CNN and Fake Jake Tapper Lose Again in Defamation Case

Previously, the judge refused to toss out the claim, which stated that a veteran was defamed WITHOUT EVIDENCE by Jake Tapper -- Tapper claimed he was basically a human smuggler, because he got Afghans out of Afghanistan.

Now the judge also refuses to take punitive damages off the table.

Emails obtained in discovery proved that CNN had actual malice, on-the-record malice, against this guy, and wanted to get him.

The report at the heart of the case aired on a Nov. 11, 2021 segment on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" and was shared on social media and (a different version) on CNN's website. In the segment, Tapper tells his audience ominously how CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt discovered "Afghans trying to get out of the country face a black market full of promises, demands of exorbitant fees, and no guarantee of safety or success."
Marquardt piled on in the segment, claiming that "desperate Afghans are being exploited" and need to pay "exorbitant, often impossible amounts" to flee the country. He then named Young and his company as an example of that startling claim.
The damages in the case could be massive but Young was facing the higher New York Times v. Sullivan standard of "actual malice," requiring a showing of knowing falsehood or a reckless disregard of the truth. Judge Roberts previously found that "Young sufficiently proffered evidence of actual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enough to open the door for him to seek punitive damages."
The evidence included messages from Marquardt that he wanted to "nail this Zachary Young mfucker" and thought the story would be Young's "funeral." After promising to "nail" Young, CNN editor Matthew Philips responded: "gonna hold you to that cowboy!" Likewise, CNN senior editor Fuzz Hogan described Young as "a shit."
As is often done by media, CNN allegedly gave Young only two hours to respond before the story ran. It is a typical ploy of the press to claim that they waited for a response while giving the target the smallest possible window.
In this case, Young was able to respond in the short time and Marquardt messaged a colleague, "fucking Young just texted."
That record supports a showing of actual malice. However, CNN wanted to avoid punitive damages with a claim of retraction. Under Florida's Section §770.02(1), a publication seeking this protection must publish a "full and fair correction, apology or retraction." While the statute does not define "full and fair" it does specify that the retraction shall be "published in the same editions or corresponding issues of the newspaper or periodical" where the original article appeared and 'in as conspicuous place and type' as the original, or for a broadcast "at a comparable time."
In this case, Jake Tapper made the following statement on March 25, 2022:

"And before we go, a correction. In November, we ran a story about Afghans desperate to pay high sums beyond the reach of average Afghans. The story included a lead-in and banner throughout the story that referenced a black market. The use of the term black market in the story was in error. The story included reporting on Zachary Young, a private operator who had been contacted by family members of Afghans trying to flee the country. We didn't mean to suggest that Mr. Young participated in the black market. We regret the error and to Mr. Young, we apologize."
However, the court noted:

"The retraction/correction was not made during the other television shows in which the Segment aired. No retraction, correction or apology was posted on any online article or with any social media posting. Defendant's representatives referred to the statement made on the Jake Tapper show as a correction rather than a retraction."
Not only did the court find that insufficient, but it menacingly added, "the Court finds that there is an issue of material fact as to whether Defendant published a full and fair retraction as required by §770.02 for the televised segment and no retraction for the social media and online article postings, which could be additional evidence of actual malice."
This is relatively new ground for the Florida courts and will undoubtedly be appealed in time. For now, punitive damages will remain an option for the jury. The message to news organizations is that minimizing retractions can produce a critical loss of the coverage of the common statutory provisions protecting the media.

If you don't know the rules pertaining to the awarding of punitive damages, the below instructional video should straighten ya out.

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1 Feet up, fingers laced behind head.

Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2024 03:35 PM (2bFN5)

2 Onesy?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 03:36 PM (C8u8d)

3 Nope

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 03:36 PM (C8u8d)

4 A darn shame that Tapper can't be held criminally liable. His nickname on Block B would be "Tappee".

Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2024 03:37 PM (gKWVE)

5 DOUBLE WILLOWED!

Washington Nearsider, if you're here, I found that the Percy Jackson books are the easiest way to hook kids into anything greek mythology related. It's a gateway drug to the Odyssey and other Greek tales. But I don't know how old your kiddos are.

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 02:52 PM (wcIbG)

Thanks for this. They're CONSUMED with Percy Jackson. He's 9, she's 8, so they're in the perfect spot. They each read me a chapter a night, and I read a chapter of something a little bigger like Sherlock Holmes or Robinson Crusoe.

What sort of saint is Jordan Neely? St. Jordan of Jacko Impersonations?

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 09, 2024 02:58 PM (DTX3h)

St. Jordan of the Underground.

It works both ways.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at December 09, 2024 03:38 PM (bpljM)

6 I hope Tapper gets burned, personally.

It should not just be CNN on the hook. All these people deserve to be "nailed".

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2024 03:39 PM (N1DT3)

7 Fake Japper Fapped Again.

Posted by: XTC at December 09, 2024 03:39 PM (UnA8+)

8 Florida, what would we do without Florida and DeSantis ? Where would Trump's cabinet pics come from ?

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 03:39 PM (QTCRF)

9 Jake is in trouble

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 03:39 PM (KQk9m)

10 Washington Nearsider, if you're here, I found that the Percy Jackson books are the easiest way to hook kids into anything greek mythology related. It's a gateway drug to the Odyssey and other Greek tales. But I don't know how old your kiddos are.

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 02:52 PM (wcIbG)

Thanks for this. They're CONSUMED with Percy Jackson. He's 9, she's 8, so they're in the perfect spot. They each read me a chapter a night, and I read a chapter of something a little bigger like Sherlock Holmes or Robinson Crusoe.

What sort of saint is Jordan Neely? St. Jordan of Jacko Impersonations?

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 09, 2024 02:58 PM (DTX3h)

St. Jordan of the Underground.

It works both ways.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at December 09, 2024 03:38 PM (bpljM)

BEWARE of the new Percy Jackson books, because that's when they start adding the Trans cult nonsense.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2024 03:40 PM (N1DT3)

11 PICKS not pictures...

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 03:40 PM (QTCRF)

12 Saving the world AND saving the Earth!

Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 09, 2024 03:40 PM (L/fGl)

13 Geeee, it'd be a shame if Jake was found personally liable for defamation.

Just a real, darned shame...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 09, 2024 03:40 PM (wtvvX)

14 Wow. Didn't the producer know he was supposed to deep-six those emails?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2024 03:40 PM (+myjY)

15 Layers and layers of fact checkers, right?

Posted by: Bete at December 09, 2024 03:40 PM (LX4y3)

16 If Jake could f*ck himself, he'd be a happy man.

Posted by: wth at December 09, 2024 03:41 PM (v0R5T)

17 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

18 Jake Tapper is a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

19 *cue the Fake Tapper posts with vets*

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2024 03:41 PM (CIS44)

20 Jake will be absolutely crushed when he finds out about the ruling on Twitter.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2024 03:41 PM (+myjY)

21
Jake flew to close to the sun......

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2024 03:41 PM (+oR7L)

22 A little OT but Taylor Lorenz was a follower of Luigi on X . She disabled comments. First her podcast is zotzed and now this. Cue "I Don't Like Mondays", she's having a bad day

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 03:42 PM (C8u8d)

23 16 If Jake could f*ck himself, he'd be a happy man.

Posted by: wth at December 09, 2024 03:41 PM (v0R5T)

Wouldn't we all be happy if he could?

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 09, 2024 03:42 PM (wtvvX)

24 In the segment, Tapper tells his audience ominously how CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt discovered "Afghans trying to get out of the country face a black market full of promises, demands of exorbitant fees, and no guarantee of safety or success."

Hmm. Someone could create crises and profit off the refugees in this way... and register them to vote, too.

Posted by: Endless War, Inc. at December 09, 2024 03:42 PM (3fFru)

25 Night time coming to NYC. Just saying.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 09, 2024 03:42 PM (6uYtm)

26 What did they have against this guy in particular, that he was making the Biden admin look bad?

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 03:42 PM (KQk9m)

27 Will CNN get the Rudy Giuliani treatment with hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and make Jake Tapper sell his home and go bankrupt?

Posted by: Leupold at December 09, 2024 03:43 PM (4pwAx)

28 BEWARE of the new Percy Jackson books, because that's when they start adding the Trans cult nonsense.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2024 03:40 PM (N1DT3)

I'm disappointed, but not shocked. I'll start reading them before I give them to the minions.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at December 09, 2024 03:43 PM (bpljM)

29 I hope that the Judgment is suitable for framing and will be given a place of honor in CNN's trophy case.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2024 03:43 PM (+myjY)

30 willowed: 381 ____

I'm surprised Bergdorf's is able to survive, with a sexual assault that occurred in plain sight some undetermined number of years ago.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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That's where Biden raped Rosanne

https://tinyurl.com/kpaksvu4

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 03:43 PM (ah1Jo)

31 A darn shame that Tapper can't be held criminally liable. His nickname on Block B would be "Tappee".

Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2024 03:37 PM (gKWVE) pm

-----------

Snake Tappee

Posted by: ShainS -- Deus Ex Muskina [h/t Mike Benz] at December 09, 2024 03:43 PM (R+cyg)

32 Willowed:

I'm sorry to hear that Archimedes. Going down 5th avenue to see the window displays is really something. Van Cleef & Arpels and Bergdorf Goodman usually never fail to disappoint.

Someone noted though that if there was ever a time when they tied those displays to the baby Jesus in any way, those days are long gone...

We saw all of those, and many more. The number with any recognizable religious message: 0.0

They mostly look more like a Vegas' interpretation of winter and/or Currier and Ives.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2024 03:43 PM (xCA6C)

33 Ain't the punatives sought here over a billion?

Lol.

Crush them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2024 03:44 PM (bQ999)

34 Night time coming to NYC. Just saying.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 09, 2024 03:42 PM (6uYtm)

We'd better get back 'cause it'll be dark soon and they mostly come at night. Mostly.

Posted by: Newt at December 09, 2024 03:44 PM (Aqu9a)

35 I told you dumb fucks but you wouldn't listen.

Posted by: Chris Licht at December 09, 2024 03:44 PM (+myjY)

36 I suppose its highly unlikely but it would be awesome if the jury imposes huge punitive damages and CNN has to file bankruptcy like GAWKER did.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 09, 2024 03:44 PM (UKUm3)

37 Doesn't Tapper, as a Trusted Member of the Media have full and total immunity?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2024 03:45 PM (1bNHn)

38 "Minimizing retractions"? Wouldn't it be simpler and cheaper just to, I dunno, report the actual facts without spin?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2024 03:45 PM (omVj0)

39 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Great. Now the rest of us don't have to.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2024 03:45 PM (lTGtQ)

40 Y'know, we otter have more Mondays like this.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 09, 2024 03:45 PM (LxER7)

41 We were discussing cursive a few threads ago. One of the things that impressed me about this thread is these just average guys' handwriting.

https://is.gd/DQEfHG

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 09, 2024 03:46 PM (L/fGl)

42 Sue for $8 Billion.

They need to be bankrupted. If they can get a billion from Alex Jones, CNN is bigger.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

43 >>>The message to news organizations is that minimizing retractions can produce a critical loss of the coverage of the common statutory provisions protecting the media.
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And they are becoming risk adverse.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 03:46 PM (ah1Jo)

44 Liar, liar,
Pants on fire.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 09, 2024 03:46 PM (3izFu)

45 Saving the world AND saving the Earth!

Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha!
......

That ought to do it.

Posted by: wth at December 09, 2024 03:46 PM (v0R5T)

46 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change

Good. Papal emissions were killing the planet.

Posted by: Chris Licht at December 09, 2024 03:46 PM (+myjY)

47 Archimedes, Vegas Currier & Ives is kind of a perfect way to describe the 5th Avenue Windows!

Honestly, I think I'm glad they avoid any religious iconography in the holiday displays. I don't think I'd enjoy a modern interpretation of the Nativity. It would be like a a Jaguar ad with a genderswapped Mary and Joseph.

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 03:47 PM (wcIbG)

48 Former President Clinton blamed the “mainstream media” coverage of Hillary Clinton’s email controversy for her 2016 presidential loss.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on “Morning Joe” that aired Monday, the former president discussed an excerpt from his recent book, “Citizen,” published in November.

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 03:47 PM (RHGPo)

49
Ain't the punatives sought here over a billion?

Lol.

Crush them.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2024 03:44 PM (bQ999)

Smite them with your mailed fist.

Posted by: Zombie Wilhelm II at December 09, 2024 03:47 PM (y9nCu)

50 It will be hilarious when the Pope Mobile battery dies while it is in the middle of a huge crowd

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 03:47 PM (KQk9m)

51 Will Jake's new book sell over 50 copies???

Posted by: dantesed at December 09, 2024 03:47 PM (Oy/m2)

52 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Gee, I hope it doesn't light on fire and get hot as Hell........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

53 Don't know defamation law, but was Young a public figure? If not, why does he have to show actual malice?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2024 03:48 PM (Dm8we)

54 Doesn't Tapper, as a Trusted Member of the Media have full and total immunity?
Posted by: Eeyore
......

Joe will pardon him.

Posted by: wth at December 09, 2024 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

55 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change

Next up, electric candles

Followed by electric incense

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 03:48 PM (RHGPo)

56 Greg Price @greg_price11 2h
Hawk Newsome, who founded BLM of Greater New York, explicitly calls for black people to kill white people after the Penny verdict:

"We need some black vigilantes. People wanna jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same?"

Megan Basham @megbasham 2h
Interesting connection between this man and @DavidAFrench @curtischangRB and @drmoore's political Bible study, The After Party. In 2023, as The After Party was launching, one of its partners was One America Movement, a group that has also received extensive funding from hard-left secular groups. At that time, Newsome was a member of its board.

Also a member of One America's board (and in fact now chairman)? Matthew Hawkins, senior acquisitions editor at Lifeway.
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FYI:
Russell Moore @drmoore
Editor in Chief, @CTmagazine; author, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
Nashville, TN

Curtis Chang @curtischangRB
Executive Director of @AfterParty2024 with good friends @DavidAFrench and @drmoore, from @RedeemingBabel. Host of The Good Faith Podcast. Author, too!
San Jose, California

Posted by: just the punchline at December 09, 2024 03:48 PM (hovnC)

57 #56 Off, just the punchline sock.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 03:49 PM (hovnC)

58 Double Willowed all the Way!

Nearsider, love you are reading Sherlock Holmes and Robinson Crusoe to them!! Such a good parent. The Odyssey is full of amazing monsters. If you can describe them well, the kids will be hooked.

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 03:49 PM (wcIbG)

59 Doesn't Tapper, as a Trusted Member of the Media have full and total immunity?
Posted by: Eeyore
......

Joe will pardon him.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2024

***
Nowadays F. Joke doesn't know who Tapper is. If DOCTOR Jill tells him to pardon somebody, he'll do it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2024 03:50 PM (omVj0)

60 The mainstream media is nothing but a criminal protection racket for liberals hiding behind First Amendment protections. But that will be their demise.

BTW, this is where I part with Trump. Why he is still doing interviews with these people and getting the same fraudulent result is beyond reason at this point.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2024 03:50 PM (C4wQ6)

61 Hmmm, the way this is going Elon might be able to pick up both MSDNC and CNN for fire sale prices. heh heh heh

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 09, 2024 03:50 PM (4q/mG)

62 Bad sign that the judge's name is Roberts. Tapper will probably get off by showing he paid his taxes last April.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2024 03:50 PM (1bNHn)

63 BEWARE of the new Percy Jackson books, because that's when they start adding the Trans cult nonsense.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Puff, the transsexual dragon lived by the sea

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 09, 2024 03:50 PM (L/fGl)

64 The Lead, with Jake Tapper is about to become the Gossipred with Jake Tapper as his and CCN's relationship with their advertisers/sponsors change.

Posted by: scampydog knows a few old words at December 09, 2024 03:51 PM (2bFN5)

65
BTW, this is where I part with Trump. Why he is still doing interviews with these people and getting the same fraudulent result is beyond reason at this point.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2024 03:50 PM (C4wQ6)

He's trying to unify the country. Going on the enemy shows gives him visibility into the enemy and lets them know he's not going anywhere.

I have no issue with him showing them their own ass whenever he wants.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

66 My mom used to read the illustrated classic to my sister and I. I think they were abridged but 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Robinson Crusoe, Moby Dick, Treasure Island. Started a life long love of reading.

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 03:51 PM (KQk9m)

67 I didn't get to chime in on the weekend threads, but I do want to say with all the assassin news, how grateful I am that Trump was able to be in Paris and be safe. I was holding my breath all Saturday for tragic news. Glad my prayers were answered, and not only did he survive, he showed he's the boss of the free world! The vids of him with the other world leaders were amazing.

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 03:52 PM (wcIbG)

68 CNN will try to settle. They are cooked and this judge is known to want a federal appointment…meaning he has a case that Trump will be following….

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at December 09, 2024 03:52 PM (7PziG)

69 Virginian

Puff, the transsexual dragon lived by the sea
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 09, 2024 03:50 PM (L/fGl)

They whacked off his ding-dong, now he sits to pee.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 09, 2024 03:52 PM (QQ5eQ)

70 Glad my prayers were answered, and not only did he survive, he showed he's the boss of the free world! The vids of him with the other world leaders were amazing.
Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 03:52 PM (wcIbG)

I'm sure Jill found some moisture sitting near The Don as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

71 Onesy?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 03:36 PM

Here at AoSHQ, those are typically made of leopard-print fleece, and are worn by many Book Thread participants in an attempt to flaunt the 'pants required' rule.

Bob from NSA has started tallying said onesie wearers alongside the no-pants wearing scofflaws, and publishing the results occasionally.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2024 03:53 PM (a3Q+t)

72 > BEWARE of the new Percy Jackson books, because that's when they start adding the Trans cult nonsense.

Correct. In the Norse mythology books, one of the main characters is a gender fluid child of Loki called Alex Fierro. Alex is a protagonist main character. Alex's gender fluid nature is a constant theme throughout the Norse mythology books.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2024 03:54 PM (Odg76)

73 55 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change

Next up, electric candles

Followed by electric incense

at last the real reason elon musk is working on brain implants shows itself.

Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2024 03:54 PM (v3pYe)

74 If the journalist were a donut maker, there would be shit on his donuts.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 09, 2024 03:54 PM (CxaQ6)

75 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha!
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Shouldn't he be more concerned with saving eternal souls?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 03:54 PM (7fElN)

76 It's about fucking time our propaganda press gets it's collective ass reamed.

I remember this story. The guy (Young) was honestly trying to get Afghans abandoned by our government out of the war zone. IIRC he may have been assisting US citizens who where abandoned by the *biden administration too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2024 03:55 PM (Q4IgG)

77 I have no issue with him showing them their own ass whenever he wants.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 03:51 PM

You talk of showing your ass like it's a Bad Thing.

What's next on your list of opprobation, flinging ones feces?

Posted by: Baboons at December 09, 2024 03:55 PM (a3Q+t)

78 Alex's gender fluid nature is a constant theme throughout the Norse mythology books.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2024 03:54 PM (Odg76)

I'm not really all that curious, but how does this work? Becomes female when it wants multiple orgasms then becomes male when it wants to lift really heavy things?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

79 The Associated Press @AP 4h
BREAKING: Daniel Penny, the veteran who used a chokehold on subway rider Jordan Neely, has been acquitted in Neely's death. apnews.com/article/daniel-pe…

JD Vance @JDVance 2h
I have not said much about this case out of fear of (negatively) influencing the jury.

But thank God justice was done in this case. It was a scandal Penny was ever prosecuted in the first place.
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My italicization.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 03:55 PM (hovnC)

80 In the quiet words of the thrash band Dope:"Die, Motherfer, Die."

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2024 03:55 PM (wBaIH)

81 Correct. In the Norse mythology books, one of the main characters is a gender fluid child of Loki called Alex Fierro. Alex is a protagonist main character. Alex's gender fluid nature is a constant theme throughout the Norse mythology books.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2024 03:54 PM (Odg76)
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Eh. Loki was sort of species-fluid as I recall...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 03:55 PM (7fElN)

82 >> I have no issue with him showing them their own ass whenever he wants.

It’s pointless. All he’s doing is providing material that’s edited down to further convince their audience he’s evil in some way. You’re not convincing people when the propagandists aren’t letting them hear precisely what he said.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2024 03:55 PM (C4wQ6)

83 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change

The old one starting discharging white smoke and Frankie thought he was fired.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2024 03:55 PM (+myjY)

84 Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 03:51 PM (KQk9m

That's great! My husband started getting really interested in reading when comic books came out with a whole series of "Illustrated classics" and then He went on to read the actual books. It is.a blessing to have parents who liked to read and shared that with their kids. I still remember when my sister went with our dad to get her own library card and how excited she was.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2024 03:56 PM (kAsWf)

85 Have they found the plane yet?

Posted by: The Black Hole at December 09, 2024 03:56 PM (DobEs)

86 My mom used to read the illustrated classic to my sister and I. I think they were abridged but 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Robinson Crusoe, Moby Dick, Treasure Island. Started a life long love of reading.
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 03:51 PM (KQk9m)

Mysterious Island by Verne is one of my favorites - US soldiers blown from Richmond to the South Pacific. After that it is a survival book

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 03:56 PM (n7h9X)

87 Megan Basham @megbasham 2h
Interesting connection between this man and @DavidAFrench

More interesting, to me anyway, is the progression. Hawk Newsome also showed up on Michael Cernovich's "Hoaxed" documentary. He seems to have been sincere.
Cerno's been on X today pointing out that Newsome gave up on Christ and bloated up and, well, look at him now.
Did French lead Newsome out of the faith?

Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2024 03:56 PM (gKWVE)

88 Nearsider, love you are reading Sherlock Holmes and Robinson Crusoe to them!! Such a good parent. The Odyssey is full of amazing monsters. If you can describe them well, the kids will be hooked.

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 03:49 PM (wcIbG)

The boy child (9) passed the 7th grade reading exam this year. The girl child is right behind him. They're consumed with reading. Their mom and I always read to them with they were infants, and now that it's just me, I make a point of it. It's some of my favorite time.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at December 09, 2024 03:57 PM (bpljM)

89 49 Smite them with your mailed fist.

rhythm stick > mailed fist

Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2024 03:57 PM (v3pYe)

90 Have they found the plane yet?
Posted by: The Black Hole at December 09, 2024 03:56 PM

No, boss.

Posted by: Tattoo at December 09, 2024 03:57 PM (a3Q+t)

91 C'mon, the Pope should ride in a chariot. Its fucking Rome, guys.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 09, 2024 03:57 PM (jFCkp)

92 , one of its partners was One America Movement, a group that has also received extensive funding from hard-left secular groups.
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It is remarkable how many Leftist fronts have adopted 'America' into their name. The list is very long. Reading the Moron-recommended 'Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies', it really becomes apparent.

It is standard protocol, however, for the Lefties to represent themselves as something they patently are not.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2024 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

93 The Pope should ride a custom Harley chopper.

The Popecycle.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (a3Q+t)

94 Ernst folded. Just announced she's support Hegseth.

Posted by: WisRich at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (G0vdT)

95 What's next on your list of opprobation, flinging ones feces?
Posted by: Baboons at December 09, 2024 03:55 PM (a3Q+t)

We're so proud our little ones watched Firing Line when they were young!

Posted by: Mother and Father Baboon at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (PiwSw)

96 It's some of my favorite time.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating

It is a wonderful time, isn't it?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (ke8cm)

97 It seems like good news all day.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (xSGRt)

98 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change

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Now all we need is an electric pope.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (g8Ew8)

99 The very first book I checked out of the public library when I got my library card was Danny and the Dinosaur.

I loved that book!

Posted by: Just Lily at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (eZTaQ)

100 We were discussing cursive a few threads ago. One of the things that impressed me about this thread is these just average guys' handwriting.

https://is.gd/DQEfHG
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 09, 2024 03:46 PM (L/fGl)

I worked up my cursive hand by copying out facsimiles of letters by Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain. I found that using a dip nib helped enormously because it forced me to think about the strokes, which a ballpoint or even a fountain pen wouldn't. A dip pen makes major strokes on downward pressure, and the upward lines are lighter, just barely on contact with the paper. Also, the initial flourishes are needed to get the ink flowing, so they are as utilitarian as they are functional

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (D7oie)

101 > I'm not really all that curious, but how does this work? Becomes female when it wants multiple orgasms then becomes male when it wants to lift really heavy things?

It's portrayed as out of the character's control. Alex is usually female, but every once in a while will announce they are male. They're adventure books, so the characters are constantly meeting new gods, monsters, humans, etc. Alex frequently tells these new characters about their gender fluid nature. Alex also seethes at characters that refuse to play along with the gender fluid game.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (Odg76)

102 97 It seems like good news all day.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (xSGRt)
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Indeed.

Posted by: WisRich at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (G0vdT)

103 >>> BEWARE of the new Percy Jackson books, because that's when they start adding the Trans cult nonsense.

The author is a known leftist; my kids love them so mush, I can separate art and artist. I don't think my kids have read those sequels yet. But to be honest, there's so much weirdness in the real Greek myths...did not realize until I dived into them as an adult how much weird sex stuff was cut out of my kid's books to sanitize them. Trans is tame compared to some of that stuff.

I will say this...the Disney+ TV series of Percy is whatever, and I was leery of some of the race swapping. (Annabeth, really? She's supposed to look like Athena!) But I loved Lance Reddick (RIP) as Zeus. He brought an amazing menace and gravitas to the role. Loved his interpretation. Courtney B. Vance will be replacing him in the role.

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (wcIbG)

104 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change

Holy Water on a lithium battery. I don't know, Your Pope-ness!

Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (SVUxP)

105 That's great! My husband started getting really interested in reading when comic books came out with a whole series of "Illustrated classics" and then He went on to read the actual books. It is.a blessing to have parents who liked to read and shared that with their kids. I still remember when my sister went with our dad to get her own library card and how excited she was.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2024 03:56 PM (kAsWf)

I had continual wars as a wee kid with librarians who would not let me take out non fiction books even with a special card giving parental approval. Years and years later when my mom was working at one I met a particular nemesis my internal brain remembered one in particular subconsciously when I was picking my mother up.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (n7h9X)

106 The Pope should ride a custom Harley chopper.

The Popecycle.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (a3Q+t)

Missed our shot.

Posted by: Orange County Choppers at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (Aqu9a)

107 When I was a kid, books were always gifts for me at birthday and Christmas. Problem: I still have them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (XeU6L)

108 I'm home sick today. Sitting here, having some tea and popcorn. Dinner is a while off.

Think I'll need to take tomorrow off too. Today I'm at the sneezy stage, and tomorrow will probably be the coughing stage.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2024 04:01 PM (omVj0)

109 Tiana Lowe Doescher @TianaTheFirst 3h
After abandoning his son when he was 2 years old, Andre Zachery got a second chance when Jordan Neely was 18 and wanted to live with his dad. His father locked Jordan out of the house when he wouldn't give Zachery the money he earned performing on the subways

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 04:01 PM (hovnC)

110 Now all we need is an electric pope.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

So it's just because of a typo we have a heretical pope?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2024 04:01 PM (IG4Id)

111 I always loved that Sol Rosenberg character.

Always reminding you that he'd bring his shoes and his glasses.

So he'd have them.

Posted by: EFG at December 09, 2024 04:01 PM (rHQZF)

112 Ernst folded. Just announced she's support Hegseth.
Posted by: WisRich at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM

Still not tired of all the winning.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2024 04:01 PM (+QlJh)

113
*Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change.*

Shocking...

Posted by: Oh, no. Electric punz at December 09, 2024 04:01 PM (DobEs)

114 Congratulations to Joni Ernst for sucking up time and making a complete fool of yourself in front of your constituents. Hope it was worth it.
Nah, I hope you face a primary and get tossed out on your ass.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2024 04:02 PM (gKWVE)

115 Like the Pope, I have given up on normal men and have gone all electric. David is giving me a big box of batteries for my birthday.

Posted by: Mrs. David French at December 09, 2024 04:02 PM (27K+2)

116 I tried to find something that explains the reason for CNN's absolute disdain for Young. I could only assume it's one of two things:

1. Young's involvement highlights the extreme failure of the Biden Administration's withdraw from Afghanistan.

2. There are a couple social media posts by Young that support Trump over Biden.

3. Universal purpose of today's media is tear down reputations of individuals as a form of creating news.

Still, the behavior in those released documents suggests something more is under the surface. Someone over there has ulterior motives for sticking it to Young.

Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2024 04:02 PM (dIske)

117 Ernst folded. Just announced she's support Hegseth.
Posted by: WisRich at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (G0vdT)

Isn't it strange what a little pressure will do for one's attitude? I do wonder what future thing she was promised though.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2024 04:02 PM (g8Ew8)

118 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Pffffffft. Big deal.

Noah did it millenia ago with a wind-powered boat.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 09, 2024 04:03 PM (wtvvX)

119 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change
......

Made by Jag-you-are.

Posted by: wth at December 09, 2024 04:03 PM (v0R5T)

120 73 55 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change

Next up, electric candles

Followed by electric incense

at last the real reason elon musk is working on brain implants shows itself.
Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2024 03:54 PM (v3pYe)

Just tried to look up where the Vaticans electricity comes from... but Italy? more than 50% fossil fuels mostly natural gas.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2024 04:03 PM (QAkQ3)

121 >>> I'm sure Jill found some moisture sitting near The Don as well. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

*vomits on Sponge*

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 04:03 PM (wcIbG)

122 The very first book I checked out of the public library when I got my library card was Danny and the Dinosaur.

I loved that book!
Posted by: Just Lily at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (eZTaQ)

The corner nearest the non fiction dinosaur area also had books on each of the 50 states. I read all of those.

Beverly Cleary had a book where a chicken laid an egg that turned into a Triceratops.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:04 PM (n7h9X)

123 Do you have a spam problem on this blog

Posted by: jual obat perangsang generasi mecin at December 09, 2024 04:04 PM (GFEKX)

124 It seems like good news all day.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (xSGRt)
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Indeed.
Posted by: WisRich at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM

WLNSSEODQY.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at December 09, 2024 04:04 PM (a3Q+t)

125 Has anyone noticed that Neely’s current Michael Jackson impersonation is spot on, or is it just me?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 09, 2024 04:04 PM (IWZO4)

126 94 Ernst folded. Just announced she's support Hegseth.
Posted by: WisRich at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (G0vdT)

She’s not very smart. The announcement is too late. The damage is done to her political career.

Though voters do have short memories.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 09, 2024 04:05 PM (D6PGr)

127 I do wonder what future thing she was promised though.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2024 04:02 PM (g8Ew

It would have to start with Senate $$ for the primary she's provoked. Maybe a rules-change in her state to allow the Democrats to cross over. Whatever she was promised, it's on behalf of Team Ernst and not Iowa.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2024 04:05 PM (gKWVE)

128 106 The Pope should ride a custom Harley chopper.

The Popecycle.

The Papal Bull

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 09, 2024 04:05 PM (zSyrn)

129 Still, the behavior in those released documents suggests something more is under the surface. Someone over there has ulterior motives for sticking it to Young.
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2024 04:02 PM (dIske)

I'd guess saving people from the Afghan's government rubs them the wrong way since they approve of them.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:06 PM (n7h9X)

130 No, we like Spam.

Posted by: wth at December 09, 2024 04:06 PM (v0R5T)

131 The people who supposedly know more than the average citizen put stuff into emails which was open to discovery and compromising.

But, yeah, totes well informed!

Every time I think a news agency couldn't be any more stupid, they prove me wrong.

It still amazes me "news brought to you by hysterics" is now a highly paid profession.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 04:06 PM (tT6L1)

132 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (XeU6L)

Yes: I well understand the problem. (Sigh) There is some organization that takes old books. They put. Donation boxes outside churches or other places. The books need to be in good condition and have an ISBN number and the church gets money for them. The Reformed church across the way is going to get a lot of books

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2024 04:06 PM (ke8cm)

133 Alex's gender fluid nature is a constant theme throughout the Norse mythology books.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2024 03:54 PM (Odg76)

I'm not really all that curious, but how does this work? Becomes female when it wants multiple orgasms then becomes male when it wants to lift really heavy things?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I haven't read the books but I'm somewhat familiar with the myths. That would actually be a reasonable way for the character to work, considering its parentage.

I bet that's not how it's written though.

Just like the latest D&D and "being gender fluid" in a world with magic items that can change your sex and reincarnation spells that might give you a new body not merely or a different sex but also a different species and polymorph spells that can do the same thing on a temporary basis.

Posted by: FeatheBlade at December 09, 2024 04:07 PM (hB7mE)

134 @41

>>We were discussing cursive a few threads ago. One of the things that impressed me about this thread is these just average guys' handwriting.

I can write like that but not without my Noodler's Ahab and Ames lettering guide.

Every line, perfectly spaced and sized, FREEEHAND!!!!

Now that is a lost art.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2024 04:07 PM (XV/Pl)

135 Boobs, not books.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2024 04:07 PM (i24o9)

136 Dinosaurs? Anyone else shoot plastic Dino toys with bb guns? Big fun.

Posted by: Diddly Squat at December 09, 2024 04:08 PM (PH6K2)

137 Ernst folded. Just announced she's support Hegseth.
Posted by: WisRich at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (G0vdT)

She’s not very smart. The announcement is too late. The damage is done to her political career.

Though voters do have short memories.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 09, 2024 04:05 PM (D6PGr)

Even if the voters put her back, she's going to have to contend with the Trump admin sidelining her from influence at a minimum. If she had real issues she should have raised them internally and not aired it in public.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:08 PM (n7h9X)

138 I know we are worried vigilantes will go after Daniel Penny now he can walk free... Hopefully John Wick is a cautionary tale, in case Penny has a dog and anyone thinks it's a good idea to go after his dog. Just saying.

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 04:08 PM (wcIbG)

139 Dinosaurs? Anyone else shoot plastic Dino toys with bb guns? Big fun.
Posted by: Diddly Squat at December 09, 2024 04:08 PM (PH6K2)

My dinos ate the little army men first.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:09 PM (n7h9X)

140 I know the coliseum is owned by the Vatican, and I assume lots of other tourist attractions are, too.

Good thing that Pope mobile is going to offset all those tourist flights.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - society needs the pejorative faggot, so the term sassy is now used at December 09, 2024 04:10 PM (UglIe)

141 Dinos can round out your nativity scene.

Posted by: Mr. Bean at December 09, 2024 04:10 PM (Aqu9a)

142 I know the coliseum is owned by the Vatican, and I assume lots of other tourist attractions are, too.

I don't think the Colosseum was included in the Donation of Constantine.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2024 04:11 PM (+myjY)

143 Like the Pope, I have given up on normal men and have gone all electric. David is giving me a big box of batteries for my birthday.
Posted by: Mrs. David French

If he really loved you, he'd have 480V Three-phase run to the house.

Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2024 04:11 PM (NWHd1)

144 > I haven't read the books but I'm somewhat familiar with the myths. That would actually be a reasonable way for the character to work, considering its parentage.

I think that in the myths Loki is in full control of when he transforms into a snake or a woman. Riordon could have made the character a shapeshifter. I think that would be closer to the myths than a gender fluid kid.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2024 04:11 PM (Odg76)

145 Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (n7h9X)

Sorry for the fights. The librarians now would be giving you as an eight year old non fiction books at
about being in the wrong body. There are so many reasons I'm glad I grew up before technology "advancements" and far leftism.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2024 04:11 PM (AjU9J)

146 My dinos ate the little army men first.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:09 PM (n7h9X)

Omg, I was going to mention those with the dinos, but thought...nah.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Diddly Squat at December 09, 2024 04:12 PM (PH6K2)

147 Fun fact, the Vatican owned coliseum recently put up a statue of/to Moloch at the entrance.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - society needs the pejorative faggot, so the term sassy is now used at December 09, 2024 04:12 PM (UglIe)

148 Just tried to look up where the Vaticans electricity comes from... but Italy? more than 50% fossil fuels mostly natural gas.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2024 04:03 PM (QAkQ3)

Don't be silly. Electricity comes out of the wall. Everybody knows that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 09, 2024 04:12 PM (byWhc)

149 Ernst folded. Just announced she's support Hegseth.
Posted by: WisRich
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Good, take the vote. We shall see if Iowa is forgetful or forgiving soon enough.

Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2024 04:13 PM (2bFN5)

150 Now all we need is an electric pope.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2024 03:59 PM (g8Ew

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Clifford D. Simak's "Project Pope" has a robot Pope.

Is that good enough?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:13 PM (7fElN)

151 My daughter used to make little outfits for her plastic dinosaurs and they would have tea parties.

She would always remind T-rex he couldn't eat the other dinosaurs. She would put a Lego chicken on his plate.

That was before they decided dinosaurs were "birds".

I'll have to ask her what she thinks about that.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 09, 2024 04:14 PM (eZTaQ)

152 Don't be silly. Electricity comes out of the wall. Everybody knows that.
Posted by: tcn in AK

-

This is Science

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - society needs the pejorative faggot, so the term sassy is now used at December 09, 2024 04:14 PM (UglIe)

153 135 Boobs, not books.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2024 04:07 PM (i24o9)

According to the AoSHQ Style Guide, that is the tradition chant of the moron.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 09, 2024 04:14 PM (byWhc)

154 I think that in the myths Loki is in full control of when he transforms into a snake or a woman. Riordon could have made the character a shapeshifter. I think that would be closer to the myths than a gender fluid kid.
Posted by: bonhomm

Oh definitely.

But Leftists can't explore their own tropes in interesting ways, no. They have to do it in the most boring, tedious, and up-to-the-second fashionable way.

Posted by: FeatheBlade at December 09, 2024 04:14 PM (hB7mE)

155 Dinos can round out your nativity scene.

Posted by: Mr. Bean at December 09, 2024 04:10 PM (Aqu9a)

Word. Put those terrorist scarves on them.

Posted by: Pope Frank at December 09, 2024 04:14 PM (PH6K2)

156 Previously, the judge refused to toss out the claim, which stated that a veteran was defamed WITHOUT EVIDENCE by Jake Tapper -- Tapper claimed he was basically a human smuggler, because he got Afghans out of Afghanistan.

But, but but I thought Jake was the vets friend, the soldier's ally, just ask him

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2024 04:15 PM (RsS92)

157 Smite them with your mailed fist.
Posted by: Zombie Wilhelm II

I saw Gladiator II and it was an OK popcorn movie inoffensive other than total disregard for Roman history and culture and physics. For example, early in the film, our hero is struck several times in the face with cesti, gloves with strips of iron which were affixed within the padding, that would break your face but which barely bruised our hero. Also, their artillery shooting fire balls at moving ships were amazingly accurate.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 09, 2024 04:15 PM (L/fGl)

158 The author is a known leftist; my kids love them so mush, I can separate art and artist. I don't think my kids have read those sequels yet. But to be honest, there's so much weirdness in the real Greek myths...did not realize until I dived into them as an adult how much weird sex stuff was cut out of my kid's books to sanitize them. Trans is tame compared to some of that stuff.

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (wcIbG)

I'm not sure how you would do Zeus myths without the chasing after pretty young things by shape changing into an aminal, or a shower of gold. Its pretty much his entire M.O.

Zeus the henpecked husband is part of Homer's stuff, possibly Hercules too.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:15 PM (n7h9X)

159 I think that in the myths Loki is in full control of when he transforms into a snake or a woman. Riordon could have made the character a shapeshifter. I think that would be closer to the myths than a gender fluid kid.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2024 04:11 PM (Odg76)

A gender-fluid kid is more fabulous and festive.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2024 04:15 PM (g8Ew8)

160 (remembers that the Bible's writers described a brontosaurus like creature)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - society needs the pejorative faggot, so the term sassy is now used at December 09, 2024 04:16 PM (UglIe)

161 Along with dino figurines, consider adding a traditional Catalan caganer at the back of the scene.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2024 04:16 PM (a3Q+t)

162 The very first book I checked out of the public library when I got my library card was Danny and the Dinosaur.

I loved that book!
Posted by: Just Lily at December 09, 2024 04:00 PM (eZTaQ)

I thought you were talking about the Danny Dunn books, but I realized you weren't. I do remember the Beverly Cleary book about the chicken that laid the egg that hatched to be a triceratops, though.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2024 04:16 PM (D7oie)

163 Pope Francis debuts new all-electric Popemobile in efforts to save the planet from climate change
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Watching it burst into flames with a terrified Pope evacuating out of it will be very satisfying.

Posted by: Cheri at December 09, 2024 04:17 PM (oiNtH)

164 Percy Jackson books FYI the author went WOKE and started to include Trans and Gay. just stop when you get to Heroes of Olympus, that's when he goes woke

I had my Son read the Will Wilder, the kid fights demons and uses the power of saints and the Old Testament, like Moses's staff to part water and make it a snake, and an amulet of Samson that gives him strength.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 09, 2024 04:17 PM (FCrpy)

165 I thought you were talking about the Danny Dunn books, but I realized you weren't. I do remember the Beverly Cleary book about the chicken that laid the egg that hatched to be a triceratops, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2024 04:16 PM (D7oie)
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Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine for the win!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

166 Dinosaurs are not birds. You cannot sing "The dinosaur, the dinosaur, the dinosaur is a word".

Posted by: SFGoth at December 09, 2024 04:17 PM (KAi1n)

167 Dinos can round out your nativity scene.

Posted by: Mr. Bean at December 09, 2024 04:10 PM (Aqu9a)

One of the best episodes of TV ever.

The eyes for the bear. The nativity scene. The surprise gift for the girlfriend. Finding out Mr. Bean somehow had a girlfriend.

It had everything!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 09, 2024 04:17 PM (KbCG3)

168 I saw Gladiator II and it was an OK popcorn movie inoffensive other than total disregard for Roman history and culture and physics. For example, early in the film, our hero is struck several times in the face with cesti, gloves with strips of iron which were affixed within the padding, that would break your face but which barely bruised our hero. Also, their artillery shooting fire balls at moving ships were amazingly accurate.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 09, 2024 04:15 PM (L/fGl)

It seemed like a strange thing that they left out entirely the poisonous hatred between Caracalla and his brother Geta which ended up with C and his guardsmen tearing the kid out of his mother's arms and killing her in front of them.

Then he sent out orders to erase any painting, statue of his brother empire wide.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:18 PM (n7h9X)

169 Ask for $1,000,000,000.01 in punitive damages.
Also the left testicul of all involved.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 09, 2024 04:18 PM (eISTN)

170 Clifford D. Simak's "Project Pope" has a robot Pope.

Is that good enough?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:13 PM (7fElN)

Cool

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2024 04:18 PM (g8Ew8)

171 Today, the Colosseum is owned by the Italian government. It is managed by the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, which is responsible for its preservation, conservation, and maintenance. The Colosseum is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Italy.

In recent years, there have been discussions about privatizing the Colosseum and allowing private companies to manage it in order to generate revenue for its upkeep. However, there has been pushback from conservationists and historians who argue that the Colosseum is a cultural heritage site that should remain in public hands.

In conclusion, the Colosseum in Rome is owned by the Italian government and is managed by the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum. Its ownership is a topic of debate and discussion, but for now, the Colosseum remains a symbol of Rome’s ancient past and a testament to the ingenuity and craftsmanship of the Roman Empire.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 04:18 PM (hovnC)

172 Fuck you. Pay me, commie scum.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2024 04:18 PM (HsOwE)

173 My daughter used to make little outfits for her plastic dinosaurs and they would have tea parties.

She would always remind T-rex he couldn't eat the other dinosaurs. She would put a Lego chicken on his plate.

That was before they decided dinosaurs were "birds".

I'll have to ask her what she thinks about that.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 09, 2024 04:14 PM (eZTaQ)

That's a great memory! Love it! Thank you! Oh, and I'm sure little boys did the same thing. Lol.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 09, 2024 04:14 PM (eZTaQ)

Posted by: Diddly Squat at December 09, 2024 04:18 PM (PH6K2)

174 Kids should read Rudyard Kipling before anything else. IMO

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 09, 2024 04:18 PM (D6PGr)

175 Boy, it's like Jake might actually not be supportive of the veterans. My whole world is crashing down in on me. I'm atwitter, possibly verklempt.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2024 04:18 PM (yEo1J)

176 Does Iowa have closed primaries? If they don't it's possible that leftists will vote Ernst to keep out a real MAGA challenger. (Not that they like her, but they can still try to muck things up.)

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 04:19 PM (wcIbG)

177 In other Communist News Network developments:

Liebot Alisyn CommieRotten: gone.

Posted by: Japanese Kamikaze Pilot at December 09, 2024 04:20 PM (W5ArC)

178 Caracalla was a piece of shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2024 04:20 PM (HsOwE)

179 Sock off.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 09, 2024 04:20 PM (W5ArC)

180 Frankly, having a velociraptor eats that obnoxious kid with the drum doesn't seem like such a bad trade-off.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2024 04:20 PM (+myjY)

181 That was before they decided dinosaurs were "birds".

I'll have to ask her what she thinks about that.
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Both Chickens and Pigs can go full cannibal very fast. Don't let them miss a meal or two.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 09, 2024 04:20 PM (jFCkp)

182 "My daughter used to make little outfits for her plastic dinosaurs and they would have tea parties. "

I think that's wonderful. I love these funny, cute kid stories.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (niX3I)

183 168 I saw Gladiator II and it was an OK popcorn movie inoffensive other than total disregard for Roman history and culture and physics. For example, early in the film, our hero is struck several times in the face with cesti, gloves with strips of iron which were affixed within the padding, that would break your face but which barely bruised our hero. Also, their artillery shooting fire balls at moving ships were amazingly accurate.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 09, 2024 04:15 PM (L/fGl)

Their is a really good anime about boxing in Ancient Rome, they really go into detail about how they fight and the different gloves they used

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (FCrpy)

184 CNN ran the story on Veterans Day.

Fuck those guys.

Posted by: Wally at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (PbvBr)

185 Clifford D. Simak's "Project Pope" has a robot Pope.

Is that good enough?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:13 PM (7fElN)

Cool
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2024 04:18 PM (g8Ew

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It actually is pretty cool. The robotic Pope is a supercomputer collecting all of the knowledge in the universe--and other dimensions--to try to find a universal understanding of religion. But there are factions in the robotic Vatican that don't want to find the truth because they are comfortable as things stand. Then someone threatens to upset the status quo when she reports she found "heaven."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (7fElN)

186 I am just happy with kids reading anything these days

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (RsS92)

187 135 Boobs, not books.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2024 04:07 PM (i24o9)

Wait, what about Naughty Librarians?

Sounds like a case of "and" to me.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (LxER7)

188 It looks like they have identified the UHC shooter

https://tinyurl.com/musf37ed

It is some kind of Ivy League Antifa type.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (jbnUc)

189 Both Chickens and Pigs can go full cannibal very fast. Don't let them miss a meal or two.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 09, 2024 04:20 PM (jFCkp)

Even here in the States, we are never more than four consecutive missed meals away from the collapse of civilization.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at December 09, 2024 04:22 PM (bpljM)

190 Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine for the win!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

I liked the antigrav spaceship that went out of control and they couldn't fix it because the voice control and frequency was out of wack. Luckily they had a kid along who could shift his voice hypersonic.

I also liked the Mushroom planet books, when your neighbor invents his own rocket to visit an invisible moon of earth.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:22 PM (n7h9X)

191 Interesting, thanks.

So the Italian government or the private entities erected the statue to Moloch.

I guess that's better. I mean, in a broad sense.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - society needs the pejorative faggot, so the term sassy is now used at December 09, 2024 04:22 PM (UglIe)

192 It looks like they have identified the UHC shooter

https://tinyurl.com/musf37ed

It is some kind of Ivy League Antifa type.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (jbnUc)

Ace, you should do a post about this.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2024 04:22 PM (i24o9)

193 Dinos?

You asked for it.

https://youtu.be/e35BU1eB_5k

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2024 04:22 PM (PiwSw)

194 Even here in the States, we are never more than four consecutive missed meals away from the collapse of civilization.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at December 09, 2024 04:22 PM (bpljM)

Two if you have cats.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:23 PM (n7h9X)

195 NEW: Quotes from Luigi Mangione's manifesto say he 'acted alone' & was 'self-funded'

“These parasites had it coming” & “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”

(via CNN)

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 04:23 PM (RHGPo)

196 Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine for the win!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

I liked the antigrav spaceship that went out of control and they couldn't fix it because the voice control and frequency was out of wack. Luckily they had a kid along who could shift his voice hypersonic.

I also liked the Mushroom planet books, when your neighbor invents his own rocket to visit an invisible moon of earth.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:22 PM (n7h9X)
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Wow. Both of those take me back to my childhood. I read both of them as a kid and enjoyed them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:23 PM (7fElN)

197 Even here in the States, we are never more than four consecutive missed meals away from the collapse of civilization.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at December 09, 2024 04:22 PM (bpljM)

Grocery stores can empty fast.

City folk are spoiled. And I’m still city folk for a little longer.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 09, 2024 04:23 PM (D6PGr)

198 195 NEW: Quotes from Luigi Mangione's manifesto say he 'acted alone' & was 'self-funded'

“These parasites had it coming” & “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”

(via CNN)
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 04:23 PM (RHGPo)

Yeah, it's actually stating those 1st 2 things out loud that give me SERIOUS pause...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 04:24 PM (exHjb)

199 Dinos?

You asked for it.

https://youtu.be/e35BU1eB_5k

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2024 04:22 PM (PiwSw)

Brachiosaurus wins.

https://youtu.be/6kslTEsZTtI

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2024 04:24 PM (i24o9)

200 Then someone threatens to upset the status quo when she reports she found "heaven."
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In West Virginia??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 04:24 PM (hovnC)

201 Then someone threatens to upset the status quo when she reports she found "heaven."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (7fElN)
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There was a short story about a computer years ago, advanced civilization hooked up all of their computers and asked it, "Is there a god?" To which the computer replied something like, "Until now, No!"

Guy got zapped trying to hit the off switch. EOS.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 04:24 PM (tT6L1)

202 What happened to Ernst makes every GOPe senator who opposes a Trump nominee look like a self-serving, weasel and hypocrite.

That's a shame.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2024 04:24 PM (wBaIH)

203 Is he related to Chuck Mangione? Has to asked....

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 04:25 PM (KQk9m)

204 >>> It is some kind of Ivy League Antifa type.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (jbnUc)

Les Miserables said it best: street retribution revolutions are just games for rich young boys to play. But they just end with waste of lives and death.

Red, the blood of angry men...

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 04:25 PM (wcIbG)

205 Imma thinking the Bengals can beat the Cowboys tonight.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 09, 2024 04:25 PM (jFCkp)

206 Brachiosaurus wins.

From what I understand, they are very thin on one end, become fat in the middle, and are thin on the other end. At least that's how the theory goes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2024 04:25 PM (RsS92)

207 The pendulum actually appears to be swinging back to normalcy.

I don't understand.

I'm skeert.

Hold me.

Posted by: blaster at December 09, 2024 04:25 PM (QfvaV)

208 Ace: "For now, punitive damages will remain an option for the jury."

Hmm. An American jury deciding if the MFM was truthful, reasonable, and fair? I like those odds. The MFM is as popular as hemorrhagic fever now.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 09, 2024 04:26 PM (aXxgO)

209 Ah, Ok, now I know what's going on. Young initially did a marketing call to CNN asking if they had anyone they needed to pull out of Afghanistan. Marketing call, nothing more. It was to Katie Bo Lillis. She didn't have anyone in mind, but knew that Alex Marquardt was doing a story on the black market and price gouging to help Afghans escape. So, they tried to play Young, who figured out that they were up to something and he was being strung along...So he said "See Ya". They got pissed and decided to make him the fall guy and the center of their black market story (which was non-existent). CNN is going to eat a bag of dicks on this one. They defense initially was that Young was violating Sharia Law LMAO. The judge shot that down fast and hard.

Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2024 04:26 PM (dIske)

210 There was a short story about a computer years ago, advanced civilization hooked up all of their computers and asked it, "Is there a god?" To which the computer replied something like, "Until now, No!"

Guy got zapped trying to hit the off switch. EOS.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 04:24 PM (tT6L1)
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Heh. Reminds me of one of the books I read last week: The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert. The AI of a spaceship declared it was god and created its own religion among its human cargo (it was a colony ship) so they would worship it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:26 PM (7fElN)

211 Then someone threatens to upset the status quo when she reports she found "heaven."
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In West Virginia??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 04:24 PM (hovnC)

Almost.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at December 09, 2024 04:26 PM (bpljM)

212 It actually is pretty cool. The robotic Pope is a supercomputer collecting all of the knowledge in the universe--and other dimensions--to try to find a universal understanding of religion. But there are factions in the robotic Vatican that don't want to find the truth because they are comfortable as things stand. Then someone threatens to upset the status quo when she reports she found "heaven."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (7fElN)

The Nine Million Names of God by Clarke is a cool story where some monks in the Himalayans hire a computer to finish the purpose of the temple to write down all the names of God, after which their purpose will be achieved. The computer men get the run started then get worried that the monks will go nuts when nothing happened and sneak out early...but on the way down the hill from the temple as the run ends they see the stars going out.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:27 PM (n7h9X)

213 It actually is pretty cool. The robotic Pope is a supercomputer collecting all of the knowledge in the universe--and other dimensions--to try to find a universal understanding of religion. But there are factions in the robotic Vatican that don't want to find the truth because they are comfortable as things stand. Then someone threatens to upset the status quo when she reports she found "heaven."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (7fElN)

So basically it's the story of humankind but with AI.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2024 04:27 PM (g8Ew8)

214 209 Ahh, that explains it.

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 04:27 PM (KQk9m)

215 I'm sure Jill found some moisture sitting near The Don as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Didja see the new parody ad for Trump’s cologne.

https://is.gd/obZnS5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 09, 2024 04:27 PM (L/fGl)

216 The thought of Jake Tapper getting tapped fills me with glee.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2024 04:27 PM (kTd/k)

217 The pendulum actually appears to be swinging back to normalcy

We shall see. I expect this to be a brief reprieve at most, but in the end, God wins.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2024 04:27 PM (RsS92)

218 "My daughter used to make little outfits for her plastic dinosaurs and they would have tea parties. "

I think that's wonderful. I love these funny, cute kid stories.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2024 04:21 PM (niX3I)

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Instead of "Xs and Os," when I was a kid I would line 11 of my hot wheel cars up on offense against 11 others on defense -- and design football plays.

Always wanted to be a coach ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Deus Ex Muskina [h/t Mike Benz] at December 09, 2024 04:27 PM (B3eBA)

219 Just days after disgraced former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz celebrated the public assassination of a CEO, Vox Media announced she is out at the end of the year, reports the far-left Semafor.

https://tinyurl.com/4kn5t8py

Coming to a Starbucks near you.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2024 04:27 PM (+myjY)

220 pudinhead: "Imma thinking the Bengals can beat the Cowboys tonight."

To be fair, a five-man high school team could beat the Cowboys this year.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 09, 2024 04:28 PM (aXxgO)

221 These parasites had it coming” & “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”
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Plural....he wasn't done yet.

Posted by: Spergy nuf at December 09, 2024 04:28 PM (EY4oe)

222 Caracalla was a piece of shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2024 04:20 PM (HsOwE)

He really was no good. I used to get Caracalla/Geta confused with Domitian/Titus but I think those latter two complemented each other and got along fine. Titus just died too early.
I have a soft spot for Domitian, btw; anyone who hated Senators like he did can't be all bad.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2024 04:28 PM (gKWVE)

223 Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist
@DeAngelisCorey
BREAKING: A public school teacher lost her job after refusing to let first graders use the restroom.

Multiple kids peed themselves after the teacher revoked the entire class's right to use the restroom.

The teacher messaged parents blaming the victims.

The 1st grade teacher is Ashley Barrera.

She taught at Bartlett Elementary School in Conroe, Texas.

She's no longer employed by the district.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at December 09, 2024 04:28 PM (TGPs7)

224 Sean Davis @seanmdav 19m
We already know more about this Mangione fellow than we do about either of the two people who tried to kill Donald Trump. Why is that?

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (hovnC)

225
There was a short story about a computer years ago, advanced civilization hooked up all of their computers and asked it, "Is there a god?" To which the computer replied something like, "Until now, No!"

Guy got zapped trying to hit the off switch. EOS.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 04:24 PM (tT6L1)

Should have asked for the answer to life, the universe and everything

Posted by: javems at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (8I4hW)

226 220 pudinhead: "Imma thinking the Bengals can beat the Cowboys tonight."

To be fair, a five-man high school team could beat the Cowboys this year.
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Well, umm, we are talking about the Bengals.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (jFCkp)

227 Instead of "Xs and Os," when I was a kid I would line 11 of my hot wheel cars up on offense against 11 others on defense -- and design football plays.

Always wanted to be a coach ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Deus Ex Muskina [h/t Mike Benz] at December 09, 2024 04:27 PM (B3eBA)

Have always been big into racing. Used to have 40+ NASCAR diecasts that I would line up and race.

One day I came home to find that my mother had vacuumed. I threw a fit that she had ruined my qualifying order.

30+ years later and she still reminds me of this. And I'm still mad about it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (KbCG3)

228 204
‘ Les Miserables said it best: street retribution revolutions are just games for rich young boys to play’

I like to think Victor Hugo’s point was that creeps like that deserve a slug in the head.
That’s my takeaway anyway.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (jbnUc)

229 I also liked the Mushroom planet books, when your neighbor invents his own rocket to visit an invisible moon of earth.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:22 PM (n7h9X)
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Wow. Both of those take me back to my childhood. I read both of them as a kid and enjoyed them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:23 PM (7fElN)

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (PiwSw)

230 Questions asked

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (KQk9m)

231 Alison Camorata wore horrific amounts of pancake make-up to hide... Something...

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (wBaIH)

232 Heh. Reminds me of one of the books I read last week: The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert. The AI of a spaceship declared it was god and created its own religion among its human cargo (it was a colony ship) so they would worship it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:26 PM (7fElN)

One of Asimov's Robot stories has a robot in charge of directing solar power from a satellite back to earth. Robot gets religion and decides that earth is imaginary and the true god is the power station. He imprisons the humans just as a storm comes in for sacrilege, but he does all the right things in the storm so they pass him as capable...and they don't warn the next shift.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:30 PM (n7h9X)

233 We already know more about this Mangione fellow than we do about either of the two people who tried to kill Donald Trump. Why is that?

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (hovnC)

Because Mangione isn't (directly) connected to the CIA of FBI.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at December 09, 2024 04:30 PM (bpljM)

234 It would have been cool to live back when mutations improved genetics instead of just killing animals with cancer.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - society needs the pejorative faggot, so the term sassy is now used at December 09, 2024 04:30 PM (UglIe)

235 Its kind of adorable what some of the old sci fi thought AI and computers in general were capable of.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2024 04:30 PM (RsS92)

236 Should have asked for the answer to life, the universe and everything
Posted by: javems at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (8I4hW)

42

Posted by: Just Lily at December 09, 2024 04:30 PM (eZTaQ)

237 Alex Jones got hit with a similar judgement and not only did he lose a ton of money he literally lost his whole news channel - why shouldn't the same be on the table here? The liable by Tapper is significantly WORSE then Jones's.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 04:30 PM (oZhjI)

238 Posted by: ShainS -- Deus Ex Muskina [h/t Mike Benz] at December 09, 2024 04:27 PM (B3eBA)

Hot wheels used to be quite a thing. Do they still make them?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2024 04:31 PM (niX3I)

239 >>>Just days after disgraced former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz celebrated the public assassination of a CEO, Vox Media announced she is out at the end of the year, reports the far-left Semafor.

Now she'll have to move back in with her parents in Pangaea.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2024 04:31 PM (i24o9)

240 Their mom and I always read to them with they were infants, and now that it's just me, I make a point of it. It's some of my favorite time.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at December 09, 2024 03:57 PM (bpljM)

Kudos. I have the fondest memories of reading aloud to my bunch. When the oldest and his new girlfriend, the librarian, were here at T-giving, we were looking through our bookshelves, and I mentioned to her that I read aloud to them often.
"Every night, in fact." he said.

Posted by: sal at December 09, 2024 04:31 PM (f+FmA)

241 CNN is going to eat a bag of dicks on this one.
.....
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2024 04:26 PM (dIske)

Oh, hello!

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at December 09, 2024 04:31 PM (QfvaV)

242 Always wanted to be a coach ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Deus Ex Muskina [h/t Mike Benz] at December 09, 2024 04:27 PM (B3eBA)

Going back further...anyone have one of those football games with the vibrating field? Set up offense/defense and turn it on. No-one went where you thought they would.

Posted by: Diddly Squat at December 09, 2024 04:31 PM (PH6K2)

243 This is all I know about Mangione

https://youtu.be/1mLdUFw4Xfc

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2024 04:31 PM (RsS92)

244 Its kind of adorable what some of the old sci fi thought AI and computers in general were capable of.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2024 04:30 PM (RsS92)
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I wonder what they would think of the current iteration of AI?

Many of those old stories did not paint AI in a positive light...(e.g., "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream")

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (7fElN)

245
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron

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Great book. The sequels were good too.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (eZTaQ)

246 Fifth graders will be taping Ashley Barrera's picture to every urinal at that school.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (gKWVE)

247 We already know more about this Mangione fellow than we do about either of the two people who tried to kill Donald Trump. Why is that?

Because Mangione wasn't working with a bunch of Nat Sec folks that scrubbed his online presence immediately?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (oZhjI)

248 Now she'll have to move back in with her parents in Pangaea.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2024 04:31 PM (i24o9)

Her parents would have to be in their 100’s right?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (D6PGr)

249 Alison Camorata wore horrific amounts of pancake make-up to hide... Something...

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (wBaIH)

Interview with Doug Emhoff?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (i24o9)

250 Have always been big into racing. Used to have 40+ NASCAR diecasts that I would line up and race.

One day I came home to find that my mother had vacuumed. I threw a fit that she had ruined my qualifying order.

30+ years later and she still reminds me of this. And I'm still mad about it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (KbCG3)

Didn't have a picture on your phone?

Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (favqb)

251 243 This is all I know about Mangione

https://youtu.be/1mLdUFw4Xfc
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2024 04:31 PM (RsS92)

Mangione and Kenny G…

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (PCK5/)

252 As I'm sure TJM knows, the first Percy Jackson movie (don't remember about the second) featured the lovely Alexandra Daddario.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (lg881)

253 30+ years later and she still reminds me of this. And I'm still mad about it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (KbCG3)
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Wow, that's really too bad.

Posted by: Danica Patrick at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (tT6L1)

254 Should have asked for the answer to life, the universe and everything
Posted by: javems at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (8I4hW)
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Maybe thanked the computer for all the fishes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 04:33 PM (tT6L1)

255 Going back further...anyone have one of those football games with the vibrating field? Set up offense/defense and turn it on. No-one went where you thought they would.

Posted by: Diddly Squat

I had one of those. YoungBroTim found it...disappointing.

Plus when it's the same two teams over and over again it got kinda old.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2024 04:33 PM (OUMaO)

256 Sean Davis @seanmdav 19m
We already know more about this Mangione fellow than we do about either of the two people who tried to kill Donald Trump. Why is that?
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (hovnC)

Any relation to Chuck Mangione? 'Cause I like Chuck.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2024 04:33 PM (g8Ew8)

257 Still, the behavior in those released documents suggests something more is under the surface. Someone over there has ulterior motives for sticking it to Young.

Young made Biden look bad by actually saving lives. That's all the reason a democrat needs.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2024 04:33 PM (CHHv1)

258 Diddly Squat: "Set up offense/defense and turn it on. No-one went where you thought they would."

I see we're still talking about Bengals vs Cowboys.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 09, 2024 04:33 PM (aXxgO)

259 wait, what's this ???

"Liz Cheney, a former member of the partisan January 6 Committee, said Monday that she should not go to jail for allegedly destroying 117 of the panel’s files.

President-elect Donald Trump accused members of the partisan panel on Sunday of destroying committee evidence that he said exonerated him from allegations of wrongdoing.

The accusation came after Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who led the House Administration Committee’s oversight investigation, said in January his computer forensic investigators discovered that 117 files went missing, presumably deleted or encrypted by the panel’s members."

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 04:33 PM (QTCRF)

260 I saw Gladiator II and it was an OK popcorn movie inoffensive other than total disregard for Roman history and culture and physics. For example, early in the film, our hero is struck several times in the face with cesti, gloves with strips of iron which were affixed within the padding, that would break your face but which barely bruised our hero. Also, their artillery shooting fire balls at moving ships were amazingly accurate.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 09, 2024 04:15 PM (L/fGl)

Don't get me started about disregard of the laws of physics and thermodynamics in movies and TV.

It's interesting how movies and TV shows about Rome and its gladiators, and the ancient Greeks, have been making big bucks the past twenty years. Steve Reeves (star of spaghetti swordsman movies such as Hercules Unchained and The Last Days of Pompeii) was born too early.

Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2024 04:33 PM (aBgBM)

261 Imma thinking the Bengals can beat the Cowboys tonight.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 09, 2024 04:25 PM (jFCkp)

Seems like they can lose by 2 points to anyone, with an uncalled roughing the passer or TD called back in there.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:34 PM (n7h9X)

262 As I'm sure TJM knows, the first Percy Jackson movie (don't remember about the second) featured the lovely Alexandra Daddario.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (lg881)
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Having seen it, I'm surprised she was able to breathe, what with how they had her strapped in.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 04:34 PM (tT6L1)

263 I wonder what they would think of the current iteration of AI?

Many of those old stories did not paint AI in a positive light...(e.g., "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream")

Current AI is not AI in the sense that old timey SF meant. AI isn't intelligent as in sentience its just better algorithms

And thank God for that.

Yes real AI might be benevolent but we should assume the worst of an intelligence we might create until we've seen proof that it isn't.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 04:34 PM (oZhjI)

264 Just an unemployed guy from North Carolina.

>>@JD_Cashless

>>2nd failed Trump assassin Ryan Routh has asked to delay his trial from Feb. to at least Dec. 2025 due to massive volume of discovery.
This was to be expected; what's interested is what's in the discovery: 2 TBs of data, records from 5 cell phone companies -- AND apparently the FBI recovered a footprint from the scene that does NOT match Routh's 👀
>>Routh's attorneys also expect "SEVERAL" more terabytes of data before all is said and done.
This trial will probably last longer than McVeigh's, it's looking like.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2024 04:34 PM (LkLld)

265 I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 09, 2024 04:34 PM (DobEs)

266 30+ years later and she still reminds me of this. And I'm still mad about it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (KbCG3)

Didn't have a picture on your phone?

Posted by: Doof

Phones in '94 weren't quite so capable as today's models...

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2024 04:34 PM (OUMaO)

267 BREAKING: A public school teacher lost her job after refusing to let first graders use the restroom.

That former teacher obviously has no kids of her own. You never let a kid that young not use the bathroom. Never.

Posted by: Cheri at December 09, 2024 04:35 PM (oiNtH)

268 The accusation came after Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who led the House Administration Committee’s oversight investigation, said in January his computer forensic investigators discovered that 117 files went missing, presumably deleted or encrypted by the panel’s members."
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 04:33 PM (QTCRF)

Destroying government records is a felony. We have some spare cells opening up I hear.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:35 PM (n7h9X)

269 >>> Alex Jones got hit with a similar judgement and not only did he lose a ton of money he literally lost his whole news channel - why shouldn't the same be on the table here? The liable by Tapper is significantly WORSE then Jones's.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 04:30 PM (oZhjI)

I like it. So let it be written, so let it be done.

Also could be why the View is trotting out corrections to read on air every five seconds. Make them afraid to spout proven nonsense

Posted by: LizLem at December 09, 2024 04:35 PM (wcIbG)

270 He really was no good. I used to get Caracalla/Geta confused with Domitian/Titus but I think those latter two complemented each other and got along fine. Titus just died too early.
I have a soft spot for Domitian, btw; anyone who hated Senators like he did can't be all bad.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2024 04:28 PM (gKWVE)

IIRC, he (Caracalla) was referred to as 'The Common Enemy of All Mankind.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2024 04:35 PM (bss/y)

271 The magnetic football you could get players from all teams. Never knew anyone that had more than two teams though

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 04:35 PM (KQk9m)

272 Re. Mangione I assume:

Carol Roth @caroljsroth 1h
Once again we are reminded that the Ivy League schools are now merely hedge funds with indoctrination camps attached.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 04:36 PM (hovnC)

273 I'm hoping that Biden issues blanket pardons including for Miss Piggy Liz Cheney. Those pardoned were never going to be convicted and it's evidence of their collective guilt.

But I am hoping for a J6 Truth Commission where those immunized are forced to testify under penalties of perjury about what actually happened. Don't stop until it's shown how Nancy Pelosi orchestrated it and ruined the lives of Grandmas and Tourists for political show with the willing complicity of key members of our federal government, Liz included.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2024 04:36 PM (Gqoy+)

274 Someone sent Routh to Ukraine. Where Routh *lied* about being a recruiter.

So either he was just rich and crazy...and we know he wasn't that rich...or he was working for a western Nat Sec agency doing something in regards to the Biden Junta's foreign policy.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 04:36 PM (oZhjI)

275 MILO
@Nero
“Negro fatigue” (awful phrase!) went mainstream in 2020 with St. George Floyd. Change was fast. African Americans no longer command the same cultural or social prestige. It is, dare I say, no longer cool to be black. Be patient, won’t you—be kind—as they adjust to mortal life.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at December 09, 2024 04:36 PM (TGPs7)

276 As I'm sure TJM knows, the first Percy Jackson movie (don't remember about the second) featured the lovely Alexandra Daddario

First time I ever saw her, I was mesmerized and entranced.

Liz Cheney, a former member of the partisan January 6 Committee, said Monday that she should not go to jail for allegedly destroying 117 of the panel’s files.

Then who should? Talk about a clear admission of abuse of power and injustice.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2024 04:36 PM (RsS92)

277 Didn't have a picture on your phone?

Posted by: Doof

Phones in '94 weren't quite so capable as today's models...
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2024 04:34 PM (OUMaO)

I guess the implied sarc tag didn't do its job

Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2024 04:37 PM (favqb)

278 Please stop quoting Milo Y. His 15 minutes have been up for quite a while now

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 04:37 PM (oZhjI)

279 I like the football game that I had as a kid that was a matrix based on the offense and defense plays each player makes. You put your play card in and slide the lever to the play you choose . Then you hit the button that activates a light under the field revealing the result of that down.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 09, 2024 04:38 PM (D6PGr)

280 The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2024 04:29 PM (PiwSw)

I've taken that flight several times.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2024 04:38 PM (g8Ew8)

281 252 As I'm sure TJM knows, the first Percy Jackson movie (don't remember about the second) featured the lovely Alexandra Daddario.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at December 09, 2024 04:32 PM (lg881)

My kids loved the Percy Jackson series and absolutely hated the movies for taking liberties with it.

Raised 'em right, I think.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 09, 2024 04:38 PM (LxER7)

282 My brother and I had one of those vibrating football games, big Christmas present in ‘69 I think. That was goofy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2024 04:39 PM (fIpti)

283 In conclusion, the Colosseum in Rome is owned by the Italian government and is managed by the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum. Its ownership is a topic of debate and discussion, but for now, the Colosseum remains a symbol of Rome’s ancient past and a testament to the ingenuity and craftsmanship of the Roman Empire.

Shut up, Robot

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2024 04:39 PM (AC6Bk)

284 279 My cousin had one with little records that told you the result of the play. It might have been called Joe Namath football.

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 04:39 PM (KQk9m)

285 Going back further...anyone have one of those football games with the vibrating field? Set up offense/defense and turn it on. No-one went where you thought they would.

Posted by: Diddly Squat

I had one of those. YoungBroTim found it...disappointing.

Plus when it's the same two teams over and over again it got kinda old.
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2024 04:33 PM (OUMaO)

we had one, yeah the spinny RB was a trial.

I had a board game I bough that was pretty good except for the time I scored 200 points on my little brother. One of the defense options for screen pass was TD for offense. Bro's defense was all out blitz. He was so mad but he never changed the playcall

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:39 PM (n7h9X)

286 Luigi Mangione's LinkedIn page: Worked in an ASSISTED-LIVING FACILITY for the elderly for a few months in 2014, while still in high school. (NY Post) A 2020 University of Penn grad, ENGINEERING. Gamer.

Pittsburgh Gazette: "Where did Mr. Mangione go to school? Officials believe Mr. Mangione may have attended college in Pennsylvania, but his last known address was in HAWAII. He also has ties to California and Maryland, the NYPD said."
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Thomas Mathew Crooks - BBC: "... graduated in 2022 from Bethel Park High School with a $500 ... prize for maths and science, according to a local newspaper."

"Crooks worked in a local NURSING HOME home kitchen..."

"He attended the Community College of Allegheny, or CCAC, from 2021 to 2024 and graduated with an associate degree in ENGINEERING SCIENCE."

In a statement sent to the BBC, the college noted that he graduated "with high honours" and that a review of his records turned up no disciplinary issues."
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DOJ Press Release: Sep. 24, 2024, A federal grand jury in Miami late this afternoon returned an indictment charging Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, of HAWAAI, with attempting to kill former President..."

Owned a small construction company.
🤔

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow.. at December 09, 2024 04:40 PM (NFX2v)

287 As I recall, Biden was bringing back unvetted Afghans, dumping them in USA. A lot of the vetted Afghans were left behind. Team Biden was impeding their "rescue" by those outside the Biden Team Fiasco.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2024 04:40 PM (Cus5s)

288 Glad II isn't as good as Glad I but it's an OK diversion.

Joaquin was a great villain as Commodus and he's missed.

Ironcially, many involved in Glad I, Russel Crowe included, thought it was going to be a epic disaster.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2024 04:41 PM (Gqoy+)

289 No the one with the records was something else.

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 04:41 PM (KQk9m)

290 >
That former teacher obviously has no kids of her own. You never let a kid that young not use the bathroom. Never.
Posted by: Cheri at December 09, 2024 04:35 PM (oiNtH)

I think most modern schools actually have bathrooms in the classroom for kids that young.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 09, 2024 04:41 PM (W5ArC)

291 Had a board game called Talking Monday Night Football. It had a mini record player and vinyl discs you used to select your plays. The result was whatever the announcer on the record called out. So much fun playing that with my dear old dad

Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2024 04:41 PM (favqb)

292 nood

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 04:42 PM (hovnC)

293 We had a game with hockey players connected to rods, each could move in a certain range on slots in the surface. We played that thing to pieces.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2024 04:42 PM (RsS92)

294 Ignoramus: "I'm hoping that Biden issues blanket pardons including for Miss Piggy Liz Cheney."

I'm not getting this preemptory pardon stuff. How is it Constitutional to pardon people who have not been charged, tried, convicted, or sentenced to a crime? It's absurd. It's not like the Founders said, "OK, we have a special privilege that lets the President waive anybody from everything at any time so that he can empower illegality of any degree and make it disappear even if they're political actors targeting other politicians or even mass-murdering mobs. That's healthy for democratic survival and liberty."

There's no effin' way such a cavalier extreme of pardon power is legit.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 09, 2024 04:42 PM (aXxgO)

295 Joni Ernst's statement seems....nuanced.

Posted by: grammie's iPad at December 09, 2024 04:43 PM (SfhV1)

296 I quite regularly golf at Luigi Mangione's family golf course, Turf Valley, in Howard County MD and am very familiar with his cousin Nino, who is a delegate (43B) in the Maryland house. Funny guy and very conservative. He is kind of a regular on Wbal radio

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 09, 2024 04:44 PM (1FWWQ)

297 It's interesting how movies and TV shows about Rome and its gladiators, and the ancient Greeks, have been making big bucks the past twenty years. Steve Reeves (star of spaghetti swordsman movies such as Hercules Unchained and The Last Days of Pompeii) was born too early.
Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2024 04:33 PM (aBgBM)

They used to call gladiators "Barley Eaters" since they ate lots of Barley to get a layer of fat under the skin to act as armor to protect vital organs.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:44 PM (n7h9X)

298 It was this one Mattel talking football

https://www.ebay.com/p/1303454847

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 04:44 PM (KQk9m)

299 281 That's the one!

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2024 04:45 PM (KQk9m)

300 Going back further...anyone have one of those football games with the vibrating field? Set up offense/defense and turn it on. No-one went where you thought they would.
Posted by: Diddly Squat at December 09, 2024 04:31 PM (PH6K2)

My brothers did, in the early '60's.

Posted by: sal at December 09, 2024 04:45 PM (f+FmA)

301 "There's no effin' way such a cavalier extreme of pardon power is legit."

Do you believe in infant baptism?

Hell yeah, I've even seen it done!

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2024 04:45 PM (Gqoy+)

302 We had a game with hockey players connected to rods, each could move in a certain range on slots in the surface. We played that thing to pieces.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2024 04:42 PM (RsS92)

We had one of those...a defenseman could flick a goal across the ice without the other guy being able to block it with another player except by accident.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2024 04:46 PM (n7h9X)

303 I've been playing Jurassic World Evolution II and the Stegosauri are kind of assholes. You try to keep your dinosaurs content in their habitats so they will not try to escape and be more healthy. But the Stegosauri are all I'm lonely but if you put another in they fight!

Speaking of video games, didja see Musk's triumphant speed run on Diablo IV? Also . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 09, 2024 04:46 PM (L/fGl)

304 226 220 pudinhead: "Imma thinking the Bengals can beat the Cowboys tonight."

To be fair, a five-man high school team could beat the Cowboys this year.
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Well, umm, we are talking about the Bengals.
Posted by: pudinhead

WE WILL SNATCH DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY!!

Posted by: Cincinatti Bengals at December 09, 2024 04:47 PM (sAmhv)

305 like the football game that I had as a kid that was a matrix based on the offense and defense plays each player makes. You put your play card in and slide the lever to the play you choose . Then you hit the button that activates a light under the field revealing the result of that down.
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TALKING FOOTBALL
The offense chose a play..a lite plastic record and inserted it into the player. The defense rotated the record to choose the defense and the pushed the record all the way into the player. The play by play announcer gave the result of the chosen play/defense. Great game. Until my brother marked the records so he could see which defense killed which play.

Posted by: Bros don't like to lose to little bro at December 09, 2024 04:49 PM (EY4oe)

306 278 Please stop quoting Milo Y. His 15 minutes have been up for quite a while now
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 04:37 PM (oZhjI)

Nothing at all wrong with Milo. He was pilloried for saying out loud what everyone knew. He has turned from homosexuality to continence, in order to remain Catholic, against all odds, after being abused as a child. His statements are no more provocative than Alex Jones or any of the other bombasts we quote here.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 09, 2024 04:53 PM (byWhc)

307 The Pope needs rock down to Electric Avenue . . .

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