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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Dupre sunset.jpg

Sunset on the Coast
Jules Dupre

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2025 09:38 AM (WXNFJ)

2 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 17, 2025 09:38 AM (kgE5c)

3 It was a dark and stormy night.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2025 09:39 AM (WXNFJ)

4 Not first.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 17, 2025 09:39 AM (kgE5c)

5 Run aground.

Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2025 09:39 AM (Yj6Os)

6 Ooh, very nice. Worth waiting for. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

7 Jules was taking a bit of a holiday on this one. Bang it out, get rid of some old paint supplies.
Destined for a bank or insurance company lobby.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 17, 2025 09:40 AM (4780s)

8 I like how the clouds swirl round the empty center of the canvas but the focus is the red setting sun. It's a nice visual conflict. The whole work is lovely.

Posted by: Kris at January 17, 2025 09:40 AM (EwaUh)

9 The tide is low, but I'm holdin' on....

Posted by: Rejected Blondie Lyrics at January 17, 2025 09:40 AM (G5+As)

10 A dog barked . A maid screamed.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 09:40 AM (NUdiI)

11 "The impervious horrors of a leeward shore."

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 17, 2025 09:40 AM (LxER7)

12 The cabin boys will need comforting tonight.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 17, 2025 09:40 AM (+ZF0K)

13 Do we all take warning? Going to be cold in a few days

Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at January 17, 2025 09:41 AM (qHgX8)

14 Seems too dark out for the position of the sun.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 17, 2025 09:41 AM (FC8SQ)

15 I like this!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

16 Run aground.
Posted by: BignJames

*Round, round, round, round,
I run aground. . . *

-- The Beached Boys

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2025 09:41 AM (WXNFJ)

17 Jules Dupré (French, 1811-1889) (Artist)
ca. 1870-75

France, Cayeux (Place of Origin)

Measurements
H: 29 3/16 x W: 23 15/16 in. (74.1 x 60.8 cm); Framed H: 44 1/4 x W: 39 x D: 8 1/2 in. (112.4 x 99.06 x 21.59 cm)

The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2025 09:41 AM (gbOdA)

18 The sun is setting in the sky.
Teletubbies say, Bye, Bye!

Posted by: Tinky Winky and La-La at January 17, 2025 09:42 AM (G5+As)

19 The near boat appears to be sitting on a sand bar. Italian captain with a cocaine habit?

Posted by: huerfano at January 17, 2025 09:42 AM (DKIGo)

20 Sunset? I can barely make out the sun.

Posted by: dantesed at January 17, 2025 09:42 AM (Oy/m2)

21 Red sky at night
Sailor's delight!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2025 09:42 AM (dDmld)

22 14 Seems too dark out for the position of the sun.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 17, 2025 09:41 AM (FC8SQ)

--------

That's no sun.

Posted by: Obi Wan Baloney at January 17, 2025 09:43 AM (dDmld)

23 When I left the coast of Cayeux
I hadn't done what I'd come to do
Spent all the money I'd saved
Still did not get over you
No, I still did not get over you

Sorry JB

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2025 09:43 AM (gbOdA)

24 I find this painting to be inspirational.

Posted by: Roger Whitaker at January 17, 2025 09:43 AM (tT6L1)

25 Title checks out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2025 09:44 AM (Q4IgG)

26 Red sky at night
Sailor's delight!
Posted by: Cicero

When the Dugaks pick their noses, there will be rain before the daylight closes.

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

27 I like this one. I can hear the cantina music in the background as I'm chowing down on my fish tacos.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 17, 2025 09:44 AM (MsrgL)

28 The scandi ship established a foot hold on the American continent.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 09:44 AM (NUdiI)

29 All of Hunter's valuable masterpieces burnt to a crisp. Yet, this muddy mess survives. Life isn't fair.

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at January 17, 2025 09:44 AM (G5+As)

30 I'm detecting a thread running through all of the recent Threads, to wit, a complete lack of happy bushes.

But, hey, it's your painting.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at January 17, 2025 09:44 AM (a3Q+t)

31 Just trying to ketch yawl by the dinghy.
You can get away if you barquentine.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 17, 2025 09:44 AM (zdLoL)

32 People sailing off to their death.

One of the only two true types of art.

(The other being people shooting at each other in war.)

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2025 09:45 AM (sm6Pk)

33 It is currently 30 degrees here. It's been in the teens the last few days. This is a nice escape from the cold.

Posted by: Kris at January 17, 2025 09:45 AM (EwaUh)

34 Did the boat run aground? It must be the US Navy with a DEI skipper.

Posted by: Obi Wan Baloney at January 17, 2025 09:45 AM (dDmld)

35 30 I'm detecting a thread running through all of the recent Threads, to wit, a complete lack of happy bushes.

The missus caught us too early for that.

Posted by: that farmer yesterday at January 17, 2025 09:46 AM (m73ej)

36 *Round, round, run aground,
I run aground. . . *

-- The Beached Boys
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2025 09:41 AM


FIFY. You're welcome.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 17, 2025 09:46 AM (a3Q+t)

37 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2025 09:46 AM (gbOdA)

38 Moody! I like it.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2025 09:47 AM (u1uWe)

39 No dog. No cat. No horsey. No happy bush. No good. Not art.

Posted by: Art Cretin at January 17, 2025 09:47 AM (G5+As)

40 34 Did the boat run aground? It must be the US Navy with a DEI skipper.
Posted by: Obi Wan Baloney at January 17, 2025 09:45 AM (dDmld)

Capt Kirsten and Cdr Kirsten were not on speaking terms.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2025 09:47 AM (gbOdA)

41 Painting: it's a metaphor.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 17, 2025 09:48 AM (w7peH)

42 Moody! I like it.
Posted by: Lizzy


Glad to hear it. She was an inspired choice on my part.
-- Ron DeSantis

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

43 This is a good illustration of the scandi menace.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 09:48 AM (NUdiI)

44 38 Moody! I like it.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2025 09:47 AM (u1uWe)

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Moody? It's positively brigantine!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2025 09:49 AM (dDmld)

45
If looking East, this is "Sunrise on the Coast"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2025 09:49 AM (dxSpM)

46 So I'm sailing for tomorrow, my dreams might be dyin'
And my love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain
I have my ship and all her flags are a-flyin'
She's like a Godess that I have left, and Music is her name. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2025 09:49 AM (u1uWe)

47 Dark picture, (Perhaps it needs cleaning) but light on the water and little bit of pink on the clouds and the sun are very nice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2025 09:49 AM (MQJVv)

48 Would hang

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 17, 2025 09:50 AM (ezFBD)

49 Has anyone seen Muldoon around lately?

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 17, 2025 09:50 AM (+ZF0K)

50 Inspired me to write a song....

Posted by: Christopher Cross at January 17, 2025 09:50 AM (Q4IgG)

51 Mornin', Fen! Hope all is well with you and yours.

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

52 Thx CBD . Would hang.
By any chance is this a commentary on the sunsetting Biden administration?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2025 09:50 AM (pqMwI)

53 No sir, I don't like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDGlN6mluGA

Posted by: Mister Horse at January 17, 2025 09:51 AM (w7peH)

54 "Well, we're stuck on this sandbar until high tide, boys. Let's go into town and have Brandy serve us whisky and wine."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2025 09:51 AM (dDmld)

55 Run aground.
Posted by: BignJames

*Round, round, round, round,
I run aground. . . *

-- The Beached Boys
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2025 09:41 AM


My boat spins right round, baby, right round, on the anchor line....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 17, 2025 09:51 AM (kgE5c)

56 Sundown you better take care.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 09:51 AM (NUdiI)

57 [From behind the beached boat] Jim, me lad. Be a kind soul and bend over 'n pick up that doubloon I dropped, would ye?

Posted by: Teachers Union Long John Silver at January 17, 2025 09:51 AM (W9c/z)

58 Looks like one of those paintings that everyone assumed is dull and dark.
Until someone realizes it's just caked with soot and dust.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2025 09:51 AM (fPmNY)

59 Those are not happy little clouds.

Posted by: Bob Ross at January 17, 2025 09:52 AM (paSBy)

60 Who's up for some Yacht Rock?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 17, 2025 09:53 AM (LxER7)

61 58 Looks like one of those paintings that everyone assumed is dull and dark.
Until someone realizes it's just caked with soot and dust.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2025 09:51 AM (fPmNY)

The soot and dusts represents the Hard Times that make Hard Men.

The kind that sail off to war in order to bring Soft Times, which unfortunately makes Soft Men.

Which brings back the Hard Times.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2025 09:53 AM (sm6Pk)

62 >>People sailing off to their death.

That's a hull of a way to go. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2025 09:53 AM (u1uWe)

63 This is nice, would hang. I like the clouds.

No visible perverts is a bonus.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 17, 2025 09:54 AM (whIlM)

64 This fine work is fit to grace the breakfast bar of the classiest of Hampton Inns.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2025 09:54 AM (dDmld)

65 People sailing off to their death.

That's a hull of a way to go. . .
Posted by: Lizzy

Don't be so stern about it.

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

66 "Looks like one of those paintings that everyone assumed is dull and dark. Until someone realizes it's just caked with soot and dust."

You could plant potatoes in that one.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 17, 2025 09:55 AM (w7peH)

67 Hmmm,, I like it! Think I'll hobble over, get a closer look,

ow-ow-ow-OW

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at January 17, 2025 09:55 AM (5hfjS)

68 >>Who's up for some Yacht Rock?

*ahem*

See 46

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2025 09:55 AM (u1uWe)

69 which unfortunately makes Soft Men.
Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2025 09:53 AM


The water was cold!

Posted by: George Constanza at January 17, 2025 09:55 AM (a3Q+t)

70 Still25° here, but sunny, no wind. Been like this for days now, seldom getting above freezing. Winter.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 17, 2025 09:55 AM (4780s)

71 Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 17, 2025 09:56 AM (aD39U)

72 Happy little scurvy. - Captain Bob Ross

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 09:56 AM (NDaOW)

73 65 People sailing off to their death.

That's a hull of a way to go. . .
Posted by: Lizzy

Don't be so stern about it.
Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)


I keel you!

Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist , it works on so many levels at January 17, 2025 09:56 AM (PiwSw)

74 65 People sailing off to their death.

That's a hull of a way to go. . .
Posted by: Lizzy

Don't be so stern about it.
Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

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Her barque is worse than her bight.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2025 09:56 AM (dDmld)

75 Pleasant enough painting but I'd like it more if it was Tuner-esque in size and had the flashes of distant naval gunfire on the far horizon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2025 09:57 AM (5ugpO)

76 So anyone have a good yacht rock tune to go with this picture?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2025 09:57 AM (t0Rmr)

77 >>Don't be so stern about it.

Being keeled at sea is no laughing matter!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2025 09:58 AM (u1uWe)

78 Nice, but it needs a generous sprinkling of LEDs.

Posted by: Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light at January 17, 2025 09:58 AM (dDmld)

79 D'ya think CBD ever reads the first few decades of comments, and says "My work here is done."?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 17, 2025 09:58 AM (a3Q+t)

80 47 Dark picture, (Perhaps it needs cleaning) but light on the water and little bit of pink on the clouds and the sun are very nice.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Yes, it needs cleaning bigly! Decade after decade of coal smoke, tars and nicotine, and general grime have ruined this work. My proprietary blend of lacquer thinner, naptha, kerosene, acetone, transmission fluid, and wood alcohol, will brighten the muddy mess in seconds.

Posted by: Better Living Through Chemistry at January 17, 2025 09:58 AM (G5+As)

81 The soot and dusts represents the Hard Times that make Hard Men.


Personally I prefer hard men.

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 17, 2025 09:58 AM (t0Rmr)

82 This painting has the Christopher Cross Seal of Approval.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 09:59 AM (NDaOW)

83 Red sky at night
Kumala's blowin' all right

Red sky in mornin'
Kumala's been whorin'

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 17, 2025 09:59 AM (NMT5x)

84 I hope these stern comments won't push this thread off its course.

Posted by: dantesed at January 17, 2025 09:59 AM (Oy/m2)

85 >>So anyone have a good yacht rock tune to go with this picture?

https://tinyurl.com/4jump69y


Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2025 09:59 AM (u1uWe)

86 Yes, it needs cleaning bigly! Decade after decade of coal smoke, tars and nicotine, and general grime have ruined this work. My proprietary blend of lacquer thinner, naptha, kerosene, acetone, transmission fluid, and wood alcohol, will brighten the muddy mess in seconds.
Posted by: Better Living Through Chemistry at January 17, 2025 09:58 AM (G5+As)

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Bring my repair kit.

Posted by: Cecilia Gimenez at January 17, 2025 09:59 AM (dDmld)

87 80 Cleanse it with fire.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 17, 2025 09:59 AM (w7peH)

88 One thing I realized about our Art Thread, that we should be thankful for, of all the bad paintings, we've at least never had to endure "public art."

"We've spent $500 million on our new building. We need some sort of art out front."
"How about a metal monstrosity that offends the eye, the palate and the stomach simultaneously?"
"Perfect!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2025 09:59 AM (fPmNY)

89 76 So anyone have a good yacht rock tune to go with this picture?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2025 09:57 AM (t0Rmr)

Sailing
Key Largo
Sloop John B

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2025 10:00 AM (gbOdA)

90 Where are the yacht girls? You can't have Cannes without yacht girls.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 17, 2025 10:00 AM (a3Q+t)

91 >>I hope these stern comments won't push this thread off its course.

Will try to be more compass-ionate!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2025 10:00 AM (u1uWe)

92 "How about a metal monstrosity that offends the eye, the palate and the stomach simultaneously?"

Don't forget to offend the wallet.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 17, 2025 10:01 AM (w7peH)

93 Public Art is the topper on the Soviet wedding cake.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:01 AM (NDaOW)

94 "My work here is done."?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 17, 2025 09:58 AM (a3Q+t)


My work won't be done until I post a month-long Freud-Albright retrospective!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 17, 2025 10:02 AM (mQF7i)

95 Did the boat run aground? It must be the US Navy with a DEI skipper.
*********
Could be DEI from New Zealand.

Posted by: Cosda at January 17, 2025 10:03 AM (hpd3o)

96 >>One thing I realized about our Art Thread, that we should be thankful for, of all the bad paintings, we've at least never had to endure "public art."

"We've spent $500 million on our new building. We need some sort of art out front."
"How about a metal monstrosity that offends the eye, the palate and the stomach simultaneously?"
"Perfect!"
- - - - -

Nothing will ever top the sad tale of "Blucifer," the demonic blue bronco sculpture that graces the Denver International Airport

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2025 10:03 AM (u1uWe)

97 Does Trump have a yacht? You'd think he would, but I never hear of one.

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

98 Now that's gorgeous.

Wood hang.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:03 AM (fV+MH)

99 Sunset on the golden age.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 10:04 AM (VwHCD)

100 "How about a metal monstrosity that offends the eye, the palate and the stomach simultaneously?"
"Perfect!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

"Tilted Arc" in NYC was the ultimate in public metal monstrosities. It lasted a good decade before public outcry lead to it's removal. A rusted, ugly mess, that ruined a plaza. Reminded me of a rusty bulkhead at a second-rate beach.

Posted by: Rustoleum Ralph at January 17, 2025 10:04 AM (G5+As)

101 >>So anyone have a good yacht rock tune to go with this picture?



Helloooooooooooo?!

Posted by: Jimmy Buffet at January 17, 2025 10:04 AM (u1uWe)

102 It appears to be impossible to have good art made with Big Govt funds.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2025 10:04 AM (gbOdA)

103 See me at 23

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2025 10:05 AM (gbOdA)

104 Would drink sodapop from a red tumbler while eating pizza under this painting.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:05 AM (NDaOW)

105 I'm thinking more Spanish classical guitar.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:05 AM (fV+MH)

106 STEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRNNNNN!!!

Posted by: Hanover Fiste at January 17, 2025 10:06 AM (W9c/z)

107 97 Does Trump have a yacht? You'd think he would, but I never hear of one.
Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

Monday he is getting about 296, does that count.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2025 10:06 AM (gbOdA)

108 They're getting down, getting funky at Governor Kathy's State of the State address.

https://is.gd/el6aU4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 17, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

109 Nothing will ever top the sad tale of "Blucifer," the demonic blue bronco sculpture that graces the Denver International Airport
---
I sorta recall that story.
It's pathetically hilarious.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2025 10:06 AM (fPmNY)

110 My work won't be done until I post a month-long Freud-Albright retrospective!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 17, 2025 10:02 AM


There's at least one of Freud's works that will please fans of the Bob Ross School of Art.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 17, 2025 10:06 AM (a3Q+t)

111 The Walters Museum web site starts off its "About" section with "Black Lives Matter" and they have a special "Land Acknowledgment" section too.

Those folks don't miss anything.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2025 10:07 AM (vXJN8)

112 Now that's gorgeous.

Wood hang.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:03 AM


*narrows eyes*

Posted by: Natalie at January 17, 2025 10:07 AM (kgE5c)

113 Where are the yacht girls? You can't have Cannes without yacht girls.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I'd go, but I'd have to take Archie and Lillibet along. Harry's too stupid to be left in charge of them.
-- Megan Markle

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

114 Needs more nymphs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 10:08 AM (NUdiI)

115 101 >>So anyone have a good yacht rock tune to go with this picture?

Here you go.

https://youtu.be/Zx6dgEgbMNU

Posted by: Blondie Chaplin at January 17, 2025 10:08 AM (PiwSw)

116 Would drink sodapop from a red tumbler while eating pizza under this painting.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:05 AM (NDaOW)

Shakey's Pizza?

Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2025 10:08 AM (Yj6Os)

117 Wood hang.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:03 AM


Lana's appearance in Diamonds are Forever was memorable.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 17, 2025 10:08 AM (a3Q+t)

118 116.

Yep.

Always good to find my people.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:09 AM (NDaOW)

119 The original trilogy.

https://is.gd/zgWKlz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 17, 2025 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

120 No lines of red food dye?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 10:10 AM (NUdiI)

121 97 Does Trump have a yacht? You'd think he would, but I never hear of one.
Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
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Doesn't the story go that he was trying to assess the cost of running for President in 2014, and decided it was about the same as buying a yacht, so he decided against the yacht. Thankfully.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2025 10:10 AM (vXJN8)

122 >>I sorta recall that story.
It's pathetically hilarious.



He kept demanding more money to complete the sculpture -- then the sculpture toppled over and completed him!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2025 10:11 AM (u1uWe)

123 I'm going to comb my hair like Trump Monday. And buy a limited edition print of this painting for my garage gym.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:11 AM (NDaOW)

124 Magnificent work. The beauty and serenity of this painting is incredible.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 17, 2025 10:11 AM (qWx1P)

125 Where are the yacht girls? You can't have Cannes without yacht girls.
Posted by: Duncanthrax



And you can't have yacht girls without cans!

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 17, 2025 10:12 AM (NMT5x)

126 Sunsets should make one think, "This is nice."

This particular sunset fails the mission. Would not hang, but I might give it to an emo girl with an unhealthy desire to feed her depression.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2025 10:12 AM (TsWE7)

127 My work won't be done until I post a month-long Freud-Albright retrospective!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

History Made.

https://is.gd/GQrxUL

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 17, 2025 10:13 AM (L/fGl)

128 116.

Yep.

Always good to find my people.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:09 AM (NDaOW)

They're still in business...that's a surprise.

Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2025 10:13 AM (Yj6Os)

129 Art, like religion, is always spoiled by government patronage.

Separation of church and state is a well known phrase, but it applies equally to art because inevitably it ends up with elites using taxpayer money to stick it to the proles.

Privatize the gains, put the losses on the public.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:13 AM (ctrM5)

130 Doesn't the story go that he was trying to assess the cost of running for President in 2014, and decided it was about the same as buying a yacht, so he decided against the yacht. Thankfully.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2025 10:10 AM (vXJN
----
Yachts are nothing more than expensive money pits. Cool to have, I guess, but yacht captains will tell you that the best you can do running a yacht as a business (i.e., charters) is break even.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 10:14 AM (7fElN)

131 No dog. Not art.

Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:14 AM (VnUSN)

132 Looks like a location where the humidity is awful year-round. If that was what the artist was trying for, he succeeded.

This dates to the 1870s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 10:15 AM (J2vNu)

133 Heard it here first:

FRANKLIN MINT COMMEMORATIVE PLATES featuring liberal faces captured during the Trump Inauguararation.
That is art.


I will buy a yacht with this. And an island to sail it to.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:16 AM (NDaOW)

134 When I think about boats I always remember a quote from that Pawn Shop guy.

"A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into."

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:16 AM (fV+MH)

135 "Art, like religion, is always spoiled by government patronage."

I'm not saying it's 'great' art, nor that it was a good use of public money, but I like some of the stuff that came out of the WPA.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 17, 2025 10:16 AM (w7peH)

136 Hmmm…I think I like this, though it looks a bit dark and stormy vs. beautiful sunset over the water.

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2025 10:16 AM (pZEOD)

137 Today's "nature is healing" news: Steak & Shake announced they're switching their fries to beef tallow.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:17 AM (2ocoG)

138 Super foggy out on the water this morning. All the boats are tooting at each other. I can't see the city across the water!

Toot toot!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 17, 2025 10:17 AM (z+bbR)

139 When I think about boats I always remember a quote from that Pawn Shop guy.

"A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into."


A house is the same thing, but on land.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:17 AM (2ocoG)

140 B ring
O n
A nother
T housand (10x that for over 30 feet)

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2025 10:17 AM (gbOdA)

141 There are (were) places along the Gulf of Mexico in Florida that at low tide you could walk about a quarter mile into the water and it'd only be up to your waste.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2025 10:18 AM (Q4IgG)

142 It's not even on velvet. And there's no black light.

Posted by: Elvis at January 17, 2025 10:18 AM (paSBy)

143 138 Super foggy out on the water this morning. All the boats are tooting at each other. I can't see the city across the water!

Toot toot!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 17, 2025 10:17 AM (z+bbR)

When foggy on the bay your can hear the boats at my house

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2025 10:18 AM (gbOdA)

144 "When you see the Southern Cross for the first time,
You'll understand now why you came this way . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 10:19 AM (J2vNu)

145 141 There are (were) places along the Gulf of Mexico in Florida that at low tide you could walk about a quarter mile into the water and it'd only be up to your waste.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January

And right then is when the thug sharks come and eat you!

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2025 10:19 AM (p4NUW)

146 Yachts are nothing more than expensive money pits. Cool to have, I guess, but yacht captains will tell you that the best you can do running a yacht as a business (i.e., charters) is break even.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 10:14 AM (7fElN)

I was under the impression the purpose of a yacht is to enlist the services of B-list Hollowood has-beens, to come service Saudi princes and other potentates you are trying to do business with.

So the yacht itself is not really supposed to yield a profit, it's a business expense, just as the yacht girls are.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:19 AM (lH8E4)

147 Where are the yacht girls? You can't have Cannes without yacht girls.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 17, 2025 10:00 AM (a3Q+t)

The converse is also true.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 10:21 AM (8zz6B)

148 "A house is the same thing, but on land.
Posted by: Ian S."

But you're always in the house.

Owning a boat is like owning a horse.

Nobody gets tired of owning a house.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:21 AM (fV+MH)

149 131 No dog. Not art.
Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:14 AM (VnUSN)

Oh, wait:

10 A dog barked . A maid screamed.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 09:40 AM (NUdiI)

Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:21 AM (VnUSN)

150 There are (were) places along the Gulf of Mexico in Florida that at low tide you could walk about a quarter mile into the water and it'd only be up to your waste.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2025


***
I remember doing that along the Gulf Coast near Biloxi in the '70s, near where the Silver Slipper Casino is now (or maybe it was there then and I've forgotten). the salty water gave us all the strong desire for pizza.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 10:21 AM (J2vNu)

151 Supreme Court upholds law requiring China-based TikTok to divest

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 10:22 AM (RHGPo)

152 If you think owning a boat is expensive, just try racing!

It has been described as "standing in a cold shower, burning $100 bills as fast as you can."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 17, 2025 10:22 AM (mQF7i)

153 142 It's not even on velvet. And there's no black light.
Posted by: Elvis at January 17, 2025 10:18 AM (paSBy)

This is the reverse.

Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:22 AM (VnUSN)

154 134 When I think about boats I always remember a quote from that Pawn Shop guy.

"A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into."
Posted by: eleven at January

We have a boat and this is true. It has all kinds of fishing technology on it, yet nary a fish has been brought home. I am beginning to believe it was all a big lie to convince me the boat was a good idea…

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2025 10:23 AM (p4NUW)

155 151 Supreme Court upholds law requiring China-based TikTok to divest
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 10:22 AM (RHGPo)

It was obvious they were gonna do that.. I still don't understand why Trump wants to allow China to "own" it.. He must have a reason

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 10:23 AM (VE6XX)

156 A house is the same thing, but on land.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:17 AM (2ocoG)

A house holds all your stuff. A boat will hold a limited amount of your stuff, and you have to carry all your stuff FROM your house, to your boat, and back again.

Better to just leave your stuff in your house.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:23 AM (p2iSj)

157 Where are the yacht girls? You can't have Cannes without yacht girls.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 17, 2025 10:00 AM (a3Q+t)

The converse is also true.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Horde mind #125 !

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 17, 2025 10:23 AM (NMT5x)

158 Coming soon to Cannes - yacht bunnies in burkas.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2025 10:23 AM (EOKFz)

159 "A boat is a hole in the water into which the owner throws money."

"Any marriages performed by the master of this vessel are valid only for the duration of the cruise."

"O Lord, Thy sea is so vast and my boat is so small."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 10:23 AM (J2vNu)

160 Yachts are nothing more than expensive money pits. Cool to have, I guess, but yacht captains will tell you that the best you can do running a yacht as a business (i.e., charters) is break even.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 10:14 AM (7fElN)

David Geffen's yacht was anchored at Charleston once...not sure I'd call it a "yacht".

Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2025 10:24 AM (Yj6Os)

161 NYPost: LA residents whose homes burnt down in wildfires will still have to pay off mortgages, property taxes

.. same as North Carolina

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 10:25 AM (RHGPo)

162 Owning a boat... go to the store and anything with the word "Marine" on it that your boat requires will be 5X whatever the same piece costs for anything else.

Because... "marine."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2025 10:25 AM (Q4IgG)

163 Oh, wait:

10 A dog barked . A maid screamed.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 09:40 AM (NUdiI)
Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:21 AM (VnUSN)

Or, the dog screamed. A maid barked.

Posted by: Directed by David Lynch at January 17, 2025 10:25 AM (iODuv)

164 Supremes upheld the TikTok ban.

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2025 10:26 AM (p4NUW)

165 A house holds all your stuff. A boat will hold a limited amount of your stuff, and you have to carry all your stuff FROM your house, to your boat, and back again.

Right, but they're both money pits.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:26 AM (2ocoG)

166 Today's "nature is healing" news: Steak & Shake announced they're switching their fries to beef tallow.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:17 AM



Hail Trump.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 17, 2025 10:26 AM (aD39U)

167 Supreme Court upholds law requiring China-based TikTok to divest
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 10:22 AM (RHGPo)

It was obvious they were gonna do that.. I still don't understand why Trump wants to allow China to "own" it.. He must have a reason
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 10:23 AM (VE6XX)

I'm not sure what the problem with Tik Tok is. Everyone's data is being handed over to Chi Nah?

Yeah? And??

Handing it over to oligarchs is what we do, whether they are Chinese or American or who knows what. Big Tech owns you already. I don't see how government preventing foreigners from having it makes any difference... because it's going to end up in the foreigners' hands anyway, since half our politicians are already bought by Chi Nah.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:26 AM (p2iSj)

168 If the dig screamed and the maid barked, who is Sam Brinton Alex.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2025 10:26 AM (EOKFz)

169 "O Lord, Thy sea is so vast and my boat is so small."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 10:23 AM (J2vNu)

That's what she said. Or sumpthin'.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 17, 2025 10:27 AM (iODuv)

170 Lookit that thar hash:

Boss Moss ... (NUdiI)

Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:27 AM (VnUSN)

171 We have a boat and this is true. It has all kinds of fishing technology on it, yet nary a fish has been brought home. I am beginning to believe it was all a big lie to convince me the boat was a good idea…

----------

The great thing about marine electronics is that you never have enough of them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2025 10:27 AM (dDmld)

172 But you're always in the house.

Owning a boat is like owning a horse.

Nobody gets tired of owning a house.


I definitely wouldn't say that. It's just the alternatives also suck.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:27 AM (2ocoG)

173 Ben Had's Horse Emporium disagrees

Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2025 10:29 AM (oT+t6)

174 Red sky at night…..

Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2025 10:29 AM (jgmnb)

175 Right, but they're both money pits.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:26 AM (2ocoG)

https://tinyurl.com/3bhwe5tf

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:29 AM (uGsHF)

176 If only you could teach a horse to maintain a boat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2025 10:29 AM (dDmld)

177 We are going about half speed. It is FOGGY!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 17, 2025 10:30 AM (qFEQT)

178 Song about the artist?

https://youtu.be/Q6Qa2ICfu5M

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 10:30 AM (8zz6B)

179 I just saw a comment disappear.

Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:30 AM (VnUSN)

180 167 Supreme Court upholds law requiring China-based TikTok to divest
Posted by: SMOD

It was obvious they were gonna do that.. I still don't understand why Trump wants to allow China to "own" it.. He must have a reason
Posted by: It's me donna
======
During the end of his first term, he was trying to get Tik Tok under American or friendly country ownership. Ran out of time.

Killing Tik Tok is going to piss off a lot of Gen Z types, some of which voted for Trump because they use it and like it. That is why Biden and the junta scheduled it to go into effect one day before Trump's inauguration. That, like some other things raising the price of oil (new sanctions on Russia), raised the inflation rate in December and thus mortgages to over 7 percent. The Dems are trying to tank the economy essentially.

There is another problem in that such a law creates precedent to go after Rumble, and other services that may be owned by foreigners (Rumble's owners are Canadian I think though the company moved to US due to Canadian censorship).

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:31 AM (ctrM5)

181 How's the Noem hearing going?

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

182 Old and busted: Four score and seven years ago . . .

New and cool: AOC Goes on Unhinged Rant in the House, Claims Republicans Want to "Examine Little Girls’ Genitals"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 17, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)

183 165 A house holds all your stuff. A boat will hold a limited amount of your stuff, and you have to carry all your stuff FROM your house, to your boat, and back again.

Right, but they're both money pits.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:26 AM (2ocoG)
And how big is your safe? Is you boat big enough?

Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2025 10:31 AM (jgmnb)

184 179 I just saw a comment disappear.
Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:30 AM (VnUSN)

A Banee

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 10:31 AM (VE6XX)

185 >>How's the Noem hearing going?

Still hawt

Posted by: Senator One Hour Sober at January 17, 2025 10:31 AM (Y1sOo)

186 I definitely wouldn't say that. It's just the alternatives also suck.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:27 AM (2ocoG)

A boat doesn't eat when you aren't riding it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 10:32 AM (8zz6B)

187 Joan Plowright, age 95, is pining for the fjords.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2025 10:32 AM (EOKFz)

188 David Geffen's yacht was anchored at Charleston once...not sure I'd call it a "yacht".
Posted by: BignJames
=======
Ah yes, Geffen is the gay version of Harvey Weinstein except he hasn't been disgraced yet.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:32 AM (ctrM5)

189 184 179 I just saw a comment disappear.
Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:30 AM (VnUSN)

A Banee
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 10:31 AM (VE6XX)

Ah.

Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:32 AM (VnUSN)

190 And how big is your safe? Is you boat big enough?

Y'all are way too hung up on this. I'm not saying you shouldn't have a house, I'm just making the pretty common observation that houses are also money pits. That's the entire theme of CBD's First World Problems thread on Sundays.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:32 AM (2ocoG)

191 And how big is your safe? Is you boat big enough?
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2025 10:31 AM (jgmnb)

Just big enough for a weekend in Maui.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:32 AM (uGsHF)

192 "Since the days of the first wooden vessels, all ship captins have had one happy privilege . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

193 I hear the name Jupes Dupre and all I can think of is Reggie..... LeDoux.....

Posted by: ... at January 17, 2025 10:33 AM (vGi12)

194 This is a very conservative decision - Congress passed a law, they had the authority to pass that law, and so now the law is the law. Doesn’t matter who likes it or not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2025 10:33 AM (0fHLt)

195 I got nuthin'.

Posted by: Gordon Lightfoot at January 17, 2025 10:33 AM (fQmeC)

196 Doll Eyes Alex should ask Joey about that stuff.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2025 10:33 AM (EOKFz)

197 >>How's the Noem hearing going?

I expect they're all still barking away.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 17, 2025 10:33 AM (LxER7)

198 194 This is a very conservative decision - Congress passed a law, they had the authority to pass that law, and so now the law is the law. Doesn’t matter who likes it or not.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2025 10:33 AM (0fHLt)

I agree.. Just curious why Trump was against it

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 10:34 AM (VE6XX)

199 A boat doesn't eat when you aren't riding it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 10:32 AM (8zz6B)

---------

True, but it occupies an expensive slip all the time. And rust and corrosion never sleep, per Neil Young.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2025 10:34 AM (dDmld)

200 Authorities Preparing For "Worst Case Scenarios" Ahead Of Trump Inauguration

Pilots scanning DC for "nuclear irregularities"...

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 10:34 AM (RHGPo)

201 200

Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:34 AM (VnUSN)

202 192 "Since the days of the first wooden vessels, all ship captins have had one happy privilege . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 10:32 AM (J2vNu)


Oooh, oohh, I know this one!

Posted by: Cap'n Bill Kristol at January 17, 2025 10:34 AM (PiwSw)

203 197 >>How's the Noem hearing going?

I expect they're all still barking away.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 17, 2025 10:33 AM (LxER7)

Noem sayin'?

Posted by: m at January 17, 2025 10:34 AM (VnUSN)

204 David Geffen's yacht was anchored at Charleston once...not sure I'd call it a "yacht".
Posted by: BignJames
=======
Ah yes, Geffen is the gay version of Harvey Weinstein except he hasn't been disgraced yet.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:32 AM (ctrM5)

Weinstein?

Nah, Geffen is bigger than that. Bigger than Jeff Epstein, even.

The biggest pedo runners are Geffen and Lex Wexner, and Quincy Jones was too.

These are the guys who make sure upstarts like Weinstein and Diddy go to prison.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:35 AM (uGsHF)

205 "When you see the Southern Cross for the first time,
You'll understand now why you came this way . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 10:19 AM (J2vNu)


I assume that line is about dating a young woman with a tattoo on her ass.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 10:35 AM (ExV1e)

206 200 Authorities Preparing For "Worst Case Scenarios" Ahead Of Trump Inauguration

Pilots scanning DC for "nuclear irregularities"...
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 10:34 AM (RHGPo)

Is that why some Dems aren't going ? President Pelosi ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX)

207 >>How's the Noem hearing going?


I don't know about the hearing, but the sighting ain't bad!

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 17, 2025 10:36 AM (NMT5x)

208 Y'all are way too hung up on this. I'm not saying you shouldn't have a house, I'm just making the pretty common observation that houses are also money pits. That's the entire theme of CBD's First World Problems thread on Sundays.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Depends using several different variables such as marginal tax rates, income, rental prices versus cost of mortgage, taxes, etc, commuting distances, anticipated length of residing there, and so on. Then there are intrinsic factors involving psyche, liberty to do as one pleases, etc. that are difficult to quantify.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:36 AM (ctrM5)

209 When I was married, we owned a little 25 foot Catalina sailboat. It was perfect for our little family to go up into the San Juan Islands for a week or so.

Now, I would just charter if I had the hankering.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 17, 2025 10:37 AM (u7ynv)

210 I agree.. Just curious why Trump was against it

There's evidence that a lot of Trump's added votes this election came from when he started posting videos on TikTok. PDJT himself has said so.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:37 AM (2ocoG)

211 This is a very conservative decision - Congress passed a law, they had the authority to pass that law, and so now the law is the law. Doesn’t matter who likes it or not.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2025 10:33 AM (0fHLt)

Right, Congress said we don't want Chi Nah harvesting data to spy on the American people. That's our job.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:37 AM (uGsHF)

212 I was under the impression the purpose of a yacht is to enlist the services of B-list Hollowood has-beens, to come service Saudi princes and other potentates you are trying to do business with.

Rumor has it that plenty of A-list actresses are willing to entertain.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 10:37 AM (ExV1e)

213 "Since the days of the first wooden vessels, all ship captins have had one happy privilege . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 10:32 AM (J2vNu)



Primae Noctis.

Posted by: Captain Stubing at January 17, 2025 10:37 AM (aD39U)

214 Civilization: It was nice while it lasted.

Dozens Arrested for Looting in Fire-Stricken California Communities

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 17, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

215 Y'all are way too hung up on this. I'm not saying you shouldn't have a house, I'm just making the pretty common observation that houses are also money pits. That's the entire theme of CBD's First World Problems thread on Sundays.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Depends using several different variables such as marginal tax rates, income, rental prices versus cost of mortgage, taxes, etc, commuting distances, anticipated length of residing there, and so on. Then there are intrinsic factors involving psyche, liberty to do as one pleases, etc. that are difficult to quantify.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:36 AM (ctrM5)

I was just using the point so I could paraphrase a George Carlin bit.

Which I conveniently posted above.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:38 AM (uGsHF)

216 True, but it occupies an expensive slip all the time. And rust and corrosion never sleep, per Neil Young.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2025 10:34 AM (dDmld)

Well, it can sit on a trailer in your yard, unless you have a Nazi HOA.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 10:38 AM (8zz6B)

217 We are going about half speed. It is FOGGY!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 17, 2025 10:30 AM (qFEQT)

Got berg look outs?

Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2025 10:38 AM (Yj6Os)

218 >>Handing it over to oligarchs is what we do, whether they are Chinese or American or who knows what. Big Tech owns you already. I don't see how government preventing foreigners from having it makes any difference... because it's going to end up in the foreigners' hands anyway, since half our politicians are already bought by Chi Nah.

Our government compiles huge databases of info on Americans, leaves them inadequately secured, at which point they are “hacked” by our oligarch’s business partners in China.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 17, 2025 10:39 AM (FC8SQ)

219 I agree.. Just curious why Trump was against it
Posted by: It's me donna
====
He is not against it per se and has said so, but he prefers that the property go to US friendly ownership rather than be shut down. He was instigating the sell or shutdown of Tik Tok late in his first term. Biden and Congress formalized it later by passing a specific law (Scotus just declined challenge) to ban it, with or without a sale.

Funny thing though is that if Tik Tok is forced to shut down, US taxpayers may be on the hook for billions if the law is viewed by Scotus as a 'taking' of property. Regulations and laws making a property valueless have been held to be so in the past.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:40 AM (ctrM5)

220 This painting has a certain vibe. It feels like what you'd find in a thrift shop and buy it to get the frame, or what you might see on the wall in your Dad's basement den in about 1974. That said, I like it.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at January 17, 2025 10:40 AM (QdGJh)

221 " If only you could teach a horse to maintain a boat.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)"

If only cats would tidy things up once in a while.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:40 AM (fV+MH)

222 I was under the impression the purpose of a yacht is to enlist the services of B-list Hollowood has-beens, to come service Saudi princes and other potentates you are trying to do business with.
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Rumor has it that plenty of A-list actresses are willing to entertain.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 10:37 AM (ExV1e)

I don't doubt there are no limits here, it's just a question of price. I would however, contend there aren't really any A-listers left.

Who is an A-list actress? Jennifer Laurence? Emma Stone? Anya Taylor-Joy?

A pale list (yes, I mean that both ways) compared to days gone by.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:40 AM (uGsHF)

223 "Since the days of the first wooden vessels, all ship captains have had one happy privilege . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025
*
Primae Noctis.
Posted by: Captain Stubing at January 17, 2025


***
I was gonna write droit de seigneur, but you got there first.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 10:40 AM (J2vNu)

224 "Since the days of the first wooden vessels, all ship captins have had one happy privilege . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Rum, sodomy and the lash...that's all one, right?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 17, 2025 10:40 AM (fQmeC)

225 Sounds like a TB ward here at Sky Harbor.

Gonna catch East Nile Genital Gigantism Ebolaids from these freaks.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:41 AM (phaVN)

226 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Sunset??? I slept the day thru!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2025 10:41 AM (W/lyH)

227 Who is an A-list actress? Jennifer Laurence? Emma Stone? Anya Taylor-Joy?

A pale list (yes, I mean that both ways) compared to days gone by.
Posted by: BurtTC


Nicole Kidman.

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

228 It was obvious they were gonna do that.. I still don't understand why Trump wants to allow China to "own" it.. He must have a reason
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 10:23 AM (VE6XX)


I suppose part of it could be concern about Chynah stealing (more) from the US companies doing business in China for, essentially, no benefit since TikTok is a symptom, not a cause.

It was, like most modern legislation, poorly conceived, poorly written, and passed for reasons which have nothing to do with bettering the lives of ordinary Americans.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

229 I was just using the point so I could paraphrase a George Carlin bit.

Which I conveniently posted above.
Posted by: BurtTC
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I have learned to never click links here at AOS unless it is Joe Mannix. His cheesecake photos have never been something of nightmares like Admiral Ackbar's.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:41 AM (ctrM5)

230 Depends using several different variables such as marginal tax rates, income, rental prices versus cost of mortgage, taxes, etc, commuting distances, anticipated length of residing there, and so on. Then there are intrinsic factors involving psyche, liberty to do as one pleases, etc. that are difficult to quantify.

I am not saying you should not own a house, just that it's frequently a pain in the ass. If you've never had to replace the HVAC or call a plumber or electrician or roofer, good for you. That's not the common experience though.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:42 AM (2ocoG)

231

President Biden
@POTUS
·
30m
Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified:

The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.

What is even happening right now?

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2025 10:42 AM (p4NUW)

232 A house holds all your stuff. A boat will hold a limited amount of your stuff, and you have to carry all your stuff FROM your house, to your boat, and back again.

You could have a big boat and no house. That would solve these issues.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

233 Thanks for blowing the margins, SMOD.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 17, 2025 10:42 AM (n1B4F)

234 I'm starting to think Show Biz is politics for ugly people.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:42 AM (fV+MH)

235 Our government compiles huge databases of info on Americans, leaves them inadequately secured, at which point they are “hacked” by our oligarch’s business partners in China.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 17, 2025 10:39 AM (FC8SQ)

I would even go so far as to suggest Chi Nah only wants to sell us cheap shit we don't need.

Our government, and the Great Reset Euroweenies want to rule our lives.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:42 AM (uGsHF)

236 I have learned to never click links here at AOS unless it is Joe Mannix. His cheesecake photos have never been something of nightmares like Admiral Ackbar's.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:41 AM (ctrM5)

Now, now. I gave you a perfectly cromulent link to a classic East Coast blues tune.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 10:45 AM (8zz6B)

237 Who is an A-list actress? Jennifer Laurence? Emma Stone? Anya Taylor-Joy?

A pale list (yes, I mean that both ways) compared to days gone by.
Posted by: BurtTC


Nicole Kidman.
Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

Even Sydney Sweeney. Love the melons, but she looks like she's made of porcelain and of course she's never actually STARRED in anything worth watching.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:45 AM (uGsHF)

238 I suppose part of it could be concern about Chynah stealing (more) from the US companies doing business in China for, essentially, no benefit since TikTok is a symptom, not a cause.

The hilarious thing is that a bunch of younger people signed up for Red Star or whatever the actual available-in-China equivalent is, and they're horrified to see Chinese people posting things (in English) like "there are only two genders" and "there is no LGBTQ, you're either gay or not".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:45 AM (2ocoG)

239 TikTok is asshoe - Supremes featuring Diana Ross.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:45 AM (phaVN)

240 You could have a big boat and no house. That would solve these issues.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

Tell that to Gilligan and the Skipper.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:46 AM (ltVPJ)

241 Margot Robbie is pretty big.

Posted by: ... at January 17, 2025 10:46 AM (vGi12)

242 I've got the Joy Joy Joy Joy down in my Reid.

Joy Reid explains the fires.

https://is.gd/ANnSKz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 17, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

243 Biden is talking about the ERA and claiming it is the 28th Amendment, a thing he has no power to decide.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2025 10:46 AM (0fHLt)

244 That's the Christmas song I missed this year.
I saw three ships.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ccmOPbqGsk

Posted by: DaveA at January 17, 2025 10:47 AM (FhXTo)

245 I would even go so far as to suggest Chi Nah only wants to sell us cheap shit we don't need.

Our government, and the Great Reset Euroweenies want to rule our lives.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:42 AM (uGsHF)

Agreed. I don’t like or trust the Chinese, but they’re far less of a threat to my liberty than our homegrown commies and oligarchs.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 17, 2025 10:47 AM (FC8SQ)

246 238 The hilarious thing is that a bunch of younger people signed up for Red Star or whatever the actual available-in-China equivalent is, and they're horrified to see Chinese people posting things (in English) like "there are only two genders" and "there is no LGBTQ, you're either gay or not".
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:45 AM (2ocoG)

Colloquially called "RedNote", but actually translates to "Little Red Book", as in Mao's Little Red Book.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2025 10:47 AM (sm6Pk)

247 Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified:

The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.

What is even happening right now?


Uhh, the President has no power to say anything about Constitutional amendments. Also, the ERA's a lot less meaningful in an era where the official government policy is that men are better women than women.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:48 AM (2ocoG)

248 Joe Biden decalres that the next Amendment should be more comfortable Depends.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:48 AM (phaVN)

249 The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.

What is even happening right now?
Posted by: Piper

Potholes for Trump and pro troon/gay. Biden (and presidents in general) have no constitutional role over amendments. Case regarding the ERA is already settled law as Scotus declared in the 30's that Congress had the power and has exercised such power to limit ratification to 7 years. Left undecided (with only a district court ruling in Idaho in the 80's--mebbe 1982) whether a later Congress could extend the date of ratification.

But that gets into whether states could de ratify amendments to the Constitution which I think three states did between the original 7 year limit for the ERA and the extension to 10 years. The exact dates are from memory.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:48 AM (ctrM5)

250 Wahlgreens leaving San FranCisco.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 10:48 AM (NUdiI)

251 Project 2025 and growing anti-science sentiment threaten to undermine several critical scientific institutions.

50,000 Scientists Beg Congress to Protect Science As Trump Prepares to Take Office

If their arguments were valid, it would only take one scientist

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 10:48 AM (RHGPo)

252 And I, Tonya is a nice little movie. I think because I wasn't expecting much at all. They gave it a Goodfellas sort of vibe which somehow worked. We watched it on the teevee, I need to watch it in my theater.

Posted by: ... at January 17, 2025 10:48 AM (vGi12)

253 I would even go so far as to suggest Chi Nah only wants to sell us cheap shit we don't need.

Our government, and the Great Reset Euroweenies want to rule our lives.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:42 AM (uGsHF)

Agreed. I don’t like or trust the Chinese, but they’re far less of a threat to my liberty than our homegrown commies and oligarchs.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 17, 2025 10:47 AM (FC8SQ)

Why, it's almost like our propaganda machine has to give us foreign bogeymen, to keep us from looking too closely at how our own rulers are slowly twisting the knife in our guts.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:49 AM (ltVPJ)

254 I've long held the opinion that the smaller the boat, the more fun it is. Ties in with a less work, less money thing. Got a none foot old town kyack, and a 50+ yo Michicraft canoe.
I was also good crew, so I'd get sailing invites.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 17, 2025 10:49 AM (4780s)

255 If you want to know if the Left is behind something, just look for the sloganeering.

"Protect Science" is pure purpose-built meaninglessness.

Posted by: ... at January 17, 2025 10:50 AM (vGi12)

256 Agreed. I don’t like or trust the Chinese, but they’re far less of a threat to my liberty than our homegrown commies and oligarchs.

Yup. China *is* a threat in that they want the entire world to be China, but that's only interesting to us in the sense that the Democrats and the EU want the same thing, except with them in charge instead of Xi.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:50 AM (2ocoG)

257 China asshoe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 10:51 AM (NUdiI)

258 Project 2025 and growing anti-science sentiment threaten to undermine several critical scientific institutions.

50,000 Scientists Beg Congress to Protect Science As Trump Prepares to Take Office

If their arguments were valid, it would only take one scientist
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 10:48 AM (RHGPo)

That's because 49,999 of them are just grifters, worried Trump is going to turn off their money.

It's a good living, doing DEI based "science," and or playing with strings.

These people don't want to work in the private sector, the private sector expects results.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:51 AM (ltVPJ)

259 I've long held the opinion that the smaller the boat, the more fun it is.
------

Joe Biden thought you were taking about girls

Posted by: ... at January 17, 2025 10:51 AM (vGi12)

260 Authorities Preparing For "Worst Case Scenarios" Ahead Of Trump Inauguration

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Ballots are recounted and it turns out Biden won with write in ballots?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 17, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

261 Geez. SAP System upgrade is kicking our asses.
Grrr 😡

Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2025 10:52 AM (aMCZL)

262 What is even happening right now?
Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2025 10:42 AM (p4NUW)


He's saying that the ERA was successfully ratified. Which it wasn't. But it'll stir up a bunch of shit for Trump to deal with. More of his destroy everything farewell tour.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

263 Chinese are threat because they own so many democrats, from Biden on down...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 10:52 AM (8zz6B)

264 China is a parasite.

Even on it's own people.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:52 AM (fV+MH)

265 50,000 deadbeats plead for bullshit taxpayer grants.

That is the truth.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:52 AM (phaVN)

266 Authorities is becoming my least favorite word next to "experts". And they seem to know just as much.

Posted by: ... at January 17, 2025 10:53 AM (vGi12)

267 Yup. China *is* a threat in that they want the entire world to be China, but that's only interesting to us in the sense that the Democrats and the EU want the same thing, except with them in charge instead of Xi.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:50 AM (2ocoG)

Lenin said it best: We'll sell them the rope with which they will hang us.

But Chi Nah improved on the concept: They are selling US the rope!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:53 AM (ltVPJ)

268 Chinese are threat because they own so many democrats, from Biden on down...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

GOPers, too. Exhibit A: Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

269 But that gets into whether states could de ratify amendments to the Constitution which I think three states did between the original 7 year limit for the ERA and the extension to 10 years. The exact dates are from memory.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:48 AM (ctrM5)

I want you to know I absolutely appreciate your posts. I have learned a ton from you.

I am still a bit in awe of people who scream Trump is going to be the Dictator of all Dictators and then this crazy happens as Biden is being drug out the front door of the Whitehouse.

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2025 10:54 AM (p4NUW)

270 Project 2025 and growing anti-science sentiment threaten to undermine several critical scientific institutions.

50,000 Scientists Beg Congress to Protect Science As Trump Prepares to Take Office

If their arguments were valid, it would only take one scientist
Posted by: SMOD
=======
Research grants by Fedgov have turned into a subsidy for all that is bad about universities and colleges.

Should be a separation between Science and government as well because otherwise Science inevitably becomes steered by whatever money Government chooses to fund. Which is politically based and often destructive of scientific progress.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:55 AM (ctrM5)

271 Authorities Preparing For "Worst Case Scenarios" Ahead Of Trump Inauguration

-
Ballots are recounted and it turns out Biden won with write in ballots?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 17, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

The FBI called and said ignore those guys wandering around DC planting pipe bombs everywhere.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:55 AM (ltVPJ)

272 "Since the days of the first wooden vessels, all ship captins have had one happy privilege . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Rum, sodomy and the lash...that's all one, right?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 17, 2025 10:40 AM (fQmeC)

Hey, don't forget about ME!!

Posted by: The Barrel at January 17, 2025 10:55 AM (iODuv)

273 "Authorities say it is not terrorism."

Posted by: ... at January 17, 2025 10:55 AM (vGi12)

274 262 What is even happening right now?
Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2025 10:42 AM (p4NUW)

He's saying that the ERA was successfully ratified. Which it wasn't. But it'll stir up a bunch of shit for Trump to deal with. More of his destroy everything farewell tour.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

I know, I was being snarky that this is insane.

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2025 10:55 AM (p4NUW)

275 I think the quote was "we will sell them them the rope that they will hang themselves with".


I think that may also have been Kruschev.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:55 AM (fV+MH)

276 Biden’s Foreign Policy Was an Absolute Disaster – from Ukraine to China

-
I thought it was from Albania to Zimbabwe.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 17, 2025 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

277 Also, the ERA's a lot less meaningful in an era where the official government policy is that men are better women than women.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 10:48 AM (2ocoG)

Critics of the ERA said ratification would lead to gay marriage becoming the law of the land and legal protections for trannies.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 17, 2025 10:56 AM (FC8SQ)

278
1890s era Pinochet helicopters.

Carried more commie cocksuckers for chum, but the sails made it too slow to be really efficient. Clearly, more work was needed.

Ironically, it took a Russian refugee from the Bolsheviks, Igor Sikorsky, to make an efficient commie-disposal device.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 17, 2025 10:56 AM (FoIOl)

279 But I'm never right about anything.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:57 AM (fV+MH)

280 Kruschev was the one who took his shoes off?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 10:57 AM (NUdiI)

281 121 97 Does Trump have a yacht? You'd think he would, but I never hear of one.
Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
-------------
Doesn't the story go that he was trying to assess the cost of running for President in 2014, and decided it was about the same as buying a yacht, so he decided against the yacht. Thankfully.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2025 10:10 AM (vXJN

———-

I think I saw him in his yacht on The Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2025 10:57 AM (Vh9CX)

282 50,000 Scientists Beg Congress to Protect Science As Trump Prepares to Take Office

Protect Science! Place Fauci into protective solitary confinement for the next four years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 10:58 AM (ExV1e)

283 Research grants by Fedgov have turned into a subsidy for all that is bad about universities and colleges.

Should be a separation between Science and government as well because otherwise Science inevitably becomes steered by whatever money Government chooses to fund. Which is politically based and often destructive of scientific progress.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:55 AM (ctrM5)

I know lots of people don't like Eric Weinstein, but he explains rather well, the hierarchy of various disciplines, who will actively work to keep divergent and innovative branches of study from happening, so as to protect their little fiefdoms within the university industrial complex.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:58 AM (ltVPJ)

284 Project 2025 and growing anti-science sentiment threaten to undermine several critical scientific institutions.

50,000 Scientists Beg Congress to Protect Science As Trump Prepares to Take Office

If their arguments were valid, it would only take one scientist
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 10:48 AM (RHGPo)
_________

99.99% of these "scientists" are just activists and idiots in unscientific, DEI fields like climate, gender, anti-racism, etc. Just scammers and grifters. There's more science in a dingleberry dangling off The Brain's asshole than in all of these "scientists" put together.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 10:58 AM (iFTx/)

285 I am still a bit in awe of people who scream Trump is going to be the Dictator of all Dictators and then this crazy happens as Biden is being drug out the front door of the Whitehouse.
Posted by: Piper
======
I would make it more into the Biden junta at this point. Since 2020, Joe Biden is simply a mouthpiece for many of the worst people in America today. Joe was a vicious stupid bastard even when he had his mind, now all that is left is malice, animal cunning, and ability somewhat to parrot whatever in on the screen. Just recently, Joe even forgot how to sign a bill and it is on tape.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:58 AM (ctrM5)

286 Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 10:55 AM (ctrM5)

Back when ace used to recommend Cracked, I commented there on occasion. I was generally well regarded staying out of politics, but my most downvoted comment by far, and the most downvoted comment I ever saw on that site, was when I said that scientists will tend to find what the government pays them to find.

Anything I usually said that ever upset the dumb libs there was always around -15 or so.

Talk about a nerve, that comment was downvoted to like -300.

Posted by: ... at January 17, 2025 10:58 AM (vGi12)

287 >I think that may also have been Kruschev.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:55 AM (fV+MH)

The OG commie...V. Lenin

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2025 10:58 AM (GTqXr)

288 Kruschev was the one who took his shoes off?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025


***
Just one shoe, I think, and used it to bang on the UN table as if the shoe were a gavel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 10:58 AM (J2vNu)

289 Any faith the election gave me has been destroyed by seeing how stupid this group of Southwest fliers is.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 17, 2025 10:59 AM (phaVN)

290 " Kruschev was the one who took his shoes off?
Posted by: Boss Moss"


He was a bit silly.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:59 AM (fV+MH)

291 I saw on ZH today that Biden announced he is commuting the sentences of 2500 more people convicted of "non-violent drug offenses." That will bring the grand total of sentences commuted by president mushy-brains to 4000!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 17, 2025 10:59 AM (LPS7w)

292 Yes, DC is the most dangerous foreign power. We can worry about the yellow heathens, the vodka soaked bearfuckers, and the Koranimals AFTER we put paid to the colonial overlords on the Chesapeake. They are Priority #1.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2025 10:59 AM (BI5O2)

293 But I'm never right about anything.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 10:57 AM (fV+MH)

Heh, you're right about not being right. It was indeed, Lenin.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 10:59 AM (ltVPJ)

294 Lenin said it best: We'll sell them the rope with which they will hang us.

-
Above us only gallows . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 17, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

295 Oh and Piper, thanks for the compliment.
====
Read all your comments and find useful information in them.

I simply know this field because I taught it and actually did some legal research back in the day (about ten years ago or so) over the ERA ratification and whether it could be extended. Presented the paper at a conference.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 11:00 AM (ctrM5)

296 "The hangman's coming down from the gallows and I haven't got very long. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

297 Yes, DC is the most dangerous foreign power. We can worry about the yellow heathens, the vodka soaked bearfuckers, and the Koranimals AFTER we put paid to the colonial overlords on the Chesapeake. They are Priority #1.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2025 10:59 AM (BI5O2)

Or, once we've hanged our local bastards, we can turn to the rest of the world and say "Do what you want, just leave us alone. Or else."

Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2025 11:00 AM (ltVPJ)

298 Noodus throckmortonii

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

299 He was a bit silly.
Posted by: eleven

I think that was what got him removed from power. The other Soviet leaders were appalled by Khrushchev's behavior at the UN.

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

300 Yo.
Nood Buckshots

Posted by: OneEyedJack drunkenly waving both six-shooters in the air nearabouts closing time at January 17, 2025 11:01 AM (FCbAQ)

301 Back when ace used to recommend Cracked, I commented there on occasion. I was generally well regarded staying out of politics, but my most downvoted comment by far, and the most downvoted comment I ever saw on that site, was when I said that scientists will tend to find what the government pays them to find.

Anything I usually said that ever upset the dumb libs there was always around -15 or so.

Talk about a nerve, that comment was downvoted to like -300.
Posted by: ...

Sabine Hossenfelder on YT has recently came out swinging regarding how politics and Big Science have become little more than a grift and why she left academia as a well regarded physicist. Science funding is political. Same in other places as government expects Science to produce results that they like.

There is problem enough with crap like consensus of experts and other dodges in academia plus the publish, perish, and get grants has seriously deranged academic research.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 11:04 AM (ctrM5)

302 Ben Had's Horse Emporium disagrees
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2025 10:29 AM


Why so modest? We all know it's Ben Had's Horse Emporium, Horse Trailer, and Kitchen Table Emporium.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 17, 2025 11:05 AM (a3Q+t)

303 England? The painted sky looks greenish, different than most but a favorite color.

Yes, would hang and rotate it through the small landscape collection.

A nice end of the week in art. Thanks

Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? Not today at January 17, 2025 11:05 AM (NFX2v)

304 Project 2025 and growing anti-science sentiment threaten to undermine several critical scientific institutions.

Maybe if the left hadn't spent 30 years wearing the corpse of science as a skin suit...

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 11:06 AM (2ocoG)

305 "Anti-science" = not shooting 8 year old boys up with Lupron.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2025 11:07 AM (sm6Pk)

306 Yes, DC is the most dangerous foreign power. We can worry about the yellow heathens, the vodka soaked bearfuckers, and the Koranimals AFTER we put paid to the colonial overlords on the Chesapeake. They are Priority #1.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2025 10:59 AM (BI5O2)
________

"Hey, I'd like to see YOU fuck a bear! [Burp]"

-- Russian Bearfucker

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

307 Kruschev was the one who took his shoes off?
Posted by: Boss Moss"

I still remember watching that, live, on TV at the time. Yeah. Off my lawn, please.

Posted by: The Barrel at January 17, 2025 11:12 AM (iODuv)

308 How come all the 'pop-up' ads feature big-tittied babe-ettes? Wait. It's to get our 'attention', yes ... ? Ain't working. It's just another pisser-offer. Besides, we'll never get a chance to (ahem) 'sample them wares' ... seemsayin'?

Posted by: Dr_No at January 17, 2025 11:15 AM (ayRl+)

309
Sabine Hossenfelder on YT has recently came out swinging regarding how politics and Big Science have become little more than a grift and why she left academia as a well regarded physicist. Science funding is political. Same in other places as government expects Science to produce results that they like.


Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 11:04 AM (ctrM5)

-/////

I think she was a little more nuanced than that. Particle physicists keep asking for money on experiments with little chance of success.

It seems like she all in on climate change.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2025 11:51 AM (Qw2uS)

310 President Biden
@POTUS
Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified:

The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.

https://x.com/POTUS/status/1880271367569895830

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 11:59 AM (RHGPo)

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John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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