Overnight Open Thread: 12/07/2024 [scampydog]

[Syria is in turmoil, and while it is interesting geopolitically, obviously the ONT takes precedence. [CBD]]

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Good evening, Horde. Welcome to the ONT: Low Expectation, Pinch Hitter Edition. The always awesome TRex Hobby Thread the other day rolled my brain embers around a bit. I haven’t written in years, and this may be a reminder why, so here is your “give it a twirl” filler ONT. I eagerly await my prestigious 7th-place participation ribbon.

Bruised Tailbones and Broken Wrists: A Brief History of Roller Skates
Wistful memories of Christmas lists. Over-the-shoe roller skates that didn’t get much use as I lived on a gravel road. How about you, Horde? What was on your list as a little?

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President elect, Donald Trump continues to make heads explode with his appointee selections.
Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL): "Kash Patel is the perfect pick. He will restore LAW AND ORDER and end FBI corruption. Clean house!"
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At least they still have their hair. The self-indulgent, network media remains in Denial Status, continuing to play act as if their voice still matters. While they retain some reach – albeit to a microscopic and shrinking audience - they no longer convey a relevant message. I am enjoying their ramped up pissiness and obliviousness to being on the wrong side of history. I suspect the behind the scenes whispers will come in curdled and quick when the money dries up as the masses no longer wobble and quiver and advertisers close their checkbooks.

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I received this book as a gift after my father passed away. It's filled with writing prompts—some a bit repetitive—but overall, it offers a great format and tool for sharing random stories, family history, and anything else a parent might find useful or fun. I read through it twice before starting to journal. In total, it took about 18 months to complete before giving it back to the little ones. Highly recommend!

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Winter. Only so much fishing and beer drinking one can do in the winter. St. Paul Ice Castles.

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For the AoS smarty pants: Here is a sampling of the traditional after Christmas dinner quiz I put together for my family. I’m generous like that, and they show their excitement and appreciation with eye rolls, groans, and calling me an as*hoe. [click on it for a bigger version]

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Canadian band, Red Rider, As Far as Siam album. Trying to get his Romanian girlfriend from behind the Iron Curtain. 25% toll, friend.

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AoS weasel has much better manners.

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1 1st ish

Posted by: tankdemon at December 07, 2024 10:14 PM (iVFC6)

2 5656476868470th

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at December 07, 2024 10:14 PM (yLkiW)

3 Evening all

Posted by: caf at December 07, 2024 10:14 PM (/+mVZ)

4 Nice ONT!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 07, 2024 10:15 PM (hOUT3)

5 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 07, 2024 10:15 PM (w3u3d)

6 ACME Rocket-Powered Roller Skates were the cutting edge of roller skate technology.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 07, 2024 10:15 PM (JkO4W)

7 Yay, National Rhubarb Vodka Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 07, 2024 10:16 PM (lUFok)

8 Well. Made top ten.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 07, 2024 10:16 PM (w3u3d)

9 Good evening Horde. Thanks scampydog! Well done!

Posted by: TRex at December 07, 2024 10:16 PM (IQ6Gq)

10 From X:

The fall of Assad will make it possible for many Syrians who fled to Europe from Assad and ISIS to return back home.

Yeah, right.

Posted by: The Black Death! at December 07, 2024 10:16 PM (uxCna)

11 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 07, 2024 10:17 PM (WXNFJ)

12 Top 10?

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 07, 2024 10:17 PM (BkrYY)

13 Been waiting for this..

Posted by: From about That Time at December 07, 2024 10:17 PM (4780s)

14 My low expectations have been fulfilled. Thanks, scampydog.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 07, 2024 10:17 PM (JkO4W)

15 Evening.

So what's going on in Syria? Shit gotten worse?

Posted by: Robert at December 07, 2024 10:17 PM (1Yy3c)

16 Love the quiz!

Posted by: TRex at December 07, 2024 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

17 Nope. Good to see you anyway, Morons!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 07, 2024 10:17 PM (BkrYY)

18 ONTs only differ in degrees of greatness.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 07, 2024 10:18 PM (+VovS)

19 The Christmas quiz looks fun!

Posted by: Scarymary at December 07, 2024 10:18 PM (hNtya)

20 Rumor of the hour:

Rumors that the IL-76 carrying Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has either Crashed or carried out an Emergency Landing to the West of Homs, after having taken-off earlier from Damascus International Airport. The Aircraft descended to 1,600ft before disappearing from Radar.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 07, 2024 10:18 PM (uxCna)

21 I was out of touch all day. Have the libs done anything intelligent, caring or truly selfless today?

HA!! Who am I kidding!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 07, 2024 10:18 PM (WXNFJ)

22 The LeBron Goat argument is so absurd.

Posted by: coyne at December 07, 2024 10:19 PM (q/UtE)

23 Good evening! I knew 99% of the quiz. How fun!

Posted by: Piper at December 07, 2024 10:19 PM (p4NUW)

24 A bunch of pagers blow up and look what happens.

The ME is so incredibly unstable. What a neighborhood.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 07, 2024 10:19 PM (QB+5g)

25 Evening.

So what's going on in Syria? Shit gotten worse?
Posted by: Robert

Syria only differs in degrees of shitty.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 07, 2024 10:19 PM (+VovS)

26 "Turmoil" is a girthy word. I love it. I have a bin in my electronics shop labeled "turmoil strips" (terminal strips). I like little written jokes to myself like that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 10:20 PM (BALK0)

27 My true love bought me nine baseball players.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:21 PM (tK3Zm)

28 Evenin'

I do recall roller skating rinks. Used to be a local one I would go too occasionally. It's gone now but the building is still used. It's a farmers' market now. Some fine local Western PA cuisine is in there. I frequent it a lot when I visit up there.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 07, 2024 10:21 PM (6PUpl)

29 So what's going on in Syria? Shit gotten worse?

Rumor is that Assad has fled, and that there are celebrations in Damascus.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 07, 2024 10:21 PM (uxCna)

30 From X:

The fall of Assad will make it possible for many Syrians who fled to Europe from Assad and ISIS to return back home.

Yeah, right.

It will be possible, they just won't do it as long as they're getting paid by whatever Euro state was dumb enough to let them in.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 07, 2024 10:21 PM (lUFok)

31 Saw the roller skates and immediately thought of my grandfather. He was inducted into the Roller Derby Hall of Fame in 2005 (though it looks like that particular institutions official web page hasn't been updated since 2016, the Facebook page is still active.)

Posted by: tankdemon at December 07, 2024 10:21 PM (iVFC6)

32 The latest from the BBC:

Gunfire has been reported in the centre of the Syrian capital Damascus as rebels opposed to the rule of President Bashar al-Assad continue their lightning offensive across the country

Reports say that Assad has left Damascus by plane for an unknown destination

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 07, 2024 10:23 PM (uxCna)

33 Pretty good "rant" from Bannon about Trump's picks, and our current state of affairs.

rumble.com/v5x0aon-steve-bannon-b-block.html

Posted by: illiniwek at December 07, 2024 10:24 PM (Cus5s)

34 The fall of Assad will make it possible for many Syrians who fled to Europe from Assad and ISIS to return back home.

Yeah, right.
Posted by: The Black Death! at December 07, 2024 10:16 PM (uxCna)

I thought ISIS is why the rebels started to win. Is that ass backwards?

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:24 PM (tK3Zm)

35 Good evening morons and thanks scampydog for a girthy ont

Rudolph's elf companion was Harold.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2024 10:24 PM (RIvkX)

36 From X:

The fall of Assad will make it possible for many Syrians who fled to Europe from Assad and ISIS to return back home.

Yeah, right.
Posted by: The Black Death! at December 07, 2024 10:16 PM (uxCna)

Not when ISIS is running the joint. The Sunni jihadinuts may want to go back, and good riddance to them. Cancel their Western country passports as they board the planes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 10:25 PM (BALK0)

37 Scampydog! Welcome to the JV ranks of ONT maker! Now I'm not the FNG anymore!

Posted by: Doof at December 07, 2024 10:25 PM (RFPHU)

38 Whip It was a pretty good movie. Before the chick actress had a mental breakdown and became a miniature Justin Bieber.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:25 PM (tK3Zm)

39 So, there I was, innocently humming along, about three-quarters of the way through the Music comments, when I glanced at the clock and WHOA! how did it get to be this late already?

Listening to all the music cuts in the post and comments is a real time suck. Anyway, speaking of time sucks, now that I'm here, I guess I'll check out the ONT post.

Swampydog? Who's that? 😁⁉️😉

Posted by: mindful webworker - maximum minimalism at December 07, 2024 10:26 PM (OVBTn)

40 That’s free beer AND tattoos.

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 10:27 PM (LHPAg)

41 The Russians are purportedly abandoning Tartus. Their primary Naval Base on the Med.

This is significant. Bigly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 07, 2024 10:27 PM (Q4IgG)

42 I thought ISIS is why the rebels started to win. Is that ass backwards?

Combined offensive by HTS (allegedly former ISIS) and SNA (Turkish backed).

90 minutes ago there was alleged footage of the rebels taking over Damascus International Airport.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 07, 2024 10:27 PM (uxCna)

43 It will be possible, they just won't do it as long as they're getting paid by whatever Euro state was dumb enough to let them in.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 07, 2024 10:21 PM (lUFok)

Jumps up and down. "me, me, me, me, me"

Posted by: Justine Castreau at December 07, 2024 10:27 PM (BALK0)

44 I became decent on in line skates when I played in a roller hockey league in Houston.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:27 PM (tK3Zm)

45 Thanks for the pinch-hitting ONT, scampydog! Great job!

I never had roller skates growing up, and it was probably a very good thing, since I would have promptly killed my tailbone on the narrow sidewalk! But I did go to the roller skating rink in town and enjoyed it.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 07, 2024 10:28 PM (rxCpr)

46 Rudolph's elf companion was Harold.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2024 10:24 PM (RIvkX)

If Harold had been an angel, he could have been a singer.

Posted by: Justine Castreau at December 07, 2024 10:29 PM (BALK0)

47 Tch. Strap-on skates with plastic wheels? I'll thank you to vacate the vegetated curtilage of my premises.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 07, 2024 10:29 PM (/y8xj)

48 Thanks I didn't just dream McCain and Hillary basically gave weapons to ISIS when they were trying to arm the rebels.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:29 PM (tK3Zm)

49 Thanks much, scampydog.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 07, 2024 10:29 PM (mH6SG)

50 What the hell is a roller skate key?

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (tK3Zm)

51 Tch. Strap-on skates with plastic wheels? I'll thank you to vacate the vegetated curtilage of my premises.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 07, 2024 10:29 PM (/y8xj)

They made strap-on ice skates, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (BALK0)

52 Lowered expectations are a way of life to me, so I am quite comfortable rolling around in this ONT.

Posted by: Making Do at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (D0hl3)

53 Looks good scampydog. Well.done!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (W/lyH)

54 Good evening, Horde. Thanks to CBD for sharing the ONT.

Posted by: scampydog at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (41CYW)

55 Dang.

That wasn't the intended outcome of my great offensive...

Posted by: Yahya Sinwar, Burning In Hell! at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (uxCna)

56 What the hell is a roller skate key?
Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (tK3Zm)

Melanie Safka knew what it was.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 10:31 PM (BALK0)

57 Apparently many people's mileage varies, but the fall of the Assad regime is a calamitous blow to the Iranian axis of intimidation and aggression. The 2nd in a few months. Israel devastating Lebanese Hezbollah (and earlier, Hamas, though that was less important) was the first. This one - which also is close to an existential blow to Hezbollah - is big.

Tehran itself may be in danger of change, with a new US administration in the offing - one not committed to the insane, indefensible, inexplicable Obama/Biden policy of accommodating the mullahcracy. Their axis is shattered, their credibility is nil, and Israel strikes them at will - without response in the latest instance.

The glass might be .000000000075% empty, but not sure how people are seeing that.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 07, 2024 10:32 PM (1m82a)

58 More alleged video:

Footage showing Syrians inside Assad’s house in Damascus, breaking family pictures framed on the wall.
Assad’s downfall is looking like Romania’s Ceaușescu in 1989.
Too bad no one thinks democracy will follow.

Posted by: Yahya Sinwar, Burning In Hell! at December 07, 2024 10:32 PM (uxCna)

59 Tch. Strap-on skates with plastic wheels? I'll thank you to vacate the vegetated curtilage of my premises.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 07, 2024 10:29 PM (/y8xj)
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They made strap-on ice skates, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (BALK0)

Strap-ons for the win. ~ Every lesbian ever. Oh, and all the 'talent' at 'The Bulwark'.

Posted by: RickZ at December 07, 2024 10:33 PM (gKDq2)

60 We got rollerskates for Christmas in the mid 50s and had to skate in the basement, where there was 6” steel posts every 12 feet on the square. Busted asses and bloody noses. Yay!

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 10:33 PM (LHPAg)

61 My first set of roller skates strapped to my tennis shoes and has metal wheels. I begged for real boot skates and finally got some one year for Christmas. I wore those things until I couldn't stuff my growing feet into them any longer.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 10:33 PM (TbUYH)

62 Lets face it, everyone has one asshole in their life. The perfect gift for such a person, probably to be given anonymously, is a pager.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2024 10:33 PM (W/lyH)

63 Didn't know my Dad until I was about 5 or 6, he being off saving the world during WW2. Throughout my youth he did become my role model, however. Always have been proud to be known as his son.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 07, 2024 10:35 PM (hKoQL)

64 Thanks for the ONT ScampyDog, hope you continue contributing....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at December 07, 2024 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

65 Damascus right now sounds like an updated version of the New Year's Eve scenes in Godfather II.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 07, 2024 10:36 PM (uxCna)

66 50 What the hell is a roller skate key?
Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (tK3Zm)

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I got a song.

https://tinyurl.com/mtd8v6fe

Posted by: Melanie at December 07, 2024 10:37 PM (JkO4W)

67 7 Yay, National Rhubarb Vodka Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 07, 2024 10:16 PM (lUFok)

Rhubarb Vodka is an actual thing in this plane on existence?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 07, 2024 10:37 PM (iVFC6)

68 Q4. How many points does a snowflake have?

Answer: None, they are all Communists and need to be ignored.

What did I win?

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 10:38 PM (e+6P0)

69 I don't care about Syria. I do care about American blood and treasure and don't want any of it sent to the ME. Let them sort their own shit out.

No more foreign aid to people who hate us.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 10:38 PM (TbUYH)

70 We used to have a sorority exchange that we held at the roller rink . The first 45 minutes to an hour it was nice laid back couples skating , groups of girls laughing and skating with each other ,etc.

Then my frat brothers had to ruin it by turning the exchange party into a roller derby party . The girls hated it as I did because girls !! But bros before hoes and I could not resist joining in.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:38 PM (tK3Zm)

71 Tehran itself may be in danger of change, with a new US administration in the offing - one not committed to the insane, indefensible, inexplicable Obama/Biden policy of accommodating the mullahcracy. Their axis is shattered, their credibility is nil, and Israel strikes them at will - without response in the latest instance.

The glass might be .000000000075% empty, but not sure how people are seeing that.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 07, 2024 10:32 PM (1m82a)
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Begs the question...if Tehran feels they are in jeopardy, what will they do? How will they lash out?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2024 10:38 PM (W/lyH)

72 All my life I've had a fascination for automobiles and have spent nearly 50 years being the friendly person who fixes yours right the first time.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 07, 2024 10:38 PM (hKoQL)

73 66 50 What the hell is a roller skate key?
Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (tK3Zm)

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I got a song.

https://tinyurl.com/mtd8v6fe
Posted by: Melanie at December 07, 2024 10:37 PM (JkO4W)
Always thought this song was kinda naughty.

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 10:38 PM (LHPAg)

74 My first set of roller skates strapped to my tennis shoes and has metal wheels.
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I had those, they were brutal and impossible to build any momentum.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2024 10:39 PM (RIvkX)

75 "Syrian Girl", a noted Assad propagandist safely living in Australia, throws in the towel:

The resistance was betrayed.

From Gaza, to Lebanon, to Syria.

The Axis may be over, but the resistance will remain. The genocidal terror state of Israel is Syria's eternal enemy, and will always pose an existential threat.

The fight for Syria's soul is not over, nor is the fight against the greater Zionist scourge world wide.

Thank you for those who stood with us. We will never forget your sacrifice. I hope you won't forget about us as the struggle goes into its next phase.

Tahiya Suria, Long Live Syria!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 07, 2024 10:40 PM (uxCna)

76 27 My true love bought me nine baseball players.
Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:21 PM (tK3Zm)

Your true love is Arnold Rothstein?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 07, 2024 10:40 PM (iVFC6)

77 The elf in Rudolph was called Hermey.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 07, 2024 10:41 PM (lhenN)

78 Lovely ONT! Thank you, Scampydog!

What a gift to your children….. I admire that you put so much thought into it. Well done, sir.

Posted by: Appycay at December 07, 2024 10:41 PM (EdYR/)

79 Nice ONT, scampydog!

Big bro & I had to take turns using Mom's old metal rollerskates-- the kind you tighten with a key-- and they always rattled loose while skating. Street was too rough, so we stayed on the sidewalks.

No broken wrists, but plenty of skinned knees and palms!

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2024 10:42 PM (YoCnN)

80 I didn’t want to learn to skate until I saw Olivia Newton John in Xanadu.

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 10:42 PM (LHPAg)

81 Roller skates are so pffft. You haven't experienced real scabs until you had an original stake board with metal roller stake wheels.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 10:43 PM (e+6P0)

82 Your true love is Arnold Rothstein?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 07, 2024 10:40 PM (iVFC6)

Hah. Good one.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:43 PM (tK3Zm)

83 Rudolph's elf companion was Harold.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2024 10:24 PM (RIvkX)

No, it was Hermey. Harold was the angel who sang to the shepherds.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 07, 2024 10:43 PM (iVFC6)

84 My boys had "Heelies " when they were in grade school. They were tennis shoes with a single, wide rubber wheel on the heel. They would run on the balls of their feet, the heels down and toes up and they would glide around. Costco was a favorite spot because the cement floors were so smooth. We would go to the empty aisles and they would have a blast until an employee would frown and make them stop.

Yeah yeah I was that mom.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 10:44 PM (Sn5dd)

85 Is the movie Midway 2019 any good?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 07, 2024 10:44 PM (lhenN)

86 Dexter wood wheels with loose-ball bearings
Genuine kangaroo-skin low-rise boots
Sure-Grip Cyclone plates and trucks

This is what I used to dominate the local speed-skating scene when I was twelve.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 07, 2024 10:44 PM (JkO4W)

87 Penn State v Oregon.

I will go to my grave a Washington Huskies and Cougars fan. That means one thing: I wake up every day wishing Eugene, Oregon home of the Oregon Ducks would be wiped out by an earthquake.

As for Penn State - I have heard rumors there is land east of the Mississippi River. I am told everyone there speaks French, drives Ladas, and dreams of vacationing in the Albanian countryside.

What to do?

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 10:44 PM (e+6P0)

88 Roller skates are so pffft. You haven't experienced real scabs until you had an original stake board with metal roller stake wheels.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 10:43 PM (e+6P0)

Not to mention the original skate boards were completely flat, no curvy bits. Had both metal skates (with key) and metal-wheeled skateboard. I somehow survived.

Posted by: RickZ at December 07, 2024 10:45 PM (gKDq2)

89 The Hez in Lebanon are now cut off.

Israel can take a breather and clear out all those missiles in the North without much trouble now, I would think..

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 07, 2024 10:45 PM (QB+5g)

90 Big bro & I had to take turns using Mom's old metal rollerskates-- the kind you tighten with a key-- and they always rattled loose while skating. Street was too rough, so we stayed on the sidewalks.

No broken wrists, but plenty of skinned knees and palms!
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2024 10:42 PM (YoCnN)
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I grew up wearing hand me down shoes. As often as not, if I tightened the skate too much, the sole would rip off. Mom would get pissed and my brother got a new pair of shoes and I'd get new hand me downs.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2024 10:45 PM (W/lyH)

91 Rudolph was my least favorite Christmas show as a kid. Charlie Browns Christmas was probably my favorite not because it was great but that it just gave me the Christmas feeling and still does to this day.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:47 PM (tK3Zm)

92 Good Saturday evening, dear Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 07, 2024 10:48 PM (+4oV5)

93 I grew up wearing hand me down shoes. As often as not, if I tightened the skate too much, the sole would rip off. Mom would get pissed and my brother got a new pair of shoes and I'd get new hand me downs.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2024 10:45 PM (W/lyH)

The clamp-on skates really worked well with only a few types of hard-soled shoes. Sneakers were right out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 10:48 PM (BALK0)

94 Trump kinda dumped a lot of his team that won him the 2016 election .. not sure to what extent he is "getting the band back together", Blues Brothers style.

Navarro is back, not Bannon. Not sure about the guy (Cory Lewandowsky, or whatever) that amputated Michelle's arm in while protecting Trump from her lethal injection ... heh.

Oh, and is Sebastian Gorka back? idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 07, 2024 10:49 PM (Cus5s)

95 Uga is the best team in college football. I hate to say it but damn it’s true.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 10:49 PM (SBwvE)

96 {{{Ladyl}}}
And a good evening to you!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 07, 2024 10:50 PM (hOUT3)

97 Dearest Hrothgar!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 07, 2024 10:51 PM (+4oV5)

98 I will go to my grave a Washington Huskies and Cougars fan.

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Isn’t that like rooting for the Yankees and Red Sox at the same time?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 10:51 PM (SBwvE)

99 95 Uga is the best team in college football. I hate to say it but damn it’s true.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Go Dawgs!

Posted by: Piper at December 07, 2024 10:51 PM (p4NUW)

100 I missed a third of the basketball season in my junior year because of a stupid skate board fall in a parking garage.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:51 PM (tK3Zm)

101 I always liked going to a the roller skating rink. Or an ice rink. Very easy to ask a girl to skate and-Viola!-you're already holding hands.

Posted by: Fun Times at December 07, 2024 10:51 PM (D0hl3)

102 Big bro and I really lucked out re: hand me downs. Our older cousins lived far away, heh. (And, being a girl, I didn't have to wear bro's old stuff)

Lucky the other two were enough younger that Mom had already made quilts out of most of our old stuff before they came along.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2024 10:52 PM (YoCnN)

103 Uga is the best team in college football. I hate to say it but damn it’s true.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 10:49 PM (SBwvE)

Is this their fight song:

https://youtu.be/h6ycV1Ihno0

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 10:52 PM (BALK0)

104 69 I don't care about Syria. I do care about American blood and treasure and don't want any of it sent to the ME. Let them sort their own shit out.

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My thoughts exactly. And also goes for Ukraine.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 10:53 PM (SBwvE)

105 Isn’t that like rooting for the Yankees and Red Sox at the same time?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

It's complicated.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 07, 2024 10:53 PM (+VovS)

106 Didn't know my Dad until I was about 5 or 6, he being off saving the world during WW2. Throughout my youth he did become my role model, however. Always have been proud to be known as his son.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 07, 2024 10:35 PM (hKoQL)

Generations of warriors. America is unique in that way. The best at war until we stopped fighting.

Posted by: coyne at December 07, 2024 10:54 PM (q/UtE)

107 Heh… roller skates.

As a young'n middle of the last century, I tried on the skates that clamped on my PF Flyers. Once. Didn't go far. I think they didn't stay on well. And I'm fond of modes of transport that include brakes.

Fast forward to early this century, and I and the three kids all got in-line boots. I was surprised to find I mastered them immediately. Some experience water- and snow-skiing probably helped.

We enjoyed going to the park (in town, not on our country driveway) and skating around and around… until that day…

Posted by: mindful webworker - rocker and roller skates at December 07, 2024 10:54 PM (OVBTn)

108 I will go to my grave a Washington Huskies and Cougars fan.

—

Isn’t that like rooting for the Yankees and Red Sox at the same time?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Yes. But it was allowed because we had no other teams for decades.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 10:54 PM (e+6P0)

109 "Tehran itself may be in danger of change, with a new US administration in the offing - one not committed to the insane, indefensible, inexplicable Obama/Biden policy of accommodating the mullahcracy. Their axis is shattered, their credibility is nil, and Israel strikes them at will - without response in the latest instance."

I have little knowledge of the situation, but is it the majority of people in Tehran in danger, or just the totalitarian Mullah (Khamenei regime) that is in danger?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 07, 2024 10:54 PM (Cus5s)

110 {{{Ladyl!}}} Our ONT is complete!

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 07, 2024 10:54 PM (+VovS)

111 A neighbor kid was racing around in his basement with his new skates and lost control. He went through about 6-8 storm windows his Dad has stacked against the wall in one of the corners.

Just minor cuts but wow, was his Dad PO'd.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 07, 2024 10:55 PM (WXNFJ)

112 Generations of warriors. America is unique in that way. The best at war until we stopped fighting.
Posted by: coyne at December 07, 2024 10:54 PM (q/UtE)

US Military is still #1 at pronoun use and gayness. So that counts for something.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 10:55 PM (SBwvE)

113 Bannon is very visible and influential in his War Room roll. Does 22 hours a week live on TV. He might be just where he can do the most good for Trump right where he is.

Posted by: Real America's Voice at December 07, 2024 10:55 PM (D0hl3)

114 I don't care about Syria. I do care about American blood and treasure and don't want any of it sent to the ME. Let them sort their own shit out.

—
My thoughts exactly. And also goes for Ukraine.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

See, this Statecraft shit is easy, isn't it?

p.s. - Cut the State Dept. by 80%. As a start.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 07, 2024 10:56 PM (WXNFJ)

115 Hey, now I’m craving Whataburger. I been up since 0300 and should be horizontal and snoring.

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 10:57 PM (LHPAg)

116 …there was a steep hill with a turn right at the bottom. I saw one kid zip down and, to my great surprise, zip around the turn like a pro.

Then a second kid zipped down, made the turn, and I heard a scream.

Dad, being an idiot, immediately headed down the hill, and about half-way down I realized I was unlikely to make that turn and was going too fast.

I threw myself off the path, trying to land on my butt with feet out front, but instead flipped over head-first and cracked my head on a rock. Only time I was ever glad I was wearing a helmet! I actually blanked out for a moment.

Third kid was at the top of the hill, certain he had just seen most of his family wiped out.

Fortunately, I was the only one injured. I walked down and found one kid delighted to have successfully made the turn, and the other, who had screamed, had merely fallen safely after turning.

I never went skating again.

Posted by: mindful webworker - rocker and roller skates at December 07, 2024 10:57 PM (OVBTn)

117 Mullahs in Tehran are probably a bit stressed out.

time to start fucking with their minds.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 07, 2024 10:57 PM (QB+5g)

118 I will go to my grave a Washington Huskies and Cougars fan.

I actually had applied to the U of Washington. Sent in the application and everything. Then they discovered my parents were actually married so I wasn't accepted.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2024 10:57 PM (W/lyH)

119 Nice ONT. Scampydog.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 07, 2024 10:58 PM (UKUm3)

120 A neighbor kid was racing around in his basement with his new skates and lost control. He went through about 6-8 storm windows his Dad has stacked against the wall in one of the corners.

Just minor cuts but wow, was his Dad PO'd.
Posted by: Tonypete

Gotta love dads that were pissed you got blood on their project.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 07, 2024 10:58 PM (+VovS)

121 Syria in turmoil- I suppose this is Trump's fault also? And/or the white male patriarchy or both - embracing the power of 'and'?

Greetings ONT Familia. Better late than never. Off to read content and wait for Svengoolie to start here on the left coast...

Hope everyone is doing well.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 07, 2024 10:58 PM (QGaXH)

122 I actually had applied to the U of Washington. Sent in the application and everything. Then they discovered my parents were actually married so I wasn't accepted.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2024 10:57 PM (W/lyH)

Hah!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 10:58 PM (BALK0)

123 Nice ONT. Scampydog.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 07, 2024 10:58 PM (UKUm3)

True, dat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 10:59 PM (BALK0)

124 Does anyone k ow what’s happening with the Putin-Ukistan war? Half the shit I’ve seen says the Ukes are kicking ass and taking names. They’ve slaughtered all the North Koreans too. The other half says Russia is on the verge of a massive win.

Not that I care one way or the other. But it’s weird how there’s no source of truth whatsoever on this thing. It’s a black box.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 11:00 PM (SBwvE)

125 "I don't care about Syria. I do care about American blood and treasure and don't want any of it sent to the ME. Let them sort their own shit out."

But we are the "policemen of the world"? I do think there is a little truth to that, but just how the globalists have played U.S. for their own profit is another question.

Is there a more peaceful world where we retain our Global SuperPower and yet not become a globalist tyrant? The globalists have their own tyrannical agenda, imo, but we could be The Superpower for Good, in a better world?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 07, 2024 11:01 PM (Cus5s)

126 Texas is going to give a free ride to any student who is accepted whose parents combined make less than 100K. The parents who make only 125k are screwed.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:01 PM (tK3Zm)

127 When I was 7 or 8, the base rec center had an outdoor roller rink that was banked and made of concrete. I was skating way too fast for my skill, took a header, and cracked my collar bone. To this day, when I buy a new suit jacket, I have to have the right sleeve fitted to be a full inch longer than the left.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 07, 2024 11:02 PM (/y8xj)

128 Rumor is that Assad has fled, and that there are celebrations in Damascus.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 07, 2024 10:21 PM (uxCna)

Fled?

Damn.

I was hoping for "hanging from a lamp post."

*Puts hands together*

Dear Lord,

Please give the children of Syria the greatest gift you can give them and let them wake up to the news of Bashar Assad dead at the hands of the people he has oppressed.

In your name we pray,
AMEN!

Posted by: Robert at December 07, 2024 11:02 PM (1Yy3c)

129 My boys had "Heelies " - Posted by: nurse ratched

My boy spawn had those. For a time Heelies were the CPS get out of jail card when you took your kid to the emergency room with a concussion.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 11:02 PM (e+6P0)

130 Yeah, I don't think that the "good guys" are winning in Syria. First of all, look at all of the American deep state dickheads that have been trying to engineer the downfall of Assad for a long time? Perhaps this is a stupid heuristic, but I don't think it's good that they're getting their way now.

Also, now that a more Islamist governance is coming in, the Christians of Syria are probably fucked. Yeah, Assad is also not a "good guy", but at least the Christians could live. I'm on the side of the Christians.

Finally, is this going to push Russia to feel backed against a wall now? Between this, the Georgia fuckery, and the Ukraine op, they're under a heavy amount of pressure all along that flank. This all concerns me.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 07, 2024 11:03 PM (dQfaV)

131 Texas is going to give a free ride to any student who is accepted whose parents combined make less than 100K. The parents who make only 125k are screwed.
Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:01 PM (tK3Zm)

I can see a lot of two-income families becoming one-income families real quick.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:03 PM (BALK0)

132 Is the movie Midway 2019 any good?
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 07, 2024 10:44 PM (lhenN)

Yes, it is worth watching. About as historically accurate as a Hollywood movie can be. Lots of CGI action scenes, which look like the people making them cared.

Posted by: Zombie Black Jack Pershing at December 07, 2024 11:03 PM (EbH8D)

133 124 Does anyone k ow what’s happening with the Putin-Ukistan war? Half the shit I’ve seen says the Ukes are kicking ass and taking names. They’ve slaughtered all the North Koreans too. The other half says Russia is on the verge of a massive win.

Not that I care one way or the other. But it’s weird how there’s no source of truth whatsoever on this thing. It’s a black box.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 11:00 PM (SBwvE
Fake and ghey. All about the benjamins.

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 11:03 PM (LHPAg)

134 But if we don’t spend a trillion gazillion dollars on the military, terrorists will have won!!!!

That’s always the response. We have to have bases all over world just in case man. Uhm no. How about we have no bases anywhere. But instead we put word out that if you fuck with us or our allies (real allies like Israel not bullshit allies like Turkey) a nuke will be sent forthwith to your capital city and/or any capital city of nations funding you.

Much cheaper foreign policy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 11:04 PM (SBwvE)

135 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:03 PM (BALK0)

To clarify it's UT and not the state .

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:04 PM (tK3Zm)

136 I was hoping for "hanging from a lamp post."
-
Would you accept "Shot down while attempting flight"?

Because that sounds like it's a possibility.

Posted by: Methos at December 07, 2024 11:05 PM (Dnobf)

137 LOL... I just bought a new pair of skates, old ones had worn out...

Yeah... I still skate.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 07, 2024 11:06 PM (QAkQ3)

138 Finally, is this going to push Russia to feel backed against a wall now? Between this, the Georgia fuckery, and the Ukraine op, they're under a heavy amount of pressure all along that flank. This all concerns me.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 07, 2024 11:03 PM (dQfaV)

Tend to agree. Hafez Assad was the least-worst option. His ouster will not make things better there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:06 PM (BALK0)

139 Texas is going to give a free ride to any student who is accepted whose parents combined make less than 100K. The parents who make only 125k are screwed.
Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:01 PM (tK3Zm)

Ivy schools have been doing this for a long time.
But there are creative ways a family making $200k only makes $99k on paper.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 11:06 PM (SBwvE)

140 The best at war until we stopped fighting.
Posted by: coyne at December 07, 2024 10:54 PM (q/UtE)

Daisy BB guns are no longer a prized Christmas gift. I can't tell you how many toy weapons I had, from metal cap-shooting cowboy pistols, complete with holster, to a heavy wood and metal-barrelled WWII-style rifle that had some heft. I also had all kinds of toy soldiers from The Civil War to the American West to WWII, both Kraut and Jap sets. Built model airplanes and one ship (which got 'sunk' with firecrackers). Had an original GI Joe, with tripod machine gun and a Jeep. Boys not receiving such toys does have an effect on our military, and not a good one.

Also, Christina Hoff Summers says boys are being taught in our schools to be girls, not boys, as girls are easier to teach. That's another problem.

Really there's a war on boys/men at every turn. Not the nanny-fucking kind of 'men', either. They're the {ahem} epitome of masculinity.

Posted by: RickZ at December 07, 2024 11:06 PM (gKDq2)

141 50 What the hell is a roller skate key?
Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (tK3Zm)
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How else are you going to wind them up?

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 07, 2024 11:07 PM (6ZHNK)

142 Trump needs to send Zelenski a bill for every dollar he can't explicitly account for.

With interest.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 11:07 PM (buvgH)

143 Im thinking Israel would know where Assad's plane is at and whether it crashed.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:07 PM (tK3Zm)

144 "Scampydog"? So anyone can be an ONT provider?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 07, 2024 11:07 PM (CHHv1)

145 To clarify it's UT and not the state .
Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:04 PM (tK3Zm)

UT is a state funded school right? How is there a distinction between the state and UT?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 11:07 PM (SBwvE)

146 >>Not that I care one way or the other. But it’s weird how there’s no source of truth whatsoever on this thing. It’s a black box.

There's always been a source of truth. Most didn't want to hear it and were called Putin lovers.

Watch how fast this idiotic war ends now.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2024 11:08 PM (LkLld)

147 That’s always the response. We have to have bases all over world just in case man. Uhm no. How about we have no bases anywhere. But instead we put word out that if you fuck with us or our allies (real allies like Israel not bullshit allies like Turkey) a nuke will be sent forthwith to your capital city and/or any capital city of nations funding you.

Much cheaper foreign policy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 11:04 PM (SBwvE)

Terrorist killed our Marines in Beirut, so we invaded Grenada.

Saudi Terrorist killed 1000s of Americans on 9/11, so we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.

Hamas has taken and killed American hostages in Israel, so we are bombing Russia.

I'm sensing a trend...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 07, 2024 11:08 PM (QAkQ3)

148 >>> 115 Hey, now I'm craving Whataburger. I been up since 0300 and should be horizontal and snoring.
Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 10:57 PM (LHPAg)

Hours open: All of them

Posted by: Whataburger at December 07, 2024 11:09 PM (KcwUg)

149 I remember that in middle school, the local roller rink was where a young dude learned a little bit more about the "fairer sex". Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 07, 2024 11:10 PM (mH6SG)

150 Would you accept "Shot down while attempting flight"?

Because that sounds like it's a possibility.
Posted by: Methos at December 07, 2024 11:05 PM (Dnobf)

Beautiful.

The Lord is truly great!

Posted by: Robert at December 07, 2024 11:10 PM (1Yy3c)

151 144 "Scampydog"? So anyone can be an ONT provider?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 07, 2024 11:07 PM (CHHv1
A provider? Not a real doctor? What the hey? This is my toenail we’re talking here!

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 11:10 PM (LHPAg)

152 6 ACME Rocket-Powered Roller Skates were the cutting edge of roller skate technology.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 07, 2024 10:15 PM (JkO4W)

Anyone else dvr/record/watch the Bugs Bunny Christmas special off MeTV this morning? Or am I the only one reliving his childhood* these days ?

*except with beer....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 07, 2024 11:11 PM (QGaXH)

153 87 Penn State v Oregon.

I will go to my grave a Washington Huskies and Cougars fan. That means one thing: I wake up every day wishing Eugene, Oregon home of the Oregon Ducks would be wiped out by an earthquake.

As for Penn State - I have heard rumors there is land east of the Mississippi River. I am told everyone there speaks French, drives Ladas, and dreams of vacationing in the Albanian countryside.

What to do?
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Well, you're out of luck. Penn State can't win big games. They'll win 10 games a year but lose important games that would put them in the national championship picture. Oregon is currently beating them, and they should win the game because PSU chokes. FYI, grew up in PA. Never saw too many Ladas. Lots of Amish buggies though.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 07, 2024 11:11 PM (6PUpl)

154 Would you accept "Shot down while attempting flight"?

Because that sounds like it's a possibility.
Posted by: Methos at December 07, 2024 11:05 PM (Dnobf)

Beautiful.

The Lord is truly great!
Posted by: Robert at December 07, 2024 11:10 PM (1Yy3c)

Hope the plane crashed right on top of the ISIS rebel leader. Best case scenario.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:12 PM (tK3Zm)

155 Not that I care one way or the other. But it’s weird how there’s no source of truth whatsoever on this thing. It’s a black box.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 07, 2024 11:00 PM (SBwvE)

Looking back over my 29-year lifetime, how much truth has there ever been with any war reporting? There's always an angle.

Posted by: RickZ at December 07, 2024 11:12 PM (gKDq2)

156 Is there a more peaceful world where we retain our Global SuperPower and yet not become a globalist tyrant? The globalists have their own tyrannical agenda, imo, but we could be The Superpower for Good, in a better world?
Posted by: illiniwek

Sometimes you have to let folks fight it out. What happens in Europe is their problem, especially since those assholes in NATO haven't paid their fair share since it was founded. Fuck them. We have Mexico and half of South America trying to get here and freeload off American taxpayers.

We got our own problems to address.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 11:13 PM (4FeTN)

157 26 "Turmoil" is a girthy word. I love it. I have a bin in my electronics shop labeled "turmoil strips" (terminal strips). I like little written jokes to myself like that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 10:20 PM (BALK0)

I do that a lot with words too, I'm the only one who thinks I'm funny. Wife just ignores me.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 07, 2024 11:14 PM (QGaXH)

158 We got our own problems to address.

Yes we do and they are many.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 07, 2024 11:15 PM (mH6SG)

159 Roller rinks were popular "date spots" in the 70s.

There was an excellent one in Springfield, OR. Skate World. It had a brand-new blue floor (fiberglass?) that was sooo smoooth, it was difficult to go slow, LOL.

And that absolutely bitchin' sound system! No fuddyduddy old-timey organ "skate music"-- we got to skate to pop & rock at high volume...

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2024 11:15 PM (YoCnN)

160 Trump's comment on Syria is absolutely on the money...and a bit hilarious for the dig on Obama.

"There was never much of a benefit in Syria for Russia, other than to make Obama look really stupid..."

"THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED!"

Trump using all caps and throwing in an exclamation point for emphasis it a rather strong position. Let's see if the hacks in the White House, Intel Agencies, and the Pentagon have a death wish.

Posted by: Orson at December 07, 2024 11:16 PM (dIske)

161 do that a lot with words too, I'm the only one who thinks I'm funny. Wife just ignores me.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 07, 2024 11:14 PM (QGaXH)
Wife asks ‘does everything have to be about politics?’
‘Well, yeah.’

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 11:16 PM (LHPAg)

162 Trump almost broke Macron's hand with the handshake . Have to admit it was kind of weird.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:17 PM (tK3Zm)

163 Sebastian Gorka was all-in on Trump 47 sending billions to Ukraine and I changed my mind about him.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 07, 2024 11:17 PM (lhenN)

164 One man's "jihadists" is another man's "opposition forces".

Posted by: runner at December 07, 2024 11:17 PM (QTCRF)

165 50 What the hell is a roller skate key?
Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:30 PM (tK3Zm)

Name that tune:

'I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key...'

Bonus Question: Why didn't some radio stations want to play it?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 07, 2024 11:18 PM (QGaXH)

166 Or am I the only one reliving his childhood* these days ?
*except with beer....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK)
--------

Um... your childhood *did not* include beer?

Oh, honey, you pore lil thang!

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2024 11:18 PM (YoCnN)

167 Sorry, I'm fired up.

Sick of this shit. The election was a month ago and the biden administration has another month to plunder the treasury and get us into at least three more wars.

Trump should be in charge RIGHT NOW.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 11:18 PM (4FeTN)

168 There are rumors that Assad promised to dump Iran in exchange for help from the West(US).

Posted by: runner at December 07, 2024 11:18 PM (QTCRF)

169 Why didn't some radio stations want to play it?
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Because it was a stupid & obnoxious song?

Oh, I suppose the station managers imagined some idiotic, non-existent, s3xual innuendo.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2024 11:19 PM (YoCnN)

170 130 Yeah, I don't think that the "good guys" are winning in Syria. First of all, look at all of the American deep state dickheads that have been trying to engineer the downfall of Assad for a long time? Perhaps this is a stupid heuristic, but I don't think it's good that they're getting their way now.

There are no “good guys” in Syria; it’s like Alien vs Predator, fun to watch but you don’t want to be on either side.

Still, do not mourn for Assad; he was the willing conduit for all of the weapons shipments from Iran to Hezbollah all these years. His fall represents the collapse of Iran’s Axis of Influence, and it could easily lead to the fall of the Iranian Regime itself.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2024 11:20 PM (W6hoT)

171 >>>But we are the "policemen of the world"? I do think there is a little truth to that, but just how the globalists have played U.S. for their own profit is another question.
...
Posted by: illiniwek
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It's another form of parenting. Go the Walmart; some parents are yelling and their kids are screaming. Other parents' toddlers are barely awake while others are helping mom shop. When Trump was president the kids shut up and listened to daddy. Others were so at peace they just nodded off.

There's always going to be a top dog. Better us than our competitors. Better Trump than the commies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 07, 2024 11:20 PM (6ZHNK)

172 168 There are rumors that Assad promised to dump Iran in exchange for help from the West(US).
Posted by: runner

'Promises' in the middle east all have an expiration date. Sooner, not later.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 07, 2024 11:20 PM (6PUpl)

173 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2024 11:20 PM (W6hoT)

What are ISIS? Shits or Sunni ?

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:21 PM (tK3Zm)

174 >>Trump almost broke Macron's hand with the handshake . Have to admit it was kind of weird.

Would you say it was any weirder than a Russia collusion hoax or forcing children to wear masks?

You do know they were all in on all this shit, right?

How about we win.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2024 11:21 PM (LkLld)

175 Wife asks ‘does everything have to be about politics?’
‘Well, yeah.’
Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 11:16 PM (LHPAg)
***

Hmmmm. I'm thinking sexy time should be politics free. Unless she wants to filibuster under the covers...

Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2024 11:22 PM (W/lyH)

176 63 Didn't know my Dad until I was about 5 or 6, he being off saving the world during WW2. Throughout my youth he did become my role model, however. Always have been proud to be known as his son.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 07, 2024 10:35 PM (hKoQL)

I've been away most of the day. Was there a Pearl Harbor thread?

My dad was 21 and my mom was 23 when Pearl Harbor occurred. My dad was army air corp, my mom was in nurses training but not in the WACs if I remember correctly.

They're no longer around to ask..sniff...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 07, 2024 11:23 PM (QGaXH)

177 Hmmmm. I'm thinking sexy time should be politics free. Unless she wants to filibuster under the covers...
Posted by: Diogenes

Sounds dirty when you say it.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 11:23 PM (Sn5dd)

178 Because it was a stupid & obnoxious song?

Oh, I suppose the station managers imagined some idiotic, non-existent, s3xual innuendo.
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2024 11:19 PM (YoCnN)

Oh, the sexual innuendo was there alright. But couched entirely in innocent language. And Melanie had a beautiful voice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:23 PM (BALK0)

179 Follow up from Music thread: Dylan covers by YouTube musicians that could easily be and in some cases are that guy or gal that lives a couple doors down the street.

The Times They Are A-Changing
Toni Lindgren from some room
https://youtu.be/f_aF-rET8tk

Simple Twist of Fate
Carson McKee from some park
https://youtu.be/okR9bmT3fnw

Don't Think Twice
Jordan Thomas from some guitar bunker
https://youtu.be/0d7dXxIgagQ

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 11:23 PM (e+6P0)

180 Hmmmm. I'm thinking sexy time should be politics free. Unless she wants to filibuster under the covers...
Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2024 11:22 PM (W/lyH)
We were 29 two times ago.

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 11:23 PM (LHPAg)

181 Hmmmm. I'm thinking sexy time should be politics free. Unless she wants to filibuster under the covers...
Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2024 11:22 PM (W/lyH)

She's going to get her fill o' Buster and you're name ain't Buster.

Posted by: RickZ at December 07, 2024 11:24 PM (gKDq2)

182 It didn't rain today it was supposed to rain. The sky was supposed to fall bringing torrents of water. Flood alerts. Buttoned everything down, tied everything up and nothing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 07, 2024 11:24 PM (6ZHNK)

183 There was an excellent one in Springfield, OR. Skate World. It had a brand-new blue floor (fiberglass?) that was sooo smoooth, it was difficult to go slow, LOL.

And that absolutely bitchin' sound system! No fuddyduddy old-timey organ "skate music"-- we got to skate to pop & rock at high volume...
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2024 11:15 PM (YoCnN)

Its twin was on Market St in Salem, which had paintings of all the mountains in the state on the walls. They showed up even better when the black lights were turned on.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2024 11:24 PM (D7oie)

184 Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2024 11:21 PM (LkLld)

How about you quit turning everything not praising Trump into a perceived slight. The handshake was weird . Nothing more.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:25 PM (tK3Zm)

185 What are ISIS? Shits or Sunni ?

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:21 PM (tK3Zm)

Yes, on both counts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:25 PM (BALK0)

186 Assad's big error was not having sexy time with Hunter Biden c. 2014 - 2016.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 11:26 PM (e+6P0)

187 Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2024 11:24 PM

Nice! And, oh yeah, forgot about the fancy lights! Skate World had excellent lighting system, too.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2024 11:27 PM (YoCnN)

188 So it has been revealed that millions of Fedgov jobs are mostly no-show. This should be the stuff of mass beheading revolution but this corruption is something that is accepted and seen as normal somehow.

Posted by: coyne at December 07, 2024 11:27 PM (q/UtE)

189 All I wish to see concerning our military is the end of social engineering that accelerated with the Obama regimes. The strain of holding things together imposed on the NCO cadre is incredible. A lesser organization would have folded long ago.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 07, 2024 11:28 PM (hKoQL)

190 There are no “good guys” in Syria; it’s like Alien vs Predator, fun to watch but you don’t want to be on either side.

Still, do not mourn for Assad; he was the willing conduit for all of the weapons shipments from Iran to Hezbollah all these years. His fall represents the collapse of Iran’s Axis of Influence, and it could easily lead to the fall of the Iranian Regime itself.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2024 11:20 PM (W6hoT)
__________________________

It's remarkably similar to what happened in Libya. It only took Obama and Clinton two months to turn Gaddafi from friend to foe...and then Obama comes out and compares the rebel protestors in Libya to US Revolutionary War heroes. I remember being really pissed off at that comment. Simply put, we should have just ignored what was going on in Libya...and we should ignore what is going on in Syria.

Posted by: Orson at December 07, 2024 11:28 PM (dIske)

191 Posted by: coyne at December 07, 2024 11:27 PM (q/UtE)

Perfect for Musk and DOGE to take care of.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:29 PM (tK3Zm)

192 How about you quit turning everything not praising Trump into a perceived slight. The handshake was weird . Nothing more.
Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:25 PM (tK3Zm)

No, that was a total own by handshake, and Macron not only looked like he took a bite of a shit sandwich, but also had pledged himself and his future on taking a second one too.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2024 11:29 PM (D7oie)

193
Melanie Safka - Passed away last January, age 76

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 07, 2024 11:29 PM (XeU6L)

194 >>How about you quit turning everything not praising Trump into a perceived slight. The handshake was weird . Nothing more.

How about you not being a Bush apologist and start actually fighting back, Roc.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2024 11:29 PM (LkLld)

195
Sometimes you have to let folks fight it out. What happens in Europe is their problem, especially since those assholes in NATO haven't paid their fair share since it was founded.

Third time's the charm.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2024 11:29 PM (63Dwl)

196 Very easy to ask a girl to skate and-Viola!-you're already holding hands.

Viola is a Musical instrument you Fool! And all you did was look at my boobs

Posted by: Girl On Skates That Day at December 07, 2024 11:30 PM (1QxHi)

197 Pretty good ONT tonight. Thanks.

Time for me to skate off into the sunset… even though the sun set some time ago. Skate off to bed just didn't sound right.

https://youtu.be/M_ocm0AujSQ

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - jingle all the way at December 07, 2024 11:30 PM (hudwI)

198 Melanie Safka - Passed away last January, age 76
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 07, 2024 11:29 PM (XeU6L)

Sad. She was a real cutie back in the day, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:30 PM (BALK0)

199 Anyone know if Vegas is making book on UHC shooter being captured? Looks like the odds would be sinking.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 07, 2024 11:31 PM (XeU6L)

200 Viola is a Musical instrument you Fool! And all you did was look at my boobs
Posted by: Girl On Skates That Day at December 07, 2024 11:30 PM (1QxHi)

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:31 PM (BALK0)

201 It's remarkably similar to what happened in Libya. It only took Obama and Clinton two months to turn Gaddafi from friend to foe...and then Obama comes out and compares the rebel protestors in Libya to US Revolutionary War heroes. I remember being really pissed off at that comment. Simply put, we should have just ignored what was going on in Libya...and we should ignore what is going on in Syria.
Posted by: Orson at December 07, 2024 11:28 PM (dIske)

Khaddafi was floating a plan to sell oil for gold and gold backed currency, breaking the USD lock on oil sales. I believe he was also blocking transfer of weapons to Syria and other important conflicts. He is dead now, there are open slave markets there, and weapons flow where the US wants.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2024 11:32 PM (D7oie)

202 What I recall about steel-wheel roller skates is that they were very rough on concrete sidewalks. I'll bet that I still have a key around here somewhere.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 07, 2024 11:33 PM (XeU6L)

203 I've always identified with that song, Lunatic Fringe.

I don't know if it makes people worry about me.

Posted by: Archer at December 07, 2024 11:34 PM (IDphi)

204 coyne. Well DC so I suppose corrupt but lots of jobs these days the work is done sitting at a computer and can be done from anywhere with internet connectivity. But apparently managers cant tell who is getting work done and who is not, or they are scared to fire dead weight employees and "# of hours you spend in the office" is the only metric they feel they can use to sort out some of the chaff.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 07, 2024 11:35 PM (UKUm3)

205 He is dead now, there are open slave markets there, and weapons flow where the US wants.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2024 11:32 PM (D7oie)

I wonder what Taylor Lorenz would fetch in a Libyan slave market? Or Rob Reiner? Or Whoopie?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:35 PM (BALK0)

206 Khaddafi was floating a plan to sell oil for gold and gold backed currency, breaking the USD lock on oil sales. I believe he was also blocking transfer of weapons to Syria and other important conflicts. He is dead now, there are open slave markets there, and weapons flow where the US wants.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2024 11:32 PM (D7oie)
So ubama an hellary really cleaned kadaffy’s plow, didn’t they?

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 11:35 PM (LHPAg)

207 The first skateboard I remember seeing was an old pair of metal rollerskates bolted to a piece of plywood. I wasn’t too impressed. Noisy on asphalt and concrete roads and sidewalks.

Then about 5 years later maybe, the dangdest thing showed up. Purpose built store bought skateboards! Rubber or Urethane wheels with precision bearings- quiet! What a country I thought.

Posted by: Girl On Skates That Day at December 07, 2024 11:36 PM (1QxHi)

208 I'm all for Victoria Nuland being sold at the slave market.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2024 11:36 PM (63Dwl)

209 This being the time of year for reflection and celebration I would like to take a small moment to acknowledge, now that I am in final years of my life, my blessings outweigh my afflictions. Except that I still have never owned a V8 Mustang convertible. That right there explains with precision my endless and overwhelming irritation at everything.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 11:37 PM (e+6P0)

210 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR DECEMBER 7-8

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-5
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Mission is scheduled for December 8, 12:10 a.m. ET, 05:10 UTC, 06:10 CET with backup opportunities to 4:10 a.m. ET. If needed, additional opportunities beginning with 11:42 p.m. ET.

https://www.youtube.com/live/A6U-S04dnL0

Posted by: Ciampino - Time For Space at December 07, 2024 11:38 PM (i0xsb)

211 Sad. She was a real cutie back in the day, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Didn't age well. I suspect that either heart troubles and/or diabetes played a role in her passing:
t.ly/mnnCc

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 07, 2024 11:38 PM (XeU6L)

212 Checking back in, scampywife had Christmas planning on the docket this evening. Thanks for the pleasantries on the ONT. Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at December 07, 2024 11:38 PM (41CYW)

213 Then about 5 years later maybe, the dangdest thing showed up. Purpose built store bought skateboards! Rubber or Urethane wheels with precision bearings- quiet! What a country I thought.

Posted by: Girl On Skates That Day at December 07, 2024 11:36 PM (1QxHi)

I made myself a roller-skate scooter. Plank with skates on the bottom, and an upright with handlebars, all wood. They were the rage for a year or two, early '60's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:38 PM (BALK0)

214 p.s. - Cut the State Dept. by 80%. As a start.
Posted by: Tonypete

Cut USAID to Zero%.

People would lose their shit over that.
Not just the kickbacks, half the freaking world lives off our grandchildren's being indebted by deficit spending.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 07, 2024 11:38 PM (/lPRQ)

215 210
In about 30 minutes

Posted by: Ciampino - Time For Space at December 07, 2024 11:39 PM (i0xsb)

216 What are ISIS? Shits or Sunni ?

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:21 PM (tK3Zm)
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Musical interlude hint:

https://youtu.be/ubvYQxTXO3U

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2024 11:39 PM (+Nn7+)

217 >Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2024 11:20 PM (W6hoT)

I agree that Assad was a thorn in our side re: The Great Game. I'm simply musing that we haven't traded a bad situation for a worse situation.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 07, 2024 11:39 PM (iGc5r)

218 209 This being the time of year for reflection and celebration I would like to take a small moment to acknowledge, now that I am in final years of my life, my blessings outweigh my afflictions. Except that I still have never owned a V8 Mustang convertible. That right there explains with precision my endless and overwhelming irritation at everything.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 11:37 PM (e+6P0)
Right there with you, friend. I never owned a Hughes 500 helicopter.

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 11:39 PM (LHPAg)

219 I wonder what Taylor Lorenz would fetch in a Libyan slave market? Or Rob Reiner? Or Whoopie?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:35 PM (BALK0)

All three useless. LeBron might have have some value as a work horse.

Posted by: coyne at December 07, 2024 11:40 PM (q/UtE)

220 When the rich kill the poor thats capitalism. When the poor kill the rich back thats criime of the century!

Posted by: raimondo at December 07, 2024 11:40 PM (cMhPm)

221 Didn't age well. I suspect that either heart troubles and/or diabetes played a role in her passing:
t.ly/mnnCc
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 07, 2024 11:38 PM (XeU6L)

She definitely had put on a few pounds in that pic, taken at age 70. Still a pretty face.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:41 PM (BALK0)

222 All three useless. LeBron might have have some value as a work horse.
Posted by: coyne at December 07, 2024 11:40 PM (q/UtE

As a work horse, he'd have to be gelded.

Posted by: Archer at December 07, 2024 11:42 PM (IDphi)

223

Sidewalks Surfing

https://youtu.be/RHwDGQ6QYfU

bust your buns

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2024 11:42 PM (63Dwl)

224 214
Did you knw USAID doesn't mean US Aid?
For a terrifying eye opener listen to this: Rogan & Benz

https://youtu.be/rrJhQpvlkLA

Posted by: Ciampino - Time to scare everyone at December 07, 2024 11:43 PM (i0xsb)

225 Is there an air leak in the ONT? I'm hearing a high pitched squeal.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 07, 2024 11:43 PM (+VovS)

226 140 Really there's a war on boys/men at every turn. Not the nanny-fucking kind of 'men', either. They're the {ahem} epitome of masculinity.
Posted by: RickZ at December 07, 2024 11:06 PM (gKDq2)

My sons' Catholic elementary school went full-on girl power around the time the older one was in 5th grade. Short of pulling them out (which a lot of parents did) there wasn't much you could do.

My counter was to send them to an all-boys high school that focused on turning boys into young men. It was money well spent.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 07, 2024 11:43 PM (QGaXH)

227 I HATE OREGON

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 11:44 PM (X/MmC)

228 Is there an air leak in the ONT? I'm hearing a high pitched squeal.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 07, 2024 11:43 PM (+VovS)

Tink-tunk, tink-tunk. (sets oil can aside)

There. That better?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:44 PM (BALK0)

229 I HATE OREGON
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 11:44 PM (X/MmC)
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Especially when overly abused on pizza.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2024 11:45 PM (+Nn7+)

230 I've always identified with that song, Lunatic Fringe.
I don't know if it makes people worry about me.
Posted by: Archer
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Song was supposed to be Through the Curtain. That's what happens when JV does blog things. Here's the link to the intended song. https://tinyurl.com/yphnthtu.
Goes to ewetube.

Posted by: scampydog at December 07, 2024 11:45 PM (41CYW)

231 raimondo must learn that under capitalism man preys upon his fellow man, but under socialism this is reversed.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2024 11:45 PM (D7oie)

232 Tink-tunk, tink-tunk. (sets oil can aside)

There. That better?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

(Checks 220) Nah, it's still there.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 07, 2024 11:45 PM (+VovS)

233 Raimondo, we're calling you a radical, a liberal, fanatical!!!

Kill any CEOs lately?

Posted by: Super Tramp at December 07, 2024 11:46 PM (PT7Bh)

234 HATE HATE HATE THE DUCKS

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 11:46 PM (X/MmC)

235 raimondo must learn that under capitalism man preys upon his fellow man, but under socialism this is reversed.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2024 11:45 PM (D7oie)
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Exactly! That's what happened in Nam.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2024 11:46 PM (+Nn7+)

236 Except that I still have never owned a V8 Mustang convertible.
---

A neighbor down the street, just in conversation, mentioned that he always regretted that he had never had a toy steam engine when he was a kid. I had a Jensen Model 45 that I had picked up at an antique store years ago.

I took it down the street and gave it to him the next day. You would have thought it was Christmas morning. Pic:
t.ly/tXe5Z

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 07, 2024 11:46 PM (XeU6L)

237 https://tinyurl.com/yphnthtu.

Posted by: scampydog at December 07, 2024 11:45 PM (41CYW)

Good old yphnthtu! Came from the wrong side of the tracks, but he was family, nonetheless.

Posted by: Cthulhu at December 07, 2024 11:47 PM (BALK0)

238 Crap. In spite of the suspect vacation habits of the Penn State peeps having the Oregon Ducks winning this Big 10 Championship is an outright insult to everything decent and moral. I am feeling abandoned to terrible fates.

Bo Nix's excepted. He has been washed of his sins since joining the Broncos and making them relevant again. May he get a brass statue outside of Bronco stadium.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 11:48 PM (e+6P0)

239 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Thank you sir for your recent help!

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 07, 2024 11:48 PM (+VovS)

240 I took it down the street and gave it to him the next day. You would have thought it was Christmas morning. Pic:
t.ly/tXe5Z
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 07, 2024 11:46 PM (XeU6L)

Looks like CBD's coffee maker!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:48 PM (BALK0)

241 I took it down the street and gave it to him the next day. You would have thought it was Christmas morning. Pic:
t.ly/tXe5Z Posted by: Mike Hammer

You are officially nominated for sainthood.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 11:49 PM (e+6P0)

242 The left isn't the problem. They are easy to defeat. The problem is the people who claim to be on our side and stab us in the back.

See Sen. Joni Ernst.

And others.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2024 11:50 PM (LkLld)

243 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Thank you sir for your recent help!
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 07, 2024 11:48 PM (+VovS)
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Be well!

Offline till l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2024 11:50 PM (+Nn7+)

244 194 >>How about you quit turning everything not praising Trump into a perceived slight. The handshake was weird . Nothing more.

How about you not being a Bush apologist and start actually fighting back, Roc.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2024 11:29 PM (LkLld)

Gentlemen...there's no fighting in the war room.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 07, 2024 11:50 PM (QGaXH)

245 The only thing worse than the ducks winning is the stupid broad interviewing the Oregon coach on the sideline.

Why? Get the broads off the field.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 11:50 PM (X/MmC)

246 I took it down the street and gave it to him the next day. You would have thought it was Christmas morning. Pic:
t.ly/tXe5Z Posted by: Mike Hammer

You are officially nominated for sainthood.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
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Seconded. That's pretty cool, Mike Hammer.

Posted by: scampydog at December 07, 2024 11:50 PM (41CYW)

247 Quack Attack!!!

Posted by: PabloD at December 07, 2024 11:51 PM (twNth)

248 Not a good day for Texas teams.

SMU goes down with a last second field goal.

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 11:51 PM (tK3Zm)

249 easy to defeat. The problem is the people who claim to be on our side and stab us in the back.

See Sen. Joni Ernst.

And others.
Posted

Everybody that wants girls in boy scouts, girls in boys sports, and censoring porn , they are every where, even at the hq

Posted by: N at December 07, 2024 11:52 PM (8XibL)

250 Rat!

Stop it with being helpful. You're making it hard to still call you a rat bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 11:52 PM (X/MmC)

251 Looks like CBD's coffee maker!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That model has an interesting backstory, as it was wartime production. Very basic, without usual silver-soldered brass boiler. No brass avaiable for toys, so, steel boiler, which was subject to rust.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 07, 2024 11:52 PM (XeU6L)

252 Oh yeah, if it was not for bad taste nobody in tx would have any taste at all for Christmas decorations.

Posted by: N at December 07, 2024 11:54 PM (8XibL)

253 I can’t find good Mexican Oregano, maybe they switched to growing weed or something. Even the fancy spice houses just have the leaves, kinda musty and stale. The good stuff should be bright green and really strong. It was one of those few some spices that don’t go stale.

What do you guys do for Chili powder? I notice that it does go stale, or at least gets kinda weak/off. Fresh Ancho and good chili gives a wonderful color too. Red, not Dead.

Posted by: Girl On Skates That Day at December 07, 2024 11:55 PM (1QxHi)

254
I took it down the street and gave it to him the next day. You would have thought it was Christmas morning. Pic:
t.ly/tXe5Z
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Looks like CBD's coffee maker!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Is that for smoking pot?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2024 11:56 PM (63Dwl)

255 Cheer up Nurse. At least they got Neuheisel as an announcer.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2024 11:56 PM (W/lyH)

256 That model has an interesting backstory, as it was wartime production. Very basic, without usual silver-soldered brass boiler. No brass avaiable for toys, so, steel boiler, which was subject to rust.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 07, 2024 11:52 PM (XeU6L)

Are the cylinder and sight glass blocks made of brass, or are they some zinc alloy? Kind of surprised the (presumably) Nichrome wire for the heating element was not also restricted.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2024 11:56 PM (BALK0)

257 My dad graduated 6 months early to join up. Battalion surgeon. Went into France a month after D-day. Met my mom,an army nurse in Austria. Married within 3 weeks. 6 kids and thirty years until a car accident took.mom.neither one talked much about the war.

Posted by: free tibet at December 07, 2024 11:58 PM (iNp3L)

258 Rat!

Stop it with being helpful. You're making it hard to still call you a rat bastard!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage

Awww sweetie, I'll always be your "Rat Bastard"!

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

259 The Seahawks are going to crush the Cardinals tomorrow. After a lifetime of Seattle pro sports failure, the 1979 Super Sonics championship year excepted, the Seahawks beating the Broncos for their 1st championship was the second greatest day of my life after my son's birth. After getting boy spawn through college I am sort of leaning towards flipping that order.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 11:59 PM (e+6P0)

260 regarding somebody that talks about war tim kennedy is having fun.

Posted by: N at December 07, 2024 11:59 PM (8XibL)

261 Dang! I went to take a leak expecting to come back to an overtime and Hauser has kicked a 56 yard field goal for a Clemson win. Go Tigers!

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2024 11:59 PM (LHPAg)

262 The only thing worse than the ducks winning is the stupid broad interviewing the Oregon coach on the sideline.

Why? Get the broads off the field.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 07, 2024 11:50 PM (X/MmC)
***

Well, she was giving coach a good view down her dress.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2024 12:01 AM (W/lyH)

263 Mrs. F. just got back from watching the Ducks at her mother's and she is happy so see ya later.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2024 12:01 AM (RIvkX)

264 259 The Seahawks are going to crush the Cardinals tomorrow. After a lifetime of Seattle pro sports failure, the 1979 Super Sonics championship year excepted, the Seahawks beating the Broncos for their 1st championship was the second greatest day of my life after my son's birth. After getting boy spawn through college I am sort of leaning towards flipping that order.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

That Victory parade in Downtown Seattle was quite the spectacle.

Not a single window broken or dumpster set on fire.

Such a happy, happy community event.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 08, 2024 12:02 AM (XKg5s)

265 Jeanette, Penn.

Jensen still has a website with lots of cool stuff. When I wrote to them, upon inquiry as to a replacement glass window availability for a #75, they sent that, and they sent a box full of parts and accouterments and gee-gaws for mine. “Take what you want and send a check” and of course I bought everything. A little Penzoil oiler, fuel tray, power take off pulley, etc.

I think Distilled water is best for these. Esbit tablets are the easiest fuel to use as well. These can be tough to find.

Posted by: Girl On Skates That Day at December 08, 2024 12:02 AM (1QxHi)

266 Are the cylinder and sight glass blocks made of brass, or are they some zinc alloy? Kind of surprised the (presumably) Nichrome wire for the heating element was not also restricted.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Working from memory. Cannot recall the cylinder...may have been plated brass. The sight glass blocks were a light colored metal. Probably there are better pics on line.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2024 12:03 AM (XeU6L)

267 Everybody that wants girls in boy scouts, girls in boys sports, and censoring porn , they are every where, even at the hq

Where at the hq? Maybe the censoring pron thing but the rest? Not seeing that.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 08, 2024 12:04 AM (6PUpl)

268 I decided early on in the Ukraine Russia thing that I knew absolutely nothing about it and I never would because everyone involved, or anyone who talks about it, has reasons to lie about. Ukraine was voted one of the most corrupt nations in the world before the war and a lot of the US Taxpayer money being 'spent' over there is likely in Swiss or Cypriot bank accounts. And Russia has been lying for so long they tell the truth only by accident. All the US and European politicians have ulterior motives, secret plans or really dumb 157 move check-mates that will save the world for democracy that fail after one side or the other does something they did not plan in those 157 moves. Can everyone involved lose without screwing us?

Posted by: JB1000 at December 08, 2024 12:04 AM (JcJpw)

269 I can’t find good Mexican Oregano, maybe they switched to growing weed or something. Even the fancy spice houses just have the leaves, kinda musty and stale. The good stuff should be bright green and really strong. It was one of those few some spices that don’t go stale.

What do you guys do for Chili powder? I notice that it does go stale, or at least gets kinda weak/off. Fresh Ancho and good chili gives a wonderful color too. Red, not Dead.
Posted by: Girl On Skates

Chilie Fanatic, Hatch, NM. This is were I drive to get my chilies. If you don't see what you want call them. During the annual Chile Harvest Festival they roast green chiles by the ton. That is something to behold happening

https://hatch-chile-peppers.com/

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 12:04 AM (e+6P0)

270 That Victory parade in Downtown Seattle was quite the spectacle.

Not a single window broken or dumpster set on fire.

Such a happy, happy community event.

Ot is hard to see what the rioters do in dresden

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:04 AM (8XibL)

271 That Victory parade in Downtown Seattle was quite the spectacle.

Not a single window broken or dumpster set on fire.

Such a happy, happy community event.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage

I think it was more due to it being like 15 degrees out. Rif Raf don't like the cold!

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 08, 2024 12:04 AM (+VovS)

272 Where at the hq? Maybe the censoring pron thing but the rest? Not seeing that.

It's here, you have to wait for the right threads

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:06 AM (8XibL)

273 Diogenes,
New Weasel is garbage.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 08, 2024 12:06 AM (5dHQx)

274 The Seahawks are going to crush the Cardinals tomorrow. After a lifetime of Seattle pro sports failure, the 1979 Super Sonics championship year excepted, the Seahawks beating the Broncos for their 1st championship was the second greatest day of my life after my son's birth. After getting boy spawn through college I am sort of leaning towards flipping that order.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

That Victory parade in Downtown Seattle was quite the spectacle.

Not a single window broken or dumpster set on fire.

Such a happy, happy community event.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage

I lived at the intersection of Mercer and 1st N. That was day was even greater than all of the 1960s hydroplane races combined.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 12:06 AM (e+6P0)

275 Jensen still has a website with lots of cool stuff.
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I had a Model 5. Wish that I still did.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2024 12:07 AM (XeU6L)

276 It's here, you have to wait for the right threads

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:06 AM (8XibL)
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The book thread is a hive of villainy!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2024 12:08 AM (RIvkX)

277 Diogenes,
New Weasel is garbage.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 08, 2024 12:06 AM (5dHQx)

Yeah. I kinda thought he got screwed on getting fired but then I also figured there was a back story there. Who knows. Not a fan.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2024 12:10 AM (W/lyH)

278 The book thread is a hive of villainy

That is funny, there was a time that the overnighter bragged about how this thread was a hive of scum and villainy for those barred from the bar at mos esly

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:10 AM (8XibL)

279 the 1979 Super Sonics championship year
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Downtown Freddie Brown.

Posted by: scampydog at December 08, 2024 12:10 AM (41CYW)

280 What is remarkable, 7 Dec ‘41 attack

By February strict rationing is already in place. Five (5) car tires is all you can have. Civilian production of consumer goods shut down “for the duration”. Everything.

No more cars, radios, bicycles, motorcycles, refrigerators or anything. Even buying a tube of toothpaste meant turning the empty one in. They were made of metal in those days, tin/lead and recyclable. Even the 1946 and 1947 cars were re-badged prewar designs, I think it took a couple more years before they got tooled up.

Britain didn’t fully end rationing till 1954 and were in rough shape economically

Posted by: Girl On Skates That Day at December 08, 2024 12:12 AM (1QxHi)

281 I lived at the intersection of Mercer and 1st N. That was day was even greater than all of the 1960s hydroplane races combined.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at

Spend much time at the 5spot?

And I remember going to the pits on Thursday during the time trials and getting autographs from the drivers. They were so cool! I brought my boys down there too. But that was in the early
00s. Different now.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 08, 2024 12:12 AM (5dHQx)

282 The book thread is a hive of villainy

Now it is nothing but poors that have money to buy anything so no rationing is necessary

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:13 AM (8XibL)

283 Britain didn’t fully end rationing till 1954 and were in rough shape economically

Now it is nothing but poors that have money to buy anything so no rationing is necessary

There we go

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:14 AM (8XibL)

284 Syria has fallen. Biden might yet set off WWII.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2024 12:15 AM (LkLld)

285 267 Everybody that wants girls in boy scouts, girls in boys sports, and censoring porn , they are every where, even at the hq

Where at the hq? Maybe the censoring pron thing but the rest? Not seeing that.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 08, 2024 12:04 AM (6PUpl)

Sometimes I'll see a posting copied down thread in a later post like I did here with #267, but when I look up-thread for that particular post, its gone.

Usually the poster is a known troll. Still....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 12:15 AM (QGaXH)

286 I was wondering.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 08, 2024 12:15 AM (5dHQx)

287 Girl on Skates, even more surprising is that Germany didn't begin serious rationing until well into the war. Possibly not early 1943 ("total war" policy), but not much earlier. Unless my memory is getting aggressively worse. Some juicy scandals in Berlin involving big shots cheating on the system. Some were actually punished.

Japanese had experienced fairly extensive rationing since 1937 or shortly thereafter. In a society far far less prosperous or materially rich than the US. Germany actually had a per capita income significantly below the US prior to festivities commencing, something else most don't know.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 12:16 AM (1m82a)

288 Let the Palestinians homested the border with Iraq.You're welcome

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 08, 2024 12:18 AM (QSrLX)

289
Britain didn’t fully end rationing till 1954 and were in rough shape economically
Posted by: Girl On Skates That Day

Falling bombs will do that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2024 12:18 AM (63Dwl)

290 Jill reacts badly when Trump doesn't call her "Doctor":

https://t.ly/NltS1

(Yes, it's fake.)

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 08, 2024 12:18 AM (lUFok)

291 Sometimes I'll see a posting copied down thread in a later post like I did here with #267, but when I look up-thread for that particular post, its gone.

Usually the poster is a known troll. Still....
Posted b

It was made ar 249 if that helps , it's there

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:19 AM (8XibL)

292 Syria has fallen. Biden might yet set off WWII.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Was talking with my li'l bro about FJB & co. last week...

Told him it wouldn't surprise me at all, if that regime sh@t on the carpet on their way out the door.

Too bad they can't just steal all the T's off the keyboards instead...

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 12:19 AM (YoCnN)

293 Biden? Depends.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 08, 2024 12:19 AM (QSrLX)

294 Is the movie Midway 2019 any good?

Its not perfect, and if you don't know the history beforehand it may be hard to follow cause it goes really fast from Pearl to Midway and touches on everything Navy related, and I seriously doubt the real Dick Best was anything like the movie Dick Best but the visuals are awesome and as far as big scale war movies go it is the most accurate I have seen although of course you can pick holes in it. One of my all time favorites and a really good example of what could be done with modern CGI if there was only a market for depicting actual history rather than the actions of comic book characters.

Posted by: azjaeger at December 08, 2024 12:19 AM (3/XaG)

295 Spend much time at the 5spot?

And I remember going to the pits on Thursday during the time trials and getting autographs from the drivers. They were so cool! I brought my boys down there too. But that was in the early
00s. Different now.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I lived one block from the Mecca so that is where I went. I only went to the 5 Spot for special occasions like Christmas Eve dinner. My last meal in Seattle was the the Mecca. I paid the cook $25.00, in addition to the meal, to make me perfect dive bar meal. I was not disappointed though it might have been better if I didn't get him hammered over at TS McHugh's before and during his shift (he would sneak over from the Mecca for a double whiskey).

My Dad knew all the boat teams and because he was a machinist he used to make custom parts for all the teams. Over the years, as a kid, I got to meet all the crew chiefs. In the 1980s my Dad and Chuck Hickling, the last great solo builder and driver, hung out together all the time. The last year that Hickling drove I was part of the pit crew. After that Hickling and I would have knock out Thanksgiving fights because he was a complete asshole when he got drunk.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 12:20 AM (e+6P0)

296 the 1979 Super Sonics championship year

Stanley Cup - Montreal Canadians
Super Bowl - Pittsburgh Steelers
World Series - Pittsburgh Pirates

Advantage? Pittsburgh!! (starts humming 'We Are Family')

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 08, 2024 12:20 AM (6PUpl)

297 >>Too bad they can't just steal all the T's off the keyboards instead...

Hard to tell at this point whether it's malice or incompetence.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2024 12:22 AM (LkLld)

298 Japanese had experienced fairly extensive rationing since 1937 or shortly thereafter. In a society far far less prosperous or materially rich than the US. Germany actually had a per capita income significantly below the US prior to festivities commencing, something else most don't know.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 12:16 AM (1m82a)

Just look at two popular consumer tech items of the era: automobiles and radio sets. USA had many brands of cars, and the cheaper ones were affordable to nearly anyone with a steady job. Also, many, many brands of radio sets, consoles, table models, portables, ranging in price from very cheap to extremely expensive. Germany had several brands of luxury cars, but practically nothing affordable for the wage-earner, and much the same thing applied for radios. The Nazis introduced cheap cars (the VW) and cheap radios. Few VW cars ever got to their intended market, but the "Empfanger" radios sold in the many thousands.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 12:23 AM (BALK0)

299 Hard to tell at this point whether it's malice or incompetence.
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Yep.

What a stupid time.... you know the rest.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 12:23 AM (YoCnN)

300 ard to tell at this point whether it's malice or incompetence.
Posted b

Both?

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:24 AM (8XibL)

301 Forgot who asked, but some of the basics of the Uke-Rus thing are not hard to follow. Specifically the key thing, the location of the line of contact (front), who controls what, and related trends and issues.

And the super-simplified summary is: Russia has advanced, glacially and carefully, westward and northward, in a never-ending series of small scale engagements for towns villages and cross-roads. It's been evident almost from the start, or at least from 2023 when the slapdash Russian army started to shape up, that Ukraine can't stop Russia from taking territory, or continuing the war. Entirely a question of Russian will or decisions.

One can track the day's action and state of the line of contact at various sites online, both pro- and anti-Uke. Most "press" and social media focus is on spectacular/unusual crap that is not really material to the outcome here (small cross-river attacks by either side, drone/missile strikes on value targets or deep in the rear). The key reality is the boring, snails' pace ground war, and that's really only had one trend for a very long time.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 12:24 AM (1m82a)

302 1979:

Stanley Cup - Montreal Canadians
Super Bowl - Pittsburgh Steelers
World Series - Pittsburgh Pirates

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 08, 2024 12:20 AM (6PUpl)

1969:

Stanley Cup - Montreal Canadians
Super Bowl - NY Jets
World Series - NY Mets

Much better page from history.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 12:26 AM (gKDq2)

303 We had the kind of roller skates that attached to shoes.

Needed a skate key.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 08, 2024 12:26 AM (+H2BX)

304 Canadiens

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 08, 2024 12:27 AM (+H2BX)

305 302:Much better page from history.

Not if you're living in a Western PA backwater.

Joe Namath was from Beaver Falls, PA.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 08, 2024 12:28 AM (6PUpl)

306 Thought I had new news on Assad's fall but as usual the Horde had it well covered already. Any confirmation of the rumors of his plane crashing or making an emergency landing?

Stories fly but I'm hoping for a plane crash, that would be justice. Who are these rebels that have taken over? There's a motley crew there. I'd hope we have had a hand in engineering this and have some influence but with Biden's crew I doubt it.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 08, 2024 12:28 AM (55Qr6)

307 My brain is overloaded with too much here&now BS, to be much concerned with overseas.

I cannot do anything about the state of the world, from here.

My own little world, just me & hubby for now, is all I can *do anything* about.

So... putting up a tiny tabletop tree. Tomorrow will make a banana bread for breakfast snack. Maybe some special Christmas goodies too.

Feel so fking helpless, some days.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 12:29 AM (YoCnN)

308 One big difference between WW 1.0 and WW 2.0 the allies made no pretense of respecting any patents or intellectual property as the term is known today. Whole mountains of paperwork and blueprints and research notes were scanned and microfiched and more or less stolen, under the terms of what they called “intellectual reparations”.

The Soviets for their part did the same thing, sometimes picking up whole factories and moving them lock stock and barrel. One example of better technology being acquired was in the case of audio recording. The germans had a lot of success with wire recorders and tape, something new. And their microphones were quite good.

RCA and Bing Crosby took a big interest in high fidelity, and the post-war improvements from both American and captured technology is quickly evident in just a couple years. By the 1950s recordings were being made that hold up well even today when played on suitable playback.

Posted by: Girl On Skates That Day at December 08, 2024 12:29 AM (1meqy)

309 It was Sinwar what killed Syria! Sinwar decided to launch a mad suicide/homicide attack on Israel, in the hopes of dragging everyone in to it. He got Hezbollah in it with him; and first Israel destroyed Hamas, and the they destroyed Hezbollah. It wasn’t apparent that Hezbollah was the group actually providing internal security as Assad’s army fell apart, but that’s what happened.

When Hezbollah’s leadership was destroyed, the rebel groups realized there was nothing left propping Assad up, especially with the Russians too distracted to intervene. The speed and overwhelming Syrian support for this revolution is what made it so fast.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2024 12:29 AM (W6hoT)

310 Who are these rebels that have taken over?
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Al Qaeda, ISIS, that sort. Folks we're in theory at war with, but various parts of the Deep State fund anyway.

Posted by: Methos at December 08, 2024 12:31 AM (Dnobf)

311 There's nothing good about syria going as it is, if you loved iraq and afghanistan syria is your thing

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:32 AM (8XibL)

312 They are going after syria to get to russias interests

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:33 AM (8XibL)

313 Israeli forces enter Syria to create buffer zone along border, fire artillery (unclear if warning shots or for effect) towards unID'd armed groups. Also IAF hit suspected regime chemical weapons sites near Damascus.

Meanwhile, IDF continues hits on Hezb people misbehaving in south Lebanon. My favorite kind of ceasefire: one where the good guys get lots of good hits in.

Outlook for Lebanese Hezb about as dire as it gets. Still seems doubtful the rest of Lebanon and find the will to try and save the country.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 12:34 AM (1m82a)

314 >>What a stupid time.... you know the rest.

Honestly, I think this is great time to be alive.

We just have to get through the next 50 or so days.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2024 12:34 AM (LkLld)

315 But the technological drain on Germany was immense, and they lost a lot of key scientists. All of the Peenemunde rocket guys.

They also sent over a bunch of chemical, biologicial, and propaganda specialists too and set up shop right away experimenting on Americsns, under the aegis of cutout spook agencies funding universities and prisons, military, government. Captive, unwilling, unknowing, or co-erced.

It’s no coincidence, I think, 80 years later it’s getting to be Weimar 2.0 or whatever. They do know how to fuck with people’s heads really hard.

Posted by: Girl On Skates That Day at December 08, 2024 12:35 AM (1meqy)

316 268
Posted by: JB1000 at December 08, 2024 12:04 AM (JcJpw)
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Have a go at 224, you'll be shocked and 'I told you so" at the same time.
Next time someone says 'US Empire' I won't object.

Posted by: Ciampino - Time to scare everyone shitless at December 08, 2024 12:35 AM (i0xsb)

317 Stupidest quote "the more we dig into this the deeper it gets"

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:36 AM (8XibL)

318 I cannot do anything about the state of the world, from here.

My own little world, just me & hubby for now, is all I can *do anything* about.

So... putting up a tiny tabletop tree. Tomorrow will make a banana bread for breakfast snack. Maybe some special Christmas goodies too.

Feel so fking helpless, some days.
Posted by: JQ

I get that. Been there wearing different circumstances. Some days were too much, some less. Years later, finding my blessing where I could were that thread that has me where I am today. I still think that is an actual miracle. Banana bread is good, so are table top Christmas trees in spite of the burdens. You will get through all this.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 12:36 AM (e+6P0)

319 When Hezbollah’s leadership was destroyed, the rebel groups realized there was nothing left propping Assad up, especially with the Russians too distracted to intervene. The speed and overwhelming Syrian support for this revolution is what made it so fast.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2024 12:29 AM (W6hoT)

A nice summation.
When they fall, they can fall quickly.
And it can happen anywhere.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2024 12:37 AM (W/lyH)

320 There's enormous certain and much likely good from this, and Turkey's the main backer of the pre-eminent rebel force, which has invested in training and equipment and done savvy politix with other opposition groups.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 12:37 AM (1m82a)

321 Canadiens
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 08, 2024 12:27 AM (+H2BX)

That reminds me.

I miss the Quebec Nordique-Montreal Canadien-Boston Bruin rivalries. Boston-Quebec had some of the best playoff hockey fisticuffs. And there were some dandy playoff fights between Quebec (on the ascendancy) and Montreal (on a downward slide), too, particularly 1984, even though Montreal won that series. A brawl breaking out while warming up for a thrid period being a highlight.

In the same Nordique-Canadien playoff game, there was a fight between the Hunter bros., Dale and Mark.

Back when playoff hockey was playoff hockey.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 12:38 AM (gKDq2)

322 I miss the Quebec Nordique-Montreal Canadien-Boston Bruin rivalries. Boston-Quebec had some of the best playoff hockey fisticuffs. And there were some dandy playoff fights between Quebec (on the ascendancy) and Montreal (on a downward slide), too, particularly 1984, even though Montreal won that series. A brawl breaking out while warming up for a thrid period being a highlight.

In the same Nordique-Canadien playoff game, there was a fight between the Hunter bros., Dale and Mark.

Back when playoff hockey was playoff hockey.
Posted by: RickZ

Sportsball matters. It really does.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 12:40 AM (e+6P0)

323 There's enormous certain and much likely good from this, and Turkey's the main backer of the pre-eminent rebel force, which has invested in training and equipment and done savvy politix with other opposition groups.
Posted

Year, fwiw, they are interested in regaining the former empire, they are not interested in doing what nato says to do and they are not very fond of Israel now

If you thought gaza was fun syrias going to be more fun

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:41 AM (8XibL)

324 Russia would never be in a position to save Assad, if everything else here were held the same. Not a question of distraction. In the past Russian airpower has been significant, but the ground element has been the army, Hezbollah, and a few other militias. Academic now of course.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 12:41 AM (1m82a)

325
It’s no coincidence, I think, 80 years later it’s getting to be Weimar 2.0 or whatever.

Come to the cabaret, old chum.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2024 12:42 AM (63Dwl)

326 Saw this on late-late-night cable teevee, decades ago... had a chuckle.

~10 minutes:

youtube.com/watch?v=ZZyDsF-Gp3o

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 12:45 AM (YoCnN)

327 34
I thought ISIS is why the rebels started to win. Is that ass backwards?

Posted by: polynikes at December 07, 2024 10:24 PM (tK3Zm)
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See, the rebels funded by the Pentagon are fighting the rebels funded by the CIA. One of the reasons why I could never figure out who were the good guys and who the bad ones.

Posted by: Ciampino - Time to scare everyone shitless at December 08, 2024 12:45 AM (i0xsb)

328 Come to the cabaret, old chum.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2024 12:42 AM (63Dwl)

Just go to any Army Enlisted Men's Club. Same show.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 12:46 AM (gKDq2)

329
Did you knw USAID doesn't mean US Aid?

It means Flavor Aid.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2024 12:46 AM (63Dwl)

330 Has Assad’s army fallen back to defend the Alawite
Heartland and the Russian bases?

Posted by: Goatweed at December 08, 2024 12:46 AM (cl9qq)

331 Year, fwiw, they are interested in regaining the former empire, they are not interested in doing what nato says to do and they are not very fond of Israel now

If you thought gaza was fun syrias going to be more fun
Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:41 AM (8XibL
***

When I was in Turkey in the mid 80's the sense of Empire was still there. The guys in charge were the sons and grandsons of the last generation of the Empire.
They want that again.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2024 12:47 AM (W/lyH)

332 It means Flavor Aid.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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LOL. Guilty of drinking a lot of that in youth.

Posted by: scampydog at December 08, 2024 12:49 AM (41CYW)

333 When I was in Turkey in the mid 80's the sense of Empire was still there. The guys in charge were the sons and grandsons of the last generation of the Empire.
They want that again.
Posted by: Dioge

everybody other than the brits does

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:50 AM (8XibL)

334 Goatweed, no. The army has mostly disintegrated (possibly entirely, by now). Hezb has desperately tried to exit to Lebanon. Not sure what's happened with other key regime-allied militia. Mostly likely they're cutting their own deals with the new sheriff. Several regime army commanders did some version of defect/disarm and leave with safe passage in the past week as the tide rolled south.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 12:51 AM (1m82a)

335 Outlook for Lebanese Hezb about as dire as it gets. Still seems doubtful the rest of Lebanon and find the will to try and save the country.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 12:34 AM (1m82)

There have been a large amount of Israeli air strikes across Syria tonight; one of the targets was an armored column belonging to Hezbollah, attempting to flee back into Lebanon as the rebel armies approached.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2024 12:52 AM (W6hoT)

336 Tom, Israel's also hitting "strategic" Syrian sites, only ones described so far were CW-related, but eventually we'll read about aircraft, missile dev./production, and other regime targets getting hit. (guess that should be "former regime" .... nice ring to that)

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 12:56 AM (1m82a)

337 During the 1980s Japan Inc. hysteria the one detail that has stuck with me was an interview with a Japanese CEO that ran a company that made rubber O rings and belts. His assertion that the USA would go into decline when it no longer had the ability to make them and lost its institutional memory about all that. He had great insight.

Then came Clinton and the WTO China decision and our blind corporate stupidity that the Chicoms would ever left them take over the Chicom economy; the lessons of the opium wars, it seems, were well learned. The Chicoms have scooped out our guts over the decades.

Trump, as I see matters, gets this deeply hence the the tariff strategy to return manufacturing and the related institutional knowledge back to the USA. This is an existential battle; lose this and we become a colony of the Chicoms. We may already be there.

Trump's four years are not enough - it is essential that what he starts continues for the decades. This highlights why I think he is mostly jumping a couple generations to people like Vance, Hegseth, and Gabbard to fill the key roles of his administration. Trump's 1st term legacy was SCOTUS and his 2nd is a MAGA that is generational.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 12:56 AM (e+6P0)

338
Syria Live Situation Map

https://syria.liveuamap.com/

The Syrian gov't has collapsed, and even the Russians are evacuating their Tarsus naval base

Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 08, 2024 12:57 AM (/pu/X)

339 If it was great getting rid of sadam and ghadaffi, assad is going to be more fun

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:59 AM (8XibL)

340 I am watching Al Jazeera with the notion they have more boots on the ground reporters and a non western perspective at the Syrian collapse. It is proving interesting.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 12:59 AM (e+6P0)

341 How the fall of Syria permanently, and perhaps fatally wounds Hezbollah; their weapons conduit from Iran has been Shut Down. Assad had provided security for Irans weapon shipments across Syria. That pipeline won’t open up again; any msi no

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2024 01:00 AM (W6hoT)

342 When was the last time syria had strategic targets

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 01:00 AM (8XibL)

343 When will Orange Hitler march in his jackboots to imprison the natural born American citizens that defied his will to power?

Kamala must go, - to Cuba! Or face dire consequences.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 08, 2024 01:01 AM (9zwan)

344 280
Rationing.
I read that the war government in South Africa fell/lost in 1948 over the continued rationing of butter which was still being exported to Britain as if the war was still on.

Posted by: Ciampino - Time to scare everyone shitless at December 08, 2024 01:01 AM (i0xsb)

345 332 It means Flavor Aid.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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LOL. Guilty of drinking a lot of that in youth.
Posted by: scampydog

It has it's uses.

Posted by: Jim Jones, SJW patron saint at December 08, 2024 01:03 AM (6PUpl)

346 Dude. 20 questions? My hackle was rising after 5. Scale it back to 8.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 08, 2024 01:05 AM (9zwan)

347 Tom indeed - it's even worse for Hezb than the probably decisive loss of their land logistics corridor. Syria - host to a massive IRGC presence - was Hezb's training and coordination heartland. Rebels apparently granted some safe passage for some IRGC elements to vamoose, but there's little doubt ending Iranian influence (too weak a word - Syria had become a proxy in every sense of the word) is a central rebel policy.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 01:06 AM (1m82a)

348
Very easy to ask a girl to skate and-Viola!-you're already holding hands.

That typo reminded me of the more common one:
The rouge armed forces .....

Posted by: Ciampino - Time to scare everyone shitless at December 08, 2024 01:08 AM (i0xsb)

349 C'mere Rouge

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2024 01:12 AM (63Dwl)

350 342 When was the last time Syria had strategic targets

Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 01:00 AM (8XibL)
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I do remember a very long time ago, maybe 60s or 70s, Israel bombed a nuclear plant that was being built in the Beckar(sp?) Valley? It was never rebuilt.

Posted by: Ciampino - Time to scare everyone shitless at December 08, 2024 01:13 AM (i0xsb)

351 Honestly, I think this is great time to be alive.
We just have to get through the next 50 or so days.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2024 12:34

By jove there Jack, I think you have a good point. Isn't it down to something like 46 days?

I relish idea of Cash Patel as FBI director. This administration should be fun.

Trump is the funniest president in my lifetime. He even beats Dutch. What's even funnier is Melania being asked about the Trump dance. She's all like...people have fun, then goes on to say, I have nothing to with it, never have, never will, it's him

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 08, 2024 01:13 AM (55Qr6)

352 Joe Biden by making his legacy the disastrous Afghanistan pullout, triggering a defacto Israeli-Iranian war, and the Uke-Russian war come with consequences such as the Russians abandoning the Assad regime. The consequences of Obama and his hand up Biden's ass are going to reverberate for decades.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 01:13 AM (e+6P0)

353 305 302:Much better page from history.

Not if you're living in a Western PA backwater.

Joe Namath was from Beaver Falls, PA.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 08, 2024 12:28 AM (6PUpl)
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It's a shame about Beaver Falls, it used to be such a nice town. My Dad lived there in the mid-60's before he and my Mom got married. Now it's a hellhole. I haven't been there in a number of years, but I imagine the Geneva campus is either a walled fortress at this point, or on the slide to hell-holery as well?

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 08, 2024 01:14 AM (QdGJh)

354 "the next 50 or so days" is what rattles me.

But there's nothing I can do about it, so try hard to not dwell on anything more than the upcoming holiday festivities and, uh, personal defense.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:17 AM (YoCnN)

355 The upside of the collapse of the Assad regime is the number of homes in the better areas of Damascus have dramatically increased and are now far cheaper.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 01:17 AM (e+6P0)

356 81 Roller skates are so pffft. You haven't experienced real scabs until you had an original stake board with metal roller stake wheels.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 07, 2024 10:43 PM (e+6P0)
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Trust me, you don't want to fall onto a stake board.
Now a steak board with some nice fillet would be okay.

Posted by: Ciampino - Time to scare everyone shitless at December 08, 2024 01:21 AM (i0xsb)

357 {{{JQ}}} you keep on going, my friend, I know what a task it is to just get up in the morning sometimes. You are a very good wife. Sometime when your burdens are eased you need to come to a MoMe, it will change your life. I thoroughly enjoyed "The Sweater" such a nice little story there. Around here our sports writers always referred to the Montreal Canadians as the Habs, short for Les Habitants.

I went to a Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony today, not too far from me at a local shipyard that produced many ships for the US Navy during WWII, evidently the ship which is now moored there is the last of its kind, a 17000 ton Des Moines class heavy cruiser. I am glad that I went, this date was also my late uncle's birthday. He died in WWII and is buried in Holland, he was a bombardier though, not Navy.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 08, 2024 01:22 AM (Sgq8y)

358 354 "the next 50 or so days" is what rattles me.

But there's nothing I can do about it, so try hard to not dwell on anything more than the upcoming holiday festivities and, uh, personal defense.
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:17 AM (YoCnN)

As always, I keep both cars full of gas, several trays of water available, extra tp, cash and passports handy.

No guns or ammo.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 01:23 AM (QGaXH)

359 Debby what's the name of the ship, and where? Just curious. Think I saw a formation of 4 T-6s that was part of a Pearl Harbor commemoration that is done at a national monument/site of coastal defense installations here. They flew over when I was at the pool but I was up adjusting goggles at the time so heard the "sound of round" going by.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 01:25 AM (1m82a)

360 Now a steak board with some nice fillet would be okay.
Posted by: Ciampino
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That's for Sunday supper!

I roasted a 7-bone chuck today. Turned out mostly rare, some medium rare. Mmmm! Will slice it up tomorrow for hot beef sandwiches, maybe some snacks... Made LOTS of gravy & mashed taters.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:25 AM (YoCnN)

361 Trust me, you don't want to fall onto a stake board.
Now a steak board with some nice fillet would be okay.
Posted by: Ciampino

LOL. I am the single worst editor on the planet and I prove that daily. Having football on at the same time is not helpful. Work with me as you would an endearing relative that has challenges.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 01:25 AM (e+6P0)

362 349 C'mere Rouge

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2024 01:12 AM (63Dwl)
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But they didn't come!!

Posted by: Ciampino - Time to scare everyone shitless at December 08, 2024 01:26 AM (i0xsb)

363 353: Pennsyltucky

New Castle is the pit of despair. I haven't been in Beaver Falls since the 80s. It was still nice, more or less, then.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 08, 2024 01:26 AM (6PUpl)

364 Been to the US Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. You can see the ship just below water's surface.

Quiet. Solemn.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:29 AM (YoCnN)

365 >>But there's nothing I can do about it, so try hard to not dwell on anything more than the upcoming holiday festivities and, uh, personal defense.

We're going to win.

https://tinyurl.com/4j464kpf

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2024 01:32 AM (LkLld)

366 Would anyone here actually drink free beer.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 08, 2024 01:34 AM (XjTSo)

367 114
p.s. - Cut the State Dept. by 80%. As a start.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 07, 2024 10:56 PM (WXNFJ)
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They won't let you. See #224.
The State Department is an entity of its own and owes allegiance to no one.

Posted by: Ciampino - Time to scare everyone shitless at December 08, 2024 01:35 AM (i0xsb)

368 Thanks JackStraw. That was really cool.

Found this in the u-boob sidebar there...LOL!

youtube.com/watch?v=o977l-d_BOM

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:36 AM (YoCnN)

369 How long before the mass public executions in Syria begin?

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 01:38 AM (e+6P0)

370 Joe Biden by making his legacy the disastrous Afghanistan pullout, triggering a defacto Israeli-Iranian war, and the Uke-Russian war come with consequences such as the Russians abandoning the Assad regime. The consequences of Obama and his hand up Biden's ass are going to reverberate for decades.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 01:13 AM (e+6P0)

Barry always thought he was the smartest person in any room so no need to listen to anybody. A DEI hire, no doubt about it. Racist prick, too.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 01:43 AM (gKDq2)

371 I top off the vehicles when they get to 1/2 (truck) or 3/4 (daily driver). Always keep bottled water, several cases. Easier to keep track of hubby's fluid intake, plus just get a bunch at Costco whenever I can get over there...build-to 5 cases, 20L each.

Got to top off the pellet supply. Been trying different brands, to see which burn cleanest/jam least. Finally decided, so it's time to stock up there, too. Need a couple tons to get us thru the rest of winter.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:43 AM (YoCnN)

372 JQ -

Did we lose the election when all the "experts" said we we would?

This is our time.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2024 01:46 AM (LkLld)

373 371 I top off the vehicles when they get to 1/2 (truck) or 3/4 (daily driver). Always keep bottled water, several cases. Easier to keep track of hubby's fluid intake, plus just get a bunch at Costco whenever I can get over there...build-to 5 cases, 20L each.

Got to top off the pellet supply. Been trying different brands, to see which burn cleanest/jam least. Finally decided, so it's time to stock up there, too. Need a couple tons to get us thru the rest of winter.
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:43 AM (YoCnN)

As much as there is wrong about California, I am grateful that we can be pretty comfortable year round without air conditioning and don't really need heating - pipes won't freeze or anything.

Not to say we don't use both heat and AC as needed but we could survive without either if we had to.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 01:47 AM (QGaXH)

374 Thanks again, JackStraw, for the pep-talk.

I'm not (deliberately) being an eeyore. Just...feelin' generally blue. It's nothing to do with the State Of The World, really.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:47 AM (YoCnN)

375 New Castle had a reproduction battery shop for classic cars and trucks. Tar top Power Punch with red caps and Sta-Full with yellow caps. They were authentic, not fakes. Dry-charged batteries, fill with yer own battery acid upon delivery and charge. Great batteries, too lasted a long time. They are gone now.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2024 01:48 AM (1meqy)

376 If it was great getting rid of sadam and ghadaffi, assad is going to be more fun
Posted by: N at December 08, 2024 12:59

You have to love a good revolution. Today we get to see history pretty much live. Wasn't the last big revolution Iran when the current scumbags took over?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 08, 2024 01:48 AM (55Qr6)

377 Not to say we don't use both heat and AC as needed but we could survive without either if we had to.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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That's great! But... you're in Cali...

We'll be okay here.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:49 AM (YoCnN)

378 Aljazeera - some Damascus resident: we are all singing and dancing in the streets that this is a salvation and the beginning of a new Syria.

Me thinks this Damascus resident is right about a new beginning and at the same time is not getting a puppy. Assad is the devil and the rebels are muzzie jihadists which is worse.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 01:50 AM (e+6P0)

379 377 Not to say we don't use both heat and AC as needed but we could survive without either if we had to.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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That's great! But... you're in Cali...

We'll be okay here.
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:49 AM (YoCnN)

Where is 'here'?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 01:51 AM (QGaXH)

380 One side (if forget if left or right) of my over the shoe skates were turned into a skateboard by my neighbor's dad in his garage workshop, circa '63, before skateboarding took off ten years later. He did a great job. I painted it red, with the name "Black Lightning" in black paint. I tried to slalom a neighborhood hill with it, and ended up crashing and burning, but no stitches or concussion, fortunately. I was in 5th grade.

Posted by: Born Free at December 08, 2024 01:52 AM (raD1m)

381 Geeeez, @379... slither back to wherever, and choke on your own puke.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:52 AM (YoCnN)

382 (ARiK)

"Here" is in The Middle Of Idaho.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:53 AM (YoCnN)

383 You have to love a good revolution. Today we get to see history pretty much live. Wasn't the last big revolution Iran when the current scumbags took over?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 08, 2024 01:48 AM (55Qr6)

For me, it was the 1989 Christmas present Romania gave the world: The filmed expedited execution of the Ceaucescus. From the 'courtroom' to the wall.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 01:53 AM (gKDq2)

384 How long before the mass public executions in Syria begin?
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

They rape the women first to make sure they don’t earn martyr status in heaven. If Iran was any example…

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at December 08, 2024 01:54 AM (qz+gL)

385 Wow, some cob took care of 379 troll QUICKLY

Thank you.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:54 AM (YoCnN)

386 (ARiK)

You're not the one I wished to choke on puke, LOL!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:56 AM (YoCnN)

387 How fucking cool is it that PDJT is there in Notre Dame for the tolling of the bells.

Synchronicity.

Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2024 01:57 AM (fV+MH)

388 Ever since to woofloo scare, I've kept extra stock of TP. That's just my *girl instinct* LOL.

Plus, extra garbage bags. Things that don't spoil, ya know?

Plenty of canned foods in the pantry anyhow-- I've always stocked up on good sales. Mom taught me how to pinch a penny until Lincoln screamed.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:59 AM (YoCnN)

389 382 (ARiK)

"Here" is in The Middle Of Idaho.
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:53 AM (YoCnN)

386 (ARiK)

You're not the one I wished to choke on puke, LOL!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:56 AM (YoCnN)

JQ - we stayed overnight in a campground on Bear Lake in August on our way to Grand Teton.

Regarding the other post - I assumed you were directing that elsewhere.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 02:01 AM (QGaXH)

390 One side (if forget if left or right) of my over the shoe skates were turned into a skateboard by my neighbor's dad in his garage workshop, circa '63, before skateboarding took off ten years later. He did a great job. I painted it red, with the name "Black Lightning" in black paint. I tried to slalom a neighborhood hill with it, and ended up crashing and burning, but no stitches or concussion, fortunately. I was in 5th grade.
Posted by: Born Free

I think we grew up together with the exception I built my first skateboard with a total lack of parental supervision let alone knowledge. Looking back I think there was a de-facto policy: if I wasn't screaming and/or bleeding that needed intervention I was pretty much allowed to free range with trying to kill myself. I had a great childhood.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 02:01 AM (e+6P0)

391 For me, it was the 1989 Christmas present Romania gave the world: The filmed expedited execution of the Ceaucescus. From the 'courtroom' to the wall.
Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 01:53

I forgot that was later. What's the saying, you have to try them first before the execution? Wasn't that on something like Christmas Eve?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 08, 2024 02:02 AM (55Qr6)

392 Assad is the devil. The rebels are fresh hell.

Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2024 02:02 AM (fV+MH)

393 ARiK, got to admit I've never been to Bear Lake. It's a looonnng way from here.

Hope you enjoyed it!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:03 AM (YoCnN)

394 386 (ARiK)

You're not the one I wished to choke on puke, LOL!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 01:56 AM (YoCnN)

That's the first time I've actually seen a post disappear. Too bad they can't just delete the text and leave the numbering intact.

I've been to the USS Arizona memorial also. Many years ago - very sobering to think I was about the same age as most of those resting inside.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 02:04 AM (QGaXH)

395 We didn't just win an election. We changed everything.

For all intents Trump is now the president. Anyone who watched what happened in Paris knows this

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2024 02:04 AM (LkLld)

396

Tough. Guys.

Posted by: Barack Ojackoffhimobathhouse at December 08, 2024 02:04 AM (xtKQr)

397 rhomboid, it is now named the USS Salem at the Quincy shipyard here in Mass. I grew up in a whole neighborhood of people who worked at the Quincy shipyard, locally called the Fore River Shipyard. According to the history that I heard today, the USS Salem is the last ship remaining of the Des Moines class heavy cruisers.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 08, 2024 02:05 AM (Sgq8y)

398 393 ARiK, got to admit I've never been to Bear Lake. It's a looonnng way from here.

Hope you enjoyed it!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:03 AM (YoCnN)

We went to Grand Teton and Yellowstone and continued east across Wyoming and South Dakota all the way thru to Sioux Falls, south Omaha and then home via Denver and the Rockies and I-15 south thru 'Vegas, baby!'.

It was all very beautiful. We'll definitely be back.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 02:07 AM (QGaXH)

399 I forgot that was later. What's the saying, you have to try them first before the execution? Wasn't that on something like Christmas Eve?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 08, 2024 02:02 AM (55Qr6)

The happy couple were executed on 12/25/89.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 02:08 AM (gKDq2)

400 I read, that for weeks afterwards of 7 Dec ‘41 nobody at Pearl wanted the overnight watch duty. Why? Because all along battleship row, you’d hear “tap tap tap” on the hulls of guys still stuck in capsized ships, no way to get them out.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2024 02:10 AM (1meqy)

401 We didn't just win an election. We changed everything.

For all intents Trump is now the president. Anyone who watched what happened in Paris knows this

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2024 02:04 AM (LkLld)

I mean, seriously, who's going to complain? Joey? Kammie?

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 02:10 AM (gKDq2)

402 We didn't just win an election. We changed everything.
For all intents Trump is now the president. Anyone who watched what happened in Paris knows this
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2024 02:04

Trump is historic and Macron has worked with him in the past. For a European Macron was pretty fond of Trump.

And Dr. Jill was there, did anyone see any coverage of her? Guess she got one last free trip to Europe on our dime. Or will she squeeze another one in before 1/20?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 08, 2024 02:12 AM (55Qr6)

403 401 We didn't just win an election. We changed everything.

For all intents Trump is now the president. Anyone who watched what happened in Paris knows this

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2024 02:04 AM (LkLld)

I mean, seriously, who's going to complain? Joey? Kammie?
Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 02:10 AM (gKDq2)

I keep thinking they're going to charge him with that bs law from the 18th century about unauthorized negotiations with a foreign power.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 02:13 AM (QGaXH)

404 >>I mean, seriously, who's going to complain? Joey? Kammie?

For lack of a better name the deep state.

Call it whatever but winning the election was only the first step. The fight is jut beginning,

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2024 02:16 AM (LkLld)

405 I keep thinking they're going to charge him with that bs law from the 18th century about unauthorized negotiations with a foreign power.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 02:13 AM (QGaXH)

The Logan Act.

To be honest, Trump can get around The Logan Act by resurrecting Barry's seal of 'The Office of President-Elect' he created post-election 2008.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 02:16 AM (gKDq2)

406 Toyota Hilux sales are about to take off in Syria.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 02:16 AM (e+6P0)

407 It was all very beautiful. We'll definitely be back.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Glad to hear it!

Yes, Idaho is a gorgeous state. I would never dream of living anywhere else. The whole inland NW is beautiful, IMO.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:17 AM (YoCnN)

408 You don't come to hunt camp for the hunting, do you?

Posted by: Dr. Hunter Biden at December 08, 2024 02:17 AM (9zwan)

409 405 I keep thinking they're going to charge him with that bs law from the 18th century about unauthorized negotiations with a foreign power.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 02:13 AM (QGaXH)

The Logan Act.

To be honest, Trump can get around The Logan Act by resurrecting Barry's seal of 'The Office of President-Elect' he created post-election 2008.
Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 02:16 AM (gKDq2)

Yes - that's it! thank you RickZ. My memory for names...ugh!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 02:18 AM (QGaXH)

410 The happy couple were executed on 12/25/89.
Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 02:08

It's so nice you remember RickZ. This Christmas will be the 35th anniversary. IIRC she was an unrepentant bitch till the end.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 08, 2024 02:19 AM (55Qr6)

411 Debby, thanks! I have a lot of military museums to visit across the breadth of the country.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 02:19 AM (1m82a)

412 I'll stay on this side of The Rockies for the rest of my life. My choice!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:19 AM (YoCnN)

413 Posting with the IBM Thinkpad T43 again. Just spent an hour building the 12 volt power supply into a minibox. Put fuses on both the 120 volt AC line, and the 12 volts out, so should be safe to use. I will donate this rig to JT if Ben Had tells me he has wifi at his facility, and if nobody else comes up with something newer and better. It's running Linux Mint 18.0, which is "end of life", and no longer supported, but their newer versions don't support a 32-bit machine. It works to read and post on AOS, what else does it need to do?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 02:20 AM (BALK0)

414 Holy Moley, went outside to have a smoke before bed and there is actual snow on the ground, I really hate the snow now, loved it when I was a kid.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 08, 2024 02:20 AM (Sgq8y)

415 We didn't just win an election. We changed everything.

For all intents Trump is now the president. Anyone who watched what happened in Paris knows this

Posted by: JackStraw

It's obvious.

Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2024 02:21 AM (fV+MH)

416 AOP, that's very thoughtful of you!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:21 AM (YoCnN)

417 "Romanian Christmas"

One of those pop phrases tied to recent events that's quite good, and useful.

Off to finish the story of B-24 crews doing unheralded missions in the Pacific. Interesting little book by the son of one of the dramatis personnae (? pardon by Greek grammar issues).

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2024 02:21 AM (1m82a)

418 It was all very beautiful. We'll definitely be back.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Glad to hear it! Yes, Idaho is a gorgeous state. I would never dream of living anywhere else. The whole inland NW is beautiful, IMO. Posted by: JQ

The entirety of western North America landscape is something of a natural church for me. I have no need or want to be anyplace else.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 02:22 AM (e+6P0)

419 {{{Debby}}}

Aw, don't hate the snow... unless you gotta drive thru it...

Like the CPOs told me in Hawaii: Any more ice than you can fit into a glass--- is too damned much!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:24 AM (YoCnN)

420 The entirety of western North America landscape is something of a natural church for me. I have no need or want to be anyplace else.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
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Point. +1

Yes, the western US & Canada... Heaven on Earth.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:26 AM (YoCnN)

421 It's so nice you remember RickZ. This Christmas will be the 35th anniversary. IIRC she was an unrepentant bitch till the end.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 08, 2024 02:19 AM (55Qr6)

Honest top God, I hate commies. That's it. I blame my Bohunk side. And being born in '56.

True story: In college, I was in the library working on some paper and took a break. I was at a carrel so looked at the shelf. Found a LIFE mag from '56. It had black and white photos of the Olympic water polo match between Russia and Hungary where "the pool ran red with blood." It was weird randomly finding that issue but personally important for some reason. Solidified my commie hatred, too. But the nuns got me on that road early in life.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 02:29 AM (gKDq2)

422 418 It was all very beautiful. We'll definitely be back.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Glad to hear it! Yes, Idaho is a gorgeous state. I would never dream of living anywhere else. The whole inland NW is beautiful, IMO. Posted by: JQ

The entirety of western North America landscape is something of a natural church for me. I have no need or want to be anyplace else.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 02:22 AM (e+6P0)

We were dragging a 30' travel trailer behind us. It was only our second time out ever and our first long trip. We were going to try to squeeze another trip in before the holidays but my 95 y.o. m-i-l had required 24/7 care recently.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 02:29 AM (QGaXH)

423 Twice I've hiked to the top of Multnomah Falls. Special place for me.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:29 AM (YoCnN)

424 I read, that for weeks afterwards of 7 Dec ‘41 nobody at Pearl wanted the overnight watch duty. Why? Because all along battleship row, you’d hear “tap tap tap” on the hulls of guys still stuck in capsized ships, no way to get them out.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2024 02:10 AM (1meqy)

Did they not have cutting torches to cut through the hulls?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 02:31 AM (BALK0)

425 ARiK, I'm sorry to hear of your MIL's decline.

Prayers up!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:31 AM (YoCnN)

426 Did they not have cutting torches to cut through the hulls?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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If they were submerged, it probably wouldn't have helped. Except to kill them quicker?

Sad, sad, sad...

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:33 AM (YoCnN)

427 Did they not have cutting torches to cut through the hulls?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 02:31 AM (BALK0)

They got some out who weren't submerged. But with the sunken ships, there was simply no rescue. I can imagine, if on guard duty, the hammer pings slowly dying out would haunt you.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 02:36 AM (gKDq2)

428 ...Did they not have cutting torches to cut through the hulls? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 02:31 AM (BALK0)

They did succeed in cutting into and rescuing some number of crew from the Utah. Had to abandon many more.

Study and read of the relays of torch operators, the poison fumes from the cutting and the expenditures of Oxy/Acetylene supplies.

And that was just ONE ship.

Cutting though a battleship's bottom, even below the armor belt, was not a task lightly undertaken.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 08, 2024 02:38 AM (Xo+UM)

429 Wow, mid-40s tonight! Warmer than the last few days...

And of course it's raining, so all the leaves are soaked & heavy. Pfft.

Hoping to get the yard cleaned up before Christmas! Yeesh!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:38 AM (YoCnN)

430 425 ARiK, I'm sorry to hear of your MIL's decline.

Prayers up!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:31 AM (YoCnN)

Thank you JQ

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 02:38 AM (QGaXH)

431 If they were submerged, it probably wouldn't have helped. Except to kill them quicker?

Sad, sad, sad...
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:33 AM (YoCnN)

Well, there had to be air pockets, or the trapped sailors (mostly engine room hands?) would not be alive to tap. To do it right, you would have to build an air lock, say a box like a phone booth, and secure it to the hull with an airtight seal. Then cut through the hull inside the box, so the air bubble inside the hull cannot escape and make all the trapped crewmen drown.

This sort of rescue has been done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 02:38 AM (BALK0)

432 It's weird that the neocons who've been chanting "Assad must go!" for 10 years aren't running to the cameras to celebrate.

Posted by: OrangeInCarEngine at December 08, 2024 02:40 AM (vlmcc)

433 This sort of rescue has been done.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I'm certain that all was done, that could have been done.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:41 AM (YoCnN)

434 Well time to shut down the little laptop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 02:42 AM (BALK0)

435 Holy Moley, went outside to have a smoke before bed and there is actual snow on the ground, I really hate the snow now, loved it when I was a kid.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 08, 2024 02:20

Hey Deb, I missed you the other night. Hope you are doing well tonight. Got good news, they wanted permission to take Jules' dialysis port out. I said great, does that mean she doesn't need dialysis anymore?

Oh yes. No one told me, might be nice to know. This is a f'ed up system, with 5 drs involved no one seems to know what the other is doing.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 08, 2024 02:43 AM (55Qr6)

436 428 ...Did they not have cutting torches to cut through the hulls? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 02:31 AM (BALK0)

They did succeed in cutting into and rescuing some number of crew from the Utah. Had to abandon many more.

Study and read of the relays of torch operators, the poison fumes from the cutting and the expenditures of Oxy/Acetylene supplies.

And that was just ONE ship.

Cutting though a battleship's bottom, even below the armor belt, was not a task lightly undertaken.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

I could see days, but weeks? Not only would the trapped air have to hold out, but they would have needed a supply of fresh water.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 02:45 AM (QGaXH)

437 I'm certain that all was done, that could have been done.
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:41 AM (YoCnN)

Yeah. I am no doubt underestimating the scale of the challenge. I don't think they had plasma cutters in the 1940's, although one could have been built with 1940's technology.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 02:46 AM (BALK0)

438 So, as I understand matters, we have a fellow Moron in a tough spot. How about this. I have a Surface Go 2 with a keyboard in mint shape worth about $200.00. I would donate that under two conditions:

1) Somebody ponies up for a charger. We can work together on figuring that one out and getting it to BenHad.

2) That a few of you pay forward collectively a matching amount of kindness to people that have need. A giving tree: *boom*. A neighbor in need: *boom*. Your imagination: *boom*. My bank account: *BOOM BOOM BOOM*. I will consider this accomplished once I fulfill my commitment.

Get my drift here? I am not big on contributing to standard charities - I pick my battles so to speak and this is one I would do in a second. So you know I am serious last year I bought the big wish list Christmas gifts for a couple single mom's kids. Other years, it is other things. Help me out.

It seems that Ben Had and I, plus others together, would need to sort out the transfer and related details.

Hit me up if your are in.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 02:46 AM (e+6P0)

439 I could see days, but weeks? Not only would the trapped air have to hold out, but they would have needed a supply of fresh water.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 02:45 AM (QGaXH)

In complete darkness.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 02:48 AM (gKDq2)

440 Twice I've hiked to the top of Multnomah Falls. Special place for me. Posted by: JQ

I once lived in that area. I have been up there many times. The Columbia River Gorge is a godly place.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 02:48 AM (e+6P0)

441 I bet that Mary Jo Kopechne would have welcomed an acetylene torch torch, buried in far fewer feet of water.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 08, 2024 02:50 AM (Sgq8y)

442 Columbia River Gorge is a godly place
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Indeed, it is.

I cannot hike The Falls anymore, so I'm glad to have accomplished it in more youthful years!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:51 AM (YoCnN)

443 Hit me up if your are in.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 02:46 AM (e+6P0)

The Surface Go 2 is a much newer and better computer than the old Thinkpad. 2020 vs 2006. What does it need for a power supply? Quite often you can find power supplies for PC stuff at Goodwill stores, or Savers. Cheap, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 02:53 AM (BALK0)

444 My grandparents had their 50th anniversary celebration at Skamania Lodge. (2nd marriage for both, but we don't speak of *that* LOL)

Was the last "big get-together" for that side of the fambly, over 20 yrs ago...

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 02:56 AM (YoCnN)

445 I bet that Mary Jo Kopechne would have welcomed an acetylene torch torch, buried in far fewer feet of water.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 08, 2024 02:50 AM (Sgq8y)

Did they ever determine if she even tried to escape? I think the front door of the car was open. She could have felt around with her foot (keeping her head in the air pocket) and found the open door, and then made the decision to grab a deep breath, push down, and swim out the door opening. Either she was unconscious, or totally in panic mode, and unable to think her way out her predicament.

Teddy got out. If he had not been a scumbag, he could have gone back and rescued her.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 02:59 AM (BALK0)

446 The Surface Go 2 is a much newer and better computer than the old Thinkpad. 2020 vs 2006. What does it need for a power supply? Quite often you can find power supplies for PC stuff at Goodwill stores, or Savers. Cheap, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

It needs a proprietary quick connect MSFT charger at about 25W. Knock offs can be had on Amazon for about $20.00. Better would be is one for a knock off Surface Pro quick connect chargers - they can be had on Amazon for about the same money. The bar is not high here.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 03:01 AM (e+6P0)

447 It needs a proprietary quick connect MSFT charger at about 25W. Knock offs can be had on Amazon for about $20.00. Better would be is one for a knock off Surface Pro quick connect chargers - they can be had on Amazon for about the same money. The bar is not high here.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 03:01 AM (e+6P0)

No reason one of those could not be found at a thrift store. Somebody breaks their Surface screen, and the power brick goes to Goodwill.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 03:04 AM (BALK0)

448 I will take the Thinkpad with me when I head south to AJ, most likely on Monday. I have plenty of room, and it is small.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 03:06 AM (BALK0)

449 No reason one of those could not be found at a thrift store. Somebody breaks their Surface screen, and the power brick goes to Goodwill.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Where it comes from is immaterial. The 65 Surface Pro chargers with the proprietary blade connector are perfect. The critical detail is the cord has to be in good shape where they connect to blade connector, they tend to fail there. Hence the Amazon suggestion.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 03:08 AM (e+6P0)

450 448 I will take the Thinkpad with me when I head south to AJ, most likely on Monday. I have plenty of room, and it is small.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 03:06 AM (BALK0)

Safe travels, my friend.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 03:08 AM (QGaXH)

451 I am off to bed, Horde, AOP I am happy that your Christmas shall be in Arizona.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 08, 2024 03:12 AM (Sgq8y)

452 Where it comes from is immaterial. The 65 Surface Pro chargers with the proprietary blade connector are perfect. The critical detail is the cord has to be in good shape where they connect to blade connector, they tend to fail there. Hence the Amazon suggestion.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 03:08 AM (e+6P0)

Damn! That is one wimpy-looking connector.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 03:12 AM (BALK0)

453 I wander through here most evenings. If my offer gains traction I will soon know. Hope it does.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 03:14 AM (e+6P0)

454 Yeah, I am off to bed, too. Tomorrow I will do a load of laundry, some final cleaning around the house, and gather up all the little things I plant to haul South. Then hit the sack early, and rise early on Monday to hit the road.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 03:14 AM (BALK0)

455 Where it comes from is immaterial. The 65 Surface Pro chargers with the proprietary blade connector are perfect. The critical detail is the cord has to be in good shape where they connect to blade connector, they tend to fail there. Hence the Amazon suggestion.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 03:08 AM (e+6P0)

Damn! That is one wimpy-looking connector.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

It is quick disconnect. I cannot tell you how many times that has saved me from sending the computer flying when I trip over the cord.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 03:15 AM (e+6P0)

456 Me too. Good night all.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2024 03:15 AM (QGaXH)

457 I wander through here most evenings. If my offer gains traction I will soon know. Hope it does.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 03:14 AM (e+6P0)

Well, contact Ben Had. Wait! Her e-mail is taken down from the sidebar for now. Just wait until you see her in a thread, and make the offer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2024 03:17 AM (BALK0)

458 Altaria Pilgrim, I will support in whatever you choose to do.
Good night, Horde, I love you all so much. Obligations in the AM.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 08, 2024 03:20 AM (Sgq8y)

459 Good night, to those leaving... I'll be here for a while...

youtube.com/watch?v=iN9CjAfo5n0

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 03:30 AM (YoCnN)

460 There was an excellent one in Springfield, OR. Skate World. It had a brand-new blue floor (fiberglass?) that was sooo smoooth, it was difficult to go slow, LOL.

Now the old Skate World building in Springfield has been made over into the "praise and worship" style Joy Church. Wonder if they still have the disco ball?

Posted by: MammaB at December 08, 2024 03:37 AM (ycxL2)

461 Really, MammaB?

Oh, that's just... well, churches are good...

Skate World? Really?

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 03:39 AM (YoCnN)

462 Ahhh, Skate World...

I remember being "amped up" plus a couple shots of 151 rum... skating like the wind until... *WHUMP!!!* flat on my back

Then, immediately(!) getting back up like nothing happened. LOL. Stuh-Oh-Ned to da max and bulletproof.

Those were the days, but sooo very glad they're over!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 03:46 AM (YoCnN)

463 Wow. So sad that Vic is *still* not on The List.

Sheesh.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 03:51 AM (YoCnN)

464 Good skating music.

youtube.com/watch?v=n3qQtSRmHxo

Yeah, yeah, bunch of ppl don't like the guy, but the music was good back then. In the *before* times...

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 03:55 AM (YoCnN)

465 Solidified my commie hatred, too. But the nuns got me on that road early in life.
Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2024 02:29

Yes must be our ages, I was born in 55. I had no nuns involved but my Dad was raised on a farm. In 64 when we lived in a Democratic neighborhood he proudly put up an AuH2O sign.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at December 08, 2024 03:56 AM (55Qr6)

466 There were a couple roller rinks around here. Good fun

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2024 03:58 AM (fwDg9)

467 Closest old roller rink to here, has been converted to a low-income medical clinic. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2024 04:00 AM (YoCnN)

468 Teddy was one of those Canadian Kennedys.

Posted by: Dr. Hunter Biden at December 08, 2024 04:33 AM (9zwan)

469 This video is about the discovery of human foot prints at White Sands National Park, some 45 minutes from where I live, and the counter evidence that the breathless news reports that they show humas arrived in North American thousands of years earlier than is understood might be somewhat premature. Plus some claims that they were made by big foot which I found to be utterly true. I am not sure where this leaves Australia but I am feeling all sporty that they deserve being stuck with Perth.

https://youtu.be/o0sQGygv-os

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 08, 2024 04:45 AM (e+6P0)

470 "I do recall roller skating rinks. Used to be a local one I would go too occasionally. It's gone now but the building is still used. It's a farmers' market now. Some fine local Western PA cuisine is in there. I frequent it a lot when I visit up there."
When I was growing up in 1960s-era Chicago, there was a popular roller-skating rink called "Rainbow", on north Clark street. Decades later, when it was torn down, authorities discovered that someone - presumably the Mob - had buried the corpses of some of their victims in the crawlspace under the rink. We had no idea what we were skating over, of course.

Posted by: Nemo at December 08, 2024 08:13 AM (S6ArX)

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