024 12:09 PM (3kdXM)

4 You don't hate the media enough.

These people are absolutely evil.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 12:10 PM (N1DT3)

5 Man those Joos have all the cool stuff!

Posted by: steevy at September 30, 2024 12:10 PM (HJ9BW)

6 Example, 9 Billion of why you can never hate the media enough.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2024 12:10 PM (XV/Pl)

7 last

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

8 Almost like liberation theory and intersectionality actively prevents critical thinking and makes one stupid.

Almost.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

9 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2024 12:12 PM (JDNxc)

10 AP = Always Propaganda

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 30, 2024 12:12 PM (/U5Yz)

11 Also wrt to AI NIN Yacht Rock Song, can it really be considered yacht rock without a horn section or an electric piano?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2024 12:12 PM (XV/Pl)

12 afternoon, all. Are the North Carolina Morons all safe and dry?

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2024 12:12 PM (KRtlO)

13 -_-

Genies...

-_-

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2024 12:13 PM (ZANHd)

14 I would call Nasrallah Toast

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2024 12:13 PM (JDNxc)

15 You ain’t never had a mensch like me!

Posted by: Genie from Aladdin at September 30, 2024 12:13 PM (Geoni)

16 The people writing this drivel refuse to understand the people they're praising would slit their throats without a second thought.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 12:13 PM (tT6L1)

17 "Mostafa Karami, Mullah who regularly speaks on the behalf of the Islamic Regime in Iran says the Israelis were only able to assassinate Nasrallah because “Jews use genies for military operations”"

>>>>>>>>>>

This is who we are losing to in every war this century.

(Where we win every battle, but out leader ensure we lose the war, anyway.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 12:13 PM (N1DT3)

18 Do you know who else was charismatic and shrewd?

Posted by: Major Hochstetter at September 30, 2024 12:13 PM (CV8a5)

19 F*** Islam.

Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:13 PM (UnA8+)

20 Well, our media outlets are actually terror outlets with cable.

This checks out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2024 12:14 PM (Q4IgG)

21 Hey, I'd like to introduce you to my great friend, Adolph.

Posted by: 1940s Washington Post at September 30, 2024 12:14 PM (i24o9)

22 Mostafa Karami, Mullah who regularly speaks on the behalf of the Islamic Regime in Iran says the Israelis were only able to assassinate Nasrallah because �Jews use genies for military operations

==

Primitive fks. And they managed to keep the civilized world in chains for the last 45 years. *Sigh

Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 12:14 PM (V13WU)

23 Gaslighting elevated to a fine art

Posted by: kallisto at September 30, 2024 12:14 PM (uJxwW)

24 So Christina Aguilera was right? Jews have a genie in a bottle, they gotta rub it the right way?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 30, 2024 12:14 PM (DyHJQ)

25 This is who "we" are losing to in every war this century.

(Where we win every battle, but out leader ensure we lose the war, anyway.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 12:13 PM (N1DT3)

*our leaders

That was some mighty fine typing there.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 12:14 PM (N1DT3)

26 My sister's late ex husband was a Marine in Beirut in 83. He lost a lot of friends because of that animal Nasrallah. She cried tears of joy when I told her Nasrallah was taken out.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at September 30, 2024 12:14 PM (QyT5w)

27 21 Hey, I'd like to introduce you to my great friend, Adolph.
Posted by: 1940s Washington Post at September 30, 2024 12:14 PM (i24o9)

Old and busted, Abraham, Martin and John,

New hotness, Adolph, Mao and Hassan

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (x0n13)

28 We've lost the war.

We're just fighting the battles now.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (KbCG3)

29 I dream of Genie and Fiery Explosions that incinerate Evil...but, mostly of Fiery Explosions that incinerate Evil.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (lKYo+)

30 Primitive fks. And they managed to keep the civilized world in chains for the last 45 years. *Sigh
Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 12:14 PM (V13WU)

Because the "civilized world" won't deal with them as the mortal enemies they are.

Because we're too "civilized".

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (N1DT3)

31 He was a moral compass alright: pointing straight to Hell.

Same people writing these headlines delight in ruining Americans over tweets.

Posted by: These Guys Don't Have The Moral Fiber To Be Scum at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (44PAK)

32 Genies and control of the weather. Damn these Joos have all the cool things.

Posted by: Settled Science at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (Wsr9E)

33 I would call Nasrallah Toast

More like the burnt crumbs at the bottom of the toaster.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (xCA6C)

34 12 afternoon, all. Are the North Carolina Morons all safe and dry?
Posted by: ace at September 30, 2024 12:12 PM (KRtlO)

=======

I'm fine. Our area didn't get hit hard. We're south of Charlotte.

West of Charlotte, though...eek. I feel bad for how easily we got out of this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

35 Associates with Paleostinians should have been in the bunker with Nasrallah

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (6iIV/)

36 "Hey, it's kind of warm in here." -Nasrallah's first words on the other side.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (OPGS/)

37 How closely does Nasrallah look like Obama's son?

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (Ectld)

38 Al Jazeera is probably the only Honest Media outlet out there.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 12:16 PM (lKYo+)

39 24 So Christina Aguilera was right? Jews have a genie in a bottle, they gotta rub it the right way?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 30, 2024 12:14 PM (DyHJQ)

"And it turns from a wallet into a suitcase"

- - Just the punchline

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 12:16 PM (x0n13)

40 He died as he lived: Fiery.
________
"Fiery" is still in the present tense for him. And future.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:16 PM (1bNHn)

41 I guess he wasn't an 'austere scholar'.

The Press is our enemy, clear and simple.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 30, 2024 12:16 PM (xcxpd)

42 "Protected it [Lebanon] from Israeli incursions."

No mention on why Israel might feel the need to intrude into Lebanese territory...

Evil idiots...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (7fElN)

43 Wasn't there reports that Nasrallah didn't get all blown up but instead was suffocated by the toxic fumes sucked down to his basement bunker?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (6iIV/)

44 Wait, wut? Jews have genies? Cool!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (OX9vb)

45 39 - - Just the punchline

I understood that reference.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (OPGS/)

46 Al Jazeera is probably the only Honest Media outlet out there.

==

Al Arabia.

Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (V13WU)

47 Ok Abdul, you’re the new leader of Hizbolah.

New phone. Who dis?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (u73oe)

48 What's the solution? The media don't care that we point out their absurd and obvious bias.

Posted by: Xander Crews at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (rEmVK)

49 >>Genies and control of the weather. Damn these Joos have all the cool things.

They also have Spy Squirrels and Murder Sharks.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (lKYo+)

50 Note that human induced "climate change" is actually a hoax.

Posted by: Jay in PA at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (i7Q7S)

51 Regime in Iran says the Israelis were only able to assassinate Nasrallah because �Jews use genies for military operations

Yeah well the high holidays are upon us. You don’t even want to know how they intend to deploy their weaponized matzoh.

* shudder*

Posted by: kallisto at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (uJxwW)

52 If you told the 60s Woodstock Hippies that they were going to plunge the earth into a dark age of Islamic Fundamentalism and Shari'ah Law all because of their own narcissism, what would they say?

Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (UnA8+)

53 Mostafa Karami, Mullah who regularly speaks on the behalf of the Islamic Regime in Iran says the Israelis were only able to assassinate Nasrallah because Jews use genies for military operations

The evil Joos should run with that. Make everything a genie-supported operation. You know who can beat a genie? NOBODY!

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (xCA6C)

54 often said is "you don't hate the media enough", but is it really possible to hate them enough? The corporate Propaganda Press is an existential threat to America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2024 12:18 PM (jqPhM)

55 I guess if he always, unfailingly point to true evil, he is a kind of "moral compass."

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:18 PM (1bNHn)

56 I need to get me some of that cosmic science. I'd strip nekkid, paint myself silver and flit around intergalactic space ways on a super sleek surfboard.

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2024 12:18 PM (/wYri)

57 "If you told the 60s Woodstock Hippies that they were going to plunge the earth into a dark age of Islamic Fundamentalism and Shari'ah Law all because of their own narcissism, what would they say?"

The preachers of the 60s did say that.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 12:18 PM (Ectld)

58 48 What's the solution? The media don't care that we point out their absurd and obvious bias.
Posted by: Xander Crews at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (rEmVK)

The Solution, as always, is "*Types, Deletes*".

Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:18 PM (UnA8+)

59 Nasrallah had a fiery but mostly peaceful death? Someone toss that back at the headline writers yet?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 12:18 PM (tT6L1)

60 54 often said is "you don't hate the media enough", but is it really possible to hate them enough? The corporate Propaganda Press is an existential threat to America.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2024 12:18 PM (jqPhM)

It isn't possible, no.

You can never reach infinity.

Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:19 PM (UnA8+)

61 Israel recalibrate Nasrallah's moral compass.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 30, 2024 12:19 PM (L/fGl)

62 Djinn and Ifrits

Bunch of hot air windbags.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 12:19 PM (6iIV/)

63 >>often said is "you don't hate the media enough", but is it really possible to hate them enough?

No.

The Immutable Laws of Physics simply won't allow it.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 12:19 PM (lKYo+)

64 Yet another reason to hate the media. Pure evil.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2024 12:19 PM (W/lyH)

65 Genies, eh? "Articulating boom-lifts," indeed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 30, 2024 12:19 PM (awTae)

66
To hell with the islamists.

/ writing check to 'Samaritan's Purse' after seeing
/ the incredible damage, heartbreaking FJB

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM (RKVpM)

67 Updated for the times:

Just as every Christian a criminal
And all the terrorists saints

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM (KodE5)

68 afternoon, all. Are the North Carolina Morons all safe and dry?
Posted by: ace

My wife and I put a contract on a small farm along the Nolichucky R. but we didn't get the place. It was heavily damaged during the flood and the bridge next to it is gone. When I was researching the buy before buying, the home itself was NOT in a flood zone. Whoopsie!

We dodged a bullet there.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM (WXNFJ)

69 Lol at the idea of Barbara Eden smoking Nasrallah.

Posted by: kallisto at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM (uJxwW)

70 afternoon, all. Are the North Carolina Morons all safe and dry?
Posted by: ace at September 30, 2024 12:12 PM (KRtlO)

Has anyone checked on Alex The Chick? I believe the Empress is a resident of one of the Carolinas.

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM (/wYri)

71 The Jews have access to genies etc:

I'm not sure the western mind can comprehend the degree to which concepts of inshalla and spiritism dominate the Muslim mind. They are fatalistic on two fronts--either gods will or the will of other spirits , both of which are more powerful than humans, is their primary lens for interpretation of the world. The headlines in Indonesia after the tsunami were things like "VENGEANCE" and "PUNISHMENT". I don't remember the exact words but they were instantly trying to figure out what they had done wrong and what spirit would do this to them.

So yeah they interact with every event in terms of spiritual causation.

Posted by: TexasDan at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM (n4bcY)

72 Oh Djinn can be defeated if you get the incantations out fast enough to force them back into the Solomon bottle.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM (6iIV/)

73 You ain’t never had a mensch like me!
Posted by: Genie from Aladdin at September 30, 2024 12:13 PM (Geoni)

I LOL'd even harder at the hash.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM (ZANHd)

74 Wow.

Mossad is taking them out with garage door openers now?

Baller.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM (VoAdT)

75 Mostafa Karami, Mullah who regularly speaks on the behalf of the Islamic Regime in Iran says the Israelis were only able to assassinate Nasrallah because Jews use genies for military operations.
_____
First the banks, then the weather, then the pagers, now genies. Is there anything they don't control?

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM (1bNHn)

76 50 Note that human induced "climate change" is actually a hoax.
Posted by: Jay in PA at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (i7Q7S)

At the barest of bare minimums, there is no credible testible proof that human activity has changed the climate either since or before the Industrial Revolution.

And with the climate gate revelations about Michael Mann et al, showing the data either later or fabricated, the label of hoax, considering the drive to depopulate and deindustrialize the world is IMHO accurate.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 12:21 PM (x0n13)

77 Long ago former company I worked for was a heating subcontractor who was a Marine at the Beirut bombing. He said they dug for days after that. Heard he past away some years ago.

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2024 12:21 PM (JDNxc)

78 58 48 What's the solution? The media don't care that we point out their absurd and obvious bias.
Posted by: Xander Crews at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (rEmVK)

The Solution, as always, is "*Types, Deletes*".
Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:18 PM (UnA8+)

Media will eventually piss of the wrong person in a very personal way, provoking a very personal response. Then the folks who've spent the better part of a decade programming their street auxiliaries to assassinate Literal Hitler and punch Nazis will want to talk about the climate of violence the right has generated, along with the FBI.

Posted by: These Guys Don't Have The Moral Fiber To Be Scum at September 30, 2024 12:21 PM (44PAK)

79 ‘ The Washington Post Calls Him "A Moral Compass’

More like a targeting beacon. If you know what I mean.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 30, 2024 12:21 PM (jbnUc)

80 52 If you told the 60s Woodstock Hippies that they were going to plunge the earth into a dark age of Islamic Fundamentalism and Shari'ah Law all because of their own narcissism, what would they say?
Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (UnA8+)

They would call me a science denier.

Posted by: Emmie at September 30, 2024 12:21 PM (NIkq3)

81 West of Charlotte, though...eek. I feel bad for how easily we got out of this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers

****

I'm genuinely happy that you avoided the worst of it. Losing one's home to a storm isn't much fun.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2024 12:21 PM (Y1sOo)

82 afternoon, all. Are the North Carolina Morons all safe and dry?
Posted by: ace

I have family in the Charlotte/Winston-Salem area. Seems nothing much happened to them, fortunately.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 30, 2024 12:21 PM (LxER7)

83 'The Jews have a Genie for EVERYTHING.'
'They will sell you a Genie just to deal with your babies diapers!'

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 12:21 PM (lKYo+)

84 You can never reach infinity.
Posted by: XTC

Don't be an asymptote.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2024 12:22 PM (WXNFJ)

85 People like this ARE a moral compass for the Left. Ironically enough.

This is one of those believe them moments.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2024 12:22 PM (LCr8f)

86 Major Anthony Nelson and Major Healey were not involved in the op. They were at the medspa getting they botox on

Posted by: kallisto at September 30, 2024 12:22 PM (uJxwW)

87 But isn't it in Islamic teachings that 1/3 of the Djinn converted to Islam upon hearing the Prophet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 12:22 PM (6iIV/)

88 Oh, and doesn't BCochran live in the Florida panhandle?

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2024 12:22 PM (/wYri)

89 Make everything a genie-supported operation

You ain't never had a friend like me!

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 30, 2024 12:22 PM (qCXbg)

90 The evil Joos should run with that. Make everything a genie-supported operation. You know who can beat a genie? NOBODY!
Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (xCA6C)

Hit them in the chest with the sharp end of a date pit. This is known.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2024 12:23 PM (D7oie)

91 12 afternoon, all. Are the North Carolina Morons all safe and dry?
Posted by: ace at September 30, 2024 12:12 PM (KRtlO)
_______
It's odd. We live too close to the coast to have been hit hard. It's the western part of the state that looks like scenes from Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:23 PM (1bNHn)

92 If you told the 60s Woodstock Hippies that they were going to plunge the earth into a dark age of Islamic Fundamentalism and Shari'ah Law all because of their own narcissism, what would they say?
Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM

*inhales from bong*

Whut...?

Posted by: 60s Woodstock Hippies at September 30, 2024 12:23 PM (ZANHd)

93 I have to add: I think everyone fighting Israel since Pharoh has found out there is indeed a very big spiritual dimension to those battles.

Posted by: TexasDan at September 30, 2024 12:23 PM (n4bcY)

94 The Washington Post Calls Him "A Moral Compass"

Of course. He was a moral compass for the anti-Semites at the WaPo and at all other legacy media outfits.

Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2024 12:23 PM (aBgBM)

95 89 Make everything a genie-supported operation

You ain't never had a friend like me!
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 30, 2024 12:22 PM (qCXbg)

Exploding Garage Door Openers next!!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 12:23 PM (x0n13)

96 what would they say?

Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (UnA8+)

Don't bogart that joint, my friend.

Posted by: 1940s Washington Post at September 30, 2024 12:23 PM (i24o9)

97 So it looks like Israelis like to go to Bangkok. Why
is that?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 12:24 PM (v6JzV)

98 Magic Lamp>>Magic Bottle>>Magic Johnson

Posted by: Marshall Brodien at September 30, 2024 12:24 PM (CV8a5)

99 Well, he probably was charismatic to his own followers . . . and if he stayed alive and in the bang-boom buisness for forty years, he must have had some smarts.

But that's not the real and complete story, is it. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 12:24 PM (J2vNu)

100 "Everyone fighting Israel since Pharoh has found out there is indeed a very big spiritual dimension to those battles."

Sennacherib has entered the chat.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 12:24 PM (Ectld)

101 This storm was originally forecast to hit my AO before it veered East. Just a *little,* but we got nothing except a little rain here.

I kinda wish it had hit us, though. We have better flood control here. Devastation may have been less.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 30, 2024 12:24 PM (awTae)

102 The media is the enemy of the people.

- Some Orange Dude

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 12:24 PM (i24o9)

103 He died as he lived: Fiery.

--------------

Incendiary, even.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 30, 2024 12:24 PM (2kfOV)

104 test

Posted by: wferrin at September 30, 2024 12:24 PM (gSUDB)

105
When I was researching the buy before buying, the home itself was NOT in a flood zone. Whoopsie!

We dodged a bullet there.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM

IIRC, there's the 100 year flood zone, the 500 year flood zone, and the 1000 year flood zone. I think peeps need to check them all before buying.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 12:24 PM (RKVpM)

106 Most of the genies are in support roles. Logistics, procurement, you know. For every genie out there in combat, there's ten more sitting in an office back home.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2024 12:25 PM (VoAdT)

107 If you told the 60s Woodstock Hippies that they were going to plunge the earth into a dark age of Islamic Fundamentalism and Shari'ah Law all because of their own narcissism, what would they say?
Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM

DUDE! YOU DROPPED THE BROWN ACID!!!!! Dr. Sha-PIE-ROE Said not to!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 12:25 PM (x0n13)

108 Looking forward to the darker, grittier reboot of ai Dream of Jeannie.

Posted by: Djinn and Now at September 30, 2024 12:25 PM (44PAK)

109 87 But isn't it in Islamic teachings that 1/3 of the Djinn converted to Islam upon hearing the Prophet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 12:22 PM (6iIV

What a coincidence! The Bible says that 1/3 of the angels followed satan in his rebellion.

Posted by: Emmie at September 30, 2024 12:25 PM (NIkq3)

110 52 If you told the 60s Woodstock Hippies that they were going to plunge the earth into a dark age of Islamic Fundamentalism and Shari'ah Law all because of their own narcissism, what would they say?
Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (UnA8+)

YOLO!

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 30, 2024 12:25 PM (KodE5)

111 2020's Most Accurate Pollster Says Pennsylvania Is Trump's to Lose... BUT...

Don't be alarmed. The rest of the article seems to be an explanation as to why his current MOV may actually be low.

https://tinyurl.com/bdd72yfp

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 12:26 PM (xCA6C)

112 I guess Hezbollah was under the impression Israel wasn't keeping an eye on them. I'm pretty sure we're seeing the results of decades of surveillance work by Mossad.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 12:26 PM (tT6L1)

113 Has anyone checked on Alex The Chick? I believe the Empress is a resident of one of the Carolinas.
Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM

Iirc, she's more eastern. My buddy down near Bragg tells me they didn't get hit, so hopefully she's staying dry.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2024 12:26 PM (ZANHd)

114 78 - Media will eventually piss of the wrong person in a very personal way, provoking a very personal response.
Posted by: These Guys Don't Have The Moral Fiber To Be Scum at September 30, 2024 12:21 PM (44PAK)

Didn't CNN get shot up buy some sort of ecowarrior?

Posted by: Xander Crews at September 30, 2024 12:26 PM (rEmVK)

115 My wife and I put a contract on a small farm along the Nolichucky R. but we didn't get the place. It was heavily damaged during the flood and the bridge next to it is gone. When I was researching the buy before buying, the home itself was NOT in a flood zone. Whoopsie!

We dodged a bullet there.
Posted by: Tonypete

Most of the FEMA flood map calculations are based on statistical assumptions about the likelihood of a 1 in 100, 1 in 500, etc. event. Problem is that they are relying on a dataset that is well short of that to calculate those probabilities. So you get occurrences of 'black swan' events much more often than FEMA's maps suggest.

Dump 15-18 inches of rain in an area over twenty four or thirty six hours and something is going to flood, even high spots assumed to be 'safe' because unless you live on top of a crag, water always flows downhill.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 12:26 PM (SI97o)

116 The press is the enemy of the People.

We have to say it over and over. Big Press wants there to be no Constitutional liberties because they intend to dictate your freedom.

See that's why the Bushes & Co. are fvcked in the head. They were savaged by Big Press but still support the libs commies fags.

Posted by: torabora at September 30, 2024 12:26 PM (sM0Q+)

117 The WSJ took down four of my comments, each ameliorated more than its predecessor-each one calling Nasratlah a terrrorist. Apparently, it okay to call Donald Trump a terrorist but it is not okay to call the Nasrallah the Terrible a terrorist.

Posted by: wferrin at September 30, 2024 12:27 PM (gSUDB)

118 Lebanese real estate developers cut demolition costs by calling IDF.

Posted by: DaveA at September 30, 2024 12:27 PM (FhXTo)

119 >>IIRC, there's the 100 year flood zone, the 500 year flood zone, and the 1000 year flood zone. I think peeps need to check them all before buying.

The USGS Flood Zone Maps are shit, too.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 12:27 PM (lKYo+)

120 Limitless $$$ to Ukraine, $2.4B for the South, $100B Needed - Independent Sentinel

https://tinyurl.com/3tenbfwk

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 12:27 PM (i24o9)

121 They also have Spy Squirrels and Murder Sharks.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024

***
My cover is blown!

Posted by: Secret Squirrel at September 30, 2024 12:27 PM (J2vNu)

122 "I guess Hezbollah was under the impression Israel wasn't keeping an eye on them. I'm pretty sure we're seeing the results of decades of surveillance work by Mossad."

I was just thinking of you. For I have been tasting my new wine. I have bought a full cask of a fine wine which they tell me is Amontillado.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 12:27 PM (Ectld)

123 Democrats and their media mouthpieces want you dead.

They tell you this every day.

They are trying to replace you.

They have flooded the country with murderers and criminals to help them do the job.

They are corrupting your children, taking away your resources and are looking to take your guns.

They have suspended the rule of law and constitution to do it.

Why are you surprised?

Posted by: Vengeance at September 30, 2024 12:27 PM (YUUNb)

124 The only Genie I know of is Barbara Eden, in her prime.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 30, 2024 12:28 PM (C26rB)

125 52 If you told the 60s Woodstock Hippies that they were going to plunge the earth into a dark age of Islamic Fundamentalism and Shari'ah Law all because of their own narcissism, what would they say?
Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (UnA8+)
______
"That's heavy, man. (Inhale.)"

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:28 PM (1bNHn)

126 7 But isn't it in Islamic teachings that 1/3 of the Djinn converted to Islam upon hearing the Prophet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 12:22 PM (6iIV/)

I don't recall that specifically. Mohammed got all kinds of things he heard from both the local Jews and Christians scrambled in his brain. The New Testament says a third of the angels fell. He probably heard that and turned it around.

Posted by: TexasDan at September 30, 2024 12:28 PM (n4bcY)

127
Adolf Hitler, dog lover and Wagner afficionado, is dead at 56.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2024 12:28 PM (IFuph)

128 It is Allah's Will and can not be questioned

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2024 12:28 PM (RHGPo)

129 Somebody posted this earlier (a big thank you for that)

This is a live feed from the repeater on Mt. Mitchell.

https://is.gd/kCsXk4

Earlier today, the Net Control (the guy running the net) was absolutely taking Roy Cooper to the woodshed for the state government's lack of response.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 30, 2024 12:28 PM (PiwSw)

130
alexandriabrown
@alexthechick (13 minutes ago)
Do people really not know that the part of Western NC that was destroyed is the mountain part? There were no calls for evacuation or warnings for this because this was not anticipated AT ALL.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 12:29 PM (RKVpM)

131 >>What a coincidence! The Bible says that 1/3 of the angels followed satan in his rebellion.

Purely coincidence, I am sure.

Posted by: Claudine Gay at September 30, 2024 12:29 PM (lKYo+)

132 They also have Spy Squirrels and Murder Sharks.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024

***
My cover is blown!
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at September 30, 2024 12:27 PM

Secret! Say it's not so!

Posted by: Morocco Mole at September 30, 2024 12:29 PM (ZANHd)

133 127
Adolf Hitler, dog lover and Wagner afficionado, is dead at 56.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2024 12:28 PM (IFuph)

Natalie Wood was also a wagner afficionado?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 12:29 PM (x0n13)

134 {{ AP Calls Terrorist Leader Nasrallah "Charismatic and Shrewd;" The Washington Post Calls Him "A Moral Compass" }}

Now we can just call him "Pink Mist".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 30, 2024 12:29 PM (O7YUW)

135 All surely true. All leaders of men are charismatic. It's part of the requirement. They can be brutal barbarians or paragons of polished erudition, but they will *all* be charismatic. They will all be shrewd, too. Hard to stay alive in politics otherwise. Leaders of men tend to be moral leaders, too. It is more often than not a package deal.

But that doesn't mean any of them are *good.* That's a different issue. These are glowing terms and they are selected very much on purpose to try to paint people in a good light, but none of them are actually meaningful on their own. Being charismatic and cunning and claiming - and even managing to achieve - moral authority does not imply goodness.

Jim Jones was charismatic, shrewd and a moral leader. Cult leaders always are, just like politicians. Your average big company CEO is selected for charisma and shrewdness and he is also usually a "moral leader" within the statistical universe of the corporation - "our corporate values" and "our working culture" and whatnot always go with the package. Does it mean the CEO is good? No, of course not. But he *will* have at least two and usually all three mantles. He has to. He's a leader of men.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2024 12:30 PM (HnUIn)

136 I don't recall that specifically. Mohammed got all kinds of things he heard from both the local Jews and Christians scrambled in his brain. The New Testament says a third of the angels fell. He probably heard that and turned it around.
Posted by: TexasDan at September 30, 2024 12:28 PM (n4bcY)
============

Wasn't there some indication Mohamed got his scripture directly from a meeting with Satan or one of Satan's minions?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 12:30 PM (tT6L1)

137 Our punk-ass faux president is still calling for a ceasefire.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at September 30, 2024 12:30 PM (paSBy)

138 Guess he was WAPO's moral compass, showing they don't have any morality

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2024 12:30 PM (JDNxc)

139 "The Washington Post Calls Him 'A Moral Compass'"

They spelled "compost" wrong

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

140 In 2008 I used to routinely say here and elsewhere "the media aren't biased, they are the enemy". Believe it or not it was controversial then.

We spent 30 years trying to prove they had "bias" while they were laughing at us for bothering.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2024 12:30 PM (LCr8f)

141 9 Make everything a genie-supported operation

***
Tell me what you want, human. Afrits have enormous power.

Posted by: Kreezerast the Frightener at September 30, 2024 12:30 PM (J2vNu)

142 Djinn aren't exactly bad in Islam.

Mo gets his start in a cave where he's meditation and a Djinn shows up and starts choking him and yelling at him Recite recite!

Posted by: TexasDan at September 30, 2024 12:30 PM (n4bcY)

143 113 Has anyone checked on Alex The Chick? I believe the Empress is a resident of one of the Carolinas.
Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2024 12:20 PM

Iirc, she's more eastern. My buddy down near Bragg tells me they didn't get hit, so hopefully she's staying dry.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2024 12:26 PM (ZANHd)

--
From AtC's X feed:

alexandriabrown
@alexthechick
Sep 27
Just FYI - I am fine. My area was on the outer edges so we did not get hit that hard.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2024 12:31 PM (N39Ws)

144
Bang shangalang,
Bang shangalang,
Bang shangalang,
Bang bang.

Earworm insertion processing...

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2024 12:31 PM (j4U/Z)

145 For every genie out there in combat, there's ten more sitting in an office back home.

Lol you can’t make this sheet up.

When the Oct. 7 atrocity occurred, I knew the muzzies were done. No contest.

Posted by: kallisto at September 30, 2024 12:31 PM (uJxwW)

146 Afternoon Ace. News reports are saying that a ground incursion into Southern Lebanon by the Israelis is imminent. The sources say it will be limited and not as large as the 2006 Lebanon invasion.
Not real sure how this stays limited. If Hezbollah and their allies keep fighting I don't think the Israelis just walk away

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2024 12:31 PM (RTfY1)

147 My family and I had to temporarily leave A
Asheville, no power, water or cell coverage. Almost all stores are closed.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 30, 2024 12:32 PM (hT16X)

148 Mostafa Karami, Mullah who regularly speaks on the behalf of the Islamic Regime in Iran says the Israelis were only able to assassinate Nasrallah because “Jews use genies for military operations”

-----------

I Dream of MOAR Genies!

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 30, 2024 12:32 PM (2kfOV)

149 In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
But the fighter still remains

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2024 12:32 PM (RHGPo)

150 Wasn't there some indication Mohamed got his scripture directly from a meeting with Satan or one of Satan's minions?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024

***
I'd read that M. was inspired by the Old Testament, and actually invited the Jews (very early, this was) to join his jihad. They declined.

Moslems have not forgotten this insult.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 12:32 PM (J2vNu)

151 Democrats and their media mouthpieces want you dead.

They tell you this every day.

They are trying to replace you.

They have flooded the country with murderers and criminals to help them do the job.

They are corrupting your children, taking away your resources and are looking to take your guns.

They have suspended the rule of law and constitution to do it.

Why are you surprised?

Posted by: Vengeance at September 30, 2024 12:27 PM (YUUNb)

Bears repeating.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 12:32 PM (i24o9)

152 Glad the Empress is alive and still ticked off.

What happened with NC and Helene?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 12:33 PM (6iIV/)

153 Genies > Hand Babies

Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 30, 2024 12:33 PM (J5bmF)

154 "My family and I had to temporarily leave Asheville, no power, water or cell coverage."

Well, now we know who was to blame for God striking Asheville.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 12:33 PM (Ectld)

155 >>> because this was not anticipated AT ALL.

Uh...

*types*
*deletes*

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2024 12:33 PM (Y1sOo)

156 What's the solution? The media don't care that we point out their absurd and obvious bias.
Posted by: Xander Crews
=====
Easy solution for AP is to sue them for monopolistic practices. Break them up. Ditto for any other media consolidation. Separate book publishers from broadcasters, radio from tv, etc.

Any organization that is reliant on their customers instead of vice versa doesn't do stupid shit like AP does in shilling for terrorists that kill Americans and Israelis.

I would also suggest that all organizations pay corporate taxes. No more 'non-profits'.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 12:33 PM (SI97o)

157 “Jews use genies for military operations”

It would be wrong to rub one out while watching bomb runs. Laughing is encouraged though.

Posted by: DaveA at September 30, 2024 12:33 PM (FhXTo)

158 Our punk-ass faux president is still calling for a ceasefire.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at September 30, 2024

***
Mushy-Brain or Knee Pads?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 12:34 PM (J2vNu)

159 I'm sure Joe will green light a minor incursion into Lebanon. I mean, after all, Joe did the same for Russia......

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 12:34 PM (tT6L1)

160 Note that human induced "climate change" is actually a hoax.
Posted by: Jay in PA

Hoaxes are the thing designed to kill off 100m of people, the middle class of Western countries in particular. It's violently worse than a hoax.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2024 12:34 PM (IG4Id)

161 The Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1) was an unguided air-to-air rocket with a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead. It was deployed by the United States Air Force (USAF 1957–1985) but is now retired.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2024 12:34 PM (RHGPo)

162 I posted this earlier, Ace. This is what happened to just one place.

https://tinyurl.com/zs5m9jaz

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (MpVUb)

163 Mushy-Brain or Knee Pads?

vis-a-vis Israel, there is no difference between the two

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (6iIV/)

164 But Inhofe is responsible for the deaths of countless millions by his denial of climate change!

Posted by: Today's headline at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (63Dwl)

165 Too lazy to research this but it makes me wonder if the AP also called Hitler charismatic and shrewd in the early days of NAZI germany. From what I've read Hitler actually was charismatic before he went fully insane, but the FNM kept telling me Barky was this super charismatic speaker and then I watched 1 or 2 of his teleprompter readings on TV.

Posted by: PaleRider at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (UKUm3)

166 'aren't'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (IG4Id)

167 @136

>>Wasn't there some indication Mohamed got his scripture directly from a meeting with Satan or one of Satan's minions?

Nah, he cobbled the gutter religion of pisslam from Judaism and Christianity, and filtered it through Bedouin gobbledygook and apocrypha.

Basically, it's Dianetics before Dianetics.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (XV/Pl)

168 Big Press would be pro Hitler today. We actually they are. That's why Nasrallah gets the glowing accolades from them. He was a killer of Jews so Bezos loved him.

That's why this stuff is so bizarre. Our universitys have populated Big Press with straight up Nazis.

Posted by: torabora at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (sM0Q+)

169 Wasn't there some indication Mohamed got his scripture directly from a meeting with Satan or one of Satan's minions?

He was scared to death at first, believing he was being plagued by a demon. But his dumb bint wife convinced him he was a prophet because she knew it would give her more cred with her wine mom friends. Then Mo would become rich and famous and she could finally run up the Nordstrom’s credit card.

Posted by: kallisto at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (uJxwW)

170 I dream of Genie, she's a light brown hare.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (PWI4f)

171 The father figure loved killing more than his own children met another father figure that loved his children more.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at September 30, 2024 12:36 PM (JWQTr)

172 *** out Hezbollah's "entire history of terrorism, describes their mass starvation and murder as 'taken part in the conflict in neighboring Syria', and tries to paint him as a 'moderate.'"***
-----------------

Mike Benz, who was the head of cyber portfolio at the State Department, talks to Tucker Carlson about the extent and mechanisms of censorship in the US. He reveals how the national security state interferes with elections, spreads disinformation, and undermines democracy. _nakedcapitalism

@ Tucker Carlson's website
https://tinyurl.com/yc36a562

Posted by: Braenyard - farmers, just stick a seed in the ground and shut up at September 30, 2024 12:36 PM (KTeKV)

173 Oh boy, PA republicans said they're working on new Gun Control bills.

Why does PA even have a republican party?

Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:36 PM (UnA8+)

174 There is a Russian band called Rabfak that got a lot of publicity for a song ten years ago called "Our Insane Asylum Is Voting For Putin".

I have no idea if they are still in Russia, but they came out with a song "Hamas Must Die" a while ago, and yesterday they came out with "Nasrallah Is Burning In Hell", with lots of IDF footage in the video.

I bet that it is a hit among Russian-speaking Israelis.

https://tinyurl.com/yhk5zjv3

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 12:36 PM (uxCna)

175 The Genie nuclear unguided rocket could be carried by the F-101, F-102, and F-106.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 12:37 PM (6iIV/)

176 Say, anyone seeing offers of aid coming from our allies in Europe or anywhere else. No? Then no more foreign aid.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 30, 2024 12:37 PM (u73oe)

177 I'd read that M. was inspired by the Old Testament, and actually invited the Jews (very early, this was) to join his jihad. They declined.

Moslems have not forgotten this insult.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Ditto. However, there is an interesting thesis that actually claims Mo did not exist in reality which would also fit with why fundamentalists of Islam hate any history before Mo and actively desecrate and destroy historical sites.

I think that stream of reasoning hypothesizes that various strains of heretical exiles from Christianity in the Middle East were responsible and the myth was retrofitted to vague historical stories.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 12:37 PM (SI97o)

178 I don't think anyone at Woodstock would say anything. Too busy watching the chicks take off their shirts. (Between bong hits.)

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:37 PM (1bNHn)

179 125 52 If you told the 60s Woodstock Hippies that they were going to plunge the earth into a dark age of Islamic Fundamentalism and Shari'ah Law all because of their own narcissism, what would they say?
Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (UnA8+)
______
"That's heavy, man. (Inhale.)"
Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:28 PM (1bNHn)

Duuuuude. Far out!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 12:38 PM (uBBbP)

180 To me that headline sounds a lot like "adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."

Posted by: Half Dozen at September 30, 2024 12:38 PM (ppfCG)

181 Babylon Bee is suing California over their AI law.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 12:39 PM (Ectld)

182 170 I dream of Genie, she's a light brown hare.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (PWI4f)
________
Is that you, Elmer Fudd?

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:39 PM (1bNHn)

183 Actually in the days before Pearl Harbor, Associates with Paleostinians cut a deal with Goebbels to keep access to Germany.

They basically surrendered editorial control to Goebbels on any articles they published about Germany.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 12:39 PM (6iIV/)

184 They seem nice.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 12:39 PM (v0R5T)

185 The only Genie I know of is Barbara Eden, in her prime.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD.

Would've loved to see her in her garden, where she went around nekkid.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 12:40 PM (v6JzV)

186 >>Democrats and their media mouthpieces want you dead.

Both of them are working for someone else.

Look at the Democrats. They are incompetent woke idiots. They couldn't organize a 1 car parade.

Our real enemy is the permanent state.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2024 12:40 PM (LkLld)

187 Charismatic and shrewd? For a second I thought you were discussing Obama.

Posted by: Enough Bullshit at September 30, 2024 12:40 PM (2NXcZ)

188 173 Oh boy, PA republicans said they're working on new Gun Control bills.

Why does PA even have a republican party?
Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:36 PM (UnA8+)

========

"They make good sport."
-PA Democrat Party

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

189 173 Oh boy, PA republicans said they're working on new Gun Control bills.

Why does PA even have a republican party?
Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:36 PM (UnA8+)

Range qualification after purchase? Their only hope

Posted by: A dude in MI at September 30, 2024 12:40 PM (/6GbT)

190 Iirc, she's more eastern. My buddy down near Bragg tells me they didn't get hit, so hopefully she's staying dry.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2024 12:26 PM (ZANHd)

--
From AtC's X feed:

alexandriabrown
@alexthechick
Sep 27
Just FYI - I am fine. My area was on the outer edges so we did not get hit that hard.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2024 12:31 PM (N39Ws)

Very cool. Thank you, both.

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2024 12:40 PM (baS7P)

191 Wednesday May2, 1945:
Stars and Stripes:

Hilter Dead

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2024 12:41 PM (RHGPo)

192 Anna Puma,

Severe ( 1000 year ) flooding in western NC. roads closed, communities isolated, no power or cell service.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 30, 2024 12:41 PM (PiwSw)

193 Goodbye, Hilter. We hardly knew you.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 12:41 PM (Ectld)

194 There’s been some fascinating info on the strike that killed Nasrallah. The main bunker was approx 14 stories underground, and they believed it was untouchable. The IDF reportedly used 83 bunker busting bombs, the biggest such attack ever, and timed them in a chained sequence to dig a hole down to the deepest level.
Even then they didn’t crush the lowest level, but they did cut off all air supplies and fill it with hot, toxic gases which did the trick.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2024 12:41 PM (+6sNf)

195 🤣🤣🤣🤣

"What's your response, please..."

😂😂🤣🤣

pic.twitter.com/9SOIlq74ef

Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 12:41 PM (V13WU)

196 We give millions of $ to the Taliban, spent $230 million on a pier to provide food for Hamas (which washed out to sea 20 days later).
Flood and hurricane victims in the US?
Uncle Sam says he's got nothin'...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 30, 2024 12:42 PM (MeG8a)

197 193 Goodbye, Hilter. We hardly knew you.
Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 12:41 PM (Ectld)

Big smash hit from "UberTramp"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 12:42 PM (x0n13)

198 You know who else was charismatic and shrewd?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2024 12:42 PM (OwAOz)

199 Too lazy to research this but it makes me wonder if the AP also called Hitler charismatic and shrewd in the early days of NAZI germany. From what I've read Hitler actually was charismatic before he went fully insane, but the FNM kept telling me Barky was this super charismatic speaker and then I watched 1 or 2 of his teleprompter readings on TV.
Posted by: PaleRider at September 30, 2024

***
I seem to recall Time made Hitler the Man of the Year once between 1933 and 1938. And they named the Ayatollah Khomeini, he of the Carter-era hostage crisis, as MotY in '79 or '80. They probably *meant* Hitler/Khomeini was the biggest news generator and biggest story of the year, not that either should be lauded, canonized, and given a gold watch. Though of course, with the mainstream media even 90 years ago, it's hard to be sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 12:42 PM (J2vNu)

200 Didn't Kamala say that she's be keeping some of Biden's cabinet (this is the reason she was shoved into the candidacy). SO two tier justice, CRT selling, Garland will stay as will open borders, Mayorkas, and global failure Blinken. None of these men could get elected.

Posted by: Enough Bullshit at September 30, 2024 12:42 PM (2NXcZ)

201 Say what you will about Hitler, but he did kill Hitler.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 12:42 PM (v6JzV)

202 117 The WSJ took down four of my comments, each ameliorated more than its predecessor-each one calling Nasratlah a terrrorist. Apparently, it okay to call Donald Trump a terrorist but it is not okay to call the Nasrallah the Terrible a terrorist.
Posted by: wferrin
==========
The dirty secret is that Rupert Murdoch financed his media empire with Saudi money. Bin Talal was a big silent partner of NewsCorp. Carlos Slim came from Lebanese Ex Pats to Mexico and probably is why the NYT lurched to defending the indefensible throughout the Mideast. Without Slim's money, Pinch and Co would have probably went under during the 2008 financial crisis. He owns about 17 percent of the shares.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 12:43 PM (SI97o)

203 You know who else was charismatic and shrewd?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2024

***
Musk and Trump?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 12:43 PM (J2vNu)

204 4 You don't hate the media enough.

These people are absolutely evil.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 12:10 PM (N1DT3)

*pours one out for D-Lamp*

Posted by: A prophet without honor is his own hometown at September 30, 2024 12:43 PM (OClqp)

205 “Jews use genies for military operations”"

>>>>>>>>>>

This is who we are losing to in every war this century.

(Where we win every battle, but out leader ensure we lose the war, anyway.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 12:13 PM (N1DT3)

Barbara Eden had some very fine rockets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2024 12:43 PM (OwAOz)

206 108 Looking forward to the darker, grittier reboot of ai Dream of Jeannie.
Posted by: Djinn and Now at September 30, 2024 12:25 PM (44PAK)

Please no... no remake of that childhood classic. Can you imagine them casting RuPaul or that unfunny fat woman from lady ghost busters as Jeanie and making major healy a woman and then start smashing the patriarchy.

Ugh no.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 12:44 PM (uBBbP)

207 [Looks at watch as coffins go by]

Posted by: Embarassmatic and Rude at September 30, 2024 12:44 PM (Ybyk2)

208 The media is the enemy of the people.

- Some Orange Dude
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
.......

almost as bad as FedGuv.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 12:44 PM (v0R5T)

209 52 If you told the 60s Woodstock Hippies that they were going to plunge the earth into a dark age of Islamic Fundamentalism and Shari'ah Law all because of their own narcissism, what would they say?
Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (UnA8+)

I'd say that their Laurel Canyon buddies were connected to the MIC and may or may not have known what their daddies were doing.

Posted by: Enough Bullshit at September 30, 2024 12:44 PM (2NXcZ)

210 194 There’s been some fascinating info on the strike that killed Nasrallah. The main bunker was approx 14 stories underground, and they believed it was untouchable. The IDF reportedly used 83 bunker busting bombs, the biggest such attack ever, and timed them in a chained sequence to dig a hole down to the deepest level.
Even then they didn’t crush the lowest level, but they did cut off all air supplies and fill it with hot, toxic gases which did the trick.
Posted by: Tom Servo
---------
All I can say to the IDF is kudos for a job well done and well worth doing.

Looking forward to an encore in Iran. Removing the pestilent mullahs and their pet thugs would drastically improve the Middle East.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 12:44 PM (SI97o)

211 Screw you, you're white.

Posted by: Joe Biden About The Hurricane! at September 30, 2024 12:45 PM (uxCna)

212 Ditto. However, there is an interesting thesis that actually claims Mo did not exist in reality which would also fit with why fundamentalists of Islam hate any history before Mo and actively desecrate and destroy historical sites.

I think that stream of reasoning hypothesizes that various strains of heretical exiles from Christianity in the Middle East were responsible and the myth was retrofitted to vague historical stories.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 12:37 PM (SI97o)

We’ve discussed this before, and I agree. There’s also pretty good evidence that the Dome of the Rock was in fact a late 6th century Byzantine basilica, that was repurposed and renamed when the new rulers finally got settled in. (There are no reliable contemporaneous accounts of its construction)

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2024 12:45 PM (+6sNf)

213 Uncle Sam says he's got nothin'...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 30, 2024 12:42 PM (MeG8a)

Not to mention dear, darling, perfect Zelensky.

Posted by: Enough Bullshit at September 30, 2024 12:45 PM (2NXcZ)

214 The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy."
_Mike Benz

Benz’s overview very much dovetails with the work of Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger. Shellenberger showed up very earlier in the Twitter thread on the interview to corroborate some details:
_nakedcapitalism
goes to nakedcapitalism - it's all there

https://tinyurl.com/4rerw2cr

Posted by: Braenyard - farmers, just stick a seed in the ground and shut up at September 30, 2024 12:45 PM (KTeKV)

215 195 🤣🤣🤣🤣

"What's your response, please..."

😂😂🤣🤣

pic.twitter.com/9SOIlq74ef
Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 12:41 PM (V13WU)
_______
Rather articulate for Kamala.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:46 PM (1bNHn)

216 Willowed:

359 277 146 Futurama >>>>>>> The Simpsons
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 30, 2024 11:32 AM (LxER7)

That may have been true once...but the latest season just completed on Hulu was just awful. There were very few moments (note: not episodes) that remotely approached even their middling episodes from the original run.
Posted by: goozer at September 30, 2024 11:56 AM (aWAkn)

Yeah, this season was the worst.

I don't think I laughed once.

It's like this whole season was written by one senile comic from the 1950s, three autistic guys, and Kamala Harris.

Awful crap. Just let it die already.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2024 12:46 PM (eDfFs)

217 Severe ( 1000 year ) flooding in western NC. roads closed, communities isolated, no power or cell service.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper
......

Don't worry, Ding-Dong will save us.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 12:46 PM (v0R5T)

218
Western North Carolina needs the military with choppers with supplies to get to most of these locations, which the Biden/Harris administration could okay. But they won't because they suck rancid penis.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 12:46 PM (RKVpM)

219 The IDF reportedly used 83 bunker busting bombs, the biggest such attack ever, and timed them in a chained sequence to dig a hole down to the deepest level.
Even then they didn’t crush the lowest level, but they did cut off all air supplies and fill it with hot, toxic gases which did the trick.
Posted by: Tom Servo

"You tell 'em I'm coming! And hell's coming with me!"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 30, 2024 12:46 PM (LxER7)

220 Say what you will about Hitler, but he did kill Hitler.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 12:42 PM (v6JzV)

He died as he ruled the German empire. As a forward-thinking leader who wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 12:47 PM (i24o9)

221 219 The IDF reportedly used 83 bunker busting bombs, the biggest such attack ever, and timed them in a chained sequence to dig a hole down to the deepest level.
Even then they didn’t crush the lowest level, but they did cut off all air supplies and fill it with hot, toxic gases which did the trick.
Posted by: Tom Servo

======

You fools! Why didn't you build it 15 stories deep!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

222 Screw you, you're white.
Posted by: Joe Biden About The Hurricane!
.....

But not Cadaver White like you.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 12:47 PM (v0R5T)

223 197 193 Goodbye, Hilter. We hardly knew you.
Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 12:41 PM (Ectld)

Big smash hit from "UberTramp"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 12:42 PM (x0n13)

Goodbye Hitler, it's been fine
Hope you find your Judenrein
Tried to see your point of view
Draw the line at killing Jews

Posted by: UberTramp world tour at September 30, 2024 12:47 PM (OClqp)

224 Western North Carolina needs the military with choppers with supplies to get to most of these locations, which the Biden/Harris administration could okay. But they won't because they suck rancid penis.

They're white people who mostly vote for Republicans.

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at September 30, 2024 12:48 PM (uxCna)

225 One has to wonder why anyone not a leftist even talks to the MSM. We give them legitimacy by doing that. Every click on a story at the NYT or WaPo legitimizes their existence. You can't look at a thing on the web and not be bombarded with MSM propaganda. If not outright in your face it's someone referencing or quoting it.

I get it. I see it every day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2024 12:48 PM (Q4IgG)

226 Apparently it's Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, dealing with the boarding schools for Native kids. Which will there be less of, Truth or Reconciliation?

Posted by: Wally at September 30, 2024 12:48 PM (NXYp1)

227 Time Mag also named Unkel Joey Stalin "person of the year" in 1939 and 1942. You know the guy responsible for 20-40 million deaths in the former USSR by his secret police-NKVD.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 30, 2024 12:48 PM (C26rB)

228 36 "Hey, it's kind of warm in here." -Nasrallah's first words on the other side.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 30, 2024 12:15 PM (OPGS/)

Followed by "What do you mean 'I' am the virgin?"

Posted by: Roy at September 30, 2024 12:49 PM (z+ik4)

229 "That's heavy, man. (Inhale.)"
Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:28 PM (1bNHn)

Why do you keep saying heavy? Is there something wrong with the earth’s gravitational pull in the future? (h/t Doc Brown)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2024 12:49 PM (5MZNC)

230 224
They're white people who mostly vote for Republicans.
Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at September 30, 2024 12:48 PM (uxCna)

=====

Not Asheville.

I think the best explanation is that FEMA is just bad at its job these days.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

231 If what the IDF did with the bunker busters was true, the continuous earthquakes must have been something else.

I cannot imagine anyone surviving that kind of pounding even 14 stories down, toxic fumes or not.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 12:49 PM (tT6L1)

232 However, there is an interesting thesis that actually claims Mo did not exist in reality
Posted by: whig

I don't buy those claims. I find it more plausible that he started out as an apostle of some kind of fringe Judaism or Christianity, but turned against those religions when they turned against him. That's where I think the Muslim retconning of history began.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 12:49 PM (v6JzV)

233 218
Western North Carolina needs the military with choppers with supplies to get to most of these locations, which the Biden/Harris administration could okay. But they won't because they suck rancid penis.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 12:46 PM (RKVpM)
_______
Wouldn't they have to get together with the Governor? And Cooper is curled up under his bed, sucking his thumb.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:49 PM (1bNHn)

234 146 Afternoon Ace. News reports are saying that a ground incursion into Southern Lebanon by the Israelis is imminent. The sources say it will be limited and not as large as the 2006 Lebanon invasion.
Not real sure how this stays limited. If Hezbollah and their allies keep fighting I don't think the Israelis just walk away
Posted by: Smell the Glove
======
Depends. I think the Israelis are after the munitions that Hezbollah has stashed. Blow those depots up and people in Northern Israel can return to their homes.

I suspect that Mossad must have penetrated Hezbollah to the highest levels to have this granular detail about their leadership. Now that is gone, there is every reason to believe that Mossad has similar granular intel about where the munitions are hidden and how to destroy them via bunker busters, etc.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 12:49 PM (SI97o)

235 >>The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy."

I posted a 40 minute video of a speech Benz recently gave at Hillsdale College detailing how the national security state arose and how it now controls virtually every part of our government, media even things like Hollywood and music and uses them to control us.

It's an excellent video complete with documented evidence and given where we are it's pretty difficult to say he's wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2024 12:50 PM (LkLld)

236 It is not possible for any POC outside the US to be a fascist or nazi. Inside the US, all conservatives are fascists, including POCs.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2024 12:50 PM (Dm8we)

237 Gotta say... the genie thing is a new and unexpected twist to the weather machine deal...

Posted by: Inogame at September 30, 2024 12:50 PM (53oGX)

238 219 The IDF reportedly used 83 bunker busting bombs, the biggest such attack ever, and timed them in a chained sequence to dig a hole down to the deepest level.
Even then they didn’t crush the lowest level, but they did cut off all air supplies and fill it with hot, toxic gases which did the trick.
Posted by: Tom Servo

"You tell 'em I'm coming! And hell's coming with me!"
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 30, 2024 12:46 PM (LxER7)

Imagine being in a hole like that as 83 10,000 lb bombs go off one after another right over your head and then smothering on toxic fumes.

Musta really sucked watching the reaper slow walk it to your doorstep

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 12:50 PM (uBBbP)

239 They sent the TN National Guard to Kuwait. There are still some there but not enough for the damage in that state.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 30, 2024 12:50 PM (MpVUb)

240 Western North Carolina needs the military with choppers with supplies to get to most of these locations, which the Biden/Harris administration could okay. But they won't because they suck rancid penis.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024

***
Well, you know, there's a lot of white people there.

Posted by: Harris's Excuse at September 30, 2024 12:50 PM (J2vNu)

241 Leftist corporate media shuns Joe Bastardi because he's not onboard the MMGW train. He routinely destroys their alarmist rhetoric with facts, often using historical data on warming, particularly with respect to hurricane development and the resulting severity.

That's why you don't see any of the networks or The Weather Channel give any credence to his predictions and projections, which was too bad in this most recent case.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2024 12:51 PM (Y1sOo)

242 Western North Carolina needs the military with choppers with supplies to get to most of these locations, which the Biden/Harris administration could okay. But they won't because they suck rancid penis.
Posted by: Divide by Zero
=========
Hmm, there are a lot of helicopters, troops, engineers, etc. skilled located at Ft. Bragg.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 12:51 PM (SI97o)

243 >>Apparently it's Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, dealing with the boarding schools for Native kids

Wasn't a ton of the reporting on that shown to be a hoax?

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 12:51 PM (lKYo+)

244 You know who else was charismatic and shrewd?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2024 12:42 PM (OwAOz)

All the boys who weaseled their way into the young virginal panties of modern day cvnty karens and cat ladies?

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2024 12:51 PM (wSIMf)

245 Basically, it's Dianetics before Dianetics.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (XV/Pl)

DIEEEE!!!!-anetics

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2024 12:51 PM (LCr8f)

246
I suspect that Mossad must have penetrated Hezbollah to the highest levels to have this granular detail about their leadership. Now that is gone, there is every reason to believe that Mossad has similar granular intel about where the munitions are hidden and how to destroy them via bunker busters, etc.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 12:49 PM (SI97o)

Agree. Israel is not making this up on the fly.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 12:51 PM (uBBbP)

247 I posted this earlier, Ace. This is what happened to just one place.

https://tinyurl.com/zs5m9jaz
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (MpVUb)
====================
Total devastation. Reminds me of Andrew, in South Miami, circa 1992.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2024 12:51 PM (z4DCN)

248 I-40 has suffered serious damage, but I'm confident Mayo Pete will have it fixed in no time.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 12:52 PM (v0R5T)

249 240 Western North Carolina needs the military with choppers with supplies to get to most of these locations, which the Biden/Harris administration could okay. But they won't because they suck rancid penis.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024

***
Well, you know, there's a lot of white people there.
Posted by: Harris's Excuse at September 30, 2024 12:50 PM (J2vNu)

They don't want to scare those inbred hillbillies with an advanced thing like a chopper.

Posted by: Roy at September 30, 2024 12:52 PM (z+ik4)

250 > My family and I had to temporarily leave A
Asheville, no power, water or cell coverage. Almost all stores are closed.

I'm still seeing reports online that death reports are massively undercounted right now. Government assistance is close to non-existent. Nearly all of the assistance is coming from private citizens and charity groups.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 30, 2024 12:52 PM (Odg76)

251
[Looks at watch as coffins go by]

Posted by: Embarassmatic and Rude at September 30, 2024 12:44 PM

There was a funny video from the IDF of some terrorists pretending to be taking a dead person to be buried. The 'pallbearers' knew they were made, dropped the body and started to take off. The 'dead person' got animated and tried to flee. I think they all got blowed up.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 12:52 PM (RKVpM)

252 243 >>Apparently it's Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, dealing with the boarding schools for Native kids

Wasn't a ton of the reporting on that shown to be a hoax?
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 12:51 PM (lKYo+)

======

By a ton, do you mean a correction months later on page 18 of Metro?

Then, yes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

253 Western NC has a mountain town called Cherokee, whose population is comprised as you may imagine.
I wonder how they are doing.
Other towns I don't have to imagine.
They are totally gone. Even the pavement on the roads.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 30, 2024 12:52 PM (MeG8a)

254 Musta really sucked watching the reaper slow walk it to your doorstep
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 12:50 PM (uBBbP)

Yup, that's exactly what I was thinking. Well, I was also thinking about vintage Dana Delany from an earlier thread.

Mmmmm...Tombstone Dana Delany.....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 30, 2024 12:52 PM (LxER7)

255 I think the best explanation is that FEMA is just bad at its job these days.

FEMA has been repurposed to be a "migrant" welcome organization - they're all along the border.

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM (uxCna)

256 There is no Indian head dress emoji I guess because it's racist so the vicious white supremacist Left "coincidentally" ends up erasing Indians from culture.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM (LCr8f)

257 >>I cannot imagine anyone surviving that kind of pounding

You need to hydrate.

Posted by: Riley Reid at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM (lKYo+)

258 x243 >>Apparently it's Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, dealing with the boarding schools for Native kids

Wasn't a ton of the reporting on that shown to be a hoax?
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 12:51 PM (lKYo+)

Yes. Total blood libel. There were zero mass graves of native children discovered.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM (x0n13)

259 246. I'm sure Nasrallah and company groomed successors and that the jobs are filled.

Posted by: Enough Bullshit at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM (2NXcZ)

260 Israelis were only able to assassinate Nasrallah because “Jews use genies for military operations”

Were is your faith muzzie? WTF happened to Allah Akbar? Apparently that is conditional.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM (iziaj)

261 {162} I posted this earlier, Ace. This is what happened to just one place.

https://tinyurl.com/zs5m9jaz

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 30, 2024 12:35 PM (MpVUb)

That's heartbreaking. Dang.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM (O7YUW)

262 Seriously the media, almost without exception, deserve to die screaming, in a fire. I am undecided as to whether or not I would spit in their general direction were I to observe that event.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM (Da7Vv)

263 240 Western North Carolina needs the military with choppers with supplies to get to most of these locations, which the Biden/Harris administration could okay. But they won't because they suck rancid penis.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024

***
Well, you know, there's a lot of white people there.
Posted by: Harris's Excuse at September 30, 2024 12:50 PM (J2vNu)

FIRST!!!!

Posted by: Kamala's katrina at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM (uBBbP)

264 The IDF reportedly used 83 bunker busting bombs, the biggest such attack ever, and timed them in a chained sequence to dig a hole down to the deepest level.
Even then they didn’t crush the lowest level, but they did cut off all air supplies and fill it with hot, toxic gases which did the trick.
Posted by: Tom Servo

You fools! Why didn't you build it 15 stories deep!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

I guess even terrorist scumbags award their contracts to the lowest bidder.

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2024 12:54 PM (wSIMf)

265 Genies and control of the weather. Damn these Joos have all the cool things.

I already support Israel, they don't have to sell me on it.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2024 12:54 PM (2ocoG)

266 Let me see if I can remember any hurricanes which predate the "we're all gonna die" global warming nonsense.

Gosh, one moment...Well, Galveston, circa 1900..Camille, Andrew...

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 12:54 PM (tT6L1)

267 260 Israelis were only able to assassinate Nasrallah because “Jews use genies for military operations”

Were is your faith muzzie? WTF happened to Allah Akbar? Apparently that is conditional.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM (iziaj

And 83 10,000 lb bombs.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 12:54 PM (uBBbP)

268 > My family and I had to temporarily leave A
Asheville, no power, water or cell coverage. Almost all stores are closed.

I'm still seeing reports online that death reports are massively undercounted right now. Government assistance is close to non-existent. Nearly all of the assistance is coming from private citizens and charity groups.
Posted by: bonhomme

Local emergency groups are planning to use pack mules and alpaca's to bring in supplies. Government at all levels are essentially useless. Potable water is a big issue in many areas.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 30, 2024 12:54 PM (/U5Yz)

269
For those who didn't see it, Governor DeSantis of FL is sending the FL National Guard to western NC.

Kudo's to him.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 12:55 PM (RKVpM)

270 These people need to learn that if they want help, they need to vote for Democrats.

We're figuring out how to provide aid to Asheville without providing any aid to the surrounding area.

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at September 30, 2024 12:56 PM (uxCna)

271 The hypothesis is based on the lack of any contemporaneous history of Mo at the time. Most accounts of his history are dated about about two centuries after.

Even Jesus had some contemporaneous confirmation via Josephus about his existence at the time along with the Gospels.

Mo's history of existence is murkier and more like Zoroastrianism's Zoroaster aka Zarathustra.

The more that archaeologists dig in Israel, the more historical evidence they find that biblical events happened (both new and old Testament). Don't really see the same in Islam.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 12:56 PM (SI97o)

272 Seriously the media, almost without exception, deserve to die screaming, in a fire. I am undecided as to whether or not I would spit in their general direction were I to observe that event.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Micturition at September 30, 2024 12:56 PM (a3Q+t)

273 240 Western North Carolina needs the military with choppers with supplies to get to most of these locations, which the Biden/Harris administration could okay. But they won't because they suck rancid penis.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024

***
Well, you know, there's a lot of white people there.
Posted by: Harris's Excuse at September 30, 2024 12:50 PM (J2vNu)
______
In Asheville they're all hipsters. My wife saw a clip of people looking down on the Arts District there, and crying. Warms my heart.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:56 PM (1bNHn)

274 Fucking pack mules.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 30, 2024 12:56 PM (/U5Yz)

275 268 Local emergency groups are planning to use pack mules and alpaca's to bring in supplies. Government at all levels are essentially useless. Potable water is a big issue in many areas.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 30, 2024 12:54 PM (/U5Yz)

=======

The federal government is more likely to shoot someone trying to help because it goes against regulations that everything has to go through them rather than allow people to be helped.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

276 Mohammed was a merchant, he was apparently illiterate, but he dictated the koran to someone,

Posted by: no 6 at September 30, 2024 12:57 PM (PXvVL)

277 If what the IDF did with the bunker busters was true, the continuous earthquakes must have been something else.

I cannot imagine anyone surviving that kind of pounding even 14 stories down, toxic fumes or not.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 12:49 PM (tT6L1)

I missed Friday, so I don't know if it was covered. But catching up, BLU-109 and 80 tons are cited, which means 80 BLU-109. That is a significant set of details a SmartMilBlog should cover.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 12:57 PM (i24o9)

278 The more that archaeologists dig in Israel, the more historical evidence they find that biblical events happened (both new and old Testament). Don't really see the same in Islam.
Posted by: whig

We watch Expedition Bible on youtube. That guy is amazing.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 30, 2024 12:58 PM (/U5Yz)

279 >>>Has anyone checked on Alex The Chick? I believe the Empress is a resident of one of the Carolinas.

She linked that Nine Inch Nails Yacht Rock vid to me 13 hours ago so I assume she made it okay.

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2024 12:58 PM (KRtlO)

280 Seriously the media, almost without exception, deserve to die screaming, in a fire. I am undecided as to whether or not I would spit in their general direction were I to observe that event.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at September 30, 2024

***
Conserve your moisture

Posted by: The Fremen at September 30, 2024 12:58 PM (J2vNu)

281 The Cajun Navy or part of them, is organized as United Cajun Navy, official charity. They has helicopters as well as boats now. Cool beans. I'd guess Cajun Navy and Samaritans Purse are doing the most for Helene victims.

Posted by: PaleRider at September 30, 2024 12:59 PM (UKUm3)

282 They're saying that the Jews only managed to pull off this coup because their intelligence service do deals with genies.
______

*Looks down at shrunken genitals*

Fact Check: True

Posted by: AP at September 30, 2024 12:59 PM (QHmGB)

283 I'm still seeing reports online that death reports are massively undercounted right now. Government assistance is close to non-existent. Nearly all of the assistance is coming from private citizens and charity groups.
Posted by: bonhomme
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Too many reasons to fear the worst. Apparently something similar happened in the early 1900's from the remnants of a hurricane that struck Charleston. Flooding kills a lot of people and in mountainous areas, it is difficult to both get in afterwards when roads and bridges are gone, and populations are widely dispersed.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 12:59 PM (SI97o)

284 I think Tom Holland tried to follow the document trail as much as possible, not that Tom Holland,

he was skeptical of all three faiths, but he got the most flak from only one,

he seems to have copied some syriac scriptures, into his oevre

Posted by: no 6 at September 30, 2024 12:59 PM (PXvVL)

285 The federal government is more likely to shoot someone trying to help because it goes against regulations that everything has to go through them rather than allow people to be helped.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You are talking Appalachia. Government is more likely to go missing.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 12:59 PM (sDO9P)

286 Western North Carolina needs the military with choppers with supplies to get to most of these locations, which the Biden/Harris administration could okay. But they won't because they suck rancid penis.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

"More than 700 Soldiers from the Tennessee Army's National Guard's 278th Armored Cavalry departed Saturday for a year long deployment to the Middle East."

Our 'leaders' aren't.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2024 12:59 PM (WXNFJ)

287 Mohammed was a merchant, he was apparently illiterate, but he dictated the koran to someone,
Posted by: no 6 at September 30, 2024

***
How'd he keep track of his business without being at least minimally literate?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (J2vNu)

288 The Dems are really setting a low bar for the VP debate. They're basically saying "look Walz is retarded, so don't expect much" I actually might tune in

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (RTfY1)

289 277 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 12:57 PM (i24o9)

Recall the RAF Tallboy and 22,000lb Grand Slam bombs, meant to drill into earth and concrete before exploding and causing an earthquake.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (x0n13)

290 Such a pity ...Insharallah was just beginning to turn his life around ...

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (ZtcC2)

291 The more that archaeologists dig in Israel, the more historical evidence they find that biblical events happened (both new and old Testament). Don't really see the same in Islam.

There's actually some doubt that Mohammed even existed, apparently.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (2ocoG)

292 279 >>>Has anyone checked on Alex The Chick? I believe the Empress is a resident of one of the Carolinas.

She linked that Nine Inch Nails Yacht Rock vid to me 13 hours ago so I assume she made it okay.
Posted by: ace at September 30, 2024 12:58 PM (KRtlO)

See 143 above.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (N39Ws)

293 If you told the 60s Woodstock Hippies that they were going to plunge the earth into a dark age of Islamic Fundamentalism and Shari'ah Law all because of their own narcissism, what would they say?
Posted by: XTC at September 30, 2024 12:17 PM (UnA8+)
_________

Most would be oblivious in their stoned and drunken stupor. Most were just followers looking for some easy women. But the "leaders" knew exactly what they were doing or trying to do. Guys like Abbie Hoffman were stone-cold commies and self-gassing Jews.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (iFTx/)

294
Yes. Total blood libel. There were zero mass graves of native children discovered.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 12:53 PM

I forget the final count but I believe it was something like 100 churches that were burned to the ground before the lie was disproved.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (RKVpM)

295 Zoroaster

Does the toast pop up?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (67maw)

296 I missed Friday, so I don't know if it was covered. But catching up, BLU-109 and 80 tons are cited, which means 80 BLU-109. That is a significant set of details a SmartMilBlog should cover.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 12:57 PM

You realize that most of us come here for the food talk, young ladies displaying the latest fashion trends, shelving construction tips, and dog and cat videos, right?

Posted by: J. Random Single 'Ron at September 30, 2024 01:01 PM (a3Q+t)

297 > The more that archaeologists dig in Israel, the more historical evidence they find that biblical events happened (both new and old Testament).

One of the horrible things the Mohammedans are doing while they occupy historically Jewish locations like the Temple Mount (eg Al-Aqsa) is destroying every historical artifact they discover while digging. They are literally erasing history.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 30, 2024 01:01 PM (Odg76)

298 Seriously the media, almost without exception, deserve to die screaming, in a fire. I am undecided as to whether or not I would spit in their general direction were I to observe that event.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at September 30, 2024

***
Conserve your moisture
Posted by: The Fremen

Do not give them any amount of your essence.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 01:01 PM (sDO9P)

299 I suspect that Mossad must have penetrated Hezbollah to the highest levels
Posted by: whig

I prefer pureed rather than penetrated...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2024 01:01 PM (3iHMa)

300 Okay, back to the salt mines for me.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 30, 2024 01:02 PM (O7YUW)

301 You are talking Appalachia. Government is more likely to go missing.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices

Word. There are lots of deep, deep woods and coupled with pretty short tempers right now, well, you know.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2024 01:02 PM (WXNFJ)

302 I guess even terrorist scumbags award their contracts to the lowest bidder.
Posted by: Robert
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Those rats in human skin expected their buddies in Iran and those fools in the US and Western world to prevent them from being exterminated via the peace process.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:02 PM (SI97o)

303
Makes no difference where you are, if you get the better part of your annual rainfall in a couple of days, you are in a whole lot of trouble.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2024 01:02 PM (IFuph)

304 The more that archaeologists dig in Israel, the more historical evidence they find that biblical events happened (both new and old Testament).

One of the horrible things the Mohammedans are doing while they occupy historically Jewish locations like the Temple Mount (eg Al-Aqsa) is destroying every historical artifact they discover while digging. They are literally erasing history.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 30, 2024 01:01 PM (Odg76)
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Of course they do. They know that Islam is built on lies. The historical evidence will never support their mythology.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2024 01:02 PM (7fElN)

305 So any leftists tell us yet that all those rural North Carolina people brought this on themselves with their big trucks and SUV's and voting for Trump? I'm guessing they have but not going looking for it.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2024 01:02 PM (GUOwU)

306 Government at all levels are essentially useless. Potable water is a big issue in many areas.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

A perfect vacuum is a theoretical concept that cannot be achieved in the real world. The only known exception to that accepted scientific statement is the current state of "leadership " in the WH.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (iziaj)

307 Governor DeSantis never fails to impress!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (Hkcdp)

308 They are literally erasing history.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 30, 2024 01:01 PM (Odg76)

They're domocrats?

Posted by: Enough Bullshit at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (2NXcZ)

309 I prefer pureed rather than penetrated...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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With genies and a weather machine using space lasers, it is possible to do both.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (SI97o)

310 Apparently it's Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, dealing with the boarding schools for Native kids. Which will there be less of, Truth or Reconciliation?
Posted by: Wally at September 30, 2024 12:48 PM (NXYp1)

There won't be any reconciliation until the Indian Grievance Industry reconciles itself to the fact that Indians are wholly responsible for the plight in which they find themselves.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (OwAOz)

311 In Asheville they're all hipsters. My wife saw a clip of people looking down on the Arts District there, and crying. Warms my heart.
Posted by: Eeyore
_______

Will a lib government that abandons them in their time of need, and instead receiving help from their redneck Trump voting neighbors open their eyes to reality?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (QHmGB)

312 Words of looting already occurring in NC. Strap up.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (/U5Yz)

313 291 The more that archaeologists dig in Israel, the more historical evidence they find that biblical events happened (both new and old Testament). Don't really see the same in Islam.

There's actually some doubt that Mohammed even existed, apparently.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (2ocoG)

A huge dig in northern Saudi Arabia about 15 years ago was abruptly halted. Evidently they discovered that much of the northern part of SA should be considered as Israel.

Dr. Zaius fetches the explosives and blows up the cave with the talking doll.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (x0n13)

314 So any leftists tell us yet that all those rural North Carolina people brought this on themselves with their big trucks and SUV's and voting for Trump? I'm guessing they have but not going looking for it.

the goddess of climate change is angered; she requires more aborted babies as sacrifice; tremble before her wrath!

Posted by: Leftist at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (25k9m)

315 Walz will be on a script. Walz will know every question and answer in advance. Walz might have an earpiece too.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (LCr8f)

316
Pathetic Simon and Garfuncle ditties stand no chance against the majestic symphonic power of the Archies.

Bang shangalang is not the only weapon in their arsenal.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2024 01:04 PM (j4U/Z)

317 I tend to believe that big historical events have some reality behind them, even if the accounts of such get distorted later. So I believe that a person Mohammed really existed, and that he set off the Islamic conquests. I also believe that there was a real conflict behind the Trojan War.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 01:04 PM (v6JzV)

318 The NYT covered up the Shoah and Holodomor

Posted by: Avi at September 30, 2024 01:04 PM (cBCwV)

319 Don't feel too bad for Nasrallah. He's now with his 72 virgins. They're all 400 pounds, smell worse than decaying pig carcasses, and half of them have corroded dicks, but hey -- a martyr can't have everything, you know.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

320 311 Will a lib government that abandons them in their time of need, and instead receiving help from their redneck Trump voting neighbors open their eyes to reality?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (QHmGB)

=======

"The guy who stopped to help me when I had a flat tire, who changed my flat tire and was very polite to me, was a threat to my life because he wore a MAGA hat."
-Literally happened

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

321
So any leftists tell us yet that all those rural North Carolina people brought this on themselves with their big trucks and SUV's and voting for Trump?

___________

Oh, yes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2024 01:04 PM (IFuph)

322 The first time I took the oath and utter the lines regarding enemies both foreign and domestic, it seemed like an odd or ancient phrase due to our founding. As I've gotten older and reaffirmed my oath, it's not hard to imagine who the domestic enemies are.

Posted by: Roberto at September 30, 2024 01:04 PM (QUC63)

323
I'd guess Cajun Navy and Samaritan's Purse are doing the most for Helene victims.

Posted by: PaleRider at September 30, 2024

'Samaritan's Purse' headquarters is located in that general area of western NC so that's where my contribution is going.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 01:04 PM (RKVpM)

324 Western North Carolina needs the military with choppers with supplies to get to most of these locations, which the Biden/Harris administration could okay. But they won't because they suck rancid penis.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

"More than 700 Soldiers from the Tennessee Army's National Guard's 278th Armored Cavalry departed Saturday for a year long deployment to the Middle East."

Our 'leaders' aren't.
Posted by: Tonypete

That's called "a tell".

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 01:05 PM (sDO9P)

325 295 Zoroaster

Does the toast pop up?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (67maw)

One pops up, one pops down.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2024 01:05 PM (VoAdT)

326 You realize that most of us come here for the food talk, young ladies displaying the latest fashion trends, shelving construction tips, and dog and cat videos, right?

Posted by: J. Random Single 'Ron at September 30, 2024 01:01 PM (a3Q+t)

SmartMilBlog is an old accolade, which has become a running joke.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 01:05 PM (i24o9)

327
FIRST!!!!
Posted by: Kamala's katrina

Heck of a job, Brownie!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2024 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

328 FEMA did nothing for me after Sally, which I knew it wouldn't. There is a household income component in the formula used to determine qualification for benefit.

FEMA did, however, have teams in the general area driving around the neighborhoods two days afterward noting and recording how high up the mudline on the side of the houses were.

Yeah, that was the most important use of manpower at that time. /s

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2024 01:05 PM (Y1sOo)

329 A perfect vacuum is a theoretical concept that cannot be achieved in the real world.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Spherical Cow at September 30, 2024 01:05 PM (a3Q+t)

330 Word. There are lots of deep, deep woods and coupled with pretty short tempers right now, well, you know.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2024 01:02 PM (WXNFJ)
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Top Gear when they did their stupid thing in Alabama, I think it was, mocking the locals, were told, by the local Sheriff, he could keep them safe on the highway but out in the woods, they were on their own.

Andy Willman, the producer of Top Gear, mentioned it in an interview with Ben Collins. I think he also mentioned it was one of those things they did which, in retrospect, wasn't very bright.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:06 PM (tT6L1)

331 I vote for a very big funeral for Nasrallah, full honors with important Iranians in attendance !

Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 01:06 PM (V13WU)

332 SmartMilBlog is an old accolade, which has become a running joke.

ace went on tv and got his tank stuck in the mud, or something

Posted by: brak at September 30, 2024 01:06 PM (25k9m)

333 Since Hezbollah are settler-colonialist that have displaced the Lebanese Christian and Druze population, isn't eliminating them BAMN the only righteous action to take. I mean, the greatest minds of the Ivy's have repeatedly instructed us mere deplorables that this is the way.

Posted by: rdohd at September 30, 2024 01:06 PM (GF74W)

334 There won't be any reconciliation until the Indian Grievance Industry reconciles itself to the fact that Indians are wholly responsible for the plight in which they find themselves.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2024

***
I'm not doing any "land acknowledgment" speech any time. "I wasn't there, my family never had anything to do with it, and the Indians there now took the land away from whoever was there before -- and *they* aren't acknowledging anything.

"If the Indians didn't want to be invaded, they should have stopped the invaders when the foreigners came ashore."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (J2vNu)

335 Afternoon

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (eZwyX)

336 Saw a pic of the mayor and city council of Asheville. Looks like a Karen McAwfl look alike contest. Can’t imagine why the city wasn’t prepared.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (u73oe)

337 In case you’re wondering why the response to Hurricane Helene has been a disaster… Fema’s goal 1 is to instill equity as a foundation of emergency management. This is real

https://tinyurl.com/69zem6s7

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (xCA6C)

338 it's not hard to imagine who the domestic enemies are.
Posted by: Roberto at September 30, 2024 01:04 PM (QUC63)

Hey don't look at us! We're FIGHTIN'!!!

Posted by: Republicans at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (LCr8f)

339
Words of looting already occurring in NC. Strap up.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM

I saw the mugshots of eight they caught already. They all looked 'newcomerish'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (RKVpM)

340 332 SmartMilBlog is an old accolade, which has become a running joke.

ace went on tv and got his tank stuck in the mud, or something
Posted by: brak at September 30, 2024 01:06 PM (25k9m)

Hope the IDF can avoid McCain's casket.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (x0n13)

341 Wonder if Walz will wear a black armband to mourn the beloved Nashralla?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 30, 2024 01:08 PM (wBaIH)

342 Even then they didn’t crush the lowest level, but they did cut off all air supplies and fill it with hot, toxic gases which did the trick.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2024 12:41 PM

Hmm....Jews gassing Nazis. Irony's a stone cold bitch, isn't it, Muzzies?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2024 01:08 PM (abAAs)

343
And why are we not blanketing the middle East with old "Monkees" episodes?

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2024 01:08 PM (j4U/Z)

344 "In Asheville they're all hipsters. My wife saw a clip of people looking down on the Arts District there, and crying.
Posted by: Eeyore"

Not nearly as sad as the Free Women Health Clinic being destroyed.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2024 01:08 PM (GUOwU)

345 So did they actually find Nasrallah's body or just parts ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:08 PM (IyPmt)

346 You are talking Appalachia. Government is more likely to go missing.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices

Word. There are lots of deep, deep woods and coupled with pretty short tempers right now, well, you know.
Posted by: Tonypete

They still haven't found some revenoors from the '30's.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 01:08 PM (sDO9P)

347 "If the Indians didn't want to be invaded, they should have stopped the invaders when the foreigners came ashore."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (J2vNu)

Most of the tribes made a killing "selling" land they didn't even own.

Fuck acknowledgement. I want a refund. Adjusted for inflation. With interest.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2024 01:09 PM (VoAdT)

348 299 I suspect that Mossad must have penetrated Hezbollah to the highest levels
Posted by: whig

I prefer pureed rather than penetrated...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2024 01:01 PM (3iHMa)

I believe there are a whole lot of Christians and Druze in Lebanon that hate what Hezbollah and Iran have done to their country, and they’re eager to drop a dime and tell Israel what they’re up to whenever they can.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2024 01:09 PM (wyMQY)

349 There won't be any reconciliation until the Indian Grievance Industry reconciles itself to the fact that Indians are wholly responsible for the plight in which they find themselves.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2024

***
I'm not doing any "land acknowledgment" speech any time. "I wasn't there, my family never had anything to do with it, and the Indians there now took the land away from whoever was there before -- and *they* aren't acknowledging anything.

"If the Indians didn't want to be invaded, they should have stopped the invaders when the foreigners came ashore."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well, the one thing that was not the Indians' fault (nor the Europeans') was their lack of immunity to Old-World diseases. Had they not been ravaged by epidemics, they could have put up a much more effective resistance.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 01:09 PM (v6JzV)

350 They also think Biden is the bomb. So

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at September 30, 2024 01:09 PM (ytSiK)

351 Hmm....Jews gassing Nazis. Irony's a stone cold bitch, isn't it, Muzzies?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Lights Bic lighter. Holds above head in dark stafium.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 01:10 PM (sDO9P)

352 336 Saw a pic of the mayor and city council of Asheville. Looks like a Karen McAwfl look alike contest. Can’t imagine why the city wasn’t prepared.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (u73oe)

NC ? Don't they have a Dem Gov.?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:10 PM (IyPmt)

353 Not nearly as sad as the Free Women Health Clinic being destroyed.

dozens of copies of "Gender Queer" and "Anal Sex Coloring Adventures" were lost when the libraries flooded, tragic

Posted by: brak at September 30, 2024 01:10 PM (25k9m)

354 Word. There are lots of deep, deep woods and coupled with pretty short tempers right now, well, you know.
Posted by: Tonypete

***
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
And I have terrorists to [beep!]"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 01:10 PM (J2vNu)

355 FEMA did, however, have teams in the general area driving around the neighborhoods two days afterward noting and recording how high up the mudline on the side of the houses were.

Yeah, that was the most important use of manpower at that time. /s
Posted by: one hour sober
======
That is to change the flood maps so you will now have to buy flood insurance if you are still paying for your home's mortgage.

So you got that going for ya.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:10 PM (SI97o)

356 I forget the final count but I believe it was something like 100 churches that were burned to the ground before the lie was disproved.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 01:00 PM (RKVpM)

It's still taken as Gospel in left-wing circles. And church arsons still are happening.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2024 01:10 PM (OwAOz)

357 About a year or so ago severe storms barreled through West Virginia. Tornados were spawned in areas that had never seen one. Torrential rains fell. Entire towns were wiped out. People were stranded for days, weeks. There was little, if any federal assistance.

Because those hill people are not the type to vote "correctly" and needed to be taught a lesson. There were people on the socials actually saying that. And not just the typical drones.

To this day we receive information from family back in WV about how little has been rebuilt in those areas. Nobody could get a loan. The state is/was overwhelmed. The feds... didn't give a shit. Still don't.

NC is going to learn a rough lesson about the ideology behind the Democrats.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2024 01:11 PM (Q4IgG)

358 253 Western NC has a mountain town called Cherokee, whose population is comprised as you may imagine.
I wonder how they are doing.
Other towns I don't have to imagine.
They are totally gone. Even the pavement on the roads.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 30, 2024 12:52 PM (MeG8a)

One cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds. A cubic yard weighs 560 pounds. Over a quarter-ton.

An uncountable number of cubic yards of water moving say, 10 miles per hour down the bottom of a valley means most everything man-made in the path will be damaged or washed away.

Mother Nature is only rarely kind to humans and their creations.

Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2024 01:11 PM (aBgBM)

359 337 In case you’re wondering why the response to Hurricane Helene has been a disaster… Fema’s goal 1 is to instill equity as a foundation of emergency management. This is real

https://tinyurl.com/69zem6s7
Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (xCA6C)

Kamalas katrina!!!!!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 01:11 PM (uBBbP)

360 Remember, every single Democrat in NC is now more worried about their job than than helping their constituents.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:11 PM (tT6L1)

361 Lights Bic lighter. Holds above head in dark stafium.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices

Freebird!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 01:11 PM (v6JzV)

362 The mullahs all gotta holla,
when the IDF bombs start to fall-a,
and now all their rubble
ain't making no trouble,
and they still can't find all of Nasrallah.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (VoAdT)

363 A huge dig in northern Saudi Arabia about 15 years ago was abruptly halted. Evidently they discovered that much of the northern part of SA should be considered as Israel.

Decades ago, I heard that the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago was doing an archaeological dig in Syria. They dug down through various layers, with varying languages in the various layers, until they hit a deeper layer where the language used was Hebrew.

The Syrian government minders stepped in, and said "welp, that's the end of the dig".

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (uxCna)

364 NC ? Don't they have a Dem Gov.?
Posted by: It's me donna
=====
Yep and his behavior toward this crisis is reminiscent of Blanco and Nagin in Katrina.

Useless as tits on a boar hog.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (SI97o)

365 Had they not been ravaged by epidemics, they could have put up a much more effective resistance.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 01:09 PM (v6JzV)

——————-

Should’ve built a wall. Except they hadn’t mastered advanced technology such as the wheel so…

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (u73oe)

366 The dog ate ny homework out in the burbs where lawn care is well you know. Middle class all the way

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (QSrLX)

367
FEMA did, however, have teams in the general area driving around the neighborhoods two days afterward noting and recording how high up the mudline on the side of the houses were.

Yeah, that was the most important use of manpower at that time. /s

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2024 01:05 PM

They do that so they can determine which houses to condemn and tell the owners they will no longer qualify for FEMA support in the future if they stay in them.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (RKVpM)

368 360 Remember, every single Democrat in NC is now more worried about their job than than helping their constituents.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:11 PM (tT6L1)

If only they identified as Ukraine

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (IyPmt)

369 You realize that most of us come here for the food talk, young ladies displaying the latest fashion trends, shelving construction tips, and dog and cat videos, right?

Posted by: J. Random Single 'Ron at September 30, 2024 01:01 PM (a3Q+t)

SmartMilBlog is an old accolade, which has become a running joke.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

It's so old, it's more like a wheelchair joke.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (sDO9P)

370 352 336 Saw a pic of the mayor and city council of Asheville. Looks like a Karen McAwfl look alike contest. Can’t imagine why the city wasn’t prepared.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (u73oe)

NC ? Don't they have a Dem Gov.?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:10 PM (IyPmt)

Their DEI statement was fully up to date.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 01:13 PM (uBBbP)

371 360 Remember, every single Democrat in NC is now more worried about their job than than helping their constituents.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:11 PM (tT6L1)

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Being hit by a freak situation where a hurricane lingers over the area and dumps 2 feet of water, something that pretty much never happens, is pretty much unpredictable.

Thankfully for Democrats, they've prioritized good governance over corruption and the pursuit of niche concerns.

Right? Right?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

372 Yep and his behavior toward this crisis is reminiscent of Blanco and Nagin in Katrina.

Useless as tits on a boar hog.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (SI97o)
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Refused to evacuate, if I recall then blamed Bush, even though he didn't have the authority to overrule the governor.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:13 PM (tT6L1)

373 359 337 In case you’re wondering why the response to Hurricane Helene has been a disaster… Fema’s goal 1 is to instill equity as a foundation of emergency management. This is real

https://tinyurl.com/69zem6s7
Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 01:07 PM (xCA6C)

Kamalas katrina!!!!!
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 01:11 PM (uBBbP)
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Sorry for being cynical, but both Trump and Robinson should use this.

But that's not who we are.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 01:13 PM (1bNHn)

374 363 A huge dig in northern Saudi Arabia about 15 years ago was abruptly halted. Evidently they discovered that much of the northern part of SA should be considered as Israel.

Decades ago, I heard that the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago was doing an archaeological dig in Syria. They dug down through various layers, with varying languages in the various layers, until they hit a deeper layer where the language used was Hebrew.

The Syrian government minders stepped in, and said "welp, that's the end of the dig".
Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden!
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Jewish faith has been documented as far east as China and Afghanistan and as north as the Russian steppes. South to Arabia etc.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:13 PM (SI97o)

375 Will a lib government that abandons them in their time of need, and instead receiving help from their redneck Trump voting neighbors open their eyes to reality?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 30, 2024 01:03 PM (QHmGB)________

No. No it won't. These crazies are so far gone that nothing -- nothing -- will ever bring them back to reality. Hating Trump and MAGA is the sole reason for their existence and the only thing that brings any meaning to their lives.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 01:13 PM (iFTx/)

376 Yep and his behavior toward this crisis is reminiscent of Blanco and Nagin in Katrina.

Useless as tits on a boar hog.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (SI97o)

Except, they don't have Bush to blame

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:14 PM (IyPmt)

377 It's so old, it's more like a wheelchair joke.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (sDO9P)

It's not dead yet!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 01:14 PM (i24o9)

378 Remember, every single Democrat in NC is now more worried about their job than than helping their constituents.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:11 PM

To be fair, without our jobs, we can't suck down that sweet grift or help our constituents, but mostly suck down that sweet, sweet grift.

Posted by: Democrats at September 30, 2024 01:14 PM (a3Q+t)

379 Well, the one thing that was not the Indians' fault (nor the Europeans') was their lack of immunity to Old-World diseases. Had they not been ravaged by epidemics, they could have put up a much more effective resistance.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024

***
The story of U.S. soldiers giving smallpox-infected blankets to the Indians to kill them off always sounded unbelievable to me. First, the Army would have had to know blankets would transmit the disease (true, they could have observed that). But then -- who would they get to deliver the consignment of deadly blankets? It would have to be soldiers who had survived the pox themselves. At a given post, they might have been hard to find.

And the Indians would have taken one look at the troop's pockmarked faces and said, "These White Eyes been sick. Better run."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 01:15 PM (J2vNu)

380 233 218
Western North Carolina needs the military with choppers with supplies to get to most of these locations, which the Biden/Harris administration could okay. But they won't because they suck rancid penis.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 12:46 PM (RKVpM)
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Wouldn't they have to get together with the Governor? And Cooper is curled up under his bed, sucking his thumb.
Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 12:49 PM (1bNHn)

Did the Admin tell him to keep quiet to keep it out of the news? You'd think they would want Harris there to look like the hero?

Posted by: Inogame at September 30, 2024 01:15 PM (53oGX)

381 380 Did the Admin tell him to keep quiet to keep it out of the news? You'd think they would want Harris there to look like the hero?
Posted by: Inogame at September 30, 2024 01:15 PM (53oGX)

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"Standing near normies who won't treat me like a queen? Fuck 'em. I'll do a picture on a plane, but then I'm out."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

382 A huge dig in northern Saudi Arabia about 15 years ago was abruptly halted. Evidently they discovered that much of the northern part of SA should be considered as Israel.

Decades ago, I heard that the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago was doing an archaeological dig in Syria. They dug down through various layers, with varying languages in the various layers, until they hit a deeper layer where the language used was Hebrew.

The Syrian government minders stepped in, and said "welp, that's the end of the dig".
Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden!
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Jewish faith has been documented as far east as China and Afghanistan and as north as the Russian steppes. South to Arabia etc.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:13 PM (SI97o)
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"Jews tried to settle here too, but we kicked them out."

-- Selenites

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 01:15 PM (iFTx/)

383 I helped the Jews, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Barbara Eden at September 30, 2024 01:15 PM (NXYp1)

384 Jews were in Mecca and Medina centuries before mohhamad showed up.

Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 01:16 PM (V13WU)

385 The people writing this drivel refuse to understand the people they're praising would slit their throats without a second thought.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

No, they understand that. That's why they're such bootlickers.

They figure that if they're good enough at flattery, their new Islamic overlords will keep them around for the ego-boost.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2024 01:16 PM (hB7mE)

386 Thankfully for Democrats, they've prioritized good governance over corruption and the pursuit of niche concerns.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:13 PM

Fact check: True.

Posted by: Democrats and the MSM at September 30, 2024 01:16 PM (a3Q+t)

387
NC ? Don't they have a Dem Gov.?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:10 PM

Yup, on his second term. They also have a Lt. Governor of the Republican persuasion who is now running for Governor. He's already on video's helping in the relief effort.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 01:16 PM (RKVpM)

388 > Potable water is a big issue in many areas.

One of my emergency preparedness items is a fairly large capacity gravity fed water filter. I believe it's 8L. It should be good to supply my whole family with all the drinking and cooking water we need, and then some.

Most water purification chemicals have a short life span. If you have some squirreled away, you might want to pull them out and check the expiration dates.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 30, 2024 01:16 PM (Odg76)

389 360 Remember, every single Democrat in NC is now more worried about their job than than helping their constituents.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:11 PM (tT6L1)

Same with COVID, nationwide, with All Democrats and Too Many Republicans working only to save their phoney-baloney jobs.

Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2024 01:16 PM (aBgBM)

390 357 NC is going to learn a rough lesson about the ideology behind the Democrats.

october surprise?

Posted by: anachronda at September 30, 2024 01:16 PM (sGtp+)

391 The story of U.S. soldiers giving smallpox-infected blankets to the Indians to kill them off always sounded unbelievable to me. First, the Army would have had to know blankets would transmit the disease (true, they could have observed that). But then -- who would they get to deliver the consignment of deadly blankets? It would have to be soldiers who had survived the pox themselves. At a given post, they might have been hard to find.

And the Indians would have taken one look at the troop's pockmarked faces and said, "These White Eyes been sick. Better run."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

It wasn't US soldiers, it was some Brit commander in the French and Indian War. And it probably never happened. It was just a suggestion from General Amherst.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 01:17 PM (v6JzV)

392 Refused to evacuate, if I recall then blamed Bush, even though he didn't have the authority to overrule the governor.
Posted by: blake
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Yep. Busses lined up to evacuate people from New Orleans were flooded where they were parked due to the incompetence of Blanco and Nagin.

Only difference is that the media and Dems weaponized Katrina to go after Bush while they sit in silence over white folks and Cherokee dying in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.

You really cannot despise the media and Democrats more as inhuman monsters in human skin suits. Ideology uber alles.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:17 PM (SI97o)

393 Overposting this guy but he has a lot of facts and perspective.
His facts are accurate you can form your own perspective. It's a lot of information crammed into one presentation.

The Real Reason for Pavel Durov’s Arrest, and the Deep State’s Plan to Control Our Speech
_Mike Benz

https://tinyurl.com/fbbm4eh6

Posted by: Braenyard - farmers, just stick a seed in the ground and shut up at September 30, 2024 01:18 PM (KTeKV)

394 392 Only difference is that the media and Dems weaponized Katrina to go after Bush while they sit in silence over white folks and Cherokee dying in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.

You really cannot despise the media and Democrats more as inhuman monsters in human skin suits. Ideology uber alles.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:17 PM (SI97o)

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"Why should I be mad about this story and not this other story you've ignored?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

395 I don't think Kamala is gonna visit the disaster zones... Her visit to the border was a real disaster

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:18 PM (IyPmt)

396 "NC is going to learn a rough lesson about the ideology behind the Democrats.
Posted by: Martini Farmer"

Biggest logistic problem for the feds is figuring how to get assistance to Asheville and other blue cities but not the surrounding areas without being too obvious.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2024 01:18 PM (GUOwU)

397 That is to change the flood maps so you will now have to buy flood insurance if you are still paying for your home's mortgage.

So you got that going for ya.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:10 PM (SI97o)

***

Nothing new to me. We've had flood insurance coverage on the house since day one.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2024 01:18 PM (Y1sOo)

398 395 I don't think Kamala is gonna visit the disaster zones... Her visit to the border was a real disaster
Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:18 PM (IyPmt)

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I thought that was Trump in a Kamala mask.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

399 If Israel truly tried to claim all of the land they once ruled, Syria would be gone, as would Lebanon, Jordan and some of Saudi Arabia.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:18 PM (tT6L1)

400 383 I helped the Jews, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: Barbara Eden

by kicking them out of your garden?

Posted by: anachronda at September 30, 2024 01:18 PM (sGtp+)

401 363 A huge dig in northern Saudi Arabia about 15 years ago was abruptly halted. Evidently they discovered that much of the northern part of SA should be considered as Israel.

Decades ago, I heard that the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago was doing an archaeological dig in Syria. They dug down through various layers, with varying languages in the various layers, until they hit a deeper layer where the language used was Hebrew.
The Syrian government minders stepped in, and said "welp, that's the end of the dig".
Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (uxCna)

*nod head knowingly*

Posted by: Kenniwick Man at September 30, 2024 01:18 PM (i0F8b)

402 "Standing near normies who won't treat me like a queen? Fuck 'em. I'll do a picture on a plane, but then I'm out."

Kamala hires people to attend her rallies, and her "spontaneous" visits to businesses.

No way is she going to associate with actual Americans in a red area.

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at September 30, 2024 01:19 PM (uxCna)

403 Hey, Ace. thank you so much for the work you do. I am here in North Carolina and the government is not responding the way they should to the Helene disaster. Are you planning on doing a post?

Posted by: Redbanzai at September 30, 2024 01:19 PM (jy6gk)

404 I haven’t followed the hurricane stuff a lot. But didn’t Asheville get hit pretty badly? That’s white people but “good” white people, according to the left.

Posted by: Settled Science at September 30, 2024 01:19 PM (Wsr9E)

405 395 I don't think Kamala is gonna visit the disaster zones... Her visit to the border was a real disaster

well, since she's only vp, she's only responsible for addressing the root cause of the hurricane.

Posted by: anachronda at September 30, 2024 01:19 PM (sGtp+)

406 American Indians gave Europeans and the rest of the world syphilis so I think we're even.

Posted by: Archer at September 30, 2024 01:20 PM (IDphi)

407 No, they understand that. That's why they're such bootlickers.

They figure that if they're good enough at flattery, their new Islamic overlords will keep them around for the ego-boost.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2024 01:16 PM (hB7mE)
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With the occasional example to make sure they know who holds the knife....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:20 PM (tT6L1)

408 Has the press asked kamala, I represent all Americans, Harris what she gonna do yo help NC?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 01:20 PM (uBBbP)

409 "If the Indians didn't want to be invaded, they should have stopped the invaders when the foreigners came ashore."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well, the one thing that was not the Indians' fault (nor the Europeans') was their lack of immunity to Old-World diseases. Had they not been ravaged by epidemics, they could have put up a much more effective resistance.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 01:09 PM (v6JzV)
_____

I'm skeptical that the diseases had as much of an effect as it's now fashionable to say. Yes, the natives had far less resistance to these diseases than the Euros did. Yes, many died as a result. But the idea that some overwhelming number of natives fell over dead from diseases is -- IMO -- just a modern excuse for why the Euros so easily defeated them.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 01:20 PM (iFTx/)

410 And now you know why Hitler happened.

Evil people will excuse horrific behavior for partisan reasons.

Posted by: Sharkman at September 30, 2024 01:20 PM (Holkc)

411 One cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds. A cubic yard weighs 560 pounds. Over a quarter-ton.

An uncountable number of cubic yards of water moving say, 10 miles per hour down the bottom of a valley means most everything man-made in the path will be damaged or washed away.

Mother Nature is only rarely kind to humans and their creations.
Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2024

***
I think a cubic yard of water would weigh quite a bit more than that. 1 cu. ft. of 62 lbs x 27 = 1674.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 01:20 PM (J2vNu)

412 well, since she's only vp, she's only responsible for addressing the root cause of the hurricane.
Posted by: anachronda at September 30, 2024 01:19 PM (sGtp+

So she's not Hurricane Czar ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:21 PM (IyPmt)

413 406 American Indians gave Europeans and the rest of the world syphilis so I think we're even.

Posted by: Archer at September 30, 2024 01:20 PM (IDphi)

And tobacco smoking.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 01:21 PM (uBBbP)

414 Only difference is that the media and Dems weaponized Katrina to go after Bush while they sit in silence over white folks and Cherokee dying in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.

You really cannot despise the media and Democrats more as inhuman monsters in human skin suits. Ideology uber alles.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:17 PM (SI97o)

Well if you can show me the place where the government's response to this is perfect, well, I'd like to buy a house there!

Posted by: Stephanie Ruhle, auditioning to be Kamala's Press Secretary at September 30, 2024 01:21 PM (PiwSw)

415 I haven’t followed the hurricane stuff a lot. But didn’t Asheville get hit pretty badly? That’s white people but “good” white people, according to the left.
Posted by: Settled Science at September 30, 2024 01:19 PM (Wsr9E)

We still haven't heard from Morons Mike Hammer and Asheville Robert.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2024 01:21 PM (OwAOz)

416 > The story of U.S. soldiers giving smallpox-infected blankets to the Indians to kill them off always sounded unbelievable to me. First, the Army would have had to know blankets would transmit the disease (true, they could have observed that). But then -- who would they get to deliver the consignment of deadly blankets? It would have to be soldiers who had survived the pox themselves. At a given post, they might have been hard to find.

I believe there is a single letter where a militia captain wrote in a letter that they gave two Indian emissaries blankets from their smallpox ward at their fort. The captain says something like, "I hope the blankets have the desired effect."

Posted by: bonhomme at September 30, 2024 01:21 PM (Odg76)

417 American Indians gave Europeans and the rest of the world syphilis so I think we're even.

Posted by: Archer

The speculation now is that syphilis actually existed in Europe before Columbus, but the Indians gave them a new strain which was more virulent because the Europeans did not have immunity to it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 01:21 PM (v6JzV)

418 "Why should I be mad about this story and not this other story you've ignored?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Well, we had prominent media people telling us cannibalism was going on at the Superdome and we had to care. Drowned hillbillies in Appalachia to them ain't no big thing in NYC.

Palestine OH would like a word with the Dems too.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:22 PM (SI97o)

419 Will they still be able to hold Race to Dinner events in Asheville?

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (1bNHn)

420 Has the press asked kamala, I represent all Americans, Harris what she gonna do yo help NC?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless
.....

help them realize their dreams and aspirations.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (v0R5T)

421 Biggest logistic problem for the feds is figuring how to get assistance to Asheville and other blue cities but not the surrounding areas without being too obvious.
______

Why bother? Blue will vote for blue no matter who. Ask the inner city how much the Dems care about them despite their near 120% loyalty at the ballot box.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (QHmGB)

422 Theory:

Roy Cooper is actively tanking the response because he's trying to undermine Kamala's chances in the state. He's peeved he didn't get picked for VP.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

423 Has the press asked kamala, I represent all Americans, Harris what she gonna do yo help NC?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless
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Suck some dicks?

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

424 411 One cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds. A cubic yard weighs 560 pounds. Over a quarter-ton.

An uncountable number of cubic yards of water moving say, 10 miles per hour down the bottom of a valley means most everything man-made in the path will be damaged or washed away.

Mother Nature is only rarely kind to humans and their creations.
Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2024

***
I think a cubic yard of water would weigh quite a bit more than that. 1 cu. ft. of 62 lbs x 27 = 1674.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 01:20 PM (J2vNu)

Yowza! That's what I get for attempting maths in the AOSHQ No Maths Zone!

Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (aBgBM)

425 help them realize their dreams and aspirations.
Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (v0R5T)

Holistically

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (IyPmt)

426
Grim Beeper for the foot soldiers.
Grim Creeper for Nasrallah.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (KodE5)

427 412 well, since she's only vp, she's only responsible for addressing the root cause of the hurricane.
Posted by: anachronda at September 30, 2024 01:19 PM (sGtp+

So she's not Hurricane Czar ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:21 PM (IyPmt)

Well, from what we hear she blows like the wind.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2024 01:24 PM (N39Ws)

428 410 And now you know why Hitler happened.

Evil people will excuse horrific behavior for partisan reasons.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 30, 2024 01:20 PM (Holkc)

This and Christians don't threaten to behead you if you say the wrong thing.

Looking at you Parker and stone for doing book of Mormon and not book of....

Or the lady what wrote handmaid's tale converting .... to Christianity so she wouldn't get killed.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 01:24 PM (uBBbP)

429
It wasn't US soldiers, it was some Brit commander in the French and Indian War. And it probably never happened. It was just a suggestion from General Amherst.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 01:17 PM (v6JzV)

Correspondence between him and Col. Henri Boquet, his frontline commander. I think he was just venting.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 30, 2024 01:24 PM (LxER7)

430 Roy Cooper is actively tanking the response because he's trying to undermine Kamala's chances in the state. He's peeved he didn't get picked for VP.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (GBKbO)
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Partisan hackery over helping constituents. I rate this as: Likely.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:24 PM (tT6L1)

431 421 Why bother? Blue will vote for blue no matter who. Ask the inner city how much the Dems care about them despite their near 120% loyalty at the ballot box.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (QHmGB)

======

"I didn't vote, did you?"
"Nah, bruh. Voting don't solve shit."
"Yeah. Whatever, n-"

"We counted their ballots, right?"
"Yup."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

432 >>They do that so they can determine which houses to condemn and tell the owners they will no longer qualify for FEMA support in the future if they stay in them.

***

Well, they didn't condemn mine and I already know that there will be no help from FEMA in a future storm.

I knew they'd be of no help after Sally, but I filled out the application paperwork anyway, just to make someone have to work to gin up a 'no' response.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2024 01:24 PM (Y1sOo)

433 422 Theory:

Roy Cooper is actively tanking the response because he's trying to undermine Kamala's chances in the state. He's peeved he didn't get picked for VP.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (GBKbO)
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Doubtful. He'd be helping Mark Robinson, too. And all the right people hate Mark Robinson.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 01:24 PM (1bNHn)

434 Well if you can show me the place where the government's response to this is perfect, well, I'd like to buy a house there!
Posted by: Stephanie Ruhle
=======
Stephanie, sooner or later NYC will get hit with a natural disaster. Most of the rest of the country will yawn. Some will smile at the misfortune.

Media is despised nowadays by pretty much any normal person with a pulse. Only people that love them some leftist propaganda still find value in it.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:25 PM (SI97o)

435 "I'm skeptical that the diseases had as much of an effect as it's now fashionable to say. Yes, the natives had far less resistance to these diseases than the Euros did. Yes, many died as a result. But the idea that some overwhelming number of natives fell over dead from diseases is -- IMO -- just a modern excuse for why the Euros so easily defeated them.
Posted by: Doctor Elric"

Another question is why didn't it work the other way around? Why weren't Europeans overwhelmed by disease the natives were resistant to? From what I have read there was a lot of deaths among the early explores but did not wipe them out.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2024 01:25 PM (GUOwU)

436 Harris what she gonna do yo help NC?
____

I was born into a middle-class family in s community where people cared about their lawns.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 30, 2024 01:25 PM (QHmGB)

437 Decades ago, I heard that the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago was doing an archaeological dig in Syria. They dug down through various layers, with varying languages in the various layers, until they hit a deeper layer where the language used was Hebrew.

The Syrian government minders stepped in, and said "welp, that's the end of the dig".
Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at September 30, 2024 01:12 PM (uxCna)

I'm not sure the Syrians needed to bother. Modern archeology is in lock step in their agreement to deny any evidence of the extent and actual history of Israel and the Jews as a people.

Posted by: TexasDan at September 30, 2024 01:25 PM (z/ifB)

438 I think a cubic yard of water would weigh quite a bit more than that. 1 cu. ft. of 62 lbs x 27 = 1674.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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AIEEE
Dude, it's Monday, my brain already hurts.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 01:25 PM (v0R5T)

439 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

Lmfao

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at September 30, 2024 01:25 PM (eZwyX)

440
My theory is that NC is a 'must win' for Kamala and Biden could do a lot to help them out and help Kamala by giving her credit.

But the knife in his back still hurts too much.

Petty man gonna be a little bitch 'til the end.

I saw the DOT of the state says 400 roads are closed in that area. Bridges out, roads washed away. Choppers are the only way in.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 01:25 PM (RKVpM)

441 I believe there is a single letter where a militia captain wrote in a letter that they gave two Indian emissaries blankets from their smallpox ward at their fort. The captain says something like, "I hope the blankets have the desired effect."
Posted by: bonhomme at September 30, 2024

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"Corporal Agarn, you've recovered from the smallpox? Good, good. You're fit for duty? Good. Take those blankets way over on the other side of the fort to the Hekawi and tell them it's a gift from the Great White Father in Washington. Dismissed."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 01:25 PM (J2vNu)

442 Yowza! That's what I get for attempting maths in the AOSHQ No Maths Zone!
Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (aBgBM)
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I wound up with 4 yards of gravel because I divided by 9 rather than 27. Oops.

Still used it, though. Just took a lot longer to spread.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:26 PM (tT6L1)

443 This is a terrible disaster and I feel for all the people who are suffering.. Even the Libs

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 01:26 PM (IyPmt)

444 430 Roy Cooper is actively tanking the response because he's trying to undermine Kamala's chances in the state. He's peeved he didn't get picked for VP.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (GBKbO)
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Partisan hackery over helping constituents. I rate this as: Likely.
Posted by: blake
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Well, it is probably the end of Cooper's career in NC. Doubt he would get much of a vote for Senate seats anymore.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:26 PM (SI97o)

445 Theory:

Roy Cooper is actively tanking the response because he's trying to undermine Kamala's chances in the state. He's peeved he didn't get picked for VP.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:23 PM (GBKbO)
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Not sure Cooper actually wanted the VP slot. I thought he was one of those that wanted to avoid the Kamala cum-breath stench and bide his time to 2028.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

446 444 Well, it is probably the end of Cooper's career in NC. Doubt he would get much of a vote for Senate seats anymore.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:26 PM (SI97o)

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In 2 years, all of this will be forgotten except by those still suffering.

He'll have as much a chance for that Senate seat as any other Democrat with solid name recognition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

447 I think a cubic yard of water would weigh quite a bit more than that. 1 cu. ft. of 62 lbs x 27 = 1674.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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AIEEE
Dude, it's Monday, my brain already hurts.
Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024

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In his novel Condominium, which features a devastating hurricane, John D. MacDonald tells us that one cubic yard of water weighs three-quarters of a ton. I used that in a story, saying, "One cubic yard of water weighs more than a full-grown horse." The people in my writing group didn't believe me until I brought proof.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 01:28 PM (J2vNu)

448 445 Not sure Cooper actually wanted the VP slot. I thought he was one of those that wanted to avoid the Kamala cum-breath stench and bide his time to 2028.
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

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He put out a message saying that he was pulling out of consideration because he wanted to run for Senate in 2 years.

Which smelled of terrible bullshit. Who knows what actually happened, but getting turned down because he sat down with Kamala, couldn't keep a straight face when she talked, and then got dismissed is well within the realm of possibility.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 01:28 PM (GBKbO)

449 > It wasn't US soldiers, it was some Brit commander in the French and Indian War. And it probably never happened. It was just a suggestion from General Amherst.

Yes, the correspondence between Amherst and Bouquet is not proof. But there is a letter from William Trent who was at Fort Pitt in which he claims they gave two Delaware emissaries smallpox infected blankets from their smallpox ward. He says, "I hope it will have the desired effect," which I believe is clear proof of the intent to transmit the disease to them.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 30, 2024 01:28 PM (Odg76)

450 Harris what she gonna do yo help NC?

Nothing, yet she has to go. Per political conventional wisdom. A no-win situation for her, so she'll blame Trump for it all.

Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2024 01:28 PM (aBgBM)

451 Nood.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 01:29 PM (i24o9)

452 "Bush's/Fill in Blank's Katrina"

"Bush's 'Mission Accomplished' moment"

"Trump's 'Charlottesville' moment"

All of them completely fabricated, incorrect, distorted "moments", pathetic media fiction.

All of them absolutely embedded into the speech and mindset of "conservatives" and everybody else.

"You don't hate lazy, uninformed, critical thinking-challenged people, incl. 'conservatives', enough". (that's the idiotic teenage phrase so popular with the "conservative" lightweights online, I believe)

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2024 01:30 PM (GcNJ2)

453 I'm enjoying the water weight calculations on this thread because I design water and wastewater plants and my life revolves around computing weight of water and hydraulic pressure.

Posted by: TexasDan at September 30, 2024 01:30 PM (z/ifB)

454 In his novel Condominium, which features a devastating hurricane, John D. MacDonald tells us that one cubic yard of water weighs three-quarters of a ton. I used that in a story, saying, "One cubic yard of water weighs more than a full-grown horse." The people in my writing group didn't believe me until I brought proof.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 01:28 PM (J2vNu)
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One thing mentioned in the book: Storm surge hitting at high tide. I didn't realize storm surge was a thing until the mechanics were explained. He got a lot of things right in that novel, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 01:30 PM (tT6L1)

455 Harris what she gonna do yo help NC?
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Beat Global Warmening which is the root cause.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 01:32 PM (v0R5T)

456 "I'm enjoying the water weight calculations on this thread because I design water and wastewater plants and my life revolves around computing weight of water and hydraulic pressure.

Posted by: TexasDan "

Shouldn't water density in English units be slugs, not lb/ft3?

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2024 01:33 PM (GUOwU)

457 Another question is why didn't it work the other way around? Why weren't Europeans overwhelmed by disease the natives were resistant to? From what I have read there was a lot of deaths among the early explores but did not wipe them out.
Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2024 01:25 PM (GUOwU)

In the Amazon the agricultural network required a lot of labor and cooperation to maintain, when that network got holes kicked in it, the populations crashed, and major areas were abandoned.
One of the worst part of a novel pandemic is the systemic despair, people try to escape, and abandon the ill to die. This disrupts the economic and social ties which may not recover. The environmental "carrying capacity" for humans is dependent on the tech the culture has. Tech is dependent on cultural ties within the area and networking outside of the local area. If those ties are broken the tech collapses. bits will remain, but the complex network is not, and the carrying capacity of the land is reduced.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2024 01:40 PM (D7oie)

458 399 If Israel truly tried to claim all of the land they once ruled, Syria would be gone, as would Lebanon, Jordan and some of Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
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That's one of the reasons you know it's not the end times.

Posted by: Braenyard - farmers, just stick a seed in the ground and shut up at September 30, 2024 01:42 PM (KTeKV)

459 In 2 years, all of this will be forgotten except by those still suffering.

He'll have as much a chance for that Senate seat as any other Democrat with solid name recognition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Doubt it. Nagin ended up going to prison and Blanco's career was walking dead after Katrina.

Politics, almost always, is a game of margins. Roughly 40 percent are for you no matter what due to the color of your jersey, 40 percent against for the same reason. You have to persuade the middle 15-20 percent in order to get traction. This will not do that because haters will have a longer memory than those you helped. Cooper won't be in office to 'help' them two years down the road.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:44 PM (SI97o)

460 458 399 If Israel truly tried to claim all of the land they once ruled, Syria would be gone, as would Lebanon, Jordan and some of Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: blake
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Considerable quieting of the Middle East violence and a wave of massive prosperity would be the result.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:45 PM (SI97o)

461 80+ Mk-84s for that strike seems preposterous. The IAF (again, there's a trend of publicly spiking the ball in the end zone, thereby revealing information, that seems imprudent - been happening since a little while after 10/7) posted photos of *4* F-15s they said were responsible for the strike.

Guessing, from memory, that this aircraft can carry 2 Mk-84s at a time. So, 8 bombs from the strike package. Ten repeat sorties, to return/re-arm? Don't think so.

Corsairs on Okinawa at one point would take off, drop their loads shortly after, and immediately return to the airfield (targets were that close). Late friend, who was a USMC ordnance guy, said you could see the drops in some cases from the airfield. This situation was quite different. So maybe my arithmetic is wrong, or something, or Israel used 40 F-15s (improbable) at once. Or the 80+ report is wrong.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2024 01:48 PM (GcNJ2)

462 "You don't hate lazy, uninformed, critical thinking-challenged people, incl. 'conservatives', enough". (that's the idiotic teenage phrase so popular with the "conservative" lightweights online, I believe)

Posted by: rhomboid

It is more that the GOP in DC and its various state franchises along with Conservative Media TM believe those media myths. Most of the right has ignored the media for years and a lot more are learning that Conservative Media TM is not their friend but controlled by their political enemies as well.

Twitter is rapidly making the Conservative Media TM types controlled by Salem and the Talk Radio chains with blatherers like Hannity extinct.

We had an earlier chance during the blogging era to get rid of the centrally controlled messaging but blew it. Ace and a few other relics are all that remains of the bloggerdom of the 00's.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 01:49 PM (SI97o)

463 411 One cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds. A cubic yard weighs 560 pounds. Over a quarter-ton.

An uncountable number of cubic yards of water moving say, 10 miles per hour down the bottom of a valley means most everything man-made in the path will be damaged or washed away.

Mother Nature is only rarely kind to humans and their creations.
Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2024

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I think a cubic yard of water would weigh quite a bit more than that. 1 cu. ft. of 62 lbs x 27 = 1674.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2024 01:20 PM (J2vNu)

Whistle on the play - Math on the Blog.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 30, 2024 01:50 PM (oACm+)

464 We had an earlier chance during the blogging era to get rid of the centrally controlled messaging but blew it. Ace and a few other relics are all that remains of the bloggerdom of the 00's.

Many of those people were more interested in getting rich than changing the country. (To be fair, in 2004 that didn't seem as important as it does now).

Posted by: Ian S. at September 30, 2024 01:56 PM (2ocoG)

465 Isn't there some irregularly-posting moron who has "ashville" in his nic? He turned up yet?

Posted by: Swiss Cheese Memory at September 30, 2024 02:15 PM (QPCEj)

466 I made this in honor of our Austere and Shrewd former Leader of Men!

https://tinyurl.com/yc64d62h

Posted by: Kamala's Throat at September 30, 2024 03:03 PM (W+TLY)

467 And what's the Washington Composts opinion on Tea Party Attendants who don't Riot Loot and Burn

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at September 30, 2024 04:52 PM (wGqjj)

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