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Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps, cross-eyed mosquitoes and bow legged ants. I come before you to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. Admission is free, so pay at the door, pull up a chair and sit on the floor.

One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys arose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew swords and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and came to kill those two dead boys. If you do not believe this lie is true, ask the blind man – he saw it too.

Good News, For Now

BREAKING: Longshoremen union strike is OVER

The Longshoremen union strike is now over after a tentative agreement was made on wages.
They could be striking again in January since they’ve only extended their current contract until mid January:
I was hoping this would go on a little longer since it would have likely helped Trump win, with prices going up and supply going down. That’s the last thing Kamala would have wanted ahead of the election. And if I had to guess, that probably factored in on this to some small degree.
Now richy rich can go back to his ritzy home and wait to shake them down again in a few months.

If Trump wins and they do strike, he should do like Reagan did with the ATC union. The average LS makes 200k/year and they just turned down a 50% pay increase. F 'em.

Shitsburgh

‘Smells Like P*ss’: Anonymous NFL Player Absolutely Obliterates Steelers’ Acrisure Stadium In Pol

The Athletic conducted a poll that shows multiple NFL players complaining about Pittsburgh and explaining why they don’t like visiting there.

“I would say Pittsburgh, because it smells like piss in their locker room,” stated one player, anonymously, in the poll.
“Even though it’s my vibe: tough. It’s just always gray and sh*tty weather there,” said another unnamed player.

HeeHee. Pissburgh.

Gay!

Vance’s Baby Blues May Have Just Flipped The Left’s Most Loyal Demo

As a group, gay people may overwhelmingly hate Donald Trump. But they couldn’t help but fall in love with JD Vance on the debate stage Tuesday night.
In the words of Gay America, he came out looking snatched.
Now, these poll numbers might be made up, but they’re making fun of a very real phenomenon: Gay Twitter absolutely lost their minds for Vance last night. Some said he’d make a “hot AF VP” while others said he’s “[g]iving the gays everything we want.” Some speculated the “pink tie” was sending a signal, wink wink. What that signal is, I can’t share here — but the consensus was overwhelmingly suggestive. As noted conservative activist (and gay man) Andy Ngo noted, “I was not expecting gay X responses to the VP debate to be so XXX.”

Maybe they're hoping he'll pole the electorate.

End Of An Era

RIP Schwan's Guy: Mourning An American Frozen Food Icon

Over the years, due to changing consumer habits, Schwan's iconic yellow trucks seemed to become less visible. But there's online evidence showing that deliveries are still very active in some parts of the U.S.
In 2019, Schwan's Company, but not the home delivery business, was acquired by CJ Foods. Schwan's Home Delivery was later rebranded as Yelloh in 2023. As for why Yelloh is closing, a press release cited economic and market forces and supply chain issues caused by the pandemic. Schwan's Company, however, is still in business and supplies grocery stores and other food-service outlets.
“These challenges, combined with changing consumer lifestyles and competitive pressures that have been building for over 20 years, made success very difficult," said board member Michael Ziebell, who has been at the company since the 1990s. "Digital shopping has replaced the personal, at-the-door customer interaction that was the hallmark of the company."
While I haven't eaten a Schwan's frozen food item in years, I feel a sadness. The yellow Schwan's truck was an exciting part of Midwestern suburban life and almost as thrilling as an actual ice cream truck. Despite our thirst for nostalgia and anything circa 2000, our digital reality, sadly, doesn't have room for the Schwan's guy.
Some of their offerings have changed over the years, but many are still available now, if you want to stock up. If you're looking to purchase products via a Schwan's Yelloh truck, November 8 will be the last day.

Did you have Schwan's where you grew up?

Remember

Jimmy Carter's family rolled him out for a press event on his 100th birthday, saying he was “excited to vote for Kamala Harris” It was pretty disgusting, but remember what this asshole wrought.

US had extensive contact with Ayatollah Khomeini before Iran revolution

“The documents clearly show that Khomeini was less heroic, and far craftier, behind the scenes,” Fattahi said. “He quietly courted the US government, making all kinds of promises about the future of core US interests in Iran.”
“The documents are significant because they show Khomeini’s legacy is complicated, as it involves the ayatollah courting two US presidents behind the scenes. They illustrate a pattern of behaviour – that Khomeini at critical moments during his long struggle for an Islamic republic, secretly engaged what he would call ‘the Great Satan’.”

We're still dealing with the bloody fallout from Carter abandoning the Shah almost 50 years later.

The Evil That Men Do

Diddy’s debauched life of threesomes and unspeakable violence exposed in gory tell-all book from Kim Porter, the dead mother of his sons

Lots of perverted details at the link if you want to go look. I'm not going to quote them.

Walz Of Shame

Tim Walz Loses His Bubble Wrap

J. D. Vance fans, last night your man won his own personal Super Bowl. Tim Walz fans, your guy may not be ready for the major leagues. The good news for the Minnesota governor is that there’s not a single smudge on any of his timepieces, and he can clearly see what time it is . . . because Vance absolutely cleaned his clock.

Heh.

Reading Is Fun

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read everything they’re assigned, of course, but this feels different. Dames’s students now seem bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.
This development puzzled Dames until one day during the fall 2022 semester, when a first-year student came to his office hours to share how challenging she had found the early assignments. Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.
“My jaw dropped,” Dames told me. The anecdote helped explain the change he was seeing in his students: It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading. It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to.

Maybe they should go back to Fun With Dick And Jane. Seriously though, I can't get my 19 YO son to read a book for anything. He just has no interest. Fortunately he's in trade school so it doesn't matter as much, but I think it's very sad that he will never get everything I've gotten from reading over the years.

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) October 4, 2024

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1 1s

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at October 03, 2024 10:00 PM (OOgyd)

2 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at October 03, 2024 10:00 PM (w3u3d)

3 Yes! ONT! Now for the content!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at October 03, 2024 10:00 PM (OOgyd)

4 Rats

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at October 03, 2024 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

5 Good evening horde. Thanks WD.

Posted by: TRex at October 03, 2024 10:01 PM (IQ6Gq)

6 Not first. I blame the kittens.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il gabinetto era molto sporco at October 03, 2024 10:01 PM (qfLjt)

7 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 03, 2024 10:03 PM (WXNFJ)

8 For some reason, I expect Joe Biden to tell people to vote for Trump, so his stock portfolio doesn't get trashed by Kamala....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 03, 2024 10:03 PM (VNX3d)

9 Anyone want to be the new leader of Hezbollah?

We pay by the hour, and there is a longevity bonus if you make it to the end of the week!

Posted by: Hezbollah HR! at October 03, 2024 10:04 PM (uxCna)

10 Yo horde!

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at October 03, 2024 10:04 PM (zND4P)

11 Pretty sure the screaming about how bad our government's response to Helene is gonna get loud tomorrow.

I hope this sinks Kamala.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 03, 2024 10:04 PM (aPY1X)

12 Schwan's Dark Sweet Cherry Ice Cream. Deelish.

Posted by: davidt at October 03, 2024 10:05 PM (i0F8b)

13 How 'bout them Mets!

What a game.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2024 10:06 PM (LkLld)

14 Last call for Tits U. before I switch the Stupid Phone back to wifi.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at October 03, 2024 10:06 PM (TITsU)

15 my oh my! That emhoff vid was awesome...

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at October 03, 2024 10:07 PM (89Sog)

16 I hate cats. Or at least one of them.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 03, 2024 10:08 PM (CHHv1)

17 Thanks for the mammaries. Farewell our Alma Mater.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at October 03, 2024 10:08 PM (TITsU)

18 What is that last clip? "One Slap Man"?

Posted by: pookysgirl, feeding the hungry hungry hippo at October 03, 2024 10:08 PM (dtlDP)

19 The Carter family has said President Carter has not been able to communicate for a year now. He suddenly summoned the strength to make his last words about voting for Kamala? I call misinformation. Maybe even malinformation.

Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 10:08 PM (p4NUW)

20
Did you have Schwan's where you grew up?

I have one about three miles away. Haven't noticed the trucks lately. They don't have a sign on the building.
Don't think I ever saw a Yelloh truck. They used to have a sign advertising for drivers. Guess not, now.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 03, 2024 10:08 PM (63Dwl)

21 16 I hate cats. Or at least one of them.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October

Just stop. You love that cat.

Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 10:09 PM (p4NUW)

22
If Trump wins and they do strike, he should do like Reagan did with the ATC union.

How could he do that?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 03, 2024 10:09 PM (63Dwl)

23 Top twenty-five, and read the content. And watched "the slap".

Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at October 03, 2024 10:09 PM (gWAUD)

24 Re: Schwans, I see the truck in our neighborhood occasionally, I think our next door neighbor gets deliveries. I hadn't noticed the rebranding to "Yelloh", which is a retarded name. Must have been a newly hired MBA who came up with that genius move.

Posted by: BillyD at October 03, 2024 10:09 PM (Yt3ED)

25 21 16 I hate cats. Or at least one of them.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October

Just stop. You love that cat.
Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 10:09 PM (p4NUW)

It's always the ones that hate cats that loves cats the most.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 03, 2024 10:10 PM (aPY1X)

26 >>> 19 The Carter family has said President Carter has not been able to communicate for a year now. He suddenly summoned the strength to make his last words about voting for Kamala? I call misinformation. Maybe even malinformation.
Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 10:08 PM (p4NUW)

Or you know, bullshit.

(... and did your hash change, again???)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 03, 2024 10:10 PM (FnneF)

27 I was reading books cover to cover before I started high school, but I guess now a smart student relegates that onerous task to his/her/its AI companion, who then proceeds to write the book report!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at October 03, 2024 10:10 PM (rOtXe)

28 Lived out in the country when a teen. We were on the Schwan's man's route. Stopped by about once a month. Big cans of the best ice cream.

Posted by: davidt at October 03, 2024 10:11 PM (i0F8b)

29 >>> 25
==
It's always the ones that hate cats that loves cats the most.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 03, 2024 10:10 PM (aPY1X)

Or at least, get the most attention from cats.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 03, 2024 10:11 PM (FnneF)

30 What is that last clip? "One Slap Man"?
Posted by: pookysgirl

I understood that reference.

Posted by: mikeski at October 03, 2024 10:11 PM (DgGvY)

31 25 21 16 I hate cats. Or at least one of them.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October

Just stop. You love that cat.
Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 10:09 PM (p4NUW)

It's always the ones that hate cats that loves cats the most.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 03, 2024 10:10 PM (aPY1X)

The perfect love/hate relationship!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at October 03, 2024 10:11 PM (rOtXe)

32 I am going to bed, same early class in the morning. Except I really over did glutes and triceps these last 2 days. I am literally limping on my left leg and I don’t want to raise my arms. It’s pathetic, if I am honest. 😂 If I don’t wake up healed, teaching is going to be spicy tomorrow!

Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 10:12 PM (p4NUW)

33 The deed is done. Hated to do it.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at October 03, 2024 10:12 PM (w6EFb)

34 Mrs. Wrecks ran into an attorney I used to litigate with and against back when I worked for a living. He told her that they still talk about my Wrecks-ism which is weird because I didn't even know I had any Wrecks-isms.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 03, 2024 10:13 PM (L/fGl)

35
Or you know, bullshit.

(... and did your hash change, again???)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 03, 2024 10:10 PM (FnneF)

Yes! I am getting paranoid. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 10:13 PM (p4NUW)

36 I'm late. No good excuse.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at October 03, 2024 10:14 PM (hftn9)

37 Sorry I'm late, I went to a discount oil change place and they tried to use Crisco.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 03, 2024 10:14 PM (yfe4c)

38 Schwan's Dark Sweet Cherry Ice Cream. Deelish.
Posted by: davidt at October 03, 2024 10:05 PRe:

Schwans, I see the truck in our neighborhood occasionally, I think our next door neighbor gets deliveries. I hadn't noticed the rebranding to "Yelloh", which is a retarded name. Must have been a newly hired MBA who came up with that genius move.

Posted by: BillyD at October 03, 2024 10:09 PM (Yt3ED)M (i0F8b)

Schwans came to Alberta in the 1980's, IIRC. I might have had their stuff once or twice; regarded it as good, but expensive. Their market was the affluent rural communities surrounding the cities. The high-dollar acreage dwellers. I wasn't an acreage dweller then, like I am now, but I am far enough away from the big city to be the low-dollar kind.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:15 PM (m2qNJ)

39 Today is the 31st anniversary of the Battle of Mogadishu. I saw some of those guys a month later at Walter Reed as I was getting evaluated for an in service leg injury after I separated. The look in those guys eyes... I will never forget it.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at October 03, 2024 10:15 PM (l7Kbv)

40
It's always the ones that hate cats that loves cats the most.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 03, 2024 10

I am covered in Savannahs again. But if I move, they growl. A little big for their spotted britches.

Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 10:16 PM (p4NUW)

41 Lived out in the country when a teen. We were on the Schwan's man's route. Stopped by about once a month. Big cans of the best ice cream.
Posted by: davidt at October 03, 2024 10:11 PM (i0F8b)

You had me at "big cans"...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:16 PM (m2qNJ)

42 I hope everyone saw in North Carolina wearing my new $10,000 Necklace, Gucci purse, and $3,000 Pant Suit.

How did you all like my new wardrobe??? Oh, and everyone in North Carolina will get a check from me for $750!!!!! Your government is here to help you in your time of need!!

Posted by: Kamal Harris at October 03, 2024 10:16 PM (VYql4)

43 22
If Trump wins and they do strike, he should do like Reagan did with the ATC union.

How could he do that?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 03, 2024 10:09 PM (63Dwl)

I don't think he can. No declared war means no War Powers act. You could use the emergency authority used to make the respirators during COVID but it would be an expansion of that power, likely beyond the breaking point of law.

So how do you get leverage? Infrastructure that would add container handling capacity would put downward pressure on the wages. You want no automation?, maybe no automation at existing ports. Maybe we dredge out one or two new panamax capacity ports on the East Coast. With AI and robot cranes. Maybe we don't. We're just negotiating here.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 03, 2024 10:16 PM (pIfcn)

44 1s
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry

* checks Battleship board *

* tosses white peg over his left shoulder *

You missed.

Posted by: mikeski at October 03, 2024 10:17 PM (DgGvY)

45 So glad to hear that Vance has locked up the poofter demo.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2024 10:17 PM (JkO4W)

46 Can't wait for the NHL opener. You MLB fans, go ahead and enjoy your postseason !

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at October 03, 2024 10:17 PM (zND4P)

47
I am covered in Savannahs again. But if I move, they growl. A little big for their spotted britches.
Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 10:16 PM (p4NUW

You know the rule.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 03, 2024 10:17 PM (aPY1X)

48 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by inviting Doug Emhoff to your party:

Oh come on.
Dougie may slap around the VP from time to time, but he'd never hurt little.Fluffy.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 10:18 PM (W/lyH)

49 So how do you get leverage? Infrastructure that would add container handling capacity would put downward pressure on the wages. You want no automation?, maybe no automation at existing ports. Maybe we dredge out one or two new panamax capacity ports on the East Coast. With AI and robot cranes. Maybe we don't. We're just negotiating here.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 03, 2024 10:16 PM (pIfcn)

Just instruct the National Labor Relations Board to decertify the union. And if they refuse, fire their asses.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:18 PM (m2qNJ)

50 You know the rule.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 03, 2024 10:17 PM (aPY1X)

Don’t move while the cats are comfy?

Okay, really going to bed this time. Night, y’all.

Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 10:18 PM (p4NUW)

51 His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.

The solution is simple. Assign YouTube videos.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2024 10:19 PM (JkO4W)

52 50 You know the rule.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 03, 2024 10:17 PM (aPY1X)

Don’t move while the cats are comfy?

Okay, really going to bed this time. Night, y’all.
Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 10:18 PM (p4NUW)

Yes. That's the rule.

If a cat lays on you, you cannot move until the cat does.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 03, 2024 10:19 PM (aPY1X)

53 Evening

Posted by: thathalfrican - steady mobbing at October 03, 2024 10:20 PM (eZwyX)

54 We never had Schwan’s but I vaguely remember seeing their products in other people’s houses in Michigan. I seem to remember one of the things Schwan’s delivered were gigantic tins of potato chips. Possibly popular around the holidays, or possibly that’s just when I would see them because there was more visiting then.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 03, 2024 10:21 PM (PmqP5)

55 They make Schwantz-flavored ice cream? Do they have Brown Willie?

Posted by: Kommula Harris at October 03, 2024 10:21 PM (JkO4W)

56 The Carter family has said President Carter has not been able to communicate for a year now. He suddenly summoned the strength to make his last words about voting for Kamala? I call misinformation. Maybe even malinformation.
Posted by: Piper
+++
Will the endorsement of Liz Cheney or a comatose Jimmy Carter really help kumala?
I'm not seeing it.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 03, 2024 10:21 PM (Lo97M)

57 Just instruct the National Labor Relations Board to decertify the union. And if they refuse, fire their asses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:18 PM (m2qNJ)

If there's a decent precedent and it will work, go for it. If it's a new power (I'm just a moron, not labor lawyer) I might hesitate to give the Feds any new power.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 03, 2024 10:23 PM (pIfcn)

58 The Carter family has said President Carter has not been able to communicate for a year now. He suddenly summoned the strength to make his last words about voting for Kamala?

*ding ding ding ding ding*

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at October 03, 2024 10:23 PM (JkO4W)

59 "She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover."

Not too far removed from JK Rowling making every grade school student an avid reader. Pretty sad.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 03, 2024 10:24 PM (yfe4c)

60 You 1%ers and your Schwans ice cream. Too pricey for me.
I was lucky to carry a glass of milk through a cold room.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 10:24 PM (W/lyH)

61 It's always the ones that hate cats that loves cats the most.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

50 Dads Who Didn't Want The Damn Pet In Their Lives

https://is.gd/r1u9H5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 03, 2024 10:25 PM (L/fGl)

62
But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.

________

*picks up The Power Broker*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 03, 2024 10:25 PM (eoSEc)

63 I'm late. No good excuse.
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at October 03, 2024 10:14 PM (hftn9)

#metoo, but I was watching the New Zealand Family's day at Lake Tahoe.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 03, 2024 10:25 PM (0eaVi)

64 Pennsylvania weather in the fall and winter is shitty. Go visit Philly in January or Altoona in February. The weather sucks. Read that article. Apparently Green Bay is worse. Whatever.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 03, 2024 10:25 PM (/Djer)

65 If Trump wins and they do strike, he should do like Reagan did with the ATC union.

Absolutely not. Nobody should be compelled - against their will - to work. The only thing any of us own is our own labor.

Of course - nobody "owns" their job either. Anymore than any business owner "owns" a client - and I'm watching that right now. You can't steal "my employee" or "my customer" - because you didn't own either.

But watch ... the Obama Regime would LOVE to compel certain folks to work. For the good of the country, or some such.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:26 PM (mner0)

66 Reporter: “What do the states in the storm zone need — after what you saw today?”

Biden: “Oh, storm zone? I didn’t know which storm you’re talking about"

Holy crap

Posted by: SMOD at October 03, 2024 10:26 PM (GITLP)

67 Robert the Cat (TM) is the worst cat I have ever lived with (you don't "own" a cat). I've lived with five others over the years and they understood the rule--you can demand affection, you can bite and scratch to obtain affection, but you must return affection (even if you are more than likely faking it. Faking it counts). Not so here.

It's pretty horrible when I wish I could live where I work. All I'd really need is a pillow. And a place to hide the beers.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 03, 2024 10:26 PM (CHHv1)

68
I seem to remember one of the things Schwan’s delivered were gigantic tins of potato chips.

That sounds like Charles Chips.

https://t.ly/qQhM6

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 03, 2024 10:27 PM (63Dwl)

69 PS: Nobody has to like me, that's too cruel to ask.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 03, 2024 10:27 PM (CHHv1)

70 Learned my lesson the last time. Never inviting Doug Emhoff over to darken my towels again.

Posted by: Chubby Girl On Match.com at October 03, 2024 10:27 PM (CV8a5)

71 I hadn't noticed the rebranding to "Yelloh", which is a retarded name. Must have been a newly hired MBA who came up with that genius move.

Posted by: BillyD at October 03, 2024 10:09 PM (Yt3ED)

I bet that MBA's name was Holley.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 03, 2024 10:27 PM (yfe4c)

72 >>So how do you get leverage?

Taft Hartley Act. Democrats won't use it because it forces unions to the table. Trump will.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2024 10:28 PM (LkLld)

73 The Carter family has said President Carter has not been able to communicate for a year now. He suddenly summoned the strength to make his last words about voting for Kamala?
+++
Biden hasn't been able to communicate with anyone for about 3 years and he's still president.

Supposedly.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 03, 2024 10:28 PM (Lo97M)

74 We're still dealing with the bloody fallout from Carter abandoning the Shah almost 50 years later.

In all my 29 years, that's the absolute worst diplomatic/political/military failure that I have seen bar none, including Vietnam and Afghanistan. I remember visiting NYC in 1978: In Midtown there were these supposed Iranian anti-Shah protesters, showing pictures of what SAVAK did. Of course, they didn't say to whom SAVAK did what they did, but you can make a good guess. Also, I had a t-shirt I bought in '79, right after the hostages were grabbed. It had an accurate pencil-type drawing of Khomeini's head with the words 'Wanted For Kidnapping And Terrorism'. Got a lot of nods of approval and such when I wore that one. But yeah, abandoning the Shah to the islamists was Carter being a progressive anti-West asshole Democrat who just happened to be president. Iran could be a festering boil on humanity's ass for another 50 years. Thanks, Jimmah. No, not really. Your breaths must be shallow by now, so you're not wasting too much oxygen. But still too much.

Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

75 How 'bout them Mets!

What a game.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2024 10:06 PM (LkLld)

Scrappy team this year, finally

Posted by: ... at October 03, 2024 10:30 PM (lX8VI)

76 The Carter family has said President Carter has not been able to communicate for a year now.

Its only fair. The Embassy Hostages didn't get to communicate for longer. I was always told that Jimmy was doing the best he could, however. He was a religious man, after all.

Also a douche.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:30 PM (mner0)

77 Evening.

My mom used to buy those little Schwan's microwaveable pizzas for us.

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2024 10:30 PM (OJQxG)

78 Believe it or not (and it would probably be wise to take anything written by a fool calling himself "tankdemon" with a grain of salt) but that final video is actually a parody of the advertisement for a television series called "The Slap."

Somebody tried to premise an entire television series around an adult slapping a misbehaving child (from the commercial I saw, not his own chd) at a neighborhood barbecue.

I don't think the series lasted an entire season.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 03, 2024 10:32 PM (yfe4c)

79 Thanks, Jimmah.

Same cat that wanted to Unilateral Disarm. And look - I think he was serious.

Never trust anyone so enamored with the next life they're not paying attention to this one. Get there soon, Jimmy.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:32 PM (mner0)

80 Jeez, I was reading constantly in my youth. Mostly to avoid reading the assigned spinach from school.

And as an adult, my main beef with kollidje was that it interfered with my reading.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 03, 2024 10:32 PM (kpS4V)

81 Absolutely not. Nobody should be compelled - against their will - to work. The only thing any of us own is our own labor.

Of course - nobody "owns" their job either. Anymore than any business owner "owns" a client - and I'm watching that right now. You can't steal "my employee" or "my customer" - because you didn't own either.

But watch ... the Obama Regime would LOVE to compel certain folks to work. For the good of the country, or some such.
Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:26 PM (mner0)

This why decertifying the union as the bargaining agent for the workers is the answer. The job is still there, and the workers can go to it, do the work, and get paid. If they choose not to, the employer is free to hire replacements.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:32 PM (m2qNJ)

82 Robert the Cat (TM) is the worst cat I have ever lived with (you don't "own" a cat). I've lived with five others over the years and they understood the rule--you can demand affection, you can bite and scratch to obtain affection, but you must return affection (even if you are more than likely faking it. Faking it counts). Not so here.

It's pretty horrible when I wish I could live where I work. All I'd really need is a pillow. And a place to hide the beers.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 03, 2024 10:26 PM (CHHv1)

He allows you to give affection. That should be enough. Now give him scritches, peasant!

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2024 10:32 PM (OJQxG)

83 When my mom retired she bought some Schwan's entries. She'd serve them when we visited. It was a treat for her to not have to cook.

Posted by: Iris at October 03, 2024 10:32 PM (bOJ2I)

84 The Carter family has said President Carter has not been able to communicate for a year now. He suddenly summoned the strength to make his last words about voting for Kamala?

*ding ding ding ding ding*
Posted by: Jimmy Carter

Beeep (from the Captain Pike chair)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 03, 2024 10:32 PM (VNX3d)

85 Evidently lots of lefties harboring the fantasy of JD driving the “Schwan’s” truck into their garage this election season

Posted by: BEEP BLEEP goes the truck at October 03, 2024 10:34 PM (FxINA)

86
Carter has a reputation as some kind of nice guy, but from what I've heard he was always dismissive of little people. He blamed his 1980 defeat on the Jews and became a bitter old man.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 03, 2024 10:34 PM (eoSEc)

87 After Carter was humiliated by Reagan at the ballot box, I thought thank God! Now everybody sees that simple minded liberal do gooderism is an absolute failure and we'll never have to go through this again! Ahh, was I ever so young?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 03, 2024 10:35 PM (L/fGl)

88 *picks up The Power Broker*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Is that the Caro Robert Moses book? I inhaled that.

Posted by: NYC Refugee Since 1988 at October 03, 2024 10:35 PM (CV8a5)

89 Every time I see that meme up top I think of this guy shouting it.

https://youtu.be/GB7mHxdHlRY

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2024 10:35 PM (zLiLr)

90 Biden hasn't been able to communicate with anyone for about 3 years and he's still president.

Supposedly.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 03, 2024 10:28 PM (Lo97M)

PINO. President In . . .

Bye-den's a figurehead, the Queen in our Constitutional Oligarchy.

The Deep State, The Bureaucratic State, whatever, they are the ones in charge. And I have to wonder how long they've actually been in charge. That's the reason they want to take out Trump, he won't play their game. The next 30 or so days are going to be verrrry interestink.

Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 10:35 PM (gKDq2)

91 Yellow jackets swarm after North Carolina floods, prompting need for Benadryl and EpiPens

https://tinyurl.com/3ru58kjw

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le vespe sono terribile at October 03, 2024 10:36 PM (qfLjt)

92
Is that the Caro Robert Moses book? I inhaled that.
Posted by: NYC Refugee Since 1988 at October 03, 2024 10:35 PM (CV8a5)

________

It is. I did too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 03, 2024 10:36 PM (eoSEc)

93 This why decertifying the union as the bargaining agent for the workers is the answer. The job is still there, and the workers can go to it, do the work, and get paid. If they choose not to, the employer is free to hire replacements.

I'm more hard core than you - if the job is so important that Federal Intervention is required ? Then that job can't Unionize.

I don't support Police, Fire-Fighter, Teachers, or any other Union on the Government Dole.

Dock-Workers ? I also don't think Unions should be able to spread across Corporate Lines. Auto Workers for GM, Ford, and Dodge should be able to collectively bargain - independently.

Same for the docks. Of course, I wouldn't allow foreign entities to buy into and manage those docks. In some cases now ? Our ports are foreign managed. That'll turn out well.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:37 PM (mner0)

94 We're still dealing with the bloody fallout from Carter abandoning the Shah almost 50 years later.
How about his support for "decolonization" in Africa? What a fun and uplifting experience that has been!

Posted by: GWB at October 03, 2024 10:37 PM (DDSgs)

95 I bet that MBA's name was Holley.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 03, 2024 10:27 PM (yfe4c)

Heh!
Took me a minute.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 10:37 PM (W/lyH)

96 Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

I lived about a block from the Iranian Embassy in London when it was attacked by separatists in 1980. I was home and felt the SAS flash bangs and heard their automatic fire. Good times.

Posted by: javems at October 03, 2024 10:38 PM (8I4hW)

97 I made a horrible tweet about zombie Carter. You definitely shouldn't read it. https://x.com/weirddave0/status/1841596968323211396?

Posted by: Weirddave at October 03, 2024 10:39 PM (lXRbX)

98 11 Pretty sure the screaming about how bad our government's response to Helene is gonna get loud tomorrow.

I hope this sinks Kamala.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Dunno about that. Local news was crowing about FEMA and how many supplies they've flown in.

David Muir had similar praises.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 10:39 PM (AqmFA)

99 I made a horrible tweet about zombie Carter. You definitely shouldn't read it. https://x.com/weirddave0/status/1841596968323211396?
Posted by: Weirddave at October 03, 2024 10:39 PM (lXRbX)

Eeeew! LOL!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:40 PM (m2qNJ)

100 How about his support for "decolonization" in Africa?

Meh. Jimmy talked a game about it. The Brits actually abandoned some of their own over it.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:41 PM (mner0)

101 Dunno about that. Local news was crowing about FEMA and how many supplies they've flown in.

David Muir had similar praises.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 10:39 PM (AqmFA)

Main stream media: lying is their business.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:42 PM (m2qNJ)

102 Another joke in bad taste.

https://is.gd/KAjh2g

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 03, 2024 10:44 PM (L/fGl)

103 Dunno about that. Local news was crowing about FEMA and how many supplies they've flown in.

And now you know - why FEMA is triaging the area. Its management - of information as well as human capital.

Its cold blooded. And right out of their playbook.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:44 PM (mner0)

104 98 11 Pretty sure the screaming about how bad our government's response to Helene is gonna get loud tomorrow.

I hope this sinks Kamala.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Dunno about that. Local news was crowing about FEMA and how many supplies they've flown in.

David Muir had similar praises.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 10:39 PM (AqmFA)

Local and national news may say one thing, but the people without power who've been waiting for close to a week for help to get to them may be thinking something else entirely. Also, the dirty little secret about who gets to have FEMA ship supplies to them is about to get out.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 03, 2024 10:44 PM (tIR9w)

105 76 The Carter family has said President Carter has not been able to communicate for a year now.

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How about Amy? She still flapping her gums?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2024 10:45 PM (+o2mc)

106 RIP Schwan's Guy: Mourning An American Frozen Food Icon

Isn't Tucker Carlson an heir to the Schwanson's fortune?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 03, 2024 10:46 PM (tIR9w)

107 "I think it's very sad that he will never get everything I've gotten from reading over the years."

My son was like that at 19. He's better now. He read 1984 and got a lot out of it, and now he reads regularly.

Posted by: Tom Perry at October 03, 2024 10:46 PM (MX0bI)

108 Oh, I know the MSM is lying.

How many people are buying it?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 10:46 PM (AqmFA)

109 How about Amy? She still flapping her gums?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2024 10:45 PM (+o2mc)

Isn't Amy well into GILTAF territory now?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:47 PM (m2qNJ)

110 Carter has a reputation as some kind of nice guy, but from what I've heard he was always dismissive of little people. He blamed his 1980 defeat on the Jews and became a bitter old man.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 03, 2024 10:34 PM (eoSEc)

The stories I've heard is he was very nasty to those around him, very much like Hillary Clinton. Same for 'sweet' Rosalynn. I also heard Jimmah wasn't exactly diplomatic with Begin at Camp David, either.

The funny thing about the Carter Admin I remember is Carter's White House Dinners. Being Southern Baptist, Carter banned booze at the White House. No white wine with the appetizer, a nice red with dinner and a decent bubbly with dessert. Nothing. A ticket to a White House Dinner went from something of value, an event you eagerly anticipated, to a busted market because nobody wanted to attend. But the point is, Carter couldn't just not drink himself, as Bush II did, but allow others to drink. No, Jimmah had to go full Carrie Nation and 18th Amendment. No one ever criticizes him for that.

Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 10:47 PM (gKDq2)

111 I prayed a rosary for the Tigers, it worked !!

Posted by: 2012 at October 03, 2024 10:47 PM (v1eJ7)

112 99 I made a horrible tweet about zombie Carter. You definitely shouldn't read it. https://x.com/weirddave0/status/1841596968323211396?
Posted by: Weirddave at October 03, 2024 10:39 PM (lXRbX)

Eeeew! LOL!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:40 PM (m2qNJ)

Whoa! Ackbar, are you socking Weirddave?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 03, 2024 10:47 PM (tIR9w)

113 Fall does mean something in Texas. It means mornings are only like 70 degrees instead of 85, and the afternoons are only 90 instead of 100+. I ain't complainin'.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 03, 2024 10:48 PM (Ij2uN)

114 CBS News
@CBSNews
A Yazidi woman kidnapped from her home by ISIS terrorists in Iraq when she was just 11 years old has been reunited with her family after years stranded in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Iraqi and Israeli officials said Thursday.

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"Stranded"? I guess she was like Robinson Crusoe.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 03, 2024 10:48 PM (L/fGl)

115 The only good thing about Jimmy Carter was his brother's "Billy Beer" and if I'm being honest, and I am, that sucked too.

Everything about Carter's administration was nanny nagging and failure. He gave us gas lines and odd even license plate rationing. I can't tell you how many hours of my life I wasted in gas lines because of that asshole but it was a lot. Then there was the anxiety he caused my grandmother cuz she was worried about getting in trouble for keeping her thermostat at 72 in the middle of winter in Minnesota.

I didn't get to see anything like that again until Covid came along and the Communist NM Governor would only let 10 people into a grocery store at a time. This triggered lines that made a simple trip to the grocery store go on for several hours.

And I don't buy any of this he was a decent man crap. He got elected to run a country and not be a preacher. Not only was he a shitty preacher, but he was an even shittier president that made my life worse in every way imaginable.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 10:48 PM (cog7k)

116 Yellow jackets swarm after North Carolina floods, prompting need for Benadryl and EpiPens

https://tinyurl.com/3ru58kjw
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le vespe sono terribile at October 03, 2024 10:36 PM (qfLjt)

Just stack 'em there next to the pallets of water, O2 tanks, insulin, food, blankets, etc. As soon as FEMA gets settled into their hotels, they will get around to it.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 10:48 PM (W/lyH)

117 Also, the dirty little secret about who gets to have FEMA ship supplies to them is about to get out.

The biggest dirty little secret ? When whatever comes out - in this or that Congressional do nothing hearing ?

A FEMA talking head will look dead in the camera - unconcerned with whatever video or anecdotal speech about how loss of life - and earnestly say "This was our protocol, and we followed it to the letter".

That should scare the shit out of sane people. Because it's true.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:48 PM (mner0)

118 Baird Maritime: Wreck of WWII-era US Navy destroyer found on seafloor off northern California

https://tinyurl.com/mr6a8ud2

USS Stewart. Built in 1919, captured by the Japanese early on in the Pacific War, then recaptured by the US Navy after the Japanese surrender. Sunk in 1946 while being used for target practice.

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2024 10:48 PM (ytOpH)

119 I won $10. Thank you Mets!

Posted by: IrishEi at October 03, 2024 10:49 PM (3ImbR)

120 Isn't Tucker Carlson an heir to the Schwanson's fortune?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 03, 2024 10:46 PM (tIR9w)

AFAIK Schwan's has no connection to Swanson.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:49 PM (m2qNJ)

121 Fall does mean something in Texas. It means mornings are only like 70 degrees instead of 85, and the afternoons are only 90 instead of 100+. I ain't complainin'.
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser

Southern New Mexico would like a piece of this action.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 10:49 PM (cog7k)

122 Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons
@GuthrieGF
Reporter: “Would you all be willing to talk a little bit more about your religion?”
@Tim_Walz: “We’re Lutherans, we don’t talk about religion much.”

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Or act on it either.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 03, 2024 10:50 PM (L/fGl)

123 Neighbor has piglets that get into my yard.This morning I banged the window at one and yelled at him. I swear he had a terrified look on him just like Walz when he ran away.

Posted by: Lord Percy at October 03, 2024 10:51 PM (/cBnn)

124 Jason Brodsky @JasonMBrodsky 4h
#BREAKING: reports indicating #Israel has targeted #Hezbollah executive council head Hashem Safieddine and a leading candidate to replace Hassan Nasrallah tonight in an airstrike.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 3h
And you thought your job sucked.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain 3h
Looks like #Israel got the whole Hezbollah Shura Council that was meeting to elect Safieddine as Nasrallah's successor. This makes me think that Israel knew where Safieddine has been, all along, and was waiting for this meeting to take them out wholesale, instead of one by one.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 03, 2024 10:52 PM (CEzQx)

125 Just stack 'em there next to the pallets of water, O2 tanks, insulin, food, blankets, etc. As soon as FEMA gets settled into their hotels, they will get around to it.
Posted by: Diogenes

The storm victims are just going to have to wait. The migrants need cable TV.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 03, 2024 10:53 PM (L/fGl)

126 Neighbor has piglets that get into my yard.

Don't screw up, go outside, and pet one. You'll end up attached. They can be pretty damn smart.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:53 PM (mner0)

127 Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain 3h
Looks like #Israel got the whole Hezbollah Shura Council that was meeting to elect Safieddine as Nasrallah's successor. This makes me think that Israel knew where Safieddine has been, all along, and was waiting for this meeting to take them out wholesale, instead of one by one.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 03, 2024 10:52 PM (CEzQx)

Detonation H! It wipes out Hezbolloids in one application!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:53 PM (m2qNJ)

128 I can't tell you how many hours of my life I wasted in gas lines because of that asshole but it was a lot.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 10:48 PM (cog7k)

Parents had two cars, with odd/even consecutive plates. I remember those lines well.

Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 10:54 PM (gKDq2)

129 Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain 3h
Looks like #Israel got the whole Hezbollah Shura Council that was meeting to elect Safieddine as Nasrallah's successor. This makes me think that Israel knew where Safieddine has been, all along, and was waiting for this meeting to take them out wholesale, instead of one by one.
Posted by: andycanuck

Note to self: never piss off the Hebrews. Never. This is great news!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 10:54 PM (cog7k)

130 They can be pretty damn smart.
Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:53 PM (mner0)

Tasty, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:54 PM (m2qNJ)

131 I was 14 when Carter boycotted the 1980 Olympics. I hated him for that.

I voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 10:54 PM (AqmFA)

132 Will the endorsement of Liz Cheney or a comatose Jimmy Carter really help kumala?
I'm not seeing it.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 03, 2024 10:21 PM (Lo97M)

Dead people. She is supported by dead people nailed to boards to make them seem alive.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2024 10:54 PM (D7oie)

133 As much as I want Kamala to lose in a totally embarrassing manner, I do find it a little untoward to be rooting for the misery of our fellow citizens because it might give us a political advantage. I'm glad the docks are open and our supply chain isn't being interrupted.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 03, 2024 10:54 PM (yfe4c)

134 120 Isn't Tucker Carlson an heir to the Schwanson's fortune?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 03, 2024 10:46 PM (tIR9w)

AFAIK Schwan's has no connection to Swanson.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:49 PM (m2qNJ)

Heh.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 03, 2024 10:54 PM (tIR9w)

135 Pennsylvania weather in the fall and winter is shitty. Go visit Philly in January or Altoona in February. The weather sucks. Read that article. Apparently Green Bay is worse. Whatever.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 03, 2024 10:25 PM (/Djer)

Hello?

Posted by: Buffalo NY at October 03, 2024 10:55 PM (nIl3+)

136 Parents had two cars, with odd/even consecutive plates. I remember those lines well.

Funny. I can't tell you how many people - including my Union Democrat Parents - who willfully did not remember those days. Even though it was documented.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:55 PM (mner0)

137 Looks like #Israel got the whole Hezbollah Shura Council that was meeting to elect Safieddine as Nasrallah's successor. This makes me think that Israel knew where Safieddine has been, all along, and was waiting for this meeting to take them out wholesale, instead of one by one.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 03, 2024 10:52 PM (CEzQx)

This was the overall strategy of "A Desert Called Peace" by Tom Kratman. Apparently that is what it looks like IRL

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2024 10:55 PM (D7oie)

138 131 I was 14 when Carter boycotted the 1980 Olympics. I hated him for that.

I voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 10:54 PM (AqmFA)

Smart lady. I couldn't wait to vote for him then, either.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 03, 2024 10:56 PM (tIR9w)

139 Robert

Check AnimEigo

They are going to release again Bubblegum Crisis collection that includes the live action short "Holiday in Bali"

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 10:56 PM (NX+wh)

140 Have had Schwan's trucks coming to our area for about 60 years. When I was growing up, we had our cousins come occasionally, and the 5 gallon Chocolate Marshmallow ripple was a must! That was when Schwan's mostly carried ice cream and treats-no meals back then. We established wonderful relationships with them over the years.
Will miss seeing the yellow trucks coming and going in our rural area. They truly were a special part of my childhood! Their food was expensive, but some of the meals were great for a quick supper for only 2 people.

Posted by: miss lurk'ette at October 03, 2024 10:56 PM (mLJwj)

141 127 Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain 3h
Looks like #Israel got the whole Hezbollah Shura Council that was meeting to elect Safieddine as Nasrallah's successor. This makes me think that Israel knew where Safieddine has been, all along, and was waiting for this meeting to take them out wholesale, instead of one by one.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 03, 2024 10:52 PM (CEzQx)

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In addition to being awesome, it was an economically-sound decision.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2024 10:56 PM (+o2mc)

142 Western NY has some real shitty weather.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 03, 2024 10:57 PM (Ncg2N)

143 They can be pretty damn smart.
Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:53 PM (mner0)

Tasty, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:54 PM (m2qNJ)

Why I garden instead of dabble in livestock. I'd end up petting them.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:57 PM (mner0)

144 The one thing that Tim Walz accomplished in his disastrous debate performance is he created single-handedly the Gamma male classification.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 10:57 PM (cog7k)

145 NBC News: GOP Likely to Appoint More Justices if Trump Wins

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Those bastards!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 03, 2024 10:57 PM (L/fGl)

146 115
Didn't we have gas lines and odd/even in 1974? That was still Nixon right?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le file per la benzina erano lunghe at October 03, 2024 10:57 PM (qfLjt)

147 Lake Lure couple reunited (after heli pilot threatened with arrest a few days ago.)
https://tinyurl.com/435n6b2b

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 03, 2024 10:58 PM (Rbu5d)

148 126 Neighbor has piglets that get into my yard.

Don't screw up, go outside, and pet one. You'll end up attached. They can be pretty damn smart.
Posted by: Paying Attention

Adopt him and name it Tasty.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 10:58 PM (AqmFA)

149 Faggots for Vance. And they pay attention to politics. That's how shallow the American electorate is.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 03, 2024 10:58 PM (QP3yt)

150 Diddy is going to be enjoyed in prison.
Heh.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at October 03, 2024 10:58 PM (etTpa)

151 Funny. I can't tell you how many people - including my Union Democrat Parents - who willfully did not remember those days. Even though it was documented.
Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:55 PM (mner0)

If that sort of gas rationing came into being here, I would be setting up a pump to drain my vehicle's tank into a row of 55 gallon drums, so I could build my own stockpile of fuel. As soon as "scarcity" is imposed, it behooves us to hoard the product.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 10:59 PM (m2qNJ)

152 >>> 113 Fall does mean something in Texas. It means mornings are only like 70 degrees instead of 85, and the afternoons are only 90 instead of 100+. I ain't complainin'.
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 03, 2024 10:48 PM (Ij2uN)

Our overnight low tonight is forecast to be below 60 degrees.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 03, 2024 10:59 PM (FnneF)

153 It's sad that younger people don't read books. What do they think that an iPad is for? They don't realize what they're missing.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 03, 2024 10:59 PM (0Htd1)

154 Reuters
@Reuters
The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, the International Court of Justice and UN chief Antonio Guterres are among the favorites for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, experts said, in a year marked by the wars in Gaza and Ukraine

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The talent competition will be bomb building.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 03, 2024 11:00 PM (L/fGl)

155 Adopt him and name it Tasty.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 10:58 PM (AqmFA)

You should be a River Otter Rancher. I think you've got the aptitude for it.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:00 PM (mner0)

156 If you going to store gas fuel.

Keep away from anything that may detonate it. And since E90 is far more common, get the fuel stabilizers to keep the water out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:00 PM (NX+wh)

157 The talent competition will be bomb building.

Achmed the Clock Boy has a lock.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:01 PM (NX+wh)

158 I named my Honda Trail 125 Piglet. I'm not sure how that's relevant to the the discussion, but there you go.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 11:01 PM (cog7k)

159 Funny. I can't tell you how many people - including my Union Democrat Parents - who willfully did not remember those days. Even though it was documented.
Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 10:55 PM (mner0)

I remember the rationing, the lines, the bullshit lectures while he wore his sweater. A true asshole.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 11:01 PM (W/lyH)

160 154 Reuters
@Reuters
The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, the International Court of Justice and UN chief Antonio Guterres are among the favorites for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, experts said, in a year marked by the wars in Gaza and Ukraine

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Those Oslo clowns incinerated their credibility when they handed ine of their stupid trinkets to Arafat.

Then they doubled down by giving one to Oblowme for, uh, being black.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2024 11:02 PM (+o2mc)

161 That should be an ad.

Smoking crater in Lebanon. "One bomb kills them all."

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:03 PM (NX+wh)

162 Carter also gave us the Malaise Index.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:03 PM (NX+wh)

163 Reading books and playing outside. Two things kids should do.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 03, 2024 11:04 PM (Ncg2N)

164 Israel should have a massive billboard that lists every Hezbolah scum they eliminate. Updated hourly and a 24/7 feed to the internet.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at October 03, 2024 11:04 PM (etTpa)

165 >>>It's pretty horrible when I wish I could live where I work. All I'd really need is a pillow. And a place to hide the beers.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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Get a water pistol. Shoot him with the water pistol every time you see him until he surrenders.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 03, 2024 11:04 PM (QP3yt)

166 I remember the rationing, the lines, the bullshit lectures while he wore his sweater. A true asshole.
Posted by: Diogenes

He wasn't the only asshole.
"Courage."

Posted by: Dan 'I'm a hack' Rather at October 03, 2024 11:04 PM (WXNFJ)

167 That should be an ad.

Smoking crater in Lebanon. "One bomb kills them all."
Posted by: Anna Puma

The roaches check in but they don't check out!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 03, 2024 11:04 PM (L/fGl)

168 145 NBC News: GOP Likely to Appoint More Justices if Trump Wins

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Those bastards!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 03, 2024 10:57 PM (L/fGl)

Please, stop! I'm already going to be voting for the guy.

On a serious note, Trump will need to replace Clarence Thomas once he's in office. Who could possibly replace him? If Trump is The Indispensable Man, Clarence is the other one.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 03, 2024 11:05 PM (tIR9w)

169 >>> The Longshoremen union strike is now over after a tentative agreement was made on wages.

WTF am I going to do with all this toilet paper?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 03, 2024 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)

170 I remember the rationing, the lines, the bullshit lectures while he wore his sweater. A true asshole.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 11:01 PM (W/lyH)

The Misery Index. I remember, because I was just a couple grades in but doing pretty well ... running pretty basic math on interest rates and figuring out pretty quick "Damn, how can anyone afford this" ?

Yet ... in 1980 ... all my same Poor White Trash family worrying about this nutty fuck from California that used to be on TV ending the world. Even though they'd piss and puke and moan about the poor Americans in blindfolds on TV every night for about a year or more.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:06 PM (mner0)

171 WTF am I going to do with all this toilet paper?

Milo Minderbinder has an answer - "Chocolate coated toilet paper."

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:07 PM (NX+wh)

172 I worked nights. Two A.M., no lines, no odd or even. Just gasup and go.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 03, 2024 11:07 PM (QP3yt)

173 Ted Koppel, "America Held Hostage: Day 444."

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:08 PM (NX+wh)

174 On a serious note, Trump will need to replace Clarence Thomas once he's in office. Who could possibly replace him? If Trump is The Indispensable Man, Clarence is the other one.

Easy ... we put the head of Janice Rogers Brown on a robot.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:08 PM (mner0)

175 Breaking911 @Breaking911 16m
Trump campaign releases new ad of Kamala Harris repeatedly pledging to raise taxes

https://tinyurl.com/466cacej
1:31 minutes; also features Kamala's plethora of fake accents and her carbon tax.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 03, 2024 11:09 PM (CEzQx)

176 You think you have problems traveling by air?

More than 80 flights were cancelled at Miyazaki Airport in Japan when a 500lb bomb dropped by the US in WWII exploded, blasting a crater in a taxiway.

Luckily no one was injured.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:10 PM (NX+wh)

177 WTF am I going to do with all this toilet paper?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 03, 2024 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)

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Got any neighbors you hate?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2024 11:10 PM (+o2mc)

178 The only thing I remember that I approved of from the whole Iran crisis in '79, and the gas shortages - a billboard (I assume paid for by the feds?) that pictured a glowering Ayatollah Khomeini, in his black robe and turban, with the words "Strike back. Drive 55."

Not saying I approved of the substance, but it was clever, and funny.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:11 PM (GcNJ2)

179 It took Biden 10 seconds to register that the “storm” a reporter asked about was Hurricane Helene.

https://tinyurl.com/43tpt2xb

Posted by: Braenyard at October 03, 2024 11:11 PM (QP3yt)

180 More than 80 flights were cancelled at Miyazaki Airport in Japan when a 500lb bomb dropped by the US in WWII exploded, blasting a crater in a taxiway.

That's what happens when you attack Pearl Harbor. We never forget.

*watching you*

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:11 PM (mner0)

181 On a serious note, Trump will need to replace Clarence Thomas once he's in office. Who could possibly replace him? If Trump is The Indispensable Man, Clarence is the other one.

I'd simply ask a few questions - Where'd you get your law degree?

"Yale"

GTFO

Will you overturn Griggs v. Duke Power Co.?

Well, that is a difficult. . . .

GTFO

etc.

Posted by: Dan 'I'm a hack' Rather at October 03, 2024 11:12 PM (WXNFJ)

182 I named my Honda Trail 125 Piglet. I'm not sure how that's relevant to the the discussion, but there you go.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 11:01 PM (cog7k)

My wife's last pig she raised for 4H was named Chocolate Chip. She says the earlier ones she named after her friends, since at the beginning she was not that clear what the purpose was.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2024 11:12 PM (D7oie)

183 Then they doubled down by giving one to Oblowme for, uh, being black.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 03, 2024 11:02 PM (+o2mc)

they gave him the prize for not being Bush

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2024 11:12 PM (D7oie)

184 Rhomboid

Prefer to remember Leslie Nielson in one of his Police Squad movies punching Khomeini and making his turban fly off to reveal a purple mohawk.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:12 PM (NX+wh)

185
FBI charges five Chinese nationals after the group was caught spying on a military base… but waits until they’re out of custody
_AmericanThinker

Posted by: Braenyard at October 03, 2024 11:13 PM (QP3yt)

186 Leading Report @LeadingReport 1h
BREAKING: Former President Trump: “Liz Cheney is a stupid Warhawk. All she wants to do is shoot missiles at people.”

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 03, 2024 11:14 PM (CEzQx)

187 Can I train them to keep out of my yard ?

Posted by: Lord Percy at October 03, 2024 11:14 PM (/cBnn)

188 At the beginning of the Carter administration, I was still in the stoner philosophy poster phase of my life. By the end of the Carter administration I was a stone cold conservative. Since then I've I have only become more intransigent. With that I have conclude that Carter's administration wasn't a total failure.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 11:14 PM (cog7k)

189 My wife's last pig she raised for 4H was named Chocolate Chip.

I couldn't do it. Seriously. And I hunt a little, fish a lot ... and I obviously know where steak and pork and chicken come from and love 'em all.

Couldn't do it. I'd end up doing the Haitian thing and killing something wild in the public park before I could raise something, over a period of months, to butcher it.

Not a brag. Its a mental thing, I guess.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:15 PM (mner0)

190 More than 80 flights were cancelled at Miyazaki Airport in Japan when a 500lb bomb dropped by the US in WWII exploded, blasting a crater in a taxiway.

Luckily no one was injured.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:10 PM (NX+wh)

Long time for UXB to go undetected in such a busy environment. I can see a field and the isolated like having some explosive device from the war, but not an airport taxiway. Lucky is the word.

Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 11:15 PM (gKDq2)

191 I got nothing.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 03, 2024 11:16 PM (Aqu9a)

192 I was in Miyazaki a year ago (not at the airport). It's interesting, seems there has been a lot less UXO stuff in Japan than Germany over the decades (in the latter, I think it's a routine aspect of major construction sites in larger cities). I think a sea mine went off in Naha harbor (Okinawa) in the early 90s, with a fatality. I know that Marine ordnance people and JSDF ordnance people still explore caves (ultimately, all looking to find the remains of Gen. Ushijima as the holy grail), and use it as practice, as they frequently find unexploded stuff.

You can readily see, as you drive down the Miyazaki coast, how it was picked as the main invasion beach area for Operation Olympic. Huge, flat, beaches, with little relief in the terrain behind them.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:16 PM (GcNJ2)

193 Lots of perverted details at the link if you want to go look. I'm not going to quote them.

That site instantly redirects to one of those bullshit "your phone is infected" scam sites. Just FYI.

Posted by: Diddy bad, link bad too at October 03, 2024 11:17 PM (OClqp)

194 More than 80 flights were cancelled at Miyazaki Airport in Japan when a 500lb bomb dropped by the US in WWII exploded, blasting a crater in a taxiway.

That's what happens when you attack Pearl Harbor. We never forget.

*watching you*
Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:11 PM (mner0)
***

And we have a hydrogen bomb lost in the mud off Savannah GA.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 11:17 PM (W/lyH)

195 Former President Trump: “Liz Cheney is a stupid Warhawk. All she wants to do is shoot missiles at people.”

The old bastard annoys me. I doubt I could sit at a table with him for five minutes. But then he puts out gems like this, and I mark my calendar to cast a useless vote for him out of spite - regardless of the shit show that election day will be.

The man must be elected - he fights. With snark.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:17 PM (mner0)

196 Yes Anna, that was great!

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:18 PM (GcNJ2)

197 Long time for UXB to go undetected in such a busy environment. I can see a field and the isolated like having some explosive device from the war, but not an airport taxiway. Lucky is the word.
Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 11:15 PM (gKDq2)

Bob Hope wrote about being driven around Berlin just after the end of the war, the jeep he was riding in kept hitting bumps in the road. He asked what they were and his Army driver told him they were duds, but the army was getting teams together to dig them up

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2024 11:19 PM (D7oie)

198 >>> Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.

I guess I had the 'knack' - could could math, science, and engineering like people who actully like literature can read those books.
Yup, read the calc, diffy-q, whatever text and take the test, pass...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 03, 2024 11:20 PM (/lPRQ)

199 Heh. Many, many years ago, a friend had a pair of pigs, named Dan and Rhoda, named after one of my cousins and his wife. (long, pointless story omitted)

I had some Rhoda bacon, it was yummy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 11:20 PM (m2qNJ)

200 In FY 2023, the JSDF disposed of a total of 2,348 bombs totaling 37.5 tonnes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:20 PM (NX+wh)

201 14 Last call for Tits U. before I switch the Stupid Phone back to wifi.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at October 03, 2024 10:06 PM (TITsU)

---

I had a friend who went to TITsU, they are big rivals with Moorehead State.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 03, 2024 11:22 PM (zzdrL)

202 Pertinent. Have told this one before. Back in the 90s a friend was on a lecture tour in Japan, sponsored by their foreign ministry (trade issues). He toured the "peace museum" in Hiroshima, with his foreign ministry handler. The guy asks him as they exit, "well, what do you think?".

My friend: "I guess you'll never attack us again."

Sort of useless to try to beat that one. The guide - he's Japanese, so of course a muted response - made his best poker face and said something like "well that's true" while probably hiding his real shock best he could.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:22 PM (GcNJ2)

203 The old bastard annoys me. I doubt I could sit at a table with him for five minutes. But then he puts out gems like this, and I mark my calendar to cast a useless vote for him out of spite - regardless of the shit show that election day will be.

The man must be elected - he fights. With snark.
Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:17 PM (mner0)

Sat at a table next to his while he chatted with some.friends and the friend's elderly mother. This was before politics. He was a complete gentleman.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 11:23 PM (W/lyH)

204
Couldn't do it. I'd end up doing the Haitian thing and killing something wild in the public park before I could raise something, over a period of months, to butcher it.

Not a brag. Its a mental thing, I guess.
Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:15 PM (mner0)

You are like my dad. We raised cattle - angus and charolais. He took one steer to slaughter that we had hand raised, and couldn't eat the meat. Couldn't take it from the processor, and left it with him to sell. After that, we had 150 very large pets and bought our meat at Safeway. He was no kind of rancher.

Posted by: Moki at October 03, 2024 11:23 PM (wLjpr)

205 Mark Felton

Goring bomb Exeter 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H-jWKuwFhA

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:23 PM (NX+wh)

206 Anna - is that WWII ordnance you refer to being disposed?

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:23 PM (GcNJ2)

207 >>> The Longshoremen union strike is now over after a tentative agreement was made on wages.

WTF am I going to do with all this toilet paper?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

4 weeks to Halloween! Free Mummy costumes for Mannix girls!

Posted by: mikeski at October 03, 2024 11:24 PM (DgGvY)

208 Lake Lure couple reunited (after heli pilot threatened with arrest a few days ago.)
https://tinyurl.com/435n6b2b
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 03, 2024 10:58 PM (Rbu5d)

And just as you might expect, the Fire Chief that threatened to arrest the pilot is a fat fucking retard with a one inch micro-penis that only gets hard when he's on a power trip. Nice mustache. Makes him look like a giant faggot.

Since when can firemen arrest people? If I were that pilot I'd have just smiled and said, "Okay, sir," and just gone about doing what needed to be done.

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2024 11:25 PM (UAtqS)

209 Please kill me if I ever eat chik fil a again

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 03, 2024 11:25 PM (qMyrh)

210 He asked what they were and his Army driver told him they were duds, but the army was getting teams together to dig them up.
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Mandatory:
https://tinyurl.com/mpusu5ke

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 03, 2024 11:25 PM (CEzQx)

211 209 Please kill me if I ever eat chik fil a again
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 03, 2024 11:25 PM (qMyrh)

Why? What happened??

Posted by: Moki at October 03, 2024 11:26 PM (wLjpr)

212 Rhomboid that was part of a news article from AP/Reuters on the Miyazaki bomb explosion.

So, I guess so.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:26 PM (NX+wh)

213 My own reaction after touring the Hiroshima peace museum - "wasn't as bad as I expected". Was surprised at the good and fairly extensive section near the front where bomb physics and mechanics were explained.

Nagasaki museum is smaller, and not bad. Especially good are the recordings of witnesses/survivors at the end. The Australian POWs interviews (they were in the area August 9) were very interesting.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:27 PM (GcNJ2)

214 I guess I had the 'knack' - could could math, science, and engineering like people who actully like literature can read those books.
Yup, read the calc, diffy-q, whatever text and take the test, pass...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 03, 2024 11:20 PM (/lPRQ)

I'm jealous. I love math. Algebra, geometry, but when I got to calculus, I hit the wall. It was Greek. All Greek.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 11:27 PM (W/lyH)

215 Sort of useless to try to beat that one.

I honestly have a similar story ... kind of.

When I first started working ... they stuck me out on a job, way over my head, trying to run a small job at Toyota in Ft. Branch, IN (they call it Princeton, it ain't).

There was a pipefitter - I won't say his name - literally on his last job. He's retiring in a couple days. Great dude - gave me a ton of good advice. But he's on a ladder doing something I don't understand, and I'm inside a controls cabinet trying to do what I do.

A group of Japanese managers are walking around - and they ask old fitter "Bathroom". It's December 7 - I shit you not.

Old dude says "You found Pearl Harbor well enough, find the pisser yourself".

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:28 PM (mner0)

216 They are going to release again Bubblegum Crisis collection that includes the live action short "Holiday in Bali"
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 10:56 PM (NX+wh)

Crisis or Crash? I know they're re-releasing Bubblegum Crash with a fancy new restoration.

Posted by: Robert at October 03, 2024 11:28 PM (UAtqS)

217 Leading Report @LeadingReport 10h
BREAKING: Dominican Republic says it will begin massive deportations of Haitians living illegally in the country, aiming to expel up to 10,000 of them per week

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 03, 2024 11:28 PM (CEzQx)

218 Trump is winning. Bigly.

Let not your hearts be troubled.

Posted by: Shenanigans at October 03, 2024 11:28 PM (wGun1)

219 197 Kindl

A 500 pound dud dropped in 1943 went off in Japan yesterday. Nothing caused it to explode. It just decided to blow up on its own, 81 years after it was dropped.

Posted by: mnw at October 03, 2024 11:29 PM (NLIak)

220 As for replacing Clarence Thomas.

The only person I trust to carry on his legacy is Ted Cruz. I know he's said he doesn't want it, but how many more squeaker elections does he have in him?

Go to the bench, Ted. Be the conservative stalwart for the next thirty years.

Posted by: Shenanigans at October 03, 2024 11:30 PM (wGun1)

221 My own reaction after touring the Hiroshima peace museum - "wasn't as bad as I expected". Was surprised at the good and fairly extensive section near the front where bomb physics and mechanics were explained.

Nagasaki museum is smaller, and not bad. Especially good are the recordings of witnesses/survivors at the end. The Australian POWs interviews (they were in the area August 9) were very interesting.
Posted by: rhomboid

You should go to the Trinity site in New Mexico (It's only open twice a year for one day each time). Last time I was there you could buy t-shirts and a hamburger. The line to take a group photo in front of the ground zero obelisk was 30 minutes. As for solemn history presentations, there just isn't any. 'Murica!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 11:31 PM (cog7k)

222 If you want your kids to love reading, read aloud to them when they're small. All sorts of books: Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books; Kipling's "Just So" stories; the D'Aulaires' books of Greek and Norse myths (with their wonderful illustrations); "The Hobbit"; "Treasure Island"; "The Peterkin Papers"; and many, many more -- read to them, and they'll grow up loving reading. That, and turn off the goddam TV!

Posted by: Nemo at October 03, 2024 11:31 PM (S6ArX)

223 If "Holiday in Bali" is included, we are talking Bubblegum Crisis.

AnimEigo is calling it Bubblegum Crisis Perfect Collection.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:31 PM (NX+wh)

224 A 500 pound dud dropped in 1943 went off in Japan yesterday. Nothing caused it to explode. It just decided to blow up on its own, 81 years after it was dropped.
Posted by: mnw at October 03, 2024 11:29 PM (NLIak)

Initiative like that needs to be rewarded.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 11:32 PM (m2qNJ)

225 A 500 pound dud dropped in 1943 went off in Japan yesterday. Nothing caused it to explode. It just decided to blow up on its own, 81 years after it was dropped.
Posted by: mnw at October 03, 2024 11:29 PM (NLIak)

There are a lot of them out there, still.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2024 11:32 PM (D7oie)

226 But the funniest Japanese war museum experience, easily, was in 2006, at the Yasukuni Shrine museum (this is the shrine that Japanese PMs visit and the heathen Chineee and the Koh-reans go batshit). Excellent museum. Amazing artifacts (beautiful Zero).

There was an exhibit on the war in China. OK, I thought, this should be spicy.

Sure enough. Nanjing. A large montage of photos, flanked by panels of text on either side (Japanese/English). Key part, after describing the battles, and siege: "then the Japanese Army entered the city, and life returned to normal".

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Normal = beheading contests, mass rape, biological warfare experiments, you know, *that* sort of normal. Weeks later I read that Beijing - bizarrely, via the US embassy in Tokyo - had protested the exhibit, and I think it was changed to remove the crazy s**t.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:33 PM (GcNJ2)

227 The only person I trust to carry on his legacy is Ted Cruz. I know he's said he doesn't want it, but how many more squeaker elections does he have in him?

Go to the bench, Ted. Be the conservative stalwart for the next thirty years.

Its a great idea. I don't think he'd be as right wing as some might like - but I think he'd be really good.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:34 PM (mner0)

228 Me and Tim say Nuke them all in the Middle East and then use their glowing asses as runway lights to land the B-52/B-2 Bombers on Guam.

Posted by: Kamal Harris at October 03, 2024 11:35 PM (BSF0H)

229 Alteria, long on my list to do, plan to do it. Have a family connection to the Manhattan Project. Older brother swears, when we are all young, that we had a piece of trinitite around the house (greenish glass fused with sand). Unfortunately I was too young to remember something like that.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:35 PM (GcNJ2)

230 Last video... yeah... me....

Tired of the 'you have to be peaceful' shit when they all want to control what I do, and what I think.

As the GREAT Sean Connery once said ' Well, if you have tried everything else, and women are pretty good at this, that they can't leave it alone. They don't — they want to have the last word. And you give them the last word but they're not happy with the last word. They want to say it again and get into a really provocative situation. Then I think it's absolutely right.

This too, is the story of the current US bullshit.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 03, 2024 11:35 PM (QAkQ3)

231 Sen. Kennedy (LA) would be at most entertaining Supreme Court Justice.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 11:36 PM (cog7k)

232 BREAKING: Dominican Republic says it will begin massive deportations of Haitians living illegally in the country, aiming to expel up to 10,000 of them per week

They are welcome to relocate to Florida, Texas, North Carolina and the Gulf Coast but not New York and Martha Vineyard...

Posted by: Kamal Harris at October 03, 2024 11:36 PM (BSF0H)

233 I'm jealous. I love math. Algebra, geometry, but when I got to calculus, I hit the wall. It was Greek. All Greek.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 11:27 PM

It was all Greek to a guy named Diogenes?

I assume that means you perfectly understood calculus!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 03, 2024 11:38 PM (HlyYF)

234 Why? What happened??
Posted by: Moki

Oh, just muh tummy is very unhappy

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 03, 2024 11:38 PM (dE3DB)

235 A 500 pound dud dropped in 1943 went off in Japan yesterday. Nothing caused it to explode. It just decided to blow up on its own, 81 years after it was dropped.

Damn thing should get a commendation.

*salute*

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:38 PM (mner0)

236 Only about 300,000 killed in Nanjing.

See, perfectly normal.

Japanese tour guide.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:38 PM (NX+wh)

237 A group of Japanese managers are walking around - and they ask old fitter "Bathroom". It's December 7 - I shit you not.

Old dude says "You found Pearl Harbor well enough, find the pisser yourself".

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 03, 2024 11:28 PM

I hope I find my last day on the job to be equally liberating!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 03, 2024 11:39 PM (HlyYF)

238
Things settling down back to normal. Lots of clean up to do in and around the house. 6 days, 10 hours without power.

And I want to say I was impressed this morning. Sometime around 11AM, a bucket truck brigade arrived down my road. The main line had been reenergized for maybe close to two days. They'd opened up the tees and spurs, to come back later. Mine was today.

Tree in front of my mothers took out a single phase line (a few hundred feet of 3-phase to my shop, and then single phase on down the road). I thought two poles there were gone, insulators ripped off the top.

In less than an hour, that crew had re-strung the whole thing all the way down to an older housing division, then spent several more hours there, fixing shit, and they had to replace some poles there.

They were fast as hell, and I still can't believe it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 03, 2024 11:40 PM (w6EFb)

239 When I went to the Eritrean embassy in DC to get my visa in the 90s, they had a handout for tourists. In the camping section, and I quote verbatim from memory because you don't forget something like this:

"Due to the presence of land mines, camping cannot be recommended"

Well you don't see that every day.

Several times I had to advise my friends (normal people with little exposure to such topics) to stay on the road when we were at vista points on the highway south towards Ethiopia - rusting military detritus and remnants of sand bags clearly visible - "yeah this view is great - ya think this spot was fought over during the war?".

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:40 PM (GcNJ2)

240 I'm jealous. I love math. Algebra, geometry, but when I got to calculus, I hit the wall. It was Greek. All Greek.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 11:27 PM

It was all Greek to a guy named Diogenes?

I assume that means you perfectly understood calculus!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 03, 2024 11:38 PM (HlyYF)
***

Good point. But yeah. Total brain freeze. Instant numeral dyslexia.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 11:41 PM (W/lyH)

241 Gay guys see "signals" from every straight celeb they have the hots for.

Posted by: steevy at October 03, 2024 11:41 PM (HJ9BW)

242 A 500 pound dud dropped in 1943 went off in Japan yesterday. Nothing caused it to explode. It just decided to blow up on its own, 81 years after it was dropped.

Posted by: mnw at October 03, 2024 11:29 PM

Sure would be a tragedy if Wray was storing those January 6th pipe bombs in his desk drawer!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 03, 2024 11:41 PM (HlyYF)

243 Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:33 PM (GcNJ2)

I used to be stationed in Hawaii, and was working out on Ford Island, so had to take the Fairy to work, which embarked in the same parking lot as the USS Arizona Memorial. My roommate was a Hard Hat Dive instructor, whose school was also out on Ford Island.

We were in workin uniform one day, waiting on the Fairy, when an old Japanese couple walked up and asked "excuse, where is Arizona Memorial'...

To which my roommate replies (and I'm not kiddin) 'right in the Fucking Harbor, where you left it'.

Now... I know this sounds like a No Shitter... but... the BEST Sea Stories, are the ones that actually happened that no one will believe.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 03, 2024 11:41 PM (QAkQ3)

244 On a serious note, Trump will need to replace Clarence Thomas once he's in office. Who could possibly replace him? If Trump is The Indispensable Man, Clarence is the other one.

I'd simply ask a few questions - Where'd you get your law degree?
"Yale"
GTFO

Will you overturn Griggs v. Duke Power Co.?
Well, that is a difficult. . . .
GTFO

etc.
Posted by: Tonypete [socking Dan 'I'm a hack' Rather]

The Court could use some common sense. So when he gets to replace one of the libs, it should go like this:

Do you have a law degree?
"Of course, from....."
GTFO.

Put a businessman, or an engineer, or an excavator operator on there to slap some sense into the Ivory Tower dwellers.

Posted by: mikeski at October 03, 2024 11:41 PM (DgGvY)

245 Schwans also made the rectangle pizza that was a staple of my school lunches.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 03, 2024 11:42 PM (YrJQs)

246
They didn't replace those poles in front of my mother's. They just sawed the tops off, and put up new insulators. It doesn't look as pretty, but the poles would hold. There will be a lot of inspection and testing, and maybe replacing later on, but the goal was to get power on and worry about that shit later. If it would hold for a while, shore things up and go.

The crew that did it wasn't from around here, didn't notice where they were from, but their accents weren't from around here, of course. I thanked them profusely, shook their hands, and had a big time with 'em.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 03, 2024 11:42 PM (w6EFb)

247 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 11:42 PM (v6JzV)

248 I don't think that continuing to back the Shah was a viable option by the time Carter took office in '77.

Under tremendous political pressure, the Shah permitted the election of a parliament, but it was too little, too late. He was perceived as a colonial era puppet.

As for the DR deporting Haitians, when did they ever NOT? Under Trujillo, there were sometimes massacres, as well as mass deportations. You wanna read about a REAL white supremacist? You can't go wrong with Rafael Trujillo.

Posted by: mnw at October 03, 2024 11:43 PM (NLIak)

249 Mike Rowe for the Supreme Court

What would the body count be?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:43 PM (NX+wh)

250 68
I seem to remember one of the things Schwan’s delivered were gigantic tins of potato chips.

That sounds like Charles Chips.

https://t.ly/qQhM6
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 03, 2024 10:27 PM

I loved Charles Chips! The potato chips and chocolate chip cookies. Yummy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at October 03, 2024 11:43 PM (rbKZ6)

251 Alteria, long on my list to do, plan to do it. Have a family connection to the Manhattan Project. Older brother swears, when we are all young, that we had a piece of trinitite around the house (greenish glass fused with sand). Unfortunately I was too young to remember something like that.
Posted by: rhomboid

Check the White Sands Military Reservation website for dates. It's in a very rural area of New Mexico. If you were to do that, you would want to combine this a trip to the Great Array (The radio telescope in many science fiction movies for the last 50 years), The No Scum Allowed Saloon in White oak, a trip to the Smokey Bear museum in Capitan and finally a trip to Billy the Kid land in Lincoln. Lincoln is in a time warp and is virtually unchanged from the late 1880s. After that you could go to Ruidoso to gamble on the quarter horses or head over to Roswell and get fleeced out of your money at all the alien tourist traps.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 11:43 PM (cog7k)

252 Ofc if Jimmy goes before the election he will still be voting for Kamala...

Posted by: steevy at October 03, 2024 11:43 PM (HJ9BW)

253 That “Emhoff” video at the end is hilarious.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 11:44 PM (v6JzV)

254 Posted by: mikeski at October 03, 2024 11:41 PM (DgGvY)

Better? will you overturn Wickard vs. Fillburn... which was the Unconstitutional thing that has led to the overbearing Regulatory state we now have.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 03, 2024 11:44 PM (QAkQ3)

255 Jimmy Carter ensured the Shah would fall.

So all the death and misery Iran has exported since 1979 is Carter's fault.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:45 PM (NX+wh)

256 If a cat lays on you, you cannot move until the cat does.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 03, 2024 10:19 PM (aPY1X)

Which is why you should always have a laser within easy reach.

Posted by: GWB at October 03, 2024 11:45 PM (DDSgs)

257 Good point. But yeah. Total brain freeze. Instant numeral dyslexia.
Posted by: Diogenes

Well, Greeks didn't have numerals, so that's no surprise.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 03, 2024 11:45 PM (gDlxJ)

258 I just started The Revenant. Let's hope my attention span can take a long movie.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 03, 2024 11:46 PM (lhenN)

259 I'm jealous. I love math. Algebra, geometry, but when I got to calculus, I hit the wall. It was Greek. All Greek.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 11:27 PM (W/lyH)

Mine was high school trig, a year before high school calc. Trig was the class that taught me I was never going to be a math major.

Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 11:46 PM (gKDq2)

260 Well, I dug into the wheel alignment on the Suburban. Took the center caps off the wheels, glommed a big ring magnet onto the face of the hub, and glommed my caster-camber gauge onto that. I read 1.5 degrees positive on the right side, and 1.25 degrees on the left. That's within specs. Report from the shop, with their thirty thousand dollar John Bean alignment rack, was -0.2 degrees on the left, and +0.4 degrees on the right. I'm inclined to trust the little bubble-level caster-camber gauge, because it is so simple, it has nothing that could go wrong. But...the vehicle has to be re-tested for the out-of-province inspection. If I simply used my gauge to add in 0.85 degrees of positive camber on the left, would there be any guarantee their rack would read the same?

So I said to myself, fuck it, let them do the alignment, and that will count, labor cost-wise as the re-inspection fee, and if they screw the alignment up, they can fix it.

But I did get the horn working, so there's that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 11:46 PM (0ASg7)

261 I'm jealous. I love math. Algebra, geometry, but when I got to calculus, I hit the wall. It was Greek. All Greek. Posted by: Diogenes

Calculus isn't that hard. It's the algebra and trig to express the calculus that will blow your mind.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 11:46 PM (cog7k)

262 YouTube has The Battle of Britain, so got that playing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 03, 2024 11:46 PM (NX+wh)

263 You are like my dad. We raised cattle - angus and charolais. He took one steer to slaughter that we had hand raised, and couldn't eat the meat. Couldn't take it from the processor, and left it with him to sell. After that, we had 150 very large pets and bought our meat at Safeway. He was no kind of rancher.
****
My dad grew up on a farm and had cows and chickens. My grandmother told me she sent my dad out to get a chicken for dinner. When he didn't come back after an hour she went looking for him. Found him holding the chicken and crying. She never asked him again.

Posted by: Megthered at October 03, 2024 11:46 PM (VihIQ)

264 Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 11:43 PM (cog7k)

Fort Robinson out in Nebraska is also a very cool place to stay... You can rent the quarters they stayed in... but it still has a restaurant and modern destination conveniences.

Been there a couple times.... very very cool

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 03, 2024 11:47 PM (QAkQ3)

265 Leading Report @LeadingReport 10h
BREAKING: Dominican Republic says it will begin massive deportations of Haitians living illegally in the country, aiming to expel up to 10,000 of them per week
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 03, 2024 11:28 PM (CEzQx)

Great. Now they'll just get airlifted to some mid-western town(s).

Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 11:48 PM (gKDq2)

266 259 I'm jealous. I love math. Algebra, geometry, but when I got to calculus, I hit the wall. It was Greek. All Greek.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 03, 2024 11:27 PM (W/lyH)

Mine was high school trig, a year before high school calc. Trig was the class that taught me I was never going to be a math major.
Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 11:46 PM (gKDq2)

Took Calc in High School... didn't get it... took Calc in College... it was my last class before dropping out...

Took Calc in Navy Nuc school... oh... Looky!!! Its a short hand for physics!!!!!! Click.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 03, 2024 11:49 PM (QAkQ3)

267 Thanks Alteria, will write down those recos. I've been to the lab a few times for work, and of course couldn't get in now, but I think there's a museum down at Sandia in Albuquerque. Ruidoso has a famous shooting range.

There are lots of places on my list between here and the Pacific War museum in TX. Probably too many to do in one trip - and might exceed the forbearance of my travel partner, who's pretty good about this stuff.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:49 PM (GcNJ2)

268 Supposed to be able to see the Northern Lights tonight.

Hopefully when I wake up at 1am, I have the wherewithal to walk out to the beach sometimes you can hear it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 11:50 PM (IPC6d)

269 Trump is winning. Bigly.

Let not your hearts be troubled.
Posted by: Shenanigans at October 03, 2024 11:28 PM (wGun1)

Yeah well, 'winning' and 'wins' are two different things.

Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 11:50 PM (gKDq2)

270 The crew that did it wasn't from around here, didn't notice where they were from, but their accents weren't from around here, of course. I thanked them profusely, shook their hands, and had a big time with 'em.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 03, 2024 11:42 PM (w6EFb)

I heard there were crews of Canadian linemen sent south to help.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 11:51 PM (0ASg7)

271 Calculus is witchcraft. Eff that crap.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 11:51 PM (v6JzV)

272 6ixBuzzTV @6ixbuzztv Oct 3
#REPORT: Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep and breeding it.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at October 03, 2024 11:51 PM (CEzQx)

273 DR will be part of the cigar and rum tour I hope to do some day. Probably also some diving and baseball while there. I'll stay well clear of the border fence with Haiti.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:52 PM (GcNJ2)

274 My dad grew up on a farm and had cows and chickens. My grandmother told me she sent my dad out to get a chicken for dinner. When he didn't come back after an hour she went looking for him. Found him holding the chicken and crying. She never asked him again.
Posted by: Megthered at October 03, 2024 11:46 PM (VihIQ)

Your grandmother was a smart and compassionate women!

Posted by: Moki at October 03, 2024 11:52 PM (wLjpr)

275 >>Under tremendous political pressure, the Shah permitted the election of a parliament, but it was too little, too late. He was perceived as a colonial era puppet.

He was.

There has never been and never will be a CIA regime change that won't come back to bite us at some point no matter how righteous we might think it sounds when it happens. We are watching it play out once again in Ukraine.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2024 11:52 PM (LkLld)

276 My dad grew up on a farm and had cows and chickens. My grandmother told me she sent my dad out to get a chicken for dinner. When he didn't come back after an hour she went looking for him. Found him holding the chicken and crying. She never asked him again.

Posted by: Megthered at October 03, 2024 11:46 PM

My grandmother used to give that job to the dog ... to make sure it was done right.

She would go out to the barnyard and point out a specific chicken to the dog. He would catch it and bring it to her gently held in his mouth. She would have to wring the chicken's neck.

She said the dog never brought her the wrong chicken.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 03, 2024 11:52 PM (HlyYF)

277 Alberta Oil Peon,

You're heading south soon! Will I get my squeeze in Corsicana?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 11:52 PM (IPC6d)

278
Another story from today about FEMA and even NC state level emergency. The local talk radio station here, WYRD, has a powerful transmitter. Their signal gets well into the affected NC mountains.

Local host said they were expected feds and state to be requesting they broadcast all sorts of information to help those people up there if they have radios.

Nothing. So they call and ask, tell us what info to broadcast. What do we tell those people to do?

Only response they got was something about "we have volunteers" and "you can go online".

So, those people up there can go online and find all the info they need.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 03, 2024 11:52 PM (w6EFb)

279 AOP, of course you probably know the old Egyptian joke:

Tourist: hey, can you drive us to our hotel?

Cabbie: no, sir, sorry, my cab is broken

Tourist: what's wrong with it?

Cabbie: the horn doesn't work

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:53 PM (GcNJ2)

280 Feel better vmom!

(I can't eat chik fil a either. They use dairy in the batter for the chicken and in the bun, and I'm allergic. I have felt your pain!)

Posted by: Moki at October 03, 2024 11:53 PM (wLjpr)

281 You're heading south soon! Will I get my squeeze in Corsicana?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 11:52 PM (IPC6d)

For sure!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 11:54 PM (0ASg7)

282 271 Calculus is witchcraft. Eff that crap.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

As is organic chemistry

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 03, 2024 11:54 PM (IPC6d)

283 269

Not too sure about the "winning," let alone the "bigly."

My heart IS troubled. If that thing wins, & she very may well, we're going to think of the Biden years as the good old days.

Posted by: mnw at October 03, 2024 11:54 PM (NLIak)

284 >> I heard there were crews of Canadian linemen sent south to help.

Yes, all over the US and Canada too. They've been using large big box and mall parking lots for staging areas, and I've seen the footage. It's massive.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 03, 2024 11:54 PM (w6EFb)

285 Thanks Alteria, will write down those recos. I've been to the lab a few times for work, and of course couldn't get in now, but I think there's a museum down at Sandia in Albuquerque. Ruidoso has a famous shooting range.

There are lots of places on my list between here and the Pacific War museum in TX. Probably too many to do in one trip - and might exceed the forbearance of my travel partner, who's pretty good about this stuff.
Posted by: rhomboid

New Mexico may be run by a bunch of Communists but it is a beautiful place to live. I moved here in 2017 and I made it my business to get to know my new home; I know the state better than most native New Mexicans though I must admit I'm a bit light on the cultural nuances here - those are going to be a lifelong learning experience. You might want to limit the trip to just New Mexico and go at it in detail. You would be well rewarded.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 03, 2024 11:55 PM (cog7k)

286
Another thing that impressed me. By late Saturday, some of the restaurants and food joint in Simpsonville had managed to get reefer trucks in to help save the food in the freezers and coolers.

Whoever got that organized was on the ball. They lost some, but saved the vast majority.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 03, 2024 11:55 PM (w6EFb)

287 282 Hey, Nurse.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 11:56 PM (v6JzV)

288 I may have had the last apple crisp of the year. I may have some winter apples coming on I will try, but I think I just cooked up the last of my Gravenstiens, which are truly the best apple for apple crisp IMHO.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2024 11:56 PM (D7oie)

289 Cabbie: the horn doesn't work

Posted by: rhomboid at October 03, 2024 11:53 PM (GcNJ2)

Hah!

I actually found a Ewetoob video that precisely explained why Chevy and GMc horns often fail, and how to fix them. It was dead-nuts on! Corroded copper contact tabs in the steering wheel. Five-minute fix.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 03, 2024 11:56 PM (0ASg7)

290 Moki, there's something in the yummy spicy chicken that my tummy thinks is poison.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 03, 2024 11:57 PM (dE3DB)

291 Thanks for the break, Morons.

Our sewer line backed up. I only managed to get 85' of snake in before I was exhausted and had to come and get entertained by you folks.

I assume it is the remains of a Kamala word salad that is plugging my sewer!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 03, 2024 11:57 PM (HlyYF)

292 Put a businessman, or an engineer, or an excavator operator on there to slap some sense into the Ivory Tower dwellers.
Posted by: mikeski at October 03, 2024 11:41 PM (DgGvY)

Hey, look, I'm qualified. I bloody well know what a woman is. That's got me one up on ol' Ketanji.

Posted by: RickZ at October 03, 2024 11:58 PM (gKDq2)

293 Robert Barnes. Just to watch heads explode.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2024 11:59 PM (D7oie)

294 Went out and gazed at the sky. Stars are out, but no aurora, yet/

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:01 AM (0ASg7)

295 I actually found a Ewetoob video that precisely explained why Chevy and GMc horns often fail, and how to fix them. It was dead-nuts on! Corroded copper contact tabs in the steering wheel. Five-minute fix.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Sandpaper?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 04, 2024 12:01 AM (cog7k)

296
That reminds me. The first couple of days after this mess, the skies were as dark as I've seen, ever maybe.

Beautiful, and I could make out things easily I've never seen in that detail.

Of course I'll take light pollution and power over dark skies any day.... :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 12:03 AM (w6EFb)

297 y'all missed a helluva football game
anyway, I hear the dock strike is over already? somebody misplayed their hand
the nation's toilet paper supply is safe

Posted by: Don Black at October 04, 2024 12:04 AM (/7KEl)

298 Sandpaper?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 04, 2024 12:01 AM (cog7k)

Bingo. Little scrap of 180 grit. Shined them up nice. And I put a little dab of Grote lamp socket grease on them to retard further corrosion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:04 AM (0ASg7)

299 287 282 Hey, Nurse.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 11:56 PM (v6JzV)

Sorry, but correct Warner Bros Verbiage is?

Helllooooooo Nurse

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 04, 2024 12:04 AM (QAkQ3)

300 I am wondering if the TP preppers of doom yesterday are wondering why they panicked, as poof, the strike is postponed.

All it took was Governor DeSantis announcing he was going to send his National Guard to ports to keep the state of Florida running.

I think he needs to be cloned, or put in charge of emergencies for the nation. Florida governors know how to run hurricanes. His flowsheet was extensive to the finest degree of who was where, what is or has been done (with FPL restoring power), and on and on. The other states did not come close. I am no longer in FL, but I give them credit.

Where was I?

Oh, I was sent a video of the pack mules bringing supplies to hard hit mountain areas of TN and NC. I had already seen the story the other day and loved it.

Next to the video was a facebook story from a lady in TN. She said many schools, sites for donations,were being taken over by the Red Cross and TEMA. Including cash donations. And volunteers of the area kicked out if they did not have "training." WTH?

And, regarding Title 10, which I learned about yesterday and sadly could not sign as I am not the DOD (which, I know is a surprise to y'all)...well. The governor of NC won't

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 04, 2024 12:04 AM (gi+MR)

301
NWS/NOAA posted a satellite image showing the dark swath of Helene's path through here. We looked like North Korea. A black patch from Big Bend on up here and into Western NC.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 12:05 AM (w6EFb)

302 Indian news site on the twatters: "Nasrallah funeral today, as presumed successor vows retaliation against Israel."

Umm, mein Fuhrer .....

I assume that the IDF and Mossad war rooms dealing with leadership targeting now just use white boards and grease pencils, instead of wasting printer paper.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 04, 2024 12:05 AM (GcNJ2)

303 >>You might want to limit the trip to just New Mexico and go at it in detail. You would be well rewarded.

I've only been to New Mexico a couple times for short visits and it is pretty much the exact opposite of what I know and generally am drawn to but for some reason it's a place I want to visit more.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 12:06 AM (LkLld)

304 Indian news site on the twatters: "Nasrallah funeral today, as presumed successor vows retaliation against Israel."

Umm, mein Fuhrer .....

I assume that the IDF and Mossad war rooms dealing with leadership targeting now just use white boards and grease pencils, instead of wasting printer paper.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 04, 2024 12:05 AM (GcNJ2)

Hezbollah needs a sign at the gate to HQ: "___ days since Dear Leader got blown to bits."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:07 AM (0ASg7)

305 I assume that the IDF and Mossad war rooms dealing with leadership targeting now just use white boards and grease pencils, instead of wasting printer paper.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 04, 2024 12:05 AM (GcNJ2)

With the amount of Command and Control of various Hez and Hamas folks show...

Pretty clear Israel somehow infiltrated their communications some time ago... and still have a high level inside source.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 04, 2024 12:07 AM (QAkQ3)

306 I just cooked up the last of my Gravenstiens, which are truly the best apple for apple crisp IMHO.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2024 11:56 PM (D7oie)

Best cooking apple!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 04, 2024 12:08 AM (W/lyH)

307
Wunderground is screwed up, makes me mad. The data the station sent the morning of D-day, Sept 27, isn't displaying now. The data seems to be there in the averages for the day, but the graph and table won't show.

I have it here of course in table form, but Wundeground is just crap about this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 12:08 AM (w6EFb)

308 AOP, excellent. I'm thinking the IDF website should have a countdown clock, or a "count up" clock, for the tenure of the current chief turban of Hezbollah.

Insh'allah the learning curve of Hezb and the IRGC remains flat.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 04, 2024 12:09 AM (GcNJ2)

309 Hezbollah needs a sign at the gate to HQ: "___ days since Dear Leader got blown to bits."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:07 AM (0ASg7)

Hisb'allah.

It always comes back to that, doesn't it?

Posted by: RickZ at October 04, 2024 12:11 AM (gKDq2)

310 I just cooked up the last of my Gravenstiens, which are truly the best apple for apple crisp IMHO.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 03, 2024 11:56 PM (D7oie)

Best cooking apple!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at October 04, 2024 12:08 AM (W/lyH)

As a real small child, my parents lived in a home that had a grafted apple tree, bearing both Gravensteins and Winter Bananas. I thought the Gravensteins were a great eating apple. Tart and tasty. The Winter Bananas were kind of over-sweet and mealy. Cooking apples.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:11 AM (0ASg7)

311 Calculus is witchcraft. Eff that crap.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

It's not. But the teachers mostly suck.

I want you to imagine a wavy, X-Y graph line in your mind. You've seen such things. Now how do you calculate the area under such a thing ? It's not a regular shape, as you've been taught.

You COULD do it by taking regular points on the line - taking half the distance between the points, and adding up the area of those rectangles. Right ? Getting that ?

Make those rectangles small enough ? You got Calculus. Seriously. That's all it is to get started.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 04, 2024 12:12 AM (Sujjd)

312 As a real small child, my parents lived in a home that had a grafted apple tree, bearing both Gravensteins and Winter Bananas. I thought the Gravensteins were a great eating apple. Tart and tasty. The Winter Bananas were kind of over-sweet and mealy. Cooking apples.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:11 AM (0ASg7)

As a kid we had three trees. Two Gravensteins and a King. Damn we ate good!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 04, 2024 12:13 AM (W/lyH)

313 >> I actually found a Ewetoob video that precisely explained why Chevy and GMc horns often fail, and how to fix them. It was dead-nuts on! Corroded copper contact tabs in the steering wheel.

Chevy / GM is notorious for having terrible grounding straps / points. I have had all sorts of grounding issues on every one I have had. Often it's just a matter of cleaning / replacing.

Posted by: garrett at October 04, 2024 12:15 AM (IZn54)

314 "Israeli Channel 13 - The security establishment believes that the operation targeting Hezbollah’s new leader, Hashem Safieddine, was successful."

As one wag pointed out recently, it's no longer worth figuring out how to pronounce their names, as they won't be around long.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 04, 2024 12:15 AM (GcNJ2)

315 Continued. Sigh.

The gov of NC won't sign the Title 10 because something about not wanting it to turn into Katrina. Meanwhile 5000 or so National Guard from many states are sitting around not saving people. If I was starving and needed medical attention I don't care who would get me off that mountain.

Ft. Bragg, home of the 82nd Airborne could parachute in and grab me any time. Many have family in W NC and can't go because of the dam Middle East. No leave for family help.

Oh, the reddit cretins (which I read now and then to spy on the other side and laugh at them...I don't comment) say all is well. That the helicopter pilots don't know what they are doing. That chinooks can't land (like they know what a chinook is or how to fly it).

I have no clue what is going on but it seems to be two tales of the story of the mountains post Helene. One, that the feds are in charge, when they don't appear to be, and work by the book while some may be dying. The other is that the citizens of these states are doing what they need to do to save people, while the military sits on their thumbs.

People on the ground say this is horribly bad, that they are not allowing footage to be seen.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 04, 2024 12:15 AM (gi+MR)

316 Hezbollah needs a sign at the gate to HQ: "___ days since Dear Leader got blown to bits."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I imagine the meetings in their HQ playing out like a Monty Python restaurant sketch.

Hello, I am Ahmed, I will be your leader today.

*BOOMF*

Never mind Ahmed, I am Muhammad, I will be your leader today.

*BLAMMO*

Muhammad is indisposed at the moment. I am also Muhammad, and I will

*PEW*
*FLOP*

Posted by: mikeski at October 04, 2024 12:16 AM (DgGvY)

317 311 Still makes zero sense to me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:16 AM (v6JzV)

318 You might want to limit the trip to just New Mexico and go at it in detail. You would be well rewarded.

I've only been to New Mexico a couple times for short visits and it is pretty much the exact opposite of what I know and generally am drawn to but for some reason it's a place I want to visit more.
Posted by: JackStraw

This land and culture are unlike the surrounding states. Somebody once noted to me that New Mexicans are poor money in rich and land; this is more than true. It's one of the few places I've been where the hair on the back of my neck has stood up at times because there is a presence here that comes and goes. I thought I was crazy at first and then I talked to a Pueblo man about this and his only comment was sounds normal to him. I refer to New Mexico as church and I mean it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 04, 2024 12:16 AM (cog7k)

319 Make those rectangles small enough ? You got Calculus. Seriously. That's all it is to get started.
Posted by: Paying Attention at October 04, 2024 12:12 AM (Sujjd)

The best way to teach calculus is to relate it to the physical world. Doing the correct calculus trick for the problem turns a tough computation into a piece of cake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:16 AM (0ASg7)

320 Best cooking apple!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at October 04, 2024 12:08 AM (W/lyH)

they also make fantastic dried apples.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 04, 2024 12:18 AM (D7oie)

321 mikeski - here's how I see Hezbollah staff meetings starting these days:

"Bism'allah ar raman, ar rahim, in the name of God the compassionate and merciful.

OK, let's keep this short, guys."

Posted by: rhomboid at October 04, 2024 12:18 AM (GcNJ2)

322 Dr Seuss cheated on his wife, when she had cancer?
The same wife, who wrote most of his stories?

Can this be true?
That's what the lads at WHRB in Cambridge, Harvard
Radio are saying.

I was impressed they mentioned Tucker Carlson without all exploding simultaneously...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 04, 2024 12:18 AM (TGPs7)

323 Black Hole Sun - Norah Jones. Lovely live version of her at the piano singing this classic Soundgarden song.

https://youtu.be/XbQ08Ixczvo

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 04, 2024 12:18 AM (cog7k)

324 Still makes zero sense to me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:16 AM (v6JzV)

Fair enough ... do you know how to calculate the area of a triangle ?

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 04, 2024 12:19 AM (Sujjd)

325 324 Nope.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:20 AM (v6JzV)

326 The best way to teach calculus is to relate it to the physical world.

The discs and shells problems. I loved those.

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 04, 2024 12:21 AM (Sujjd)

327 area of triangle = 1/2 bh

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:22 AM (0ASg7)

328 Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
the Economy Sux and inflation is astronomikcal
Don't worry... Be happy.....vote for me

In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Even though Tim Walz is an idiot
Don't worry.. Be happy, don't worry, be happy now

Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy

Posted by: Kamal Harris at October 04, 2024 12:22 AM (qpLSv)

329 My king apple has codling moth so I never get any fruit off of it. I need to spray or possibly get chickens. My sister got it for me when I moved in because she loved them from when she lived in a house with one.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 04, 2024 12:22 AM (D7oie)

330 Nope.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:20 AM (v6JzV)

This may be a little tougher than I thought. Can you compute the area of a square ?

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 04, 2024 12:22 AM (Sujjd)

331 At the center of our Galaxy is a Black Hole....

I know these things about Black Holes and so does Willy Brown....

Posted by: Kamal Harris at October 04, 2024 12:24 AM (Qfk4E)

332 330 area of a square = width x height?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:24 AM (v6JzV)

333 This may be a little tougher than I thought. Can you compute the area of a square ?
Posted by: Paying Attention at October 04, 2024 12:22 AM (Sujj

The son of the squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:24 AM (0ASg7)

334 A storm of pudding, Baby!
Mama give me that pudding...

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
@ImMeme0
HOLY SH*T!

REPORTER: “What do the states in the storm zone need after what you saw today?”

BIDEN CONFUSE: “Oh, the storm zone. I'm with what storm they're talking about.”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 04, 2024 12:25 AM (TGPs7)

335 >>This land and culture are unlike the surrounding states.

That's the impression I got. Looking forward to seeing more of it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 12:26 AM (LkLld)

336 Fair enough ... do you know how to calculate the area of a triangle ?

Posted by: Paying Attention at October 04, 2024 12:19 AM (Sujjd)

Don't know about triangles but my pi are round. So the triangles have two equilateral sides and an outward-arced short side. Is finding the area still calc or trig or some other 'witchery'?

Posted by: RickZ at October 04, 2024 12:27 AM (gKDq2)

337 REPORTER: “What do the states in the storm zone need after what you saw today?”

BIDEN CONFUSE: “Oh, Stormy Daniels. Yea , I could do her with 1,000 Mg of Viagra and Cialis....

Yea Baby just ask Austin Powers .....

Posted by: Blo Jiden at October 04, 2024 12:28 AM (Mig/N)

338 area of a square = width x height?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:24 AM (v6JzV)

That's the general form for rectangles, width times height. A square is a special case of rectangle, whose width equals its height. So if one side of a square is "x", so are all sides, and its area is x^2.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:29 AM (0ASg7)

339 Foot-dragging?
Thousands of pieces of evidence causes 'indefinite delay' in trial of Trump would-be assassin Ryan Routh

https://mol.im/a/13922603

Posted by: Ciampino - sneakers at October 04, 2024 12:31 AM (qfLjt)

340 338 x^2

And this means what? Please put this in normal human language.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:33 AM (v6JzV)

341 today when I was looking at the online flight tracker, flightradar24.com indicating some Chinooks flying in from Ft Bragg, and other blackhawks in and out of Ashville and related areas. A lot of private choppers too.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 04, 2024 12:33 AM (D7oie)

342 The Big News On Harvard Radio tonight!!!

Deaths Among Female Tight Rope Walkers In Post War Germany

Apparently there were a lot and it was gender based....

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 04, 2024 12:33 AM (TGPs7)

343 Find the area of square, or rectangle, or triangle... okay...

Algebra? Trig? CALCULUS?!

What the h3ll is going on here? MATH ON THE BLOG!!!

AAAHHHH! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!

Posted by: zombie sam kinison at October 04, 2024 12:34 AM (njWTi)

344 338 x^2

And this means what? Please put this in normal human language.

It should be easy to see
That the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 04, 2024 12:34 AM (lUFok)

345 Don't know about triangles but my pi are round. So the triangles have two equilateral sides and an outward-arced short side. Is finding the area still calc or trig or some other 'witchery'?
Posted by: RickZ at October 04, 2024 12:27 AM (gKDq2)

that's a lot of pi.

Now the area of the whole pie is the area of a circle, which is pi r squared. But one slice is a fraction of that circle, which is 2 pi radians. So, if we let "n" be the included angle between the straight cuts, then the area of the slice would be pi r squared times n/ 2 pi

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:35 AM (0ASg7)

346 x^2

And this means what? Please put this in normal human language.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Some number X times itself. Example: 3 times 3. The ^2 part ia s shorthand way of saying some number times itself.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 04, 2024 12:37 AM (cog7k)

347 Most pi are round.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:38 AM (v6JzV)

348 Well... should we try finding volume too?

AAAAHHHHHH!

Posted by: zombie sam kinison at October 04, 2024 12:38 AM (njWTi)

349 >> The ^2

That means superscript. To you and me, that's obvious (where did that come from, some early markup language type thing? Like LaTex or something from the early days).

To someone not familar with that x^2 looks like gibberish. Or x_i, means x sub i. Again, that would be gibberish to those who don't know this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

350 Well... should we try finding volume too?

AAAAHHHHHH!
Posted by: zombie sam kinison at October 04, 2024 12:38 AM (njWTi)

The volume of pie tends towards zero at a rate proportional to the deliciousness of the pie.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:40 AM (0ASg7)

351 Mixed verdict against former officers in Tyre Nichols beating death case

https://tinyurl.com/34c9c23e

Now do 3 White cops ..... Not the same, is it? Place would be burning,

Posted by: Ciampino - Nike sneakers at October 04, 2024 12:41 AM (qfLjt)

352 > What the h3ll is going on here? MATH ON THE BLOG!!!

I guess areas and volume and hyper versions of those in differential geometry with non-Euclidean Riemannian metrics are right out then, huh?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 12:41 AM (w6EFb)

353 Well... should we try finding volume too?

AAAAHHHHHH!

It's usually right next to the "TONE" knob.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 04, 2024 12:42 AM (lUFok)

354 Some number X times itself. Example: 3 times 3. The ^2 part ia s shorthand way of saying some number times itself.

THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED "SQUARED"

Posted by: BEN ROTHFLMAO at October 04, 2024 12:42 AM (njWTi)

355 346 So instead of just saying 3x3, you write the more obscure 3^2?

You math guys are geniuses.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:43 AM (v6JzV)

356 THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED "SQUARED"
Posted by: BEN ROTHFLMA

THANKS BEN!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 04, 2024 12:44 AM (cog7k)

357 >>And this means what? Please put this in normal human language

Squared. Math nerds are going to math nerd.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 12:44 AM (LkLld)

358 That means superscript. To you and me, that's obvious (where did that come from, some early markup language type thing? Like LaTex or something from the early days).

To someone not familar with that x^2 looks like gibberish. Or x_i, means x sub i. Again, that would be gibberish to those who don't know this.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

And the reason that x^2 means "x squared" is that the power of two is, literally a square, in geometry. Draw a cartoon of Pythagoras' Theorem, with a right triangle having literal drawn squares on each of its three sides.

The term "square" for the power 2 was not chosen idly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:44 AM (0ASg7)

359 ASU 'stabber' has charges lowered as furious victim's family speak out

https://mol.im/a/13917413

Posted by: Ciampino - because she's a POC? at October 04, 2024 12:45 AM (qfLjt)

360 So instead of just saying 3x3, you write the more obscure 3^2?

You math guys are geniuses.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

It comes in handy when you get to something like 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x4 x4 x4 x4x4. This or 4^9.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 04, 2024 12:46 AM (cog7k)

361
and the power 3 is "cubed".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 12:47 AM (w6EFb)

362 So instead of just saying 3x3, you write the more obscure 3^2?

You math guys are geniuses.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:43 AM (v6JzV)

You can also to 3^3 and 3^4 and so on

Posted by: Kindltot at October 04, 2024 12:47 AM (D7oie)

363 360 So how is 4^9 any different from 4x9?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:48 AM (v6JzV)

364 So instead of just saying 3x3, you write the more obscure 3^2?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

It's because so many equations use "x" to represent a variable.

Posted by: JQ at October 04, 2024 12:48 AM (njWTi)

365 Content:

𐄂 Not Read
☑ Read

Posted by: DHS, ICE, DS at October 04, 2024 12:49 AM (IG4Id)

366 So instead of just saying 3x3, you write the more obscure 3^2?

You math guys are geniuses.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:43 AM (v6JzV)

Well, when I write it, I write 3 (superscript)2. When I type into the comment box, superscript is not readily available, although there is a ascii code for it, so I use the clunky ^ notation.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:49 AM (0ASg7)

367 So how is 4^9 any different from 4x9?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:48 AM (v6JzV)

4X9 = 36

4^9 = 262144

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:51 AM (0ASg7)

368
"x" for the multiplication symbol gets confusing past elementary arithmetic because it can be confused with the letter 'x'. 2x means two x, and the symbol can be dropped in many cases. Of course for two times three, you have to separate them with something, and a dot is often used. '*' in ASCII text is the usual symbol, 2*3.

But then, a bold 'x' is the vector cross product, which somehow doesn't get confused. It's all font, italics and bold.

It's all various conventions those who learn math have drilled in their heads and it seems obvious. To those who don't, it's gibberish and maddeningly confusing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 12:51 AM (w6EFb)

369 Late to the party again. Looks like all the party mix is gone. And the only beer left is… all right, what joker brought the Bud Light?

You know, if you hold this ONT up to your ear, you can hear owls hooting. Or, maybe that's outside. In any case, hello and goodnight.

https://youtu.be/u8GdU6Bf4KI

G'nite, y'all, from the dry crunchy land of the Red Man (Oklahoma, not the chaw).

Posted by: mindful webworker - been that done there at October 04, 2024 12:52 AM (bvx1O)

370 OK, I’m done arguing with you math geeks. Good night.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 04, 2024 12:52 AM (v6JzV)

371 It's all various conventions those who learn math have drilled in their heads and it seems obvious. To those who don't, it's gibberish and maddeningly confusing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 12:51 AM (w6EFb)

And the limitations imposed by the 101 key keyboard don't help.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:53 AM (0ASg7)

372 363 360 So how is 4^9 any different from 4x9?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

4^9 = 262,144 while 4x9 = 36

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 04, 2024 12:54 AM (cog7k)

373 Hi everyone, tonight my Special Guest is Doug Jerkoff the First Gentleperson of the USA.

Wolf: Dougie Boy first question is.... "What is your favorite TV Program?

Jerkoff: Wolf it is the Nanny...

Wolf: Yea, that was a stupid question to ask you...

Posted by: CNN News at October 04, 2024 12:54 AM (Qfk4E)

374 I'm taking a red eye SFO to CLT.
The strangest thing just happened.
I'm going thru TSA presenting my documents to the first TSA person, getting the photo taken, etc.
I hand him my passport and boarding pass.
He hands it back to me with a red Trump 2024 thing that looks like a credit card.
I put it in my pocket, but I already have several.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at October 04, 2024 12:55 AM (f0Btc)

375
And you see how it can make people a little miffed.... Just imagine you were with a group of some specialized field, throwing all sorts of jargon at you which you don't know, and seeming to expect you to.

That's how this can come off.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 12:56 AM (w6EFb)

376 And you see how it can make people a little miffed.... Just imagine you were with a group of some specialized field, throwing all sorts of jargon at you which you don't know, and seeming to expect you to.

That's how this can come off.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 12:56 AM (w6EFb)

Indeed. And yet, this sort of simple math is so damned useful. Get a real good grounding in it, and a lot of the bullshit peddled by the bullshit mongers on the left falls on its face, because the math cannot support it. Like grid capacity and electric cars, for example.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 12:59 AM (0ASg7)

377 Hey everyone thought you should all know before you vote,

My favorite instrument to play when I was younger was the Skinn Flute ....

Posted by: Kamal Harris at October 04, 2024 12:59 AM (Qfk4E)

378 209 Please kill me if I ever eat chik fil a again
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 03, 2024 11:25 PM (qMyrh)

- - - - -

Nah, go eat at Chipotle, it'll be quicker...
;-)

Posted by: As not seen on TV at October 04, 2024 12:59 AM (grPGo)

379 That's how this can come off.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Best to all at the Duchy

Posted by: Miklos will drive up there with anything you need at October 04, 2024 01:01 AM (FRB3p)

380 >> ndeed. And yet, this sort of simple math is so damned useful.

Indeed,indeed. And we can blame the teachers and the edu system. They can just stifle any natural curiousity students have and make them hate this.

It's done on purpose, I believe.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 01:02 AM (w6EFb)

381 >> Best to all at the Duchy

We are 5x5. Hot and live. Energized the Duchy late thisa afternoon. I'm a happy, happy camper.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

382 Like grid capacity and electric cars, for example.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Look

I am good

Give me a chance

Posted by: the Wretched Panhard at October 04, 2024 01:03 AM (FRB3p)

383 It's done on purpose, I believe.
Posted by: publius
--------

"Math is hard."

The teacher set this notion into our heads on the first day. Back in grade school.

She was wrong.

Posted by: JQ at October 04, 2024 01:04 AM (njWTi)

384 We are 5x5. Hot and live. Energized the Duchy late thisa afternoon. I'm a happy, happy camper.
Posted by: publius

I had to throw out everything in both freezers.

So much for refrigeration based prepping.

Posted by: Miklos expects FEMA to pay for this at October 04, 2024 01:06 AM (FRB3p)

385 >>It's done on purpose, I believe.

Maybe in some fields but not always.

Come offshore sailing some time. Many of the terms date back hundreds of years.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 01:06 AM (LkLld)

386
The very bright students with a natural aptitude for math will not be deterred by this system in the early stages. They'll learn it on and enjoy it.

The reasoning ability, the way of thinking that comes from mathematical/logical reasoning is invaluable. How to set up a problem. Ok, how can I figure this. How do I model this. What are the equations that describe this problem.

That skill is invaluable. And it is not taught too well any more.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 01:07 AM (w6EFb)

387
We just threw out some of the stuff, and it killed me. But we saved a good bit thanks to a neigbor with extra freezer space and a generator.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 01:08 AM (w6EFb)

388 Come offshore sailing some time. Many of the terms date back hundreds of years.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 01:06 AM (LkLld)

Mainbrace status:

[ x ] spliced

[ ] not spliced

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 01:08 AM (0ASg7)

389 It took me three tries to pass 1st year Calculus in college. The first professor was Chinese and the second was Russian I flunked horribly. The third time, I had an American professor and earned an A. This only difference was the poor English skills of the first two professors.

Posted by: Archer at October 04, 2024 01:08 AM (IDphi)

390 Two non union workers at tenn. plastic plant drown other missing when management refuses to allow them to leave flooding plant until to late to escape flood waters.

Posted by: raimondo at October 04, 2024 01:08 AM (/FJ8I)

391 It took me three tries to pass 1st year Calculus in college. The first professor was Chinese and the second was Russian I flunked horribly. The third time, I had an American professor and earned an A. This only difference was the poor English skills of the first two professors.
Posted by: Archer at October 04, 2024 01:08 AM (IDphi)

Similar to my experience. Vietnamese professor, always going on about "mattresses".

Took an equivalent credit course, nights, at a community college, and aced it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 01:12 AM (0ASg7)

392 We just threw out some of the stuff, and it killed me. But we saved a good bit thanks to a neigbor with extra freezer space and a generator.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

There is nice neighbor who walked his generator around.

Them damn retired engineers.

Helped the Old Folks.

Did not ask, because some need help more.

Posted by: Miklos expects FEMA to pay nothing at October 04, 2024 01:12 AM (FRB3p)

393 I had to throw out everything in both freezers.
So much for refrigeration based prepping.
Posted by: Miklos expects FEMA to pay for this at October 04, 2024 01:06 AM (FRB3p)

Tell me if you ever think you want some pointers on canning, drying or brining.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 04, 2024 01:13 AM (D7oie)

394 Tell me if you ever think you want some pointers on canning, drying or brining.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 04, 2024 01:13 AM (D7oie)

Brining Communists is the answer, believe me!

Posted by: zombie Augusto Pinochet at October 04, 2024 01:14 AM (0ASg7)

395 The reasoning ability, the way of thinking that comes from mathematical/logical reasoning is invaluable. How to set up a problem. Ok, how can I figure this. How do I model this. What are the equations that describe this problem.

That skill is invaluable. And it is not taught too well any more.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Which explains how we end up EV mandates and climate change communism. You can't reason with people about technical issues when they're illiterate.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at October 04, 2024 01:14 AM (cog7k)

396 It took me three tries to pass 1st year Calculus in college. The first professor was Chinese and the second was Russian I flunked horribly. The third time, I had an American professor and earned an A. This only difference was the poor English skills of the first two professors.
Posted by: Archer

I wanted to be an Architect, until I realized I could not do the math.

So I changed to Economics.

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Miklos at October 04, 2024 01:16 AM (FRB3p)

397 Well, past 2300 here, and I need my beauty sleep. Night, Horde.

Posted by: zombie Augusto Pinochet at October 04, 2024 01:16 AM (0ASg7)

398 Mainbrace status:

[ x ] spliced

[ ] not spliced

You won't find a bigger rum fan.

But even more basic like starboard and port. They are historical relics not shorthand or some code. But if you aren't familiar with the craft they sound obscure, why not just say right and left?

It's all what you are used to.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 01:17 AM (LkLld)

399 gack. Off Pinosock!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 01:17 AM (0ASg7)

400 Tell me if you ever think you want some pointers on canning, drying or brining.
Posted by: Kindltot

Thank you.

Half of my family were Carolina dirt farmers, I know canning.

Drying and/or brining are new. I know how to smoke fish, that's about it.

Posted by: Miklos will get a lousy quarter acre, one way or another at October 04, 2024 01:20 AM (FRB3p)

401 ...Come offshore sailing some time. Many of the terms date back hundreds of years. Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 01:06 AM (LkLld)

A sadness. The very best SHTF refuge in the burning times, is a heavily stocked, bluewater sailing yacht on the High Seas, out well past the 12 mile boundary.

But, being 'mericans, OUR ships will be well and heavily armed, ready to repel pirates, boarders and their ilk.

Which means there is not a single foreign port that would welcome us to clear Customs, thus equipped.

Gordian Knot.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 04, 2024 01:21 AM (kQgoX)

402 But even more basic like starboard and port. They are historical relics not shorthand or some code. But if you aren't familiar with the craft they sound obscure, why not just say right and left?

It's all what you are used to.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 01:17 AM (LkLld)

One real good reason for using these anachronisms is that they immediately identify the matter of discourse as being nautical in nature.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 04, 2024 01:21 AM (0ASg7)

403 I really love my cat. We've been through thick and thin. Twenty years. Seven homes. Three dogs. Three ladies. A few kids.

But so help me G-d, if she ever again marches into my room at 1am and pisses on one of my flannel shirts right as I'm about to fall asleep, then it's curtains for her.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 04, 2024 01:22 AM (awTae)

404
If you want to see those skills honed to perfection, read (and listen) to the Feynman lectures on Physics.

The man could make ballpark calculations on stuff that seemed intractable, and you'll see that reasoning, logic, okay, this is small, we can approximate it thusly, well, here we've got a problem, but here's another little trick.

And he's done a quick order of magnitude estimate of whatever he's looking for. He makes it seem like child's play. It's not, he was a master, but that's how you learn it. See it in action.

And another skill. Applying that, some trick you learn, some way of thinking to new problems.

I've seen some people do not have that at all. They can see the solution to one problem worked out, and cannot for the life of themselves see how that is analogous to something else and use those tools for the new problem.

That is a skill that isn't taught well, either.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 01:23 AM (w6EFb)

405 I tried college. Parents pushed sooo hard.

Math wasn't a headache for me, until I met "Systems of Linear Equations"

Matrices (mattresses, LOL!) Boolean algebra & all that just kicked my ass. Worst was: it was mandatory "core" class and held at freaking 7 a.m.

Nightowl me was in no condition to think at all, at that unholy hour.

Posted by: JQ at October 04, 2024 01:24 AM (njWTi)

406 I know how to smoke fish, that's about it.
Posted by: Miklos will get a lousy quarter acre, one way or another at October 04, 2024 01:20 AM (FRB3p)

Tell us how. We'll give you a herring.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 04, 2024 01:26 AM (0eaVi)

407 But so help me G-d, if she ever again marches into my room at 1am and pisses on one of my flannel shirts right as I'm about to fall asleep, then it's curtains for her.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Peeing in odd places, could indicate a UTI. Kitty might need to see the vet.

Posted by: JQ at October 04, 2024 01:27 AM (njWTi)

408 Come offshore sailing some time. Many of the terms date back hundreds of years. Posted by: JackStraw

JackStraw is the King of Yacht Rock

"Come sail away, come sail away with me.."

Posted by: Miklos has a non-Jimmy Buffet vibe going at October 04, 2024 01:28 AM (FRB3p)

409 For drying I use a dead 1.5 cf chest freezer, a ceramic "reptile" heater element that screws into a standard lamp base, and racks I knocked together out of lathes and window screen. I punched a moderate hole in the bottom and in the top so allow convection airflow. I could buy a commercial one, but this does me good for my apples, prunes and veggies. It gets up to 140F eventually when it is dry. My previous heater lamp was dying and did not get up to temperature so I had some batches mold. IF you buy a commercially made one, you can avoid this sort of problem.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 04, 2024 01:29 AM (D7oie)

410 One real good reason for using these anachronisms is that they immediately identify the matter of discourse as being nautical in nature.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

"You move to left....then you move to the right"

Posted by: Miklos -Archie Bell and the Drells at October 04, 2024 01:31 AM (FRB3p)

411 Come offshore sailing some time. Many of the terms date back hundreds of years.
Posted by: JackStraw

https://youtu.be/7qVs0VAfmnY

.....nautical terminology starts at 3:30.

Posted by: mikeski at October 04, 2024 01:31 AM (DgGvY)

412 ...I've seen some people do not have that at all. They can see the solution to one problem worked out, and cannot for the life of themselves see how that is analogous to something else and use those tools for the new problem.

That is a skill that isn't taught well, either.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 04, 2024 01:23 AM (w6EFb)

All those construction projects you've seen pics from here in the Hobby Thread? No sketch, no blueprint.

My blueprints are in my mind, fully formed, and I just lay out the materials, measure (3x), cut, join and build.

Seems to come together rather well, all in all?

Just completed another section of steel/wood fence, today. About had to have the stretcher carry me off the field, but, at least it's DONE.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 04, 2024 01:33 AM (kQgoX)

413 Computers are truly the root of all evil. I type on my tablet, lol. However, nearly everything fundamentally wrong with everything can be traced back to computers. Why would kids who grew up after the internet ever get used to working their way through one long story where there is no video and they have to focus on reading every word to understand it? Us older folks had no choice and "video" was limited to going to a movie theater and seeing what they had or watching 3 or 4 channels and watching what was on. Books were the only place where you could control the content and when you took it in.

Posted by: azjaeger at October 04, 2024 01:34 AM (3/XaG)

414 Tell us how. We'll give you a herring.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

"Kipper, Kipper!"

Posted by: Miklos in best Gilligan's Island smoked fish voice at October 04, 2024 01:34 AM (FRB3p)

415 Peeing in odd places, could indicate a UTI. Kitty might need to see the vet.
Posted by: JQ at October 04, 2024 01:27 AM (njWTi)

I take her to the vet. That's why she's > 20 years old. She's just being a cunt because I wouldn't give her any of the food I prepped for Shabbat tomorrow.

That was a deliberate protest piss. Right on my favorite flannel shirt. I had to get out of bed, run her off, and then go launder it, right after I dropped into bed from prepping a big meal and cleaning up for six fuckin' hours.

If we didn't go way back, she'd be in a trashcan right now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 04, 2024 01:34 AM (awTae)

416 >>One real good reason for using these anachronisms is that they immediately identify the matter of discourse as being nautical in nature.

I've mentioned this before but one of the editors at Norton who went out on a limb to bring the Patrick O'Brian Jack Aubrey books to the US was the owner of a boat I used to race on. The books had been introduced previously in the US but didn't do much and he was discouraged from trying again because the prevailing opinion was US audiences would never be interested in learning books written in such dense ancient nautical language. He chose wisely.

We might not be as sophisticated as the French who are still struggling with basic hygiene but if we want to understand something out we great unwashed Americans can usually figure it out.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 01:36 AM (LkLld)

417 Trumps going to win Pennsylvania.

>@nypost

>Elon Musk to attend Trump’s Butler, Pa. rally less than 3 months removed from first assassination attempt on ex-prez

Posted by: JackStraw at October 04, 2024 01:40 AM (LkLld)

418 Advantage of Port n Starboard nautical terms.

The directions ALWAYS and WITHOUT DEVIATION refer to relationship of the Fore and Aft centerline of the boat, from bowsprit to stern. And NOT to the "relative" left or right of the person to whom the Skipper is giving orders.

A new deck monkey with his ass facing the forestay WILL confuse "left and right". A command directing towards PORT! or STARBOARD!, always relating to which side of the ship, works. Even if the lessons are painful, or embarrassing.

Make that clear to the new landlubbers aboard one's ship. And ADHERE to that protocol. It is the only way for clarity, and success.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 04, 2024 01:42 AM (kQgoX)

419 I wanted to be an Architect, until I realized I could not do the math.

So I changed to Economics.
Posted by: Prof. Dr. Miklos at October 04, 2024 01:16 AM (FRB3p)

This, too, is the story of Paul Krugman.

Posted by: RickZ at October 04, 2024 01:45 AM (gKDq2)

420 Ok, I've cooled off. Not gonna choke my stupid cat.

Aside from her stupid cat crap, the thing that's been bothering me today is why the government is choking off private aid to NC.

They rejected Starlink's offer of aid (though Starlink is still offering it to people on their front page, if they can get it themselves).

The FAA is apparently interdicting private aid by air.

State and local authorities are disrupting by land.

I'm used to the FedGov death cult saying "l'etat c'est moi," and "apres moi, le deluge." It's standard form, after every self-imposed crisis.

But this shit is excessive, even by their own exceedingly low standards.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 04, 2024 01:54 AM (awTae)

421 The Government is a jealous god …

Posted by: Adriane the I Think It Is Obvious Critic . . . at October 04, 2024 01:57 AM (TX4bP)

422 I had to throw out everything in both freezers.

So much for refrigeration based prepping.

Yeah. I just bought a 2700W battery generator and solar panels to charge it for $700 on the Amazon prime special day. It's not a lot...but it's enough to keep the freezers running for a good long while, 3000 recharge cycles before it starts to degrade. Otherwise we'd be canning meat in a frenzy if disaster struck.

Posted by: Weirddave at October 04, 2024 02:03 AM (90nEJ)

423 This was the overall strategy of "A Desert Called Peace" by Tom Kratman. Apparently that is what it looks like IRL
Posted by: Kindltot

Holy crap. I met Tom Kratman while taking the Virginia bar in 1995. We were sitting at the same table. He might've been sitting next to me. I still have the business card for "Kratman, Pethybridge, and Swindell" (Blacksburg, VA) - though I got it from Swindell with whom I ended up doing reserve duty in Charlottesville for about a year.

Posted by: SFGoth at October 04, 2024 02:09 AM (KAi1n)

424 The Government is a jealous god …
Posted by: Adriane the I Think It Is Obvious Critic . . . at October 04, 2024 01:57 AM (TX4bP)

Well put.

It's the same reason why your local faggots will fine you for filling the pothole in your street that they're to gay to work on.

Except, in this case, the "pothole" is a mid sized city full of net taxpayers. Not that FedGov should fix everything. Or anything. They aren't willing to, or capable of fixing a Globetrotters game.

But they could at least get the fuck out of the way

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 04, 2024 02:12 AM (awTae)

425 Ok, I've cooled off. Not gonna choke my stupid cat.

Aside from her stupid cat crap, the thing that's been bothering me today is why the government is choking off private aid to NC.

They rejected Starlink's offer of aid (though Starlink is still offering it to people on their front page, if they can get it themselves).

The FAA is apparently interdicting private aid by air.

State and local authorities are disrupting by land.

I'm used to the FedGov death cult saying "l'etat c'est moi," and "apres moi, le deluge." It's standard form, after every self-imposed crisis.

But this shit is excessive, even by their own exceedingly low standards.

It's simple and obvious. We're one month from the election. West NC residents won't be able to vote if their communities and infrastructure are destroyed. Without west NC voters to counterbalance Charlotte, NC is guaranteed to go blue. 16 EC votes in the bag.

And yes, I am that cynical. But I bet I'm right.

Posted by: Weirddave at October 04, 2024 02:14 AM (90nEJ)

426 The Government is a jealous god …
Posted by: Adriane the I Think It Is Obvious Critic . . . at October 04, 2024 01:57 AM (TX4bP)

Especially when you cut in on its action. Look at the Eric Garner story, killed by cops on Staten Island for selling 'loosie' cigarettes, cutting out the state's tax action.

Posted by: RickZ at October 04, 2024 02:19 AM (gKDq2)

427 And yes, I am that cynical. But I bet I'm right.
Posted by: Weirddave at October 04, 2024 02:14 AM (90nEJ)

Not taking that bet.

Posted by: RickZ at October 04, 2024 02:20 AM (gKDq2)

428 Welp there was the bint professor in Kansas (?) cheering about God smiting MAGAs, so disdain, hatred, hurricanes are cheaper than Xylon B …

But election interference is highly plausible.

Posted by: Adriane the I Think It Is Obvious Critic . . . at October 04, 2024 02:30 AM (TX4bP)

429 Good evening Morons! I'm finally on my way back to North Alabama from the UAE today. Cannot wait to get back home. Decidedly uncomfortable being all the goat phucking head loppers. And don't get me started on the climate /temperature as it puts Texas Hill country to shame for August / September phuck you heat.

Cooling my heels in the Heathrow Admirals Club, drinking all their hard liquor for free. Especially since my ass didn't pay for the business class ticket that got me in here with the elite expert class of socialist cocksuckers.

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 04, 2024 02:31 AM (cdlLx)

430 And yes, I'm sufficient try buzzed already even though it's 0730 GMT.

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 04, 2024 02:32 AM (cdlLx)

431 There's the old saying "like taking candy from a baby," to connote a real bastard who snatches up anything he can, because he can, in the laziest and most feckless manner possible.

They should strip off "E Pluribus Unum" from the Great Seal, and just print whatever the Latin is for "From The Baby, Comes The Candy" in its place.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 04, 2024 02:35 AM (awTae)

432 And yes, I'm sufficient try buzzed already even though it's 0730 GMT.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Hey! It’s 5 o’clock somewhere.

Posted by: Adriane the I Think It Is Obvious Critic . . . at October 04, 2024 02:36 AM (TX4bP)

433 Happy Big Boob Friday to all those that celebrate. Today is the first semifinal round of the 2024 BBF Championship, stop by thehostages dot WordPress dot com and vote for your favorite.

Posted by: Pupster at October 04, 2024 02:44 AM (DuqHK)

434 "Ex Infantem, Dulcia," perhaps? My Latin is shitty.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 04, 2024 02:46 AM (awTae)

435 389, they put them on calculus because they are shite at 18th century French literature. I had the same experience at college. The bigger the university, the more likely, your math teacher will be some teacher’s assistant from China. You would be better off taking those courses at a junior college.

Posted by: Quint at October 04, 2024 02:47 AM (azHrx)

436 Cat issues? I can't wait to read!

Tired. It's past 2:22. I started to have my very tallboys 6.1% in with a few pills to help me sleep.

My friend's cat whom I took care when he was injured still comes back at nightfall. And I'll be taking care of him and his sister in a few months. They're outdoor cats but come in, are peaceful but cautious of the older happy to see them dog.

Tonight's officially night 3 of me and Trumpy. Night falls. And Dude shows up knowing he's welcome here.

He came in about 7:30. Whenever I leave my room, sometimes he comes out and wanders. I've opened the door for him a few times and he didn't even try to leave. At five hours, he stepped out for a minute, had some of the water and meowed to come on in.

It's 2:43 and he's lying here at the foot of my bed on a blanket purring happily. Cat litter box on the ground with water and cat food. The dog LOVES his cat food. The cats love his! They get a few bites. Ralphy Bites are very popular with the dog. Anyways, he's pretty happy.

Funny thing is, during the day, I NEVER SEE Trumpy. But at night fall, he's the Clock King..

All of you have a good day, especially anyone affected by the hurricane news doesn't co

Posted by: Stateless at October 04, 2024 02:50 AM (jvJvP)

437 Otherwise we'd be canning meat in a frenzy if disaster struck.
Posted by: Weirddave

"The Meat Canners" would be a good band name.

Posted by: Miklosian Opinionatoring LLC at October 04, 2024 02:51 AM (FRB3p)

438 doesn't cover.?

2:50 am.

Visiting cat on the bed. My amazing elderly dog is on the other side of the door wanting cat food.

Day 3.

I need a night light for the room so the cat see things when the timer shuts the tv off. That'll help so much.

Time for the dog. What the heck...?
I'm coming Ralphy..?.

Posted by: Stateless at October 04, 2024 02:54 AM (jvJvP)

439 "The Meat Canners" would be a good band name.

We could sponsor that

Posted by: Armour, the Potted meat People at October 04, 2024 03:04 AM (FRB3p)

440 The Meat Canners" would be a good band name

------

Yeah, but the A&R man said it was a little on-the-nose.

Posted by: The Village People at October 04, 2024 03:05 AM (awTae)

441 https://is.gd/KAjh2g

Is the soundtrack "Slap My *itch Up?"

Posted by: Miflin at October 04, 2024 03:09 AM (aA6YN)

442 440 The Meat Canners" would be a good band name

May as well make it a tv show.

Fishermen, little people, fat twins joined by the head all get tv shows.

Meat Canners organize...

Posted by: Stateless at October 04, 2024 03:09 AM (jvJvP)

443 Good morning morons

Safe travels Bif

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 04, 2024 03:12 AM (zG664)

444 Personally, I'd watch a reality show where fat midgets conjoined at the head battle each other for Spam. Just once. Or, maybe for ten seasons, every week, as appointment viewing. Whatever.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 04, 2024 03:15 AM (awTae)

445 Roger Stone
@RogerJStoneJr
Source is telling me that P. Diddy former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and Mayor Eric Adams definitely together in a " Freak-Off Party.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 04, 2024 03:45 AM (TGPs7)

446 Any more math stuff and First Gentleman Doug Emhoff will slap you all...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 04, 2024 03:46 AM (TGPs7)

447 I have to get moving

Posted by: Skip at October 04, 2024 03:50 AM (fwDg9)

448 Morning, insomaniacals! So the strike is over, for now? Maybe now people will stop the crazy panic buying of toilet paper.

'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished! I was kinda hoping it would rain this morning and keep me from going to work out, but no dice. It was drizzling last night, but the walkway outside my door looks almost dry.

Plans for the weekend?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 03:53 AM (omVj0)

449 Personally, I'd watch a reality show where fat midgets conjoined at the head battle each other for Spam. Just once. Or, maybe for ten seasons, every week, as appointment viewing. Whatever.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Have to eat Spam walking in

And wear Red White and Blue

Posted by: Mik,os perfessional Rassler at October 04, 2024 03:57 AM (FRB3p)

450 Plans for the weekend?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Clearing out the other freezer

Posted by: Miklos remembers Katrina, now Helene at October 04, 2024 03:59 AM (FRB3p)

451 The weekend: Going to get my ears lowered. Grocery. Maybe dinner out on Sat. night. Sleeping late (for me) and catching a couple of naps. If I work it right, some uninterrupted couch time with my Gerald Kersh book.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 04, 2024 04:02 AM (omVj0)

452 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR OCTOBER 4

ULA - Vulcan Centaur VC2S
SLC-41 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 4, 2024
Launch Time: 6:00 a.m. EDT, 1000 UTC, 12:00 CEST

https://www.youtube.com/live/9lIdTeAs5As

Posted by: Ciampino - she's a rainbow at October 04, 2024 04:04 AM (qfLjt)

453 Today we took the ferry from Rose Bay to Circular Quay, walked around The Rocks, then down to Spice Alley for laksa, the walked down King St Wharf. Totally awesome day. Tomorrow: botanical gardens.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 04, 2024 04:17 AM (zG664)

454 .
NOOD

Pixy's here with the Tech Thread

NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 04, 2024 04:20 AM (O7YUW)

455 Fuck the unions used to be my mantra as well but no longer.
200k today is 52k in 1980. A moderate wage then that would support 1 bread winner as it is now (barely). What's wrong with workers being paid a fair wage - one that will support a traditional family?
No love for the corrupt union leaders - hate em- but repubs need to stop being lapdogs to the corporatists. The hate you and America more than the unions.
Fuck the corporate elite.

Posted by: Ig at October 04, 2024 04:49 AM (8Eidd)

456 don't worry about your son not reading, I read for work and read to my kids, but didn't really read for fun again until I retired, he will probably drift back to it.

Posted by: tom at October 04, 2024 06:58 AM (lrwMx)

457 WeirdDave!

Posted by: Candidus at October 04, 2024 09:57 AM (JI8/o)

458 Weird Dave for President of Earth.

Posted by: FINGERS at October 04, 2024 10:14 AM (NHnR9)

459 Texas Wimps. It’s still triple digits in AZ.

Posted by: epador at October 04, 2024 10:53 AM (z+UA5)

460 ‘Back to back they shot each other…’

Jeebus! Been >50 years since I last heard that…

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