The Morning Report — 10/2/24 

Good Morning Kids. How fitting that on the 100th birthday of Jimmy Carter, Iran decided to celebrate by launching nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel. Were it not for the fact that Carter stabbed the Shah of Iran in the back by recognizing the kullahocracy of Ayatollah Khomeini that overthrew the country and precipitated the hostage crisis, along with installing the world's largest state sponsor and exporter of global terrorism.

In the event, there evidently was only one casualty. Turns out it was a "palestinian" killed by a piece of debris from an intercepted missile that fell on him. So far, there has been no military response from the Israelis but given the magnitude and nature of the attack, and that it obviously was in response to Israel's so far incredibly effective campaign aimed at dismantling Iran's proxy armies of Hezbollah and Hamas, Israel is going to have to respond. Despite the blather from Kalorama or the Oval Offie, and Foggy Bottom that the US is standing behind Israel in the wake of the missile barrage, I think the Iranians sense exactly the opposite and are itching to retaliate in a way that would force the Israelis to respond in a way that the current pro-Iran junta in DC would not approve. Remember, it's always the damned Jews that are at fault for "escalating" the cycle of violence. /sarc!!!

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Tuesday night by saying that they would pay dearly for their actions. Netanyahu’s words, delivered to the Israeli people in Hebrew, came after Iran fired approximately 180 ballistic missiles into Israel, most of which were shot down or landed in areas where they caused minimal damage.
“This evening, Iran made a big mistake – and it will pay for it,” he said. “The regime in Tehran does not understand our determination to defend ourselves and to exact a price from our enemies.”
Israel vowed that there would be a “significant response” to Iran and the U.S. said that Iran’s attack was result in “severe consequences” for the Islamic regime.

Meanwhile, as the missiles were raining down on Israel, this happened:

Two terrorists opened fire Tuesday evening on civilians along Jerusalem Boulevard in the city of Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv in an apparent terror attack, killing six and wounding several other people. . . Several people took shelter in a nearby Hasidic synagogue, according to Army Radio. Jerusalem Boulevard is one of the main thoroughfares in Jaffa, the oldest part of the Tel Aviv metro area. The city has a significant Arab population, and Jews live alongside Arabs in the area.

Of course, last night was the Vice-Presidential candidates debate and Tampon/Tiananmen Tim and the Democrats must feel like the "Palestinian" that got hit by falling flaming missile wreckage. Because that's what happened. Vance delivered a few body blows himself to Walz and the media but much of the damage was self-inflicted. Calling yourself a knucklehead on national television when you're trying to convince people to vote for you to my untrained eye seems like a suboptimal move. But what the hell do I know?

Gov. Tim Walz may not have been in Tiananmen Square, but tonight he got hit by a tank.
Walz lost on issues, to which the Harris-Walz campaign has a congenital allergy, he lost on style, defaulting to word salads about being a regular guy from a small town whenever a question (like lying about Tiananmen Square when he was befriending members of China’s Bureau of Foreign Affairs) made him uncomfortable, but he lost on television.
Kamala had gotten rid of one confused old white man only to replace him with another.
Not since the Kennedy vs. Nixon matchup has there been a candidate who performed so much worse when people could see his face. And Walz’s bugged-out eyes, quivering apple pie chin, and the profile of a decaying jack o’lantern lost the debate more eloquently than any words
. . . Walz need not have really shown up. The talented moderating team of Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell put in their late bid for the presidency and vice presidency by debating Vance more effectively than Walz had. It helped that they had control of the microphones. Brennan and O’Donnell, whose greatest previous taste of power had been yelling at CBS News interns for bringing them the wrong kind of coffee, joyfully smirked at the power to win a losing argument by announcing that Vance’s microphone had been cut off.

All things considered, Tim Walz probably was at Tiananmen Square. He was inside the tank, in the driver's seat when he stepped on the gas pedal and ran over the demonstrator!

In the days leading up to Tuesday’s debate, Democrats went out of their way to say they were nervous about how Gov. Tim Walz would perform.
It was an obvious effort to lower expectations in the hopes Walz would beat the gloomy forecasts and thus look like an upset winner.
They didn’t lower expectations far enough.
Walz had occasional moments of clarity, but he spent most of the night giving rambling answers that filled the allotted time without reaching a clear conclusion. The only thing he won was finishing first in the number of non-sequiturs.
Voters looking for a point where they could say “aha, that’s what the policy would be” had to be frustrated.
I know I was. . .
. . . His opponent, Republican Sen. JD Vance, was by far the smarter, more thoughtful and more organized thinker on the stage. His tone was pleasantly even, whether he was defending Donald Trump or attacking Kamala Harris.
Because VP debates are largely seen as referendums on the presidential nominees, Vance’s performance was a boost for Trump and the GOP ticket.
Walz, on the other hand, added to doubts about his readiness to serve, and thus was a minus for Harris.
The difference in temperament was so stark that Walz at times looked bug-eyed as he speed-talked his way through answers that often veered off course, as if his brain couldn’t keep up with his mouth.
“I’ve become friends with school shooters,” he said during an answer on school safety. “I’m a knucklehead at times” was his final weird answer to a question about why he falsely claimed to be in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Vance, by contrast, was cool, deliberate and polite to a fault. He called the moderators by their first names,and began some answers by saying “I agree with Tim” or saying they had common ground, an obvious move to be the one creating a civil and substantive tone.

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

How a Bernie Sanders fan sent his own father to prison.
Fatherland: Nazi Germany in Biden’s America
John Stossel: If homeowners miss property tax payments, even if they never received the bills, some towns grab the whole house and keep the proceeds. All the proceeds. Even if the total is much more than the property tax owed.
Politicians Steal Homes
"7 years later and this day never gets easier. Sending love out to everybody in the Route 91 family today," the country superstar wrote.
Jason Aldean And Others Take Time To Remember Victims Of Vegas Music Festival Shooting

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN

Two terrorists opened fire Tuesday evening on civilians along Jerusalem Boulevard in the city of Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv in an apparent terror attack, severely wounding at least seven people.
Terror Attack in Tel Aviv: 4 Killed, 7 Wounded in Shooting in Jaffa
He said that those in Iran responsible for the attack will soon understand just how serious Israel is about protecting its people.
Netanyahu Hints At Israeli Response To Iranian Missile Attack
Iran defied Biden's warning on Tuesday when it fired ballistic missiles into Israel
FLASHBACK: Biden Told Iran ‘Don’t’ When It Came To Attacking Israel, Iran Ignored
This turn of events is a big deal. It's one thing for the U.S. to provide aid to Israel while it's under attack, but it's another matter altogether for American personnel to actively shoot down Iranian missiles.
BREAKING: White House Orders U.S. Military to Aid Israel Against Iran
“Iran made a grave mistake this evening – and it will pay for it.”
Israel at War
The folly of diplomacy as the way to lasting peace in the Middle East.
‘Diplomatic Engagement’ Camouflages the Betrayal of Israel
Will it succeed?
The Israeli Left’s War On Netanyahu
Her public statement ought to have been a key moment for her as vice president—one where she projected strength, confidence, and resolve. Instead, her delivery only exposed a dangerous sense of weakness, confusion, and a lack of real leadership. For someone who’d been in the Situation Room next to [so-called quote-unquote] President Biden, supposedly directing a response to an international crisis, she came across as unprepared and scared, as though she had no idea what she was even talking about.
WATCH: Kamala Completely Botched Her First Public Statement About Iran Attacking Israel

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Shayma Al-Hanooti frequently spars with colleagues and superiors about the conflict in Gaza.
Virginia Teacher Who Makes Kids Criticize Israel Is Daughter Of Imam At Al Qaeda-Linked Mosque
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: Did his parents really not notice anything?
Philadelphia: Teen Jihadi Planned to Bomb Pride Parade, is Son of Far-Left Lawyer
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
'I'm writing to let you know the [so-called quote-unquote] president's schedule has shifted and we need to reschedule,' writes WH liaison to Jewish community Shelley Greenspan
Biden-Harris Junta Abruptly Bails on High Holidays Call With Jewish Community as Iran Bombs Israel
“We are going to nyc to slaughter them” with AR-style rifles and hunting knives “so we can slit their throats,” Khan told an undercover FBI agent he believed was a co-conspirator, according to an agent complaint. “Even if we don’t attack an event, we could rack up easily a lot of Jews.”
Liberal Canada’s lax immigration policies behind a plot to kill Jews in NYC, ‘largest attack since 9/11’
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
America has been given two gifts between Butler and West Palm Beach. Unfortunately, we appear intent on squandering those gifts.... And, at the risk of alienating a significant portion of the populace by stating it, this must be stated: it is unlikely that there is a path towards conciliation absent America’s Left wing abandoning its radical rejection of our institutions over the past decade.
Trump dying could've led to civil war
Our democracy is at stake? No, the real threat is the Democrats' efforts to snuff out freedom.
American Liberty In The Balance
"BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Immigration was thrust into the public spotlight as towns in America were overwhelmed with migrants, from Springfield, Ohio to Aurora, Colorado. Bureaucracies and non-profits often work in tandem to resettle refugees, and NGOs have only grown in influence under the Biden-Harris junta, experts said.
‘A Self-Feeding Circle’: How A Web Of NGOs Enabled By Biden-Harris Is Fueling The Migrant Crisis
The most populous city in Minnesota, controlled by Democrat vice presidential hopeful Governor Tim Walz, has sworn in its first non-U.S. citizen police officer. Lesly Vera, who was born in Mexico, took the oath of office in Minneapolis last week.The move follows a policy change by the Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) in 2023, eliminating the citizenship prerequisite for law enforcement candidates. Under the new guidelines, candidates only need to be residents authorized to work in the U.S.
Tim Walz’s Minnesota Swears in First Non-Citizen Cops, Including Hijab-Clad Somali Muslim.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Lorenz’s departure is being billed as her opportunity to become an internet “content creator” more than a traditional news reporter. She is starting a Substack called “User Magazine,” where she says she will discuss social media from a user perspective. Lorenz is a 40+-year-old New Yorker who often attempts to ingratiate herself within the culture of much younger, often sub-20-year-olds online. She gained notoriety by doxxing the Libs of TikTok account, which made fun of far-left activists by using their own clips on social media.
Taylor Lorenz Out at Washington Post After Calling Biden a ‘War Criminal.’
After far-left Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law that basically attacked election-related memes in state of California on September 17, one satirical organization decided to take action. Along with the Alliance Defending Freedom, The Babylon Bee filed a lawsuit against the state of California on Monday on the grounds of violating the First Amendment right to free speech.
Marxist Says What? Babylon Bee Sues California Over New Law that Censors Free Speech
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The union boss, ILA president Harold Daggett, warned in a video that, "I'll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means." He said, "Everybody's hating the longshoremen now because now they realize how important our jobs are."
Nice Country You've Got There: Longshoreman Boss Promises 'Crippling' Strike in Creepy Video
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Survival without power, water, or help for days on end is only possible with resources the authoritarians running our country want to ban.
Government Wants To Ban Everything That Helps Keep Humans Alive
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
School syllabi in the U.S. run the gamut from Marxism to Biblical stories.
Classical v. Unclassical Curricula
ABORTION
LeRoy Carhart, who performed partial-birth abortions for years, had no qualms about casually using the terms ‘baby,’ ‘killing,’ or ‘dead’ when describing abortion.
‘He Threw The Baby In The Pan’: The Late-Term Abortion Horrors Democrats Deny
THE 2020 AND 2022 ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH— Plus Anticipated 2024 Shenanigans
The proposed amendment states, “No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state,” and lists protections regardless of “race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed [or], religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy.” According to critics, the inclusion of “national origin” could extend protections and potentially voting rights to noncitizens, including illegal immigrants.
Abortion Ballot Measure Would Also Establish Noncitizen Voting Rights.
In March, 53.4% of Huntington Beach residents approved a ballot measure that would require voters present identification in order to vote in municipal elections. The measure was slated to take effect in 2026 and also permitted the city to “provide more in-person voting locations” and “monitor ballot drop-boxes.”
Newsom Signs Law Barring Huntington Beach Voters From Deciding Their Own Voter ID Laws
POLITICS
Daniel Greenfield: A disaster for Democrats.
Walz Tanks VP Debate While Lying About Tanks
Walz, 60, who has honed a folksy demeanor on the campaign trail, was noticeably nervous and misspoke repeatedly as he wrung his hands, took frantic notes, and his eyes darted around the CBS studio.
Tim Walz staggered by cool JD Vance, admits ‘I’m a knucklehead’ during genial VP debate
When you remember what the point of the V.P. is, you can easily see who won.
Bottom line for the vice presidential debate
Michael Goodwin: It was an obvious effort to lower expectations in the hopes Walz would beat the gloomy forecasts and thus look like an upset winner. They didn’t lower expectations far enough.
JD Vance only boosted Donald Trump, Republicans while bug-eyed Tim Walz hampered Kamala Harris’ chances at VP debate
Daniel Greenfield Part Deux: There's a lot of red flags here.
Why Walz’s Tiananmen Square Lie Matters
Make no mistake about it, JD Vance crushed Tim Walz in this debate. It wasn't even close.
Tim Walz Gets Spanked in Debate With JD Vance
The debate moderators appeared to consistently show bias against vice presidential nominee Senator JD Vance (R-OH) by fact-checking him, cutting off his mic, and asking questions framed unfairly. They did not appear to use the same tactics on vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D).
Moderators Slammed for ‘Awful,’ ‘Obvious,’ ‘Craptastic’ Bias in VP Debate
Brennan jumped in to “thank” Vance for his response and attempted to move on, but Vance could be heard trying to finish, criticizing Harris for her role in the illegal immigration crisis.
JD Vance’s Mic Cut As He Tries To Counter Moderator’s Fact Check On Springfield Migrants
“I think that something Gov. Walz just said is quite extraordinary. You, yourself just said Iran is as close to a nuclear weapon today as they have ever been. And Gov. Walz blamed President Trump. Who has been the vice president for the last three-and-a-half years? And the answer is your running mate, not mine,” Vance said.
‘Nervous As Hell’: Bewildered Walz Emerges From Media Quarantine Only To Get Shelled By Vance
Governor's [fake!] 'folksy' charm wears thin in bewildered, gaffe-filled performance
DAD IN HEADLIGHTS: 'Knucklehead' Tim Walz Bumbles Through Primetime Debate with a Smooth J.D. Vance
While the polls showed a narrow result, commentators were less sure, with many saying that JD Vance won the debate handily, while Tim Walz struggled.
CBS, CNN Polls Say JD Vance Beat Tim Walz in Debate

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The comparisons between former President George W. Bush’s supposed mishandling of Hurricane Katrina and sitting Vice President Kamala Harris’ blatant mishandling of Hurricane Helene are quite startling.
Trump Takes Lead in NC as Kamala’s Katrina Leaves State Helpless
“And we know that Donald Trump has been going after that vote, and he is in a very, very strong position—more so perhaps than with any other bloc.”
CNN Data Analyst Sounds Alarm for Harris Campaign About Low Support From Union Households
It’s not hyperbole that Harris needs an easy October politically if she wants to win the White House. The race between her and former President Donald Trump is so close that any disruption could result in a last-minute vote surge. Unfortunately for Harris, she is staring down four issues that will be a disaster for her campaign as Nov. 5 approaches.
Four Horsemen Of Harris’ Campaign Apocalypse Have Arrived
Mollie Hemingway: He’s failing to win over white men and hasn’t secured any crucial swing states for Harris.
Tim Walz Isn’t Helping Kamala Harris, He’s Hurting Her
"He fooled a lot of Minnesotans in the last two elections, we can’t let him fool the rest of the country"
A Day In Tim Walz’s Minnesota
“Migration to Wisconsin shifted up a gear only after Tim Walz was elected.” (Tony Evers is the Tim Walz of Maura Healys - jjs)
Why People Are Leaving Tim Walz’s Minnesota
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The FPÖ ran on reinforcing Austrian neutrality, which is enshrined in the country’s postwar constitution.
Ukraine-Skeptical Conservatives Win in Austrian Election
The new Mexican president may prove less of a pragmatist than her predecessor.
Sheinbaum’s Inaugural Radicalism
China’s debt-ridden, centrally controlled economy is trying to spend its way out of a crisis, while Argentina is slashing public spending and letting market forces take over....
Argentina, not China, is the model for economic growth
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The Register reports that the University Medical Center (UMC) in Lubbock, Texas, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, forcing the hospital to turn away ambulances and limit its operations. The cyberattack, which occurred on Friday, has caused significant disruptions to the hospital’s services, highlighting the growing threat of ransomware to critical healthcare infrastructure.
America Unprotected: Texas Hospital Crippled by Ransomware Attack, Ambulances Redirected
HURRICANE HELENE AFTERMATH, BIDEN/HARRIS DEBACLE
In North Carolina and elsewhere in the South, post-Helene rescues must be done as quickly as possible—but even a successful mission can be painfully slow.
The Floods This Time
North Carolinian Ricky Brown said, “There you go that is your government. They don’t care about us. You know what I mean, they care more about the damn election and all that stuff than they care about these people that just lost everything.”
Mayorkas on NC Resident Feeling Abandoned: We Warned About Extreme Weather Events Increasing
Poor, agenda-driven choices made by FEMA, the Commerce Department and the FCC may be contributing to the death toll from Helene, and needlessly delaying recovery operations.
Biden-Harris Bureaucrats Hindering Effective Helene Response
“I'm speechless, having worked in a White House that was responsive […] Vice President Harris and [so-called quote-unquote] President Biden should have been in North Carolina," he said. "They should have been there for substantive reasons. They should have been there for political reasons and personal reasons.”
Ouch! Dem Strategist Blasts the Biden-Harris Junta's Hurricane Response
The Biden-Harris junta took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to the agency responsible for American disaster relief and used it to offer services for illegal immigrants.
Biden-Harris Junta Used FEMA Disaster Funding For Illegal Immigrants
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
A Harris administration will impose California’s soft tyranny on the entire nation while her cronies laugh all the way to the bank.
Life in Kamala’s California
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Harris says her policies are cutting Medicare's costs. But what she's really doing is cutting the future cures that could save your life.
You Can Kiss New Medical Cures Goodbye
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"This is the way," Riley Gaines said.
University Women’s Team Becomes Latest To Refuse To Play Against Trans-Identifying Male
The Health Equity and Accountability Act also referred to breastfeeding as ‘chestfeeding’
Sherrod Brown [-note] Co-Sponsored Bill Referring to Women as ‘Birthing People’
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
It’s hard to describe the journey of the song “Fighter,” written by Breitbart’s Jon Kahn & Nashville Hitmaker Chris Wallin, and performed by Kahn. The Trump tribute song accompanied by the viral black and white video continues to have a life of its own. Today, “Fighter” claimed the #1 spot atop Billboard’s Digital Sales Charts. And if that’s not enough, Kahn became Billboard’s #1 emerging artist.
America Chooses Its ‘Fighter’: Trump Anthem Tops Billboard Digital Sales Charts
Colgate University Professor Andrew Horowitz peddled this bizarre conclusion to a group of impressionable undergraduates during a recent guest lecture on the “systemic racism” of hurricanes.
N.Y. Prof: There is No Such Thing As 'Natural Disaster,' Blames Racism for Hurricanes
Christian Toto: New numbers suggest singer's political ploy dented her superstar brand
Will Taylor Swift Regret Endorsing Kamala Harris?
Rapper “Macklemore” says: “F*** America!”
A Tale of Two Americas

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1 Its Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 07:08 AM (gbOdA)

2 Needs context.

Posted by: AI Fact Checker at October 02, 2024 07:09 AM (vFG9F)

3 Happy Wednesday, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 07:10 AM (+4yJ5)

4 The picture of jimmy carter and the fly over for his birthday, he's not voting for anyone. Someone will need to fill in his absentee ballot for him since there's no way he's sentient. A picture of potatus in less then 5 years, potatus is pretty close to that state now.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 02, 2024 07:11 AM (2NHgQ)

5
I'd would have liked to be a fly on the wall of Kammie's office last night.

Walz better start looking over his shoulder and keeping an eye on his Secret Service cohort.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2024 07:12 AM (BkEzK)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 07:12 AM (Q4IgG)

7 Walz is fat and ugly (inside and outside) and proved himself totally unappealing in every sense of the word. The hard Left, which has no taste except bad taste and rejects the very idea of "character" as a criterion for leadership, won't care. But maybe the few remaining who haven't picked a candidate might be influenced.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 07:13 AM (y6KDC)

8 שנה טובה ומתוקה לך, ג'ייג'יי, ולכל המורנים היהודים כאן

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 02, 2024 07:14 AM (HbCW+)

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שנה טובה ומתוקה לך, ג'ייג'יי, ולכל המורנים היהודים כאן
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 02, 2024 07:14 AM (HbCW+)

Sorry, this is a No Welsh Zone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2024 07:16 AM (BkEzK)

10 "The union boss, ILA president Harold Daggett, warned in a video that, "I'll cripple you."

He sounds like a mafia boss. I'm willing to do without for a while if it means this guy fails.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

11 10 "The union boss, ILA president Harold Daggett, warned in a video that, "I'll cripple you."

He sounds like a mafia boss. I'm willing to do without for a while if it means this guy fails.
Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

Time to pull a Reagan and dissolve the ILA. First, we need to install another Reagan.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 02, 2024 07:19 AM (x0n13)

12 @7

>>Walz is fat and ugly (inside and outside) and proved himself totally unappealing in every sense of the word.

Put it this way, if the media were simply neutral, Democrats wouldn't win anywhere.

It's also the reason they have to "fortify" elections and change election rules every time they manage to come to power, nobody but a f**king lunatic would vote Democrat.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 07:19 AM (XV/Pl)

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Media asks Tim Walz to clarify 'friends with school shooters' remark at debate and he ignores them:

https://is.gd/VrC3Vi

/ Personally I'm not friends with any school shooters
/ Just wanted to clear the record on that

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 07:20 AM (RKVpM)

14 I still don't know how to uninstall MS Copilot....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 07:20 AM (0eaVi)

15 "Everybody's hating the longshoremen now because now they realize how important our jobs are."

No. We're disliking you because trade is getting disrupted, the price of goods are going to go up over the next few weeks, we just had a horrible natural disaster that is causing a lot of suffering and we're going to stat thinking that maybe automation of your jobs is a cool idea.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 07:20 AM (+4yJ5)

16 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at October 02, 2024 07:21 AM (4cX0H)

17 Jane Curtin had nothing on Nora O'Donnell in the ignorant slut department. Her snarky insertion of an uncontested fact check on climate change was one of the best moments.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:21 AM (vFG9F)

18 “Israel gave those months over to diplomacy on its northern front, even as Hezbollah fired 8,500 rockets and forced 60,000 Israelis from their homes. But the U.S.-led talks went nowhere as Mr. Biden pressed Israel not to hit Hezbollah too hard and allowed billions of dollars in oil revenue to flow to the terrorists’ masters in Iran.”

China is using Iran just the the Democrats used KKK, Pantifa, and BLM as terrorist enforcers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 07:21 AM (gbOdA)

19 The one spot where Iran may have achieved some success with their attack was Nevatim Air Force Base (F-35 base) where civilian video (from a distance) showed multiple ballistic missile hits. IDF has not commented on damage to the base.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 02, 2024 07:22 AM (S6gqv)

20 I still don't know how to uninstall MS Copilot

Hopped over to MS's site and saw this:

"Unfortunately CoPilot cannot be uninstalled/removed as it's a built-in feature in Windows 11. Disabling it would be the closest thing that can be done."

So disable it or change operating systems are your only options.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 07:22 AM (+4yJ5)

21 @14

>>I still don't know how to uninstall MS Copilot....

Technically you can't, it's pretty much embedded in their OS via forced updates.

If MS Project and Vizio weren't PC only software packages, I'd never use Windows.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 07:23 AM (XV/Pl)

22 If the media was simply neutral, Democrats would never win an election.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 06:57 AM (XV/Pl)

That's why Breitbart called them the real enemy. He always said that without the media the democrats were "weak sisters" who'd never win an election.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 07:23 AM (y6KDC)

23 Instead, the leftists would have Israel rely on the use of electronic sensors along the Corridor, and depend as well on Egyptians stationed at the Egypt-Gaza border to prevent arms smuggling.

The Egyptians run the smuggling operations.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 07:23 AM (gbOdA)

24 So disable it or change operating systems are your only options.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 07:22 AM (+4yJ5)

So, have to figure out how to disable.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 07:24 AM (0eaVi)

25 "Everybody's hating the longshoremen now because now they realize how important our jobs are."

There are many important jobs. You are not more important than anyone else. Get your ass back to work or head down to the unemployment office. There are plenty of sparks of divinity that can do your jobs.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

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"Everybody's hating the longshoremen now because now they realize how important our jobs are."

In the longer term, are they? Moving freight is important, but one of the beefs in this strike is the replacement of longshoremen with automation.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2024 07:25 AM (BkEzK)

27 Good morning!!

Vance is da bomb!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:25 AM (scDBq)

28 Didn't watch the debate, so I can't really comment on it. But Walz is obviously a bad choice for a running mate, for many reasons. One that comes to mind is that he's a pudgy balding unfortunate-looking person. The Dem machine that picked him has no idea about messaging.

"If they're attracted to the messenger, they'll stay for the message." This is Advertising 101. But the Dems chose to go with Homer Simpson.*

* yes I stole that

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 07:25 AM (/7KEl)

29 Good morning good people. Thank you J.J. Prayers for all that ail and all affected by the recent storms.

I understand from my wife's former classmates that Vance was utterly and absolutely destroyed by Tampon Tim last night.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 02, 2024 07:25 AM (WXNFJ)

30 Your job may be very important.

But it may not be at all important that you're the one doing it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2024 07:25 AM (DDGz9)

31 Probably already mentioned, but this is rage inducing:
@amuse
HURRICANE: Communities across the south are being told to prepare for extended power outages as a result of a massive short of critical electrical equipment. It turns out the Biden-Harris regime hasn't just sent the bulk of our artillery shells to Ukraine - they've also sent them our nation's stockpile of critical electrical equipment.

The U.S. has always kept a stockpile of critical electrical equipment—like transformers and switchgear—to quickly restore power in the aftermath of disasters such as Hurricane Helene.

Now, with 360 substations in desperate need of new transformers, the country should be ready to respond. But here’s the catch: the Biden-Harris administration recklessly drained our stockpile by sending these crucial resources to Ukraine.

So while they're prioritizing foreign aid, millions of Americans could be left in the dark for months, suffering through extended power outages because of their poor decision-making. Once again, it’s America last under this regime.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:25 AM (scDBq)

32
"You sound like you're friends with school shooters."

/ storing in insult bank

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 07:26 AM (RKVpM)

33 So while they're prioritizing foreign aid, millions of Americans could be left in the dark for months, suffering through extended power outages because of their poor decision-making. Once again, it’s America last under this regime.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:25 AM (scDBq)

Sounds like perfect ad material for the GO.... Yeah, they wouldn't use something like that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 07:27 AM (0eaVi)

34 "The Dem machine that picked him has no idea about messaging."

It's good to keep in mind that no one else wanted the job.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 02, 2024 07:28 AM (B0mGw)

35 Mornin, All. Happy Wednesday.

Gesundheit, Biden’s Dog.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 02, 2024 07:28 AM (v6JzV)

36 >>One that comes to mind is that he's a pudgy balding unfortunate-looking person.

He's only in his 50's! He looks like he's in his 70's -- after watching sundowning Biden for 4 years, it is a baffling pick.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:28 AM (scDBq)

37 Happy new year to you Biden's dog and to all relevant horde.

Posted by: actuakky inside the beltway at October 02, 2024 07:28 AM (pLaQB)

38 Weirdness 1
New Masculinity 0

Posted by: Eeyore at October 02, 2024 07:29 AM (1bNHn)

39 24 So, have to figure out how to disable.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 07:24 AM (0eaVi)

Good luck. The MS forums might be helpful. And I did find this video that may address it as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_AaHXrelTE

Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 07:29 AM (+4yJ5)

40

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 02, 2024 07:29 AM (5hfjS)

41 That story about Jackson Reffitt is very, very sad. He will regret his actions someday but it’ll be too late

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 02, 2024 07:30 AM (ANuwa)

42
The debate in one image:

https://is.gd/c42QoP

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 07:30 AM (RKVpM)

43 Consider the Longshoremen strike an in-kind contribution to the Trump admin. Biden doing absolutely nothing while the world burns is pretty spot on for the last four years. This chaos will continue if Harris is elected.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 02, 2024 07:30 AM (B0mGw)

44 Now, with 360 substations in desperate need of new transformers, the country should be ready to respond. But here’s the catch: the Biden-Harris administration recklessly drained our stockpile by sending these crucial resources to Ukraine.
Posted by: Lizzy

The reason stockpiling the substation transformers is vital is that many of them have a 2-3 year lead time. There are only a precious few providers of such products.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 02, 2024 07:30 AM (WXNFJ)

45 "Everybody's hating the longshoremen now because now they realize how important our jobs are."

Compared to government bureaucrats at any level, of course.

They are making the argument for physicians, architects, and accountants as well as tradesmen, garbage collectors and firemen.

The thing is, in all of these services/trades, automation is welcomed as it augments their ability to be more efficient and exacting. Are the longshoremen concerned that automation won't just augment their work but completely replace it?

If the cog in the machine can be replaced, it doesn't speak to the value of the function of the cog, but that a worn out rusted and noisy cog can be replaced with an advanced material cog.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 07:31 AM (rHxhM)

46 @36

>>He's only in his 50's! He looks like he's in his 70's -- after watching sundowning Biden for 4 years, it is a baffling pick.

At a certain point, you have to commit to shaving your head, but I think he's crafted an image of being an awww shucks, "plain spoken" mid-western man of the people schtick, that apparently the retards that vote in Minnesota, eat up.

Either that or elections there are as fake and gay as any other Donk sh*thole.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 07:31 AM (XV/Pl)

47 26 Moving freight is important, but one of the beefs in this strike is the replacement of longshoremen with automation.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2024 07:25 AM (BkEzK)

And while that is a legitimate complaint, I don't think that automation is necessarily a bad idea.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 07:31 AM (+4yJ5)

48 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 07:32 AM (IUd0M)

49 Israel under assault. Appalachia under water. No acting president to be seen. Ports on strike. Everything going to shit. And then, out of the blue, comes this little lighting bolt of Joy to rally around and brighten our day as some pinko pdf file gets pantsed on national television by One Of Ours so thoroughly his legs got a little color from the stage lights.

I had my doubts that Vance would be another Ryan, but it sounds like i can happily say i was wrong.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2024 07:32 AM (DDGz9)

50 New laptop has Copilot. There's a Settings button, but there's only one setting you can change and it has nothing to do with disabling Copilot.

I think the Copilot that comes with Windows 11 Home is a preview version, and you can upgrade to a Pro version. But I didn't see a way to turn it off.

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 07:33 AM (/7KEl)

51 More about Biden admin destroying NC's ability to recover from Helene:

@nataliegwinters
North Carolina power outages are due to shortages of transformers/electrical equipment.

@WhiteHouse
recently signed a $422 million energy assistance deal with Ukraine, giving them materials needed by North Carolina right now including:

➡️1,093 generators
➡️11 auto transformers
➡️460 tons transformer oil
➡️495 instrumental transformers
➡️203 power transformers

And BILLIONS more in aid.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:33 AM (scDBq)

52 Walz was chosen as Harris' running mate so as not to have the VP outshine the head of the ticket as Palin did with McCain.

Posted by: davidt at October 02, 2024 07:33 AM (i0F8b)

53 @47

>>And while that is a legitimate complaint, I don't think that automation is necessarily a bad idea.

Well, it's going to have to happen at some point because unionized labor is far too expensive and these yabos are asking for something like a 35 pct pay increase.

That's completely unsustainable.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 07:34 AM (XV/Pl)

54 Tim Walz’s Minnesota Swears in First Non-Citizen Cops, Including Hijab-Clad Somali Muslim.

So a non citizen now has authority over citizens.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 07:34 AM (gbOdA)

55 "Walz was chosen as Harris' running mate so as not to have the VP outshine the head of the ticket as Palin did with McCain."

There's also the visual of the strong black woman replacing the feeble old white man.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 02, 2024 07:34 AM (B0mGw)

56 Well, it's going to have to happen at some point because unionized labor is far too expensive and these yabos are asking for something like a 35 pct pay increase.

That's completely unsustainable.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 07:34 AM (XV/Pl)

it is double that close to 67%

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 07:34 AM (gbOdA)

57 "Well, it's going to have to happen at some point because unionized labor is far too expensive and these yabos are asking for something like a 35 pct pay increase."

I thought it was 77%.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

58 >>The reason stockpiling the substation transformers is vital is that many of them have a 2-3 year lead time. There are only a precious few providers of such products.

Holy sh#t - our country is screwed.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:36 AM (scDBq)

59 Good luck. The MS forums might be helpful. And I did find this video that may address it as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_AaHXrelTE
Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 07:29 AM (+4yJ5)

Thanks, I'll watch it later.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 07:36 AM (0eaVi)

60 The reason stockpiling the substation transformers is vital is that many of them have a 2-3 year lead time. There are only a precious few providers of such products.

I heard a podcast featuring a guest who was in the transformer making/distribution business.

There are commodity grade transformers, but for substations many must be specially designed and built. Then, of course, the Biden/Harris terror organization decreed that transformers must use amorphous steel because of Climate Change™

The market has no say in the materials they are allowed to use. Furthermore, it is very hard to find labor to make these transformers in the former United States because it actually requires work which this generation avoids at all costs.

Maybe between servings of cat and dog, the Haitians can build transformers.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 07:36 AM (rHxhM)

61 So a non citizen now has authority over citizens.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 07:34 AM (gbOdA)

A serious governor would immediately dissolve whatever statute or instrument it is that incorporates that particular city, township, or borough.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2024 07:36 AM (DDGz9)

62 >Holy sh#t - our country is screwed.

Posted by: Lizzy
----

Welcome to the party, pal!

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 07:37 AM (/7KEl)

63 Listen, if all you do with a computer is surf the web and look at email, there really is no reason to buy a WinTel machine, period.

Buy a laptop, install an Ubuntu or Debian variant and live a life of ease and tranquility.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 07:37 AM (XV/Pl)

64 demand a 77% increase over the six-year life of the contract. So far, they have a 50% increase on the table

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

65 The picture of jimmy carter and the fly over for his birthday, he's not voting for anyone. Someone will need to fill in his absentee ballot for him since there's no way he's sentient. A picture of potatus in less then 5 years, potatus is pretty close to that state now.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 02, 2024 07:11 AM (2NHgQ)
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I'm guessing someone will cast one ballot on his behalf for each year of his life...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 02, 2024 07:38 AM (7fElN)

66 61 So a non citizen now has authority over citizens.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 07:34 AM (gbOdA)

Wait until this ersatz cop comes across a First Amendment auditor. I think that's what the authorities want -- a provocation, violence, pretext for more authoritarianism.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 07:39 AM (y6KDC)

67 The "friends with school shooters" statement is... uh.... disturbing. Too bad the propaganda arm of the Democrat party isn't going to ask him what that's all about.

Somebody should.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 07:39 AM (Q4IgG)

68 @56

>>it is double that close to 67%

I understand the tactic of coming in high so that you can bargain back to what you were really angling for, but that's even more retarded than I thought.

Why not just ask for 200pct raise.

These knuckleheads.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 07:39 AM (XV/Pl)

69 A serious governor would immediately dissolve whatever statute or instrument it is that incorporates that particular city, township, or borough.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2024 07:36 AM (DDGz9)

I can see a time in the near future that a path to citizenship will be your ability to carry arms against citizens.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

70 >>This is Advertising 101

I was an advertising major in the early 80s. That was true then. All one has to do now to prove it false is note the physical appearances of many of actors cast in today's television commercials.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 02, 2024 07:39 AM (Y1sOo)

71 Walz made a lot of claims about how awesome Minnesota was doing yesterday. Apparently it's the best state in the union for education and industry and safety and income and housing. This seems unlikely to me. Anyone have any insight?

Posted by: Ribbed at October 02, 2024 07:39 AM (B0mGw)

72 I would like to see a fact check of Walz's claim that his son witnessed a shooting.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

73 what part of a longshoreman's job can be automated? To me, their job looks like muscling cargo containers on and off ships and trucks and rail cars. Unless I'm Wrong.®️

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 07:41 AM (/7KEl)

74
The "friends with school shooters" statement is... uh.... disturbing. Too bad the propaganda arm of the Democrat party isn't going to ask him what that's all about.

Somebody should.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 07:39 AM

He did get asked and he ignored the media. See my comment @13 for the video evidence.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 07:42 AM (RKVpM)

75 The U.S. has always kept a stockpile of critical electrical equipment—like transformers and switchgear—to quickly restore power in the aftermath of disasters such as Hurricane Helene.

What makes this particularly evil is that we have been told all year long that this is worst hurricane season ever - totally unprecedented and major hurricanes will destroy all life on our planet.

So naturally, the Left ships all of the electrical supplies to a corrupt region of the world just so it can be blown up a few weeks later.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 07:42 AM (rHxhM)

76 "what part of a longshoreman's job can be automated?"

Lunch breaks.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

77 Morning.
Prayers up and coffee done.
Horrible things are afoot. My X-Box won't start.
Tim Walz is an idiot and it was proven to the rest of America last night. Not that that stops democraps but it's a fact now.

Posted by: Reforger at October 02, 2024 07:43 AM (xcIvR)

78 @73

>>what part of a longshoreman's job can be automated? To me, their job looks like muscling cargo containers on and off ships and trucks and rail cars. Unless I'm Wrong.®️

Theoretically, all of the port activities can be automated.

Again, because of the astronomical cost of labor, it's going to have to happen eventually.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 07:43 AM (XV/Pl)

79 BREAKING: White House Orders U.S. Military to Aid Israel Against Iran
________
We need to have this covered heavily in MI. Maybe BroFo's district.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 02, 2024 07:44 AM (1bNHn)

80 How a Bernie Sanders fan sent his own father to prison.

Were I that little bastard's father, he would get the Helle Crafts treatment within hours after I got out.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 02, 2024 07:44 AM (Q0kLU)

81 “The time has come to decenter book reading and essay-writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.” Instead, teachers are urged to focus on “media literacy” and short texts that students feel are “relevant.”

These children (both the teachers and student) do not understand that our world comes at your fast. In many jobs you must be able to read massive amounts of rules, regulations, specifications, designs, and requirements and then form that into a workable project, product, and/or service.

They will find it impossible!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

82 >>So a non citizen now has authority over citizens.

SMFH
And a Somali, right?
A culture known for being tribal and corrupt.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:45 AM (scDBq)

83 >Theoretically, all of the port activities can be automated.

I mean in actual practice

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 07:45 AM (/7KEl)

84 what part of a longshoreman's job can be automated? To me, their job looks like muscling cargo containers on and off ships and trucks and rail cars. Unless I'm Wrong.®️

Computer vision (CV) can drive the cranes. And it should, those guys up there are pulling down $200-400k a year. Many are good at their jobs, but the fact is CV can do it better and longer.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 07:45 AM (rHxhM)

85 > The U.S. has always kept a stockpile of critical electrical equipment—like transformers and switchgear—to quickly restore power in the aftermath of disasters such as Hurricane Helene.
--------
IIRC much of that gear can't be manufactured "quickly" either. Bet China plays a big part in the supply chain for materials too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 07:45 AM (Q4IgG)

86 79 BroFo is from MN, not MI. Tlaib is from Michigan.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 02, 2024 07:45 AM (v6JzV)

87 Walz made a lot of claims about how awesome Minnesota was doing yesterday. Apparently it's the best state in the union for education and industry and safety and income and housing. This seems unlikely to me. Anyone have any insight?
Posted by: Ribbed at October 02, 2024 07:39 AM (B0mGw)
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Walz had to point to his own record of governor to demonstrate "success." He couldn't point to Biden/Harris because they've been failures for the past 3+ years.

Vance, meanwhile, could point to Trump's record of real success as POTUS.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 02, 2024 07:46 AM (7fElN)

88 >>“The time has come to decenter book reading and essay-writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.” Instead, teachers are urged to focus on “media literacy” and short texts that students feel are “relevant.”

Shorter: We want your kids dumb, to be better tools of the State.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:46 AM (scDBq)

89 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at October 02, 2024 07:47 AM (53oGX)

90 That Gazan wasn't the only casualty of the Iranian missile barrage, according to sources. Evidently they blew up one of their own missiles, too, before/during launch. I think it supposedly killed 5 Iranians. Own goal!

Posted by: GWB at October 02, 2024 07:47 AM (DDSgs)

91 Good morning dear morons and happy New Year 5785 JJ to you and all the observing morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 02, 2024 07:48 AM (5p7su)

92 Re: Taylor Lorenz - I assume she has a trust fund to cover expense while she looks for a new job. lolgf

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:49 AM (scDBq)

93
Can't wait for the Kiffness tune, "Friends with School Shooters"

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 07:49 AM (RKVpM)

94 I fact checked Walz's claim that his son witnessed a shooting:

"During a Sept. 12 campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Walz mentioned this shooting: "My own son was in a location where someone was shot in the head," he said. "Too many of us have this." "

"Gus Walz was in the building when the shooting occurred in the parking lot at the Jimmy Lee, which sits on the corner of Selby Avenue across Lexington from Central High School. "

So Gus was near the location but did not see it.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

95 "The time has come to decenter..."

I stopped there. The use of the garbage cuttlefish term "decenter" says all you need to know.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 07:50 AM (rRRKW)

96 demand a 77% increase over the six-year life of the contract. So far, they have a 50% increase on the table

As I last recall, the Trans-Texas-Corridor was supposed to circumvent this Teamster/Gangster/Terrorist hostage taking by building massive rail and road pathways from coastal Mexico to as deep as Kansas City.

Apparently the Mexicans can operate cranes and ports too without demanding massive touch-fees every step of the way.

From what I have read, most nations don't have these massive fees so that a large container ship can enter a deep water port, containers can then be transferred to barges and delivered closer to warehouses rather than moving every damned container over our crumbling highways and disappearing rail lines.

Touch fees make it cheaper to tear up the highways.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 07:50 AM (rHxhM)

97 Vance had to sympathetically reply to Walz's claim about the shooting as if it was not a lie. Another setup he handled perfectly.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

98 So Gus was near the location but did not see it.

So Jimmy Lee is Gus's Tienanmen Square.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 07:52 AM (rHxhM)

99 Opportunity for Trump to drive a wedge between union workers and yacht owning, millionaire commie thug union bosses by going after longshoreman boss Daggett.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 02, 2024 07:53 AM (fs1hN)

100 "The time has come to decenter..."

I stopped there. The use of the garbage cuttlefish term "decenter" says all you need to know.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 07:50 AM

The one buzzword I hated when I was in the Navy was "paradigm". If I heard that word or saw it in a powerpoint slide I completely ignored the rest of the presentation.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 02, 2024 07:53 AM (QNSds)

101
From what I have read, most nations don't have these massive fees so that a large container ship can enter a deep water port, containers can then be transferred to barges and delivered closer to warehouses rather than moving every damned container over our crumbling highways and disappearing rail lines.

Touch fees make it cheaper to tear up the highways.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 07:50 AM (rHxhM)

***

I was reading about that somewhere yesterday. I believe they refer to it as the "three-touch rule" at the ports.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 02, 2024 07:53 AM (Y1sOo)

102 My idiot liberal friends about the debate:

J.D. Vance wouldn't say Trump lost 2020! He wouldn't say J6 was an insurrection.

Dummies. Do you ever listen to yourself?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 02, 2024 07:53 AM (5p7su)

103 When you say someone "witnessed" a shooting, that implies they actually saw it.

Fact check that, Nora.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

104 “The time has come to decenter book reading and essay-writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.” Instead, teachers are urged to focus on “media literacy” and short texts that students feel are “relevant.”

Which is hysterical because more and more "short texts" and "media literacy" are becoming products of AI.

Lots of eyewash, not much useful content. Sort of like watching a video of removing a cap from a tube of toothpaste. 20 minutes of the history of toothpaste tubes, colorful packaging and hectoring about waste and Climate Change, you get an off focus example of someone actually removing a toothpaste cap.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 07:55 AM (rHxhM)

105 I saw Garbage Cuttlefish open for…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 02, 2024 07:56 AM (v6JzV)

106 You really think Vance won? Governor Walz dominated on climate change, which is all that really matters. The moderators made Vance look stupid with their completely appropriate fact checks. The idiot was so wrong on so many issues.

Posted by: Sid at October 02, 2024 07:56 AM (EaYGc)

107 Mike Benz, deep state kremlinologist on X, says US State Dept is behind Germany's attempt to ban AfD 'far-right' party. Plausible.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 02, 2024 07:57 AM (fs1hN)

108 China has a fully automated container port in the Hong Kong Macao area:

https://tinyurl.com/cz233r8m

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 02, 2024 07:57 AM (3Ope8)

109 You can "disable" Copilot on Win 10 and 11 by hiding the button on the lower right. That's all we got for you. Mmm'kay?

Posted by: Microfags at October 02, 2024 07:58 AM (JlC8E)

110 103 When you say someone "witnessed" a shooting, that implies they actually saw it.

Fact check that, Nora.
Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

Sounds legit to me.

Posted by: David Hogg at October 02, 2024 07:58 AM (PiwSw)

111 Sid is so dumb, even Walz could trounce him in a debate.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 02, 2024 07:58 AM (v6JzV)

112 We get the dumbest trolls, lol.

Try harder to sell creepy Walz, buddy!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:58 AM (scDBq)

113
Posted by: Sid at October 02, 2024 07:56 AM

You sound like you're friends with school shooters.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 07:58 AM (RKVpM)

114 Walz pulled a Pete Rose last night, and died quietly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2024 07:59 AM (spCJP)

115 >>"The time has come to decenter..."

I stopped there. The use of the garbage cuttlefish term "decenter" says all you need to know.

This.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:59 AM (scDBq)

116 Sounds like it's time for a new Walz/Kamala campaign sign:

Knucklehead/Kneepads '24!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 02, 2024 08:00 AM (KbCG3)

117 I am sorry to read that Frank Fritz of American Pickers died at the age of 60.

The show just hasn’t been the same since he left in 2019. I’ve got nothing against Mike Wolf or his brother Robby, or Danielle or Jersey John, who seems to have replaced Frank on the show.

But it would’ve been nice if they’d have explained somewhere along the way exactly what happened to drop Frank like a hot potato all of a sudden five years ago.

I suspect the reason was that Fritz’s alcoholism had gotten out of control towards the end, and he had missed a lot of episodes due to a back surgery he had.

Frank had the stroke two years ago and he and Mike Wolf seemed to have reconciled and there was hope Frank might return to the show at some level, but I guess he never fully recovered.

Rest in Peace “Bearded Charmer” and thanks for teaching me so much about Americana and America itself.

- An American Pickers fan since the beginning

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 02, 2024 08:00 AM (6ydKt)

118 You'd think AoSHQ would rate a first class troll.

Posted by: Tuna at October 02, 2024 08:00 AM (oaGWv)

119 Morning all, thx JJ.
The Union head, Daggett, is an interesting critter. He been charged by the Feds in two RICO cases and been found not guilty both times. His co-defendant in the second was a member of the Genovese crime family . He was found dead, his body rotting in the truck if a car in a diner parking lot in NJ. Can you say "mobbed up?" I thought you could

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2024 08:01 AM (tLL5V)

120 You really think Vance won? Governor Walz dominated on climate change, which is all that really matters. The moderators made Vance look stupid with their completely appropriate fact checks. The idiot was so wrong on so many issues.

Posted by: Sid

Now this is the kind of trolling I can appreciate. Bravo.

You cynically got right to the matter, the Left couldn't care less about the total destruction of Western civilization for as long as the grifters get their vig out of the Climate Change hoax.

And I like the undefined "idiot" where sane and rational people were expecting "idiot" to be in the plural and refer to all of those that were being schooled by Vance. By leaving it alone we have to decide which of the three you are referencing.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 08:01 AM (rHxhM)

121 Calling yourself a knucklehead on national television when you're trying to convince people to vote for you to my untrained eye seems like a suboptimal move. But what the hell do I know?
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Amongst all the inane Walz ramblings I thought this was definitely his low point

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2024 08:01 AM (spCJP)

122 >>How a Bernie Sanders fan sent his own father to prison. Fatherland: Nazi Germany in Biden’s America

His dad got 7 years in prison.
The whole thing is disgusting.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 08:02 AM (scDBq)

123 "The time has come to decenter..."

I stopped there. The use of the garbage cuttlefish term "decenter" says all you need to know.
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 07:50 AM (rRRKW)
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Yep. I took a course in graduate school where we "decentered" Western literature canon. I made it through with an "A" but I had to tread carefully to do that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 02, 2024 08:02 AM (7fElN)

124 106 Posted by: Sid at October 02, 2024 07:56 AM (EaYGc)

Even your own propagandist media think Walz tanked horribly.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 02, 2024 08:02 AM (x0n13)

125 The knucklehead misspoke. It proves he's human.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 08:02 AM (vFG9F)

126 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) allocated nearly $364 million in the fiscal year 2023 and $650 million for the 2024 fiscal year to the “Shelter and Services Program” “to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),”

The government chose new citizens over YOU!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 08:03 AM (gbOdA)

127 I am learning things about handling cargo this morning

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 08:03 AM (/7KEl)

128 The debate moment that stood out the most to me was, I forget what Vance was talking about, but Tiananmen Tim was just standing there with a look of horror, constantly shaking his head "no".

Posted by: XTC at October 02, 2024 08:04 AM (UnA8+)

129 I can picture Camela beating knucklehead Walz with a cap like the Skipper used to do to Gilligan.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

130
Governor Walz dominated on climate change, which is all that really matters.

Issue number 18 out of 20 that only 36% of respondents thought should be a 'top priority' of government.

https://is.gd/qoCyVX

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 08:04 AM (RKVpM)

131 Since nearly all the Iranian missiles launched on Israel didn't have warheads, I am left believing this was a Deep State Op. Anyone disagree?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 02, 2024 08:05 AM (PGK1w)

132 China has a fully automated container port in the Hong Kong Macao area
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There is something "off" about that video. I can believe there's an automated port, but that video is sus. Maybe it's just the production quality...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)

133 Kid sent his Dad to prison.
Timmy had COVID spy call in lines.
Cal has anti-meme laws.

That wall we are building near Mexico may eventually be used like the one in Berlin.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

134 Didn't watch the debate but saw clips and media reactions. The clip of Madcow, Wallace and Reid losing their marriage bles, the ones they have left, was all I needed to know about who won.
If Trump wins the mental breakdowns will make 2016 look like children crying in a sandbox. I for one will be cheering it on

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2024 08:06 AM (tLL5V)

135 My mom and my sisters are absolutely ruined about the news from what I did. This is the first they are hearing about my involvement in my dad’s arrest.”
-----------------------------------

Orwell nods, sadly

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2024 08:06 AM (MUk5w)

136
Governor Walz dominated on climate change, which is all that really matters.

_________

I thought all that really mattered was A Woman's Right To Choose. Moloch must be satisfied.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2024 08:06 AM (BkEzK)

137
Even your own propagandist media think Walz tanked horribly.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 02, 2024 08:02 AM

@CollinRugg
Media reactions after the JD Vance vs. Tim Walz debate.
Geraldo Rivera: JD Vance won the debate.
NBC: Does Tim Walz have a problem with the truth?
Chris Cuomo: JD Vance fact-checked the moderators and he was right.
CNN's John King: Vance carried the important issues.
CNN's Jake Tapper: JD Vance is a better debater.
MSNBC: *Live meltdown*

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 08:06 AM (RKVpM)

138 >like the Skipper used to do to Gilligan.
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Skipper needs to remember, that if not for the courage of the fearless crew- Gilligan- the Minnow would have been lost

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 08:07 AM (/7KEl)

139 Marriage bles , no marbles . Damn hot dog fingers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2024 08:08 AM (tLL5V)

140 The Cackler and the Knucklehead, coming to an Oval Office near you!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 02, 2024 08:09 AM (fs1hN)

141 China has a fully automated container port in the Hong Kong Macao area
===

China doesn't have a fully-automated anything

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 02, 2024 08:09 AM (5p7su)

142 My favorite part of Democrat law theater: They have no problem passing laws they themselves will ignore.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:09 AM (tT6L1)

143 Today is the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels.
What a gift for each of us.

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 02, 2024 08:09 AM (f+FmA)

144 Good morning, J.J. Thanks once again for your efforts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:09 AM (tT6L1)

145 I can't believe people are still quoting trolls !

Posted by: runner at October 02, 2024 08:09 AM (V13WU)

146 Morning JJ. Thanks Again

Posted by: Jonah at October 02, 2024 08:10 AM (YCxFk)

147 Nice Country You've Got There: Longshoreman Boss Promises 'Crippling' Strike in Creepy Video
_______
At least he didn't bang his shoe on the table.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 02, 2024 08:11 AM (1bNHn)

148
Jackson Reffit is the Pavel Morozov of Biden America.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2024 08:11 AM (BkEzK)

149 #ImaKnucklehead is trending

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2024 08:11 AM (qkmFV)

150 Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo 8h
New York Times.
Oct 2, 2024 · 3:29 AM UTC

Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo 8h
“I think one question raised by this performance so far is why the Harris campaign has basically kept Walz away from one-on-one interviews while Vance has been out there dealing with hostile questions from Day 1 of his candidacy.”

https://tinyurl.com/ekvkcbhb

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 02, 2024 08:12 AM (CEzQx)

151 Mornin'

N.Y. Prof: There is No Such Thing As 'Natural Disaster,' Blames Racism for Hurricanes

Yea! More #SCIENCE!!

Rapper “Macklemore” says: “F*** America!”

(Let me borrow from an overused meme.)

Oh No!! Anyway...

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 02, 2024 08:12 AM (/Djer)

152 Frank Luntz's panel of "independent" voters claim Vance won. The gullibility and ignorance of such people should concern everyone.

Don't be surprised if that is the case for most panels and polls.
Typically the more polished candidate wins these things. It's why Trump rarely ever wins post-debate polls.

Vance lies very well. And most people are uninformed. In the WaPo focus group, some actually thought Vance was better on climate change.

That is just Frank doing his job. His panel of undecideds always go for the Republican.

J.D.'s problem is that EVERYONE knows who is at the top of the ticket, so it was nice to have a civil debate, but his performance tonight gained Trump no new voters.

Walz did enough. In one week no one will remember this debate. the narrative should be the number of lies he told.

Frank Luntz's panels of 'independents' are about as convincing as his orange Koolaid-tinted, polypropylene hairpiece. About as convincing as Rassmussen opinion polls. Can we please send this dumpy bag of sophistry to the corn field once and for all?

(Intrepid- that last one was a good attempt at Ace-level insults!)

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 02, 2024 08:12 AM (ycI94)

153 Walz dominated on climate change, which is all that really matters.

-

We all died from that over five years ago, so it really isn't that big of a deal anymore.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 02, 2024 08:12 AM (yavhp)

154 > Nice Country You've Got There: Longshoreman Boss Promises 'Crippling' Strike in Creepy Video
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I'm sure some people will 'feel crippled' during this temper tantrum, but not in the way that idiot thinks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 08:12 AM (Q4IgG)

155 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) allocated nearly $364 million in the fiscal year 2023 and $650 million for the 2024 fiscal year to the “Shelter and Services Program” “to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),”

The government chose new citizens over YOU!
Posted by: rhennigantx

No. The government chose wetbacks over you. They're not citizens.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 02, 2024 08:13 AM (9Tih0)

156 Climate change disaster, much like Peak oil, is always a decade away.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:13 AM (tT6L1)

157 I'm not good at posting links but there's a vid at X purporting to be a street cam in Jericho showing a guy getting flattened by a large missile fragment. One guy was killed in the West Bank so ..

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2024 08:13 AM (tLL5V)

158 Brennan and O'Donnell are vessels of Moloch for sure

Posted by: Jonah at October 02, 2024 08:13 AM (YCxFk)

159 Time to pull a Reagan and dissolve the ILA. First, we need to install another Reagan.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 02, 2024 07:19 AM (x0n13)

IIRC, Reagan was able to do what he did with PATCO because they were barred from striking but did anyway.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:14 AM (IUd0M)

160 FEMA is spending millions to aid and abet foreign invaders? Seems, shall we say, problematic?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:14 AM (tT6L1)

161
The award for the Best Freakout of the Night goes to....

fake former "Republican" douchebag Nicole Wallace!

She copes AND seethes like a champ. First, she pulls the "sexist" card in a lame attempt to gaslight herself, her audience, and the other idiots on the panel. Then, she freaksthefuckout with rage & frustration and, ultimately, profound sadness. Watch and enjoy:

https://youtu.be/d3zUqqe_-Pg?si=xysr90xtpuKzlfEC&t=161

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 08:14 AM (TR5ee)

162 Walz did enough. In one week no one will remember this debate.

==

LOL! yeah, keep telling yourself that !

Posted by: runner at October 02, 2024 08:14 AM (V13WU)

163 I can't believe people are still quoting trolls !

So you want us to stop quoting even MSM articles?

Face it, everything from Sid to corporate communication, to Karen on social media to CNN and the Whitehouse are examples of trolling at different skill levels.

Today, Sid brought xer A Game.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 08:14 AM (rHxhM)

164 20 I still don't know how to uninstall MS Copilot

Hopped over to MS's site and saw this:

"Unfortunately CoPilot cannot be uninstalled/removed as it's a built-in feature in Windows 11. Disabling it would be the closest thing that can be done."

So disable it or change operating systems are your only options.
Posted by: NR Pax

You can uninstall it in Win10 though. I did. When MS stops updating Win10 next year, I guess I'll be completely with Linux. This old laptop I'm using now is the Win10 holdout.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 02, 2024 08:15 AM (/Djer)

165

Hey Little Buddy, this coconut oil is really slick!

*Gilligan sobs*

Posted by: Skipper at October 02, 2024 08:16 AM (eduK2)

166
tampon tim's new name:

Major Knucklehead!!!

Get it?
Because he was a sergeant "major" sergeant and referred to himself as a "knucklehead!" Get it?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 08:16 AM (TR5ee)

167 From the clips I saw even the Minnesota DFL has got to be saying "we elected this idiot governor?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2024 08:16 AM (tLL5V)

168 Maye Musk @mayemusk 8h
Trump should decline ‘60 Minutes.’ Many years ago, when the Tesla roadster was launched, they did an interview with Elon. They also wanted me, Kimbal and Tosca in the interview. We were so excited to support Elon and Tesla. Unfortunately, they edited the segment to make it very negative. Not only that, but they added car sounds for the roadster because they didn’t know Teslas don’t make a noise. We were horrified, sad and disappointed and rejected any further interviews with ‘60 Minutes’. Stay away from them, even if you have a good message.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 02, 2024 08:16 AM (CEzQx)

169 Time to pull a Reagan and dissolve the ILA. First, we need to install another Reagan.

Pay the ransom, and get Musk et al to build the alternative, then have an unfortunate series of fatal and painful accidents happen to the ILA leadership.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 08:16 AM (rHxhM)

170 280 275 I heard that was some nasty stuff (Hydrofluoric acid)

That water stuff is worse. Everyone who drinks it or even gets it on their skin eventually dies.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 01, 2024 11:49 PM (lUFok)

And Oxygen is an oxidizer; everyone who breathes it eventually dies.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2024 11:51 PM (ynpvh)

The Democrats NC response is about one thing: votes. NC has already purged 750K 'voters' from their rolls, which benefits Rs bigly. Now, with whole R neighborhoods swept away with no way for them to vote with 34 days till Election Day, the Dems will do what they can to keep it that way. Or make them go mail-in so the Dems can adulterate their vote. It's now become an Op for Cooper and the Dems.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 02, 2024 08:16 AM (QoYOy)

171 Not being a Windows user, what is the problem with CoPilot… ?

Posted by: tubal at October 02, 2024 08:17 AM (PCK5/)

172 20 I still don't know how to uninstall MS Copilot.

If only it had been around 23 years ago. "It looks like you're trying to fly into a building. Would you like help avoiding that?"

Posted by: Dark Humor at October 02, 2024 08:17 AM (ycI94)

173 100
The one buzzword I hated when I was in the Navy was "paradigm". If I heard that word or saw it in a powerpoint slide I completely ignored the rest of the presentation.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 02, 2024 07:53 AM (QNSds)
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Yes, paradigm shift is the oft used term, often without really knowing the meaning.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, abbiamo tutti piu paura at October 02, 2024 08:17 AM (qfLjt)

174 "I still don't know how to uninstall MS Copilot"

Why would you want to do that?

Posted by: General Robert L. Scott (look it up) at October 02, 2024 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

175 The problem with uninstalling/disabling Windows features*? There's a good chance the next update will re-enable.

*Also applies to Mac

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:17 AM (tT6L1)

176 I lose brain cells every time I read Intercepted DU Transmissions, although I admit the Luntz Kool-Aid tinted, polypropylene hairpiece is quite funny.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 02, 2024 08:18 AM (wFTTN)

177
WHAT?

Please don't tell me the president is really considering doing 60 fcking Minutes??

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 08:19 AM (TR5ee)

178 51 More about Biden admin destroying NC's ability to recover from Helene:

@nataliegwinters
North Carolina power outages are due to shortages of transformers/electrical equipment.

@WhiteHouse
recently signed a $422 million energy assistance deal with Ukraine, giving them materials needed by North Carolina right now including:

➡️1,093 generators
➡️11 auto transformers
➡️460 tons transformer oil
➡️495 instrumental transformers
➡️203 power transformers

And BILLIONS more in aid.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:33 AM (scDBq)
The Democrats NC response is about one thing: votes. NC has already purged 750K 'voters' from their rolls, which benefits Rs bigly. Now, with whole R neighborhoods swept away with no way for them to vote with 34 days till Election Day, the Dems will do what they can to keep it that way. Or make them go mail-in so the Dems can adulterate their vote. It's now become an Op for Cooper and the Dems.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 02, 2024 08:19 AM (QoYOy)

179 142 My favorite part of Democrat law theater: They have no problem passing laws they themselves will ignore.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:09 AM (tT6L1)

Socialism is for the people, not for the Socialist.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

180 137
Even your own propagandist media think Walz tanked horribly.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 02, 2024 08:02 AM

@CollinRugg
Media reactions after the JD Vance vs. Tim Walz debate.
Geraldo Rivera: JD Vance won the debate.
NBC: Does Tim Walz have a problem with the truth?
Chris Cuomo: JD Vance fact-checked the moderators and he was right.
CNN's John King: Vance carried the important issues.
CNN's Jake Tapper: JD Vance is a better debater.
MSNBC: *Live meltdown*

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 08:06 AM (RKVpM)

I switched over to MSNBC just in time to hear Maddow open the post-debate discussion show with, "One man was smooth and slick; the other man won. Governor Walz won on the issues. In my opinion."

Posted by: Gref at October 02, 2024 08:19 AM (aBgBM)

181 then have an unfortunate series of fatal and painful accidents happen to the ILA leadership.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Like have Daggit 'commit suicide' by shooting himself in the back 6 times, and being found in the trunk of a car in a body of water?

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:19 AM (CIS44)

182 No. We're disliking you because trade is getting disrupted, the price of goods are going to go up over the next few weeks, we just had a horrible natural disaster that is causing a lot of suffering and we're going to stat thinking that maybe automation of your jobs is a cool idea.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 07:20 AM (+4yJ5)

When you start thinking at automation is the answer, remember this:

The Register reports that the University Medical Center (UMC) in Lubbock, Texas, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, forcing the hospital to turn away ambulances and limit its operations.

Until/unless we can get people to build critical systems which cannot be impacted by criminal/enemy hackers, it's just a recipe for unscheduled chaos.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:19 AM (IUd0M)

183 Walz did enough. In one week no one will remember this debate. the narrative should be the number of lies he told.

Yeah, Walz did tell quite a few lies, didn't he?

Posted by: dantesed at October 02, 2024 08:19 AM (Oy/m2)

184 "I still don't know how to uninstall MS Copilot"

Why would you want to do that?
Posted by: General Robert L. Scott (look it up) at October 02, 2024 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

See Pixy's thread.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 08:20 AM (0eaVi)

185 It's also...
National Fried Scallops Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 02, 2024 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

186 81 “The time has come to decenter book reading and essay-writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.” Instead, teachers are urged to focus on “media literacy” and short texts that students feel are “relevant.”

These children (both the teachers and student) do not understand that our world comes at your fast. In many jobs you must be able to read massive amounts of rules, regulations, specifications, designs, and requirements and then form that into a workable project, product, and/or service.

They will find it impossible!
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

Exactly. Not to mention, kids are wildly media literate, and short text readers thanks to social media and the internet. What they do NOT know how to do is to take in more info, comprehend it, and analyze it if it's more than 1 screen page.

My spouse's lit class only reads whole books. He hasn't had a homeschooler not be the top of their Lit or Writing class in college, now with quite a few entering the ranks...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 02, 2024 08:20 AM (exHjb)

187 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

188 Turnout. Turnout. Turnout.

Hillbilly Done Good JD Vance appeals to Appalachia and Non-college Whites generally despite his Yale Law credentials. They're the largest cohort of all and they strategically skew to swing states. A 5% increase in their turnout will mean game over with momentous down ticket implications.

Trump is rebranding the R party into a slightly right of center populist party. The Junta may dominate the D party but it's bleeding actual voters.

Developing ...

ps I'm old enough to remember who Hop Sing was

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 02, 2024 08:21 AM (nFx0I)

189 So you want us to stop quoting even MSM articles?

Face it, everything from Sid to corporate communication, to Karen on social media to CNN and the Whitehouse are examples of trolling at different skill levels.

Today, Sid brought xer A Game.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 08:14 AM (rHxhM)

has nothing to do with quoting AOSHQ troll droppings in a post. you could have just acknowledge you are wrong.

Posted by: runner at October 02, 2024 08:21 AM (V13WU)

190 *acknowledged

Posted by: runner at October 02, 2024 08:21 AM (V13WU)

191 Didn't watch the debate. Didn't need to.

Democrats lie. It's all they know. It's their nature. The entire media complex has bought into the gaslighting of Americans. I haven't.

I find the Democrat party evil and think they'll all burn in Hell once Judgement Day arrives.

I'm willing to take my chances.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

192 I'm laughing at the observations this morning that Walz looks like the combo of a toad and Don Rickles. Mr. Knucklehead must be smelling burning tire rubber from his windows this morning, following that debate.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 02, 2024 08:22 AM (wFTTN)

193 Like have Daggit 'commit suicide' by shooting himself in the back 6 times, and being found in the trunk of a car in a body of water?
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:19 AM (CIS44)

Scrolling thru YT yesterday and saw someone posted a vid, "They found Hoffa's body." I'm sure it's not true.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 08:22 AM (0eaVi)

194 Did the Cartwrights ever pay Hop Sing?

Posted by: dantesed at October 02, 2024 08:22 AM (Oy/m2)

195
Now, with whole R neighborhoods swept away with no way for them to vote with 34 days till Election Day, the Dems will do what they can to keep it that way. Or make them go mail-in so the Dems can adulterate their vote. It's now become an Op for Cooper and the Dems.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 02, 2024 08:16 AM

The county where Asheville is located went 60% for Biden in 2020. Two counties to the west of that county, who I assume also have severe damage, went for Trump that year. So it may be a wash - no pun intended.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 08:22 AM (RKVpM)

196 The problem with uninstalling/disabling Windows features*? There's a good chance the next update will re-enable.

*Also applies to Mac
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:17 AM (tT6L1)

They're simply 'helping you out' because you don't know what's best for you, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

197 156 Climate change disaster, much like Peak oil, is always a decade away.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:13 AM (tT6L1)

First, Climate change is a NATURAL phenomenon that human activity has zero effect upon. Nothing we can do to mitigate or alter it. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying or wrong.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 02, 2024 08:22 AM (x0n13)

198 Hmmmmmm.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

199 [Prime Minister] Narendra Modi @narendramodi 2h
Best wishes on Rosh Hashanah to my friend PM @netanyahu, the people of Israel and the Jewish community across the world. May the new year bring peace, hope and good health in everyone’s life.
Shana Tova!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 02, 2024 08:22 AM (CEzQx)

200
LOL!

Stupid fake ginger-headed anal aperture Jen Psaki said walz was missing his trademark "magic, organic spontaneity," last night.

Yeah, that's it, dummy, walz didn't bring his A-game.

HE GOT NO GAME, BITCH.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 08:22 AM (TR5ee)

201 En face Walz looks like Kruschev, en profile like a melting toad.

Posted by: runner at October 02, 2024 08:23 AM (V13WU)

202 "I still don't know how to uninstall MS Copilot"

Why would you want to do that?
Posted by: General Robert L. Scott (look it up) at October 02, 2024 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

See Pixy's thread.
Posted by: OrangeEnt "

*joke flies over at 30,000 feet*

Posted by: General Robert L. Scott (look it up) at October 02, 2024 08:23 AM (vFG9F)

203 >FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge
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the hell you say

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 08:23 AM (/7KEl)

204 I do like the new nickname "Tiananmen Tim" though.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

205 Hey, the dems will have Kristofferson and Pete Rose voting for them, so there’s that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 02, 2024 08:24 AM (v6JzV)

206 Best wishes on Rosh Hashanah to my friend PM @netanyahu, the people of Israel and the Jewish community across the world. May the new year bring peace, hope and good health in everyone’s life.
Shana Tova!

Amen!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 02, 2024 08:24 AM (SfhV1)

207
the hell you say
Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 08:23 AM (/7KEl)

Of course!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

208 I recently realized that has not been peace in the ME in my lifetime.

Posted by: runner at October 02, 2024 08:24 AM (V13WU)

209 You know, I think I work with 'Sid'. Not this particular troll but others like it. I'm on vacation in America (Western PA) but in Babylon DC, I'm positive they are all celebrating the debate win by tampon timmy over trailer trash red state guy. Living in bubbles is hazardous.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 02, 2024 08:25 AM (/Djer)

210 I heard that was some nasty stuff (Hydrofluoric acid)

That water stuff is worse. Everyone who drinks it or even gets it on their skin eventually dies.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310

And Oxygen is an oxidizer; everyone who breathes it eventually dies.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
===
I quoted this just yesterday! Such serendipity.

Dennis Wingo @wingod
This should win science cartoon of the year award!

https://tinyurl.com/349f3bp5
funny, scientist cartoon

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 02, 2024 08:25 AM (CEzQx)

211
Kris Kristofferson is mort?

So all the Highwaymen are mort??

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 08:25 AM (TR5ee)

212
I switched over to MSNBC just in time to hear Maddow open the post-debate discussion show with, "One man was smooth and slick; the other man won. Governor Walz won on the issues. In my opinion."
Posted by: Gref at October 02, 2024 08:19 AM (aBgBM)

Stupid is as stupid does, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

213 Good luck. The MS forums might be helpful. And I did find this video that may address it as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_AaHXrelTE
Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 07:29 AM (+4yJ5)

It boggles my mind why MS keeps up with the "this is such an awesome feature that we've going to shove it down your throat with no way to stop it" nonsense.

I have to assume that the Windows team considers gang rape to be romance.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:26 AM (IUd0M)

214 Kris Kristofferson is mort?

So all the Highwaymen are mort??
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 08:25 AM (TR5ee)

Willie Nelson is still with us.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

215 It boggles my mind why MS keeps up with the "this is such an awesome feature that we've going to shove it down your throat with no way to stop it" nonsense.

I have to assume that the Windows team considers gang rape to be romance.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

*waves*
-Clippy

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:27 AM (CIS44)

216 Hop Sing was Little Joe’s real father.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 02, 2024 08:27 AM (v6JzV)

217 So all the Highwaymen are mort??

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 08:25 AM (TR5ee)

Willie Nelson is still with us, I believe.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 02, 2024 08:27 AM (SfhV1)

218
I have to assume that the Windows team considers gang rape to be romance.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:26 AM (IUd0M)

It's what women want.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at October 02, 2024 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

219 *joke flies over at 30,000 feet*
Posted by: General Robert L. Scott (look it up) at October 02, 2024 08:23 AM (vFG9F)

You're quoted reference doesn't register with me.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 08:27 AM (0eaVi)

220 >>Walz did enough. In one week no one will remember this debate. the narrative should be the number of lies he told.

The memes using stills of Walz looking like a deer in headlights will live on for years. He was the personification of the term "flop sweat."

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 08:27 AM (scDBq)

221 >>>Iran defied Biden's warning on Tuesday when it fired ballistic missiles into Israel
FLASHBACK: Biden Told Iran ‘Don’t’ When It Came To Attacking Israel, Iran Ignored

Joey and Knee-pads are now up to what, 0 for 80, on publicly saying the word "Don't" resulting in no bad action by bad guys?

What's that definition of insanity?

Posted by: Gref at October 02, 2024 08:27 AM (aBgBM)

222 Willie Nelson is still with us.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

He must be in his 90's.

Posted by: dantesed at October 02, 2024 08:28 AM (Oy/m2)

223 I switched over to MSNBC just in time to hear Maddow open the post-debate discussion show with, "One man was smooth and slick; the other man won. Governor Walz won on the issues. In my opinion."
Posted by: Gref at October 02, 2024 08:19 AM (aBgBM)

That was going to be her opening statement no matter what transpired at the debate.

Posted by: Doof at October 02, 2024 08:28 AM (vNIMs)

224 Trump Takes Lead in NC as Kamala’s Katrina Leaves State Helpless
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Personally, I always thought the lead she had was BS. And I live in NC (eastern, no floods). A couple of weeks ago we had a little fair. I got talking to a guy in a MAGA hat. He pointed out that while there was a lot of Trump attire visible, he saw none for Harris. From that point on, I made a point of noticing. He was right. And our small town went just marginally for Biden in 2020.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 02, 2024 08:28 AM (1bNHn)

225
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
I'll be back again and again and again and again and again and again

https://youtu.be/aFkcAH-m9W0?si=Gg4THmIGj5w5VCDa&t=140

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 08:28 AM (TR5ee)

226 Joey and Knee-pads are now up to what, 0 for 80, on publicly saying the word "Don't" resulting in no bad action by bad guys?

What's that definition of insanity?
Posted by: Gref at October 02, 2024 08:27 AM (aBgBM)

But Joe Biden is a foreign policy MASTERMIND, they said.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

227 Joey and Knee-pads are now up to what, 0 for 80, on publicly saying the word "Don't" resulting in no bad action by bad guys?

What's that definition of insanity?
Posted by: Gref

When Kumala says 'Dont" she really means 'Do'
-Willie Brown

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:28 AM (CIS44)

228 170
nd Oxygen is an oxidizer; everyone who breathes it eventually dies.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2024 11:51 PM (ynpvh)
----
Great book by Nick Lane "Oxygen: The Molecule That Made The World".

Posted by: Ciampino - paradigmatically different at October 02, 2024 08:28 AM (qfLjt)

229
He must be in his 90's.
Posted by: dantesed at October 02, 2024 08:28 AM (Oy/m2)

And still smokin.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

230 Nelson is 91.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

231
Willie Nelson is still with us, I believe.
Posted by: grammie winger

RIP, Willie

(soon)

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 08:29 AM (TR5ee)

232 100
The one buzzword I hated when I was in the Navy was "paradigm". If I heard that word or saw it in a powerpoint slide I completely ignored the rest of the presentation.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 02, 2024 07:53 AM (QNSds)

Little known fact.
A Paradigm is worth almost 2 Digm.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 08:30 AM (gbOdA)

233 RIP, Willie

(soon)
Posted by: Soothsayer

Death can't get through that dense cloud of smoke.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:30 AM (CIS44)

234
When Kumala says 'Dont" she really means 'Do'
-Willie Brown
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:28 AM (CIS44)

The only bit of truth Kumswala ever said on TV was "Don't come."

Right Willie?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

235 When you start thinking at automation is the answer, remember this:

The Register reports that the University Medical Center (UMC) in Lubbock, Texas, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, forcing the hospital to turn away ambulances and limit its operations.

Fine. Tell me when the strike ends. Because all of the ports are disrupted Right Now. Not just one or two, but most of the ports are closed to hostage takers who flat out demonstrated their utter hatred of America and the willful imposition to cause massive collateral damage.

How is that any different from some Chinese/Nork/Leftist hackers from screwing up a port or two? Or are you suggesting that these ports are centrally commanded in such a way where a malicious actor (like any USG three letter agency) could perform a system wide shutdown?

Nice thing about the former United States is that there would normally be multiple competing vendors like there are for PSAPs because of a semi-free market so that hacking one system isn't necessarily a success path for another

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 08:30 AM (rHxhM)

236 >>>Yeah, that's it, dummy, walz didn't bring his A-game

That's like every University of Michigan football fan and player whenever the Wolverines lose.

"We just didn't play Michigan football."

(Michigan has never lost a game due to being the inferior team. It's always something else that caused them to lose -- bad officiating, the field was too crowned, it only rained when we had the ball, and, the funniest one -- the other team cheated).

Posted by: one hour sober at October 02, 2024 08:31 AM (Y1sOo)

237 Vance, Rand Paul, Thomas Massey...these are the types of men we need for a true opposition party.

Men who believe the task of the American government is to govern America and see to the freedom and prosperity of its people.

Not Ukraine, not Taiwan, not Israel. America.

The globalists inside our own government, including the neo-con right wing, who want to "export western democracy" with bombs and sanctions are delusional as are their supporters.

Imagine to cognitive dissonance one must have to say "our government is bloated, misguided, incompetent and corrupt, but I want it to lead the world."

No matter what foreign nation we support, whack job Islamist or pure as the fresh driven snow Israeli, there will always be a point at which the goals and needs of the foreign entity are at odds with our own citizenries goals and needs, and as such foreign entanglements will ALWAYS work to the detriment of the American.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at October 02, 2024 08:31 AM (uOckE)

238 But Joe Biden is a foreign policy MASTERMIND, they said.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

If by mastermind you mean that doing the opposite of what he proposes will work.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

239 The lone Palestinian victim was probably a looter.

Posted by: Ironwolf32 at October 02, 2024 08:31 AM (0avSi)

240 If you think you have uninstalled Copilot, you haven't uninstalled Copilot.

It's right behind you...

Posted by: Spider Clowns at October 02, 2024 08:32 AM (JlC8E)

241 I noted here yesterday that Doc Severinson is still alive. He’s 97.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 02, 2024 08:32 AM (v6JzV)

242
(Michigan has never lost a game due to being the inferior team. It's always something else that caused them to lose -- bad officiating, the field was too crowned, it only rained when we had the ball, and, the funniest one -- the other team cheated).
Posted by: one hour sober

Time Keepers!

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:32 AM (CIS44)

243
If by mastermind you mean that doing the opposite of what he proposes will work.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

The second coming of 'Shit Midas' if you will.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

244 213 I have to assume that the Windows team considers gang rape to be romance.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:26 AM (IUd0M)

"Stop struggling" is their version of pillow talk.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 08:32 AM (+4yJ5)

245 >>(Michigan has never lost a game due to being the inferior team. It's always something else that caused them to lose -- bad officiating, the field was too crowned, it only rained when we had the ball, and, the funniest one -- the other team cheated).

Ah, just like Obama only fails because his message wasn't clear enough for us rubes to understand it. It's the messaging that failed, not the policy, and certainly never Obama failing.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 08:33 AM (scDBq)

246 In 3 "debates" the only takeaway I have is how shitty the MSM is. I mean, I knew they were partisan leftwing hacks, but putting them nominally in charge of running a debate between someone they hate and someone they want to succeed seems... like a waste of time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

247 Netanyahu’s words, delivered to the Israeli people in Hebrew, came after Iran fired approximately 180 ballistic missiles into Israel, most of which were shot down or landed in areas where they caused minimal damage.

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

Caught a little bit of Mark Levin yesterday on the radio and he pointed out that, were it not for Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) vision and fortitude in '83 -- which at the time and since, The Left, Deep State, and Junta (BIRM thrice) including one Senator F. Joe Biden mocked as crazy and "Star Wars" -- Israel would likely not have these highly effective anti-ballistic missile defense systems that are literally saving thousands if not tens of thousands of lives (and millions if not billions in property damage) every time Israel is attacked like this.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 02, 2024 08:33 AM (tU7vi)

248 The second coming of 'Shit Midas' if you will.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)
--------------

You forgot a "retarded" in there somewhere.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:33 AM (tT6L1)

249 I noted here yesterday that Doc Severinson is still alive. He’s 97.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 02, 2024 08:32 AM (v6JzV)

Further proving the theory that lung power leads to longer life.

I mean, Carter is 100 and that dude was a blowhard of the highest order.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

250 There was a Hurricane Helene in 1958

luckily it bounced off N Carolina and stayed offshore

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 08:33 AM (/7KEl)

251 >>The government chose new citizens over YOU!

"And us!"
-- Ukraine

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 08:33 AM (scDBq)

252 211
Kris Kristofferson is mort?

So all the Highwaymen are mort??
Posted by: Soothsayer

Willie Nelson hangs on. He's in his 90s now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 02, 2024 08:34 AM (/Djer)

253 JD Vance’s Mic Cut As He Tries To Counter Moderator’s Fact Check On Springfield Migrants
_______
We need to hammer on that. It should be part of an ad.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 02, 2024 08:34 AM (1bNHn)

254 No matter what foreign nation we support, whack job Islamist or pure as the fresh driven snow Israeli, there will always be a point at which the goals and needs of the foreign entity are at odds with our own citizenries goals and needs, and as such foreign entanglements will ALWAYS work to the detriment of the American.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at October 02, 2024 08:31 AM (uOckE)

You could just about take every major idea for governing since the Great Depression, do the opposite, and be the most free and prosperous nation on Earth.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 08:34 AM (gbOdA)

255 Jimmy Carter has got to be the longest survivor in hospice care history. I don't wish death on anyone but it would be ironic if he passed away the day before early voting starts in GA

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2024 08:34 AM (tLL5V)

256
If I recall, it was the "people around obama" who failed obama.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 08:35 AM (TR5ee)

257 I gotta take issue with the mic cut. Walz and Vance were actually debating an issue, shocker, I know, and, it appears both mics were cut.

Really bad look but, the gals had an agenda and there was no way they'd let an actual debate break out.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:35 AM (tT6L1)

258 If I recall, it was the "people around obama" who failed obama.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Didn't position him for success? They shoulda checked with Reggie.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:35 AM (CIS44)

259 I recently realized that has not been peace in the ME in my lifetime.
Posted by: runner at October 02, 2024 08:24 AM (V13WU)
---
There has not been peace in the ME in the memory of anyone living today.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 02, 2024 08:36 AM (7fElN)

260 Moderators Slammed for ‘Awful,’ ‘Obvious,’ ‘Craptastic’ Bias in VP Debate
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Journowhores biased? You must be kidding me.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 02, 2024 08:36 AM (1bNHn)

261 Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando 8h
Added bonus of the night, Pete Buttigieg as Walz debate prepper proves once again just how f**king useless McKinsey consultants are

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 02, 2024 08:37 AM (CEzQx)

262 JD Vance’s Mic Cut As He Tries To Counter Moderator’s Fact Check On Springfield Migrants

I thought CBS PROMISED they wouldn't be fact checking the candidates live on air during the debate.

They LIED?!?! No way. The HELLS you say.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

263 There has not been peace in the ME in the memory of anyone living today.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 02, 2024 08:36 AM (7fElN)
-----------------

Nebuchadnezzar says "hi."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:37 AM (tT6L1)

264 I had my doubts that Vance would be another Ryan, but it sounds like i can happily say i was wrong.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2024 07:32 AM (DDGz9)

Isn't it interesting that Trump and Vance - both independently fairly wealthy prior to entering politics - seem to be the only ones actually thinking about the little guy (at the federal level at least).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:37 AM (IUd0M)

265 Mel Brooks is still alive at 98

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2024 08:37 AM (tLL5V)

266 > Really bad look but, the gals had an agenda and there was no way they'd let an actual debate break out.
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All the "moderators" had an agenda. It's why these "debates" are kind of stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 08:38 AM (Q4IgG)

267 Time Keepers!
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:32 AM (CIS44)

Hello, friend.

Posted by: Spartan Bob at October 02, 2024 08:38 AM (Y1sOo)

268 It looks like you're trying to bang someone against xer will.

Would you like some help with that?

Posted by: Clippy at October 02, 2024 08:38 AM (CEzQx)

269 >>Really bad look but, the gals had an agenda and there was no way they'd let an actual debate break out.

The way they shoe-horned in a "fact check" AFTER the two debated the topic, and then immediately started the next topic was very bad. Looked like every woman who has to get the last word in during an argument - and I, as a woman, was repulsed by that.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 08:38 AM (scDBq)

270 Face it, we won't really know whether Vance/Walz will matter. It's fine for us, but what do the LIVs think? Do they think?

Posted by: Eeyore at October 02, 2024 08:38 AM (1bNHn)

271
JD Vance’s Mic Cut As He Tries To Counter Moderator’s Fact Check On Springfield Migrants

JD was closing in for the kill, he was talking about some cellphone app that was created for the 'newcomers' to use. Walz said something stupid about Reagan.

JD could have fired back about what cell phone was available 34 years ago - maybe he did but with mic cut I could not hear.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 08:38 AM (RKVpM)

272 "Climate change," formerly , "global warming," formerly "Acid Rain," formerly "Coming Ice Age..." just the latest in a serial fear campaign to install authoritarian control over every resource and its regulated use and moreover the total activities of human beings in everyday commerce and recreation.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 08:38 AM (kxD94)

273 I thought CBS PROMISED they wouldn't be fact checking the candidates live on air during the debate.

They LIED?!?! No way. The HELLS you say.
Posted by: Sponge

In their opening they said 'We will allow the candidates to preform the fact checks, unless we feel we need to clarify for the audience'

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:38 AM (CIS44)

274 If the Romans could not keep the peace over there, I doubt anything could… Edomites and Canaanites…

Posted by: tubal at October 02, 2024 08:39 AM (PCK5/)

275 If I recall, it was the "people around obama" who failed obama.

Posted by: Soothsayer

I thought it was us that failed Owebama because we didn't buy into his cockamamie schemes for total US destruction.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

276 Well, time to walk the dog. Later!

Thanks again, J.J.!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 02, 2024 08:39 AM (tT6L1)

277 In their opening they said 'We will allow the candidates to preform the fact checks, unless we feel we need to clarify for the audience'
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:38 AM (CIS44)

That's not what they said last week.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

278 I still don't know how to uninstall MS Copilot....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 07:20 AM (0eaVi)

You need to get into the registry to completely disable it. Do a search. There are a number of geek forums outlining the procedure.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 02, 2024 08:40 AM (iODuv)

279 265 Mel Brooks is still alive at 98
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Oh yea, the unacknowledged member of The Highwaymen. Forgot about that. :-)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 02, 2024 08:40 AM (/Djer)

280 Hi friends. I am so upset I missed the debate last night! I had a last minute cancellation with a teacher so had to learn new classes for today, which I know no one really cares why. lol.

Anyway, was it a blood bath despite the moderators? Were they awful? Sounds like it from the write up here (also should I just read the comments like a normal person a catchup? Yes, I should.)

Posted by: Piper at October 02, 2024 08:40 AM (2N3ca)

281 Well I'll be......

CBS said it would not be fact-checking Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) or Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) during the vice presidential debate.

ABC News took flak over its fact-checking during the presidential debate, fact-checking former President Donald Trump several times, including on dubious grounds, while never fact-checking Vice President Kamala Harris. Following the backlash, as well as a ratings hit to host David Muir, CBS announced it would not be fact-checking the vice presidential candidates.

So, they lied YET AGAIN.

Enemy of the people.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

282 That's not what they said last week.........
Posted by: Sponge

no it was not.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:40 AM (CIS44)

283 >>In their opening they said 'We will allow the candidates to preform the fact checks, unless we feel we need to clarify for the audience'

"Look what you made us do!"

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 08:40 AM (scDBq)

284 And Walz’s bugged-out eyes, quivering apple pie chin, and the profile of a decaying jack o’lantern lost the debate more eloquently than any words.

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

OUT: Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Cheverolet.
IN: Tampons, bug eyes, quiver chin, and Tiananmen.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 02, 2024 08:41 AM (tU7vi)

285 All the "moderators" had an agenda. It's why these "debates" are kind of stupid.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 08:38 AM (Q4IgG)

Yet we keep mindlessly complying to the terms without ever calling them out for it in the moment. The only time I can remember true righteous defiance was Reagan calling out the bossy moderator in New Hampshire (which some say led to his turnaround of fortune in the campaign).

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 08:42 AM (kxD94)

286 "Well, it's going to have to happen at some point because unionized labor is far too expensive and these yabos are asking for something like a 35 pct pay increase."

I thought it was 77%.
Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

I am not a fan of unions but let's wait and see what they get before we start losing our minds over what their opening position in the negotiation is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:42 AM (IUd0M)

287 In 3 "debates" the only takeaway I have is how shitty the MSM is. I mean, I knew they were partisan leftwing hacks, but putting them nominally in charge of running a debate between someone they hate and someone they want to succeed seems... like a waste of time.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

Agree. But what is a realistic approach for a Republican candidate with respect to future debate rules? We here know that there is no chance of fair moderators among the MSM. History has proven time after time that moderators can't be trusted -- giving questions to a Dem candidate ahead of time, framing questions akin to "when did you stop beating your wife", applying their "fact checking" only to the Republican, etc. But if a Repub candidate insists on non-MSM moderators, the Dem would never agree and the MSM message would be that the Repub is scared to have a debate. So the Repub goes along with the rigged game AGAIN.

So what is an acceptable alternative? Gotta be one!!

Posted by: Doof at October 02, 2024 08:42 AM (vNIMs)

288 Debates… they control the narrative, they set the agenda, they make the rules…

Posted by: tubal at October 02, 2024 08:43 AM (PCK5/)

289 @279 Brooks was the opening act for The Highwaymen

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2024 08:43 AM (tLL5V)

290 I am not a fan of unions but let's wait and see what they get before we start losing our minds over what their opening position in the negotiation is.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They were offered 50%, they want 77%

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 08:43 AM (CIS44)

291 If I recall, it was the "people around obama" who failed obama.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 08:35 AM (TR5ee)

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

So you're saying they didn't position him for success?

That sounds oddly familiar now ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 02, 2024 08:43 AM (tU7vi)

292 >>Anyway, was it a blood bath despite the moderators? Were they awful? Sounds like it from the write up here (also should I just read the comments like a normal person a catchup? Yes, I should.)

Oh Piper, find it online, Vance was masterful! Calm, reasoned, polite, direct, and always on the offence.

Walz looked nervous, sweaty, and completely in over his head.
The moderators constantly interrupted Vance, teed up every issue perfectly for Walz, and did snarky little facts checks after each discussion. Vance went after them after they did this a few times and it was awesome.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 08:44 AM (scDBq)

293 Also, thank you for this, J.J. I can catch up with the world quickly thanks to you. But it does say something to be disconnected for just most of a day - not even all day- and be so behind on the world. It’s a bit chaotic right now, isn’t it?

Posted by: Piper at October 02, 2024 08:44 AM (2N3ca)

294 Oh, one other time was Gingrich ass-kicking CBS's Scott Pelley in South Carolina in 2012, which some say led to Gingrich's stunning defeat of Romney (before he was carpet-bombed out of existence by Romney's Mediscare lies).

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 08:44 AM (kxD94)

295 I recently realized that has not been peace in the ME in my lifetime.
Posted by: runner at October 02, 2024 08:24 AM (V13WU)

Or in mine. And I'm 77.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 02, 2024 08:44 AM (iODuv)

296 274 If the Romans could not keep the peace over there, I doubt anything could…

There is One coming who will.

He came once to tell us to love one another, including our enemies. We despised Him, declared Him a heretic and nailed Him to a cross.

When He returns, there will be no other opportunity to figure it out on our own and fulfill our plans.

The court will be seated, the books opened and many names will be blotted out. All will kneel, the believer and the unbeliever, alike and face truth and judgment.

May it come this day, the next day or many years hence. But let it come and let His will be done.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at October 02, 2024 08:45 AM (uOckE)

297 Oh Piper, find it online, Vance was masterful! Calm, reasoned, polite, direct, and always on the offence.

Walz looked nervous, sweaty, and completely in over his head.
The moderators constantly interrupted Vance, teed up every issue perfectly for Walz, and did snarky little facts checks after each discussion. Vance went after them after they did this a few times and it was awesome.
Posted by: Lizzy at

Wow! I definitely will then. I know I am going to be yelling at the screen though, from the sounds of it. The media is so broken. Choir, let’s sing, right?

Posted by: Piper at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (2N3ca)

298 "Well, it's going to have to happen at some point because unionized labor is far too expensive and these yabos are asking for something like a 35 pct pay increase."

I thought it was 77%.
Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

I am not a fan of unions but let's wait and see what they get before we start losing our minds over what their opening position in the negotiation is.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

It's 77% want.

They turned down a 50% offer. The more they want, the faster the docks will automate.

And before anyone cries and says that's highly skilled work, the military does it every time they move a division into and out of a war zone. We have the people to replace them.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (9Tih0)

299 Turns out it was a "palestinian" killed by a piece of debris from an intercepted missile that fell on him.
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I await the UN's condemnation of the strike.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (HnUIn)

300 I didn't watch either debate, because nothing matters less than American political debates. But, from listening to people the day after them, my takeaway is this: while these debates have never mattered much in my lifetime, they matter even less than they used to.

Vance has a good night; everyone outside the ruling class says he won.

Trump has a bad night; everyone outside the ruling class says he won.

People - the human kind - just don't like Harris or Walz, and a debate can't change that. Unfortunately, humans don't decide elections, demons do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (awTae)

301 Tim Miller @Timodc 11h
"The people I care most about in Springfield are the American citizens" by far the grossest line of the night so far.

SquareKnot Trading Co. @SquareKnotTC 9h Replying to @Timodc
"I love my own children more than the kids of the crackhead outside Arbys"

"What kind of sick freak are you??"
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I don't know him either but he sounds a real winner...
Tim Miller
Host of The Bulwark Podcast | MSNBC analyst | Author “Why We Did It” | Weak and Gay | Never Trump

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (CEzQx)

302 So what is an acceptable alternative? Gotta be one!!
Posted by: Doof at October 02, 2024 08:42 AM (vNIMs)

Going forward, the right pushes for extreme right wing commentators to moderate all debates or the left can go f*ck itself.

Enough is enough. They don't agree, it's on to the election with epic muckraking ads plastered all over TV and radio with no debates with the left labeled as chickenshit pussies for not agreeing to the terms they've been forcing on the right for decades.

Fight fire with fire and f*ck 'em in the ass with it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

303 294 ???????

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 02, 2024 08:47 AM (v6JzV)

304 Piper, just look for clips and still on X -- Vance would look at the camera when Walz was lying or flailing, ace likened it to Jim on "The Office." So, so good.

Walz had a variety of wild, exaggerated expressions, so even watching with the sound off one could tell he was in trouble. He did that wide-eyed thing a lot, where someone is trying really hard to convince you and you can tell you're being played. It was forced and insincere.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 08:47 AM (scDBq)

305 Vance delivered a few body blows himself to Walz and the media but much of the damage was self-inflicted. Calling yourself a knucklehead on national television when you're trying to convince people to vote for you to my untrained eye seems like a suboptimal move.
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I think that's referred to as "folksy."

I didn't watch it. Buzz about is that Vance won, for whatever the hell that's worth.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn)

306 Theoretically, all of the port activities can be automated.

Again, because of the astronomical cost of labor, it's going to have to happen eventually.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 07:43 AM (XV/Pl)

https://megainterview.com/longshoreman/

According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median annual wage for cargo and freight agents, which includes longshoremen, is $44,260. The BLS also reports that the top 10% of cargo and freight agents earned more than $71,630 per year. It is worth noting that these figures do not include benefits or additional compensation, such as overtime pay or bonuses.

That's 20-35 dollars per hour. Considering the increases in minimum wage, is it really all that much?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:48 AM (IUd0M)

307 Iran leadership will be gone within two weeks.

The spokesman for the LongScoreMen is no different than Osama Bin Laden. Go fuck yourself, asshole.

G-d bless Israel.

Posted by: Danimal28 at October 02, 2024 08:48 AM (OYegW)

308 Kamala had gotten rid of one confused old white man only to replace him with another.
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Of course. She can't ape Obama's 2008 campaign strategy without having an Old White Guy for Change in the VP position.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 08:48 AM (HnUIn)

309 Longshoremen strike will backfire bigly.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 08:48 AM (kxD94)

310 "You're quoted reference doesn't register with me.
Posted by: OrangeEnt"

General Robert Lee Scott. Flew with the Flying Tigers in WWII. Ace with 13 kills.

Wrote the book "God Is My Co-Pilot".

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 08:49 AM (vFG9F)

311 It was an obvious effort to lower expectations in the hopes Walz would beat the gloomy forecasts and thus look like an upset winner.
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"Lowering expectations" is a means of "positioning for success."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 08:49 AM (HnUIn)

312 305 Vance delivered a few body blows himself to Walz and the media but much of the damage was self-inflicted. Calling yourself a knucklehead on national television when you're trying to convince people to vote for you to my untrained eye seems like a suboptimal move.
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I think that's referred to as "folksy."

I didn't watch it. Buzz about is that Vance won, for whatever the hell that's worth.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn)

For me, Vance showed me WHY he’s got the Right Stuff going forward, not based only on being Trump’s running mate.

Posted by: tubal at October 02, 2024 08:49 AM (PCK5/)

313 Kamala had gotten rid of one confused old white man only to replace him with another.
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Of course. She can't ape Obama's 2008 campaign strategy without having an Old White Guy for Change in the VP position.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 08:48 AM (HnUIn)

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

DogEater in a Dress / Biden Without Hair Plugs 2024!

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 02, 2024 08:49 AM (tU7vi)

314 >>Tim Miller @Timodc 11h
"The people I care most about in Springfield are the American citizens" by far the grossest line of the night so far.

Yeah, go with that, Tim.
Keep saying it.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 08:49 AM (scDBq)

315 > So what is an acceptable alternative? Gotta be one!!
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Maybe run a canned presentation without interruption from each candidate?

Let the talking heads bitch about it later.

Since I think most people have already made their minds up about who they're voting for anyway, let them listen to their guy/gal's pitch without the partisan commentary from "moderators."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)

316 DogEater in a Dress / Biden Without Hair Plugs 2024!
Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 02, 2024 08:49 AM (tU7vi)
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Basically, yeah.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 08:51 AM (HnUIn)

317 @306

>>That's 20-35 dollars per hour. Considering the increases in minimum wage, is it really all that much?

Their fringes, pension and benefits are astronomical, and if anyone thinks a longshoreman in the port of NJ or NY is making 25 bucks an hour, I've got a bridge to sell you cheap.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 08:51 AM (XV/Pl)

318
That's 20-35 dollars per hour. Considering the increases in minimum wage, is it really all that much?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:48 AM (IUd0M)

Not in today's market, however, this DOES show that the longshormen's union is a piece of shit and has done dick for it's members over the years.

The UAW as their members working menial tasks and mostly sitting on their asses at 185,000 a year with full benefits and retirement pensions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

319 The instability in the Middle East. Is just one more consequence of WW1; the region has never recovered from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Really, for the last 4,000 years the only time there has ever been peace in that region is when a large and powerful Empire has controlled it, and is willing to send imperial troops to quickly take down any troublemakers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 02, 2024 08:52 AM (S6gqv)

320 Tim Miller @Timodc 11h
"The people I care most about in Springfield are the American citizens" by far the grossest line of the night so far.

Then get the f*ck out of this country, asshole. You don't think Americans are important, then move where you thing the citizenry IS more important.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

321 With all the trashing of the debates as a meaningful event, I think we're missing something. They are enormous, singular opportunities to take on the media. Our explicit acceptance of the terms of these subversive debates is only useful if we're implicitly exploiting them to call out and challenge the media (after all our greatest enemy and obstacle to societal persuasion).

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 08:53 AM (kxD94)

322 "Iranian missiles launched on Israel didn't have warheads"

I don't know what makes you say this. I saw plenty of explosions.

Not installing the explosive warhead would increase the missile range substantially. Forcing an intercept is a long-term strategy.

Posted by: pawn at October 02, 2024 08:53 AM (QB+5g)

323 Wrote the book "God Is My Co-Pilot".

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 08:49 AM (vFG9F)

I thought the quote inside the comment meant something. I know about the author of that book.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 08:54 AM (0eaVi)

324 The best thing about that debate is that its over, and no way (IMO) should Trump do another. Voters are being persuaded by the junta chaos everywhere you look.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2024 08:54 AM (XM346)

325 So what is an acceptable alternative? Gotta be one!!
Posted by: Doof at October 02, 2024 08:42 AM (vNIMs)

Pickleball. That way, when Kamala is on the baseline and Trump dinks into the NVZ (if you know, you know), her anguished fans would scream, "Kamala, get to the kitchen!"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 02, 2024 08:54 AM (PiwSw)

326 China has a fully automated container port in the Hong Kong Macao area
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There is something "off" about that video. I can believe there's an automated port, but that video is sus. Maybe it's just the production quality...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)

Well, if you can't trust a Chinese video about the glories of Chinese industry and inventiveness, what's the world coming to?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:55 AM (IUd0M)

327 321 With all the trashing of the debates as a meaningful event, I think we're missing something. They are enormous, singular opportunities to take on the media. Our explicit acceptance of the terms of these subversive debates is only useful if we're implicitly exploiting them to call out and challenge the media (after all our greatest enemy and obstacle to societal persuasion).

exactly thank you - I said similar last night.

JD Vance is the talk of the country today. This is something the Left desperately DID NOT WANT TO HAPPEN. we are to be dehumanized and shunned, completely.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 02, 2024 08:55 AM (s3qiR)

328 > So what is an acceptable alternative? Gotta be one!!

I really enjoyed the Rick Warren "debates" in 2008.
He sat down with each candidate separately, asked them the same questions. His questions were straightforward and unbiased (no a paragraph long loaded w/ "context"), and then he - get this! - sat back and gave them all the time they needed to answer.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 08:55 AM (scDBq)

329 302 Fight fire with fire and f*ck 'em in the ass with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

*gasp!* But...we're better than that! We act like this and we're not better than them!

At least that will be the argument you get.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 08:55 AM (+4yJ5)

330 328 > So what is an acceptable alternative? Gotta be one!!

live streamed Smash Bros?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 02, 2024 08:56 AM (s3qiR)

331 "The people I care most about in Springfield are the American citizens"

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Well, ok, but it's a weak line. You could say: I care deeply about noncitizens in Springfield. They're a high priority. I promise to send them straight back to their cannibal island at the nearest opportunity. They can eat the dogs, they can eat the cats, they can eat the pets, they can eat the people who live *there.*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 02, 2024 08:56 AM (awTae)

332 Sent the radio station an email about Ukraine getting the transformers and electrical equipment. They just read it on the air.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 02, 2024 08:56 AM (I1GXe)

333 The best thing about that debate is that its over, and no way (IMO) should Trump do another. Voters are being persuaded by the junta chaos everywhere you look.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2024 08:54 AM (XM346)
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I don't expect Trump to do another one after this. Vance's performance gives his side a strategic advantage going into the election. Kamala *begging* for another debate is just going to give Trump plenty of advertising ammo.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 02, 2024 08:57 AM (7fElN)

334 Will Harris's Helene be Kamala's Katrina?

Posted by: ... at October 02, 2024 08:57 AM (LCr8f)

335
*gasp!* But...we're better than that! We act like this and we're not better than them!

At least that will be the argument you get.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 08:55 AM (+4yJ5)

*glares at small Jar of F*cks*

*contemplates getting one out*

*determines they're far to valuable to waste*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

336 I had no idea who Tim miller was so I looked at his bio. He worked on the McCain campaign and was on Jeb Bush's campaign team. He and his husband and their children moved from Oakland CA, to New Orleans. He likes living in dangerous cities and appears to be a complete idiot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2024 08:57 AM (tLL5V)

337 June Lockhart is 99+, so if you ever thought she was cute and wanted to ask her out, get your move on.

Posted by: Time is Tight at October 02, 2024 08:57 AM (CV8a5)

338 June Lockhart is 99+, so if you ever thought she was cute and wanted to ask her out, get your move on.
Posted by: Time is Tight at October 02, 2024 08:57 AM (CV8a5)

I found her 'homely.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

339 Nice Country You've Got There: Longshoreman Boss Promises 'Crippling' Strike in Creepy Video
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I'm sure some people will 'feel crippled' during this temper tantrum, but not in the way that idiot thinks.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 08:12 AM (Q4IgG)

Funny thing is... covid taught me an important lesson, one which my grandparents probably knew... I used to go to the store when I needed something expecting it to be there. Now I keep a minimum stockpile of necessities on-hand. My guess is that the strikers will run out of money before I'll notice them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:59 AM (IUd0M)

340 It's hilarious that a politician can be bad at a debate.

Your entire life is nothing more than having a high-level overview of the state of play.

All you need to know is what you're doing and how the opposition may feel about it.

That's it. That's literally everything. And you can focus on each daily.

And yet, tards like Tim still blow it. What a country.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 02, 2024 08:59 AM (KbCG3)

341 Joe to go to the Carolinas today to survey the damage.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 02, 2024 08:59 AM (CEzQx)

342 106 You really think Vance won? Governor Walz dominated on climate change, which is all that really matters. The moderators made Vance look stupid with their completely appropriate fact checks. The idiot was so wrong on so many issues.
Posted by: Sid at October 02, 2024 07:56 AM (EaYGc)
______
Ipse dixit.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 02, 2024 09:00 AM (1bNHn)

343 Peak June Lockhart was Lost in Space.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 02, 2024 09:00 AM (v6JzV)

344 "I thought the quote inside the comment meant something. I know about the author of that book.
Posted by: OrangeEnt "

Oh well. The General lived around here in his later days and I met him on a few occasions. I do what I can to keep his memory alive.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 09:00 AM (vFG9F)

345 >>June Lockhart is 99+

I'd hit it.

Posted by: Barry "Greg Brady" Williams at October 02, 2024 09:01 AM (Y1sOo)

346
It was irritating but also funny,

the way the "moderators" kept trying to clean up

all the fruit salad dribbling from Tim Walz blubbery lips.

Once again, it was a 3 on 1 "debate".

Vance did great but there's zero reason to continue this tradition in the future.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 02, 2024 09:01 AM (eDfFs)

347 He likes living in dangerous cities and appears to be a complete idiot
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2024 08:57 AM (tLL5V)

Well, he's a man who thinks he has a husband, so yeah.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 09:01 AM (0eaVi)

348 “ But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

- Matthew 16:15-16

Posted by: Marcus T at October 02, 2024 09:01 AM (Go/w/)

349 I think the Tim Miller dude has nailed the thoughts of every liberal in the US. While the self-gassing Jew seems to be on the decline the self-depreciating American is on the rise.
The entire progressive system is quagmire of self-defeatism, self-loathing, and decolonialism that puts the citizen at least 4 or 5 rungs below other. The first rung is either the Mohammedan or the Black Man depending on which one FAFO'd in their latest folly. Then comes the eternally grateful and prosperous immigrant, that brings their shithole ideal 3rd world thinking into maybe the only last real free country and miraculously makes it a better place. The 3rd rung is a daily fight of Karens, trans people, gays, and the like that want their fill at the trough.
Finally after all of these people have had the fill then the working, taxpaying, and law-abiding citizen is handed the bill for this clusterfuck of a nation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 09:01 AM (gbOdA)

350 Common sense prevails!

CBS is whining that PDJT ha "backed out" of a 60 Minutes "interview".

Good. CBS can GFY.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2024 09:01 AM (ehP+W)

351 Peak June Lockhart was Lost in Space.

Very pretty in her day.

Posted by: Taking Notes at October 02, 2024 09:01 AM (E3mYO)

352 320 Tim Miller @Timodc 11h
"The people I care most about in Springfield are the American citizens" by far the grossest line of the night so far.

Then get the f*ck out of this country, asshole. You don't think Americans are important, then move where you thing the citizenry IS more important.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

What Tim really means is, that was the line that scared him the most for how effective it was.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 02, 2024 09:02 AM (KbCG3)

353 Funny thing is... covid taught me an important lesson, one which my grandparents probably knew... I used to go to the store when I needed something expecting it to be there. Now I keep a minimum stockpile of necessities on-hand. My guess is that the strikers will run out of money before I'll notice them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:59 AM (IUd0M)
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Anything can become pathological, but the "preppers" are essentially correct. So are the Mormons, who have a very similar philosophy on robustness of stores for the family.

Everyone should have at least one week - preferably a month if you can manage it - of food and cash on hand. This requires storage and money, and takes time to accumulate. It's worth it. Especially because once the goods buffer is built up, you can draw from it and replace it as you go.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 09:02 AM (HnUIn)

354 Oh well. The General lived around here in his later days and I met him on a few occasions. I do what I can to keep his memory alive.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2024 09:00 AM (vFG9F)

Got it. I was focusing on the comment, not the nic.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 02, 2024 09:02 AM (0eaVi)

355
June Lockhart was in an episode of Magnum. And in a flashback, her daughter played a younger she.

Her daughter was on Black Sheep Squadron. She must be almost 80, now.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 09:04 AM (TR5ee)

356 I'll assume that Sid is right and that Walz "won on climate change."

For our pseudo-troll (I think - I am not convinced Sid is real), that also means Walz "won the debate." That may be true for kids, too. Zoomers have been brought up in a "climate change" horror movie.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 09:04 AM (HnUIn)

357
My guess is that the strikers will run out of money before I'll notice them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 08:59 AM

I always get a hoot out of long strikes where the strikers basically impoverish themselves so badly that even when they finally settle it takes them years at the new higher rate before they break even.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 09:04 AM (RKVpM)

358 You can uninstall it in Win10 though. I did. When MS stops updating Win10 next year, I guess I'll be completely with Linux. This old laptop I'm using now is the Win10 holdout.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 02, 2024 08:15 AM (/Djer)

I recently had to build myself a new computer which, sadly, Windows recognizes as being Win11 compliant. Got a notification that they were all ready to go with my "upgrade". I told them to fuck off.

There's still people running Windows 7. I'll continue to use Windows 10 until the software I use it for will no longer run on it then I'll switch to Linux. Maybe GOG will have the games I want and I can still play them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 09:04 AM (IUd0M)

359 Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 08:55 AM (scDBq)

That was when Obama gave the scripted "above my paygrade" answer about baby murder. Scumbags.

Posted by: ... at October 02, 2024 09:04 AM (LCr8f)

360 >>Sent the radio station an email about Ukraine getting the transformers and electrical equipment. They just read it on the air.

Woohoo, Ben Had!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 09:04 AM (scDBq)

361 @340

>>And yet, tards like Tim still blow it. What a country.

At the end of the day, the vast majority, on both sides are merely apparatchiks of their respective systems and are either cultivated or sheparded along through the politician sausage factory.

And the added bonus for Donks is that since the vast overwhelming majority of the MSM both national and local are on their team, they usually don't get much scrutiny or pushback, so they pretty much don't have to do much prep or work.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 09:04 AM (XV/Pl)

362 Jimmy Carter has got to be the longest survivor in hospice care history. I don't wish death on anyone but it would be ironic if he passed away the day before early voting starts in GA
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Pfft. He'll still cast a vote in 2028

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 02, 2024 09:04 AM (FxH7T)

363 Liberal women were attracted to Vance, and liberal men could see themselves having a beer with him. That must terrify them, the poor things!

Posted by: LizLem at October 02, 2024 09:05 AM (3W96x)

364 "The people I care most about in Springfield are the American citizens by far the grossest line of the night so far."

Being a citizen has to mean something. We have to feel the authority inherent in citizenship. It's the basis for our rights and our voting franchise.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 02, 2024 09:05 AM (iFMeW)

365 Sent the radio station an email about Ukraine getting the transformers and electrical equipment. They just read it on the air.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 02, 2024 08:56 AM (I1GXe)

You're a star!

Posted by: ... at October 02, 2024 09:05 AM (LCr8f)

366 335
*glares at small Jar of F*cks*

*contemplates getting one out*

*determines they're far to valuable to waste*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

My distributor sent me an email yesterday warning that the fck supply is going to be sharply decreased due to the longshoremen's strike. So yeah; hold onto them.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 09:05 AM (+4yJ5)

367 Sid is a dipshit that chews on his jizz sock ala Jerry "The Shark" Tarkanian.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

368 351 Peak June Lockhart was Lost in Space.

Very pretty in her day.
Posted by: Taking Notes at October 02, 2024 09:01 AM (E3mYO)

When I worked in show biz in the mid/late 90s, she came into our office for a meeting. And she was beautiful even then! And a classy lady.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 02, 2024 09:05 AM (x0n13)

369 Everyone should have at least one week - preferably a month if you can manage it - of food and cash on hand.

If you have the means - and the will - to simply shut it down for a 30 days ? A lot of problems outside your perimeter will fix themselves. Again - if you have the will to simply stay out of the way and let them.

That second part is the tricky one for traditional conservatives. They're "fixers".

Posted by: Taking Notes at October 02, 2024 09:05 AM (E3mYO)

370 For our pseudo-troll (I think - I am not convinced Sid is real), that also means Walz "won the debate." That may be true for kids, too. Zoomers have been brought up in a "climate change" horror movie.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!

The very little I saw was this portion, Vance slapped down his Climate BS by simply stating IF you think carbon emissions are bad then the best thing we can do is create energy and goods in America as we have the 'cleanest' production on the planet.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 09:05 AM (CIS44)

371 As to prepping, educate yourself on what keeps well, and what does not. Most people are not very savvy about food storage, being able to just go “ buy more of .. anything, really.

Posted by: tubal at October 02, 2024 09:06 AM (PCK5/)

372 >>That was when Obama gave the scripted "above my paygrade" answer about baby murder. Scumbags.

Yes! Warren did the 'stay quiet' thing (like they say you should do in interviews) so that each candidate felt comfortable to go off script.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 09:06 AM (scDBq)

373 Sent the radio station an email about Ukraine getting the transformers and electrical equipment. They just read it on the air.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 02, 2024 08:56 AM (I1GXe)

Be careful. 15 minutes of fame burns quickly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

374 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 02, 2024 08:12 AM (ycI94

wait wait wait

These are actual comments?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 02, 2024 09:06 AM (QoYOy)

375 @355 just looked Anne Lockhart , she's 71

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2024 09:06 AM (tLL5V)

376 Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2024 09:01 AM (gbOdA)

That's beautiful. The psychopathic f*cked-upedness of self-loathing is their defining quality.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 09:06 AM (0B4xI)

377 WaPo is gleefully saying that "nearly a quarter of the Trump voters in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina live in the six counties declared Federal disaster areas".

That's how Washington sees the suffering of Americans, as a voter-suppression advantage to Democrats.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2024 09:06 AM (VRUam)

378 vintage June Lockhart

hit status: would

https://tinyurl.com/mste47ae

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 09:07 AM (/7KEl)

379 WaPo is gleefully saying that "nearly a quarter of the Trump voters in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina live in the six counties declared Federal disaster areas".

Sounds like another Trump ad to me.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 02, 2024 09:07 AM (iFMeW)

380 WaPo is gleefully saying that "nearly a quarter of the Trump voters in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina live in the six counties declared Federal disaster areas".

That's how Washington sees the suffering of Americans, as a voter-suppression advantage to Democrats.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2024 09:06 AM (VRUam)

Because the left is overall evil and the spawn of Satan.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

381
just looked Anne Lockhart , she's 71
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Yeah, that's almost 80.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 09:08 AM (TR5ee)

382 Walz looked nervous, sweaty, and completely in over his head.
The moderators constantly interrupted Vance, teed up every issue perfectly for Walz, and did snarky little facts checks after each discussion. Vance went after them after they did this a few times and it was awesome.
Posted by: Lizzy at

Last night I focused on the man speaking. I glanced at the other man occasionally and saw Walz was panicked. Watching the debate clips posted here, Walz always looked pathetic while Vance spoke. Especially when he looked beseechingly at the moderators, visually pleading them to do something to derail Vance RIGHT NOW!

Posted by: Gref at October 02, 2024 09:08 AM (aBgBM)

383
Everyone should have at least one week - preferably a month if you can manage it - of food and cash on hand. This requires storage and money, and takes time to accumulate. It's worth it. Especially because once the goods buffer is built up, you can draw from it and replace it as you go.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 09:02 AM

Cans of soup are high calorie and long shelf life. As they approach end of shelf life they can be used or donated to charities.

Aldi's always has a supply of soups in the under one dollar range.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 02, 2024 09:08 AM (RKVpM)

384 That's 20-35 dollars per hour. Considering the increases in minimum wage, is it really all that much?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Andretti I read the head union guy pulled in 900K last year.

Good for him. But don't want to hear about worker/CEO pay discrepancies either.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 02, 2024 09:09 AM (FxH7T)

385
It's 77% want.

They turned down a 50% offer. The more they want, the faster the docks will automate.

And before anyone cries and says that's highly skilled work, the military does it every time they move a division into and out of a war zone. We have the people to replace them.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (9Tih0)

————

Automation is very expensive. Most projects I worked on could never reach a 3 year ROI.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 02, 2024 09:09 AM (hT16X)

386 >>Walz always looked pathetic while Vance spoke. Especially when he looked beseechingly at the moderators, visually pleading them to do something to derail Vance RIGHT NOW!

Yes, Walz would turn his whole body and sort-of hunch, or start furiously writing notes. It was odd.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 09:09 AM (scDBq)

387 Aldi's always has a supply of soups in the under one dollar range.

My go to - buy cans by the flat.

Posted by: Taking Notes at October 02, 2024 09:10 AM (E3mYO)

388
Yes, Walz would turn his whole body and sort-of hunch, or start furiously writing notes. It was odd.
Posted by: Lizzy

He was drawing dicks.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 09:10 AM (CIS44)

389 Why does the stupid party continue to cede ground to the Mother F*ckin Media and allow their Spokescommunists to ask misleading questions and fact check our guy on lies and propaganda? Why? There are other avenues that the stupid party must explore that would get the same audience and not allow the shit show to continue.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 02, 2024 09:10 AM (1FWWQ)

390 ... Now, with 360 substations in desperate need of new transformers, the country should be ready to respond. But here’s the catch: the Biden-Harris administration recklessly drained our stockpile by sending these crucial resources to Ukraine. ...
Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 07:25 AM (scDBq)
++++
Like father, like son and daughter.

Obama and Biden both saw stockpiles as an asset to be mined, not a buffer for emergencies. Obama drained the SPR and the National Strategic Stockpile. The NSS was never replenished after the 2014 flu outbreak.

Biden has continued draining the SPR and, apparently, electrical stockpiles.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 09:11 AM (HnUIn)

391 389 Why does the stupid party continue to cede ground to the Mother F*ckin Media...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 02, 2024 09:10 AM (1FWWQ)

Question of the hour and perhaps the last half-century.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 09:11 AM (0B4xI)

392 Debates don't need moderators. What we have now is a self-servin creation of Media. Use a Lincoln Douglas format with a list of topics like "Middle East". The let the fur fly

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 02, 2024 09:11 AM (nFx0I)

393 NEWS ALERT: Today is National Kale Day.

Kale smoothies for everyone!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 02, 2024 09:12 AM (a3Q+t)

394 Leading Report @LeadingReport 9h
BREAKING: University of Wyoming has become the third school to refuse to face San Jose State’s women’s volleyball team due to a biological male being on the team.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 02, 2024 09:12 AM (CEzQx)

395 How useful is American mainline switchgear and transformers for Ukraine? Our power system is different. Is it a big deal to shoehorn our stuff into their power standard?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 09:12 AM (HnUIn)

396
One of the first stupid things out of Major Knucklehead's stupid mouth last night was describing Trump as "almost 80."

walz was insinuating he and jalama were young and hip.

walz looks TERRIBLE for 58.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 09:12 AM (TR5ee)

397 Why does the stupid party continue to cede ground to the Mother F*ckin Media and allow their Spokescommunists to ask misleading questions and fact check our guy on lies and propaganda?

They're still mostly run - at the top - by that age group on the right that refuses to move on from Reagan America. They're caught in a time loop of their own making. Peggy Noonan Syndrome.

Posted by: Taking Notes at October 02, 2024 09:12 AM (E3mYO)

398 I finally figured out sho Kamala Harris' speaking style reminds me of.

The text-to-speech voice on my laptop.

Posted by: Muldoon (RIP Jack G.) at October 02, 2024 09:12 AM (uCfKO)

399 walz looks TERRIBLE for 58.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 09:12 AM (TR5ee)
++++
He's under 60?

That's a *hard* 58.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 09:13 AM (HnUIn)

400 BREAKING: University of Wyoming has become the third school to refuse to face San Jose State’s women’s volleyball team due to a biological male being on the team.
Posted by: andycanuck

His teammate is also signed onto the Title IX lawsuit against the NCAA, that's the best part.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 09:13 AM (CIS44)

401 I would argue Trump debates need a moderator. He steamrolls everything and it's not flattering to him.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 02, 2024 09:13 AM (B0mGw)

402 @393

>>Kale smoothies for everyone!

Actually, and Apple, Kale, Ginger smoothie would be dynamite right now.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 09:13 AM (XV/Pl)

403 As to prepping, educate yourself on what keeps well, and what does not. Most people are not very savvy about food storage, being able to just go “ buy more of .. anything, really.

Posted by: tubal at October 02, 2024 09:06 AM (PCK5/)

-----------

And many people overlook water storage / access / filtration, which is more critical than food (remember the rule of threes -- priorities in survival: you may not last any more than):

. 3 seconds without atmosphere;
. 3 minutes without oxygen;
. 3 hours without shelter (extreme hot or cold);
. 3 days without water; and
. 3 weeks without food.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 02, 2024 09:14 AM (tU7vi)

404 302 Going forward, the right pushes for extreme right wing commentators to moderate all debates or the left can go f*ck itself.

Enough is enough. They don't agree, it's on to the election with epic muckraking ads plastered all over TV and radio with no debates with the left labeled as chickenshit pussies for not agreeing to the terms they've been forcing on the right for decades.

Fight fire with fire and f*ck 'em in the ass with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

Fine, but no Groypers.

Femboy Fuentes endorsed Commie-La.

Posted by: XTC at October 02, 2024 09:14 AM (UnA8+)

405 Trump should've been telling CBS to GFI after that abortion of an interview with the innocuous twat that is Lesley Stahl.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

406 >> Debates don't need moderators. What we have now is a self-servin creation of Media. Use a Lincoln Douglas format with a list of topics like "Middle East". The let the fur fly

Make it like UK Parliament's Prime Minister question time!

Their snark is so much better than political jabs here in the US.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 09:14 AM (scDBq)

407 395 Is it a big deal to shoehorn our stuff into their power standard?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 09:12 AM (HnUIn)

It's probably more important that the equipment is out of our country so it can't be deployed during an emergency. Standards in some other nation aren't as important.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 09:14 AM (+4yJ5)

408 University of Wyoming has become the third school to refuse to face San Jose State’s women’s volleyball team due to a biological male being on the team.
Posted by: andycanuck
-------
His teammate is also signed onto the Title IX lawsuit against the NCAA, that's the best part.
-------
Women: There's no difference between a man and a woman.

Also women: It's not fair that women have to compete against men.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 02, 2024 09:14 AM (B0mGw)

409 Or are you suggesting that these ports are centrally commanded in such a way where a malicious actor (like any USG three letter agency) could perform a system wide shutdown?

Not today. Now, imagine a future world in which the robots do all the grunt work and no one is inconvenienced by laborers... do you have it pictured? Good, now, imagine the sorts of regulations that DC will put into place. Image the sort of systems that'll get built when every software developer lives in either Shanghai or Bangalore. Imagine what happens when something takes out power systems.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 09:15 AM (IUd0M)

410
That's a *hard* 58.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 09:13 AM (HnUIn)

Lying incessantly takes it's toll.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

411 Why did Taylor Lorenz call Biden a war criminal?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 02, 2024 09:15 AM (FfSAJ)

412 I'm guessing that debate will be memory-holed and never mentioned again after today.

If mentioned at all it will be for MSM to put the spin that Vance is a slick, well-spoken huckster, sort of like a used car salesman. Or have they already done that?

Posted by: Ripley at October 02, 2024 09:15 AM (GUOwU)

413 Walz is giving a debating master-class. This guy does not need a teleprompter. He's speaking from his heart.

He is holding his own, but it isn't good enough. Vance is putting Walz on the defensive.

Don't agree. As usual, the only side that speaks out of turn and interrupts is the Republican side. Walz is an excellent orator and deeply kind individual. He's a roll model for us all. So is Kamala.

He is Minnesota nice. That is what is wrong here. However, anyone with a brain will prefer Minnesota nice.

Even if Walz technically "loses" the debate, as long as he doesn't make egregious errors, we'll all be fine. I'll be relieved if it's at least a draw

Undecided voters are not clear on the facts. Vance is a very slick speaker and gaslighter, sounding very reasonable and well spoken. He knows how to repeat lies in a way that sounds like they have a real basis in fact.

I'm sorry, but Tim Walz fell far short of articulating to undecided voters the severity of Trump’s crime and the very real threat he poses to our democracy. he missed a big opportunity last night to persuade undecided voters that the Trump ticket is completely unacceptable.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 02, 2024 09:16 AM (JCZqz)

414 My favorite completely nonsensical take came from Kos himself...

Vance quite successfully sold himself as a reasonable, human-like politician, while Walz is naturally nice, which is why he’s so popular nationally. The two wanted to seem nice and reasonable. Problem is, only Walz is that, Vance quite literally got the job by promising Trump he’d overturn the election given the chance.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2024 09:16 AM (QbC6G)

415 The first movie June Lockhart was in was A Christmas Carol in 1938. Both her parents were successful actors.

Posted by: In The Blood at October 02, 2024 09:16 AM (CV8a5)

416 "I'm guessing that debate will be memory-holed and never mentioned again after today."

That's a net loss. Trump is trending up and Harris is trending down.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 02, 2024 09:16 AM (B0mGw)

417
Remember when we were kids and our 50-year old wacky aunts looked really old? (And they were "old" all our lives, even when they were 80 and we still remember them as "old" when they were 50.)

Anyway, it was the hair styles, the clothes, the attitude, etc., that made them "old" at 50. They instantly turned into old ladies when they became widows.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 09:16 AM (TR5ee)

418 Why did Taylor Lorenz call Biden a war criminal?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 02, 2024 09:15 AM (FfSAJ)

Who?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

419 Trump War Room

@TrumpWarRoom
CBS IN GEORGIA: "We heard a whole lot of Trump support."

https://tinyurl.com/y3vs6wxj

Posted by: redridinghood at October 02, 2024 09:17 AM (NpAcC)

420 Even if Walz technically "loses" the debate, as long as he doesn't make egregious errors, we'll all be fine. I'll be relieved if it's at least a draw

=====

Like saying "Ive become friends with school shooters"?

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 09:17 AM (CIS44)

421 The Dems sure are running as if the Steal is in the bag for 2024.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 02, 2024 09:17 AM (hT16X)

422 As to prepping, educate yourself on what keeps well, and what does not. Most people are not very savvy about food storage, being able to just go “ buy more of .. anything, really.
Posted by: tubal at October 02, 2024 09:06 AM (PCK5/)
++++
Yeah. I have a mixture. Some of it is really slow-perish stuff (canned and dry goods). A lot of it is meat, which requires refrigeration and is at risk if a power outage exceeds a day or so. That'a s structural risk, but I am familiar with and comfortable with that risk given access to power if I really need it. I have access to a generator and will installing a generator with a transfer switch next year. I have my equipment and materials all selected, and will build it out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 09:17 AM (HnUIn)

423 Are the DUers raging because of the moderators Trump bias.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 02, 2024 09:17 AM (FfSAJ)

424 Vance did great but there's zero reason to continue this tradition in the future.

IMO, the only debate format from now on:

1. No moderator. No audience. Only 1 person to monitor a time clock.
2. Each candidate has an opening statement.
3. Each candidate asks the other questions, to which the responder has the right of follow up.
4. No notes, no earpieces, no anything but your own wits.
5. Each candidate gets a closing statement to which the other candidate has right of rebuttal.
6. NO MODERATORS!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 02, 2024 09:17 AM (Q0kLU)

425 The first movie June Lockhart was in was A Christmas Carol in 1938. Both her parents were successful actors.
Posted by: In The Blood at October 02, 2024 09:16 AM (CV8a5)

hollywood has been in incestuous hell hole for a long, long time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

426 Why does the stupid party continue to cede ground to the Mother F*ckin Media...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 02, 2024 09:10 AM (1FWWQ)

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

As I said here after his victory eight years ago (man, where does the time go?): Trump should have zero interaction with the Progda Enemedia, including no Press Secretary or Press Conferences.

Do not sanction their legitimacy.

Go Full Reagan, and communicate directly with the American people via every other possible medium. F*ck The #FakeNews.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 02, 2024 09:18 AM (tU7vi)

427 Why did Taylor Lorenz call Biden a war criminal?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 02, 2024 09:15 AM (FfSAJ)

Who?
Posted by: S
I thought I read that somewhere.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 02, 2024 09:19 AM (FfSAJ)

428 Longshoreman Boss Promises 'Crippling'

Man am I glad I don't have any racing pigeons up on the roof.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at October 02, 2024 09:19 AM (zdLoL)

429 We not only haven't learned lessons about these debates, we've regressed. We used to be to finagle a figure of relative reason and neutrality like a Jim Lehrer, but now we consent to total fanatical leftists. The idea of inserting an actual conservative as a moderator is a non-starter.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 09:19 AM (0B4xI)

430 I've been dealing with Union pukes like forever automating industrial and process equipment. Given the opportunity, they will sabotage things.

The morning after the first night a new system was to run an access control system we got a call to "come and get your shit out of our control room".

Big computer chassis and control module with all kinds of arcing damage to the front panel. Security decided to grill the two guys and they admitted to connecting a lamp cord to one of the unused connectors and plugging it in.

The guys did NOT lose their jobs. Union.

Posted by: pawn at October 02, 2024 09:19 AM (QB+5g)

431 The first movie June Lockhart was in was A Christmas Carol in 1938. Both her parents were successful actors.
Posted by: In The Blood at October 02, 2024 09:16 AM (CV8a5)

***

She'll always be Mrs. Robinson (Lost in Space) to me. Mother"like" and pure

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 02, 2024 09:20 AM (1FWWQ)

432 Sean Davis @seanmdav Oct 1
60 Minutes is left-wing trash that tried to rig an election for Democrats with fake documents, and no self-respecting Republican should ever give it the time of day.

johnny maga @_johnnymaga
🚨Trump sets the record straight on the 60 Minutes situation, says he would love to do an interview, but he first wants an apology from them for claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation" during his interview in 2020.

https://tinyurl.com/48zp3sa8
1:21 minutes; "the laptop from Hell"; also re. the MFM lie that crime didn't rise.

Merry @merrylynn06
Replying to @_johnnymaga
Leslie Stahl needs to apologize!

Brian Kennedy @Brian_Kennedy
Replying to @_johnnymaga
Lesly Stahl covering for Hunter's Laptop

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 02, 2024 09:20 AM (CEzQx)

433 >>Not today. Now, imagine a future world in which the robots do all the grunt work and no one is inconvenienced by laborers... do you have it pictured? Good, now, imagine the sorts of regulations that DC will put into place. Image the sort of systems that'll get built when every software developer lives in either Shanghai or Bangalore. Imagine what happens when something takes out power systems.

Yikes!

With automation, you still need people who know how to do it manually:
@Oilfield_Rando

There’s people who disagree with me on this and that’s fine. But I’d like to remind everybody of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, and how they were scrambling to find old timers who actually knew how to operate things without the latest greatest automation tech

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 09:20 AM (scDBq)

434 427 Why did Taylor Lorenz call Biden a war criminal?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 02, 2024 09:15 AM (FfSAJ)

Who?
Posted by: S
I thought I read that somewhere.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 02, 2024 09:19 AM (FfSAJ)

It's the first link in the First Amendment section!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 02, 2024 09:20 AM (x0n13)

435 And before anyone cries and says that's highly skilled work, the military does it every time they move a division into and out of a war zone. We have the people to replace them.

Which is, IIRC, one of the things Reagan did with PATCO. No doubt Biden COULD do it to some extent now but choose not to.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2024 09:21 AM (IUd0M)

436 Babylon Bee Writer: School shooters distance themselves from tim Walz

https://tinyurl.com/mrxvxma2

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 09:21 AM (CIS44)

437 Last night should be the last MSM debate the Republican Party ever agrees to attend. There needs to be a new format with moderators who are not affiliated with the networks. Notwithstanding the evident bias and partisan nature of the media propagandists, there is very little for voters to gain from these events.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 02, 2024 09:21 AM (Go/w/)

438 >>Why did Taylor Lorenz call Biden a war criminal?

Think it was for supporting Israel?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 02, 2024 09:22 AM (scDBq)

439 but he first wants an apology from them for claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation" during his interview in 2020.
***
Exactly, and good. Just don't relent.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 09:22 AM (0B4xI)

440 We need to stop calling it "Fact Checking."

They're not fact checking, they're spinning. It's FAKE checking is what it js

Posted by: Shenanigans at October 02, 2024 09:22 AM (wGun1)

441 A lot of it is meat, which requires refrigeration and is at risk if a power outage exceeds a day or so.

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

Looked into acquiring freeze-dried meats. Holy cow, talk about pricey!

Then I looked into acquiring equipment to freeze-dry meat on my own; we're talking several thousand dollars.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 02, 2024 09:22 AM (tU7vi)

442
Brian Kennedy @Brian_Kennedy
Replying to @_johnnymaga
Lesly Stahl covering for Hunter's Laptop
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 02, 2024 09:20 AM (CEzQx)

See? I don't even have an Xcrement account and I got that one exactly right.

Good on Trump. F*CK CBS.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

443 436 Babylon Bee Writer: School shooters distance themselves from tim Walz

https://tinyurl.com/mrxvxma2
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 09:21 AM (CIS44)

"Us too!"

- - Knuckleheads

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 02, 2024 09:23 AM (x0n13)

444 Babylon Bee Writer: School shooters distance themselves from tim Walz

https://tinyurl.com/mrxvxma2
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 02, 2024 09:21 AM (CIS44)

That didn't take long.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

445 424 1. No moderator. No audience. Only 1 person to monitor a time clock.
2. Each candidate has an opening statement.
3. Each candidate asks the other questions, to which the responder has the right of follow up.
4. No notes, no earpieces, no anything but your own wits.
5. Each candidate gets a closing statement to which the other candidate has right of rebuttal.
6. NO MODERATORS!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 02, 2024 09:17 AM (Q0kLU)

7. Three Five-Minute Rounds in the Octagon, knives and swords are allowed.

Posted by: XTC at October 02, 2024 09:24 AM (UnA8+)

446 "Looked into acquiring freeze-dried meats. Holy cow, talk about pricey!"

Laura Ingles dad smoked meat in a rotten tree with some salt in the middle of the Wisconsin wilderness.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 02, 2024 09:24 AM (B0mGw)

447 University of Wyoming has become the third school to refuse to face San Jose State’s women’s volleyball team due to a biological male being on the team.

As an SJSU graduate, I feel more than a bit embarrassed over this. Glad I graduated before this nonsense took root.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2024 09:24 AM (+4yJ5)

448
They're not fact checking, they're spinning. It's FAKE checking is what it js
Posted by: Shenanigans at October 02, 2024 09:22 AM (wGun1)

Well, it's close.

They're gaslighting no matter what.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

449 I think Trump or his people need to do a real, cold cost-benefit analysis of whether these talks with the media are really helping him. Trump appears irresistibly drawn to talking with anybody who asks to talk, and that's kind of endearing. But if you're not going to call out and make the assholes squirm and pay for their lies and smears, then what's the point?

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2024 09:25 AM (0B4xI)

450 Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff 'struck ex-girlfriend' during drunken fight at Cannes gala and was accused of 'causing' nanny mi@DMstress's miscarriage during their affair

@DM

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 09:26 AM (/7KEl)

451 Joe Rogan has AT LEAST 10 times the audience of any of the network liefests and I believe he would come up with excellent questions and be completely fair. See Bee Ess shit show last night could have been better if it were moderated by High School Civics class students.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 02, 2024 09:26 AM (1FWWQ)

452 "Looked into acquiring freeze-dried meats. Holy cow, talk about pricey!"

Look into a freeze dryer. About $5k.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 02, 2024 09:26 AM (9Tih0)

453 371 As to prepping, educate yourself on what keeps well, and what does not. Most people are not very savvy about food storage, being able to just go “ buy more of .. anything, really.

Posted by: tubal at October 02, 2024 09:06 AM (PCK5/)

Was telling my kids (6, 4) how lucky we were in regard to the hurricane's impact. Daughter says it's no big deal, if we lost things we could just go to the store to replace them, specifically about food.

I explained where the food comes from and she got it.

I wonder how many people still think there's just a conveyor belt of supplies in the backrooms of grocery stores that just runs and pumps out products at will.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 02, 2024 09:26 AM (KbCG3)

454 These stories coming out of Asheville are gut wrenching.
People describing losing their young children parents etc. swept away by the floods.

There is not enough coverage of this.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 02, 2024 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

455 "Looked into acquiring freeze-dried meats. Holy cow, talk about pricey!"

Fresh is best.

Posted by: Haitian Tourism Advisory Board of Springfield, Ohio at October 02, 2024 09:27 AM (a3Q+t)

456 salting meat is not that hard and preserves well

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 02, 2024 09:27 AM (s3qiR)

457 Longshoremen strike = who cares

Trucker strike = OMG

I be conflicted.

Two sides of the same coin. And yes, I grasp the ramifications of what a strike by either implies. I'm just slightly amused by the response to each. Given that our supply chain is made from crepe paper these days...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2024 09:27 AM (Q4IgG)

458 1. No moderator. No audience. Only 1 person to monitor a time clock.
2. Each candidate has an opening statement.
3. Each candidate asks the other questions, to which the responder has the right of follow up.
4. No notes, no earpieces, no anything but your own wits.
5. Each candidate gets a closing statement to which the other candidate has right of rebuttal.
6. NO MODERATORS!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 02, 2024 09:17 AM (Q0kLU)

7. Three Five-Minute Rounds in the Octagon, knives and swords are allowed.
Posted by: XTC

8. You go over your time, or you interrupt the other person, you get tasered. No warning.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 02, 2024 09:28 AM (9Tih0)

459 >>> 5
I'd would have liked to be a fly on the wall of Kammie's office last night.

Walz better start looking over his shoulder and keeping an eye on his Secret Service cohort.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2024 07:12 AM (BkEzK)

*cackles*

Soon...

Posted by: Hillary! at October 02, 2024 09:29 AM (FnneF)

460 Then I looked into acquiring equipment to freeze-dry meat on my own; we're talking several thousand dollars.
Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 02, 2024 09:22 AM (tU7vi)
++++
A decent inverter generator, transfer switch, wiring, gas cans, 25 gallons of gasoline, stabilizers and freezers will all come out to around $3k to $4k and get you a few days' worth of continuous runtime and a lot more if you're miserly with power and only run it about 5-6 hours a day to chill everything back down to hard freeze. That's my plan, since I already have the freezer capacity and a lot of inventory. Power is *extremely* reliable on average where I live. We have more power outages than I was used to where I used to live, but the longest I have ever experienced is four hours. The utility here is top-notch at restoration, so it hasn't been a big issue.

In a disaster scenario, it would be a much bigger deal. That's why I want the generator.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 02, 2024 09:29 AM (HnUIn)

461 Longshoremen strike = who cares

Trucker strike = OMG

I be conflicted.

Two sides of the same coin. And yes, I grasp the ramifications of what a strike by either implies. I'm just slightly amused by the response to each. Given that our supply chain is made from crepe paper these days...
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Trucker's strike: LOL - you're fired & have been replaced by Mexican drivers.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 02, 2024 09:29 AM (9Tih0)

462 There is not enough coverage of this.

well it makes the Left look bad so...

anyway they may be thinking "oh well it hurts our enemies so let them suffer" BUT the other people in the states affected actually DO CARE about their neighbors. the Left thinks everyone is as callous as they are; they'd be wrong.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 02, 2024 09:29 AM (s3qiR)

463 8. You go over your time, or you interrupt the other person, you get tasered. No warning.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 02, 2024 09:28 AM (9Tih0)

I've got a better idea : You lose a finger.

Posted by: XTC at October 02, 2024 09:30 AM (UnA8+)

464 Fight fire with fire and f*ck 'em in the ass with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

This is the Sponge I know and love!!

Posted by: Doof at October 02, 2024 09:30 AM (vNIMs)

465 Walz came across as mentally disabled.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 02, 2024 09:30 AM (7PziG)

466 Short of an extreme October surprise, and I wouldn't put anything past the Democrats, this election SHOULD* be a wrap for Trump. I think what really sealed it was the Hurricane Helene response, with the VP debate as a nice cherry on top. Dems have gone hard to try to paint Republicans as the reason FEMA isn't doing more, but it rings so hollow when a) Biden opens his mouth and b) Kamala can't help herself.

The easiest way to score political points presents itself and she can't be bothered to cancel everything and show up. It's a strong preview of what her presidency would be when an emergency or tragedy comes up, she'll show up on her time after she greases the palms first. I will be surprised* if she gets any votes in NC.

* Who am I kidding, they're going to steal the election again, aren't they?

Posted by: Nutsy at October 02, 2024 09:31 AM (KpSzX)

467 @421

>>The Dems sure are running as if the Steal is in the bag for 2024.

As has been noted, they control enough voting apparatuses in enough locales to fortify elections.

This does not mean Trump/Vance can't win, but it's going to be close.

If we don't know one way or the other by no later than midnight of election night, then I don't expect a good outcome.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2024 09:31 AM (XV/Pl)

468 the art room is open

Posted by: Don Black at October 02, 2024 09:31 AM (/7KEl)

469 Nood

Posted by: tankdemon at October 02, 2024 09:32 AM (RtCIi)

470 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 02, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

471 389 Why does the stupid party continue to cede ground to the Mother F*ckin Media and allow their Spokescommunists to ask misleading questions and fact check our guy on lies and propaganda? Why? There are other avenues that the stupid party must explore that would get the same audience and not allow the shit show to continue.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 02, 2024 09:10 AM (1FWWQ)

The current hostile debate arrangement is the only way they can break-through the MSM 'news show' total blockade on direct, positive, R candidate messaging. Their calculus must be that 20-25 minutes of direct messaging on all networks a few times during the fall campaign stretch is better than nothing. It should be about 35 minutes for each candidate per debate, after subtracting the intro, long moderator set-ups before questions, and TV ads. But then you have to subtract more time from the R candidate's direct messaging to account for fact-checking and other direct interference.

Posted by: Gref at October 02, 2024 09:32 AM (aBgBM)

472 And before anyone cries and says that's highly skilled work, the military does it every time they move a division into and out of a war zone. We have the people to replace them.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (9Tih0)

And before anyone cries and says that's highly skilled work, the military does it every time they move a division into and out of a war zone. We have the people to replace them.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 02, 2024 08:46 AM (9Tih0)

I am here, tanned and ready!

Posted by: Jose Jimenez at October 02, 2024 09:32 AM (iODuv)

473 "Israel will continue to defend its citizens and uphold its national dignity, with or without António Guterres," he concluded. Israel's foreign minister declared UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres 'persona non grata' and was henceforth banning him from entering Israel, according to a post on X/Twitter on Wednesday. The ban on entry, said FM Israel Katz, was due to Guterres's failure to "unequivocally condemn" Iran's massive missile attack on Israel. "Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran's heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the world has done, does not deserve to step foot on Israeli soil," Katz wrote.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2024 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

474 >>> 235
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Fine. Tell me when the strike ends. Because all of the ports are disrupted Right Now. Not just one or two, but most of the ports are closed to hostage takers who flat out demonstrated their utter hatred of America and the willful imposition to cause massive collateral damage.

How is that any different from some Chinese/Nork/Leftist hackers from screwing up a port or two? Or are you suggesting that these ports are centrally commanded in such a way where a malicious actor (like any USG three letter agency) could perform a system wide shutdown?

Nice thing about the former United States is that there would normally be multiple competing vendors like there are for PSAPs because of a semi-free market so that hacking one system isn't necessarily a success path for another
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2024 08:30 AM (rHxhM)

Did you forget about me?

Posted by: ClownStrike at October 02, 2024 09:40 AM (FnneF)

475 Re: WATCH: Kamala Completely Botched Her First Public Statement About Iran Attacking Israel
===========================
Que Mala looked like she was reading a hostage statement. Entirely uncomfortable. Obviously written for her with no input from her. She is as much a puppet as Biden.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2024 09:44 AM (+iiWN)

476 Vance-Walz debate: Calm, collected vs. deer-in-headlights

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2024 09:47 AM (RHGPo)

477 re: curriculum

I teach above what the state requires. That's because my state made the first year of world language more like an exploratory class for elementary school. The upper levels don't even include independent conversation. Therefore, we switch to an international curriculum.

Why did the curriculum become vague? Not sure. My colleagues, especially the new teachers, would like to have more guidelines and resources. Instead, we get a lot of emails from non-profits pushing their special lesson plans.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at October 02, 2024 09:50 AM (fxCK2)

478 The "escalation" language is funny as heck. Iran was supossedely not involved at all, now they are lobbing missles? So who is escalating?

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at October 02, 2024 09:50 AM (Z8Yh2)

479 Since a carrier group AWACS can id a sparrow, the Gov knows exactly how many missles were fired.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at October 02, 2024 09:52 AM (Z8Yh2)

480 June Lockhart was in an episode of Magnum. And in a flashback, her daughter played a younger she.

Her daughter was on Black Sheep Squadron. She must be almost 80, now.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 02, 2024 09:04 AM (TR5ee)

She's 71. Born in 1953.

Posted by: Jose Jimenez at October 02, 2024 09:53 AM (iODuv)

481 There they go now, rejecting fascism.

Those wacky, wacky Austrians.

Posted by: Tom Perry at October 02, 2024 09:56 AM (MX0bI)

482 Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff 'forcefully slapped ex-girlfriend for flirting with another man' in booze-fueled assault after date to star-studded gala

Vice President Kamala Harris's husband assaulted his ex-girlfriend, three friends have told Dailymail.com.

The Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, 59, allegedly struck the woman in the face so hard she spun around, while waiting in a valet line late at night after a May 2012 Cannes Film Festival event in France.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2024 09:57 AM (RHGPo)

483
He who fired first was/is the escalator.

And that was Mohammed, 1,500 years ago. And here we are.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 02, 2024 09:58 AM (x0n13)

484

I wonder if Anne Lockhart was ever considered for a part on Lost in Space, considering her age and being June's daughter.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 02, 2024 10:01 AM (x0n13)

485 And what made June name her other kid Calistaf?

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at October 02, 2024 10:35 AM (zdLoL)

486 Anyone else think that rocket video looks like A I generated filmmaking?

No blood, no decapitation, intact body rolling out from underneath the metal rather than a smashed corpse driven straight into the ground or flying in all directions for many yards, disappearing debris.

Yeah...no.

Posted by: Ju at October 02, 2024 10:47 AM (aTmM/)

487 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Walz is the exact caricature the progressives/democratic socialists and rinos want portrayed: The real just average, White, middle working class who really does want to belong. Squeezable until there's nothing left. Definitely not Shapiro.

Why not? They gave us middle class Joe who was largely bough hook, line and sinker for decades. Smiling Joe - with his large smiling, PR grabbing/distracting Irish English Jewish German Italian clan - possibly even more successful in visible, public grifting than the Clintons and Cheneys.

He's perfect & will operate as directed under hand picked Haris who has been in the loop for many years - maybe not the 1st choice a decade ago, but still the good follow-up to Obama - to sit at the head of state during the continued transformation of the nation.
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The current port strike is just more kicking the can down the road.

gCaptain from Bloomberg Law, June 2022, "President Biden Signs The Ocean Shipping Reform Act Into Law"
(S. 3580, the “Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022,” marking the first major change to federal regulations for international container shipping in two decades...)

Cont'd

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 02, 2024 11:28 AM (NFX2v)

488 July 21, 2022, Trucker Protest Shuts Port of Oakland Terminals; July 20, 2022, Congestion Causes Cargo ‘Seesaw’ at Ports of Savannah and Charleston
July 1, 2022, Congress May Give Jones Act Ships Special Port Privileges; June 30, 2022, Key U.S. Ports Brace for Expiration of Dockworker Union Contract (West Coast); July 29, 2022, US Labor Secretary Is “Confident” About Port Union Talks Despite July 1st Deadline; May 25, 2022, West Coast Ports’ Seek to Avert Cargo Chaos During Labor Talks; May 13, 2022, Port of Long Beach Continues Record-Setting Streak and Warns of Cargo Surge When China Reopens & so on. (A good, timely & dependable publication, imo.)

While not a panacea, wouldn't producing more stuff in the USA & its territories - bring back manufacturing hugely; increase stable energy production including nuclear; more farming support, etc. be especially useful with another 20 million + people somewhere in the country (in a relatively short period of time) and more to come? It's not isolationism. Social systems cannot be expanded & maintained w/the top-heavy administrative state performing largely repetitious desk work & gallivanting.

Or is it way too late?

Cont'd

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 02, 2024 11:29 AM (NFX2v)

489 >Harvard Business Review, May 1997, 'How do Economies Grow'
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Intensely dislike this article> NRP, 'On the VP debate stage, two visions for policing in America are laid out' October 2, 2024.

Intersectionality.

Look at other aspects of law enforcement and crime:
>NSVRC, Info. & Stats for Journalists, Sexual violence in the U.S, Cost & Impact, Child Sexual Abuse

"Crime reports - Rape is the most under-reported crime; 63% of sexual assaults are not reported to police (o). Only 12% of child sexual abuse is reported to the authorities (g)."

And yet it's used to support unbridled abortion:
>KFF, 'A Closer Look at Rape and Incest Exceptions in States with Abortion Bans and Early Gestational Restrictions,' Published: Aug 07, 2024

(Including subpart) "Few people have accessed abortion care under the rape or incest exceptions to state abortion bans."

Where does good policing AND education plus actual healthcare vs doling out prescriptions & quick medical procedures come into the picture, or is the left's goal for U.S. mini vaca/abortion capital of the world?

J.D. VANCE, Sarah Huckabee, Byron Donalds, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard, etc. are the future!

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 02, 2024 11:29 AM (NFX2v)

490 Speaking of 'We're open for abortion!" Josh Shapiro:

Baltimore Sun, National News, 'Welfare fraud charges filed against 103 recipients in Pennsylvania' September 28, 2024

It's not that 103 recipients are so troubling but, in small part,

"Welfare expansion has outpaced population growth: Pennsylvania has only gained 700,000 residents since 2000. The state budget is now dominated by safety net spending that runs through the Department of Human Services.

Though human services eat up a significant chunk of all state budgets, the commonwealth stands out: Pennsylvania's Medicaid expenditures as a percentage of its budget is the highest in the nation, according to an analysis from the Foundation for Government Accountability."

And the Board of Health liberal (sanctuary) counties that are contributing to the fiscal mess.

No wonder the youth are fleeing from lack of opportunity & high taxes.

Anyway, an excellent piece, worthy of reading in full imho.
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🙏 Israel

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 02, 2024 11:29 AM (NFX2v)

491 A 44 second reminder of what Walz let happen in my Minneapolis:

https://tinyurl.com/ux35knv4

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