Veterans Day Cafe

7 4 Piper with the "First"!

Nicely done.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I am feeling very famous today with my call out in the post below and first in this one! Y’all can still look me in the eyes though. Others, however, may not.

Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 07:35 PM (QzINz)

8
In before the riff-raff!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 07:35 PM (EsZUh)

9 In before the riff-raff!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 07:35 PM

It's ... astounding.

Posted by: Riff Raff at November 11, 2024 07:36 PM (a3Q+t)

10
That previous post is the biggest advertisement ever for repealing the 19th Amendment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 07:36 PM (EsZUh)

11 Aweee moment is right before the mama polar bear comes up and slaughters them all and she and the cub begin to eat before they have quite died.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 11, 2024 07:37 PM (QoyXi)

12 A raised glass to our Veterans. No words will ever be enough to thank you for your sacrifice to this Country and all of us.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2024 07:37 PM (t8vHj)

13 Hmm. And I thought all the guys who fought in Korea looked like Alan Alda.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 07:37 PM (vtRd1)

14 Off vlog lawyer sock

Posted by: Turn 2 at November 11, 2024 07:37 PM (JfxgE)

15 I am feeling very famous today with my call out in the post below and first in this one! Y’all can still look me in the eyes though. Others, however, may not.
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 07:35 PM

Are you standing on a pylometric box?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2024 07:37 PM (a3Q+t)

16 ** Looks at container ship video.

AHHHH HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2024 07:37 PM (XV/Pl)

17 The video of the container ship is making me seasick.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (6ydKt)

18 'In two years I will eat you,'
-little polar bear

Posted by: Eromero at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (LHPAg)

19 That previous post is the biggest advertisement ever for repealing the 19th Amendment.

The 'Ettes are based and worthy of our respect.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (vtRd1)

20 Beer Girl is throwing off extreme Lucy Liu vibes, me likey.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (XV/Pl)

21 Could we please have long-time beloved Moron Vic added to the Absent Friends list?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (aCt/P)

22 Goat and Sheep Have Fun

So it's that kind of party!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (WXNFJ)

23 Piper has gone full dot indian.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (QoyXi)

24 15 Are you standing on a pylometric box?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November

This is a true story, I had to stack up platforms to hang my spider web on the wall in the studio. It was very safe. Lol.

Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 07:39 PM (QzINz)

25 I thank Veterans for their service Every Day.

Posted by: jsg at November 11, 2024 07:39 PM (7kKPC)

26 Café-friendly humour:

Dan O'Donnell @DanODonnellShow 5h
This is just incredible: The Kamala Harris campaign tried to win over more than a thousand union workers on one of the biggest construction projects in Wisconsin by getting them a free lunch... a literal brown bag prison lunch.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8m5fwh
screencaps

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 07:40 PM (hovnC)

27 Evening.

If that polar bear's mana was around it would tear that guy's face off faster than you could blink.

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 07:40 PM (4jjip)

28 A raised glass to our Veterans. No words will ever be enough to thank you for your sacrifice to this Country and all of us.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2024 07:37 PM

As always, it was our privilege to serve such a country.

*hoists glass*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 07:40 PM (kgE5c)

29 Are you standing on a pylometric box?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I understand penicillin clears up plyometric boxes without delay.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 07:40 PM (WXNFJ)

30 That polar bear thing, bears are a lot like dogs, so yeah they can be cute and cuddly. But polar bears are one of the few species on earth that will hunt and eat humans just as prey in their area, not out of starvation. So they aren't safe at all just a bit older.

I watch shorts of a guy who has an animal preserve/medical therapy farm where they care for various creatures. He grew up with some brown bears but he never messes with them and stays out of their pen. The black bears he can wrestle with etc, but the brown ones can kill you by accident too easily.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 07:40 PM (Hh1ER)

31 Beer Girl is throwing off extreme Lucy Liu vibes, me likey.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (XV/Pl)

A Korean girl in a dirndl is cultural appropriation of the foulest kind.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 07:40 PM (vtRd1)

32 The reviews are out for Gladiator II and the consensus is it's.... meh.

The overall opinion is that Denzel is really the only true bright spot in the film and he's largely reprising his role in Training Day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2024 07:41 PM (XV/Pl)

33 Decision Desk called the AZ race, GOP has 218 now. Likely to end up with 220 or 221 after CA is done cheating/counting.

Posted by: Broseidon, comptroller of the brocean at November 11, 2024 07:41 PM (8Qbd8)

34 Goat and Sheep Have Fun

So it's that kind of party!
Posted by: Tonypete

You forgot your mohammad sock.

Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2024 07:41 PM (DgGvY)

35 Some more humour:
Wade Stotts @wadestotts
Late Night isn't taking this well.

https://tinyurl.com/yxwbttfj
4:49 minutes of Late Night losers with humourous commentary

RNC Research @RNCResearch Nov 10
Biden is currently battling the sand at his beach house in Delaware.
(The sand is winning)

https://tinyurl.com/yzhcjfef
45 seconds

Catturd ™ @catturd2 18h
Joe Biden at the beach today be like …

https://tinyurl.com/4c5462nh
4 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 07:41 PM (hovnC)

36 Beer Girl is throwing off extreme Lucy Liu vibes, me likey.

She is a cutey and at that point why the heck not, its all waste anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 07:41 PM (Hh1ER)

37 Beer Girl is throwing off extreme Lucy Liu vibes, me likey.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM

Despite her horrific alcohol abuse, her recovery restored her honor.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 07:41 PM (kgE5c)

38 He grew up with some brown bears but he never messes with them and stays out of their pen. The black bears he can wrestle with etc, but the brown ones can kill you by accident too easily.

Always remember. Black bears are the friendly ones.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 07:41 PM (vtRd1)

39
Hmm. And I thought all the guys who fought in Korea looked like Alan Alda.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 07:37 PM (vtRd1)

_________

I've hated everything there is about "M.A.S.H".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 07:42 PM (EsZUh)

40 Drinks are on me! Customer was so happy they sent a bonus.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2024 07:42 PM (t8vHj)

41 I second BenHad’s toast. Your bravery and courage is so appreciated.

Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 07:42 PM (QzINz)

42 17 The video of the container ship is making me seasick.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (6ydKt)

David Grann's "The Wager" made me seasick just reading it, and might have given me scurvy

Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2024 07:42 PM (gKWVE)

43 That container ship video is a testament to how badass sailors are and always have been. Or stupid. I don't know, man. It's not for me. That's for sure.

Posted by: Landlubber at November 11, 2024 07:42 PM (OTznU)

44 The overall opinion is that Denzel is really the only true bright spot in the film and he's largely reprising his role in Training Day.

Yeah I heard the same. I'll watch it if is gets to Sling or something but I won't go out of my way. There has been so little coming out lately I even care to see on streaming.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 07:42 PM (Hh1ER)

45 I'm no vet, but Korea is where our military started to go off the rails. It wasn't even a declared war, and was put under UN authority or some damn thing, who called it a "police action".
But I'm thankful to all veterans today.
God bless you, every one.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 11, 2024 07:42 PM (MeG8a)

46 Catturd ™ @catturd2 18h
Joe Biden at the beach today be like …

https://tinyurl.com/4c5462nh
4 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 07:41 PM (hovnC)

81 million votes, folks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 11, 2024 07:42 PM (QoyXi)

47 Maximus, my nigga!

Posted by: Gladiator 2 at November 11, 2024 07:43 PM (8Qbd8)

48 A Korean girl in a dirndl is cultural appropriation of the foulest kind.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 07:40 PM

Dear hot Korean girls,

Do not listen to that man.

Kthxbai.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 07:43 PM (kgE5c)

49 I have pretty good sea legs but yeah, no on that container ship.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 07:43 PM (WXNFJ)

50 As already reported but more tragedy than comedy:

Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee 6h
The FDA stands ready at all times to enforce a mandatory reminder that butter “contains milk”—even to the point of requiring the recall of 80,000 pounds of perfectly good butter

New York Post @nypost 9h
Costco forced to recall 80,000 pounds of butter for the dumbest possible reason
trib.al/J4DaUZx
====
They can't just recall them and put an appropriate 'warning' or ingredients sticker on them??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 07:43 PM (hovnC)

51 Café-friendly humour:

Dan O'Donnell @DanODonnellShow 5h
This is just incredible: The Kamala Harris campaign tried to win over more than a thousand union workers on one of the biggest construction projects in Wisconsin by getting them a free lunch... a literal brown bag prison lunch.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8m5fwh
screencaps
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 07:40 PM (hovnC)

If Biden didn't maliciously fuck the Ds by anointing Harris I'm willing to consider that they gave up the election and the party and the consultants mostly used Kamala's candidacy as nothing more than an opportunity to steal as much money from well meaning donors like the parasites that they are.

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 07:44 PM (4jjip)

52
The 'Ettes are based and worthy of our respect.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (vtRd1)

_________

True, and we'll make sure they can vote by positive legislation. No blue hair, though.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 07:44 PM (EsZUh)

53 [WILLOWED:]

Trump just needs to schedule an urgent statement for 7:00pm tomorrow night entitled "Message to Democrat-voting Women in Emotional Distress" and come out to say exactly two sentences.

"You are being hysterical. Just take a deep breath and calm ~~down~~ your tits."

...

I want the astronauts on the ISS to hear the screaming.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 07:33 PM (6ydKt)

-----------

FIFY

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 11, 2024 07:44 PM (MpEy/)

54 The black bears he can wrestle with etc, but the brown ones can kill you by accident too easily.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Gingers have now entered the chat.

(Although it's usually on purpose)

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 07:45 PM (WXNFJ)

55 40 Drinks are on me! Customer was so happy they sent a bonus.
Posted by: Ben Had at November

Yay! That is awesome.

Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 07:45 PM (QzINz)

56 Container ship on the high seas.

Do a barrel roll!

Posted by: memes old enough to vote at November 11, 2024 07:45 PM (DgGvY)

57 Ahhh M*A*S*H, the good old days when a man put on a dress, heels, wig and makeup so he'd look so crazy they'd boot him out the army.

Now the men do the same things so they can climb the ranks in the army.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 07:46 PM (6ydKt)

58
Walked through the Korean War DC monument at night years ago when it was brand new and I was unaware of it being there.

Chilling.

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2024 07:46 PM (j4U/Z)

59 If Biden didn't maliciously fuck the Ds by anointing Harris I'm willing to consider that they gave up the election and the party and the consultants mostly used Kamala's candidacy as nothing more than an opportunity to steal as much money from well meaning donors like the parasites that they are.

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 07:44 PM (4jjip)

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

Next you'll be telling me that her campaign spent $1.3 billion ($1 billion more than Trump).

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 11, 2024 07:46 PM (MpEy/)

60 Decision Desk called the AZ race, GOP has 218 now.

==

good !

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 07:46 PM (V13WU)

61 50 As already reported but more tragedy than comedy:

Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee 6h
The FDA stands ready at all times to enforce a mandatory reminder that butter “contains milk”—even to the point of requiring the recall of 80,000 pounds of perfectly good butter

New York Post @nypost 9h
Costco forced to recall 80,000 pounds of butter for the dumbest possible reason
trib.al/J4DaUZx
====
They can't just recall them and put an appropriate 'warning' or ingredients sticker on them??
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 07:43 PM (hovnC)

Or maybe, I'm just spitballing here, the default rule should be that butter is assumed to contain milk absent a contrary statement and leave it to Americans to know this. Because: c'mon, man.

Posted by: Landlubber at November 11, 2024 07:46 PM (OTznU)

62 Is Arizona still counting?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 07:46 PM (mzM2O)

63 Erf. Well, that was a day.

How are y'all?

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 07:46 PM (SUzr1)

64 New York Post @nypost 9h
Costco forced to recall 80,000 pounds of butter for the dumbest possible reason

Nah, the dumbest possible reason is what prompted Mattel to recall all their "Wicked" action figures.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (gKWVE)

65 Maximus, my nigga!
Posted by: Gladiator 2 at November 11, 2024 07:43 PM

Strength and Respect, my brutha!

- Maximus 2

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (kgE5c)

66 @44

>>Yeah I heard the same. I'll watch it if is gets to Sling or something but I won't go out of my way. There has been so little coming out lately I even care to see on streaming.

Just think back to when we were young, we would go to see sometimes multiple first run movies in weekend.

When I was working at post facilities in the 90's, it was not uncommon for a bunch of us to go se a movie after work, like every day, if the release schedule put that many films out that month.

Now, I see maybe 1-2 at tops 3 films a year in an actual movie theater.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (XV/Pl)

67 Least we forget the sacrifice.

https://tinyurl.com/2xtw3cf6

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (RUQlf)

68 And I just wanted to make sure all of you guys understand that it's now Medicare Early Enrollment Period, in case you hadn't heard!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (6ydKt)

69 I wonder how many of those cargo containers break loose and go over the side. Floating around, ripe for the taking under maritime salvage laws. You come across one, tow it in, and much to your surprise you're the proud owner of a gazillion fidget spinners.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (gm9Sb)

70 It's ... astounding.
Posted by: Riff Raff

Time is fleeting?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (tWDmH)

71 nurse, couldn't be better. Love ya.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (t8vHj)

72 Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee 6h
The FDA stands ready at all times to enforce a mandatory reminder that butter “contains milk”—even to the point of requiring the recall of 80,000 pounds of perfectly good butter

New York Post @nypost 9h
Costco forced to recall 80,000 pounds of butter for the dumbest possible reason
trib.al/J4DaUZx
====
They can't just recall them and put an appropriate 'warning' or ingredients sticker on them??
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 07:43 PM (hovnC)

Butter doesn't "contain" milk. Milk contains butter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (aCt/P)

73 I've hated everything there is about "M.A.S.H".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

My dear Dad, twice combat wounded in Korea, would stomp around all pissed off whenever M.A.S.H happened on the tube. No one watched it whenever he was visiting anywhere.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (WXNFJ)

74 Erf. Well, that was a day.

How are y'all?
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 07:46 PM

Drinking? You?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 07:48 PM (kgE5c)

75 Robert, I do get the impression that Oprah, Beyonce and all the other closeted beefdivers were looting the Harris campaign's corpse.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2024 07:48 PM (gKWVE)

76 He grew up with some brown bears but he never messes with them and stays out of their pen. The black bears he can wrestle with etc, but the brown ones can kill you by accident too easily.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Always remember. Black bears are the friendly ones.
Posted by: Cicero

But not all black bears are black. Some are brown.

To tell them apart, you have to climb a tree.

If the bear climbs up the tree after you, it's a black bear.

If the bear pushes the tree over, it's a brown bear.

Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2024 07:48 PM (DgGvY)

77 No wonder container ships are crewed by third world shitholers. They aren't paid well and the working conditions are terrifying.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 07:48 PM (ZLWsP)

78 Figen doesn't know how to spell aaaawe.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 11, 2024 07:49 PM (XMwZJ)

79 It's ... astounding.
Posted by: Riff Raff

Time is fleeting?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM

*nods*

Madness takes its toll.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 07:49 PM (kgE5c)

80 Robert

Getyour Macross Plus yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 07:49 PM (RUQlf)

81 Nah, the dumbest possible reason is what prompted Mattel to recall all their "Wicked" action figures.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (gKWVE)

--- --
Nobody can afford proofreaders these days.
It's tough all over.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 07:49 PM (6ydKt)

82 And if the bear lets you fuck its wife, it's a white bear.

Posted by: Broseidon, comptroller of the brocean at November 11, 2024 07:49 PM (8Qbd8)

83 77 No wonder container ships are crewed by third world shitholers. They aren't paid well and the working conditions are terrifying.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 07:48 PM (ZLWsP)

LOL, you think US Navy ships are any better?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2024 07:50 PM (QAkQ3)

84
63 Erf. Well, that was a day.

How are y'all?
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 07:46 PM (SUzr1

Great day! Air in my lungs, God is in control! Trump is the next President and my Niece and Nephew came to see me!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 07:50 PM (mzM2O)

85 I wonder how many of those cargo containers break loose and go over the side. Floating around, ripe for the taking under maritime salvage laws. You come across one, tow it in, and much to your surprise you're the proud owner of a gazillion fidget spinners.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

I seem to recall about 1500 worldwide go overboard every year.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 07:50 PM (WXNFJ)

86 Gladiator 2, huh?

*looks it up on IMDB*

Holy fuck.

-Lucius Verus. He was the adopted brother of Marcus Aurelius and died about 10-15 years before Marcus. This seems to be a son of the fictional Maximus... but wasn't his wife and children all killed by Commodus?

-wait, did they somehow jump over Septimius Severus and go straight to his sons?

-Macrinus... wait he was the Praetorian prefect who took over after Caracalla was assassinated and long after Geta was murdered (in front of their mother) by Caracalla.

The sad thing is the ACTUAL history is salacious and fast paced enough that they did not need to change much. But they did and here we are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 11, 2024 07:50 PM (QoyXi)

87 Unpopular opinion: the first Gladiator was pretty
boring.

Posted by: and ridley scott is overrated at November 11, 2024 07:50 PM (OTznU)

88 Korean Octoberfest?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 11, 2024 07:50 PM (D7oie)

89 I can't quite figure out why the Asian artist drawing Trump has subtitles in Portuguese but hey! He's a great artist.

Posted by: bluebell at November 11, 2024 07:51 PM (79pEw)

90 And if the bear lets you fuck its wife, it's a ~~white~~ National Review bear.
Posted by: Broseidon, comptroller of the brocean at November 11, 2024 07:49 PM

FIFY

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 07:51 PM (kgE5c)

91 Horde,

Do your wives enjoy candles?

https://www.decentcandle.com/

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 07:51 PM (4jjip)

92 That polar bear thing, bears are a lot like dogs, so yeah they can be cute and cuddly. But polar bears are one of the few species on earth that will hunt and eat humans just as prey in their area, not out of starvation. So they aren't safe at all just a bit older.
-----------
Always shitting on us.

Are you going to finish that Acetylpromazine??

Posted by: zombie knut at November 11, 2024 07:51 PM (hovnC)

93 No wonder container ships are crewed by third world shitholers. They aren't paid well and the working conditions are terrifying.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 07:48 PM (ZLWsP)

I don't know if they pitch and roll any more than conventional cargo vessels and tankers do.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 07:51 PM (aCt/P)

94 Hiya Ben Had!

RMBS, I'm on a metro bus. My boat didn't run today, so I'm stuck here. Yuck. At least there aren't any punks or homeless people smoking fentanyl and screaming.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 07:51 PM (SUzr1)

95 Butter doesn't "contain" milk. Milk contains butter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Whoa, that's deep man. Pass the bong.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 11, 2024 07:51 PM (tWDmH)

96 https://tinyurl.com/3mypjefy

Just 'cause...

Posted by: MkY at November 11, 2024 07:51 PM (cPGH3)

97 77 83 Don't know. That's way too sideways for me though.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 07:52 PM (ZLWsP)

98 Nothing hotter than a hog-nosed ringed up bald chick with mental issues.

Posted by: jsg at November 11, 2024 07:52 PM (7kKPC)

99 Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee 6h
The FDA stands ready at all times to enforce a mandatory reminder that butter “contains milk”—even to the point of requiring the recall of 80,000 pounds of perfectly good butter

Or maybe, I'm just spitballing here, the default rule should be that butter is assumed to contain milk absent a contrary statement and leave it to Americans to know this. Because: c'mon, man.
Posted by: Landlubber

This is why I can't cull the complete idiots from the gene pool anymore. Your government protects them like they were the last Dodo.

See what I did there?

Posted by: zombie Charles Darwin at November 11, 2024 07:52 PM (DgGvY)

100 94 Hiya Ben Had!

RMBS, I'm on a metro bus. My boat didn't run today, so I'm stuck here. Yuck. At least there aren't any punks or homeless people smoking fentanyl and screaming.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 07:51 PM (SUzr1

You can't get home?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 07:52 PM (mzM2O)

101 Peanut Butter May Contain Peanuts

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 07:52 PM (vtRd1)

102 I stood in line at Golden Corral for 35 minutes (nobody ever stands in line that long at Golden Corral. Ever) with some of the friendliest, most cordial, polite, and humble people. Veterans. Got a free meal, left a $10 tip. Ran into a guy who was in an A4 squadron at the same time I was in an F4J squadron onboard USS Independence. Small world.

Posted by: Eromero at November 11, 2024 07:52 PM (LHPAg)

103 I've used those container ship videos in the work place.

"How did our widgets get so damaged?"

Uh . . How would YOU do in seas like that?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 11, 2024 07:52 PM (8AONa)

104 101 Peanut Butter May Contain Peanuts
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 07:52 PM (vtRd1)

Noooo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 11, 2024 07:52 PM (QoyXi)

105 apparently a lot of shipping containers go glug in high seas. Generally they fill quickly and sink. And some burst on the way down and let out all the plastic gegaws that float.

I hate to think of the human smuggling in containers.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 11, 2024 07:53 PM (D7oie)

106 Good grief, I would not want to be on a container ship at sea. I would be running back and forth like Hank Johnson on Guam.

Posted by: bluebell at November 11, 2024 07:53 PM (79pEw)

107 I seem to recall about 1500 worldwide go overboard every year.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 07:50 PM (WXNFJ)

And how many of those go straight to the bottom? I doubt many sea cans are 100% watertight.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 07:53 PM (aCt/P)

108 @86

>>Holy fuck.

I don't often agree with Grace Randolph, but she said Ridley needs to hang up his spurs.

He's a first ballot hall of famer, but he's lost IT.

Sad.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2024 07:53 PM (XV/Pl)

109
A blessed Veterans Day to all you veterans. Thank you for your service!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 11, 2024 07:54 PM (T3es0)

110 I've used those container ship videos in the work place.

"How did our widgets get so damaged?"

Uh . . How would YOU do in seas like that?
Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 11, 2024 07:52 PM (8AONa)
-----
I had to take some extra-strength Dramamine before watching that video...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2024 07:54 PM (BpYfr)

111 Good grief, I would not want to be on a container ship at sea. I would be running back and forth like Hank Johnson on Guam.
Posted by: bluebell

I'll have you know, that was perfectly good rye.

Posted by: mikeski, mopping up at November 11, 2024 07:55 PM (DgGvY)

112 Mind if we dance with your dates?

Posted by: black bears at November 11, 2024 07:55 PM (hovnC)

113 Great day! Air in my lungs, God is in control! Trump is the next President and my Niece and Nephew came to see me!

Posted by: AlaBAMA

Hey there! Have you adopted an old lonely kitty from the pound yet?

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 07:55 PM (SUzr1)

114 I hate to think of the human smuggling in containers.

I know it happens and I cannot imagine the horror of enduring that only to be enslaved somewhere in America. "oh you survived? OK the young girls over there, you work in nail shops and massage parlors."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 07:55 PM (Hh1ER)

115 Getyour Macross Plus yet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 07:49 PM (RUQlf)

*Sheds a single tear*

Not...not yet.

Actually it hit me that since the sets were shipped to Crunchyroll from Jolly Old Engerlond that maybe it might be all banged up so I asked my sister to open the box and look and she says it's pristine.

That reassuring.

Unless she's fucking with me.

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 07:55 PM (4jjip)

116 I wonder how many of those cargo containers break loose and go over the side. Floating around, ripe for the taking under maritime salvage laws. You come across one, tow it in, and much to your surprise you're the proud owner of a gazillion fidget spinners.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

I seem to recall about 1500 worldwide go overboard every year.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 07:50 PM (WXNFJ)

Remember seeing something where lego blocks or small toys keep washing up on a beach from a lost container decades ago.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 07:55 PM (n7h9X)

117 Whoa, that's deep man. Pass the bong.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 11, 2024 07:51 PM

Can I buy some pot from you?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 07:55 PM (kgE5c)

118 The House, Senate, Presidency and the Supreme Court (mostly).
Alright you Rino shitbirds, whatever President Trump wants you deliver with gusto!

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM (+VovS)

119 102 I stood in line at Golden Corral for 35 minutes (nobody ever stands in line that long at Golden Corral. Ever) with some of the friendliest, most cordial, polite, and humble people. Veterans. Got a free meal, left a $10 tip. Ran into a guy who was in an A4 squadron at the same time I was in an F4J squadron onboard USS Independence. Small world.
Posted by: Eromero at November 11, 2024 07:52 PM (LHPAg)

Can't do Golden Corral. Just....no.

Posted by: jsg at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM (7kKPC)

120 114 Great day! Air in my lungs, God is in control! Trump is the next President and my Niece and Nephew came to see me!

Posted by: AlaBAMA

Hey there! Have you adopted an old lonely kitty from the pound yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 07:55 PM (SUzr1)

Nah. I got a girlfriend instead.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM (mzM2O)

121 So first Napoleon and now this. Gladiator was already an alternate universe anyway.

Napoleon just annoys me. You can think whatever you like about the man, but an indecisive cuck he was not.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM (QoyXi)

122 RMBS!

Hahahahahahahahha!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM (SUzr1)

123 Wait until people find out what is in yogurt.

Posted by: Spamlet at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM (vFG9F)

124 He's a first ballot hall of famer, but he's lost IT.

Yeah, it is sad because he's put out some of the best movies in human history but its been quite a while. It seems to me that creative types have only so many good works in us then we burn out and can't do it any more. So far I haven't hit that wall.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM (Hh1ER)

125 I hate to think of the human smuggling in containers.

I know it happens and I cannot imagine the horror of enduring that only to be enslaved somewhere in America. "oh you survived? OK the young girls over there, you work in nail shops and massage parlors."
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 07:55 PM (Hh1ER)

Worked on a project to use XRay imaging to detect people or "not empty" things to speed up processing of empty trucks at border crossings.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 07:57 PM (n7h9X)

126 Ace -- by any chance have you seen the Japanese people singing God Bless America?

Lump in throat moment.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 07:57 PM (fV+MH)

127 I asked my sister to open the box and look and she says it's pristine.

Does she know what its supposed to look like?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 07:58 PM (Hh1ER)

128 "Riots broke out in Amsterdam on Monday evening as hordes of young men dressed in black set fires, threw rocks, and shot off makeshift missile fireworks, just days after a “Jew hunt” in the city following an Israeli soccer match.

Chaos continued in the Dutch capital on Monday as riots erupted in the borough of Nieuw-West. Videos on social media showed young men waving Palestine flags and others shouting, “Cancer Jews!”

Broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting reported that the youth rioters pelted cars and a bus with rocks and heavy fireworks. They also set fire to a tram in the area. During the violent outburst, chants of “Free Palestine” could be heard."

As a certain commenter like to point out, Jews need to stop provoking muslems and arabs !

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 07:58 PM (V13WU)

129 Remember seeing something where lego blocks or small toys keep washing up on a beach from a lost container decades ago.
Posted by: Oldcat

Sadly most of the stuff I want, is way heavier than water.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 11, 2024 07:58 PM (+VovS)

130 See see, No good came of letting stores label their fancy margarines as "vegan butter".

Next milk will have to have a warning that says it contains milk lest idiots get it confused with 'soy milk'

Posted by: PaleRider at November 11, 2024 07:58 PM (CKOCg)

131 Ran into a guy who was in an A4 squadron at the same time I was in an F4J squadron onboard USS Independence. Small world.

Posted by: Eromero

=====

I met a guy who, after he told me his navy career, we figured out he had met my brother on a carrier in the Indian Ocean, via turning in his plane's IFF to my brother's electronics shop for the daily settings updates.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 11, 2024 07:58 PM (8AONa)

132
Speaking of meltdowns...

I stopped watching YELLOWSTONE in the middle of season 4. The show got dumb and tiresome, and I got sick of all the characters especially Beth. The body count was higher than the Sopranos.

Taylor Sheridan and Kevin Costner parting is not news, but I'm seeing the show gave Costner's character a really bad sendoff. LOL. Good.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 07:58 PM (cPjH3)

133 Dan O'Donnell @DanODonnellShow 5h
This is just incredible: The Kamala Harris campaign tried to win over more than a thousand union workers on one of the biggest construction projects in Wisconsin by getting them a free lunch... a literal brown bag prison lunch.

_______________________________

I'm more interested as to when the Arizona AG will file a law suit like was done against Elon Musk. He just made it a condition to be registered to qualify. Harris seems to flat out buying votes in this scenario. Illegal with a capital "I".

Posted by: Orson at November 11, 2024 07:59 PM (dIske)

134 35 Some more humour:
Wade Stotts @wadestotts
Late Night isn't taking this well.

https://tinyurl.com/yxwbttfj
4:49 minutes of Late Night losers with humourous commentary

RNC Research @RNCResearch Nov 10
Biden is currently battling the sand at his beach house in Delaware.
(The sand is winning)

https://tinyurl.com/yzhcjfef
45 seconds

Oh my god magnum.! The Biden can barely walk

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 11, 2024 07:59 PM (OA79/)

135 Yeah, it is sad because he's put out some of the best movies in human history but its been quite a while. It seems to me that creative types have only so many good works in us then we burn out and can't do it any more. So far I haven't hit that wall.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

For the students in the back: this is how you humblebrag. Right here.

Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2024 07:59 PM (DgGvY)

136 Wait until people find out what is in yogurt

**********

As long as there’s no milk in yogurt it’s all good

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 11, 2024 07:59 PM (M7vhK)

137 "And how many of those go straight to the bottom? I doubt many sea cans are 100% watertight.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"

Ours are!

Posted by: Fill Swift at November 11, 2024 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

138 Nah. I got a girlfriend instead.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

At the pound?!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 11, 2024 07:59 PM (tWDmH)

139 My wife has declared all buffets haram.

But I could eat at virtually any of them, and actually liked Golden Corral (my reserve unit had a lunch deal with it back in the day for drill weekends). You haven't really experienced all that America has to offer until you're scooping out salisbury steaks watching small, feral children frolic in the chocolate fountain.

Posted by: America, Fuck Yeah! at November 11, 2024 07:59 PM (OTznU)

140 by any chance have you seen the Japanese people singing God Bless America?

I was told by all the Best People that the world hated Trump and thought he was a huge joke, but loved Biden. Yet this stuff keeps happening. The only nations that seem to be upset an shaking a fist are the suicidal Nordic ones.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:00 PM (Hh1ER)

141 Yeah, it is sad because he's put out some of the best movies in human history but its been quite a while. It seems to me that creative types have only so many good works in us then we burn out and can't do it any more. So far I haven't hit that wall.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM (Hh1ER)

So what are we calling great films from scott?

Alien (enough said)
Bladerunner (which I can never decide whether it is actually 'great'. It is interesting, but I dunno about great.)
Black Hawk Down (quite good)

But, looking at his filmography, there is a hell of a lot of shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 11, 2024 08:00 PM (QoyXi)

142 A Downfall parody with You-Know-Who as Kamala:

https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=OQTDRLN856U

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2024 08:00 PM (a3Q+t)

143 Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 7h
Potential AG confirms Pres Trump will seek pardons/commutations for Jan 6 political prisoners
====
That is Mark Paoletta.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:00 PM (hovnC)

144 21 Could we please have long-time beloved Moron Vic added to the Absent Friends list?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (aCt/P)

THIS!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 11, 2024 08:00 PM (hOUT3)

145 139 Nah. I got a girlfriend instead.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

At the pound?!
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 11, 2024 07:59 PM (tWDmH)

Where else?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 08:01 PM (mzM2O)

146 Can't do Golden Corral. Just....no.
Posted by: jsg

Didn't they used to have the chocolate fountains?

Ewwwww!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:01 PM (WXNFJ)

147 For the students in the back: this is how you humblebrag

Well I ain't putting anything out like Blade Runner or Gladiator, so... not really bragging. Just glad I can keep writing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:01 PM (Hh1ER)

148 "Unpopular opinion: the first Gladiator was pretty
boring.
Posted by: and ridley scott is overrated"

You gotta admit it looked great tho.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 08:01 PM (fV+MH)

149 RMBS!

Hahahahahahahahha!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM

The song that launched his career!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 08:01 PM (kgE5c)

150 Nah. I got a girlfriend instead.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM (mzM2O)

Good for you!!! Have you let her handle your 1911?

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 08:02 PM (p0Srn)

151 But, looking at his filmography, there is a hell of a lot of shit.

For a while there he was alternating between something great then something terrible like Legend. But since Gladiator its been a pretty long run of terrible.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:02 PM (Hh1ER)

152 I would rather pay then stand in line for a free meal. Back in Henrico the line would ring the Golden Corral parking lot on veterans day.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 08:02 PM (ZLWsP)

153 Ours are!

Posted by: Fill Swift at November 11, 2024 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

Mine, too.

Posted by: The Little Mermaid at November 11, 2024 08:02 PM (aCt/P)

154 145
Dayum!
I'll go sit in the corner now!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 11, 2024 08:02 PM (hOUT3)

155 I don't know if they pitch and roll any more than conventional cargo vessels and tankers do.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 07:51 PM (aCt/P)

They are quite a bit taller so from the top of the containers the sweep is pretty extreme even if the roll is 'normal'.

Like being at the top of the mainmast of a old three masted ship, you'd be whipped about like crazy forward left back and right.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 08:02 PM (n7h9X)

156 I hope it is pristine for you.

The Macross II: Lovers Again has hit some production snags and will be delayed. AnimEgio had us vote for what size Ishtar stand do we want. I voted for the bigger $30 one.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:03 PM (RUQlf)

157 So what are we calling great films from scott?

Alien (enough said)
Bladerunner (which I can never decide whether it is actually 'great'. It is interesting, but I dunno about great.)
Black Hawk Down (quite good)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 11, 2024 08:00 PM

No mention of Prometheus? It's like TJM doesn't even know you people anymore.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2024 08:03 PM (a3Q+t)

158 Can't do Golden Corral. Just....no.
Posted by: jsg at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM (7kKPC)
Won't about Golden Corral.

Posted by: Eromero at November 11, 2024 08:03 PM (LHPAg)

159
My dear Dad, twice combat wounded in Korea, would stomp around all pissed off whenever M.A.S.H happened on the tube. No one watched it whenever he was visiting anywhere.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 07:47 PM (WXNFJ)

_________

The whole franchise stinks of typical 60s bull: cool, rebellious guys who are super brilliant opposed by stuffy, conservative incompetents in charge. Screw Catch-22 too. And One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 08:03 PM (EsZUh)

160 Nah. I got a girlfriend instead.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

At the pound?!
Posted by: She Hobbit

Where else?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Shots, dewormed, and neutered - $75!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:03 PM (WXNFJ)

161 For the students in the back: this is how you humblebrag

Well I ain't putting anything out like Blade Runner or Gladiator, so... not really bragging. Just glad I can keep writing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

That's why it's a humblebrag, and not a brag. 😁

Posted by: mikeski can't write nothin' at November 11, 2024 08:03 PM (DgGvY)

162 151 Nah. I got a girlfriend instead.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM (mzM2O)

Good for you!!! Have you let her handle your 1911?

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 08:02 PM (p0Srn

Is that a yoofamism?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 08:03 PM (mzM2O)

163 I like Golden Corral, and Mr. Dmlw! and I are sad that our local one closed during the coof nonsense.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 11, 2024 08:03 PM (OX9vb)

164 *wipes tears*

All that bier!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2024 08:04 PM (W/lyH)

165 Good for you!!! Have you let her handle your 1911?
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 08:02 PM (p0Srn)

Isn't that a rather personal question?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 08:04 PM (aCt/P)

166
Um, wasn't Tony the better Scott??

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:04 PM (cPjH3)

167 Good for you!!! Have you let her handle your 1911?
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 08:02 PM

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2024 08:04 PM (a3Q+t)

168 That container ship in a heavy swell. Imagine as a stowaway or ten in one of those containers ......

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il mare e grosso at November 11, 2024 08:04 PM (i0xsb)

169 147 Can't do Golden Corral. Just....no.
Posted by: jsg

Didn't they used to have the chocolate fountains?

Ewwwww!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:01 PM (WXNFJ)
________________________

Before they exited my neck of the woods I'd go there less for a steak, and more for the baked potato fixings bar. If your arteries weren't laboring on the way out, you didn't do it right.

Posted by: Orson at November 11, 2024 08:04 PM (dIske)

170 Nah. I got a girlfriend instead.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM

You people with your social lives...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 08:04 PM (kgE5c)

171
I think the best directors are named "David."

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:05 PM (cPjH3)

172 Good for you!!! Have you let her handle your 1911?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Isn't that a rather personal question?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The status of the safety at the time would make it personal.

Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2024 08:05 PM (DgGvY)

173 Remember seeing something where lego blocks or small toys keep washing up on a beach from a lost container decades ago.
Posted by: Oldcat

Sadly most of the stuff I want, is way heavier than water.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 11, 2024 07:58 PM (+VovS)

Wave action can still bring stuff up, like Amber in the Baltic.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 08:06 PM (n7h9X)

174 164 We lost our Golden Corral during the coof as well. Sw Virginia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 08:06 PM (ZLWsP)

175
Butter doesn't "contain" milk. Milk contains butter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

====================

I think you just started the recall of 10 trillion gallons of milk.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 11, 2024 08:06 PM (T3es0)

176 Posted by: and ridley scott is overrated"

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

Actually agree, ridiculously overrated

But I’ll give him props for Batman Begins, hands down my favorite Batman movie

A movie so good not even Katie Holmes could ruin it

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 11, 2024 08:06 PM (M7vhK)

177
I stopped watching YELLOWSTONE in the middle of season 4.

__________

From all the clips I've seen, you'd have to go way down the cast list to find a character that wasn't loathsome. But just think of them all as Hollywood executives and it makes sense.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 08:06 PM (EsZUh)

178 And One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I found Nurse Ratched very compelling. Something about her. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:07 PM (WXNFJ)

179 I tried Golden Corral once

For some reason it evoked memories from watching The Thing

Will not go back

I miss old country buffet though

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 11, 2024 08:07 PM (M7vhK)

180 I think the best directors are named "David."

Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Do all philosophers have an S in their name?

Posted by: Eric Idle in drag at November 11, 2024 08:07 PM (tWDmH)

181 When I was a kid, mom and I would go to Golden Corral every week. I have fond memories...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 11, 2024 08:07 PM (XMwZJ)

182 The Macross II: Lovers Again has hit some production snags and will be delayed. AnimEgio had us vote for what size Ishtar stand do we want. I voted for the bigger $30 one.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:03 PM (RUQlf)

I knoooooooooowwwww!!!!!!!!

The universe...it mocks me.

But I will be patient. I will be patient. It will be awesome. So I will be patient.

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 08:08 PM (4jjip)

183 I never have been at a Golden Corral (they haven't spread to Oregon yet) but there was a chain called King's Table here that was pretty good, shut down a while back. I never expect greatness from a buffet but I do like the variety and the ability to go get more. Back when I could put way 3-4 plates mounded with food it was a great deal. These days probably less so.

I think my favorite buffet are the Mongolian Grills.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:08 PM (Hh1ER)

184 Good for you!!! Have you let her handle your 1911?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Isn't that a rather personal question?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The status of the safety at the time would make it personal.
Posted by: mikeski

Hey! Hey! Let's not go off half-cocked!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:08 PM (WXNFJ)

185 A Downfall parody with You-Know-Who as Kamala:

Heh. Never gets old.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2024 08:08 PM (mH6SG)

186 >>>Goat and Sheep Have Fun

I saw a goat having fun. But the sheep was tolerant, so maybe that's enough.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 11, 2024 08:08 PM (klJTj)

187 I'll agree on David Lean certainly.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 08:08 PM (fV+MH)

188 Of yeah I forgot today is Mattress Dale Day, aka Veterans Day.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 11, 2024 08:08 PM (Cb+sw)

189 23 Piper has gone full dot indian.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 11, 2024 07:38 PM (QoyXi)
----
If she turbanizes she can become a pull-start Indian instead of a push-start Indian.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, ha il turbante at November 11, 2024 08:08 PM (i0xsb)

190
Hadrian just inspired a thought:

The more "executive producers" a show has, the more douchebaggy it is. And the more celery "executive producers a show, the theory is even more solid.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:08 PM (cPjH3)

191 135 35 Some more humour:
Wade Stotts @wadestotts
Late Night isn't taking this well.

https://tinyurl.com/yxwbttfj
4:49 minutes of Late Night losers with humourous commentary

RNC Research @RNCResearch Nov 10
Biden is currently battling the sand at his beach house in Delaware.
(The sand is winning)

https://tinyurl.com/yzhcjfef
45 seconds

Oh my god magnum.! The Biden can barely walk

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 11, 2024 07:59 PM (OA79/)

Asshoe Joe continues to pretend to jog a few steps every time he goes on-stage, or goes to the lectern, at his events. He has less and less self-awareness every day. And he began his political career 52 years ago at an infinitesimal value above zero.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 08:09 PM (aBgBM)

192 But the sheep was tolerant, so maybe that's enough.

Close your eyes and think of New Zealand.

Posted by: the sheep at November 11, 2024 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

193 I tried Golden Corral once

For some reason it evoked memories from watching The Thing

Will not go back

I miss old country buffet though
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

Sorry, not sorry, I have yet to meet a dinner buffet I didn't love.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 11, 2024 08:09 PM (+VovS)

194 I got a girlfriend instead.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 07:56 PM

You people with your social lives...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 08:04 PM (kgE5c)

Is the Horde not good enough anymore?

Do we just not excite you?

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 08:09 PM (4jjip)

195 A movie so good not even Katie Holmes could ruin it

That was Nolan, but yeah. Good stuff. Katie Holmes was woefully miscast, if lovely.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:10 PM (Hh1ER)

196 CNN anchor Chris Wallace announced on Monday that he would leave the network at the end of his contract, citing the growing influence of podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Charlamagne tha God.

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2024 08:10 PM (GITLP)

197 Butter IS milk for the love of Pete.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 08:10 PM (fV+MH)

198 I used to eat once every other day at Golden Corrals breakfast. 1 meal every other day. I would wreck that thing. Pounds of sausage and bacon. If you timed it right you could have lunch for sixths and sevenths.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 08:11 PM (ZLWsP)

199 197 CNN anchor Chris Wallace announced on Monday that he would leave the network at the end of his contract, citing the growing influence of podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Charlamagne tha God.
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2024 08:10 PM (GITLP

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

*takes deep breath*

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 08:11 PM (mzM2O)

200 I still need to pony up the $ for Macross Zero

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:11 PM (RUQlf)

201 George Clooney announced he’s taking a break from politics after being accused of costing the Dems the election by pushing Biden out.

Oh no.

Anyway.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 11, 2024 08:11 PM (Cb+sw)

202
Chris Wallace announced on Monday that he would leave the network at the end of his contract...
Posted by: SMOD

But mostly due to cnn not offering to extend his contract.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:11 PM (cPjH3)

203 Wave action can still bring stuff up, like Amber in the Baltic.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 08:06 PM (n7h9X)

Amber is only slightly denser than water. Specific gravity 1.06 to 1.1, according to W'pedia.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 08:11 PM (aCt/P)

204 Honestly if you rank the Scott bros movies, Ridley has the obvious 1 and 2, but Tony might have more in the Top 10. Certainly more that I'd rewatch just for fun. And he made very few that were total dog shit, which can't really be said for Ridley.

Posted by: Broseidon, comptroller of the brocean at November 11, 2024 08:11 PM (8Qbd8)

205 Sorry, not sorry, I have yet to meet a dinner buffet I didn't love.

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

There is the king of all buffets in Amish country in Pennsylvania

Shady Maples Smorgasbord

Better then Disney World

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 11, 2024 08:12 PM (M7vhK)

206 If she turbanizes she can become a pull-start Indian instead of a push-start Indian.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, ha il turbante

Throw some handle bars on her and kick start 'er.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 11, 2024 08:12 PM (+VovS)

207 So, does C Wallace think he'll have a podcast, too? Or is he just mourning the death of "journalism?"

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 11, 2024 08:12 PM (OX9vb)

208 CNN anchor Chris Wallace announced on Monday that he would leave the network at the end of his contract, citing the growing influence of podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Charlamagne tha God.
Posted by: SMOD

I shall henceforth be known as Chris tha Dweeb.

Posted by: Chris tha Dweeb at November 11, 2024 08:12 PM (DgGvY)

209 My cat Allie has decided to claim my unfolded futon as her new territory. She's rolling around on top of it, running back and forth, while Kaylee is sneaking around underneath it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2024 08:12 PM (BpYfr)

210 Breaking911 @Breaking911 25m
BREAKING: Alex Jones says 'Infowars' is shutting down Wednesday

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:12 PM (hovnC)

211 Butter is carbless. Milk is loaded with milk sugars. No one over 6 should have milk. Milk is for babies.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 08:13 PM (ZLWsP)

212 CNN anchor Chris Wallace announced on Monday that he would leave the network at the end of his contract

Oh no!

...anyway

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:13 PM (Hh1ER)

213 That was Nolan, but yeah

**********

Dang I always get those two confused for some reason

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 11, 2024 08:13 PM (M7vhK)

214
Wave action can still bring stuff up, like Amber in the Baltic.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 08:06 PM (n7h9X)

________

So the Amber Room may turn up after all?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 08:13 PM (EsZUh)

215 Old Country Buffet was pretty solid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 11, 2024 08:13 PM (dR6yv)

216 There is the king of all buffets in Amish country in Pennsylvania

Shady Maples Smorgasbord
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

Shady Maple is the king of buffets. Additionally, how can one not love the store attached that has one full grocery aisle devoted to pretzels.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:13 PM (WXNFJ)

217 From downstairs:
"Remember when adult women behaved like adult women, rather than spastic 12-year-old boys with emotional disturbances?"
--Ace

You have a way with the words, sir!

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at November 11, 2024 08:13 PM (Rbu5d)

218 By the end of 'The Office' every single actor on the show was getting and executive producer credit.

THAT'S when you know it's over.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 08:13 PM (fV+MH)

219 Wave action can still bring stuff up, like Amber in the Baltic.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 08:06 PM (n7h9X)

Aktchally, amber is only slightly more dense than water, and one of the traditional ways to fish it was to use a broom like rig to disturb the bottom as far down as you could reach, to let the amber rise above the sands and wash to the shore with the waves.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 11, 2024 08:14 PM (D7oie)

220 Isn’t Wallace 75 years old or something? Just go away now. No need to wait for the end of the contract.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 11, 2024 08:14 PM (Cb+sw)

221 You'll love this. I get couples pedicures with my husband sometimes. (Men, take care of your feet! Even just going in once a year to get them pampered makes a difference.) Our fave place is owned by a Vietnamese family. They asked us who we voted for, I hesitantly said Trump. They all voted for Trump! It sparked a great convo.

Seriously, legal immigrants want him to fix things and they like him. The left screwed up big time.

(Got sparkly burgundy gel toes for fall! My feet are ready for Thanksgiving now.)

Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2024 08:14 PM (VsYgO)

222 Watched a video on Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald yesterday, had to be worse than that video

Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2024 08:15 PM (fwDg9)

223 207 If she turbanizes she can become a pull-start Indian instead of a push-start Indian.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, ha il turbante

Throw some handle bars on her and kick start 'er.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November

What is happening here? I go to clean the kitchen and I am being pushed and pulled?

Jokes on y'all. I am a feather Indian.

Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 08:15 PM (QzINz)

224 David Lynch's Dune has entered Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:15 PM (RUQlf)

225 "Butter is carbless. Milk is loaded with milk sugars. No one over 6 should have milk. Milk is for babies.
Posted by: Boss Moss"

Sure guy.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 08:15 PM (fV+MH)

226
(Men, take care of your feet! Even just going in once a year to get them pampered makes a difference.)

__________

They'd have to start with a belt sander.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 08:15 PM (EsZUh)

227 Old Country Buffet was pretty solid.

Only one around here, and it closed but it had good food, for a buffet. I hear nothing good about Golden Corral, but its cheat.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:16 PM (Hh1ER)

228 Shady Maple is the king of buffets. Additionally, how can one not love the store attached that has one full grocery aisle devoted to pretzels.

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

My parents would drive two hours each way and leave plenty of room in the trunks with freezer bags just so they could raid the SHIT out of that and the bakery

My favorite were the pizza breads

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 11, 2024 08:16 PM (M7vhK)

229 Additionally, how can one not love the store attached that has one full grocery aisle devoted to pretzels.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:13 PM (WXNFJ)

I think I just heard a choir of angels.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 11, 2024 08:16 PM (OX9vb)

230 OK I'll give you Shady Maples. That buffet is amazing.

Posted by: jsg at November 11, 2024 08:16 PM (2AcnY)

231 BAMA, congrats on the girlfriend!! All the Horde deserve good things.

Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2024 08:16 PM (VsYgO)

232 Ridley made 3 unquestionably great movies, another two or three are definitely good even if they're not my cup of tea (Thelma and Louise, The Martian) and some pretty forgettable dreck.

Tony never made an unquestionably great movie, but he made like 9 pretty good ones. It's definitely closer than people would think.

Posted by: Broseidon, comptroller of the brocean at November 11, 2024 08:16 PM (8Qbd8)

233 (Got sparkly burgundy gel toes for fall! My feet are ready for Thanksgiving now.)
Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2024 08:14 PM (VsYgO)

Didn't Burgundy Gel Toes open for Little Feat?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 08:16 PM (aCt/P)

234 Piper, the French in you background out weights the Indian.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2024 08:17 PM (t8vHj)

235 No one over 6 should have milk. Milk is for babies.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 08:13 PM (ZLWsP)

———————-

What the fuck am I supposed to pour over my Fruity Pebbles?

Posted by: Duke Lowell, MAGA Viking at November 11, 2024 08:17 PM (u73oe)

236 The Buffets near me keep closing for some reasom.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 08:17 PM (ZLWsP)

237 Seconded on the pedi for men.

It's not everywhere one can hear "You feet! They ugly!!" or "You like xxxxx? Only 5 dollah more."

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:17 PM (WXNFJ)

238 218 GOP
209 Dims

In the House although I don't know if that includes any leaving for Administration jobs.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:17 PM (hovnC)

239
What the fuck am I supposed to pour over my Fruity Pebbles?
Posted by: Duke Lowell, MAGA Viking at November 11, 2024 08:17 PM (u73oe)

_______

Kamala uses gin.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 08:18 PM (EsZUh)

240 So, does C Wallace think he'll have a podcast, too? Or is he just mourning the death of "journalism?"
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 11, 2024 08:12 PM (OX9vb)

Yeah I wondered that too. All I could tell for sure is that his family has no desire for him to spend time with them.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 08:18 PM (n7h9X)

241 So the Amber Room may turn up after all?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

As long as Amber Heard doesn't show up on your pillow.

Posted by: Mr. Depp at November 11, 2024 08:18 PM (tWDmH)

242 I forgot about Shady Maples. It's been 35 years.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 11, 2024 08:18 PM (dR6yv)

243 Jokes on y'all. I am a feather Indian.
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 08:15 PM

But do you have a good crab dip recipe?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2024 08:18 PM (kgE5c)

244 >>Some more humour:
Wade Stotts @wadestotts
Late Night isn't taking this well.

https://tinyurl.com/yxwbttfj
4:49 minutes of Late Night losers with humourous commentary

Posted by: andycanuck

=====================

One man's trash is another man's voter. haha!

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 11, 2024 08:18 PM (NMT5x)

245 Looking at the Korean War monument photo. In a group of ten soldiers, three are carrying walkie-talkies. Seems like way more than would be necessary

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 08:18 PM (aCt/P)

246 The Buffets near me keep closing for some reasom.

Do you live near Lizzo or Stavey Abrams?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:18 PM (RUQlf)

247 What's a 'sin of omission', Oprah?

Breaking911 @Breaking911 1h
WATCH: Oprah says she's 'not talking about the election' after Kamala got clobbered.

She also says reporting that the campaign paid her $1M is false.

"I was paid nothing, ever."

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:19 PM (hovnC)

248 Milk has calcium. I need calcium.

Plus you can't eat cheerios with water. That's just gross.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 08:19 PM (mzM2O)

249 I learned something very valuable on the InterWebz a few days ago. As I get more days beyond age 29 I've begun having difficulty swallowing pills and capsules. I tried tilting my head back while swallowing, with limited success. Docs on the Webz say tilt your head down. It works!

Tilt your head down, put the medication on the tip of your tongue, sip some water, then swallow with your head tipped down.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 08:19 PM (aBgBM)

250 My husband got free steak for Veterans Day at Texas Roadhouse and a free haircut today.

Thanks for your service, Moron vets. And go get your freebies! You've earned them.

Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2024 08:19 PM (VsYgO)

251 Jokes on y'all. I am a feather Indian.
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 08:15 PM

I am very sorry about the blankets....

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM (V13WU)

252
She also says reporting that the campaign paid her $1M is false.

"I was paid nothing, ever."
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:19 PM (hovnC)

This is called lying without lying. Her production company was paid 1 million. Which means her business made a million.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM (mzM2O)

253 From looking at Shady Maples website, it is time for a road trip.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM (8AONa)

254 Michael Mann is another mixed quality director. Some of his stuff is just amazing, some is pretty awful. He swings from stuff like Thief, Manhunter, and Heat then he does Miami Vice and Public Enemies. He seems to have more hits than misses though

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM (Hh1ER)

255 I still need to pony up the $ for Macross Zero
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:11 PM (RUQlf)

Do you not love life anymore?

Posted by: Crunchyroll at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM (1ooKk)

256 They'd have to start with a belt sander.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

On most men's feet they start with an open grater. No shit. The stuff they get off is disgusting.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM (WXNFJ)

257 Breaking911 @Breaking911 3h
HOLY SMOKES! Kamala's campaign wasted $20M to buy the endorsements of celebrities

$5M to Megan Thee Stallion
$3M to Lizzo
$1.8M for Eminem
$1M for Oprah

Paid 6 figures to appear on the 'Call Her Daddy' podcast

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM (hovnC)

258 Been drinking milk for 3/4 of a century. Hasn't killed me yet.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM (t8vHj)

259 Jokes on y'all. I am a feather Indian.
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 08:15 PM

And you know this? How!

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at November 11, 2024 08:21 PM (a3Q+t)

260 232 BAMA, congrats on the girlfriend!! All the Horde deserve good things.
Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2024 08:16 PM (VsYgO)

Aww! Thank you!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 08:21 PM (mzM2O)

261 I like some of Tony's movies. But he made Domino as well. And for that, he had to take his life.

Posted by: Too Soon? at November 11, 2024 08:21 PM (OTznU)

262 Jokes on y'all. I am a feather Indian.

Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 08:15 PM

Porch creek?

My great grandmother was full Cherokee.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 08:21 PM (mzM2O)

263 As I get more days beyond age 29 I've begun having difficulty swallowing pills and capsules. I tried tilting my head back while swallowing, with limited success. Docs on the Webz say tilt your head down. It works!

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 08:19 PM (aBgBM)

I do, also. Pills, head back. Capsules, head forward, because they float to the back of your mouth. That's my theory.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 11, 2024 08:22 PM (OX9vb)

264 Ridley Scott : The Duelist.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 11, 2024 08:22 PM (u82oZ)

265 Those bastards kicked Piper off the butter package!!!!

see how I did a callback there?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:22 PM (Hh1ER)

266 Oprah did not get paid..but Harpo did ?

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 08:22 PM (V13WU)

267 Heat was some badass shit.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 08:22 PM (fV+MH)

268 "On most men's feet they start with an open grater. No shit. The stuff they get off is disgusting.
Posted by: Tonypete"

What? I worked hard to get that crust.

Posted by: Fill Swift at November 11, 2024 08:22 PM (vFG9F)

269
I know that it isn't up to everybody's taste (from comments that I have read elsewhere), but I have found the Korean War memorial in Washington to be quite moving, particularly after I read about the Frozen Chosin battle accounts of both the Army and the Marine Corps units there.

There was a small Army detachment that went out to scout around where they had advanced to on the northeast side of the reservoir and they simply vanished. I found that extremely haunting and crushingly sad.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 11, 2024 08:22 PM (XeTAE)

270 Plus you can't eat cheerios with water. That's just gross.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 08:19 PM

Have you tried beer?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2024 08:22 PM (a3Q+t)

271 >>> Jokes on y'all. I am a feather Indian.
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 08:15 PM

Trying to figure out a joke about the French and Indian war, but I'm not achiefing it.

(Ok that's bad. I'll go sit in the corner for five minutes.)

Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2024 08:22 PM (A9BSN)

272 $5M to Megan Thee Stallion
$3M to Lizzo
$1.8M for Eminem
$1M for Oprah

Paid 6 figures to appear on the 'Call Her Daddy' podcast
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM (hovnC)

Lizzo had to go with Kamala; Weight Watchers would not return her calls.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 08:23 PM (aCt/P)

273 Crunchyroll

Are you also reading my mail?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:23 PM (RUQlf)

274 My father told me that a friend of his from our hometown was the model for one of the statues in the Korean War Veterans Memorial (or, rather, his photo was used).

I think that's a great memorial, btw. Frank Gaylord was truly inspired when he envisioned a group of statues reflecting soldiers on patrol.

Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2024 08:23 PM (njExo)

275 Nah man Miami Vice is great. And you forgot Collateral, that one is fantastic.

Posted by: Broseidon, comptroller of the brocean at November 11, 2024 08:24 PM (8Qbd8)

276 I have a copy of the Duelists but I haven't watched it yet. I got it because it is HIGHLY recommended by pretty much every sword expert and historian on the internet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:24 PM (Hh1ER)

277 Why eat sweetened cereal all. More room for bacon and eggs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 08:25 PM (ZLWsP)

278 JUST IN: Trump's first impeachment "whistleblower," Eric Ciaramella, reportedly intends to flee the country.

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2024 08:25 PM (GITLP)

279 Do our Marine vets have any crayons left after yesterday, or have you eaten them all?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2024 08:25 PM (a3Q+t)

280 Marco Rubio - Secretary of State

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2024 08:26 PM (63Dwl)

281 Jokes on y'all. I am a feather Indian.
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 08:15 PM

Trying to figure out a joke about the French and Indian war, but I'm not achiefing it.

(Ok that's bad. I'll go sit in the corner for five minutes.)
Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2024 08:22 PM (A9BSN)

My heritage has 4 countries, who were involves in most of the really bad European wars for something like 400 years or more.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 08:26 PM (n7h9X)

282 >>> What? I worked hard to get that crust.
Posted by: Fill Swift at November 11, 2024 08:22 PM (vFG9F)

Hah. Yeah a lot of places will use what looks like a cheese grater. They have to have a special license to cut off dead skin layers.

You'll lose like 5 pounds off your feet. But they also massage your legs and increase circulation. Worth it!

Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2024 08:26 PM (A9BSN)

283 Saw the Korean War Memorial at night last summer. It really is haunting and moving. Many of the memorials are beautiful or impactful, but the Korean sticks in my mind the most.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 11, 2024 08:26 PM (tWDmH)

284 Domino is pretty bad, yeah, but I don't think he has any other real stinkers.

And don't say The Fan, that movie is pure kino.

Posted by: Broseidon, comptroller of the brocean at November 11, 2024 08:26 PM (8Qbd8)

285 No courage of your convictions, Eric?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2024 08:26 PM (t8vHj)

286 Trump's first impeachment "whistleblower," Eric Ciaramella, reportedly intends to flee the country.

A bunch of those guys should consider this because they sure as hell were lying and probably have espionage crimes looming over them as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:26 PM (Hh1ER)

287 Do our Marine vets have any crayons left after yesterday, or have you eaten them all?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Most of them haven't been released from the brig just yet.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:26 PM (WXNFJ)

288 279 JUST IN: Trump's first impeachment "whistleblower," Eric Ciaramella, reportedly intends to flee the country.
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2024 08:25 PM (GITLP)

Points towards Canada.

Bye, Felicia.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 08:26 PM (mzM2O)

289 Do our Marine vets have any crayons left after yesterday, or have you eaten them all?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2024 08:25 PM (a3Q+t)

——————

Burp

What?

Posted by: Duke Lowell, MAGA Viking at November 11, 2024 08:26 PM (u73oe)

290 JUST IN: Trump's first impeachment "whistleblower," Eric Ciaramella, reportedly intends to flee the country.
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2024 08:25 PM (GITLP)

So we are allowed to say his name now?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 08:27 PM (n7h9X)

291 They would be miffed if someone read your comment to them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 08:27 PM (ZLWsP)

292 I am very sorry about the blankets....
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM (V13WU)

Rough crowd here tonight!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 11, 2024 08:27 PM (hOUT3)

293 JUST IN: Trump's first impeachment "whistleblower," Eric Ciaramella, reportedly intends to flee the country.
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2024 08:25 PM (GITLP)

Be a real shame if he got robbed and killed by unidentified thugs in some non-extradition shithole.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 08:27 PM (aCt/P)

294 Walked through the Korean War DC monument at night years ago when it was brand new and I was unaware of it being there.

Chilling.
Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2024 07:46 PM (j4U/Z)

Thats the best time to see it. Especially with a couple inches of snow.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2024 08:27 PM (W/lyH)

295 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee 10h
Antifa Member Lectures D-Day Veteran On How To Fight Fascism
buff.ly/30pBrn1

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:27 PM (hovnC)

296 Eric Cartman is leaving? But I like him.

Posted by: Broseidon, comptroller of the brocean at November 11, 2024 08:27 PM (8Qbd8)

297 In the consumer's defense , peanut butter contains no milk.

😉

Posted by: Just Lily at November 11, 2024 08:28 PM (RLLZj)

298 that is such a right-on-target war memorial, wow, bravo.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 08:28 PM (gY0JQ)

299 Can't do Golden Corral. Just....no.

I liked the place 40 years ago, before it became a buffet-style restaurant. Like any chain steakhouse, you would grab a tray and some utensils and walk in a line to place your order and get your drink. Then a waitress would bring your order to your table. There was one in Raleigh, NC that served delicious ham steaks, and homemade fries.

I ate at one maybe 10 years ago - well into the buffet era - ordered a hamburger and immediately bit into an ice-cold piece of gristle. completely took away my appetite.

Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2024 08:29 PM (njExo)

300 Been drinking milk for 3/4 of a century. Hasn't killed me yet.
Posted by: Ben Had

You and me sweetie! {{{}}}

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 11, 2024 08:29 PM (+VovS)

301
Trump's first impeachment "whistleblower," Eric Ciaramella, reportedly intends to flee the country.

________

They're guilty of everything they accused Trump of.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 08:29 PM (EsZUh)

302 A heartfelt *cheers* to all of our 'ron and 'ette veterans.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2024 08:29 PM (mH6SG)

303 294 JUST IN: Trump's first impeachment "whistleblower," Eric Ciaramella, reportedly intends to flee the country.
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2024 08:25 PM (GITLP)

Be a real shame if he got robbed and killed by unidentified thugs in some non-extradition shithole.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 08:27 PM (aCt/P)

Found in a cookpot over a bonfire in Haiti.

Posted by: Roy at November 11, 2024 08:29 PM (z+ik4)

304 https://www.decentcandle.com/ shop/clown-fetish

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 08:29 PM (1ooKk)

305 In the consumer's defense , peanut butter contains no milk.

==

and Almond MIlk is not milk ! WTF !

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 08:29 PM (V13WU)

306 Tony Scott and Gene Hackman were a damn good pair, Crimson Tide and Enemy of the State are both fantastic.

Posted by: Broseidon, comptroller of the brocean at November 11, 2024 08:30 PM (8Qbd8)

307 Th USFDA has set an acceptable level of ratshit for peanut butter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 08:30 PM (ZLWsP)

308 We goin to Sizzlers. We goin to Sizzlers.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2024 08:30 PM (mzM2O)

309
Marco Rubio - Secretary of State
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

That would be interesting.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:30 PM (cPjH3)

310 277 I have a copy of the Duelists but I haven't watched it yet. I got it because it is HIGHLY recommended by pretty much every sword expert and historian on the internet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:24 PM (Hh1ER)

Despite Harvey Keitel playing an over the top Harvey Keitel, I enjoyed The Duelists.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 08:31 PM (aBgBM)

311 Jeeves is a dick.

Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2024 08:31 PM (4c58h)

312 @ 295, yeah, there it is, just what i was thinkin' ...

too bad it's in deecee, be better in Wisconsin, or any northern state where it could get snow regularly ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 08:31 PM (gY0JQ)

313
Th USFDA has set an acceptable level of ratshit for peanut butter.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2024 08:30 PM (ZLWsP)

________

The WEF will set an acceptable level of peanut butter in ratshit

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 08:31 PM (EsZUh)

314 Milk contains naturally occurring sugars - lactose. It breaks down pretty quickly into glucose. It also breaks down into galactose, which helps development of the nervous system. The glucose does positive things like aid in the absorption of magnesium and calcium. It also acts as a prebiotic, feeding healthy things to your gut. It does not affect your blood sugar levels as significantly as other sugars.

You do not need to drink milk, but assuming no allergies and if you are diabetic, ensure your doctor is okay with it, it is not unhealthy. Of the alternatives, unsweetened almond milk is the lowest sugar alternative, also coconut milk, which has fructose and is low GI. Rice milk has the highest GI.

Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 08:31 PM (QzINz)

315
The most important part of the State & DOJ picks is being able & willing to be tough with all the Career Shits and Democrat party operatives in the departments.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:32 PM (cPjH3)

316 I wouldnt let Rubio set up the RNC lemonade stand.

Posted by: ... at November 11, 2024 08:32 PM (lX8VI)

317 308 Th USFDA has set an acceptable level of ratshit for peanut butter.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Good thing we've learned to trust the science!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 11, 2024 08:32 PM (hOUT3)

318 "Despite Harvey Keitel playing an over the top Harvey Keitel, I enjoyed The Duelists.
Posted by: Gref "

It's flawed but I love it.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 08:32 PM (fV+MH)

319
I am very sorry about the blankets....

Well, we didn't have gas then.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 11, 2024 08:32 PM (xeH36)

320 https://www.decentcandle.com/ shop/clown-fetish
Posted by: Robert

Good lord, the description on that candle is hilarious!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 11, 2024 08:33 PM (tWDmH)

321 www.decentcandle.com/shop/buttslut

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 08:33 PM (1ooKk)

322 Eric Cartman is leaving? But I like him.
Posted by: Broseidon

Screw you Broseidon, I'm goin' home.

Posted by: Eric Cartman at November 11, 2024 08:33 PM (DgGvY)

323 305 https://www.decentcandle.com/ shop/clown-fetish
Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 08:29 PM (1ooKk)

I already didn't like candles.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 11, 2024 08:33 PM (OX9vb)

324 Milk is magnificent.
Cream is better.
Butter is useful.
I am made of dairy.

Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2024 08:34 PM (4c58h)

325 Only one more, promise.

www.decentcandle.com/shop/cum-spell

Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at November 11, 2024 08:34 PM (1ooKk)

326 Wasnt it a Golden Corral where that massive chair throwing fight broke out a couple of years ago?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 11, 2024 08:34 PM (Dm8we)

327 272 Trying to figure out a joke about the French and Indian war, but I'm not achiefing it.

(Ok that's bad. I'll go sit in the corner for five minutes.)
Posted by: LizLem at November

😂🤣😂

Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 08:34 PM (QzINz)

328 Been drinking milk for 3/4 of a century. Hasn't killed me yet.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM

*fist bump*

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2024 08:34 PM (mH6SG)

329 Eylon Levy @EylonALevy 8h
“Why is Israel stopping aid trucks?”
Aid trucks:

Israel Defense Forces @IDF 8h
Found on an international aid convoy in Gaza:
[photo]
https://tinyurl.com/4z4ux8k5

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:35 PM (hovnC)

330
I must correct a recent boner.

On Saturday I wondered why Michael Caine was playing a kraut soldier in The Eagle Has Landed with a Brit accent. Well, later in the movie they explain why.

What an odd movie. Still don't know what to make of it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:35 PM (cPjH3)

331 usda has set an 'acceptable' ratshit level for just about every known food
... innit?.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 08:35 PM (gY0JQ)

332 Robert

Please look at Tensor. Better for you than those *bleech* candles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:36 PM (RUQlf)

333 On Saturday I wondered why Michael Caine was playing a kraut soldier in The Eagle Has Landed with a Brit accent. Well, later in the movie they explain why.

Great book though. I tried another Jack Higgins book and it was pretty bad but he did great with this one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:36 PM (Hh1ER)

334 "Wasnt it a Golden Corral where that massive chair throwing fight broke out a couple of years ago?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba"

That sounds terrible and hilarious at the same time.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 08:36 PM (fV+MH)

335 Wasnt it a Golden Corral where that massive chair throwing fight broke out a couple of years ago?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 11, 2024 08:34 PM (Dm8we)

Waffle House.

Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at November 11, 2024 08:37 PM (1ooKk)

336 It also breaks down into galactose
Posted by: Piper

Which was my favorite game at the arcade when I was 11.

Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2024 08:38 PM (DgGvY)

337 332 usda has set an 'acceptable' ratshit level for just about every known food
... innit?.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 08:35 PM (gY0JQ)

Also an acceptable insect parts level for almost all processed foods.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 08:39 PM (aBgBM)

338
It's so weird.

Michael Caine's Steiner character starts off as the obvious good guy. But then he's the bad guy. But he's a good bad guy, or a bad good guy. By the end, even Robert Duvall's character is a good guy!

The only "bad guy" in the movie is...Himmler?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:39 PM (cPjH3)

339 I must correct a recent boner.

Sheesh!
The stuff you read here.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2024 08:39 PM (W/lyH)

340 115 I hate to think of the human smuggling in containers.

I know it happens and I cannot imagine the horror of enduring that only to be enslaved somewhere in America. "oh you survived? OK the young girls over there, you work in nail shops and massage parlors."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 07:55 PM (Hh1ER)
----
If you like Lee Child's Reacher stories, the best one is his first "Killing Foor". The other excellent one is #15 "Worth Dying For". Recommended.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, una bella storia at November 11, 2024 08:39 PM (i0xsb)

341 I just checked. The chair fight was at a Golden Corral in Pennsylvania. It's on YouTube.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 11, 2024 08:39 PM (Dm8we)

342 I was named after my Dad's youngest brother who was killed in the Korean War. I finally went to my Dad's hometown and met some of the cousins. Of the ten cousins there, seven were named after him, including two woman.

Posted by: JML at November 11, 2024 08:40 PM (vjUC3)

343 https://www.decentcandle.com/ shop/clown-fetish
Posted by: Robert

"Sir, do you have any idea what could have caused your house to catch fire?"

Posted by: the local fire marshal, nine seconds before peeing himself laughing at November 11, 2024 08:41 PM (DgGvY)

344 Can't do Golden Corral. Just....no.
Posted by: jsg

Didn't they used to have the chocolate fountains?

Ewwwww!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:01 PM (WXNFJ)

***

Chocolate fountains aren’t so bad, but from experience renting them for, uh.. private parties.. you want to one of the first men in line or else you’ll be picking pubes out of your teeth all night long.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at November 11, 2024 08:42 PM (K4KCe)

345 One clown that does need to be burned - the one doll in Poltergeist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:43 PM (RUQlf)

346 I must correct a recent boner.

One of the golden age Batman books is all about Joker's many boners. The word boner comes up a lot in the book, all about Joker trying stuff and getting it wrong, making mistakes. Batman #66, still by Kane and Finger in the early 40s.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:43 PM (Hh1ER)

347 I just checked. The chair fight was at a Golden Corral in Pennsylvania. It's on YouTube.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

You can head to Twin Peaks for biker gang shootouts. Luckily out front rather than inside.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 11, 2024 08:43 PM (tWDmH)

348 "Been drinking milk for 3/4 of a century. Hasn't killed me yet.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2024 08:20 PM

*fist bump* "

seconded ! it's actually hard for food to taste quite right unless i have a glass of milk on the side to wash it down; ...

well, working on 3/4 century, anyway ... couple more birthdays ...

far as i'm concerned, the old wonderbread slogan still applies: "builds strong bodies 12 ways", and fwiw still eating pasty foam bread too; just think of it as a structural material to keep the meat&cheese from getting my fingers greasy ...

innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 08:43 PM (gY0JQ)

349
What's worse?

Breaking up with your family because Trump won, or doing it on the chinese app Tik Tok for all the world to see?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:44 PM (cPjH3)

350 204 Wave action can still bring stuff up, like Amber...
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 08:06 PM (n7h9X)

Wave action, like on a waterbed?

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 11, 2024 08:44 PM (NMT5x)

351 true dat, gref

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 08:45 PM (gY0JQ)

352 They won't be eating the dogs of the people who live here much longer.

I'll guaran-damn-tee you that.

Posted by: Specially Trained Immigration Dog at November 11, 2024 08:45 PM (7oYYI)

353 Despite Harvey Keitel playing an over the top Harvey Keitel, I enjoyed The Duelists.
Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 08:31 PM (aBgBM)
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Based on a Joseph Conrad short story, which is superb. Really good film, catapulted Ridley Scott's career.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 08:45 PM (llXky)

354 The Duelists is a very good film, and a fascinating look at the code of honor that prevailed in France and many other countries during the Napoleonic era.

Somewhat related: if you haven't read them, try Arthur Conan Doyle's outstanding series of short stories about Brigadier Gerard, a hilariously vain, not too bright, but astonishingly brave French hussard officer.

Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2024 08:46 PM (njExo)

355 I vote for the Wave Motion Cannon.

Should take care of the Democrats. And about half the planet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:46 PM (RUQlf)

356 I just checked. The chair fight was at a Golden Corral in Pennsylvania. It's on YouTube.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 11, 2024 08:39 PM (Dm8we)

***

Damned Scandies, always causing trouble!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 11, 2024 08:46 PM (K4KCe)

357 boner

Posted by: beavis at November 11, 2024 08:46 PM (i0F8b)

358 Golden Corral chair fight:

https://tinyurl.com/b65t2cap

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 11, 2024 08:47 PM (Dm8we)

359 The other excellent one is #15 "Worth Dying For". Recommended.

I have read a good dozen or so of those. Got them from the library in random order. I liked them okay but they are not ones you can read very close together in my experience. They all kind of run together and having giant marty stu kind of gets dull. And I noticed that his story of his origin changed like 4 times in different books until he did the official story heh.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:47 PM (Hh1ER)

360 Are you tired of winning yet?

Melania Trump turned down an invitation from DOCTOR Jill to have tea at the White House on Wednesday, while Trump! meets with Asshoe Joe. Melania will not accompany The Donald on his visit to the White House.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 08:47 PM (aBgBM)

361
Remember the first time you saw the State Police driving Mustang 5.0's?

35 years ago...

https://is.gd/xc2vsy

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:48 PM (cPjH3)

362 Somewhat related: if you haven't read them, try Arthur Conan Doyle's outstanding series of short stories about Brigadier Gerard, a hilariously vain, not too bright, but astonishingly brave French hussar officer.

I highly recommend Doyle's other stories. I mean Sherlock Holmes is great but few people have read his other historical books which are even better. Start with White Company.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:48 PM (Hh1ER)

363 Y'all join me if you like for my 6PM (Pacific time) toast to Vets. Going to be folks from all over the world participating.

Some day I'll learn how to do this online.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2024 08:49 PM (W/lyH)

364 No one wants to have Polonium Tea with Dr. Jill.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:49 PM (RUQlf)

365 Stop!

I can't like Melania more.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 08:49 PM (fV+MH)

366 boner
Posted by: beavis

Shut up, Beavis.

Posted by: Butthead at November 11, 2024 08:49 PM (tWDmH)

367 >>> That container ship video is a testament to how badass sailors are and always have been. Or stupid. I don't know, man. It's not for me. That's for sure.
Posted by: Landlubber
*******
I was mechant marine for 40+ years. Don't know about badass. Dumbass is more like it.

Posted by: Cosda at November 11, 2024 08:49 PM (6rDqw)

368 >>> peanut butter contains no milk.

Peanut butter according to the airlines is a liquid. Found this out the hard way when I had to rifle through security check line with an annoyed security agent.

Trump, can we get changes to some of these FAA security policies? Confiscating the PB in my carry on does not help make America safe again.

Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2024 08:50 PM (57c1U)

369 www.decentcandle.com/shop/buttslut
Posted by: Robert

Alright, which one of you Morons owns this outfit.

I have a few ideas.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 08:50 PM (WXNFJ)

370 What an odd movie. Still don't know what to make of it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:35 PM (cPjH3)
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WW II movies went through an identifiable cycle. The first wave were the ones made during and immediately after. They had an immediacy to them. "The Best Years of Our Lives" is amazing.

Later on, as people move one, you get into more thoughtful pieces like "Command Decision" and "Sands of Iwo Jima."

By the 1960s, the "revisionist" school emerges, and while the Allies aren't being outright vilified, we're reminded that the Germans weren't dunces, either. Plus the spy movie thing, so you get capers about how the war was almost swung. The swan song is "A Bridge Too Far," and then we get into full revisionism, like "Saving Private Ryan" which is a highly polished turd.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 08:50 PM (llXky)

371 Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @CSMFHT Nov 10

https://tinyurl.com/y4ese9jt
funny ancient history meme

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:51 PM (hovnC)

372
If President Trump does just one thing in 4 years, it must be Election Integrity Reform.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:52 PM (cPjH3)

373
polonium; or aqua toffana ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 08:52 PM (gY0JQ)

374 >>> far as i'm concerned, the old wonderbread slogan still applies: "builds strong bodies 12 ways", and fwiw still eating pasty foam bread too; just think of it as a structural material to keep the meat&cheese from getting my fingers greasy ...

I accidentally left a major chain brand bagel shoved in the back of the pantry for a few weeks. Found it and it looked like new. Kind of made me afraid to eat it, not gonna lie.

Preservatives are amazing. But maybe I'm ok with RFK making sure the preservatives in our foods aren't way out of control.

Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2024 08:52 PM (57c1U)

375 I think Trump should consider having a food tester with him if he goes to have tea with Biden and Jill at the WH.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2024 08:54 PM (zvisS)

376 363 - I highly recommend Doyle's other stories. I mean Sherlock Holmes is great but few people have read his other historical books which are even better. Start with White Company. - Christopher R. Taylor

Absolutely spot on. Anyone who hasn't read Doyle's historical fiction is definitely missing out on a literary treat.

Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2024 08:54 PM (njExo)

377 Y'all join me if you like for my 6PM (Pacific time) toast to Vets. Going to be folks from all over the world participating.

Some day I'll learn how to do this online.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2024 08:49 PM (W/lyH)
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At Chateau Lloyd, we've been drinking for ours. Happy Hour usually starts at 3, but I made a dispensation to move it up an hour.

Played "Taps" as usual at the memorial at 11. It was the usual crowd, maybe a dozen people. One of my worst performances because I brought my three-year old grandson and I soon as I started he started jumping around, running into me, which I'm not used to. No one minded.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 08:54 PM (llXky)

378 Nothing wrong with a good boner correction.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at November 11, 2024 08:54 PM (mH6SG)

379 you can polish a terd with the finest jeweler's rouge, but it is what it is

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 08:54 PM (gY0JQ)

380 I wouldn't be surprised if Melania said "I hate that place so, so much, and I don't have to be there for two months, and I'm not wasting even one day of them."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2024 08:54 PM (7oYYI)

381 We our so exercited thats twodays Gay Pride and Transginder Veterans Day Parade was a big hit. Thanx to all thats made it Hoppen...

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at November 11, 2024 08:54 PM (iZ3wT)

382 then we get into full revisionism, like "Saving Private Ryan" which is a highly polished turd.

Chuck Dixon has a terrific rant on Saving Private Ryan where he goes off on how terrible so many aspects of that movie are. He is fine with the message, he's fine with the D-Day opener, mostly*, but he goes off on the military and tactical mistakes and just flat stupidly wrong stuff.

I didn't mind that so much but its such a relentlessly miserable and depressing film I never want to see it again and Spielberg is so viciously manipulative in it, its hard to watch.

*one thing he didn't catch that annoyed me right when I was watching were the magical bullets that were killing people 6+ feet underwater, moving slowly enough to watch tunnel through the water.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:55 PM (Hh1ER)

383
By the 1960s, the "revisionist" school emerges, and while the Allies aren't being outright vilified, we're reminded that the Germans weren't dunces, either.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Mmmm. Right.
Enemy Below (1957)
The Eagle Has Landed (1975)

Also, I hate Saving Private Ryan. Shit movie for idiots.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:55 PM (cPjH3)

384
Also an acceptable insect parts level for almost all processed foods.
Posted by: Gref

============

Also bird parts and rodent parts (not just the droppings)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 11, 2024 08:56 PM (T3es0)

385 Yeah, no Saving Ryan's Privates. Watch it just for the landing. Then switch to The Longest Day.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 08:56 PM (RUQlf)

386 361 Are you tired of winning yet?

Melania Trump turned down an invitation from DOCTOR Jill to have tea at the White House on Wednesday, while Trump! meets with Asshoe Joe. Melania will not accompany The Donald on his visit to the White House.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 08:47 PM (aBgBM)

Melania is planning to wash her hair then.

Posted by: Roy at November 11, 2024 08:56 PM (z+ik4)

387 Could be Melania is still a little upset that they tried to kill her husband twice

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 11, 2024 08:56 PM (M7vhK)

388 315
Piper, of all the 'Milks' mentioned you should point out that other than cow's milk, none of the others are in any way related to milk, just white liquids that look like milk, but then so does white PVA paint. Or the old (1940s) bleach which was a slurry of calcium hypochlorite and looked like milk so my older sister, a toddler at the time, drank some. Mom made her drink milk and then she pukedoutthe mess. No problems.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la varacchina at November 11, 2024 08:57 PM (i0xsb)

389 It's happening all over!

6ixBuzzTV @6ixbuzztv 34m
#REPORT: Dollarama quietly removes self-checkout stations from some Ontario locations.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:58 PM (hovnC)

390 WW II movies went through an identifiable cycle.

The thing is, Westerns did the same thing. They started out as fun romps, then became kind of romantic stories, then became these dark, gritty ones like Searchers, then were comedies and spoofs, and now finally they are being treated a just another literary genre and given respect as just stories.

We don't get many war movies these days but they're all relentlessly awful. I get that every war movie is basically an anti-war movie, but stuff like Fury and Private Ryan are wrist-slitting misery. There is heroism and nobility in war, too. There are great stories of human achievement and justice. It doesn't all have to be "I ate dirt and the shinbone of my best friend for 36 hours while the poison gas killed all my platoon"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:58 PM (Hh1ER)

391 Farm to table is outstanding ... except in the winter. You know what's worse than eating a Twinkie - which is as artificial as it gets ? Eating nothing. Especially while you're cold.
Posted by: Show Me at November 11, 2024 08:55 PM (JpMTF)

scarecrows protect the corn from the crows, but come winter, they are still straw men.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 11, 2024 08:59 PM (D7oie)

392
Yeah, no Saving Ryan's Privates. Watch it just for the landing. Then switch to The Longest Day.
Posted by: Anna Puma

=================

I also liked that land battle in the town. Except for the stupid scene where the "smart" guy has a panic attack on his way up the stairs with the ammo and the Italian guy gets stabbed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 11, 2024 08:59 PM (T3es0)

393 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 08:50 PM (llXky)

King Rat > Great Escape > Bridge Over the River Kwai

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 11, 2024 08:59 PM (oMmSx)

394 Sorry if this was discussed earlier today, but I don't understand how Trump can appoint two House Republicans (Stefanik and Waltz) to Administration positions and leave the Republican House with only a 1 or 2 seat advantage. This is going to make it a lot harder to get anything passed. (Not to mention maybe losing Rubio in the Senate.) Special elections aren't going to happen that quickly I imagine.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at November 11, 2024 08:59 PM (qUkBO)

395 Y'all join me if you like for my 6PM (Pacific time) toast to Vets. Going to be folks from all over the world participating.

Some day I'll learn how to do this online.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2024 08:49 PM (W/lyH)

Cheers. Bottoms up! Thanks to all.

Posted by: Roy at November 11, 2024 09:00 PM (z+ik4)

396 Could be Melania is still a little upset that they tried to kill her husband twice
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

As one of the women Trump surrounds himself with, maybe she decided a weak, unintelligent, Nazi, garbage woman wouldn't fit in at the Biden WH.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 11, 2024 09:00 PM (tWDmH)

397 Little known but one of my favorite WW2 movies is Between Heaven and Hell.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 11, 2024 09:00 PM (oMmSx)

398 Also, I hate Saving Private Ryan. Shit movie for idiots.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:55 PM (cPjH3)
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For me the worst part is that it is so chock full of lies. No, there was not typist pool writing letters home, those were the actual commanders who had to do it. What kind of asshole trivializes that???

And of course Ryan was actually "saved" by a Catholic Chaplain working alone. Weird how Spielberg removed that rather significant part.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:00 PM (llXky)

399
It's been so long I forgot why I liked Mel Gibson's Viet Nam war movie. I think I'd still like it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:00 PM (cPjH3)

400 There's a road in Tennessee, a fairly remote and dangerous one. At the big gas station at the foot of the mountain, they have a Tree of Shame, with the fenders of various motorcycles, dirt bikes, and four wheelers of people who lost it on the road and adjacent trails nailed to it.

One of these had a big, bold decal on it, proudly declaiming its owner as a "BUTT SLUT."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2024 09:00 PM (7oYYI)

401 371 and then we get into full revisionism, like "Saving Private Ryan" which is a highly polished turd.

-- --

I liked it a lot, especially the first 20 minutes.
The D-Day scenes were the best part.

It does go downhill fast with the mini-mutiny against the Captain over their mission and executing the German prisoner, but gets more interesting after that.

The interpreter kid just annoys me for most of the movie.
He only redeems himself translating Edith Piaf's lyrics during the surreal record player part in the ruins of the town and when he finally grows some balls at the end after watching his buddy get knifed.

Not your typical WWII flick for sure, especially with all the moral uncertainty.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 09:01 PM (6ydKt)

402 eh, LizLem, know what you mean ... not exactly totally committed to that item at all, just ha'nt killed me yet ... jus' zackley like all the eggs&butter&apples&coffee&everyother#&%$@thing I never gave up because of the "science"

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 09:01 PM (gY0JQ)

403
Farm to table is outstanding ... except in the winter. You know what's worse than eating a Twinkie - which is as artificial as it gets ? Eating nothing. Especially while you're cold.
Posted by: Show Me

===============

That's why Maw canned peaches and green beans. Now shet up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 11, 2024 09:01 PM (T3es0)

404 I don't understand how Trump can appoint two House Republicans (Stefanik and Waltz) to Administration positions and leave the Republican House with only a 1 or 2 seat advantage.

Well in theory they will be replaced with Republicans but that said I agree, its an unforced error to remove reliable allies from congress.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:01 PM (Hh1ER)

405 Cheers!
To out Vets.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2024 09:01 PM (W/lyH)

406
And of course Ryan was actually "saved" by a Catholic Chaplain working alone. Weird how Spielberg removed that rather significant part.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Tom Hanks' character made me sick. It was so in-your-face politics. Not subtle, at all.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:02 PM (cPjH3)

407 We Were Soldiers

Ric Rescorla

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 09:02 PM (RUQlf)

408 Sink the Bismark was a good British was movie.

And Dana Wynter. Mmmm.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 09:03 PM (fV+MH)

409 but stuff like Fury and Private Ryan are wrist-slitting misery.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:58 PM (Hh1ER)
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I tried to watch "Fury" and realized I hated everyone in the tank. Fuck 'em.

Now go watch "Sahara" and see it done right. Filmed during the war, and a love letter to the M3 Lee/Grant.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:03 PM (llXky)

410 Cheers!
To out Vets.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2024 09:01 PM

*clink* down the hatch

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2024 09:03 PM (mH6SG)

411 The Korean Memorial was the only one I missed on my trip up that way. Sorry I missed it.

Posted by: javems at November 11, 2024 09:04 PM (8I4hW)

412 390 Could be Melania is still a little upset that they tried to kill her husband twice

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 11, 2024 08:56 PM (M7vhK)

And I'll bet all my quatloos Jill replaced some of Melania's many White House decor upgrades and restorations with what Melania considers Wilmington Double-wide Mobile Home Crap.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 09:04 PM (aBgBM)

413 6ixBuzzTV @6ixbuzztv 21h
#REPORT: The NFL has fined Nick Bosa $11,255 for wearing a MAGA hat.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 09:04 PM (hovnC)

414 391 315
Piper, of all the 'Milks' mentioned you should point out that other than cow's milk, none of the others are in any way related to milk, just white liquids that look like milk, but then so does white PVA paint. Or the old (1940s) bleach which was a slurry of calcium hypochlorite and looked like milk so my older sister, a toddler at the time, drank some. Mom made her drink milk and then she pukedoutthe mess. No problems.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore

I also left off the part about breast milk having a higher amount of sugars, because well…it’s y’all. 😂🤣. I assume most people know a nut milk is not dairy, it’s the leftover liquid after soaking the nut meal in water and then straining the nut meal out. But maybe I shouldn’t assume.

Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 09:04 PM (QzINz)

415 "It's those damn magnetic exploders!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 09:04 PM (RUQlf)

416 And yeah, I'd rather watch Band of Brothers than Saving Private Ryan any day of the week.

I loved that series.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 09:05 PM (6ydKt)

417 Hedge funds lose $5 billion betting against Trump.

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2024 09:05 PM (GITLP)

418
What do you make of movies such as Inglorious Basterds?

Is it a legit "war movie?" Or is it a parody? Or, is it something else?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:05 PM (cPjH3)

419 Why ? Honestly, why ? Was it "period accurate" ? Not really - Band of Brothers was probably better. Does it lose points because it depicts a useless, stupid waste of men to make a political point ? Hell - Patton did that.

Seriously - this Saving Private Ryan shit reads like the hate for Nickelback.
Posted by: Show Me at November 11, 2024 09:02 PM (JpMTF)
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Because it is based on a lie. It never happened. The real Private Ryan was saved by a volunteer Catholic Chaplain. Truth fucking matters.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:06 PM (llXky)

420 417 6ixBuzzTV @6ixbuzztv 21h
#REPORT: The NFL has fined Nick Bosa $11,255 for wearing a MAGA hat.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 09:04 PM (hovnC)

I hope he puts tape over that stupid saying on the back of his helmets before the next game. Just tell the NFL he can't promote political messages.

Posted by: Roy at November 11, 2024 09:06 PM (z+ik4)

421 #REPORT: The NFL has fined Nick Bosa $11,255 for wearing a MAGA hat.

I saw that and in so many words he says it was worth it and doesn't give a shit.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2024 09:06 PM (mH6SG)

422 Wave action can still bring stuff up, like Amber...
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 08:06 PM (n7h9X)

Wave action, like on a waterbed?
Posted by: haffhowershower at November 11, 2024 08:44 PM (NMT5x)

if a waterbed brings up an Amber you have a lot of explaining to do to your wife.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 09:06 PM (n7h9X)

423
There's also the Max Hastings school of WWII history. The Allies were dumb and unimaginative with bad soldiers and inferior equipment whole the Germans were tactical geniuses.

Oh, and the Russians won the war while the Allies dawdled around.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 09:06 PM (EsZUh)

424 Sorry if this was discussed earlier today, but I don't understand how Trump can appoint two House Republicans (Stefanik and Waltz) to Administration positions and leave the Republican House with only a 1 or 2 seat advantage. This is going to make it a lot harder to get anything passed. (Not to mention maybe losing Rubio in the Senate.) Special elections aren't going to happen that quickly I imagine.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at November 11, 2024 08:59 PM (qUkBO)

For every Republican congress member appointed to a Cabinet position, they will shoot one Democrat. Fair's fair.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:06 PM (A3oMr)

425 >>429 Sorry if this was discussed earlier today, but I don't understand how Trump can appoint two House Republicans (Stefanik and Waltz) to Administration positions and leave the Republican House with only a 1 or 2 seat advantage.

More bang for the buck in Cabinet positions.

Posted by: Roy at November 11, 2024 09:07 PM (z+ik4)

426 Is it a legit "war movie?" Or is it a parody? Or, is it something else?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:05 PM (cPjH3)
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Never seen it. I don't like Tarantino. Watched his first 2 or 3 films and said "yeah, I've seen enough."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:08 PM (llXky)

427 362
Remember the first time you saw the State Police driving Mustang 5.0's?

35 years ago...

https://is.gd/xc2vsy
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 08:48 PM (cPjH3)
I remember seeing Chevelles and Olds sedans, unmarked.

Posted by: Eromero at November 11, 2024 09:08 PM (LHPAg)

428 The Russians with Spam, Studebaker trucks, 4,000 P-39s, 700 B-25s, and so on.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 09:08 PM (RUQlf)

429 Sink the Bismark !

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 09:09 PM (V13WU)

430 Seriously - this Saving Private Ryan shit reads like the hate for Nickelback.
Posted by: Show Me at November 11, 2024 09:02 PM (JpMTF)

Nickelback sounds like Scogg Dog straining on the toilet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:09 PM (A3oMr)

431 Now go watch "Sahara" and see it done right. Filmed during the war, and a love letter to the M3 Lee/Grant.
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And the Germans all have WW1 Stahlhelm because, oddly enough in 1943, Hollywood didn't have a supply of current German ones!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 09:09 PM (hovnC)

432 :"Truth fucking matters.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:06 PM (llXky)"

words to bloody fucking well live by

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 09:09 PM (gY0JQ)

433 "For every Republican congress member appointed to a Cabinet position, they will shoot one Democrat. Fair's fair.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"

AAaaaahhhh...3d chess.

Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2024 09:09 PM (fV+MH)

434 Sink the Bismark !
Posted by: runner

You mean dunk a donut in coffee?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 09:09 PM (WXNFJ)

435
I understand Stefanik and Waltz are in safe seats. So maybe no biggie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 09:09 PM (EsZUh)

436 Welp, I just saw Thor: Love and Thunder for the first time. Ace had warned me that it blew chunks, and he did not lead me astray.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 09:10 PM (xCA6C)

437 We need to make sure (and how I don't know) that Melania gets her proper recognition as First Lady this time here.

She's only the classiest, most beautiful First Lady we've had, and she gets nothing from our Fashion idiot types. Talk about "fashion icon". The woman could wear a burlap sack and look fabulous.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2024 09:10 PM (w6EFb)

438 There's also the Max Hastings school of WWII history. The Allies were dumb and unimaginative with bad soldiers and inferior equipment whole the Germans were tactical geniuses.

Oh, and the Russians won the war while the Allies dawdled around.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 09:06 PM (EsZUh)
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When "Enemy at the Gates" came out, I was on a multinational forum and oh the hate it got for being "American."

I pointed out that it was a French production, shot in Germany, starring Brits. Piss off.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:10 PM (llXky)

439 423 Because it is based on a lie. It never happened. The real Private Ryan was saved by a volunteer Catholic Chaplain. Truth fucking matters.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:06 PM (llXky)

-- --

I didn't even know it was based on a true story.
I thought they were just riffing off of the Abraham Lincoln letter and the Sullivan brothers.

But that does sound like a more interesting story with the chaplain, to be honest.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 09:10 PM (6ydKt)

440 413 but stuff like Fury and Private Ryan are wrist-slitting misery.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 08:58 PM (Hh1ER)
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I tried to watch "Fury" and realized I hated everyone in the tank. Fuck 'em.

Now go watch "Sahara" and see it done right. Filmed during the war, and a love letter to the M3 Lee/Grant.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:03 PM (llXky)

"A Walk in the Sun" is a terrific US Army in Europe (Italy) film. Made very soon after the war, I believe.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 09:11 PM (aBgBM)

441
I have no doubt biden's wife's rotten people would try to set up Melania and try to make her look bad or "leak" something to the Fake News.

Stay. Away.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:11 PM (cPjH3)

442 All hail research.

The F-14 Tomcat want to model did not have the required three gray TPS, instead only had the two gray TPS.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 09:12 PM (RUQlf)

443 And the Germans all have WW1 Stahlhelm because, oddly enough in 1943, Hollywood didn't have a supply of current German ones!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 09:09 PM (hovnC)
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Yeah, and they're armed with Kar98s, because no one has any 98ks yet! Great improvisation, wonderfully told.

That film has more testosterone than the entire District of Columbia.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:12 PM (llXky)

444 She's only the classiest, most beautiful First Lady we've had, and she gets nothing from our Fashion idiot types. Talk about "fashion icon". The woman could wear a burlap sack and look fabulous.
Posted by: publius

She could wear nothing and be lovely!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2024 09:12 PM (WXNFJ)

445 It does go downhill fast with the mini-mutiny against the Captain over their mission and executing the German prisoner, but gets more interesting after that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 09:01 PM (6ydKt)

It cracked me up seeing the stereotypical 'kid from Brooklyn' actually have it written on his back. And this was what, three days into the campaign?

But yeah, the saving the prisoner question was stupid. look, you are on a small unit mission behind the lines there's no way you can keep a prisoner.

Hogan's Heros episodes are better war movies.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 09:12 PM (n7h9X)

446
If you recall, one of Melania's fake "assistants" or "aids" recorded their conversations.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:12 PM (cPjH3)

447 When I went to DC back in 2008 for the Obamacare protest I got to see the monuments and statues for the first time. The Korean War Memorial was by far the most impressive. The Vietnam one for me was the least impressive.

Posted by: Jaimo at November 11, 2024 09:13 PM (sOA7y)

448 Tilt your head down, put the medication on the tip of your tongue, sip some water, then swallow with your head tipped down.
Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 08:19 PM (aBgBM)

I like the little pill glass that suspends the capsule or tablet on a grilled riser near the top.

Posted by: sal at November 11, 2024 09:13 PM (f+FmA)

449 And John Wayne didn't really lead a team to go save Sulu in "The Green Berets". Still a Hell of a movie.
Posted by: Show Me at November 11, 2024 09:08 PM (JpMTF)
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Right, but Private Ryan sucks as a film, and is also based on a lie. Truly a twofer.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:14 PM (llXky)

450 What do you make of movies such as Inglorious Basterds?

Revenge fantasy, like all of Tarantino's movies lately.

Ace had warned me that it blew chunks, and he did not lead me astray.

I haven't seen it but everything I have seen looked absolutely terrible

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:14 PM (Hh1ER)

451 Going to assume it has been mentioned multiple times that GOP won the House.

CO-8 was finally called, even though the Democrat conceded yesterday.

CA-41 and AZ-6 were also called.

AK is outstanding, will need to wait for that ranked choice nonsense to play out. The only way Belich to lose is if 95% of the 3rd party votes have filled in the Democrat as a second choice.

Costa in CA-21 is hanging on by the skin of his teeth. He has a 1200 vote lead on the GOP challenger with 64% of the vote in.

Duarte in CA-13 is doing a little better leading by 3000 votes with 64% in against the Dem challenger.

Should end up with at least 220, could be as much as 222.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 11, 2024 09:14 PM (5p7BC)

452
I missed it last night, but the Moon and Saturn got pretty close. Hell, I think there was an occultation visible mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. Maybe visible in the lower part of Florida as well, but I'm not sure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2024 09:15 PM (w6EFb)

453 It cracked me up seeing the stereotypical 'kid from Brooklyn' actually have it written on his back. And this was what, three days into the campaign?

But yeah, the saving the prisoner question was stupid. look, you are on a small unit mission behind the lines there's no way you can keep a prisoner.

Hogan's Heros episodes are better war movies.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2024 09:12 PM (n7h9X)
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"Kelly's Heroes" was a better story, and more historically accurate, even though it's a comedy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:15 PM (llXky)

454 best state po-lice car i ever saw (years ago) was an interceptor crown vic painted fire engine red ... the old po-lice master sergeant drivin' it said words to the effect of 'no one ever expects the inquisition' or the state po-lice driving a red car ... he thought it was the secret of his successful career.

fwiw

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 09:15 PM (gY0JQ)

455 427 That's why Maw canned peaches and green beans. Now shet up.

As do I. Pretty amazing how much you can put up, out of 1/4 acre garden.

But for those that don't have that space ? Should they simply starve ? Gents - this is like the debate I had to listen to - briefly - the first time I knocked up my wife.

There is a fucking reason why old boys knocked themselves out to invent shit like baby formula, or preservatives, or an epidural. Because the alternative sucks.

Keep down this road, and you'll start arguing against air conditioning and corrective lenses. Because neither are "natural".
Posted by: Show Me at November

There is a happy balance and people discover things to improve our lives. Tocopherols are preservatives, and basically vitamin e. Frozen veggies can be healthier than what you buy in the produce aisle. Canned veggies are better than no veggies, and frankly are not horrible for you. Milk is fine, again assuming no allergies, carbs are not bad. I could go on and on, but will stop here.

Changing a relationship with food is another topic I could bore everyone to tears with, but will spare you this evening. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2024 09:15 PM (QzINz)

456 Funny: Phone call from obnoxious 'friend' inviting you to a party just to show off some famous friend. Your possible replies:
I can't, I'm washing the cat.
I can't, my dog is getting married.
I can't, I have to count all the beans in my beanbag chair.
I can't, I have to find all the W&Ws in my M&Ms.
...... add some more?

Posted by: Ciampino - E X C U S E S at November 11, 2024 09:15 PM (i0xsb)

457 So I am hearing of more cases of leftists ending their lives rather than have live under president Trump.

Posted by: Michael Moore at November 11, 2024 09:16 PM (elaR+)

458 The F-14 Tomcat want to model did not have the required three gray TPS

"Yeah. You see, we’re putting the cover sheets on all TPS reports now before they go out. Did you see the memo about this?"
--Bill Lumberg

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:16 PM (Hh1ER)

459 Luckily other F-14 building is in the typical early low-viz scheme of being painted overall FS 36440.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 09:16 PM (RUQlf)

460
Oh, and I don't know if Mike Hammer is here, but the other night he saw one of Jupiter's moons with binocs. I think it was Ganymede.

Anyway, the Galilean moons are all spread out tonight, Jupiter is getting close (opposition in Dec), and you can see all the moons if you can zoom in enough.

I'm looking at telescopes. Maybe Miley will get me one for Christmas. And that means I've got to try to remember all the stuff I've forgotten about telescope optics and mounts and all that crap.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2024 09:17 PM (w6EFb)

461 ...... add some more?
Posted by: Ciampino - E X C U S E S at November 11, 2024 09:15 PM (i0xsb)

No thanks, just had my pants pressed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:17 PM (A3oMr)

462 anyone watch the new Shogun?

just finished - recommend!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 11, 2024 09:17 PM (s3qiR)

463 Funny: Phone call from obnoxious 'friend' inviting you to a party just to show off some famous friend. Your possible replies:
I can't, I'm washing the cat.
I can't, my dog is getting married.
I can't, I have to count all the beans in my beanbag chair.
I can't, I have to find all the W&Ws in my M&Ms.
...... add some more?
Posted by: Ciampino - E X C U S E S

I can't.
That is day we are having the dog declawed.

Posted by: Michael Moore at November 11, 2024 09:17 PM (elaR+)

464 Changing a relationship with food is another topic I could bore everyone to tears with, but will spare you this evening.

Much appreciated.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2024 09:17 PM (mH6SG)

465 441
I understand Stefanik and Waltz are in safe seats. So maybe no biggie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 09:09 PM (EsZUh)

But as soon as Stefanik and Waltz are sworn-in to their Cabinet positions, no one will be voting from those safe seats until replacements are sworn-in. The Republicans may not have many votes to spare. If they have a majority to begin with. Most of the un-called House races are in California.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 09:18 PM (aBgBM)

466 Shut up Bill, in Naval parlance TPS stands for Tactical Paint Scheme.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 09:18 PM (RUQlf)

467 If it's Rubio it's more good than bad, imo. I guess Grenell just wasn't viable. To be fair, there really was no one being floated that felt like an obvious slam dunk.

DeSantis needs to ask Byron Donalds if he wants to be the next senator or next governor of FL. I'd love him in the Senate but he's been my pick to replace DeSantis for a while.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 11, 2024 09:18 PM (wGun1)

468 "Kelly's Heroes" was a better story, and more historically accurate, even though it's a comedy.

I love that movie, although a 1940s beatnik is a bit much of an ask from the audience.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:18 PM (Hh1ER)

469
So I am hearing of more cases of leftists ending their lives rather than have live under president Trump.

__________

There is no God.
We have no future.
Everything is hopeless.
May as well kill myself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 09:19 PM (EsZUh)

470 Trump picks Congressman Walz as National Security Advisor and Rubio as Sec of State. Desantis and Florida Republicans are going to be busy finding replacements. Assembling a good team

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 09:19 PM (b2/S2)

471 best state po-lice car i ever saw (years ago) was an interceptor crown vic painted fire engine red ... the old po-lice master sergeant drivin' it said words to the effect of 'no one ever expects the inquisition' or the state po-lice driving a red car ... he thought it was the secret of his successful career.

fwiw
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 09:15 PM (gY0JQ)
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There is a tradition that the Michigan State University Police always have a Mustang. Not sure how far back it goes, but everyone smiles at the thought of it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:19 PM (llXky)

472 What is scary is history is stranger than fiction. As the Russians assaulted Berlin, portions of the SS actually knocked over the central bank.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 09:20 PM (RUQlf)

473 anyone watch the new Shogun?

just finished - recommend!

Concur. It's really good. Anna Sawai is mwah.
*chef's kiss*

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 09:20 PM (xCA6C)

474 The Vietnam one for me was the least impressive.
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I heard a vet at the time said something like, "You go around Washington and see all of these tall, gleaming-white monuments and they give us a big black hole in the ground."

Although the wall of names is respected today.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 09:20 PM (hovnC)

475 So I am hearing of more cases of leftists ending their lives rather than have live under president Trump.

Sad mental defectives.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 11, 2024 09:21 PM (dR6yv)

476
Ever see some of John Wayne's early Westerns?

Angel & the Badman, I think is one.

They are...not good.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:21 PM (cPjH3)

477 I can't, I have to find all the W&Ws in my M&Ms.
...... add some more?
Posted by: Ciampino - E X C U S E S

Well... I ate a half gallon of baked beans yesterday but if you really want me to be there... Do you have enough nose plugs ?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 11, 2024 09:21 PM (4XwPj)

478 Trump picks Congressman Walz as National Security Advisor and Rubio as Sec of State. Desantis and Florida Republicans are going to be busy finding replacements. Assembling a good team
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 09:19 PM (b2/S2)

Is there any reason that Waltz and Rubio cannot serve both roles until replacements get elected?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:21 PM (A3oMr)

479 A lot of the Saving Private Ryan talk here reminds me of - from the opposite vein - the talks I've had about "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".

Its such a well written, well-shot and even well-acted movie that I can forgive its many flaws. Yeah the girl is like 20 years too old. Yeah, Stewart plays a pretty awful person. Yeah its deconstructive decades before that became the hot thing in Hollywood. But its still really well done.

I am in the same camp about Lonesome Dove though, its written by a guy who basically hates westerns and tried to turn everything on its head and make the tough, independent western man look like an ass. But the acting and writing is so good that it works anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:21 PM (Hh1ER)

480 Trump picks Congressman Walz as National Security Advisor and Rubio as Sec of State.

Oh, damn. He's gonna get rolled. He is not sharp.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 09:22 PM (xCA6C)

481 392 It's happening all over!

6ixBuzzTV @6ixbuzztv 34m
#REPORT: Dollarama quietly removes self-checkout stations from some Ontario locations.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:58 PM (hovnC)

Pffft…

Fuqing Wegmans is down to 8 manned checkout lanes at my store in the city.

They have 30 self serve lanes now.

And if the 8 manned lanes, there are always 3-4 not open.

Wegmans is asshoe …

Posted by: browndog at November 11, 2024 09:22 PM (TTAGa)

482 Just came in from the MKT. SFC GreasySpoon has his signature chilling with a cornbread crust for dinner tonight. He totes swearsies (pinky finger too!) that there isn't any sand from the camouflage nets in it.

Top has the platoon sergeants manning the ECP, and Sp4 Schmedlap crapped on the commander's HMMV chock blocks.

The Motors Warrant is coming around checking the ground rods on the generators, so tell all yer troops to piss on them for me, please. I don't like that a-hole at all.

It's a fine day to be in this here Army. Every meal is a banquet, and every formation is a parade.

I miss being with the troops. I had so much fun on active duty. I REALLY miss serving Thanksgiving dinner to them at the chow hall.

Happy Veterans Day, Horde.

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 11, 2024 09:22 PM (MsrgL)

483 I love that movie, although a 1940s beatnik is a bit much of an ask from the audience.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:18 PM (Hh1ER)
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Oddball works because he's also a killer. He's like a proto-hippy one moment, and then just shredding the Germans the next. That whole "negative waves" things goes back to the 1930s, by the way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:22 PM (llXky)

484 I wonder who will be named Senator by DeSantis as Rubio's replacement.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 09:22 PM (V13WU)

485 43 the talks I've had about "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".
Posted by: Show Me at November 11, 2024 09:18 PM (JpMTF)

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Great movie, though.
Baddie Lee Marvin. John Wayne in his prime.

And good lord the size of those steaks Jimmy Stewart is dishing out on those plates at the beginning.

They don't make cows like they used to.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 09:22 PM (6ydKt)

486 @486 AOP, members of Congress cannot have another job.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 09:23 PM (b2/S2)

487 Walz won't be an issue. DeSantis can appoint an immediate replacement until there is a special election.

Stefanik is more problematic. I think that Houchel can put in someone in the interim. If not, then the seat is vacant. he seat might be safe, but I worry about any seat in New York.

Both of them can't be taken out of the House until Trump is inaugurated, so they will take their seat on 1/6 and vote for the Speaker.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 11, 2024 09:23 PM (5p7BC)

488 Ever see some of John Wayne's early Westerns?

Stagecoach holds up really well. I have a bunch of his old serials in a box set, they're all basically the same story but they are still entertaining. He's got that star spark even in the early days but he hasn't really grown into his role yet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:23 PM (Hh1ER)

489 @486 AOP, members of Congress cannot have another job.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 09:23 PM (b2/S2)

Ah, OK. Makes sense.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:24 PM (A3oMr)

490 486 Trump picks Congressman Walz as National Security Advisor and Rubio as Sec of State. Desantis and Florida Republicans are going to be busy finding replacements. Assembling a good team
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 09:19 PM (b2/S2)

Is there any reason that Waltz and Rubio cannot serve both roles until replacements get elected?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:21 PM (A3oMr)

Prohibited in the Constitution. Article I, Section 6, 2nd Paragraph.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 09:24 PM (aBgBM)

491 Pappy Eromero, who actually landed on D-Day with 29th Inf Div, said the landing scenes were 'close' to what actually happened to him. He never had much to say about the rest of the movie because he was wounded at Saint Lo 2 weeks later and knocked out of the war.

Posted by: Eromero at November 11, 2024 09:25 PM (LHPAg)

492 487 But the acting and writing is so good that it works anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:21 PM (Hh1ER)

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Robert Duval and Tommy Lee Jones were at their absolute best in those roles.

And those were two guys who had some really great, memorable, roles over their careers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 09:25 PM (6ydKt)

493
I think that Houchel can put in someone in the interim.

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Can't. House vacancies are always filled by election.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 09:25 PM (EsZUh)

494
Gaetz to the Senate??

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:26 PM (cPjH3)

495 Has the Rubio appointment been really confirmed or just the NYT 'reporting' it, that I saw an hour ago?

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 09:26 PM (hovnC)

496
A lot less police on the highways now, and, good.

Stopped over 5 times in my life for being less than 10 over and the fucking Barney Fife had his quota to make, so. But they'd knock it down to 5, 'cause, they're your friend.

Listen to me, sounding like a Democrat. Truth is they're union member civil servants looking for easy marks instead of criminals.

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2024 09:26 PM (j4U/Z)

497 Peanut the Squirrel or Fred the Racoon for Congress?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 09:26 PM (RUQlf)

498 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2024 09:26 PM (v6JzV)

499 480; sociopaths gonna sociopath - same as bolsheviks innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 09:26 PM (gY0JQ)

500 Saving Private Ryan - I reckon - makes some here feel that The Greatest Generation might have only been 99% great. I assume those folks miss the White Hat, Black Hat days of the old westerns as well.
Posted by: Show Me at November 11, 2024 09:18 PM (JpMTF)
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What Spielberg did was create a nihilist, anti-American movie and then at the last minute dump his trademark sappy emotional bit about an old vet weeping over his buddy and thanking him for the live he lived, causing everone to forget the entirety of the film and show "WE LOVE YOU GRANDPA!"

Spielberg is asshoe.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:26 PM (llXky)

501 Also word of caution on Rubio. This is all coming from a single source, it hasn't been confirmed by the Trump team.

But it is pretty clear that Rubio will be getting something. He's pretty close to Trump now, and he wanted out of the Senate last time. I don't think he would run again.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 11, 2024 09:26 PM (5p7BC)

502 I wonder who will be named Senator by DeSantis as Rubio's replacement.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 09:22 PM (V13WU)

You made me look it up.

Little Marco appears to be the leading candidate for Secretary Of State.

https://tinyurl.com/yct6d3en

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 09:27 PM (4jjip)

503
ooh!

How about Matt Gaetz as AG?

Remember how the DOJ tried to set up Gaetz with a frame job?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:27 PM (cPjH3)

504 Rubio is Uniparty. No way I want that little shyster near any cabinet post. Especially a foreign policy position.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2024 09:27 PM (7oYYI)

505 Rubio as Sec of State.

Oh, damn. He's gonna get rolled. He is not sharp.

Eh, its a sop to the GOPe, and honestly the SoS doesn't have much to do when Trump is in office. He handles his own negotiations and diplomacy, infuriating State last time. But he's so damned good at it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:27 PM (Hh1ER)

506 Also word of caution on Rubio. This is all coming from a single source, it hasn't been confirmed by the Trump team.

==

NYT reported it. So did Reuters.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 09:27 PM (V13WU)

507
Reading something interesting about Kamala paying Oprah, Beyonce, and the other celeb idiots.

Paying them is not any campaign violation, but there may be a requirement that the fact they were paid should have been "prominently" disclosed.

Ie, Oprah should've be required to say, "I endorse Kamala! (paid for by Harris for President)".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2024 09:28 PM (w6EFb)

508 @496 Dave in FL, a governor can't appoint a congressman. The seat is open until the special election or the next scheduled election. Governors can appoint senators until the next scheduled election or until a special election

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 09:28 PM (b2/S2)

509 Rumor from a lobbyist friend of mine is that a deal was struck, Rubio to State, DeSantis will appoint another up and comer the AG Ashley Moody, and Byron Donalds will get the Trump endorsement for Gov.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 11, 2024 09:28 PM (q6dqN)

510 Sending Rubio to State has two advantages. One, he's a slick con man, perfect for the job.

Second, the moment he gets out of line, Trump cans him, and we don't have to deal with him anymore.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (llXky)

511 Keep down this road, and you'll start arguing against air conditioning and corrective lenses. Because neither are "natural".
Posted by: Show Me at November 11, 2024 09:06 PM (JpMTF)

You and your strawmen. Learn to argue better.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (D7oie)

512 I dunno. I was quite moved visiting the Vietnam wall for the first time.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (mH6SG)

513 Ah, thanks Hadrian. Just Senate that is appointed by the Governors, I guess.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (5p7BC)

514
I wouldn't at all be surprised if Kevin McCarthy gets a minor role in the admin. The president seems to like him.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (cPjH3)

515 NYT reported it. So did Reuters.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 09:27 PM (V13WU)

Two solid non-partisan sources.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (A3oMr)

516 Well better load up the airbrush and start painting.

And to think after these two F-14s are built still have four in the stash.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (RUQlf)

517 He never had much to say about the rest of the movie because he was wounded at Saint Lo 2 weeks later and knocked out of the war.

Million dollar wound, lucky in some ways. Probably didn't feel lucky at the time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:30 PM (Hh1ER)

518 Gaetz to the Senate??
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:26 PM (cPjH3)

Uuuggghhhh!

Dear gaaaad, just...no.

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2024 09:30 PM (4jjip)

519 Rumor from a lobbyist friend of mine is that a deal was struck, Rubio to State, DeSantis will appoint another up and comer the AG Ashley Moody, and Byron Donalds will get the Trump endorsement for Gov.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 11, 2024 09:28 PM (q6dqN)

Donalds ? ugh

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 09:30 PM (V13WU)

520 Dave in Florida, every house member is elected. Unless the seat is close to an election, most states require a house special election 60 days after the seat is officially vacated.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 09:30 PM (ctrM5)

521
I like Rubio as Sec State. He's hell on China.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 11, 2024 09:30 PM (T3es0)

522 I was quite moved visiting the Vietnam wall for the first time.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

When you find the name of someone you knew personally, it makes a difference!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 11, 2024 09:30 PM (hOUT3)

523 530. Just a rumor from one (well connected) friend. Who knows. Moody will want to run for Gov or senate. It could defuse a tense situation.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 11, 2024 09:31 PM (q6dqN)

524 I hope Vivek is at least in on planning the inauguration parade. Everybody likes elephants.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 11, 2024 09:31 PM (gm9Sb)

525 Two solid non-partisan sources.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (A3oMr)

This is not election editorial. Learn to tell the difference.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 09:31 PM (V13WU)

526 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (llXky)

There's no advantage to having a slimy little fucker like Rubio around, especially in an important post. This is Trump making a major personnel error right out of the gate. Not a great sign.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2024 09:31 PM (7oYYI)

527 532
I like Rubio as Sec State. He's hell on China.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 11, 2024 09:30 PM (T3es0)

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Dondi Goes International

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 09:32 PM (hY4dx)

528 Milk gives me edema in my legs. Weird.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2024 09:32 PM (KAi1n)

529 And to think after these two F-14s are built still have four in the stash.

Dang you got a whole airforce

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:32 PM (Hh1ER)

530 Second, the moment he gets out of line, Trump cans him, and we don't have to deal with him anymore.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (llXky)

Javier Millei did this with his foreign minister, Diana Mondio

Posted by: Kindltot at November 11, 2024 09:33 PM (D7oie)

531 Listen to me, sounding like a Democrat. Truth is they're union member civil servants looking for easy marks instead of criminals.
Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2024 09:26 PM (j4U/Z)
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Cops are intensely local. That's who pays them, that's where they work. The cops around here are polite, professional and even friendly. I've gotten off with more warnings than I can remember. I remember a stop for broken taillight that turned into a half-hour conversation about changes in town, people we both knew and a hope for better days.

So yeah, there are jerks, but there are good people out there as well.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:33 PM (llXky)

532 Desantis should appoint Congresswoman Luna. Hot and will help with the Hispanic voters

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 09:33 PM (b2/S2)

533 This is not election editorial. Learn to tell the difference.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 09:31 PM (V13WU)

You really think that the NYT would not publish an unfounded rumor if they thought that doing so would benefit the Left?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:33 PM (A3oMr)

534 I hope Vivek is at least in on planning the inauguration parade. Everybody likes elephants.

Should watch Alladin and copy that parade. Toss chocolate coins out the side of the Houdah

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:33 PM (Hh1ER)

535 NY law requires special election proclamation 10 days after being notified and the election between 70 to 80 days after the proclamation. After the election, the person winning is seated immediately.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 09:34 PM (ctrM5)

536 Well better load up the airbrush and start painting.

And to think after these two F-14s are built still have four in the stash.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (RUQlf)
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Is the F-14 the only aircraft that has a website to document to each and every crash? Crazy reading.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:34 PM (llXky)

537 The only thing that worries me about Rubio is that I don't think he will clear out the scum in the State Department. That place in particular needs a good scouring

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 09:34 PM (b2/S2)

538 Rubio has been rumored for State for months. This is not exactly going out on a limb.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 11, 2024 09:34 PM (q6dqN)

539 Second, the moment he gets out of line, Trump cans him, and we don't have to deal with him anymore.

I think that may have been what Trump had in mind for Romney last time but Rmoney was so obnoxious he couldn't even give him a job.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:35 PM (Hh1ER)

540 You really think that the NYT would not publish an unfounded rumor if they thought that doing so would benefit the Left?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:33 PM (A3oMr)

I think you like to be a contrarian when there is no reason for it. This was an obvious release from the Trump people. To read some kind of plot into this is nonsense.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 09:35 PM (V13WU)

541 Dave in Florida, every house member is elected. Unless the seat is close to an election, most states require a house special election 60 days after the seat is officially vacated.
Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 09:30 PM (ctrM5)

I think its set by the constitution The state rep replacements are per state law but the others are per some article which escapes me

Posted by: LASue at November 11, 2024 09:36 PM (PU+VX)

542
All eyes on Gov Dewine.

I'll bet Dewine has a lot of sneaky Democrat shits in his office who'd love to get the president on a recording asking Dewine to appoint someone in particular for Vance's seat.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:36 PM (cPjH3)

543
Matt Damon got saved. Yet again. Matt Damon is asshoe. You don't waste a squad to save Matt Damon.

Posted by: Show Me at November 11, 2024 09:29 PM (JpMTF)

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It would've been a much better flick if Leonardo DiCaprio took the part.

The guy is owed one after what they did to him at the end of Titanic.

TWO PEOPLE can FIT on there, ROSE.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 09:36 PM (6ydKt)

544 It was always going to be Rubio for SoS, or at least he was the top contender. Just like Burgum was going to be Energy secretary.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 09:37 PM (V13WU)

545
Yes, it's okay for a president to make a request to the governor, but you know the Democrats -- they'll turn it into a fake -gate scandal hoax and a "quid pro quo" hoax.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 09:37 PM (cPjH3)

546 No Cabinet position is official until Trump is in office and his selection is confirmed by the Senate. Calm down, everyone.

Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2024 09:37 PM (v6JzV)

547 Trump is not winging it And probably no one knows the Florida political landscape better than he does Im pretty confident he knows what he's doing here

Posted by: LASue at November 11, 2024 09:37 PM (PU+VX)

548 The biggest one is AG. And Defense.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2024 09:37 PM (V13WU)

549 Sending Rubio to State has two advantages. One, he's a slick con man, perfect for the job.

No, no he's not. He's the idiot that got fooled by the Dems into supporting amnesty. There's nothing slick about him.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 09:37 PM (xCA6C)

550 It would've been a much better flick if Leonardo DiCaprio took the part.

Matt Damon looks more everyman, and Leo looked like he was 13 at the time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:37 PM (Hh1ER)

551 500 Pappy Eromero, who actually landed on D-Day with 29th Inf Div, said the landing scenes were 'close' to what actually happened to him. He never had much to say about the rest of the movie because he was wounded at Saint Lo 2 weeks later and knocked out of the war.

Posted by: Eromero at November 11, 2024 09:25 PM (LHPAg)

The 29th Division's first wave companies at the western end of Omaha Beach suffered a huge number of casualties. Possibly the highest company losses on Omaha Beach. I'm too lazy to look them up again.

GIs hated the MG-42. 'To Hell and Back,' the film about Audie Murphy's war (starring Audie Murphy) provides what I think is a good representation of German MG-42 tactics and its 1200 pounds per minute firing sound, said by GIs to be like a sheet being ripped.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 09:38 PM (aBgBM)

552 I found the name of my uncle I never met. He died at 19 before I was born.

The Korean memorial was very moving as well.

My dad served there. I thought about how he might have died like uncle Stephen and I wouldn't be here.

And all the cousins I might have had but didn't.

Posted by: Just Lily at November 11, 2024 09:38 PM (RLLZj)

553 No Cabinet position is official until Trump is in office and his selection is confirmed by the Senate. Calm down, everyone.
Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2024 09:37 PM (v6JzV)

Exactly Let's continue reveling

Posted by: LASue at November 11, 2024 09:38 PM (PU+VX)

554 I think that may have been what Trump had in mind for Romney last time but Rmoney was so obnoxious he couldn't even give him a job.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:35 PM (Hh1ER)
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It's 2d chess. You take an erratic grandstander out of the Senate and make them serve at the pleasure of the President. Sounds like big promotion until uh-oh.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:39 PM (llXky)

555 What do you make of movies such as Inglorious Basterds?
Revenge fantasy, like all of Tarantino's movies lately.

It's the only Tarantino movie that I've seen the whole thing.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2024 09:39 PM (KAi1n)

556 Trump is not winging it And probably no one knows the Florida political landscape better than he does Im pretty confident he knows what he's doing here
Posted by: LASue at November 11, 2024 09:37 PM (PU+VX)

Maybe he should appoint Thune and Cornyn to Cabinet posts. Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education. Then fire them when those Departments are eliminated.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:39 PM (A3oMr)

557 I hope Vivek is at least in on planning the inauguration parade. Everybody likes elephants.

Should watch Alladin and copy that parade. Toss chocolate coins out the side of the Houdah

Hail Vivek
Smaller than Shrek
But a lot smarter

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 09:40 PM (xCA6C)

558 560. Only person who knows FL better is his CoS Suzie Wiles. She is a magician down here.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 11, 2024 09:41 PM (q6dqN)

559 Another flick I couldn't make 15 minutes in.

But yeah, I've see the last scene. Pull her fat ass into the water and get on that float, if she's gonna' be like that.
Posted by: Show Me at November 11, 2024 09:39 PM (JpMTF)
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I've only seen "Titanic" once, and that was on cable in the background while I was playing a game of Bloodbowl. We mocked it mercilessly between turns.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:41 PM (llXky)

560 I think the last Tarantino movie I saw all of was Inglorious Basterds and eh, its overrated (and Walz's performance wasn't all that) but it was fun enough as a weird fantasy. I think the last one of his I really enjoyed was Jackie Brown. Its a bit long but well done.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:41 PM (Hh1ER)

561 La Sue, the constitutional requires the people choose aka elect the House of Representatives in Art I. Section 2 every two years.

At the end of that clause, it specifies the executive of the state shall issue a proclamation of an election to fill vacancies.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 09:42 PM (ctrM5)

562 But Rubio drank water!!!!!

Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2024 09:42 PM (v6JzV)

563 Maybe he should appoint Thune and Cornyn to Cabinet posts. Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education. Then fire them when those Departments are eliminated.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:39 PM (A3oMr)

Lol

Posted by: LASue at November 11, 2024 09:42 PM (MVD2I)

564 @330 Those look kind of like French Lebels.
Where does Hamas get their rifles -- from Bannerman's?

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 11, 2024 09:43 PM (zdLoL)

565 Please - no GOPe

They're all evil.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2024 09:44 PM (7oYYI)

566 No one, and I mean NO ONE on the Senate Intelligence Select Committee can be trusted...which includes Marco Rubio and even Tom Cotton.

Posted by: Orson at November 11, 2024 09:44 PM (dIske)

567 218 GOP
209 Dims

In the House although I don't know if that includes any leaving for Administration jobs.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 08:17 PM (hovnC)

Those aren't the final numbers. Until a minute ago, there were still 7 seats uncalled in California; Decision Desk just called one of those for the Republicans, and it's looking like the Republicans will get 2 more, while the Democrats will get the other 4. The Republicans are also about to win the Alaska seat. By my count, that's 222 Republican, 213 Democrat.

Posted by: Wiese at November 11, 2024 09:44 PM (W2RQ1)

568 >>> 570
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Maybe he should appoint Thune and Cornyn to Cabinet posts. Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education. Then fire them when those Departments are eliminated.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:39 PM (A3oMr)

I would LMAO.

Does anyone ever refuse these appointments? Is it considered a big deal to refuse?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 11, 2024 09:44 PM (zlGo9)

569 Posted by: Show Me at November 11, 2024 09:31 PM (JpMTF)

You do know what a straw man is right?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 11, 2024 09:45 PM (D6PGr)

570
If there's not a thousand firings at the State Department on day one it's a failure.

Trump will run his own foreign policy. Marco will be a cabinet figurehead.

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2024 09:45 PM (j4U/Z)

571 Those look kind of like French Lebels.
Where does Hamas get their rifles -- from Bannerman's?
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 11, 2024 09:43 PM (zdLoL)

Could Hamas be buying shit-tons of obsolete ammo just to get the powder and primers from it for making rockets or IED's?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:45 PM (A3oMr)

572 Fwiw, secretaries of the cabinet by and large are figureheads ( not the AG nor heads id the CIA or NSA, perhaps DoD).

All the assistant and undersecretaries actually run the agency.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 09:45 PM (ctrM5)

573 Republicans hold the House. Of course there will be at least two special elections (Fla and NY) both of which are safe seats . However the Republicans will be down two seats for a time. Hochul will set the election as far out as possible , probably 80 days

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 09:46 PM (b2/S2)

574
Susie *Summerall* Wiles. That just blew me away when I learned that a few days. That's Pat Summerall's daughter, wow, that just made me smile.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2024 09:46 PM (w6EFb)

575 La Sue, the constitutional requires the people choose aka elect the House of Representatives in Art I. Section 2 every two years.

At the end of that clause, it specifies the executive of the state shall issue a proclamation of an election to fill vacancies.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 09:42 PM (ctrM5)

Isn't that just saying they have to hold a special election that also has to follow the election protocol/calendar as all elections? Different for Senators tho

Posted by: LASue at November 11, 2024 09:46 PM (FrnmL)

576 I found the name of my uncle I never met. He died at 19 before I was born.

The Korean memorial was very moving as well.

My dad served there. I thought about how he might have died like uncle Stephen and I wouldn't be here.

And all the cousins I might have had but didn't.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 11, 2024 09:38 PM (RLLZj)
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At some point there will be a War on Terror memorial. What will it look like? How will we interpret it? Was it a war of vengeance against terrorists or a neocon crusade that turned into a racket?

I don't know. I do know that I have odd flashes of anger about it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:46 PM (llXky)

577
Does anyone ever refuse these appointments? Is it considered a big deal to refuse?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 11, 2024 09:44 PM (zlGo9)

________

Happens all the time. But it's almost never public.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 09:46 PM (EsZUh)

578 Trump will run his own foreign policy. Marco will be a cabinet figurehead.

That is my read as well, its what he did last time

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:47 PM (Hh1ER)

579 Nearly 600 comments...yikes. Did anyone cast doubt on the container ship videos? At least the first one looks totally fake to me.

Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at November 11, 2024 09:47 PM (BF5+T)

580 This is what the Constitution states about filling vacancies in the House:

"When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such vacancies."

That's all there is. Article I, Section 2, 4th Paragraph.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 09:48 PM (aBgBM)

581 I absolutely love a movie where the bad guys do good things, and the good guys do bad things.

Posted by: Show Me at November 11, 2024 09:42 PM (JpMTF)

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Exactly how I feel about the Bond movies.

As a younger man I especially loved it when Bond did the bad things... Famke Jansen being one of my favorites.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 09:48 PM (6ydKt)

582 GIs hated the MG-42. 'To Hell and Back,' the film about Audie Murphy's war (starring Audie Murphy) provides what I think is a good representation of German MG-42 tactics and its 1,200 pounds per minute firing sound, said by GIs to be like a sheet being ripped.
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Coincidentally enough, I watched a Normandy D-Day documentary here this morning and a German vet was praising the MG-42 and the narration gave a background on the weapon. He said it was called "Hitler's saw" by the troops from its firing sound.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 09:49 PM (hovnC)

583 @562 the MG - 42 was called "Hitler's Buzzsaw" for the sound it made. Knew a WWII vet who was wounded in the side by one. Nasty scar

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 09:50 PM (b2/S2)

584 As a younger man I especially loved it when Bond did the bad things

One of the few good scenes in Man With The Golden Gun was the intro scene where he breaks a woman's arm interrogating her. Cold as hell. That's my James Bond.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:50 PM (Hh1ER)

585 At some point there will be a War on Terror memorial. What will it look like? How will we interpret it? Was it a war of vengeance against terrorists or a neocon crusade that turned into a racket?

I don't know. I do know that I have odd flashes of anger about it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:46 PM (llXky)

The death and sadness all around military and civilian.

Utmost tragedy.

I can't imagine what kind of memorial they will make for the war on terror, but it won't be enough.

Posted by: Just Lily at November 11, 2024 09:51 PM (RLLZj)

586 I want to know who Trump is going to pick for the Department Of You Said You Were Leaving Now GTFO.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 11, 2024 09:51 PM (zlGo9)

587 'According to the U.S. Constitution and state law, the governor of the state calls for a special election to replace the vacant House seat. The full election cycle must be followed including political party nominating processes, primary elections and a general election, all held in the congressional district involved. The entire process often takes as long as from three to six months.'

I didn't note the source

Posted by: LASue at November 11, 2024 09:52 PM (R/SJH)

588 The Constitution on Senate vacancies. Seventeenth Amendment, 2nd Paragraph -

"When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct."

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 09:52 PM (aBgBM)

589 want to know who Trump is going to pick for the Department Of You Said You Were Leaving Now GTFO.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 11, 2024 09:51 PM (zlGo9)

I nominate Justine Bateman

Posted by: LASue at November 11, 2024 09:53 PM (R/SJH)

590 Tulsi gonna head the VA?

Posted by: davidt at November 11, 2024 09:54 PM (i0F8b)

591 Fwiw, secretaries of the cabinet by and large are figureheads ( not the AG nor heads id the CIA or NSA, perhaps DoD).

All the assistant and undersecretaries actually run the agency.
Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 09:45 PM (ctrM5)
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There's a rumor going through the civil service that a lot of employees are going to be reclassified so as to make them easier to fire. Trump has likely gotten some bureaucratic warriors on board who know where the weak points are in the armor.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:54 PM (llXky)

592 If nothing else, I expect that Rubio will sail through Senate confirmation so there's that.

DeSantis picks his replacement, so not a bad choice if Rubio can handle the job.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 09:54 PM (6ydKt)

593 " I was quite moved visiting the Vietnam wall for the first time.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

When you find the name of someone you knew personally, it makes a difference!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar"
*****
Yeah it does.

Posted by: Cosda at November 11, 2024 09:55 PM (6rDqw)

594 Last time, Trump picked a guy specifically to shut down Elizabeth Warren's grifting consumer department cabinet post, and he gleefully dug into it. He needs to do that with several other offices.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2024 09:55 PM (Hh1ER)

595 Nearly 600 comments...yikes. Did anyone cast doubt on the container ship videos? At least the first one looks totally fake to me.

Definitely. The containers are stretching into diamonds in the second one.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 09:55 PM (xCA6C)

596 Coincidentally enough, I watched a Normandy D-Day documentary here this morning and a German vet was praising the MG-42 and the narration gave a background on the weapon. He said it was called "Hitler's saw" by the troops from its firing sound.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 09:49 PM (hovnC)

Knew a man who was hit in the leg about a quarter of the way up the cliff at Pont du Hoc. One of the toughest guys I ever met.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2024 09:56 PM (W/lyH)

597 DeSantis picks his replacement, so not a bad choice if Rubio can handle the job.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 09:54 PM (6ydKt)
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And if he can't Trump fires him. I see no downside to this.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 09:56 PM (llXky)

598 Sparkles and her neutered prince are gonna go to Portugal, allegedly. May they depart on a huge jet, taking a bunch of other mushbrained celebrities with them.

Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2024 09:56 PM (v6JzV)

599 Nearly 600 comments...yikes. Did anyone cast doubt on the container ship videos? At least the first one looks totally fake to me.
Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at November 11, 2024 09:47 PM (BF5+T)

As long as they are presented solely as entertainment, I don't really care. I enjoy Roadrunner cartoons, too.

If the video is being cited as "proof" of Klimat Katastrophe, and that I should stop driving my truck, and start eating crickets, then fuck them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2024 09:57 PM (A3oMr)

600
This Kamala magazine cover was french and real:

https://is.gd/xLtkeB

Nice to be able to finally laugh at this shit.

Posted by: ... at November 11, 2024 09:57 PM (lX8VI)

601 No, because it is a federal office, Congress gets a say and has. Elections must occur within 49 days of the House Speaker declaring a vacancy but up to 75 days if there is a local, state, or federal elections scheduled. Old 1870s era law.

Had to look it up for the exact dates.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 09:57 PM (ctrM5)

602 No, no he's not. He's the idiot that got fooled by the Dems into supporting amnesty. There's nothing slick about him.
Posted by: Archimedes

That was the guy from Wyoming, Alan something.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2024 09:59 PM (KAi1n)

603 Believe you me - any one of these GOP establishment punks at State will be working overtime to gin up our next humiliating generational conflict and defeat. It's literally the *only* reason people pay for them to be in government.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2024 09:59 PM (7oYYI)

604 584 @562 the MG - 42 was called "Hitler's Buzzsaw" for the sound it made. Knew a WWII vet who was wounded in the side by one. Nasty scar

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 09:50 PM (b2/S2)

'Saving Private Ryan' did get right the need for changing the barrel of an MG-42 that had been firing a lot in a short time. The assistant gunner carried one or more spare barrels. Change-out was a quick, routine task. German design proficiency.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 09:59 PM (aBgBM)

605 Is there gonna be an ONT?

Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2024 09:59 PM (v6JzV)

606
There was a funny meme I saw yesterday. You have all the idiot celebs packed in the cabin of a jet, or what looks like a jet.

Whoopi says, "Wait, where are we going?"

Next frame is Elon, in shades and a dark Maga hat walking away as a rocket blasts off.

We can only assume that rocket is headed straight for the Sun.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2024 10:00 PM (w6EFb)

607
I wouldn't be surprised if Tulsi gets SecDef.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 10:00 PM (cPjH3)

608 Rumors that Vivek Ramaswamy will be picked to replace Vance in the Senate.

Now those will be some interesting floor speeches and questions during committees if Vivek gets into the Senate.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 10:00 PM (6ydKt)

609 'Saving Private Ryan' did get right the need for changing the barrel of an MG-42 that had been firing a lot in a short time. The assistant gunner carried one or more spare barrels. Change-out was a quick, routine task. German design proficiency.
Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 09:59 PM (aBgBM)
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That's the epitome of Hollywood these days - nail the gun, nail the barrel change, the rest of the film is crap.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 10:01 PM (llXky)

610 Phew...confirmation that my eyesight isn't completely gone bonkers!

Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at November 11, 2024 10:01 PM (BF5+T)

611 Tulsi gonna head the VA?

I would be impressed if she took the risk of that mess. Screwing up there is almost guaranteed and would tar anyone with eyes on a future in politics, which she’s definitely planning. If she sticks it out as a Republican she won’t get any cover from the press, which will instead magnify any problems with care for veterans.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 11, 2024 10:01 PM (EXyHK)

612 That was the guy from Wyoming, Alan something.
Simpson

n April 2012, Rubio began to introduce his own version of the DREAM Act, granted legal status to undocumented children. It is at this point, that Rubio first supports an immigration bill that would benefit undocumented immigrants.

In December 2012, Rubio is selected and agrees to join the Gang of Eight made up of senators from each party to try to work out an agreement on comprehensive immigration reform. This marks the first time when Rubio actually supports a comprehensive approach to fixing the immigration system and providing legal status to those already here in an undocumented status.

April 2013, Rubio pushes hard to have the bill introduced by the Gang of Eight passed in Congress. He states that he does not believe that we should deport millions of people or make their lives so miserable that they will self-deport themselves as advocated by other Senators. He points out that without fixing the immigration system, there is de facto amnesty.

https://is.gd/WB33gF

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 10:02 PM (xCA6C)

613 g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 11, 2024 10:02 PM (gY0JQ)

614
MTG for Secretary of The Pull Up Bar?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 10:02 PM (cPjH3)

615 It would be great to see Gen. Flynn as SecDef. The confirmation fight would be nasty though.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2024 10:03 PM (b2/S2)

616 294

'Be a real shame if he got robbed and killed by unidentified thugs in some non-extradition shithole.'

We should a GoFundMe.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2024 10:04 PM (3wi/L)

617 13 monkey still on the loose.

Posted by: TRex at November 11, 2024 10:04 PM (WW2ra)

618 I wouldn't be surprised if Tulsi gets SecDef.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 10:00 PM (cPjH3)

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That would be.. interesting. Tulsi was my Congressman. She’s a leftist but she may be good at SecDef. She’s probably too isolationist for Trump.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 11, 2024 10:04 PM (K4KCe)

619 I think Rubio going into the establishment tank was deeply wounding to Ace. He was so...into him. Sexually.

And then this betrayal.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 10:05 PM (llXky)

620 on't understand how Trump can appoint two House Republicans (Stefanik and Waltz) [i/]

Especially with Stefanik in NY. I doubt the witch in charge replaces her with a Trump friendly candidate, unless legislation is in place to force it.
We don't have anywhere near enough of majority in Congress to make up for the traitor RINOs, especially in the Senate.

Everyone else seems to be from Florida; perhaps they know him well personally? As much as Nikki has angered me over the years, I think she was a great UN Ambassador, and probably would've done well at State. RINO Rubio will probably do ok, but not thrilled with that. He's burned me several times and wasn't he acNeverTrumper?!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at November 11, 2024 10:05 PM (Vvh2V)

621 Was Wreck it Ralph a veteran?

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2024 10:05 PM (S6gqv)

622 Knew a man who was hit in the leg about a quarter of the way up the cliff at Pont du Hoc. One of the toughest guys I ever met.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2024 09:56 PM (W/lyH)

I have seen Pont du Hoc, and if I didn't know better I would say the stories are fake. What they did was impossible.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2024 10:05 PM (706cY)

623 To my #1 TC

USMC with 5 combat tours in Iraq and the Afghan.

Seems like years later we all wonder what the hell we were doing there anyway...especially with Biden's total CF withdrawal from the Afghan.

Yet, there he was... back in the day, an AMERICAN WARFIGHTER!!

Thank you for your service son.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 11, 2024 10:05 PM (TDvv2)

624 Popsicle

[I/]

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at November 11, 2024 10:05 PM (Vvh2V)

625 Why can't resigning Congressmen vote right up to the moment their replacement is sworn in? Defeated Congressmen can.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:06 PM (aD39U)

626
Anthony Blinken, James Taylor, and John-Francois Kerry are starting a international folk-healing music trio. Kerry will play bass.

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2024 10:06 PM (j4U/Z)

627 La Sue, the trigger for the federal law is when the speaker declared a vacancy and then state law applies to the executive announcing the spec election. Found at 2 USC 8 clause 2.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 10:07 PM (ctrM5)

628 April 2013, Rubio pushes hard to have the bill introduced by the Gang of Eight passed in Congress. He states that he does not believe that we should deport millions of people or make their lives so miserable that they will self-deport themselves as advocated by other Senators. He points out that without fixing the immigration system, there is de facto amnesty.

https://is.gd/WB33gF

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 10:02 PM (xCA6C)

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That was 2013 though.
I haven't heard Rubio, or Cruz for that matter, go hard on amnesty since Trump smoked them both in the 2016 primaries.

Rubio has gotten progressively more tough talking on immigration since then.

But he's a politician, so he might be just being a weasel like so many other GOPe?

Trump will have to keep him on a short leash until we find out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 10:07 PM (6ydKt)

629 As I recall, at one point we had 10 Supreme Court justices.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:07 PM (aD39U)

630 That was 2013 though.
I haven't heard Rubio, or Cruz for that matter, go hard on amnesty since Trump smoked them both in the 2016 primaries.

Rubio has gotten progressively more tough talking on immigration since then.

But he's a politician, so he might be just being a weasel like so many other GOPe?

Trump will have to keep him on a short leash until we find out.

Stupidity is not a condition that generally gets better with time.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 10:07 PM (xCA6C)

631 623 I have seen Pont du Hoc, and if I didn't know better I would say the stories are fake. What they did was impossible.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2024 10:05 PM
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Agree. Absolutely.

Until being there in person, I didn't fully understand the strategic importance of that location. That piece of land had a great view (i.e. shooting lane) up the beach.

Posted by: TRex at November 11, 2024 10:08 PM (WW2ra)

632 USMC with 5 combat tours in Iraq and the Afghan.

Seems like years later we all wonder what the hell we were doing there anyway...especially with Biden's total CF withdrawal from the Afghan.

Yet, there he was... back in the day, an AMERICAN WARFIGHTER!!

Thank you for your service son.
Posted by: Nightwatch at November 11, 2024 10:05 PM (TDvv2)
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That's what I mean. Do we put up a concrete question mark? What was it all for?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 10:08 PM (llXky)

633 What they did was impossible.

“I have always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”—J.R.R. Tolkien, quoted in A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 11, 2024 10:08 PM (EXyHK)

634 or rather, we had confirmation hearings for a SCJ while the existing was still on the court.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:08 PM (aD39U)

635 Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 10:02 PM (xCA6C)

You know who else thought actions to encourage self deportation was cruel?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 11, 2024 10:08 PM (D6PGr)

636
Why can't resigning Congressmen vote right up to the moment their replacement is sworn in? Defeated Congressmen can.
Posted by: G'rump928

Perhaps because the transition process is underway? I dunno.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 10:08 PM (cPjH3)

637 630 As I recall, at one point we had 10 Supreme Court justices.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:07 PM (aD39U)

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FUN FACT: At one point there were three popes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 10:08 PM (dDmld)

638 626 Why can't resigning Congressmen vote right up to the moment their replacement is sworn in? Defeated Congressmen can.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:06 PM (aD39U)

The Constitution says no.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 10:09 PM (aBgBM)

639 Has this thread now morphed into the ONT? We were pretty good on Saturday with the movie/ONT combo thread.

Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2024 10:09 PM (gKDq2)

640 Was Wreck it Ralph a veteran?
Posted by: Tom Servo

Veterans day going into the evening would at least be appropriate.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 11, 2024 10:10 PM (+VovS)

641 Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 10:02 PM (xCA6C)

You know who else thought actions to encourage self deportation was cruel?

Hitler? Did I get it right?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 10:10 PM (xCA6C)

642 No. There was one pope and two anti-popes.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 11, 2024 10:10 PM (+H2BX)

643 Aww, you guys miss me!

Posted by: Wreck it Ralph at November 11, 2024 10:11 PM (WXNFJ)

644 Stupidity is not a condition that generally gets better with time.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 10:07 PM (xCA6C)

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Haha!
Well his intelligence is a whole 'nother matter.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 11, 2024 10:11 PM (6ydKt)

645 Hitler? Did I get it right?
Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 10:10 PM (xCA6C)

Well the Left does call Trump Hitler so half credit for you.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 11, 2024 10:11 PM (D6PGr)

646 626, nope, but, any resignation would probably wait until PDT is sworn in again on Jan 20 which is after the Jan 3 date of Congress convening. Then the nomination is announced, the votes taken in Senate only then dies the mandatory resignation occur because of the separation of powers. Other than the VP, no legislative member can be in the executive branch also.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 10:11 PM (ctrM5)

647 Kind of like before Benedict XVI died, we had one pope and one anti-pope.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 11, 2024 10:11 PM (+H2BX)

648 Has this thread now morphed into the ONT? We were pretty good on Saturday with the movie/ONT combo thread.
Posted by: RickZ

Well, till the name calling started...

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 11, 2024 10:11 PM (+VovS)

649 @330 Those look kind of like French Lebels.
Where does Hamas get their rifles -- from Bannerman's?
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 11, 2024 09:43 PM (zdLoL)

They look like AK ammo, and the green ones look Russian and the bronze ones could be Chinese or Russian.
Either way, they look like left overs or salvage, being a mixed lot like that.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 11, 2024 10:12 PM (D7oie)

650 Has Rubio's owner gotten tired of him and wants a fresh Senator to step and fetch it? That's the only reason I can see for dropping him into the State Department snake pit.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2024 10:12 PM (7eVFM)

651 The ONT has started to act a little erratic lately. Staying out all night, not coming home at all.

It may need an intervention.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 10:12 PM (dDmld)

652 FUN FACT: At one point there were three popes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 10:08 PM (dDmld)

and what of Pope Joan?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:12 PM (aD39U)

653 Has this thread now morphed into the ONT?

Looks like the cob transition has hit a few bumps in the road.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2024 10:12 PM (mH6SG)

654 It's no ONT, onit I see.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2024 10:12 PM (zrj9w)

655 Does instead of dies in post 647. On phone.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 10:13 PM (ctrM5)

656 643 No. There was one pope and two anti-popes.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 11, 2024 10:10 PM (+H2BX)

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Physics says that when a pope and an antipope collide, they mutually annihilate each other.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 10:13 PM (dDmld)

657 FUN FACT: At one point there were three popes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 10:08 PM (dDmld)
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Now do the year of four emperors.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 10:14 PM (llXky)

658 Anthony Blinken, James Taylor, and John-Francois Kerry are starting a international folk-healing music trio. Kerry will play bass.
Posted by: Auspex

If Kerry's involved, it'll be yacht rock.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2024 10:14 PM (KAi1n)

659 Looks like the cob transition has hit a few bumps in the road.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2024 10:12 PM (mH6SG)

Like Congressmen, they can't post up to the moment their replacement is sworn in.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:14 PM (aD39U)

660 Here, have a music track for our impromptu ONT...

Five Finger Death Punch - Blue On Black (feat. Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brantley Gilbert & Brian May)

https://youtu.be/p8NQUbLQGio

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 11, 2024 10:14 PM (O7YUW)

661 BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly plans to fire 600 employees at the National Institutes of Health.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2024 10:14 PM (S6gqv)

662 The idea of pulling appointees out of the House & Senate is not a good idea.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2024 10:14 PM (zrj9w)

663 Looks like the cafe is staying open late.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2024 10:14 PM (KAi1n)

664
Tulsi's on Gutfeld.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2024 10:14 PM (w6EFb)

665 BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly plans to fire 600 employees at the National Institutes of Health.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2024 10:14 PM (S6gqv)

Is that all of them?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:14 PM (aD39U)

666 Pope Joan?

Apocryphal

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pope-Joan

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 11, 2024 10:15 PM (+H2BX)

667 342
' I just checked. The chair fight was at a Golden Corral in Pennsylvania. It's on YouTube.'

Yep. It was what I expected.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2024 10:15 PM (3wi/L)

668 and what of Pope Joan?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:12 PM (aD39U)
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As authentic as Dan Brown's books.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 10:15 PM (llXky)

669 My favorite Korean War story is the about Sgt Reckless.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been a movie made based on the story.

Probably because no one would believe it it’s so fantastic.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 11, 2024 10:15 PM (D6PGr)

670 Well the Left does call Trump Hitler so half credit for you.

I've never been one of those who think Trump is infallible.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 10:15 PM (xCA6C)

671
Looks like the cob transition has hit a few bumps in the road.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2024 10:12 PM (mH6SG)

________

Every time they find someone the Israelis bump him off.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2024 10:15 PM (EsZUh)

672 FUN FACT: At one point there were three popes.
Posted by: Cicero

THERE. ARE. FOUR. POPES.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2024 10:15 PM (KAi1n)

673 Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian.

Yer 4 emperors

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 10:15 PM (dDmld)

674 Oh shit the NIH has 19K employees.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:15 PM (aD39U)

675 663 The idea of pulling appointees out of the House & Senate is not a good idea.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2024 10:14 PM (zrj9w)

Yeah, I am not a political guy per se, but that's a really bad idea. We have the slimmest of majorities as it is.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Doggie Medic at November 11, 2024 10:16 PM (Ad8y9)

676 53 FUN FACT: At one point there were three popes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 10:08 0

Find the Popes in the Pizza Contest ..........

Posted by: Johnny Holmes at November 11, 2024 10:16 PM (1U5p7)

677 "only then dies the mandatory resignation"

Well, death is a mandatory resignation.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2024 10:16 PM (KAi1n)

678 As authentic as Dan Brown's books.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 10:15 PM (llXky)

also a movie.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:16 PM (aD39U)

679
Does Trey Gowdy sleep with his head in a vice every night?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 10:16 PM (cPjH3)

680 666 Pope Joan?

Apocryphal

There was some real timing in that comment.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 11, 2024 10:16 PM (EXyHK)

681 Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary is floating around.

Used to be a Soros guy, but he's been a Trump loyalist from 2016 on, not wavering after 2020.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 11, 2024 10:17 PM (wGun1)

682
The Uniparty Senators have given notice of their importance to the President-elect. Secret ballots on leadership won't serve them well, and I don't think they are unaware of the balance of their support back home.

I predict a squish, runaway and live to fight another day.

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2024 10:17 PM (j4U/Z)

683 N-ot fo-or lo-ng

-RFKJr

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 11, 2024 10:17 PM (wGun1)

684 TONY™ @TONYxTWO 7h
Walking through Manhattan after the election with MAGA hats on 🤣🔥

The reactions are priceless!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/bdfesvfd
45 seconds; no violence; hilarious looks.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 10:17 PM (hovnC)

685 WW2 US Army Training film, comparing US and German automatic weapons

https://tinyurl.com/mu7nu7m9

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2024 10:18 PM (aBgBM)

686
Didn't the old lady in The Archies cartoon have a long, narrow head?

Or am I thinking of one of the Bazooka Joe characters?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 10:18 PM (cPjH3)

687 "Payback" Main Theme:

https://youtu.be/gFW64QrTPMo

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 11, 2024 10:18 PM (O7YUW)

688 360
'Melania will not accompany The Donald on his visit to the White House.'

I think Melania has had her fill of DC and the grandeur of the federal government.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2024 10:18 PM (3wi/L)

689 Need to put an ankle monitor on the ONT.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 11, 2024 10:18 PM (+VovS)

690 By legend Pope Joan passed as a man until she went into labor while riding a horse.

Then the jig was up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 10:18 PM (dDmld)

691 On 7 October last year, more than 40 Americans living in Israel were murdered by Iranian proxies and 12 kidnapped, some of whom are still held hostage.

Trump has warned Hamas and their Iranian sponsors: “We want our hostages back, and they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price”.
_TheTelegraph

Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2024 10:18 PM (zrj9w)

692 I've never been one of those who think Trump is infallible.
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No shit.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 11, 2024 10:18 PM (hovnC)

693 also a movie.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:16 PM (aD39U)
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There was a multi-year fantasy political show that people seemed to think was real for a long time. "West Wing" or something.

Strange what people cling to.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 10:19 PM (llXky)

694 Does Trey Gowdy sleep with his head in a vice every night?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 10:16 PM (cPjH3)

Trey Gowdy looks like a lesbian who has aged poorly.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 11, 2024 10:19 PM (K4KCe)

695
Can RFK fire all the NHS employees in the UK, too?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2024 10:19 PM (cPjH3)

696 Scorpions - The Zoo

https://youtu.be/4NOXxkGpDME

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 11, 2024 10:20 PM (O7YUW)

697 First!
/so now this is the ONT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2024 10:20 PM (RIvkX)

698 I've never been one of those who think Trump is infallible.
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No shit.

No, really. It's true!

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 10:20 PM (xCA6C)

699 The reactions are priceless!!!!
https://tinyurl.com/bdfesvfd

The woman at :04-:05 is kinda doing that other meme thing (with the guy checking out the other woman) but in reverse.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2024 10:20 PM (KAi1n)

700 Noood

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2024 10:21 PM (llXky)

701 Dixie Dregs - Punk Sandwich

https://youtu.be/RStO8pgSKgM

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 11, 2024 10:21 PM (O7YUW)

702 696 Scorpions - The Zoo

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The Scorpions just signed on for a residency in Vegas.

Klaus Meine FTW.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2024 10:21 PM (dDmld)

703 Sfgorh,
Good title for a book....death by resignation.

I hate discussing legal issues via my phone. But the idea that governors appoint House members never dies. House side gets prickly about small things such as the upper chamber and lower chamber etc.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 11, 2024 10:21 PM (ctrM5)

704 So RFK wants to fire 3% of NIH staff. I hope it is the right 3%.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2024 10:21 PM (aD39U)

705 Walking through Manhattan after the election with MAGA hats on

Heh. The soibois and the awfuls are just triggered to the max.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2024 10:22 PM (mH6SG)

706 688 360
'Melania will not accompany The Donald on his visit to the White House.'

I think Melania has had her fill of DC and the grandeur of the federal government.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Good for her. She can make her own choices. I'm certain, when PDT asks her to be present, she will be. But why tf should Melania waste her time with garbage like Jill Biden? For looks? Heh. No.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 10:22 PM (bCGNx)

707 687 "Payback" Main Theme:

https://youtu.be/gFW64QrTPMo
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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Dean Martin, James Brown, B.B. King,
Vic Damone, Lou Rawls, Michael Civisca,
Chris Boardman

Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2024 10:23 PM (zrj9w)

708 So RFK wants to fire 3% of NIH staff. I hope it is the right 3%.

Ditto. My daughter does cancer research there.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 11, 2024 10:23 PM (xCA6C)

709 697 First!
/so now this is the ONT
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Logical. Flawlessly logical.

After a time, San Franpsycho, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.

Posted by: lt. commander spock at November 11, 2024 10:24 PM (hovnC)

710 Good for her. She can make her own choices. I'm certain, when PDT asks her to be present, she will be. But why tf should Melania waste her time with garbage like Jill Biden? For looks? Heh. No.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 11, 2024 10:22 PM (bCGNx)

For all we know he already told her she doesn't have to do a fucking thing she doesn't want to.

Posted by: ... at November 11, 2024 10:24 PM (lX8VI)

711 Sometimes it is better to have it and want to get rid of it
than to not have it and want it.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2024 10:26 PM (zrj9w)

712 681 Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary is floating around.

Used to be a Soros guy, but he's been a Trump loyalist from 2016 on, not wavering after 2020.
Posted by: Shenanigans at November 11, 2024 10:17 PM (wGun1)

Two thoughts:

1) it’s nice to have someone who knows how evil Soros is, and my know where some bodies are buried.

B) Soros and his money just ran up against Space Daddy. I don’t think the old man or the kids are gonna be able to fuq around like they have in the past

Posted by: browndog at November 11, 2024 10:26 PM (TTAGa)

713 >>>For all we know he already told her she doesn't have to do a fucking thing she doesn't want to.
Posted by: ...
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That was settled a long time ago.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2024 10:27 PM (zrj9w)

714 As far as the Uniparty Senators are concerned; Presidents come and go, but a Senate seat is forever.
Unless Trump has something dire enough on them to immediately drive them from office, the GOPe know he needs them more than they need him.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2024 10:27 PM (7eVFM)

715 Dixie Dregs - Punk Sandwich

https://youtu.be/RStO8pgSKgM
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 11, 2024 10:21 PM (O7YUW)

Very, very underrated, practically unknown, band.

'Take It Off The Top' still gets my toes tappin'.

Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2024 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

716 691

Pretty much the same language from days past and Reagan telling Iran that their country would become in essence, a glassine parking lot if our hostages were not released before he took office.

Excellent move Prez. Trump.

Most of you may not remember how IRAN overran the US Embassy and held 53 Americans hostage all through the Carter (peanut farmer) presidency in the late 70's. Reagan took care of that shit DAY 1.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 11, 2024 10:31 PM (TDvv2)

717 And for actual knowledge...

Is not Carter dead yet? Or are they just pumping fluids into the corpse and using a breathing machine to make his chest go up and down.

The smell will be something even in the winter cold for sure...

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 11, 2024 10:36 PM (TDvv2)

718 I know we changed daylight savings time last weekend but does that include abolishing the ONT too? :-(

Posted by: caf at November 11, 2024 11:09 PM (/+mVZ)

719 My generation went to Viet Nam. And yet when I go to the monuments on the mall, it's the Korean War Memorial that haunts me.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at November 12, 2024 12:39 AM (cB7nX)

720 Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as
though you relied on the video to make your point. You clearly know
what youre talking about, why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to your weblog when you could be giving
us something enlightening to read?

Posted by: mysterious places on Earth at November 12, 2024 09:17 AM (bSwpu)

721 I lօve it when folks come together and sharе thoughts.
Great website, keep it up!

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