The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. So while California burns the Frozen Tundra has some frozen weather - finally!

Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Chetek.)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind. Be nice. And no flying drop kicks from the couch.
3) Running with sharp objects? Sure if you are feeling lucky. Well do you Moron?
4) Have a great weekend!

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
12/14 – Jewells is still in a lot of pain. The drain was put in on 12/11. She was supposed to receive a sedative and medication for pain while they worked, and she received nothing. She felt everything and it hurt like hell. It also hurts when it is being drained, and that is daily for the first week. She has a great home health nurse coming in now, and she has shown Jewell’s daughter and husband how to do it.
1/4 Update – Jewells is still in a lot of pain. The doctor has prescribed morphine. She has an orthopedic appointment soon, where hopefully one problem will be resolved.
12/18 – neverenoughcaffeine could use prayers. She has 3 minor medical issues. One she can ignore, but the other 2 are causing loads of pain and discomfort. They may be related. She is praying that her ortho doctor has an answer for both.
12/21 Update – She did receive two shots of cortisone in her foot, which helped with her back issues. Her foot feels better and hopefully will continue to improve. Therapy for her back is also helping.
12/21 – Fenelon Spoke asked for prayers for E, the nurse and caregiver for her church’s retired organist. “E” has been in and out of the hospital for 2 weeks with a bleeding ulcer. Prayers are also needed for Fen’s son’s supervisor who has chest pain and a fever and has missed a couple of days of work. Fen also offered a prayer of thanks to God for FenSon completing his second week of work at a new job, which was a bit challenging since his boss was out ill.
12/21 – Tonypete requested prayers for his buddy Bev. She is normally happy, but something is going on. Lately she is very sad and depressed. One of Bev’s kids has been a cause for concern in the past, so there may be trouble there.
12/21 – J.J. Sefton sends his gratitude for all of the love, prayers, and support this past year. Last Monday, his latest MRI was also negative (that’s three in a row!) and his oncologist is very pleased with his progress.
12/21 – AZ deplorable moron asked for prayers. His first cataract surgery went well and his right eye’s vision is much improved. The left eye, not so much. Infection set in and he’s had steroids and antibiotics constantly for 3 weeks. They don’t know how much vision he will have when it has healed.
12/28 Update – Annie’s Stew apologizes for guessing incorrectly the sex of AZ deplorable moron. His pronouns have been corrected above.
1/4 Update – He has 20/200 vision in his left eye now. He can see the world, but it is dimmer than what the right eye sees. There is also a big dark spot where he focuses.
12/21 – Brave Sir Robin requested prayers for his co-worker, Matt and his wife Jamie and 2 kids. Matt, about 42 years old, was diagnosed with glioblastoma. This same cancer to Brave Sir Robin’s mother. Unless treatment has changed radically, Matt does not have a happy ending. Please pray for wisdom and skill from his doctors, and peace and serenity for Matt and his family.
12/21 – Sugar Plum Fairy requested prayers for her brother-in-law, M, who found out yesterday that he has leukemia. He is only in his mid-thirties and his daughter is 2. He is heading to the hospital for 6 weeks on 12/23 for testing. Please pray for strength for his wife and mother who are in shock and understandably devastated. And for good doctors and total healing if it is God’s will.
12/25 – Molly k asked for prayers. This will be a different Christmas. Mr. k passed away on 12/22. Luckily the girls and grandkids were home. He passed at home, holding their oldest granddaughter’s hand. Christmas will be fun for the “littles” but tough for the rest. 12/26 is the funeral and she is dreading it, but will do her best to make it the best day possible and be thankful for the real meaning of Christmas.
12/25 – vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for her brother-in-law in the hospital, and for her sister, who is looking out for him.
12/26 – Joe Kidd requested a prayer of thanksgiving for God’s quiet resolution to a problem his younger (and last remaining) sibling was having with a roommate. She suffers from bipolar disorder and tends to make poor decisions when difficulties arise. Communication with her on Christmas indicated that God’s wisdom prevailed on all concerned. Praise Him!
12/28 – LF asked for prayers for success for her daughter’s open heart surgery, to repair an aortic weakness. The surgery should happen around Valentine’s Day. Her daughter is only 48.
12/28 – JW suggested the following Jewish Prayer of Faith for Healing:
JEWISH PRAYER OF FAITH FOR HEALING
Merciful God, we pray to you for the recovery of all who are facing illness or pain.
We join our prayers with all who love them. Grant them renewed strength and courage. Strengthen in them the healing powers You have placed within us all. Guide the hearts and hands of those who are entrusted with their care.
Help all who share the anxiety of this illness to be brave and hopeful.
Inspire us with courage and faith. Grant your blessings to all who call upon you.
Oh God, who blessed our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Sarah, Rebekkah, Leah, and Rachel, send your blessings to all who are ill.
Have mercy on them, and graciously restore their health and strength.
Grant them a complete recovery.
May healing come speedily.
May the knowledge of Your love and ours give added hope to them and to their dear ones.
May they find even greater strength because our prayers are linked to theirs.
When pain and fatigue are our companions, let there be room in our hearts for strength.
When days and nights are filled with darkness, let the light of courage find its place.
Help me to endure the suffering and dissolve the fear; renew within me the calm spirit of trust and peace.
We praise You, Eternal God, the Source of healing and health.
12/28 – Farmer sent thanks for the prayers for healing for his dad and for Jules. Dad is out of the hospital and is recovering. Jules’ recovery is remarkable. After surgery for a perforated ulcer, which caused severe septic shock, she was close to death. After 49 days in the hospital, she went to rehab on 12/27!
1/4 – Smell the Glove asked for prayers for an 80 year old aunt. The aunt was diagnosed with colon cancer and started treatment this week.
1/4 – vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for her eldest sister. It looks like her illness is cancer.
1/12 Update – Please keep praying. Her sister has stage 4 breast cancer.
1/4 – Black Orchid requested prayers for a good friend whose brother is critically ill with possible brain cancer. Black Orchid also offered a prayer of thanksgiving for quick healing of a painful wrist.
1/4 – Chris in California asked for prayers for a son who is having sensory/smell/taste issues that are troubling. They ask for healing for his body, and that he would receive the Lord’s guidance in his mind and heart.
1/4 – San Franpsycho asked for prayers for the repose of Rose, the mother of one of his kindergarten buddies.
1/4 – Tonypete requested prayers for his congregation. They are mostly elderly, and there are a raft of viruses, colds, etc. going around now.
1/4 – Eromero thanked God for his mysterious ways. His friend broke his hip, and 2 days later they removed his gall bladder, which was verging on gangrene. May God also perform wonders on the loved ones on this list, and may He also free America from DC as He freed the Hebrew children from their Egyptian oppressors.
1/10 – Village Idiot’s Apprentice asked for prayers for his cousin, who was having triple bypass surgery.
1/11 Update – The surgery went “superbly”. Thank you all for your prayers.
1/11 – Our Country is Screwed asked for prayers. He is having a double mastectomy. (He notes: Yes, male breast cancer is a thing!) He is fortunate that it appears to be localized. Another request is for an aunt (age 70+) who is facing lung cancer and having part of her lung removed. She is scared and needs prayers too.
1/15 – Sponge gave an update on his wife. She met with the radiation oncologist, and he used the word “cure”, so she is pretty happy about that. She has a couple more chemo treatments to go.
1/16 – Mental Block asked for prayers of thanksgiving upon completing all 28 radiation treatments for prostate cancer with minimal, temporary side effects. He also asks for continued prayers for healing as his hormone therapy continues for an additional four months.
1/17-Hrothgar was hospitalized in need of a cardio-catherization. He has his son and daughter at his side.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 08:30 AM

Comments

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1 brcc ak47

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 18, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

2 Morning Mishum. Morning horde.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 08:35 AM (feC/a)

3 "Cure" is a great word. I hope to hear more of it in the coming year.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 08:35 AM (vFG9F)

4 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 08:36 AM (fwDg9)

5 1/17-Hrothgar was hospitalized in need of a cardio-catherization. He has his son and daughter at his side.

Oh, Hrothgar! Praying for you!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 18, 2025 08:36 AM (SfhV1)

6 Maybe 8 if I thought about it

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 08:36 AM (fwDg9)

7 Good morning good people.

Prayers for all intentions - those asked for here and those known but to God.

My coffee maker has been kaput for two days. A new one ~~should be~~ better be arriving today.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:38 AM (WXNFJ)

8 I am kidding of course

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 08:38 AM (fwDg9)

9 I pray for this motley bunch every day.
Good morning, it's good to see everyone spry and caffinated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 08:39 AM (rhmc0)

10 This is the seventh anniversary of the day my wife Faye died. I will always remember her honesty, guilelessness, enthusiasm, energy and laughter. Until we meet again.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 18, 2025 08:39 AM (kTd/k)

11 My coffee maker has been kaput for two days.

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how are you surviving? instant ?

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 08:39 AM (g47mK)

12 Dang MH 7 people, I'm lucky to make it to 5. Had my 1/2 cup of coffee, the start of weening off of it for 3 months. Hoping the doc lets me start up again April.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 18, 2025 08:40 AM (2NHgQ)

13 Did not mention it here y my friend Tim who had stroke in the spring died about 10 days ago.
He kept getting infections in feeding tubes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 18, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

14 I didn’t know this was still a thing, but apparently the Pink Hat brigade is planning a visit to DC; at this point I’d just like to say I saw Pink P@ssy Hats open for the Flaming Lips at the Theatre Barn in 97.

Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at January 18, 2025 08:40 AM (Uy2Lz)

15 Oh, and I had seven children. That not leaving my room for others - but I'll try. Especially if they bring me coffee.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:40 AM (WXNFJ)

16 Good morning all y'all.
Off to a gathering of friends.
Blessed.

Posted by: OkJohn at January 18, 2025 08:40 AM (NC/it)

17
Good morning, Hordians. Some good news. The pain I've had in my shoulder has at long last been correctly diagnosed. Now that I know what it is, there are things I can do myself to keep the discomfort at bay. I'm also going in for physical therapy to improve the situation further.

Before, I could not work at a computer for more than a couple of minutes. Now I can take on professional assignments again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 18, 2025 08:41 AM (dxSpM)

18 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 08:41 AM (ZOv7s)

19 Posted by: Northernlurker - Big prayers for Faye

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:42 AM (WXNFJ)

20 That's good news Hadrian.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 18, 2025 08:42 AM (SfhV1)

21 Lord hear our prayers. Heal, comfort and strengthen those in need.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 08:42 AM (feC/a)

22 Prayers are offered for those mentioned above, and those known only to God.

Thank you all for your prayers as I begin my cancer treatment. Surgery on the 27th You all are the best.

Sponge great news about your wife. Keep us posted.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 18, 2025 08:43 AM (2AW7/)

23 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 18, 2025 08:41 AM (dxSpM)

So you have resorted to paying for S& M treatments

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2025 08:43 AM (QXQ4l)

24 Oh my goodness! Dear Hrothgar! Will pray for him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 08:43 AM (MQJVv)

25 how are you surviving? instant ?
Posted by: runner

Yes - it takes like stale socks, dust and desperation but it's keeping me alive.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:43 AM (WXNFJ)

26 My coffee maker has been kaput for two days. A new one should be better be arriving today.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:38 AM (WXNFJ)
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Our venerable Keurig failed last week, and I was able get another one a couple of days later. This is the mini, which takes up less counter space. One thing I like better is that it makes one cup at a time, and runs on exactly what you put into it, so you can have the perfect size cup every time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 08:44 AM (ZOv7s)

27 Glad to hear the positive news, Hadrian!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 08:44 AM (ykc9c)

28 Thank you all for your prayers as I begin my cancer treatment. Surgery on the 27th You all are the best.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 18, 2025 08:43 AM (2AW7/)

I'll remember the date, and say a prayer for you.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 18, 2025 08:44 AM (SfhV1)

29 Please pay no attention to my spelling or syntax mistakes today. As I pointed out - bad coffee is the root of much of it.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:45 AM (WXNFJ)

30 Good Saturday morning. May God's mercy, love, blessings, and deliverance from evil fall on and surround everyone.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 18, 2025 08:45 AM (Aqu9a)

31 Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 18, 2025 08:44 AM (SfhV1)

Amen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 08:45 AM (MQJVv)

32 Good morning dear horde and thanks to mh, annie, and you morons for your prayers

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2025 08:45 AM (LMyYC)

33 You don't have backup coffee makers?

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 08:45 AM (vFG9F)

34 Good morning!

Posted by: gp at January 18, 2025 08:45 AM (w7peH)

35 Before, I could not work at a computer for more than a couple of minutes. Now I can take on professional assignments again.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 18, 2025 08:41 AM (dxSpM)
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God be praised! Did you receive the Anointing of the Sick? Our family has found it very helpful.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 08:46 AM (ZOv7s)

36 Thank you JW for submitting the Jewish Prayer of Faith for Healing. Might I ask that we make it a permanent addition to the prayer list?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 18, 2025 08:46 AM (2AW7/)

37 You don't have backup coffee makers?
Posted by: fd

*hangs head in shame*

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:46 AM (WXNFJ)

38 @Tonypete, I get it. I also discovered that some instant is not awful. Hate to say it , but the Starbucks brand VIA packets are acceptable. I even take them traveling, just in case there is a coffee emergency. LOL.

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 08:46 AM (g47mK)

39 The number of the day is 2.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 08:46 AM (LkLld)

40 You don't have backup coffee makers?
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 08:45 AM (vFG9F)
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Yeah, a microwave. My wife drinks cold-brew ice coffee, so the one day I was without it, that's what I did.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 08:46 AM (ZOv7s)

41 This morning I'm with my buddy who lost his mom 2 weeks ago.

Everyone should visit those who mourn.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2025 08:47 AM (LMyYC)

42 You don't have backup coffee makers?
Posted by: fd

Rev has his coffeemaker and I have mine. Otherwise we'd fight a lot.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 18, 2025 08:47 AM (SfhV1)

43 Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:40 AM (WXNFJ

I read about a man- forget his name; Sorry! who is one of Trump choices for an appointment . It was on the internet that he was praying the rosary with his family before going into be grilled. I thought that was a lovely story.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 08:48 AM (MQJVv)

44 "*hangs head in shame*
Posted by: Tonypete"

Learn from this experience. Make it a positive thing.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 08:48 AM (vFG9F)

45 NL, praying that our Lord blesses you with peace and sweet memories.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 08:48 AM (feC/a)

46 Weirdly, my earlier comment seems to have disappeared.

So I'll say again, Prayers up for all the horde and for dear departed ones.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 18, 2025 08:49 AM (VxcM2)

47 You don't have backup coffee makers?
Posted by: fd

Rev has his coffeemaker and I have mine. Otherwise we'd fight a lot.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 18, 2025 08:47 AM (SfhV1)

Household peace is worth a lot. Immeasurable, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 18, 2025 08:49 AM (Aqu9a)

48 >>The number of the day is 2.

For me, that's everyday.

Posted by: Pvt. Vernon L. Pinkley at January 18, 2025 08:49 AM (Y1sOo)

49 Morning morons. MisHum is correct: it's fixing to be cold here....really, actually cold, even for us.

Posted by: Muad'dib at January 18, 2025 08:49 AM (kpLzV)

50 This is the seventh anniversary of the day my wife Faye died. I will always remember her honesty, guilelessness, enthusiasm, energy and laughter. Until we meet again.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 18, 2025 08:39 AM (kTd/k)
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May her memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2025 08:49 AM (LMyYC)

51 I read about a man- forget his name; Sorry! who is one of Trump choices for an appointment . It was on the internet that he was praying the rosary with his family before going into be grilled. I thought that was a lovely story.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 08:48 AM (MQJVv)

I think that was Sean Duffy, former Congressman from Wisconsin. He has 9 children and I think they all came to the hearing. His little girl with Downs went around hugging everyone.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 18, 2025 08:49 AM (SfhV1)

52 I read about a man- forget his name; Sorry! who is one of Trump choices for an appointment . It was on the internet that he was praying the rosary with his family before going into be grilled. I thought that was a lovely story.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Yes, I saw that also. It was wonderful.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:50 AM (WXNFJ)

53 > Our venerable Keurig failed last week, and I was able get another one a couple of days later.
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Ours crapped out this week too! I took it apart after I'd done a bit of research on it. Most common issue was a thermostat that needed to be reset. No bueno with that.

But... I noticed a broken wire. A tiny wire. Like 5 hair strands thick. It was for the brew controls and with a bit of work I re-routed it so I could splice the two ends together.

Design flaw. The lid that you open (repeatedly) to insert a K-cup and then close, then open again to remove, then close again pinched that wire so many times that it just broke.

But we bought a new one anyway. 🥴

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 08:50 AM (Q4IgG)

54 Did not mention it here y my friend Tim who had stroke in the spring died about 10 days ago.
He kept getting infections in feeding tubes.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 18, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)
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May his memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2025 08:50 AM (LMyYC)

55 Matt Lohmeier 🇺🇸 @matthewlohmeier 12h

Thank you, Mr. President! I’m grateful for your trust, and am very much looking forward to continuing my service to our great men and women in uniform.

To all men and women with a desire to serve your country in uniform, come join us now! We want the best, brightest, and strongest of you at this critical juncture in American history.
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US President-elect Donald Trump has announced former Space Force official Matthew Lohmeier as the next under secretary of the Air Force.

"Matt is a former fighter pilot, and Space Force Squadron Commander, who has devoted his life to serving our Great Nation," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

"Matthew will work with the GREAT Secretary of Defense Nominee, Pete Hegseth, to end the devastating "woke" policies that have destroyed our Military, and make our Country STRONG AGAIN," he said in the post, adding that Lohmeier had served as "a proud graduate" of the US Air Force Academy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 08:51 AM (rhmc0)

56 Before, I could not work at a computer for more than a couple of minutes. Now I can take on professional assignments again.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 18, 2025 08:41 AM (dxSpM)
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b"h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2025 08:51 AM (LMyYC)

57 Prayers up for Hrothgar.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 18, 2025 08:51 AM (dg+HA)

58 33 You don't have backup coffee makers?
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 08:45 AM (vFG9F)

Obviously not prepared Morons

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2025 08:52 AM (QXQ4l)

59 Morning all. Just finished the morning paper. Must be habit, as I've read nothing worthwhile in it for years now.
It's the comics. And most of them suck.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 08:52 AM (4780s)

60 I would like to ask prayers for Chris. Chris is the new husband of a friend of mine . They've been married since the summer and are both nice conservatives and Catholics. He is the hospital in NJ with a high fever and urinary issues which he's had for a long time

He also mans the both at the John Birch society at the local conservative picnic. I was impressed that someone who's younger- maybe late 30's- knew who John Birch and what he stood for was and that Birch and not a racist bogeyman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 08:53 AM (MQJVv)

61 You don't have backup coffee makers?
Posted by: fd

I don't have a backup. I use both my coffee pots. The Mr. Coffee goes off every morning at 430. While we are drinking that the old percolator pot goes on the cook stove for pot number 2. I actually prefer that coffee.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 08:53 AM (feC/a)

62 If I were about to face a modern Congressional hearing, I'd be praying Psalm 23:4 -

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; ... "

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 18, 2025 08:53 AM (Aqu9a)

63 Morning Horde, thx MisHum , and for posting a prayer for my aunt. She's doing good. Prayers to the Horde and their loved ones in need

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 18, 2025 08:53 AM (fTvka)

64 runner's coffee makers:
French press, Italian stovetop Bialetti, Japanese pour over, Turkish stovetop, second Bialetti (different size..I think), German drip coffee machine, Nespresso machine, and probably another one or two I can't remember.

I must like coffee !

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 08:53 AM (g47mK)

65 Anyone know how to get ahold of ace? Seems like this might be important. 14 hours ago, the Friday night dump immediately before Monday's inauguration.

"Yellen: Debt limit will be hit day after Trump’s inauguration

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave off the threat of a national default."

https://tinyurl.com/bdd92ue5

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at January 18, 2025 08:53 AM (GZEBe)

66 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 08:51 AM (rhmc0)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 08:53 AM (MQJVv)

67 49 Morning morons. MisHum is correct: it's fixing to be cold here....really, actually cold, even for us.
Posted by: Muad'dib at January 18, 2025 08:49 AM (kpLzV)

On the bright side lakes won't be crowded

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2025 08:55 AM (QXQ4l)

68 I use a Faberware purchased from Wally ten years ago. The carafe has a crack that I keep threatening to wrap with copper wire but it doesn't leak. Every now and then I'll brew a pot of white vinegar. The necessity of that is much less now that I'm off well water.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 08:55 AM (rhmc0)

69

Why is comment #1 corrupted with the buxom bikini blonde advert video?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)

70 Corpus Christi Church was gutted by the wildfires, but a Captain Bryan Nassour, who was taking a breather between calls, felt compelled to sift through the ruins and discovered the tabernacle was still intact.

He enlisted help, they were able to dig it out of the ruins and found that the consecrated Hosts inside were completely unharmed. Three bottles of holy oils were also preserved and they have all been brought to St. Monica's for safekeeping.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 08:56 AM (ZOv7s)

71 You don't have backup coffee makers?

• espresso machine
• french press
• Keruig (for impatient Philistine guests)
• Aeropress
• cold brew machine

But no drip machine. Won't profane the house meriting Divine and Holy Wrath with one.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 18, 2025 08:56 AM (rHxhM)

72 Why is comment #1 corrupted with the buxom bikini blonde advert video

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you know what they say....it is based on your browsing history !

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 08:56 AM (g47mK)

73 "1/11 – Our Country is Screwed asked for prayers. He is having a double mastectomy. (He notes: Yes, male breast cancer is a thing!)..

Yes, prayers for everyone and in particular OCiS. Went through breast cancer myself last year on one side. Prayers that OCiS is also localized and not made it into the lymph nodes.

NOW HEAR THIS! It is a good thing, and not perverse, for all you swingin' d1cks out there to check your boobs for lumps. Alternatively, you may enlist someone, ideally someone close to you, to assist with this check. Just don't get distracted from the mission in hand until said boob check is complete. The life you save may be your own. That is all.

Posted by: George V at January 18, 2025 08:57 AM (ugbqN)

74 3 "Cure" is a great word. I hope to hear more of it in the coming year.
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 08:35 AM (vFG9F)

Smoked fish, meat and Democrat ballots are also cured.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 08:57 AM (x0n13)

75 Posted by: rhennigantx at January 18, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

You won the first Ad page prize. Pick up your Billionaire video at the first window.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 18, 2025 08:57 AM (D6PGr)

76 2025 08:55 AM (rhmc0)

69

Why is comment #1 corrupted with the buxom bikini blonde advert video?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)

Because the system sucks
You know that by now

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2025 08:58 AM (QXQ4l)

77 7 people?
Such an extrovert you are

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 08:58 AM (Wx316)

78 >>If I were about to face a modern Congressional hearing, I'd be praying Psalm 23:4

For all the dire warnings and hair burning before the hearings these have been some of the easiest confirmation hearings I've ever watched. I haven't seen a single nominee get even the least bit flustered and Democrats appear out of gas.

The left is a pretty spent force right now. Time to step on their throats and go for broke.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 08:58 AM (LkLld)

79 Every now and then I'll brew a pot of white vinegar. The necessity of that is much less now that I'm off well water.

Pro Tip: Berkey filter

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 18, 2025 08:58 AM (rHxhM)

80 3 "Cure" is a great word. I hope to hear more of it in the coming year.
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 08:35 AM (vFG9F)

Amen to that!

Good Saturday morning, horde. I am thankful that we have this place to gather in His name and pray for each other.

Thanks to MisHum and Annie's Stew for the facilitation. Prayers have been said for all on this lengthy list, and the rest of you as well.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 18, 2025 08:58 AM (OX9vb)

81 I am sending some fenbendazole and turkey tail mushrooms to my sister; I only hope she takes it.
The fenbendazole is the packets gor dogs kind so we'll see. Couldn't find a trustworthy brand for pills.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:00 AM (Wx316)

82

May the Lord send his mercy and blessings of health and courage for all who are suffering.

And love to all of you for all your kindness and prayers for me. One helluva year for me but I'm stoked for Monday when Orange Mandela gets us back on track.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 09:00 AM (x0n13)

83 "Why is comment #1 corrupted with the buxom bikini blonde advert video?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton"

People who get first now get royalty checks once a month. It adds up, you know.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 09:00 AM (vFG9F)

84 The number of the day is 2.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 08:46 AM (LkLld)
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I'm sure it will be, just as soon as all this coffee takes effect.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)

85 Prayers to all the Horde in need

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:01 AM (Wx316)

86 Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave off the threat of a national default."

https://tinyurl.com/bdd92ue5
Posted by: Boron
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It too funny, Democrats live on catastrophe [CatAssTrophy, where is he?]. Problem for Yellen is she may be out of a job the day after Trump is inaugurated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 09:01 AM (rhmc0)

87 For all the dire warnings and hair burning before the hearings these have been some of the easiest confirmation hearings I've ever watched. I haven't seen a single nominee get even the least bit flustered and Democrats appear out of gas.

Because you have decent, competent and highly motivated/intelligent beings going for the job. We are acclimated to grifters, retards, perverts and the demon possessed.

Also helps that these nominees have all had significant TV time to master their public appearances.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 18, 2025 09:01 AM (rHxhM)

88 2025 08:55 AM (rhmc0)

69

Why is comment #1 corrupted with the buxom bikini blonde advert video?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)

Because the system sucks
You know that by now
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2025 08:58 AM (QXQ4l)

It's part of the charming and unique experience of this place. No other like it!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 18, 2025 09:01 AM (Aqu9a)

89 The Biden DOJ is trying to take down another 125 year old American company.

They file a suit against Walgreens for filling prescriptions submitted by licensed doctors. They claim the pharmacist should have refused to fill them because they should have know they were dangerous. It’s like suing gun manufactures . What a crock of shit.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 18, 2025 09:01 AM (D6PGr)

90 It is Saturday, so time for Jewish humor (Don't worry, I will do a Catholic one tomorrow, Inclusivity is our strength)

"Sam goes to temple and listens to the rabbi. After a while the rabbi asks anyone who needs a special prayer should come up for a special blessing. Sam gets in line, and when it's his turn, the rabbi asks: "Sam, what do you want me to pray about for you?"

Sam replies: "Rabbi, I need you to pray for my hearing."
The rabbi puts one hand on Sam's ear, places the other hand on top of Sam's head and prays and prays and prays. After a few minutes, the rabbi removes his hands, stands back and asks Sam:

"Nu, Sam, how is your hearing now?"
Sam says, "I don't know, Rabbi, it's not until next Wednesday"

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 09:01 AM (g47mK)

91 Good morning, y'all. Whether you like it or not.

The unpleasant news is that ostomy bag failures are $#!++y.

The happy news is that I'm up for the prayer thread live. I've been wanting to shift back to an earlier schedule. (That darned ONT is a seductive siren.)

Coffee's brewing. Daylight out. Cold, though.

🙏Prayers for bodily healing, for emotional comfort, for clarity of mind, peace in the soul, and family unity, for all God's worthy children.

Ah! Coffee's ready. Now to peruse the post & comments.

Posted by: mindful webworker - off to a start, anyway, at January 18, 2025 09:02 AM (Mud1j)

92 >>I'm sure it will be, just as soon as all this coffee takes effect.

I've been up for a while.

Taking Elvis to visit mom today. You want to see some happy people take a dog to a nursing home.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 09:02 AM (LkLld)

93 "Smoked fish, meat and Democrat ballots are also cured.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton"

Mmm. 🥓

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 09:03 AM (vFG9F)

94 78
'these have been some of the easiest confirmation hearings I've ever watched.'

That's because for some reason the GOP decided not to screw around with Trump and assured him of the votes in advance.
Some kind of deal was struck but I'm not sure what.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 18, 2025 09:03 AM (3wi/L)

95 Thank you to all who prayed for my brother in law. The last test showed no signs of leukemia for brother in law! We're not really sure what that means and he's not our of the woods yet but we are giving thanks to God and all the prayers surrounding him for any good news right now!
Also, prayers for a safe infatuation day for President Trump and all those in DC.

Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at January 18, 2025 09:03 AM (G77LY)

96 People who get first now get royalty checks once a month. It adds up, you know.
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 09:00 AM (vFG9F)

Sponge is now worth millions!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 18, 2025 09:03 AM (PiwSw)

97
Further good news. I took a 20 second video of Diana's rear leg movement while she was walking on the doggie treadmill this morning. Her Majesty was very pleased to see her hock was no longer twisting and her foot placement was much closer to what we want to see.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 18, 2025 09:04 AM (dxSpM)

98 I've been wanting to shift back to an earlier schedule. (That darned ONT is a seductive siren.)

Mid day naps are underrated.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 18, 2025 09:04 AM (rHxhM)

99 Having a majority helps. There is still uncertainty surrounding one or two.

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 09:05 AM (g47mK)

100 Sugar Plum fairy, fantastic news!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:05 AM (0JWOm)

101 Some kind of deal was struck but I'm not sure what.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

"Play ball with me or get primaried, I shit you not."?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 09:05 AM (WXNFJ)

102 > The left is a pretty spent force right now. Time to step on their throats and go for broke.
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Retribution, not reconciliation.

But we'll get reconciliation anyway. Maybe Trump and his surrogates have the intestinal fortitude to collect scalps, but either they won't or will be thwarted at every attempt.

I hope they're really pissed off and stay that way during the entire 4 years. Anger tends to focus. They'll need that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 09:05 AM (Q4IgG)

103 An important message from Roger Stone>

https://tinyurl.com/3zyzd5db

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 09:05 AM (rhmc0)

104 So you have resorted to paying for S& M treatments
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2025 08:43 AM (QXQ4l)

No kidding. When I had PT for rotator cuff impingement, I never had known such pain. I had to admonish him for not giving me a bullet to bite on first. It cured my problem, though.

It's gotta be tough on the PTs to cause people so much pain in order to help them, though. Special prayer today for physical therapists.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 18, 2025 09:05 AM (OX9vb)

105 >>Why is comment #1 corrupted with the buxom bikini blonde advert video?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)

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Lucky you ..I've got an old guy in a walk-in shower.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 18, 2025 09:05 AM (1Au9i)

106 That's a good one runner.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 18, 2025 09:05 AM (SfhV1)

107 MisHum, did you ever get to read any of the poodle book?

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 09:07 AM (vFG9F)

108 No kidding. When I had PT for rotator cuff impingement, I never had known such pain. I had to admonish him for not giving me a bullet to bite on first. It cured my problem, though.

It's gotta be tough on the PTs to cause people so much pain in order to help them, though. Special prayer today for physical therapists.

agree agree agree

couldn't believe how much I would sweat just doing grip exercises like simple tiny things

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 18, 2025 09:07 AM (Pv3Rg)

109 They file a suit against Walgreens for filling prescriptions submitted by licensed doctors. They claim the pharmacist should have refused to fill them because they should have know they were dangerous. It’s like suing gun manufactures . What a crock of shit.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 18, 2025 09:01 AM (D6PGr)
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The Enemy right now is disorganized and demoralized, lashing out in every direction without any kind of coordination. This is a good thing, because the volume of last-minute actions prove that they were arbitrary and capricious, not in any way based on merit.

We have won an important battle in the ongoing spiritual war, and for you Tolkien fans, I think it is analogous to Helm's Deep, which was about survival, not conquest.

We've wrecked a good portion of their strength and captured a stronghold, but there is much yet to do, and we will see defeats and setbacks, but we cannot succumb to pessimism of despair. The Enemy deemed the time was right, and launched a global onslaught of evil not seen in my lifetime, and God answered, decisively. (cont)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 09:07 AM (ZOv7s)

110 Coffee makers. The daily 1 litre French press. The backup/company 12 cup drip maker. In basement, 2 old style electric percolators, 1 Pyrex glass percolator, 2 25+ cup function size coffee makers.
I'm good.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 09:08 AM (4780s)

111 Tonypete, I have one of those plastic pour over funnels one can put on top of a mug exactly for no coffeeemaker emergencies.
Grocery might have it in the coffee aisle

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:08 AM (0JWOm)

112
The Billionaires must've destroyed the blonde and are now after the brunettes!!!

Damn those Billionaires for destroying buxom women!

Damn them all to hell!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 18, 2025 09:08 AM (iJfKG)

113 >>Because you have decent, competent and highly motivated/intelligent beings going for the job. We are acclimated to grifters, retards, perverts and the demon possessed.

There's definitely some of that. But I wouldn't ignore just how much things have changed over the last couple of years.

The traditional media has lost virtually all of their power. Nobody is paying attention to their lies any longer. And social media is increasingly moving our way. Even the left's vaunted election machine doesn't have the power it used to have and its getting weaker.

More and more people are jumping off the left's sinking ship and coming our way as they see the left's policies aren't just failing but dangerous. Contra the old saying this is a great time to be alive.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 09:08 AM (LkLld)

114 Durbin was extremely disagreeable in the Bondi hearing, so next day an ad vent out, released by some outfit detailing the case against this nasty hog.

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 09:08 AM (g47mK)

115 Prayers for Hrothgar

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:09 AM (0JWOm)

116 I need to give praise to our Lord. A year + ago, we were praying for my BIL. He woke up with no feeling in his legs, unable to walk. Doctors discovered a large cancerous growth on his spine. Prognosis was not good for either the cancer or his mobility. Nine hour surgery, chemo and therapy over the last year. In August , while still using a walker, he started riding his trike again. In September, they started taking short trips in their RV. In November, they took it to Arizona for a two month stay. He is walking with the use of a cane. Last week, he was pronounced cancer free. Yesterday he drove his 1976 Jeep CJ5 project for the first time. He is a tough, resilient guy but he gives all the credit to our Lord. I had told him we were praying for him on the thread so he wanted to say thanks.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 09:09 AM (feC/a)

117 "...2 25+ cup function size coffee makers.
I'm good.
Posted by: From about That Time "

This guy is prepared for battle.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 09:09 AM (vFG9F)

118 (cont) Amidst all of our celebrating wins and various improbably sized schadenboners, we must keep up our prayer vigils and devotionals. We dare not go back to sleep.

If anything, the sense of relief and deliverance is a window to spread the faith as never before, and isn't it interesting how many celebrities are openly embracing prayer and the language of faith all at once?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)

119 That's a good one runner.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 18, 2025 09:05 AM (SfhV1)

thank you!

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 09:09 AM (g47mK)

120
I've heard it said that if you don't hate your physical therapist, they're not doing their job right.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 18, 2025 09:10 AM (dxSpM)

121 -
There's this Book that tells the story from beginning to end.
After 6 days of creating this universe and everything in it, the One who had done so declared it all very good. There was no sin nor death in it.
After a time, man disobeyed his Creator and brought sin and death into it. The world entered this current evil age we are now in.
After a few thousand years, the Creator Himself left His throne in heaven, became the 100% God/man and with His own blood paid the penalty for our sins.
At some point He will return again and after pouring out His wrath will set up His Kingdom on earth for a thousand years. At the end of this thousand years there will be a new heaves and new earth.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 18, 2025 09:10 AM (kjZOX)

122 you know what they say....it is based on your browsing history !

My browsing history is not even full of pictures studly hunky men in speedos. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:10 AM (5UOr2)

123 Thank you all for your prayers as I begin my cancer treatment. Surgery on the 27th You all are the best.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

May St Raphael the Archangel bring you healing.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:10 AM (0JWOm)

124 Going to be a bit chilly in DC on Monday for Liberty Day. Glad they've moved the inaugural indoors. Choo Choo Biden won't be sure where he is probably, but they'll bundle him onto a plane and fly him to a rest home soon enough.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 18, 2025 09:11 AM (VxcM2)

125 f'd, I do my prime rib for the 20 minutes initial at 450 or 500, then turn the temp down to about 325 and check the temp from time to time. Pull out and let it rest for at least 20 minutes once the temp is around 130 internal. This keeps juices in the meat. We like medium rare, so this works for us. I have made it this way for Christmas dinner for several years. There are some good dry rub recipes out there. I prefer a salt, pepper, and rosemary blend. A couple of good websites out there that discuss the mechanism of why this works. Good luck

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at January 18, 2025 09:11 AM (OpLc2)

126 It's possible to make coffee in a pot and grounds

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 09:11 AM (fwDg9)

127 I've heard it said that if you don't hate your physical therapist, they're not doing their job right.

lol no I love him

now he just stands around roasting me while I lift weights and squeeze things

I think I'm done after January. don't even notice the wrist anymore it's awesome. started PT two days after stitches came out which was awful but I think helped me heal faster

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 18, 2025 09:12 AM (Pv3Rg)

128 I don't get that ad on my tablet but do on my desktop. It looks to be AI generated.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 09:12 AM (vFG9F)

129 ☹️Etudes in All the Minor Keys makes my doggy whine. A little too lively for this time of day, maybe. She's such a music critic.

Posted by: mindful webworker - complains about my playing sometimes, too, at January 18, 2025 09:12 AM (Mud1j)

130 They file a suit against Walgreens for filling prescriptions submitted by licensed doctors. They claim the pharmacist should have refused to fill them because they should have know they were dangerous.

My first thought was "opioids". The Biden junta prefers people seek street Fentanyl for all of one's palliative needs.

Then we have Walgreens which is no stranger to corrupt practices involving their involvement in maximizing profits and pharmaceuticals for every symptom real or imagined with Hollywood Bookkeeping.

There are no winners in this, and may have God have mercy on those who can't get the pain medication they need because corruption, fraud, greed, incompetence and sadism.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 18, 2025 09:13 AM (rHxhM)

131 healing prayers to Hrothgar and Our Country and all the others on the prayer list and non-listed Morons as well!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 18, 2025 09:13 AM (Pv3Rg)

132 Retribution, not reconciliation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 09:05 AM (Q4IgG)
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Conversion, not retribution. This isn't about marginal tax rates or even border security but about human souls. That is the terrain where the real battle is being fought, and each conversion - however tentative - causes God to rejoice.

So yeah, oligarchs and bankers are quaking in fear at the moment, and saying words they don't believe to spare their miserable hides, but let us also recall that wisdom begins with fear of the Lord.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

133 Thank you all for your prayers as I begin my cancer treatment. Surgery on the 27th You all are the best.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Adding you to the list of people I'm pestering St. Nektarios about.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 18, 2025 09:14 AM (Wnv9h)

134 110 Coffee makers. The daily 1 litre French press. The backup/company 12 cup drip maker. In basement, 2 old style electric percolators, 1 Pyrex glass percolator, 2 25+ cup function size coffee makers.
I'm good.
Posted by: From about That Time
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Black and Decker, in the box, used, in the garage that was replaced by the Faberware 10 yrs. ago. I aluminum percolator that was my grandfather's and a tall blue enamel like you see in the western movies. Also storage water and Sterno close by. Unless I'm nuked away there will be hot coffee.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 09:14 AM (rhmc0)

135 Thanks NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast. That's pretty close to what I am going to try.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 09:14 AM (vFG9F)

136 Why is comment #1 corrupted with the buxom bikini blonde advert video?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Been happening a lot lately

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:14 AM (0JWOm)

137 I'm going to be doing a lot of praying on Monday. I wanted to have the church open but I think we're going to supposedly get five inches of snow and most people don't live in the town, nor do I.

I am glad that millions of people will be praying for President Trump and VD Vance and all other attendees at the inauguration.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:14 AM (5UOr2)

138 Hadrian, that's good.
You found out it's a spinal disc, right?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:15 AM (0JWOm)

139 I've heard it said that if you don't hate your physical therapist, they're not doing their job right.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 18, 2025 09:10 AM (dxSpM)

Having just gone through a knee replacement, I'd say if you hate your physical therapist, you're an immature jerkwad.

I appreciated the pushing to perform my exercises properly. Recovery is the goal and I plan to totally recover. I always thank the PT folk for their good work.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 18, 2025 09:16 AM (iJfKG)

140 It's possible to make coffee in a pot and grounds
Posted by: Skip

It's a bit chewy but I'm not above that.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 09:16 AM (WXNFJ)

141 His and Hers Coffee makers! That’s kinda cute, unless one breaks down, perhaps.

“One thing I like better is that it makes one cup at a time, and runs on exactly what you put into it, “

That was why I bought a Keurig. Once. I thought one or two cups a day would be perfect. They were too tasty and I ended up making a bunch. The machine didn’t last too long. They make a tasty brew but my fuel consumption is too high

Posted by: Common Tater at January 18, 2025 09:17 AM (wNEJY)

142 Two days and a wake up.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 18, 2025 09:17 AM (u73oe)

143 Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 09:09 AM (feC/a

Thanks for sharing that account!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:17 AM (5UOr2)

144 coffee options here:

- daily French press, preferred method
- party/group visitors large percolator
- keurig for whatever, I dunno, it's just on the counter
- my trusty little espresso pot for the stovetop

everything was inherited from my grandmother and still working just fine, if aged-looking

just like me!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 18, 2025 09:17 AM (Pv3Rg)

145 This is the point in the movie where the dead hand grabs you from the grave and you wake up screaming.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2025 09:18 AM (Gqoy+)

146 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Caffiend at January 18, 2025 09:18 AM (G5+As)

147 Thanks for the dandy Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers for our nation as Inauguration Day approaches. May Americans turn their face to God, walk the path He decides upon, and once again become a force for good in this world. And may God's protection be given to His chosen ones, including President Trump.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 18, 2025 09:18 AM (rxCpr)

148 If you get a camping set for making coffee, you will always have a backup. Can even leave it in the car for emergencies. I have one and don't even drink coffee. I even have a grinder so I can just store beans.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 09:18 AM (NQtI0)

149 Taking Elvis to visit mom today. You want to see some happy people take a dog to a nursing home.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 09:02 AM (LkLld)
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Nothing makes old people happier than little kids and dogs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2025 09:18 AM (LMyYC)

150 22 Prayers are offered for those mentioned above, and those known only to God.

Thank you all for your prayers as I begin my cancer treatment. Surgery on the 27th You all are the best.
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We will be there with you in our prayers. You must do your part and pig out out on quality calories in the meantime. Gain as much weight as you can. Steaks, liver & onions, salmon, baked potatoes with lots of butter, bacon and sour cream.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 09:18 AM (rhmc0)

151 I am telling you , it's a blessing the inauguration is indoors, in the beautiful and stately rotunda. Removes 90% of risk.

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 09:18 AM (g47mK)

152 I've heard it said that if you don't hate your physical therapist, they're not doing their job right.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 18, 2025 09:10 AM (dxSpM)
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At first, absolutely. And then they teach you the stretches, and you go home and perform le vice Anglais to keep the various joints in line.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)

153 146 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

oh yes, for sure.

we also try to buy local - no one here is local to me but you can probably order - Turks Head and Twin Valley are really awesome local roasters

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 18, 2025 09:19 AM (Pv3Rg)

154 - @62 Count
Excellent!!
I'd also add a prayer to the Holy Spirit. Asking Him to guide my thoughts, words and deeds.
Asking it all in the name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus, the Annointed One.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 18, 2025 09:19 AM (kjZOX)

155 Stove top perc / bialetti types are my favorite in terms of taste but for convenience I use a coffee maker these days

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:19 AM (0JWOm)

156 The traditional media has lost virtually all of their power.

Inevitable due to the democratization of streaming and on-demand expectations. I was wondering how long even Rush Limbaugh would have been viable because the short segment style of shows are being replaced by long format vblogs.

Nobody is paying attention to their lies any longer.

If "LIV" has any meaning, no one but political wonks were even listening to their lies. People tend to listen to lies passed on through various influencers, from their own friends to streamed media.

And social media is increasingly moving our way.

I don't see it capturing the minds of as many people as it once did. Life gets in the way.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 18, 2025 09:20 AM (rHxhM)

157 Infatuation day?
Coffee hasn't kicked in yet!

Prayers for all on the list and those beyond.

Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at January 18, 2025 09:20 AM (G77LY)

158 coffee makers are fine, pre-programming feature makes them very useful

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 09:20 AM (g47mK)

159 I didn't move from Michigan to Florida to get snowed upon. But the weathercasters say I'm going to get snowed upon next week.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 18, 2025 09:21 AM (Y1sOo)

160 “Cowboy coffee” - start with cold water. Add coffee. Bring to a boil carefully or it will foam over and make a mess. The hipsters will be appalled, but a brief boil is necessary or it won’t drop all the grounds. It it’s done right there won’t be any grounds in your cup at all. Misunderstood method for sure. They did it that way because making coffee for a crowd over a fire means 8 or 9 big boilers

Posted by: Common Tater at January 18, 2025 09:21 AM (wNEJY)

161 Durbin was extremely disagreeable in the Bondi hearing, so next day an ad vent out, released by some outfit detailing the case against this nasty hog.
Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 09:08 AM (g47mK)

That was bloody brilliant!

Good morning horde! Prayers up for all in need.
My niece's husband recently had a mini heart attack. He's around 32 or 33 years old. He works for his dad doing small construction and the dad works this kid like a dog while letting his other sons (who allegedly work for him also) skate on anything. They built my porch last year and T was the one who did most of the work. He had some troubles with law enforcement for a while but he quit drinking and is working his ass off to take care of his wife and daughter. He's got an appointment with a cardiologist and having a stress test soon. If anyone could toss up a prayer for the kid, it would be appreciated.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 18, 2025 09:21 AM (4XwPj)

162 Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 18, 2025 09:18 AM (rxCpr)

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:21 AM (5UOr2)

163 That was why I bought a Keurig. Once. I thought one or two cups a day would be perfect. They were too tasty and I ended up making a bunch. The machine didn’t last too long. They make a tasty brew but my fuel consumption is too high
Posted by: Common Tater at January 18, 2025 09:17 AM (wNEJY)
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I had a boss who was a coffee addict. I'd make a full pot, one cup for me, the rest for him. Sometimes he needed a second one to get through the day. Traditional pot, died after about a year of heavy use (the building water wasn't great, either). A departed co-worker left a Keurig, and I use that at work but use distilled water.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

164 Prayers for the hardworking kid, Madame Mayhem

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:22 AM (0JWOm)

165 Nothing makes old people happier than little kids and dogs.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I am no longer in my entrepreneur mode but I always thought that an old folks home/assisted living facility should be paired with a day care (for the wee ones). A win for all around.

School has been cancelled in the county for the past week due to icy roads. A number of our churches have opened up to provide free day care/meals for the kids as the adults have to go to work. We are having a ball with the little guys.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 09:22 AM (WXNFJ)

166 Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 18, 2025 09:21 AM (4XwPj)

Will pray for neice's husband.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:22 AM (5UOr2)

167 >>Nothing makes old people happier than little kids and dogs.

It's really fun. Many of them who don't say or do much most of the time make an effort to come and see Elvis for a few minutes and tell me the same story they told me last week about the dogs they used to have. And Elvis loves it cause he's a love hound.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 09:22 AM (LkLld)

168 Prayers up and may God bless you, Northernlurker and the soul of Faye.

My father is fixing what needs fixing, sorting filing cabinets, and giving us "kids" things as he finds them in cupboards. He'll turn 90 in a few months. He doesn't think he'll be living longer than that. It's not morbidly. It's a feeling he has.

So I guess my prayer is that when God takes him home, that it happens quick and gently.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 18, 2025 09:23 AM (cU25t)

169 Prayers said (nice way to start the morning), breakfast digesting, sipping coffee and waiting to do the errands. Weather forecast for the week sucks so we are preparing things so we don't have to leave the house for a few days. As long as there is a small ice and snow free patch for Precious to do her business, we are good.

dog food - yep
coffee supply - yep
pipe tobacco - yep
books to read - NEVER a problem

Posted by: JTB at January 18, 2025 09:23 AM (yTvNw)

170 Wow, possibility of snow on Gulf Coast and beach areas of NC, SC, GA. coming up. If that's true, how deep will the tundra muck freeze in Wisconsin?

Posted by: Mr. Freeze at January 18, 2025 09:24 AM (G5+As)

171 Wow, possibility of snow on Gulf Coast and beach areas of NC, SC, GA. coming up. If that's true, how deep will the tundra muck freeze in Wisconsin?
Posted by: Mr. Freeze

This globull warmining will be the death of us!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 09:27 AM (WXNFJ)

172
Gone to fresh ground every morning and think that makes a big difference for coffee.

Reading about hard times last year in the wine, beer and bourbon businesses. Might have to set back the craft beer business project; don't want to make citrusy hazy stuff that is the fad right now.

Posted by: Auspex at January 18, 2025 09:27 AM (j4U/Z)

173 Fen, #137. You might want to pray for some healing for Vance, or at least a typo correction.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 09:27 AM (4780s)

174 May God bless Madame Mayhem's nephew-in-law! Sounds like a good husband to her niece. May he get more compensation and less aggravation.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 18, 2025 09:27 AM (cU25t)

175 Why is comment #1 corrupted with the buxom bikini blonde advert video?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)

I typed it directly. It is not a link.
Nor is there a link to my name.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 18, 2025 09:27 AM (gbOdA)

176 If that's true, how deep will the tundra muck freeze in Wisconsin?

Posted by: Mr. Freeze at January 18, 2025 09:24 AM (G5+As)

Still shorts weather here (20's). If it goes down to the 1's, then we might break out the puffy coats.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 18, 2025 09:28 AM (SfhV1)

177 I’ve a brick of Bustelo stashed as a last resort for contingency purposes. And some freeze dried I guess. Madagkia D’oro tastes a little better maybe. It makes an almost authentic espresso

Posted by: Common Tater at January 18, 2025 09:28 AM (wNEJY)

178 Thanks to Annie for the prayer list.

This is a funny place. Very serious concerns expressed by folks with handles that make me smile nonetheless.

The Jewish prayer for healing is a good one.

Thanks to MisHum for hosting this thread. Even if my dog doesn't like today's music.

Posted by: mindful webworker - life is funny sometimes, both meanings of the word, at January 18, 2025 09:29 AM (Mud1j)

179 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 18, 2025 09:13 AM (rHxhM)

Maximizing profits. Isn’t that what they are supposed to do? The government has been after them with those bogus suits for years. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 18, 2025 09:29 AM (D6PGr)

180 I didn't move from Michigan to Florida to get snowed upon. But the weathercasters say I'm going to get snowed upon next week.
Posted by: one hour sober

Last winter I had roughly 90 inches of cumulative snowfall by Christmas. I thought were in for an epic winter. Rained for a week after Christmas and didn't snow again until early February. We ended up with about 120 inches of cumulative snowfall. A memorable winter but not epic. This year, it has snowed about a dozen times, an inch or two at a time. I've been on my plow once for a 10 minute clean up of a slushy mess at top of my driveway. Normal plow is about a 2 hour job. I'm still waiting for winter to show up.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 09:30 AM (feC/a)

181 The high here yesterday was 50. The high today is 24. Tomorrow will be a balmy 12. The polar vortex is votexing the shit of of us.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 18, 2025 09:31 AM (u73oe)

182 My coffee maker has been kaput for two days. A new one should be better be arriving today.
Posted by: Tonypete

Order two. Never know when you'll need a backup.

Posted by: mindful webworker - prepping of a sort at January 18, 2025 09:31 AM (Mud1j)

183 Anyone having a MAGA Party this weekend.
Wifey's friend is. I might go even though I never go anywhere.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 18, 2025 09:31 AM (/lPRQ)

184 Speaking of prayer - how do you daily rosary people do it?

Also anyone in or have first hand info about Legion of Mary? Thinking of applying to be a praying member, but see my first sentence, lol.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:32 AM (0JWOm)

185 What's the difference between a "Prig" and a "Prat".

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 18, 2025 09:32 AM (QB+5g)

186 The last time a measurable amount of snow fell in Florida was also here along the northern Gulf coast -- Jan. 28, 2014 -- when Pensacola received one inch of the white stuff.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 18, 2025 09:32 AM (Y1sOo)

187 More and more people are jumping off the left's sinking ship and coming our way as they see the left's policies aren't just failing but dangerous.

Pareto Principle

80% rely on the 20% doing their job. When regulation stifles some innovators and Producers and the adage "Incompetence drives out Competence" which was attached to a JATO pack under DEI/ESG policies discourages and neuters the rest, people tend to notice that the 20% they relied on isn't there.†

With Trump and DOGE, whether they actually accomplish anything or not, the threat to DEI/ESG and the Regulatory/Lawfare State is encouraging the hidden 20% to come out of hiding. The fight is for the 20% to be in a position to benefit the 80%

† e.g. LA Fires, Afghanistan withdrawal, FEMA, etc.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 18, 2025 09:33 AM (rHxhM)

188 Lewis and Clark mentioned, when an elderly member of a tribe in some nations was getting a little too slow to keep up, they would put a little food out in a certain way and that was kind of the message. No ice floes I guess. Or assisted living facilities. That’s pretty tough

Posted by: Common Tater at January 18, 2025 09:33 AM (wNEJY)

189 Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones. I appreciate this place so very much.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 18, 2025 09:34 AM (whIlM)

190 If anyone could toss up a prayer for the kid, it would be appreciated.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

Prayer given MM.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 09:34 AM (feC/a)

191 Not sure anyone put up Powerline week in pictures but the Presidential chart was sadly funny

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 09:36 AM (fwDg9)

192 The Oxford Comma strikes: loving caffeine dogs and 7 people.
It's pretty versatile. "Caffeine dogs and 7" might be a drink.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 18, 2025 09:37 AM (zdLoL)

193 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 18, 2025 09:37 AM (hoCmQ)

194 Why is comment #1 corrupted with the buxom bikini blonde advert video?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)

WUTT?? I'm not seeing that. I feel left out! Damn!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 18, 2025 09:38 AM (iODuv)

195 Speaking of prayer - how do you daily rosary people do it?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

It's like any other habit - at first, it's a bit hard to stay motivated. But after two weeks or so, it's part of my day and if the day just goes to shit and I miss it, I am hugely uncomfortable. Also - there are lots of aids and helps to get it done - Youtube, Ascension or Hallo apps, etc. Find one that fits you and pray away!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 09:38 AM (WXNFJ)

196 Lewis and Clark mentioned, when an elderly member of a tribe in some nations was getting a little too slow to keep up, they would put a little food out in a certain way and that was kind of the message. No ice floes I guess. Or assisted living facilities. That’s pretty tough

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That's why those societies are gone; contrast to honor in respect given to the elderly in places like China, whose civilization is around 5000 yo. Must be a link.

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 09:39 AM (g47mK)

197 Liking seven people is a little generous don't you think? Maybe I need more bean water.

Posted by: Weasel at January 18, 2025 09:40 AM (iu4Pw)

198 I posted this is in the earlier tech thread, but not everybody reads that, and I think it's a lovely story with a great little video about I think -a Dutchman -who recently died in his 90's and spent decades distributing Bibles to communist and other countries where Bibles weren't allowed.,I had heard of his name, Brother Andrew- and his organization but didn't know his story.

What a wonderful man!- Brother Andrew who smuggled Bibles into communist countries. I didn't know his story:

https://tinyurl.com/4bjetkdh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:40 AM (J5Alt)

199 I’ve mentioned this before - two or three burner Coleman stoves were made by the gazillions and practically free. They work just fine on low octane car gas. If you can produce coffee and breakfast in a power outage you will be a hero, at least temporarily.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 18, 2025 09:40 AM (wNEJY)

200 My browsing history is not even full of pictures studly hunky men in speedos. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:10 AM

Either

a) not even full = 90%, or

b) you're not trying hard enough!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2025 09:40 AM (a3Q+t)

201 Why is comment #1 corrupted with the buxom bikini blonde advert video?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)

WUTT?? I'm not seeing that. I feel left out! Damn!
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 18, 2025 09:38 AM (iODuv)

interesting that JJ's laptop's been "in service" for weeks and weeks, now it came back and is giving him buxom blondes

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 09:41 AM (g47mK)

202 Liking seven people is a little generous don't you think?
Posted by: Weasel at January 18, 2025 09:40 AM

Wouldn't that depend on their watch size, and/or devotion to fundamentals?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2025 09:42 AM (a3Q+t)

203 What a wonderful man!- Brother Andrew who smuggled Bibles into communist countries. I didn't know his story:

https://tinyurl.com/4bjetkdh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:40 AM (J5Alt)

Yes, a man of true courage and conviction.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 18, 2025 09:42 AM (SfhV1)

204 We had about 8 inches of snow over the course of a few days. Sun came out, melting started, temps took a nosedive, and hey, look at all that ice! Yesterday the temp was around 42degrees and it stayed warm enough to rain most of the night. Today I can see my actual driveway, grass, and mud! Temp is hovering around 30 but we are supposed to get some brutal cold during the week. How much longer until spring?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 18, 2025 09:42 AM (4XwPj)

205 Wouldn't that depend on their watch size, and/or devotion to fundamentals?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2025 09:42 AM (a3Q+t)
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Well those would certainly be mitigating factors!

Posted by: Weasel at January 18, 2025 09:43 AM (iu4Pw)

206 Caffeine Dogs >>> Reservoir Dogs

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2025 09:43 AM (a3Q+t)

207 Runner, I think that might be a little harsh. They were small in numbers and nomadic. L&C did mention other nations, who weren’t on the plains and more permanent lodges, venerated their elderly very much and sought their counsel all the time, both male and female

Posted by: Common Tater at January 18, 2025 09:43 AM (wNEJY)

208 Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 09:27 AM (4780s)

My typos are beyond healing 😉but point taken.. Thx. "J,D." Vance ""

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:44 AM (J5Alt)

209 all right, the sooner I start , the sooner I finish.

Cheers!

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 09:44 AM (g47mK)

210 "the real calling is not a certain place or career but to everyday obedience. And that call is extended to every Christian, not just a select few.”

Thanks Fen.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 09:45 AM (feC/a)

211 My sister was in love with 15 soldiers, but it was probably platoonic.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 09:46 AM (D7oie)

212 The cooling we are seeing this week and weekend is the result of the earth warming up to over 10,000 Celsius at it's core and the oceans rising to swamp New York's Upper Eastside. The world will soon be a ball of fire!

Posted by: Al Gore, Hopping A Jet To Bang Whores in Thailand at January 18, 2025 09:46 AM (R/m4+)

213 Why is comment #1 corrupted with the buxom bikini blonde advert video?

Should I be upset my browser seems to block those?
😏

Posted by: mindful webworker - prepping of a sort at January 18, 2025 09:46 AM (Mud1j)

214 Good morning all. I'm still here lol. Saw the ortho doc and soonest I can get a shot is January 29. My arms are still very painful all the time. I can barely use my left arm at all. I spend most of my day in bed. I see the oncologist Feb 5 and will get a scan. I have to admit I get very depressed.

Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer at January 18, 2025 09:47 AM (iF0sF)

215 -Hrothgar was hospitalized in need of a cardio-catherization. He has his son and daughter at his side.

well, crap. I hope it turns out well.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 09:48 AM (D7oie)

216 I ended up binge watching the one season of Landman with Billy Bob Thornton. About Midland Texas and oil. It's now my favorite of Tyler Sheridan's things.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2025 09:48 AM (Gqoy+)

217 Speaking of prayer - how do you daily rosary people do it?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

It's like any other habit - at first, it's a bit hard to stay motivated. But after two weeks or so, it's part of my day and if the day just goes to shit and I miss it, I am hugely uncomfortable. Also - there are lots of aids and helps to get it done - Youtube, Ascension or Hallo apps, etc. Find one that fits you and pray away!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 09:38 AM (WXNFJ)
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A good way to get into a daily Rosary is to start with a weekly one. Scale it up as you go, but that builds the habit and increases comfort.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)

218 {{{Jewells}}}

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 09:48 AM (GDrd7)

219 What a wonderful man!- Brother Andrew who smuggled Bibles into communist countries. I didn't know his story:

https://tinyurl.com/4bjetkdh
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:40 AM (J5Alt)
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Is that a thing? I smuggled prayer books into the USSR.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2025 09:49 AM (LMyYC)

220 I just checked comment #1. There's a geezer wearing a tuxedo in a shower.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 18, 2025 09:49 AM (4XwPj)

221 Ok, time to do the needful. Have fun.

The Legion of Mary (the other one) I Second That Emotion.

https://tinyurl.com/yc29rp59

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 09:50 AM (LkLld)

222 Tonypete, if I miss morning or evening prayer I feel like the whole day is wrong.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 09:50 AM (rhmc0)

223 If you get a camping set for making coffee, you will always have a backup. Can even leave it in the car for emergencies. I have one and don't even drink coffee. I even have a grinder so I can just store beans.

Posted by: Notsothoreau

I have a camping percolator and a coleman stove, so I am never without coffee.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 18, 2025 09:51 AM (yLCi9)

224 I am no longer in my entrepreneur mode but I always thought that an old folks home/assisted living facility should be paired with a day care (for the wee ones). A win for all around.

School has been cancelled in the county for the past week due to icy roads. A number of our churches have opened up to provide free day care/meals for the kids as the adults have to go to work. We are having a ball with the little guys.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 09:22 AM (WXNFJ)

I think about this a lot, as there are so many out there in the world who are disconnected. Loneliness and despair are killers. Our cities are corrupt, not just in the political sense, but in that they've developed into these places where people live in proximity, but don't have anything to do with each other.

It's not right.

Humans are meant to be social animals, and one doesn't have to go too far into the past to see that we were. I think communism might be a big reason we're so much less so now, and not in the usual way.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2025 09:52 AM (iBy62)

225 Tonypete, if I miss morning or evening prayer I feel like the whole day is wrong.
Posted by: Braenyard

Right! I have to credit my dear wife for much of my advancement in prayer. She never nagged but simply led by example.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 09:52 AM (WXNFJ)

226 > We had about 8 inches of snow over the course of a few days. Sun came out, melting started, temps took a nosedive, and hey, look at all that ice!
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We're expecting the same here in KY tonight. It was near 50 degrees yesterday and a lot of snow melted, but not all of it. Standing water and slush is everywhere. Temps are due to plunge tonight into the single digits and stay well below freezing for about 3-4 days.

It'll be a mess.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 09:53 AM (Q4IgG)

227 I typed it directly. It is not a link.
Nor is there a link to my name.

It's not you. Whatever ad placement "service" is used by the site is inserting content between comments. I had to open a different browser to see it; Brave is blocking it effectively.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 18, 2025 09:53 AM (/y8xj)

228 Good morning all. I'm still here lol. Saw the ortho doc and soonest I can get a shot is January 29. My arms are still very painful all the time. I can barely use my left arm at all. I spend most of my day in bed. I see the oncologist Feb 5 and will get a scan. I have to admit I get very depressed.
Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer at January 18, 2025 09:47 AM (iF0sF)

Sorry to hear that. Prayers for you, lovely lady.

And Hrothgar.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 18, 2025 09:54 AM (dR6yv)

229 If any of the horde are involved in church security, keep your heads on a swivel. DHS issued a critical bulletin to LE agencies last week regarding an increased threat on potential terrorist attacks on churches utilizing vehicles.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 09:54 AM (feC/a)

230 Two more days, my friends. Two more days.

While everyone is praying anyway, may I suggest that one for President-Elect Trump and the United States of America would be in order?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 18, 2025 09:55 AM (W5ArC)

231 Hey vmom!
Ignoramus I just finished Landman. Excellent show!

Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer at January 18, 2025 09:55 AM (iF0sF)

232 220 I just checked comment #1. There's a geezer wearing a tuxedo in a shower.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 18, 2025 09:49 AM (4XwPj)

I'm on my home pooter now, but this site is a very different place when I'm accessing on my phone. Full of ads all over the place, and I know they pay the bills, but it's amazing too, how the internets developed into this cesspool of ugly.

Anyhoo, on my home pooter, I see none of it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2025 09:55 AM (iBy62)

233 ((( Jewells))))!!

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 09:56 AM (feC/a)

234 Preacher did missionary work in Burma. Couldn't tell them he was Christian or preaching or passing out bibles. Any one of those things lands you in jail or worse.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 09:56 AM (rhmc0)

235 If any of the horde are involved in church security, keep your heads on a swivel. DHS issued a critical bulletin to LE agencies last week regarding an increased threat on potential terrorist attacks on churches utilizing vehicles.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 09:54 AM (feC/a)

Did they fail to mention those vehicles will have government plates?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2025 09:56 AM (iBy62)

236 Hi Jewels,

Yes the pain can wear you down.

I have to find something distracting for my mind to do. I have always had the ability to completely focus on something and shut out the world to the point where I lose tack of time, etc.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 18, 2025 09:57 AM (QB+5g)

237 Praying for {jewells}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2025 09:58 AM (LMyYC)

238 Landman is character-driven. The slutty ex-wife and Livvy Dunne-ish daughter are comic relief.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2025 09:58 AM (Gqoy+)

239 I am no longer in my entrepreneur mode but I always thought that an old folks home/assisted living facility should be paired with a day care (for the wee ones). A win for all around.
.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 09:22 AM (WXNFJ)
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I know of a facility like that in Michigan's Thumb. It's a community center with the senior and daycare right next to each other so that they can open the doors and let the little tykes run wild. Seems to work well for them.

Having the grandkids live with us is trying (I'm not 29 anymore!) but a lot of fun. It's like all the fun of being a parent with half the stress. I love they way they celebrate treats. We should all do that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)

240 Did they fail to mention those vehicles will have government plates?
Posted by: BurtTC

Black Yukons with tinted windows always get extra attention in my parking lot surveys.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:01 AM (feC/a)

241 41 This morning I'm with my buddy who lost his mom 2 weeks ago.

Everyone should visit those who mourn.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2025 08:47 AM (LMyYC)

Agreed.

Posted by: m at January 18, 2025 10:02 AM (VnUSN)

242 Other Brother Fredo's former side piece, Sandra Lee (best known for her "Semi-Ho Made" cable show, which featured "recipes" along the lines of "Try this fun idea for Cinco de May: Open a large bag of Fritos and a can of bean dip, then make five gallons of margaritas.") apparently made a "do you know who I am" scene in Eataly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 18, 2025 10:02 AM (W5ArC)

243 Did they fail to mention those vehicles will have government plates?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2025 09:56 AM (iBy62)
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I'm looking forward to see all the stuff on the "Patriot Front," like how they coordinated with law enforcement so that none of them got tickets for covering up their license plates, what their budget was for weird shields and khaki pants, etc.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:02 AM (ZOv7s)

244 I have to admit I get very depressed.
Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer at January 18, 2025 09:47 AM (iF0sF)

Whatever it is you can't do, give that to God. You have every right to feel sadness about it.

What you can do, also give that to God, it is the part of your humanity that means you are still here because it is His will. Not all of us will be in a position to contemplate our mortal death, and those who are, it can be a blessing to seek understanding of why we are here, what our purpose was, and focus on what we accomplished in this life. And then thank God for that too.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2025 10:03 AM (yxiAY)

245 Oh shit yeah the ex wife is a freaking hoot.

Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer at January 18, 2025 10:04 AM (iF0sF)

246 Good morning good people (and others)! It's a rainy, slushy day here.

Jewels, I'll be wearing my Trump necklace and earrings for the inauguration!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 18, 2025 10:05 AM (kpS4V)

247 Did they fail to mention those vehicles will have government plates?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2025 09:56 AM (iBy62)
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I'm looking forward to see all the stuff on the "Patriot Front," like how they coordinated with law enforcement so that none of them got tickets for covering up their license plates, what their budget was for weird shields and khaki pants, etc.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:02 AM (ZOv7s)

The next time we hire government auditors, find someone who's very good at recognizing the ingredients for pipe bombs, and can see which office of the FBI was spending more on those.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2025 10:06 AM (yxiAY)

248 The big plus FireFox has over Brave is the ability to adjust back ground colors. It also does fonts an colors better. One may not notice it on a pad or phone but on a pc AoS is blaring/glaring white out.
Make you go blind.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZt1xKtPbUQ

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 10:06 AM (rhmc0)

249 If you get a camping set for making coffee, you will always have a backup. Can even leave it in the car for emergencies. I have one and don't even drink coffee. I even have a grinder so I can just store beans.

Posted by: Notsothoreau

my "firewood cutting kit" is a .50 Cal ammo box with 2 one pound propane cylinders, a Gem-light propane lamp, and a single burner which all fit in like it was all designed as a unit. I keep a gym bag with a pan, coffee grounds, instant coffee, cocoa and consumables, and a Swedish mess kit with an alcohol burner because it is good to have a spare heat source.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 10:08 AM (D7oie)

250 > If any of the horde are involved in church security, keep your heads on a swivel. DHS issued a critical bulletin to LE agencies last week regarding an increased threat on potential terrorist attacks on churches utilizing vehicles.
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I suspect there will be a lot of manufactured unrest for the next 4 years. Whether it will be met with pleas for civility or "something stronger" is debatable.

But the calls for civility 8 years ago were ignored.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 10:08 AM (Q4IgG)

251 Did they fail to mention those vehicles will have government plates?
Posted by: BurtTC

Black Yukons with tinted windows always get extra attention in my parking lot surveys.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:01 AM (feC/a)

Don't overlook plain white electric/hybrid vehicles too.

Remember, DEI and Green New Deal have been front and center in these agencies too.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2025 10:08 AM (yxiAY)

252 my "firewood cutting kit" is a .50 Cal.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 10:08 AM (D7oie)
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Fixed it for you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)

253 Lloyd, I am told that if you want to cut a lot of firewood fast you want to employ det-cord.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 10:13 AM (D7oie)

254 I suspect there will be a lot of manufactured unrest for the next 4 years. Whether it will be met with pleas for civility or "something stronger" is debatable.

But the calls for civility 8 years ago were ignored.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 10:08 AM (Q4IgG)
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I think we've shifted strongly as a society from mercy to justice, and this will grow more profound as the crimes of the regime are exposed.

This shift will really be felt in political violence, which will now use the J6 precedent for first-time maximum terms due to the "seriousness of the offense against our democracy."

It was always a bunch of LARPers, always. I remember people here insisting in 2020 that Antifa were hardened street fighters, but no, they're legislative staffers and substitute school teachers leavened by street bums.

Every Fed involved in Patriot Front nonsense should be fired for violating the Hatch Act on top of everything else.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)

255 Eris! Yay!! I haven't made any jewelry in forever.

Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer at January 18, 2025 10:14 AM (iF0sF)

256 Lloyd, I am told that if you want to cut a lot of firewood fast you want to employ det-cord.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 10:13 AM (D7oie)
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I wasn't in the Army long enough to see how that worked. I do know A-10s can make short work of most things.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)

257 Lloyd, I am told that if you want to cut a lot of firewood fast you want to employ det-cord.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 10:13 AM

Silly Putty, Serious putty (C4).
Silly String, Serious string (det cord).

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 18, 2025 10:16 AM (Wnv9h)

258 Fearless prediction: the "resistance" will be undermined by civil servants with 19 1/2 years in who desperately want to get a pension and will happily dime out everyone else in the office to get there.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)

259 "I just checked comment #1. There's a geezer wearing a tuxedo in a shower.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)"

I've got a feeling Big Penguin has a flipped in this.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 10:16 AM (vFG9F)

260 Whether it will be met with pleas for civility or "something stronger" is debatable.

But the calls for civility 8 years ago were ignored.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Any calls for civility need to be met with unvarnished truth and a just response. I will enjoy the administration of bitter medicine.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:17 AM (feC/a)

261 Flipper

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 10:17 AM (vFG9F)

262 Next time you're at a TXMoMe ask WeaselBuddyGeoff about felling an organic pine tree with an Uzi.

Posted by: Weasel at January 18, 2025 10:17 AM (iu4Pw)

263 Every Fed involved in Patriot Front nonsense should be fired for violating the Hatch Act on top of everything else.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:13 AM

Out of a cannon, into the sun. It is the Horde Way.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 18, 2025 10:18 AM (Wnv9h)

264 I didn’t know this was still a thing, but apparently the Pink Hat brigade is planning a visit to DC

I saw on Fox that there was a pink hat protest outside the National Archives minutes after the archivist said Biden's full of shit about the ERA. Almost like whoever sent that tweet on behalf of Biden also is in charge of the protesters.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 18, 2025 10:18 AM (AIhUY)

265 It was always a bunch of LARPers, always. I remember people here insisting in 2020 that Antifa were hardened street fighters, but no, they're legislative staffers and substitute school teachers leavened by street bums.

That is probably the best way to describe the street activists from the Summer of Love to those who see the highest purpose in their life is to smear themselves with adhesives and attach themselves to roadways.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 18, 2025 10:18 AM (rHxhM)

266 I wasn't in the Army long enough to see how that worked. I do know A-10s can make short work of most things.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)

That seems a bit extreme. Maybe Claymores.

Or just find out what all those LA mansions were made of, and use that, because they sure burned good.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2025 10:18 AM (K6M7J)

267 Next time you're at a TXMoMe ask WeaselBuddyGeoff about felling an organic pine tree with an Uzi.
Posted by: Weasel at January 18, 2025 10:17 AM

You guys have all the fun there. I hate my state.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 18, 2025 10:19 AM (Wnv9h)

268 254
'I remember people here insisting in 2020 that Antifa were hardened street fighters, but no'

The Kyle Rittenhouse case showed us what Antifa is made of.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 18, 2025 10:19 AM (3wi/L)

269 Why do billionaires want this video destroyed?

And what does that have to do with their sexy AI wives and creepy, village-of-the-damned children?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 18, 2025 10:19 AM (dQfJF)

270 You guys have all the fun there. I hate my state.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 18, 2025 10:19 AM (Wnv9h)
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I think that your state hates you!

Posted by: Weasel at January 18, 2025 10:20 AM (iu4Pw)

271 Hello Jewells!! I am keeping you in my prayers! Hrothgar and all who need them as well!

Posted by: Moonbeam at January 18, 2025 10:20 AM (rbKZ6)

272 And what does that have to do with their sexy AI wives and creepy, village-of-the-damned children?
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 18, 2025 10:19 AM

Oh....nothing....

Posted by: M. Night Shamalamadingdong at January 18, 2025 10:20 AM (Wnv9h)

273 For the record, I'm on a Kindle tablet and I got the tuxedo guy in the shower.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 10:21 AM (4780s)

274 That seems a bit extreme. Maybe Claymores.

Or just find out what all those LA mansions were made of, and use that, because they sure burned good.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2025 10:18 AM (K6M7J)
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Well, A-10s are getting scarce these days, so it is a chore finding one when you need it.

They built a mock village at Grayling for them to use as a target area and they even had a church with a steeple, which always got shot off despite strict orders not to do so. Eventually they stopped putting it back up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:21 AM (ZOv7s)

275 The big plus FireFox has over Brave is the ability to adjust back ground colors. It also does fonts an colors better.

The downside is that the organization in charge of Firefox said their primary mission now is communism and DEI, so the browser is likely to go downhill rapidly.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 18, 2025 10:21 AM (AIhUY)

276 Silly Putty, Serious putty (C4).
Silly String, Serious string (det cord).
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 18, 2025 10:16 AM (Wnv9h)

Silly Rabbit (sells cereal), Serious Rabbit (Jimmah Carter's worst nightmare)

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2025 10:21 AM (K6M7J)

277 I think that your state hates you!
Posted by: Weasel at January 18, 2025 10:20 AM

This is more accurate. If MA had the politics of TX, I'd never leave.

Posted by: M. Night Shamalamadingdong at January 18, 2025 10:21 AM (Wnv9h)

278 "I think we've shifted strongly as a society from mercy to justice, and this will grow more profound as the crimes of the regime are exposed."

I want a J6 Commission to expose the many tentacles of what went on. I'm looking at you Nancy!

Getting convictions is too hard. Instead force the perps to acknowldege paper evidence under penalties of perjury.

Else Nancy gets a state funeral in the Rotunda.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2025 10:21 AM (Gqoy+)

279 Fellow Catholics- our tiny parish is leaving up the Christmas decorations until Candlemass. Tradition! for the win.
This makes me very happy.

Prayers daily, for all of us.
A quick one for Mr. S, please, who accidently ran the garage door onto his rear window while backing out of the garage. He feels like an idiot and now has to deal with repairs and insurance.
But mostly feels like an idiot.

Posted by: sal at January 18, 2025 10:22 AM (f+FmA)

280 May the Lord bless this horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 18, 2025 10:22 AM (AsU+J)

281 Crap. Off, stupid sock.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 18, 2025 10:22 AM (Wnv9h)

282 >>>Gem-light propane lamp
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Can't find that anywhere. ?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 10:22 AM (rhmc0)

283 For the record, I'm on a Kindle tablet and I got the tuxedo guy in the shower.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 10:21 AM (4780s)
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I see nothing on my laptop, but my phone (which uses Chrome) shows a credit card ad.

Chrome always shows this site as overrun with ads.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)

284 I was always impressed with how the “Partriot Front” guys all wore identical government issued shoes. Nothing says “grassroots protest group” like everyone wearing identical footwear.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 10:23 AM (7MHHr)

285 Propane lantern is a good idea for the night the power company folds.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 10:24 AM (rhmc0)

286 I was always impressed with how the “Partriot Front” guys all wore identical government issued shoes. Nothing says “grassroots protest group” like everyone wearing identical footwear.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 10:23 AM (7MHHr)
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God blessed us with profoundly stupid enemies.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)

287 Next time you're at a TXMoMe ask WeaselBuddyGeoff about felling an organic pine tree with an Uzi.

Probably only cost a little more in ammo than a new chain saw. But a lot more fun and noise.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 18, 2025 10:24 AM (/y8xj)

288 I'm sorry that things are so difficult and painful for you, Jewells. Praying for you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 10:25 AM (c7ptB)

289 Love and prayers to you, Jewells, and all the Horde who need them.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 18, 2025 10:25 AM (Sgq8y)

290 1/17-Hrothgar was hospitalized in need of a cardio-catherization. He has his son and daughter at his side.

*shudder* getting flashbacks here.

Fingers crossed!!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 18, 2025 10:25 AM (VwHCD)

291 Don't overlook plain white electric/hybrid vehicles too.

Remember, DEI and Green New Deal have been front and center in these agencies too.
Posted by: BurtTC

So in addition to Todd wearing Ray Bans and khakis, I need to be on the lookout for Luna tucking "her" genitals while wearing yoga pants, a nose ring?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:26 AM (feC/a)

292 > I wasn't in the Army long enough to see how that worked. I do know A-10s can make short work of most things.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)

I think that would be closer to kindling than firewood per se, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 18, 2025 10:26 AM (W5ArC)

293 Fellow Catholics- our tiny parish is leaving up the Christmas decorations until Candlemass. Tradition! for the win.
This makes me very happy.

Posted by: sal at January 18, 2025 10:22 AM (f+FmA)
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Ours came down last week, today I'm taking the lights in (before the deep freeze). I do like seeing Christmas Day as a beginning of a season rather than an end.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)

294 Probably only cost a little more in ammo than a new chain saw. But a lot more fun and noise.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 18, 2025 10:24 AM (/y8xj)
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It wasn't on purpose, but we laughed for a solid hour afterward!

Posted by: Weasel at January 18, 2025 10:27 AM (iu4Pw)

295 2 days….

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 18, 2025 10:28 AM (AMcpv)

296 Looked for gym bags at amazon, ha. The old style blue canvas gym bag is extinct. Harbor Freight has tool bags, good quality for the price, about gym size. Some smaller some larger but appear to be better made than my old school gym bag.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 10:28 AM (rhmc0)

297 I think that would be closer to kindling than firewood per se, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 18, 2025 10:26 AM (W5ArC)
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Their will be some, but training rounds just make holes.

Besides, you need kindling as well.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:28 AM (ZOv7s)

298 There's a persistent story here in Alaska about an A-10 driver who made the career-ending mistake of shooting a moose.

The phrase "pink mist" is generally involved.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 18, 2025 10:28 AM (W5ArC)

299 And that is why Kindltot will always have coffee! I see posts on the internet all the time about how terrible it is to be out of coffee. It's an easy fix.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 10:29 AM (NQtI0)

300 my "firewood cutting kit" is a .50 Cal.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 10:08 AM (D7oie)

Aren't .50 BMG rds. like $5 each?

Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 10:29 AM (Yj6Os)

301 I was going to leave chatty replies to a couple of comments, but the conversation is going by so fast, I just fell back to just reading.

Imagine several sage or witty replies here.

Posted by: mindful webworker - sage AND witty at January 18, 2025 10:29 AM (Mud1j)

302 Yes - Coleman lanterns are excellent for providing warmth as well as light. Keeping an area warm so the pipes don’t freeze, pets, poultry etc.

Try that with an LED lantern solar boy

Posted by: Common Tater at January 18, 2025 10:30 AM (wNEJY)

303 I have my stuff in a big Stanley lunch box, for making both tea and coffee

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 10:32 AM (NQtI0)

304 There's a persistent story here in Alaska about an A-10 driver who made the career-ending mistake of shooting a moose.

The phrase "pink mist" is generally involved.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 18, 2025 10:28 AM (W5ArC)
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That would do it. Pilots tend to cover for each other, though. Probably a strong dose of NJP because we're so short of them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:32 AM (ZOv7s)

305 Aren't .50 BMG rds. like $5 each?
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 10:29 AM (Yj6Os)
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A little goes a long way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)

306 Propane lantern is a good idea for the night the power company folds.

Posted by: Braenyard

Or a dual fuel one. Mine runs the same fuel as the stove.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 18, 2025 10:33 AM (yLCi9)

307 298 There's a persistent story here in Alaska about an A-10 driver who made the career-ending mistake of shooting a moose.

The phrase "pink mist" is generally involved.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 18, 2025 10:28 AM (W5ArC)

Beef tallow.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 18, 2025 10:33 AM (2AW7/)

308 It wasn't on purpose, but we laughed for a solid hour afterward!

Worth every cent.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 18, 2025 10:34 AM (/y8xj)

309 Harbor Freight has tool bags, good quality for the price, about gym size. Some smaller some larger but appear to be better made than my old school gym bag.
Posted by: Braenyard

I've used a large, Rigid Tool bag for years. Used it during MA and I still use it for skiing. Smells like an old gym bag.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:34 AM (feC/a)

310 3 "Cure" is a great word. I hope to hear more of it in the coming year.
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 08:35 AM (vFG9F)

Gevalt. A single depleted Uranium 30mm round could probably turn Godzilla into hamburger meat!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 10:36 AM (x0n13)

311 This is why I scoff at anyone saying "Biden did X" or "Biden is to blame for Y". Biden has not been aware of what has been going on since the summer of 2020. The Deep State has been responsible for everything attributed to Biden. He has been nothing but a puppet and figurehead for 4 years.

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg

NEW: During a one-on-one meeting, Speaker Johnson asked President Biden why he paused LNG exports to Europe, says Biden was completely unaware he had done so.

The United States hasn't had a president for four years.

Johnson says Biden was completely unaware of an executive order he signed. The comments from Johnson came during an interview with @bariweiss.

"It occurred to me he was not lying to me. He genuinely did not know what he had signed. I walked outta that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, 'We are in serious trouble.'"

X video: https://bit.ly/4jePlOZ

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 18, 2025 10:36 AM (P5BPp)

312 Worth every cent.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 18, 2025 10:34 AM (/y8xj)
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Speaking of which...

I'm going to predict a sharp fall in ammo and firearm prices once Trump is in office. Normally we're all about the buying, but I think we're heading into a strong bear market. The economy as a whole isn't great, so people will hold off on purchases, and the secondary market should take a solid hit because of that. I've been watching various auctions since December and stuff is just not moving.

Ammo is even worse. Free advice, worth every penny but we saw this with Trump in 2017 as well.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:37 AM (ZOv7s)

313 Chrome always shows this site as overrun with ads.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)

Not with Ad Block Plus.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 18, 2025 10:38 AM (iODuv)

314

Movie idea: "Thunderbolt & Bullwinkle"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 10:38 AM (x0n13)

315 Gevalt. A single depleted Uranium 30mm round could probably turn Godzilla into hamburger meat!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 10:36 AM (x0n13)
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Godzilla vs Hogzilla

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:39 AM (ZOv7s)

316 I'm going to predict a sharp fall in ammo and firearm prices

Not in my state. New ammo tax came on line Jan 1. 11% on top of the 9% sales tax.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:39 AM (feC/a)

317 161
'He had some troubles with law enforcement for a while but he quit drinking and is working his ass off to take care of his wife and daughter.'

The first thing I thought is 'the Lord loves a working man'.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 18, 2025 10:39 AM (3wi/L)

318 I've used a large, Rigid Tool bag for years. Used it during MA and I still use it for skiing. Smells like an old gym bag.
Posted by: Sock Monkey

Tool Bag is now my favorite clean insult.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 10:40 AM (mlg/3)

319 >>Some kind of deal was struck but I'm not sure what.

Posted by: Dr. Claw

I said I would let go of their balls if they behaved.

Posted by: Trump at January 18, 2025 10:40 AM (HQ9Sl)

320 Vmom
I'm ordering from Brightworks.
Ivermectin and Fenben.
My wife was diagnosed with stage lV renal cancer last week. First meet with oncologist Tuesday.
Need to get her on the prayer list.

Posted by: MkY at January 18, 2025 10:42 AM (cPGH3)

321 A couple of weeks to go until the election in Germany. They just announced that they will have to import electricity from France's nuclear power grid, at ten times the price of natural gas. Good timing. Multiple manufacturers have to shut down, as they can't afford the electricity, and no windmill power is expected for another week.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 18, 2025 10:42 AM (yLCi9)

322 New ammo tax came on line Jan 1. 11% on top of the 9% sales tax.

Geez. Is it at least targeted for some good cause like the Robertson-Pittman tax? Will they station state troopers at checkpoints to prevent ammo running?

Posted by: Oddbob at January 18, 2025 10:43 AM (/y8xj)

323 I've used a large, Rigid Tool bag for years. Used it during MA and I still use it for skiing. Smells like an old gym bag.
Posted by: Sock Monkey

Tool Bag is now my favorite clean insult.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Home Depot needs to start a new ad campaign with Frank Thomas as their spokesman.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:43 AM (feC/a)

324 I have what might sound like a sort of silly prayer request. I have a nursing home service later today. FenSpouse does the music. We go once a month. It's the "Protestant worship service". It usually goes fine but one Saturday the fire alarm went off and fire men arrived. Things were ok, thank God. Then I knocked over the communion cups. It's been ok since but I love them and appreciate their attendance so if you could pray things go smoothly I and they feel the love and presence of the God, I would really appreciate that. Thanks so much!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 10:43 AM (GmczR)

325 Not sage and half-witty leftover replies

121… At the end of this thousand years there will be a new heaves and new earth.
Posted by: TeeJ

Dry heaves?

If there are upheavals, why are there no downheavals?

&

122… My browsing history is not even full of pictures studly hunky men in speedos.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

How about without speedos?

😁

Sorry. Just couldn't contain myself. Going back to lurking now.

Posted by: mindful webworker - sage AND witty at January 18, 2025 10:43 AM (Mud1j)

326 Aw, Fen! May God guide your hands and feet so everything goes smoothly.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 18, 2025 10:45 AM (cU25t)

327 Geez. Is it at least targeted for some good cause like the Robertson-Pittman tax? Will they station state troopers at checkpoints to prevent ammo running?
Posted by: Oddbob

I live in the Socialist Republic of Washington. It will be spent on transition surgeries for state inmates and housing our new arrivals.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:45 AM (feC/a)

328 Tool Bag is now my favorite clean insult.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 10:40 AM (mlg/3)

Nothing wrong with Nut Sack.

Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 10:45 AM (Yj6Os)

329 Tool Bag is now my favorite clean insult.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 10:40 AM (mlg/3)

Nothing wrong with Nut Sack.

Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 10:45 AM (Yj6Os)

A friend of mine uses the term ball bag.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 18, 2025 10:46 AM (VwHCD)

330 319
'
I said I would let go of their balls if they behaved.
Posted by: Trump'

Just relax the pressure.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 18, 2025 10:47 AM (3wi/L)

331 Imagine several sage or witty replies here.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sage AND witty at January 18, 2025 10:29 AM (Mud1j)

*chuckles and nods

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 18, 2025 10:47 AM (OX9vb)

332 328 Tool Bag is now my favorite clean insult.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 10:40 AM (mlg/3)

Nothing wrong with Nut Sack.
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 10:45 AM (Yj6Os)

Two canteloupes in old pantyhose draped over Andrea Mitchell's nose = Alan Greenspan Teabag

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 10:48 AM (x0n13)

333 Can't find that anywhere. ?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 10:22 AM (rhmc0)

sorry, I am full of mistakes today. I meant the Century Tool "mighty lite" single mantle lamp. I like that brand because it is pretty sturdy.

I think the gem light was a gas pressure lamp.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 10:48 AM (D7oie)

334 329 A friend of mine uses the term ball bag.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 18, 2025 10:46 AM (VwHCD)

Larry Laub or Johnny Petraglia?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 10:48 AM (x0n13)

335 Not too bad outside

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 10:49 AM (fwDg9)

336 330 319
'
I said I would let go of their balls if they behaved.
Posted by: Trump'

Just relax the pressure.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 18, 2025 10:47 AM (3wi/L)

"Now cough!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 10:50 AM (x0n13)

337 Two canteloupes in old pantyhose draped over Andrea Mitchell's nose = Alan Greenspan Teabag
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

I will now be cursed with that visualization for the rest of the day. Thanks JJ.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:50 AM (feC/a)

338 337 Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:50 AM (feC/a)

Good Shabbos good yuntif!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 10:51 AM (x0n13)

339 Not in my state. New ammo tax came on line Jan 1. 11% on top of the 9% sales tax.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:39 AM (feC/a)
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Typical leftist logic: "I hate those people over there, but can't get at them, so I'm going to punish all the people around me."

I mean, if prices fall enough, it will result in savings, and at least falling prices limits the harm of the tax.

In practical terms, though, I think they have some interstate commerce problems if they want to do border checkpoints on Constitutionally protected items.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:51 AM (ZOv7s)

340 294
AK-47 and oak tree instead of chainsaw, also not on purpose just poor target placement

Posted by: extybeebum at January 18, 2025 10:52 AM (4UqBy)

341 I really should save this for the Book Thread but . . .

Axios@axios
President Biden plans to write a book after leaving office, the White House confirmed to Axios, giving him an opportunity to try and shape the narrative around his presidency and the tumultuous weeks leading to his historic withdrawal from the 2024 race.

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Suggested title Being There II: Not Really Being There.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

342 Have a blessed day everyone!

Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer at January 18, 2025 10:53 AM (iF0sF)

343 Thought Andrea Mitchell was cute back in the day. Dumb as a post. But cute.

Posted by: Easy at January 18, 2025 10:53 AM (NJjx2)

344 > Else Nancy gets a state funeral in the Rotunda.
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She honestly needs to be hanged until dead, in a public space. Along with every member of the J6 committee and their immediate families. To send a message. Instead of a strongly worded letter, like usual.

Harsh, but fair. To me.

Although there may yet be a reckoning for them as the J6 committee is one of the things that Trump has consistently said was "wrong and that the members conspired to hide/destroy evidence." He gets pretty animated about it. Angry even.

I don't think he'll let that one go...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 10:54 AM (Q4IgG)

345 Multiple manufacturers have to shut down, as they can't afford the electricity, and no windmill power is expected for another week.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 18, 2025 10:42 AM (yLCi9)

One has to laugh at seeing how they bet their entire economy on wind and solar power, and yet no one mentioned that there are long stretches every winter where clouds cover the sky and the wind goes still.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 10:54 AM (7MHHr)

346

My favorite bag is the Danish Schoolbag. Held a ton and was very rugged. There was a shop in Manhattan that imported and sold them back in the late 70s through the 90s called, "The Chocolate soup" IIRC. Back then they were about $60. The shop is long gone but I think the bags are available direct but they are over $200 and Bidenflation or no, I'll go without.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 10:54 AM (x0n13)

347 You know what chaffes my hide? The fact that states can release their tax forms whenever they damn well please. If I don't file my taxes on time I get trouble. Do they make their forms availae at the beginning of the year? Of course not.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 18, 2025 10:55 AM (Y6IkP)

348 "before being eliminated by an armed passerby. "
There was a terrorist attack on Israel today that killed the victim.
I thought this line was important.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 18, 2025 10:55 AM (t/2Uw)

349 Prayers for those listed and unspoken needs. Fen, when you are worshipping, even mishaps can become praise! Don't worry about them, just go and praise God people want to hear!

Hrothgar, you've got this. Love you like a brother, friend.

Posted by: Moki at January 18, 2025 10:55 AM (wLjpr)

350 Multiple manufacturers have to shut down, as they can't afford the electricity, and no windmill power is expected for another week.

Germany ? Hate to see it.

Oh well.

Posted by: Easy at January 18, 2025 10:55 AM (NJjx2)

351 One has to laugh at seeing how they bet their entire economy on wind and solar power, and yet no one mentioned that there are long stretches every winter where clouds cover the sky and the wind goes still.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 10:54 AM (7MHHr)
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The right people made money, and that's all that counts.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)

352 344 > Else Nancy gets a state funeral in the Rotunda.

Code for Michael Moore's ass crack?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2025 10:55 AM (x0n13)

353 Posted by: mindful webworker - sage AND witty at January 18, 2025 10:43 AM (Mud1j)

Lol . No.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 10:57 AM (MQJVv)

354 Almighty GOD, we pray it be your will to hold America in your very hand in the coming days. Protect our newly elected and appointed officials and cause them to decide all things righteously. Instruct our ambassadors to deal wisely and fairly when dealing with other nations, that we may regain their trust and respect. Most of all, dear Lord, cause our people to love one another and reject evil treatment towards others.
All praise, honor and glory to thee for many blessings received.
Amen.

Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 10:57 AM (jgmnb)

355 Thought Andrea Mitchell was cute back in the day. Dumb as a post. But cute.

Posted by: Easy at January 18, 2025 10:53 AM (NJjx2)

How old are you?

Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 10:57 AM (Yj6Os)

356 The Krauts should use solar to power some fans. Use fans to move the wind turbines. More fans to disperse the cloud cover to feed the solar.

Posted by: Easy at January 18, 2025 10:58 AM (NJjx2)

357 Almighty GOD, we pray it be your will to hold America in your very hand in the coming days. Protect our newly elected and appointed officials and cause them to decide all things righteously. Instruct our ambassadors to deal wisely and fairly when dealing with other nations, that we may regain their trust and respect. Most of all, dear Lord, cause our people to love one another and reject evil treatment towards others.
All praise, honor and glory to thee for many blessings received.
Amen.
Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 10:57 AM (jgmnb)
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Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 10:58 AM (ZOv7s)

358 So this meeting that Johnson had where he realized Biden wasn't all there was before or after Johnson caved on the omnibus spending bill and allowing the debt ceiling to be reached tomorrow?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 18, 2025 10:58 AM (2UnvF)

359 The right people made money, and that's all that counts.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

And the easily programmed are now robotic Tool Bags that help destroy the West in general, and America in specific.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 10:58 AM (mlg/3)

360 Thanks for the prayers, dear ones!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 10:59 AM (MQJVv)

361 Years ago I picked up what was billed as a "Czech army tent heater" and turned out to be a kerosene/diesel wick lamp that had a perforated metal cover with a bail instead of a glass chimney. It does have a pretty clever ceramic flame spreader around the wick. It is one of those things that you could use for cooking in a pinch, or place under your crank-case in mid winter to make sure your vehicle will start up quickly.

I have picked up a number of odd cooking stoves, from the Butterfly alcohol stoves, to those Primus type brass pressure stoves. Propane is more convenient, though I am having trouble finding a stove that is appropriate for a Moka pot coffee maker.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 10:59 AM (D7oie)

362 Nancy is worse than Benedict Arnold. Exposure will kill her better than a noose, at this point.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2025 11:00 AM (Gqoy+)

363 Trump has a thing for blondes

@ResisttheMS 1h
BREAKING: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will attend President Trump’s inauguration.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 11:01 AM (mlg/3)

364 Germany ? Hate to see it.

Oh well.
Posted by: Easy at January 18, 2025 10:55 AM (NJjx2)
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As bad as the political situation is, the religious one is even worse. The Catholic Church hierarchy is obsessed with creating a joint clerical/lay leadership so they can vote gay marriage and divorce, and female ordination and basically turn the Church Protestant, but at the same time, they're threatening to excommunicate people for support AfD.

There is a dissident branch of bishops who think this is all insane, but they are a minority.

Meanwhile, Catholics are de-registering in record numbers, which (because Germany is odd) bars them from sacraments but also exempts them from state-imposed tithes on behalf of the Church. I guess Simony is in fashion there as well.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 11:02 AM (ZOv7s)

365 Hrothgar, remember to pray with all your heart during the cath. GOD will hear you.

Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 11:02 AM (jgmnb)

366 Nancy is worse than Benedict Arnold. Exposure will kill her better than a noose, at this point.

I don't know if half the public cares at this point.

Posted by: Easy at January 18, 2025 11:02 AM (NJjx2)

367 "Trump has a thing for blondes."

The name is Bondi. Pam Bondi.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2025 11:02 AM (Gqoy+)

368 Not in my state. New ammo tax came on line Jan 1. 11% on top of the 9% sales tax.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:39 AM

Hmmm. I hope the lawyers are firing up the lawsuits. The Supremes already found a minor tax on ink to be a violation of the 1st amendment. Seems like a targeted ammo tax should likewise be a violation of the 2nd.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 18, 2025 11:02 AM (Wnv9h)

369 Completely f*ck*ng crazy: renaming the Gulf of Mexico

Not crazy at all: hallucinating a constitutional amendment

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 11:04 AM (L/fGl)

370 So this meeting that Johnson had where he realized Biden wasn't all there was before or after Johnson caved on the omnibus spending bill and allowing the debt ceiling to be reached tomorrow?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 18, 2025 10:58 AM (2UnvF)
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Trump should refuse to sign any bill that addresses more than one departmental budget. End the omnibus crap. I'm sure this is part of the DOGE strategy because it is so easy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 11:04 AM (ZOv7s)

371 116 I need to give praise to our Lord. A year + ago, we were praying for my BIL. ... Last week, he was pronounced cancer free.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 09:09 AM (feC/a)

Great words to hear!

Posted by: m at January 18, 2025 11:04 AM (VnUSN)

372 Meanwhile, Catholics are de-registering in record numbers, which (because Germany is odd) bars them from sacraments but also exempts them from state-imposed tithes on behalf of the Church. I guess Simony is in fashion there as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 11:02 AM (ZOv7s)
State-imposed tithes?

Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 11:04 AM (jgmnb)

373 Very freeing to leave the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 18, 2025 11:06 AM (hid5L)

374 Trump has a thing for blondes

@ResisttheMS 1h
BREAKING: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will attend President Trump’s inauguration.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 11:01 AM (mlg/3)

technically, President Milei is also blond

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 11:07 AM (D7oie)

375 Meanwhile, Catholics are de-registering in record numbers, which (because Germany is odd) bars them from sacraments but also exempts them from state-imposed tithes on behalf of the Church. I guess Simony is in fashion there as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 11:02 AM (ZOv7s)
State-imposed tithes?
Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 11:04 AM (jgmnb)
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Yes. In Germany you are registered with your respective faith, and the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church and the Catholic Church receive tithes taken from your paycheck.

You can do the paperwork to have you de-registered, but the Catholic Church (supposedly) will not offer sacraments to unregistered people. Seems like Simony to me, but Germmany has a history of state/church fusion. The old Cuius Regio, Euis Religio.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)

376 San Franpsycho, you are a good man.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 18, 2025 11:08 AM (Eo96p)

377 Here she comes now, say "Meloni, Meloni"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)

378 @366 There's a strong argument to let Nancy & The Perps go, and solely focus on the future. I disagree.

Trump's built a new GOP base apart from the GOPe. I believe they'll want this. Like what Plouffe said about Trump, I say about Pelosi: Her kind can never be let rise again.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2025 11:09 AM (Gqoy+)

379 Seems like thee will be more foreign dignitaries at the Inauguration than Democrats.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 18, 2025 11:10 AM (t/2Uw)

380 7 people? There's not enough coffee in the world for that!

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2025 11:11 AM (KtPtl)

381 What's a Durbin ad vent?

Posted by: Ju at January 18, 2025 11:12 AM (aTmM/)

382
@ResisttheMS 1h
BREAKING: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will attend President Trump’s inauguration.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 11:01 AM (mlg
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Sit her next to Elon and let them rumors fly.

Posted by: WisRich at January 18, 2025 11:12 AM (Qgr0I)

383 You can do the paperwork to have you de-registered, but the Catholic Church (supposedly) will not offer sacraments to unregistered people. Seems like Simony to me, but Germmany has a history of state/church fusion. The old Cuius Regio, Euis Religio.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025
Do they want another Martin Luther? Cause that’s how they get a Martin Luther.

Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 11:13 AM (jgmnb)

384 > 362 Nancy is worse than Benedict Arnold. Exposure will kill her better than a noose, at this point.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2025 11:00 AM (Gqoy+)

Either that, or throwing a bucket of water on her.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 18, 2025 11:14 AM (W5ArC)

385 Well, it looks like I'm going to be moving. I've consulted with a realtor and we're going to be listing the house for sale and I've been looking at properties close to where I work. There's an amazing house that's within my budget in Santa Fe, Texas. Not Brazoria County (I was kind of hoping I could be neighbors with Hadrian) but Galveston County. If that one doesn't pan out there are a couple of really good houses in Alvin.

Speaking of Galveston. Has anyone heard from Jim (Sunk New Dawn) recently?

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 18, 2025 11:14 AM (iZEhM)

386 I'd take Meloni for a test drive.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 18, 2025 11:14 AM (hid5L)

387 J.j. @346, the Chocolate Soup shop was where I had a Woody Allen sighting in 1989

Posted by: skywch at January 18, 2025 11:14 AM (uqhmb)

388 Seems like thee will be more foreign dignitaries at the Inauguration than Democrats.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 18, 2025 11:10 AM (t/2Uw)
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That's got to piss them off. They imagine they are the popular kids and by shunning Trump, they make him look weak, but AKTUALLY they are nerds and the prom queen, cheer squad and football team are lining up to hang with him.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 11:14 AM (ZOv7s)

389 Germmany has a history of state/church fusion.

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Worked out so well for them in the Thirty Years War.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)

390 >>>Yes - it takes like stale socks, dust and desperation but it's keeping me alive.

Posted by: Tonypete

>Damn it, Man! I have an 80 year old percolator and it makes coffee the way Daniel Boone would have made it on the frontier!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 11:18 AM (hXQfZ)

391 Worked out so well for them in the Thirty Years War.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
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That was the result of the Thirty Years War.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 11:19 AM (ZOv7s)

392 I use same stove top percolator for decades

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 11:20 AM (fwDg9)

393 I'm not sure putting a kerosene heater under my crankcase is a good idea.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 11:20 AM (4780s)

394 One has to laugh at seeing how they bet their entire economy on wind and solar power, and yet no one mentioned that there are long stretches every winter where clouds cover the sky and the wind goes still.

You just look at a globe and laugh. Most of Germany is further north than North Dakota. The latitudes don't work!

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2025 11:20 AM (wnZ8w)

395 Jill Biden Appears to Take Shot at Nancy Pelosi in MSNBC Interview

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Probably had to use armor piercing ammo to get through the Botox barrier.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

396 390 >>>Yes - it takes like stale socks, dust and desperation but it's keeping me alive.

Posted by: Tonypete

>Damn it, Man! I have an 80 year old percolator and it makes coffee the way Daniel Boone would have made it on the frontier!
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 11:18 AM (hXQfZ
Is it a Lodge?

Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 11:22 AM (jgmnb)

397 Do they want another Martin Luther? Cause that’s how they get a Martin Luther.
Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 11:13 AM (jgmnb)
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They want to destroy the Church. At this late date, no rational person can believe that embracing modernity is going to increase Mass attendance or participation.

We have 30 years of evidence proving that it doesn't work, so the obvious conclusion is that the stated goal is not the real goal. The real goal is to destroy the Catholic Church in Germany.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 11:23 AM (ZOv7s)

398 >>>Code for Michael Moore's ass crack?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

>Mayday, Mayday! Get away from the chopper!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 11:23 AM (hXQfZ)

399 Fani Willis Makes Funding Request Amid Political Scrutiny

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She loves that sweet, sweet free government money.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 11:24 AM (L/fGl)

400 JJ,
Have you tried eBay for your Danish schoolbag? A couple are price-y, but a couple others are not.

Posted by: Wenda at January 18, 2025 11:24 AM (hURSj)

401 I'm glad the prayer thread gets to have a good long run.

NOOD now
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=413213

Posted by: mindful webworker - good day at January 18, 2025 11:24 AM (Mud1j)

402 Coffee shop closes in half an hour. If I want beans for the coming week, I'd better get moving. Later, horde!

Be of good cheer!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 18, 2025 11:26 AM (OX9vb)

403 Recalled Oakland Dem Mayor Indicted by the FBI After Corruption Probe

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What part of "Oakland Dem Mayor" don't you understand?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)

404 @ResisttheMS 1h
BREAKING: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will attend President Trump’s inauguration.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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She's coming to see Elon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 11:30 AM (rhmc0)

405 > Jill Biden Appears to Take Shot at Nancy Pelosi in MSNBC Interview
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I think that she, and Trump, have forged a "pact" to go after her and the other Democrats who forced Joe out of the reelection bid.

That scene of the two of them sitting next or nearly next to each other at the Notre Dame ceremony was an acknowledgement that someone's going down and I think it's Pelosi and her minions.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 11:30 AM (Q4IgG)

406 Hitler was the guy that started it. The State funds the Church. The people don't.

Then the Church has to do what the state wants.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at January 18, 2025 11:32 AM (ZmEVT)

407 I'm seriously jealous of those on here who can afford organic trees. I've worked hard in life, but was never able to rise above the mass-produced, industrial grade, trees and shrubs. Must be nice.

Posted by: Regerts, I've Had a Few at January 18, 2025 11:33 AM (G5+As)

408 En mi casa toman Bustelo!
Posted by: Caffiend at January 18, 2025 09:18 AM (G5+As)

Likewise for me. Made in a drip coffee maker. It is good, and affordable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 11:33 AM (8zz6B)

409 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at January 18, 2025 11:39 AM (gYvAB)

410 >>> I'm seriously jealous of those on here who can afford organic trees. I've worked hard in life, but was never able to rise above the mass-produced, industrial grade, trees and shrubs. Must be nice.

Posted by: Regerts, I've Had a Few

>Tomorrow's food thread will feature organic coffee beans. Get out your drool cups!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 11:41 AM (hXQfZ)

411 Need to get her on the prayer list.
Posted by: MkY

Will pray for Mrs MkY

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 11:41 AM (vAtdu)

412 interesting that JJ's laptop's been "in service" for weeks and weeks, now it came back and is giving him buxom blondes
Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 09:41 AM (g47mK)

Sounds like one of the random crap ads supplied by Ace's adserver is getting mislocated, possibly an exploit of Pixy's code? I use Brave browser, so I plain don't see them. Seems to slow the load time, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 11:42 AM (8zz6B)

413 Ignoramus I just finished Landman. Excellent show!
Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer at January 18, 2025 09:55 AM (iF0sF)

Oh us too!
Billy Bob is such a good actor.
The Nursing home field trip cracked me up.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 18, 2025 11:43 AM (vAtdu)

414 My browsing history is not even full of pictures studly hunky men in speedos.

A well-girded loin's the noblest work of God.

With your (well-documented!) history of posting beautiful, modest ladies who are probably the nicest most honest folks you'd ever meet, why

if someone found handsome, modest, godly studly-hunks in your browser, I don't believe a word would be said. "Speedo" probably has an Old Testament translation.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 18, 2025 11:45 AM (zdLoL)

415 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 18, 2025 11:45 AM (zdLoL)

You are funny. Thanks. Those type of men- and I do appreciate handsome men ( I think Pete Hegseth is nice looking) are probably the age to be my son, Well, not Peter Hegseth. He's not young enough to be my son.😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 11:53 AM (DtHcJ)

416 Actually, Pete Hegseth could be my son ( boy do I feel old) if I had gotten married and had a son years before I did.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 11:57 AM (MQJVv)

417 I live in the Socialist Republic of Washington. It will be spent on transition surgeries for state inmates and housing our new arrivals.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 18, 2025 10:45 AM (feC/a)

Well, you can just pop over the line to B.C. and buy what you need at Canadian Tire....oh, wait.

Idaho is your best bet. Lots of little secondary roads between WA and ID.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:01 PM (8zz6B)

418 You can do the paperwork to have you de-registered, but the Catholic Church (supposedly) will not offer sacraments to unregistered people. Seems like Simony to me, but Germmany has a history of state/church fusion. The old Cuius Regio, Euis Religio.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 18, 2025 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)

Heh. Reminds me, years ago, when I lived in Calgary, a few blocks away was a Chinese Evangelical Free Church. My friend Barry would say, on passing by, "Well, you know they wouldn't go to one you had to pay for."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:08 PM (8zz6B)

419 Peter Brian Hegseth
Born: June 6, 1980 (age 44 years)

Posted by: m at January 18, 2025 12:08 PM (VnUSN)

420 Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though
you relied on the video to make your point. You obviously know what youre talking about,
why throw away your intelligence on just posting videos
to your site when you could be giving us something enlightening to read?

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