Chuck Schumer POS Extraordinaire (Your Thread Before The Garden Puttering Thread)

Normally Saturday is our very own KT Day. She has been doing yeoman's work for may years on Saturday.

Unfortunately KT suffered a stroke earlier in the week. I spoke with her on Thursday and she sounded upbeat considering all. But, she did manage to tell me that because of her condition that she was unable to fulfill her Saturday threads.

I told her we all wished her well and a speedy recovery. And somehow her threads will limp along. But, we want her back!

Now onto the story at hand......................

When the subject matter is the "common man" Sen. Chuck U. Schumer of New York is a man who knows how the common man lives.
Granted, this photo is from June of 2024. Yet, after all this time it cracks me up.

How dare the environmental fascists come after Chuck with his raw meat and gas grill?

The "Common Man" has also been saying for years that government wants to enslave us and have us addicted to government money like inner city junkies addicted to the flavor of the week. Don't believe your substitute cob?

Out of the mouth of Chuckie Schumer (D-NY):

“Virtually any organization, school, state, police office, county, town or community depends on federal grant money to run its day to day operations, and they’re all now in danger.”

So yes, let us borrow money at confiscatory interest rates to give to various municipalities to keep the addiction real and painful.

President Trump has been a refreshing whirlwind these past (I'm spit balling here, math not being a strong point) 12 days. Will he and his Trump 2.0 alleviate the dependency of states and local governments on Uncle Sam? Only time will tell. It should be fun to watch as it unfolds.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 11:00 AM

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1 Get well KT

Posted by: Rex B at February 01, 2025 10:58 AM (PLGSy)

2 Yeah, f that guy. He's a boring voice too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 01, 2025 10:59 AM (lJbjQ)

3 Can we continue the prayer thread and ask that Schumer gets a double dose of what the Hordians get? Or would that be wrong?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 01, 2025 11:02 AM (lJbjQ)

4 We'll take your money and might let you have some of it back.

Posted by: BignJames at February 01, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)

5 Prayers for KT and for a speedy recovery.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2025 11:03 AM (hY4dx)

6 Carried over...

I thought the re-route was because of another plane taking off on the original runway?
Posted by: BignJames at February 01, 2025 10:59 AM (Yj6Os)

Could be. I haven't heard. One has to wonder why they authorized someone to take off - or why it took so long to note the conflict and re-route - is that's the case, though.

I don't know anything, beyond the tiny amount explained in the few videos about the crash I've watched, about aviation or ATC. Maybe this is all, outside of the collision, completely normal. Just seems odd to an outsider.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2025 11:04 AM (ExV1e)

7 Maybe put Chuck in the next helicopter flight out of Bolling?

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

8 KT is an ette??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2025 11:05 AM (RIvkX)

9 It looks like chuck put cheese on a burger that is still raw. I don't think it works that way.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2025 11:05 AM (xCEif)

10 8 KT is an ette??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2025 11:05 AM (RIvkX)

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I know! Now they tell us.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2025 11:05 AM (hY4dx)

11 It is all basic. Do we have rulers in Washington, or servants.

For years they have taken it for granted they are our rulers. If Trump can break that mentality, he will be the greatest President... and the greatest servant this nation has ever had.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 11:05 AM (p2iSj)

12 Can we continue the prayer thread and ask that Schumer gets a double dose of what the Hordians get? Or would that be wrong?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 01, 2025 11:02 AM (lJbjQ)

I have to assume that the Lord would not look favorably upon prayers for harm. Consider asking that Schumer receive all that he deserves and leave that determination up to GOD.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2025 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

13 My number one job when I worked in City Hall was to suck up and spend as much federal money as possible.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2025 11:07 AM (RIvkX)

14 Get well soon, KT.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2025 11:07 AM (LkLld)

15 “Virtually any organization, school, state, police office, county, town or community depends on federal grant money to run its day to day operations, and they’re all now in danger.”

Chuck has illuminated the very problem with our present governmental structure.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2025 11:07 AM (xCEif)

16 A special thank you to MH, you always seem to be there to pinch hit when the other Cobs need it.

I'm beginning to think you might be Keith Richards.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 11:08 AM (p2iSj)

17 Praying for our beloved KT.

And get the gubmint out of my toilet tank!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 01, 2025 11:08 AM (dg+HA)

18 That didn't take long.

>>@EricLDaugh

>>🚨 #BREAKING: Venezuela has agreed to take back all of their illegal aliens present in the U.S., INCLUDING members of violent gang Tren de Aragua.

>>Venezuela is even supplying the transportation.

>>This comes from the same trip where Ric Grenell secured the release of American hostages.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2025 11:09 AM (LkLld)

19 The depth of federal control of state and local institutions is truly amazing, but plenty of it also goes to NGO grants to facilitate migrants and to encourage cultural Marxism in many ways. Locally, we have some "story teller" group that is provided with a federal grant to push pro LGTBQ and DEI viewpoints. One of its goals seems to be to equate migrants with WWII Holocaust refugees, which is consistent with "Trump is a fascist" (see Columbian president's remarks) and inconsistent with reality. The sooner NGOs and religious groups are off the federal payroll the better.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 01, 2025 11:10 AM (2NXcZ)

20 It looks like chuck put cheese on a burger that is still raw.

You can't tell in that low-res pic but IIRC, it still had the plastic wrapper.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 01, 2025 11:10 AM (/y8xj)

21 Oh, and it's not "federal grant money."

It's "taxpayer money."

The battles always begin with language.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 01, 2025 11:10 AM (dg+HA)

22 Praying for KT's quick and complete recovery.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 01, 2025 11:10 AM (lUFok)

23 Prayers ascending for KT and complete recovery.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2025 11:10 AM (u82oZ)

24 It's pretty funny trying to see the Usual People claim simultaneously that:

1) The dark night of fascism is descending on America, with Trump's deportation raids

2) Biden deported more people than Trump did

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 11:11 AM (uxCna)

25 How many here have watched and listened to the videos that have been posted here of the actual comms and radar tracks? Show of hands. Many of these questions are answered by those videos.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 01, 2025 11:03 AM (iODuv)

I've watched several of the videos linked. Maybe I missed the one that answered my questions. Maybe I didn't understand that they answered my questions.

I'm not suggesting, and have never suggested, that there was anything nefarious done by any of the people directly involved. I have no experience in these matters and so I'm talking out my thoughts. I do note that a lot of the aviation savvy people seem to just roll their eyes, throw out a link, and ask if people have watched the correct stuff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2025 11:12 AM (ExV1e)

26 It looks like chuck put cheese on a burger that is still raw. I don't think it works that way.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2025 11:05 AM (xCEif)

The hot dogs are gonna be Slim Jims by the time the burgers are done. His glasses are gonna melt. And it's not smart to run a grill with open flames right next to the house.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 01, 2025 11:12 AM (FoIOl)

27 Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus)

Thank you for stepping into the breach yet again.
I aver your lifestyle and family (esp. THE Fabulous) are protective of brain injuries. Knees were on their own, but I hope you are fully recovered.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2025 11:12 AM (u82oZ)

28 Mewbs!!!

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 11:12 AM (/iMjX)

29 I have to assume that the Lord would not look favorably upon prayers for harm. Consider asking that Schumer receive all that he deserves and leave that determination up to GOD.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2025 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

I'm sure I'm not alone, we have seen tyrants of various sorts get theirs, over these past few decades. Saddam, Kadafi, the Ceaucescues in Romania (yeah, I'm not going to try to spell it right).

I've always felt a twinge of sympathy for them, the lost looks in their eyes, when they realize they are not gods. Intellectually, I believe they got what they deserved, but there was still part of me that knew it wasn't for me to decide their ultimate fate.

I'd like to keep that humanity intact, as I contemplate the American politicians and oligarchs who deserve earthly justice, and I hope they get it. But after that.....

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 11:12 AM (p2iSj)

30 I suppose someone could try and force through a FOIA request but it'd kind of be a dick move.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2025 10:34 AM (ExV1e)

Get a FOIA request form in front of me and I'll sign it.

I understand her family's request and am sympathetic in their loss, but she was receiving a paycheck courtesy of the U.S. taxpayers. She was reportedly at the controls of an aircraft paid for by the U.S. taxpayers and may have, through negligence, played a part in ending the lives of sixty-some people, most of whom were also U.S. taxpayers.

Hegseth can't say out of one side of his mouth that he's all for transparency and out the other side say he's honoring the family's wishes in not identifying her.

1/2

Posted by: one hour sober at February 01, 2025 11:12 AM (Y1sOo)

31 “Virtually any organization, school, state, police office, county, town or community depends on federal grant money to run its day to day operations, and they’re all now in danger.”

Chuck has illuminated the very problem with our present governmental structure.

The lack of self-awareness is simply stunning. Even if it's what you think, why on earth would you say such a thing at this point? Read the room, dude.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 11:13 AM (xCA6C)

32 2/2

Furthermore, she was reportedly a LT, not a CWO. That means she was given a commission, most probably through a ROTC program somewhere.

I’d like to FOIA her grades in school. I’d also like to FOIA what she scored on the aviation aptitude test she took prior to be given a slot in flight school. (I took that test prior to my selection to attend Navy AOCS. It isn’t easy, but it isn’t overly difficult, either).

And I’d like to FOIA her flight training records to see how many flight “downs” she’d received, if any, and if she’d received more chances to continue in flight training where the average male flight student would have been washed out.

If that makes me a dick, so be it.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 01, 2025 11:13 AM (Y1sOo)

33 Praying for KT's quick and complete recovery.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 01, 2025 11:10 AM (lUFok)

Get well soon, KT. Strokes aren't fun.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 01, 2025 11:13 AM (VNX3d)

34 prayers for your swift and complete recovery KT...

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at February 01, 2025 11:13 AM (IQ6Gq)

35 2) Biden deported more people than Trump did

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 11:11 AM (uxCna)

I thought that was Obama.

Posted by: BignJames at February 01, 2025 11:13 AM (Yj6Os)

36 Been thinking I am not sure we will get out from under the Deep State and Marxists

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2025 11:14 AM (fwDg9)

37 Jack Straw

Ric Grenell is the US of As ace troubleshooter. And Trump has his back in anything.

Wonder what argument won the battle with that evil dictator?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2025 11:14 AM (u82oZ)

38 Alright. Gotta start my chores. Prayers for all. Stay frosty.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2025 11:15 AM (ExV1e)

39 Skip

This is plan B. Plan C is ... [redacted] OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2025 11:15 AM (u82oZ)

40 Get well KT! We'll patiently wait for your return, but don't rush your recovery. We will muddle through.

😊

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 11:15 AM (/iMjX)

41 In a better America, Schumer would be an ambulance-chasing, slip and fall lawyer eking out a meager living.

Posted by: Brooklyn's Worst! at February 01, 2025 11:16 AM (G5+As)

42 Prayers KT....had a TIA some years ago...it was...scary.

Posted by: BignJames at February 01, 2025 11:16 AM (Yj6Os)

43 > I thought the re-route was because of another plane taking off on the original runway?
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There are 3 runways at DCA;
1/15 N - S (main)
4/22 N - S (alternate / short)
15/33 NW - SE (alternate / short)

So it looks sort of like a weird "X" The numbers are compass degrees.... zero would be due north. 15 coming the opposite direction is probably closer to 150 degrees, but runways only use two numbers. *your useless bit of airport/runway trivia for today*

The RJ was originally cleared on the main runway and then either was told to "sidestep" to 15/33 or asked to land there.

So, a sweeping left hand turn from heading north to a more north-west direction. In a very short distance and time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2025 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

44 Get well soon KT !

Posted by: It's me donna at February 01, 2025 11:17 AM (VE6XX)

45 I'd like to keep that humanity intact, as I contemplate the American politicians and oligarchs who deserve earthly justice, and I hope they get it. But after that.....
Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 11:12 AM (p2iSj)

I see no harm in prayers that justice rain down on these people and more harm in praying that they be spared consequences. After earthly justice, well that's not my decision and absent sincere repentance and restitution, I do not pray that God break his own policies.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 01, 2025 11:17 AM (2NXcZ)

46 Praying for a speedy and complete recovery, KT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2025 11:17 AM (bss/y)

47 The depth of federal control of state and local institutions is truly amazing, but plenty of it also goes to NGO grants to facilitate migrants and to encourage cultural Marxism in many ways.

Yeah, the whole mass migration through the border thing has been financed by the US government through NGOs, which is why they are screaming so much that foreign aid funding is suspended.

This counts as "foreign assistance", BTW.

We've also found out that 90% of Ukrainian "independent" media was getting money from the US government, that one of the main "opposition" anti-Orban media outlets in Hungary was getting money from the US government, and that almost all the anti-Putin Russian "civil society" organizations in exile get money from the US government.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 11:17 AM (uxCna)

48 Brought forward, because interesting to me:

Another is completely isolated spires and mesa tops in the desert southwest. Sheer, unclimbable walls, at least for chipmunks. But they are there, conjecture is they got away from a Hawk or something like that. Should be genetically isolated so researchers like to study them.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 01, 2025 11:02 AM (eUUqr)

About 20 miles from my home in Alberta is a feature called Dry Island. It is, in effect, a mesa within the Badlands of the Red Deer River, and has an intact example of shortgrass Prairie ecosystem on its top. There is a hiking trail to it now, but it was never grazed over by cattle, because too steep-sided. There is another high feature in the south, straddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, called Cypress Hills, which was not glaciated during the last big ice advance, and has plant species not found elsewhere in Canada.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2025 11:17 AM (8zz6B)

49 I thought that was Obama.

That too.

Trump's deportations are absolute fascism, while somehow being less effective than the deportations under Democratic presidents.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 11:18 AM (uxCna)

50 Kindltot-

If you pop in here see me at #359 on the previous thread.

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 11:19 AM (/iMjX)

51 Mandy Damari 🎗🤟
@DamariMandy
Thank you @Keir_Starmer for calling us today and all your support in getting Emily home. Hamas held Emily in @UNRWA facilities and denied her access to medical treatment after shooting her twice. It's a miracle that she survived, and we need to get aid to remaining hostages now.
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Defund UN now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2025 11:20 AM (RIvkX)

52 Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 11:17 AM (uxCna)

Time to stop this shit, and time to actively prosecute public officials breaking the law and NGOs accepting money to facilitate this.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 01, 2025 11:20 AM (2NXcZ)

53 Blessings on you, KT, in case you're lurking!

Posted by: m at February 01, 2025 11:20 AM (v0TzN)

54 An immigrant once said in an interview, a long time ago, that America was the best place in the world to do business, but the worst place in the world to raise a family. Lot of truth to that. What the progressives did since then largely was to make running a business almost impossible.

What made America unique in the past was the stability of government. Business and ingestment needs a kind of certainty or predictability. Sure, nobody can really predict the future, but in a place like the US, he knows that interest rates 5 or 10 years from now will be in a reasonable range. The government will not have reneged on their bonds, there won’t have been a coup with some whack job in charge. This allows for long range planning, and undertaking a reasonable amount of risk.

Absent a predictable legal environment, rule of law, etc, nobody with capital will take the chance to invest. Our stability meant smart people and smart money flocked to the US. Money always goes where it is treated best.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 01, 2025 11:20 AM (eUUqr)

55 So, what all of the local taxes are going to...?

Everyone has been living beyond their means.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2025 11:20 AM (bss/y)

56 This is getting very little attention but I bet it will pay huge electoral dividends. The DEI director of the census bureau is out.

https://tinyurl.com/5n9ymykm

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2025 11:20 AM (LkLld)

57 AOP.tjat sounds like a fascinating place to explore

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2025 11:21 AM (fwDg9)

58 - Praying that Schumer gets all he deserves?

I'm gonna keep praying for his, and all others in leadership, salvation.
If God were to give me what I deserve, it would be a place of outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Thankfully, He in His grace, not due to anything that I have done, granted me the gift of faith in His Only Begotten Son.

And yet, I still mess up! Thankfully, I can go straight to Him and ask forgiveness based only on what Christ did on the cross!!!

Posted by: TeeJ at February 01, 2025 11:21 AM (hht4k)

59 Ric Grenell is the US of As ace troubleshooter. And Trump has his back in anything.

Wonder what argument won the battle with that evil dictator?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2025 11:14 AM (u82oZ)
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Grenell: we know where the 100's of millions you've stolen from your people. Cross us and it's all gone.

Posted by: WisRich at February 01, 2025 11:21 AM (Qgr0I)

60 It looks like chuck put cheese on a burger that is still raw.

You can't tell in that low-res pic but IIRC, it still had the plastic wrapper.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 01, 2025 11:10 AM (/y8xj)

Also, in the hi-res full size photo (easy to find, by the way) it shows the gas burners turned off.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 01, 2025 11:22 AM (FoIOl)

61 I see no one is talking about the Learjet that crashed in Philly yesterday evening.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 01, 2025 11:22 AM (g8Ew8)

62 In a better America, Schumer would be an ambulance-chasing, slip and fall lawyer eking out a meager living.
Posted by: Brooklyn's Worst! at February 01, 2025 11:16 AM (G5+As)

Years ago, I had to go to court for a guy who was being evicted from a building that had been sold to some big real estate outfit. He didn't do anything to deserve it, they just wanted him out so they could get more rent from someone else.

The company had a lawyer, the man had a few people who knew him (professionally) who were willing to speak on his behalf. The lawyer was this stooped over, bad suited, balding guy who by the looks of it, must have taken a wrong turn somewhere in his legal career.

The judge reamed him inside and out. He barely asked the man any questions, and ruled in his favor.

I figured that was purgatory for lawyers, to have to get up in the morning, put on that suit and go to this kind of court, try to argue for evil real estate companies, and get yelled at by judges.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 11:22 AM (lbZc/)

63 11 It is all basic. Do we have rulers in Washington, or servants.

For years they have taken it for granted they are our rulers. If Trump can break that mentality, he will be the greatest President... and the greatest servant this nation has ever had.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 11:05 AM (p2iSj)

Amen.

Posted by: m at February 01, 2025 11:22 AM (v0TzN)

64 Posted by: Common Tater at February 01, 2025 11:20 AM (eUUqr)

If the US is the shittest place to raise a family why must migrant families get any sort of consideration? "Reunite" them elsewhere, some happy place like Caracas or Bogota.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 01, 2025 11:23 AM (2NXcZ)

65 Thanks for everything, Misanthropic Humanitarian, and thanks to The Horde for prayers. I'm still in the hospital in my best room so far our of four. My sensory tests look good but they are switching out my blood thinner.

Lots of tests - some six a day- but no more helicopter rides. I think that speed made a difference . The Mister didn't bring my phone up until the breathing tube was gone.

Posted by: KT at February 01, 2025 11:23 AM (eIQDy)

66 61 I see no one is talking about the Learjet that crashed in Philly yesterday evening.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 01, 2025 11:22 AM (g8Ew

Not allowing much info to come out.. So far we know 6 are dead all Mexican Citizens.. haven't heard anything about those on the ground

Posted by: It's me donna at February 01, 2025 11:24 AM (VE6XX)

67 >>🚨 #BREAKING: Venezuela has agreed to take back all of their illegal aliens present in the U.S., INCLUDING members of violent gang Tren de Aragua.

>>Venezuela is even supplying the transportation.

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I'll note for the record that these are better terms than Amazon gives.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2025 11:24 AM (hY4dx)

68 About 20 miles from my home in Alberta is a feature called Dry Island. It is, in effect, a mesa within the Badlands of the Red Deer River, and has an intact example of shortgrass Prairie ecosystem on its top. There is a hiking trail to it now, but it was never grazed over by cattle, because too steep-sided. There is another high feature in the south, straddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, called Cypress Hills, which was not glaciated during the last big ice advance, and has plant species not found elsewhere in Canada.

I have it on good authority from Hollywood that such a situation usually results in the evolution of dinosaurs and other animals of unusual size. I advise not attempting to climb there.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 11:24 AM (xCA6C)

69 15 Chuck has illuminated the very problem with our present governmental structure.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2025 11:07 AM (xCEif)

And Chuck has illuminated a raw burger patty with a piece of cheese on top! What CAN'T the man do?!

Posted by: m at February 01, 2025 11:24 AM (v0TzN)

70 Lots of tests - some six a day- but no more helicopter rides. I think that speed made a difference . The Mister didn't bring my phone up until the breathing tube was gone.
Posted by: KT at February 01, 2025 11:23 AM (eIQDy)

I am surprised they did not drop a few commies out of the helicopter to keep your spirits up.

You need to upgrade to Ultra Super MAGA Care!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2025 11:25 AM (bss/y)

71
Smash update. NOT pancreatitis, blood work confirmed. Unknown what it was. Gave her fluids, three types of settle down digestive system meds through the IV, and then ignored her for eight hours. I brought her home at 0430 after asking the nurse if they had anything else for her at 0130.

Anyway, she's home and feeling better. Drinking fluids, and NOT taking any of my shit.

*hands Smash some gaterade*
"The fuck you want me to stick this? Up your ass or down your throat?"
*opens bottle. Sips*

And that my fellow Morons is what I love about her, always ready for some shit, even mine. Especially if she's unwell.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2025 11:25 AM (MsrgL)

72 I see no harm in prayers that justice rain down...

Perhaps not one of his most eloquent but in one of the Psalms, David prays (from memory so maybe not exact) "Make my enemies' wives widows."

Posted by: Oddbob at February 01, 2025 11:25 AM (/y8xj)

73 I see no one is talking about the Learjet that crashed in Philly yesterday evening.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops

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It was discussed quite a bit on the prayer thread. Not so much the aerodynamics or crash analysis, but other aspects.

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 11:25 AM (/iMjX)

74 If the US is the shittest place to raise a family why must migrant families get any sort of consideration? "Reunite" them elsewhere, some happy place like Caracas or Bogota.

1) The United States is descending into a fascist hell.

2) It is a crime under international law to deny "migrants" access to this fascist hell.

Posted by: The Left! at February 01, 2025 11:26 AM (uxCna)

75 61 I see no one is talking about the Learjet that crashed in Philly yesterday evening.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 01, 2025 11:22 AM (g8Ew

From what I saw, it was pretty grim. A medical flight for a minor. Four crew members plus the minors guardian.

Just damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2025 11:26 AM (bss/y)

76 Didn't Trump kind of steal Chuckie's idea with his McDonald's fry guy gambit?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 11:26 AM (KWujZ)

77 >>This comes from the same trip where Ric Grenell secured the release of American hostages.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2025 11:09 AM (LkLld)

The Caracas papers are saying that Trump Understands the US Need for Venezuelan Oil, and are talking about the six Americans released

FWIW, the US gets most of its diesel (I am informed by experts) from heavy sour crude, like that from Venezuela and Canada.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2025 11:26 AM (D7oie)

78 This is getting very little attention but I bet it will pay huge electoral dividends. The DEI director of the census bureau is out.

The picture shows that he is an older man with a ponytail. That should be grounds for dismissal in all cases.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 11:26 AM (xCA6C)

79 And that my fellow Morons is what I love about her, always ready for some shit, even mine. Especially if she's unwell.
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2025 11:25 AM (MsrgL)

LOL.. Good news.. Sounds like My kind of Girl

Posted by: It's me donna at February 01, 2025 11:27 AM (VE6XX)

80 Get well KT. Prayers for a speedy recovery.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2025 11:27 AM (MsrgL)

81 The Caracas papers are saying that Trump Understands the US Need for Venezuelan Oil, and are talking about the six Americans released

FWIW, the US gets most of its diesel (I am informed by experts) from heavy sour crude, like that from Venezuela and Canada.

It is my understanding that the US is one of the few places that can process such crude. I'm sure that fact was brought up during the negotiations.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 11:28 AM (xCA6C)

82 Didn't Trump kind of steal Chuckie's idea with his McDonald's fry guy gambit?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 11:26 AM (KWujZ)

Are you serious?

Posted by: BignJames at February 01, 2025 11:28 AM (Yj6Os)

83 Is that sausage on Chuck's grill kosher? I think not.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 11:29 AM (94zWv)

84 I see no harm in prayers that justice rain down on these people and more harm in praying that they be spared consequences. After earthly justice, well that's not my decision and absent sincere repentance and restitution, I do not pray that God break his own policies.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 01, 2025 11:17 AM (2NXcZ)

I understand that, but humans go too far. You can understand the desire for retribution, but there is something about shoving a bayonet up Kadafi's rectum, or manhandling a little old lady, who is too far gone to not continue to bark orders at soldiers before they shoot her dead, next to her husband.

It's the humanity of the avengers that is at stake. I don't believe God is demanding mercy from us for our previous oppressors and torturers, but he is demanding we not lose our way.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 11:29 AM (6tRK7)

85 Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2025 11:25 AM (MsrgL)

Thanks for the update, Bif. Glad Smash is feeling better so that she can give you some s***. Prayers continue.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2025 11:30 AM (MQJVv)

86 83 Is that sausage on Chuck's grill kosher? I think not.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 11:29 AM (94zWv)

Meat and milk products together are always non-kosher. I don't think Schumer pretends to orthodoxy.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 01, 2025 11:30 AM (2NXcZ)

87 The US is really good at processing the worst oil in the world.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 11:30 AM (KWujZ)

88 And that my fellow Morons is what I love about her, always ready for some shit, even mine. Especially if she's unwell.
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2025 11:25 AM (MsrgL)

Good news that Smash is home!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2025 11:30 AM (8zz6B)

89 Thank you all for the prayers yesterday and overnight. I was dead certain she had pancreatitis.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2025 11:30 AM (MsrgL)

90 Press conference on now with the Philly mayor. She yells into the microphone for no reason.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 01, 2025 11:30 AM (ZcLU5)

91 Is that sausage on Chuck's grill kosher? I think not.

Dunno but I'm pretty sure that the cheeseburger is not.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 01, 2025 11:31 AM (/y8xj)

92 83 Is that sausage on Chuck's grill kosher? I think not.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 11:29 AM (94zWv)

The Official Guide to Jewish Sausages

https://tinyurl.com/y6t5hs6r

*snicker*

Yes, my sense of humor is a 12 year olds. I stole it fair and square.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2025 11:31 AM (bss/y)

93 KT glad you comment device

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2025 11:32 AM (fwDg9)

94 And I’d like to FOIA her flight training records to see how many flight “downs” she’d received, if any, and if she’d received more chances to continue in flight training where the average male flight student would have been washed out.
Posted by: one hour sober

Why would that matter? Oh, nevermind.
-- Zombie Kara Hultgreen

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2025 11:32 AM (WXNFJ)

95 Willowed, put back for one hour sober
hope that they are simply being very cautious about appearing to lay blame before all the facts are known.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon A
====

This. Perhaps being civil over the weekend to give family time, and gather more information. Which I expect to be not welcomed at a number of levels, from flight assignments to ATC to pilot skill levels.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 01, 2025 11:32 AM (4780s)

96 I think cheeseburgers are out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 11:33 AM (KWujZ)

97 29 I have to assume that the Lord would not look favorably upon prayers for harm. Consider asking that Schumer receive all that he deserves and leave that determination up to GOD.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
---

A prayer for harm could be considered a curse.
One must remember that God is the original lawyer and he listens.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 11:33 AM (94zWv)

98 MisHum?!?!

Yay! Nice to see you, sir! What a great couple of weeks we have had! Our country is fighting for its collective soul and our enemies are retreating. I've no doubt they will fall back and consolidate and go back on the offensive. But for now, we have them no longer advancing.

Cheers!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 01, 2025 11:34 AM (mT+6a)

99 I think cheeseburgers are out.

Then bacon cheeseburgers are right out.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 11:34 AM (xCA6C)

100 Prayers for KT. May I say I am somewhat encouraged on hearing that you spoke with her. The odds of survival after a stroke are less than 60%. Hope she can begin rehab quickly and reach a full recovery.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 01, 2025 11:34 AM (7SPU/)

101 Meat and milk products together are always non-kosher. I don't think Schumer pretends to orthodoxy.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted

Truth be told, I doubt there is any milk involved, at all, within that 'cheese' slice.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2025 11:35 AM (WXNFJ)

102 Our country is fighting for its collective soul and our enemies are retreating. I've no doubt they will fall back and consolidate and go back on the offensive. But for now, we have them no longer advancing.

They are clearly in utter disarray. Who's in charge? Nobody knows.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

103 60 It looks like chuck put cheese on a burger that is still raw.
You can't tell in that low-res pic but IIRC, it still had the plastic wrapper.
Also, in the hi-res full size photo (easy to find, by the way) it shows the gas burners turned off.
Posted by: IllTemperedCu

To be fair, everybody associated with the photo op was a vegetarian, and threw the icky meat-poison away when done.

Or it could have all been plastic.

Posted by: Auspex at February 01, 2025 11:36 AM (j4U/Z)

104 Meat and milk products together are always non-kosher. I don't think Schumer pretends to orthodoxy.

I once had a Jewish co-worker and during some casual discussion about kosher laws, I asked if he considered himself observant. He replied "I'll take the top bun off of my bacon cheeseburger during Passover."

Posted by: Oddbob at February 01, 2025 11:36 AM (/y8xj)

105 56 This is getting very little attention but I bet it will pay huge electoral dividends. The DEI director of the census bureau is out.”

So much winning! But I’m not sick of it yet!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2025 11:36 AM (Md44Z)

106 Truth be told, I doubt there is any milk involved, at all, within that 'cheese' slice.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2025 11:35 AM (WXNFJ)

Ingredients: partially-brominated seed oils, mechanically-separated milk solids, yellow #5.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 01, 2025 11:37 AM (TvOQq)

107 Truth be told, I doubt there is any milk involved, at all, within that 'cheese' slice.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2025 11:35 AM (WXNFJ)

Might be Venezuelan beaver cheese.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2025 11:37 AM (8zz6B)

108 Great to see you chime in, KT! May you heal quickly. Had a neighbor who had frequent flyer miles in the Medivac chopper. Saved his bacon more than once.

Posted by: Angel Flight at February 01, 2025 11:38 AM (G5+As)

109 2) Biden deported more people than Trump did
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 11:11 AM (uxCna)
I thought that was Obama.
Posted by: BignJames

Biden deported Obama? Let's hear it for Captain Shitpants!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 01, 2025 11:38 AM (lxKqd)

110 These press conferences are useless, almost the entire of both the mayor and Josh Shapiro‘s speeches are about love and sending their love and prayers to Mexico and everybody embracing arms and being in love and almost no information on the actual crash itself. Lots of thanking and congratulating every single Democrat politician that’s there. It’s amazing.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 01, 2025 11:38 AM (ZcLU5)

111 The legacy of the instructor pilot, a male, who was pilot-in-command and thereby responsible for all aspects regarding safety of flight, was not afforded the same opportunity to have all the facts gathered before laying blame.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 01, 2025 11:38 AM (Y1sOo)

112 Setting DEI aside, helo pilots allowed in DC airspace should be restricted to optimum hours and skill. Same for the controllers - he didn't seem to be 'on the ball'. Finally all aircraft and tower coms should be 21st century, not WWII surplus.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 11:38 AM (94zWv)

113 Meat and milk products together are always non-kosher. I don't think Schumer pretends to orthodoxy.
Posted by: Long night...

No sausage gravy and biscuits?

Well, if you're not eating bacon you're good as dead anyway.

Posted by: Auspex at February 01, 2025 11:39 AM (j4U/Z)

114 Where did they find the oxidized gray hamburger I wonder. Looks a little disgusting actually.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 01, 2025 11:39 AM (eUUqr)

115 The funny thing about kosher and halal etc is that Vegans show far more religious zeal for their dietary restrictions than any recognized religious groups do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2025 11:39 AM (Md44Z)

116 Chuck has that fat man boobs thing going on like me. Vaxes all around for everybody! Yes! Oh Yes!
Call me Chuck! (vigorously rubs his hairy nipples to a quivering orgasm)

Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo at February 01, 2025 11:40 AM (R/m4+)

117 Thanks for everything, Misanthropic Humanitarian, and thanks to The Horde for prayers. I'm still in the hospital in my best room so far our of four. My sensory tests look good but they are switching out my blood thinner.

Lots of tests - some six a day- but no more helicopter rides. I think that speed made a difference . The Mister didn't bring my phone up until the breathing tube was gone.
Posted by: KT at February 01, 2025 11:23 AM (eIQDy)

KT! So good to hear you are still looking at the garden flowers from the right side. Get well soon!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2025 11:40 AM (8zz6B)

118 Ersatz Cheese is the best cheese!

Posted by: Dow Chemical at February 01, 2025 11:40 AM (G5+As)

119 From what I saw, it was pretty grim. A medical flight for a minor. Four crew members plus the minors guardian.

Just damn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2025 11:26 AM (bss/y)

Two crashes in two days. Not sure what it means, if anything, but the other day I heard someone say there had been no major air crashes in this country in something like decades.

We'll see, I guess.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 11:41 AM (X+TQ1)

120 114 Where did they find the oxidized gray hamburger I wonder. Looks a little disgusting actually.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 01, 2025 11:39 AM (eUUqr)

Does look a bit pale.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2025 11:41 AM (bss/y)

121 Might be Venezuelan beaver cheese.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Would not recommend waiting 4 hours to call the Dr. for VBC...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 01, 2025 11:41 AM (lxKqd)

122 18 That didn't take long.

>>@EricLDaugh

>>🚨 #BREAKING: Venezuela has agreed to take back all of their illegal aliens present in the U.S., INCLUDING members of violent gang Tren de Aragua.

>>Venezuela is even supplying the transportation.

>>This comes from the same trip where Ric Grenell secured the release of American hostages.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2025 11:09 AM (LkLld)

Well, sure, I could have done that if I knew you wanted to.

Posted by: Alejandro "The Border is secure" Mayorkas at February 01, 2025 11:41 AM (7SPU/)

123 I doubt retreating, more like regrouping. One good thing is there is no leader out there yet.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2025 11:41 AM (fwDg9)

124 Biden was the "substitute teacher" for the DC bureaucracy.

Posted by: BignJames at February 01, 2025 11:42 AM (Yj6Os)

125 109 2) Biden deported more people than Trump did
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 11:11 AM (uxCna)
I thought that was Obama.
Posted by: BignJames

Well, Trump definitely needs to work on that.

Do as many more deportations as Biden did pardons.

For a start. Proportionality is key.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2025 11:42 AM (bss/y)

126 Saturday morning without K.T. is vacant. Get well soon. Prayers and thoughts are with you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 11:42 AM (94zWv)

127 *snicker*

Yes, my sense of humor is a 12 year olds. I stole it fair and square.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2025 11:31 AM (bss/y)

Aetius, did you see this from last night's ONT?

https://is.gd/Yc5DN5

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 01, 2025 11:43 AM (PiwSw)

128 It's a collective Borg, they all know what to do but that also has some pulling one way, others another. Other than fight Trump that's the only goal they have.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2025 11:43 AM (fwDg9)

129 Get well soon KT.

Posted by: DaveA at February 01, 2025 11:45 AM (FhXTo)

130 Take care, KT!

Be diligent with your therapy. I hope you get to go home soon!! Prayers for your swift recovery.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 01, 2025 11:45 AM (mT+6a)

131 Good to hear from you KT. Definitely a relief!

Posted by: Jen the original at February 01, 2025 11:45 AM (ZcLU5)

132 Lots of thanking and congratulating every single Democrat politician that’s there. It’s amazing.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 01, 2025 11:38 AM (ZcLU5)

Noticed that, huh?

Posted by: BignJames at February 01, 2025 11:45 AM (Yj6Os)

133 Press conference on now with the Philly mayor. She yells into the microphone for no reason.
Posted by: Jen the original at February 01, 2025 11:30 AM (ZcLU5)

So, another democrat woman. They all yell.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 01, 2025 11:45 AM (g8Ew8)

134 You couldn't get me to climb a trail on the side of a butterfly today if you put a gun to my head.
But did that when young. Fear of heights gets worse as you age can't trust your nimbleness.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 01, 2025 11:46 AM (4780s)

135 From what I have been able to ascertain, the ATC, the night of the DC crash, was doing the job of two controllers. That could present a problem. The audio recordings of the communications seems to bear that out. Divided attention between helo, the landing, and another plane taking off.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 01, 2025 11:46 AM (iODuv)

136 Without a strong leader they are a snake without a head. When their leader comes forward, watch out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 11:46 AM (94zWv)

137 the Lord would not look favorably upon prayers for harm.

May the Good Lord take a liking to ya and blow ya up real soon.

Billy Sol Hurok

Posted by: DaveA at February 01, 2025 11:46 AM (FhXTo)

138 Prayers for KT

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2025 11:47 AM (PRg7w)

139 They are clearly in utter disarray. Who's in charge? Nobody knows.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

2 reasons they have no leader, both their own fault. First, Obama never put any effort into developing a viable successor. Admittedly the Clinton machine did all they could to block this, because they wanted no competition in 2016. But Joe Biden? Kamala? Pathetic.
2nd reason, this is what happens when you have a party run by octogenarians in a geriatric ward, who refuse to let any new leaders replace them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2025 11:47 AM (Md44Z)

140 Goes back to the Clinton days. Hired 50000 cops and the funding ran out.
Democrats are evil people.

Posted by: torabora at February 01, 2025 11:48 AM (otvYB)

141 Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 11:29 AM (6tRK7)

The Ceausescu pair should have been given a more thorough trial, but I have no pity for them. They should not have been granted 40 years of appeals.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 01, 2025 11:48 AM (2NXcZ)

142 I know nothing about ATC but as an ignorant novice it seems to me insane that helos routinely would fly anywhere near commercial airports. Makes no sense

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2025 11:48 AM (PRg7w)

143 Prayers for KT's quick recovery.

Posted by: Happy at February 01, 2025 11:49 AM (Qhg8U)

144 Prayers up, KT. Thanks for pinch hitting MisHum.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 01, 2025 11:49 AM (njnsa)

145 KT!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2025 11:51 AM (W/lyH)

146 >>>2nd reason, this is what happens when you have a party run by octogenarians in a geriatric ward, who refuse to let any new leaders replace them.
Posted by: Tom Servo
---

Do tyrants ever prepare for a successor?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 11:51 AM (94zWv)

147 Two crashes in two days. Not sure what it means, if anything, but the other day I heard someone say there had been no major air crashes in this country in something like decades.

We'll see, I guess.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 11:41 AM (X+TQ1)

Three crashes in a short amount of time. The Korean crash, the DC crash, and the Philly crash.

Since high-publicity crashes come in 3's, we should be good for awhile.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 01, 2025 11:52 AM (g8Ew8)

148 The raw burger with cheese is for Amy because she's a fat fucking animal who will take it any way she can get it.

She's always starving.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 01, 2025 11:52 AM (hXQfZ)

149 I’m shaking my head…. Some NFL kicker is now being accused of sexual misconduct with multiple massage therapists. Same thing happened with a QB a few years ago. And a somewhat famous Christian apologist and writer Ravi Zacarias was discovered after his death to have misconduct with massage therapists.

I suppose it’s possible to have an innocent session of massage but I personally would never. It’s a minefield… and certainly don’t be naked. Stupidity

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2025 11:53 AM (PRg7w)

150 Do tyrants ever prepare for a successor?

Yes.

Posted by: Kim Il Sung at February 01, 2025 11:55 AM (xCA6C)

151 149 I’m shaking my head…. Some NFL kicker is now being accused of sexual misconduct with multiple massage therapists. Same thing happened with a QB a few years ago. And a somewhat famous Christian apologist and writer Ravi Zacarias was discovered after his death to have misconduct with massage therapists.

I suppose it’s possible to have an innocent session of massage but I personally would never. It’s a minefield… and certainly don’t be naked. Stupidity
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

When your chakra needs releasin', your chakra needs releasin'.

Posted by: Owl Gore at February 01, 2025 11:56 AM (G5+As)

152 Lots of thanking and congratulating every single Democrat politician that’s there. It’s amazing.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 01, 2025 11:38 AM (ZcLU5)

Noticed that, huh?
Posted by: BignJames
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Can't find the remote fast enough when those pressers come on.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 01, 2025 11:57 AM (njnsa)

153 Do tyrants ever prepare for a successor?

All one can do is to hope for the best.

Posted by: Peisistratos at February 01, 2025 11:57 AM (byeIv)

154 I know nothing about ATC but as an ignorant novice it seems to me insane that helos routinely would fly anywhere near commercial airports. Makes no sense
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2025 11:48 AM (PRg7w)

Most commercial airports have heliports, too. There's no inherent conflict. They have a traffic lane for the helos at DCA, with a 200 foot ceiling. The helo in the collision was well above that ceiling. Question arises: did the tower know? did the pilot in command of the helo know? did the pilot at the controls of the helo know? ( I would not expect the pilot of the airliner to know the helo was out of its lane unless told by the tower.)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2025 11:57 AM (8zz6B)

155 Haven't heard any "official" discussion of the useless communication between ATC and the Army helo, the fact that it looks like the helo was out of position notwithstanding.

Asking if a pilot had the "CRJ" in sight is begging the question - nobody can reliably identify an aircraft by type at night against city lights!

A more thorough, (and more standard) communication that stated the expected relative position of the AA jet might have tipped the helo crew to the probability that they were concentrating on avoiding the wrong aircraft.

Yes, the helo crew probably made the fatal error, but part of ATC's responsibility is to ensure such errors are detected, and keep them from compounding into catastrophes!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 01, 2025 11:58 AM (U6Sn/)

156
So, a sweeping left hand turn from heading north to a more north-west direction. In a very short distance and time
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2025 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

Ward Carroll, (YT channel), former F-14 plot, reports that the "step over" from 01 to 33 is a challenging, increased G turn. Takes a lot of concentration

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 01, 2025 11:58 AM (7SPU/)

157 >>>I’m shaking my head…. Some NFL kicker is now being accused of sexual misconduct with multiple massage therapists. Same thing happened with a QB a few years ago. And a somewhat famous Christian apologist and writer Ravi Zacarias was discovered after his death to have misconduct with massage therapists.

I suppose it’s possible to have an innocent session of massage but I personally would never. It’s a minefield… and certainly don’t be naked. Stupidity

Posted by: LinusVanPelt

>I get the opposite reaction, - whenever I'm massaging my massive cock, women flock to me like pigeons to a baguette.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 01, 2025 11:58 AM (hXQfZ)

158 I love it when the elite try to appeal to the common folk. I remember a photo of one of the Taft spawn back in the day, dressed in suit and tie, holding a chicken and looking faintly disgusted. Bet the farmers had a laugh.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 01, 2025 11:58 AM (kpS4V)

159 Who doesn't love a happy ending?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 11:58 AM (KWujZ)

160 this is what happens when you have a party run by octogenarians in a geriatric ward, who refuse to let any new leaders replace them.

This is what happens when people whose only joy in life is power, have power.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 11:58 AM (xCA6C)

161 Do tyrants ever prepare for a successor?
-----------
Yes.
Posted by: Kim Il Sung at February 01, 2025 11:55 AM (xCA6C)

Funny thing is, that was never really the plan. I mean, Jong Il was prepared to take over, but the old man hadn't really put anything in place to make it so.

When he died, the underlings were just sorta looking around and said "Oh, I guess the son will do."

It was even less certain when Jong Il died, his son, the current chubby fellow, wasn't being groomed at all.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 11:59 AM (IYiPT)

162 Do tyrants ever prepare for a successor?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 11:51 AM (94zWv)

No, they can’t allow powerful leaders to develop while they’re alive, because they’ll be a threat. This has always been a fatal weakness for monarchs and dictators. (As Cromwell, Franco, and Tito all sadly nod their heads)

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2025 11:59 AM (Md44Z)

163 I was thinking of KT yesterday. My crocus are slow this year but the daffs I planted in boxes seem to be early. At some point pictures will be forthcoming.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2025 11:59 AM (W/lyH)

164 So much winning! But I’m not sick of it yet!

For those who missed it last night, Elon said they have the receipts on Alexander Vindman being a foreign agent and can charge him as a traitor.

My doctor's getting sick of me calling every 4 hours.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2025 12:00 PM (QZThv)

165
So yes, let us borrow money at confiscatory interest rates to give to various municipalities to keep the addiction real and painful.

A point I hope Trump makes is that Biden, Obama, and Shrub spent all the money. We are tapped out. Even if it was a good idea to spend money on high speed rail or college aide, all that money was given to illegals instead and now to avert catastrophe virtually all federal spending has to be cut...

And I hope he pairs this with ways to claw back as much of that money as possible from the political/bureaucratic class.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2025 12:00 PM (t0Rmr)

166 Now that pronouns are out at federal agencies, make it so for any organization that takes federal funds. Specifically, for example, K-12 education, colleges and universities. That will frost a few cupcakes. . .

Posted by: FIIGMO at February 01, 2025 12:01 PM (R/nr4)

167 For those who missed it last night, Elon said they have the receipts on Alexander Vindman being a foreign agent and can charge him as a traitor.

There is nothing that Paul Manafort did that Vindman, and scores of others, did not. Every one of them should get a 4 AM no knock raid.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2025 12:02 PM (t0Rmr)

168 Now that pronouns are out at federal agencies, make it so for any organization that takes federal funds. Specifically, for example, K-12 education, colleges and universities. That will frost a few cupcakes. . .

AND using Biden's COVID example any company that has a government contract...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2025 12:02 PM (t0Rmr)

169 For those who missed it last night, Elon said they have the receipts on Alexander Vindman being a foreign agent and can charge him as a traitor.

And that's why Mrs. Vindman was so torqued that he didn't get a pardon.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 12:02 PM (xCA6C)

170 and has an intact example of shortgrass Prairie ecosystem on its top.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2025 11:17 AM (8zz6B)

On our family farm in southern MN, there is a section of pasture that according to family history has never been mown or planted since it was prairie. That knowledge would have to have been passed down from a couple generations of former owners, and it's been grazed plenty so who knows. Fun to think about anyway.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 01, 2025 12:02 PM (rAsBA)

171 Venezuela had 4 years to rattle our cage with no push back.

Guess what?

There was push back. Most of these petty little tyrants are just like our political betters here at home. With the proper type of correction meted out... this "push back", they'll fold like Venezuela too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2025 12:02 PM (Q4IgG)

172 Dry January?
Bender through December!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 01, 2025 12:03 PM (eDQVt)

173 No, they can’t allow powerful leaders to develop while they’re alive, because they’ll be a threat. This has always been a fatal weakness for monarchs and dictators. (As Cromwell, Franco, and Tito all sadly nod their heads)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2025 11:59 AM (Md44Z)

Of course, the idea, whether they believed it or not, was that monarchs were chosen by God, so when it was time for the son (or daughter) to take over, the current monarch was free to die peacefully in his or her bed (or the bed of their chosen concubine... or horse).

I presume it did not always go that smoothly though.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 12:03 PM (IYiPT)

174
Mister Gray Meat!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 01, 2025 12:03 PM (xG4kz)

175 Praying for you KT.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at February 01, 2025 12:04 PM (sv9hv)

176 And that's why Mrs. Vindman was so torqued that he didn't get a pardon.

Yup. She now understands her husband is a designated fall guy for Obama/Biden.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2025 12:04 PM (QZThv)

177 And Chuckie sucks. Amen

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at February 01, 2025 12:04 PM (sv9hv)

178 Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 01, 2025 11:58 AM (hXQfZ)

Is that a regular part of your church services, Rev. at "Church of the Massive Cock"/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2025 12:04 PM (MQJVv)

179 I was thinking of KT yesterday. My crocus are slow this year but the daffs I planted in boxes seem to be early. At some point pictures will be forthcoming.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2025 11:59 AM (W/lyH)

Weather was frigid here 2 weeks ago, now it's hinting early spring...hope we don't get fooled.

Posted by: BignJames at February 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Yj6Os)

180 charge him as a traitor.

Electric chair charge?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 01, 2025 12:05 PM (eDQVt)

181 Ok, time to get moving on the day. That's the number 1 task today, and in the days to come: Keep moving.

Peace and love to all...

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 12:05 PM (IYiPT)

182 Did anyobe notice Kash Patel before the Senate?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 12:05 PM (KWujZ)

183 One of the weirdest things about living in DC is that when things are horrible for the country, people in DC tend to feel great. And when things are better for the country, DC feels scared and threatened. They legit LOVED the last four years. And are freaking out now.

The rest of the post has comments from Senators, including GOP Senators, who are alarmed at the "chaos" of Trump 2.0, "tempting the gods of order and steadiness".

You mewling quims, we don't send you to DC to be comfortable, we send you there to get things done, and since you chose not to do them, that's on you. Enjoy the ride.

https://is.gd/LrYc3k

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 12:06 PM (xCA6C)

184 Electric chair charge?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 01, 2025 12:05 PM (eDQVt)

Death penalty is on the table, from what I've read.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2025 12:06 PM (QZThv)

185
The hot dogs are gonna be Slim Jims by the time the burgers are done. His glasses are gonna melt. And it's not smart to run a grill with open flames right next to the house.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 01, 2025 11:12 AM (FoIOl)

They'll look like mummy dick. Probably how he likes them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 01, 2025 12:06 PM (VwHCD)

186 The legacy of the instructor pilot, a male, who was pilot-in-command and thereby responsible for all aspects regarding safety of flight, was not afforded the same opportunity to have all the facts gathered before laying blame.
Posted by: one hour sober
=====
Noted. Just choosing not to pile on.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 01, 2025 12:07 PM (4780s)

187
For those who missed it last night, Elon said they have the receipts on Alexander Vindman being a foreign agent and can charge him as a traitor.

What's wrong with skeedaddling to Ukraine, Lt. Col. Bearclaw?

You yourself stated that you'd be a lead pipe cinch to become that country's defense minister.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 01, 2025 12:07 PM (xG4kz)

188 Death penalty is on the table. It used to be in the chair.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 12:07 PM (KWujZ)

189 One of the weirdest things about living in DC is that when things are horrible for the country, people in DC tend to feel great. And when things are better for the country, DC feels scared and threatened. They legit LOVED the last four years. And are freaking out now.

The Junta spent the last 4 years looting the country, and as their foot soldiers the federal bureaucracy got a share of the spoils.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2025 12:08 PM (t0Rmr)

190 Thanks for all the prayers, blessings and thought

117: I have a view of roofs right now, but birds fly by occasionally.

Posted by: KT at February 01, 2025 12:08 PM (n/GeD)

191 Of course, the idea, whether they believed it or not, was that monarchs were chosen by God, so when it was time for the son (or daughter) to take over, the current monarch was free to die peacefully in his or her bed (or the bed of their chosen concubine... or horse).

I presume it did not always go that smoothly though.

Yes, you could say that.

https://is.gd/RyUTlk

Posted by: Ivan, son of Ivan the Terrible at February 01, 2025 12:08 PM (xCA6C)

192 Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 12:05 PM (KWujZ

I watched some of the hearing. He certainly took no guff. Did you watch it? If so, what did you take note of?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2025 12:09 PM (MQJVv)

193
The hot dogs are gonna be Slim Jims by the time the burgers are done. His glasses are gonna melt. And it's not smart to run a grill with open flames right next to the house.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

I'd bet that the grill was not even lit.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 01, 2025 12:09 PM (xG4kz)

194 What's wrong with skeedaddling to Ukraine, Lt. Col. Bearclaw?

Lil Z always needs some more cannon fodder.

Remember, you might have a 50% chance of dying if you charge the Russian machine gun nests and artillery, but you have a 100% of dying via officer's pistol if you don't...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2025 12:09 PM (t0Rmr)

195 The rest of the post has comments from Senators, including GOP Senators, who are alarmed at the "chaos" of Trump 2.0, "tempting the gods of order and steadiness".

I'm not seeing chaos at all, I'm seeing straight ahead demolition of the "post war liberal consensus" aka "our democracy".

There was a good quote I saw yesterday that Trump 1.0 had him trying something outside of his expertise, politics. Trump 2.0 has him doing a hostile takeover of a corrupt failing company, which is very much in his wheelhouse.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2025 12:09 PM (QZThv)

196 Yes, the helo crew probably made the fatal error, but part of ATC's responsibility is to ensure such errors are detected, and keep them from compounding into catastrophes!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 01, 2025 11:58 AM (U6Sn/)

Well, at least we had Federal $$$ for 87,000 new, armed IRS agents and $200 billion for Ukraine, not to mention $260 million for charities enabling the illegal aliens. But $ for staffing ATC, fuhgeddaboutit.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 01, 2025 12:09 PM (7SPU/)

197 For those who missed it last night, Elon said they have the receipts on Alexander Vindman being a foreign agent and can charge him as a traitor.

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Wait. Is he a bearclaw or a turnover?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 01, 2025 12:10 PM (L/fGl)

198 On our family farm in southern MN, there is a section of pasture that according to family history has never been mown or planted since it was prairie. That knowledge would have to have been passed down from a couple generations of former owners, and it's been grazed plenty so who knows. Fun to think about anyway.
Posted by: TexasDan at February 01, 2025 12:02 PM (rAsBA)

When domestic cattle graze over an area, they may eat certain plants to extinction, and the seeds in their droppings may spread crop plants and/or weeds to the new area. Presumably Dry Island was in equilibrium with the bison until erosion cut it off from the plateau surrounding the river. The Indians had a buffalo jump there, apparently used only rarely, not on the Dry Island itself, but on the west bank of the river nearby. The land is all now a park, and there is a steep, winding gravel road down to the river, where one can picnic or launch boats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2025 12:10 PM (8zz6B)

199 Wait. Is he a bearclaw or a turnover?

I don't know, but he clearly eats both.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2025 12:11 PM (QZThv)

200 192 Stew Peters that guy who's name didn't ring a bell; He'd been on his show eight times.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 12:11 PM (KWujZ)

201 ? Isolated ecologically? Screw that place in particular. You people ever watch Arachnaphobia?!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom ! Kid at February 01, 2025 12:11 PM (hirWM)

202 Prayers KT. Get well soon.

Posted by: Reforger at February 01, 2025 12:11 PM (xcIvR)

203 Weather was frigid here 2 weeks ago, now it's hinting early spring...hope we don't get fooled.
Posted by: BignJames at February 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Yj6Os)

Interestingly, i bought a couple mums three years ago. The first year, as they died off, I just set them on the side of the house intending to toss them, but never did. In the Spring, they turned green, so I nursed them
along, to include knocking off the snow when it fell.
Damned if they didn't come back better than before.
So now they are out there again as the first snow is falling. Tough little bastards!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2025 12:13 PM (W/lyH)

204 Posted by: Reforger at February 01, 2025 12:11 PM (xcIvR

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2025 12:13 PM (MQJVv)

205 Things appear to be coming a bit undone in Afghanistan.

>>cyberpionier
·

From someone in Kabul:

<<"Yes, today the whole city was under martial law and the citadel is surrounded by the Taliban leader's special forces".

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2025 12:13 PM (LkLld)

206 Weather was frigid here 2 weeks ago, now it's hinting early spring...hope we don't get fooled.

I'm in the Mid-Atlantic and it was hinting early spring overnight, but tonight it's supposed to be 20 degrees.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2025 12:14 PM (QZThv)

207 Of course, the idea, whether they believed it or not, was that monarchs were chosen by God, so when it was time for the son (or daughter) to take over, the current monarch was free to die peacefully in his or her bed (or the bed of their chosen concubine... or horse).

The idea of rule by Divine Right combined with primogeniture had some interesting positive impacts for Europe.

Earlier with less formalized succession rules any powerful noble, and any relative of the former ruler, could make a bid to become the next monarch. This often led to chaos and war. But by having specific rules as to who could inherit it meant that anyone trying to usurp that had additional problems to deal with from the church and society as a whole.

Monarchy, obviously, has its limitations, but if you compare medieval Europe with say the Muslim world you can see just how important this difference was for stabilizing society

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2025 12:14 PM (t0Rmr)

208 Prayers for KT, and I'm hoping the substitute Garden Thread today is good. It's one of the highlights of my week.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2025 12:15 PM (QZThv)

209 I presume it did not always go that smoothly though.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 12:03 PM (IYiPT)

That entire dynamic is played out in the story of David and Absalom. Vigorous popular son gets sick of waiting for the old man to die.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2025 12:15 PM (Md44Z)

210 Something which I've enjoyed in the local market is that in the flower section you can buy Hyacinth bulbs over a glass jar with water. Some of them have already started to bloom and the smell is wonderful.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2025 12:16 PM (MQJVv)

211 Remember KT, this place is not only a smart military blog, but we have excellent medical advice as well.
For instance, a pint of single malt scotch is almost always a medicinal aide.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2025 12:16 PM (W/lyH)

212 Monarchy, obviously, has its limitations, but if you compare medieval Europe with say the Muslim world you can see just how important this difference was for stabilizing society

I always thought that strangling any possible competitors,including your family, with a silk scarf was a nice touch. In Mughal India, they blinded them, since a blind man was not allowed to have power.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 12:16 PM (xCA6C)

213 The Junta spent the last 4 years looting the country, and as their foot soldiers the federal bureaucracy got a share of the spoils.

There is a reason why the DC metro is by far the wealthiest metro area in the country.

Posted by: The Left! at February 01, 2025 12:16 PM (uxCna)

214
I'm not seeing chaos at all, I'm seeing straight ahead demolition of the "post war liberal consensus" aka "our democracy".

Looking back on things, it was bizarre that the end of the cold war had almost no impact on the political structures in the US and Europe. NATO didn't go away. China didn't get isolated. The US kept defending all of our "allies" on our dime against first jihadis...which we had no intention of defeating, and later the people that lived in those countries!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2025 12:16 PM (t0Rmr)

215 So the Pet Thread will be at the vet today?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 01, 2025 12:17 PM (u5DUI)

216 What's stopping Vindman from bugging out to the Ukraine?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2025 12:17 PM (MQJVv)

217 Speedy recovery KT. Sounds like you got this.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 01, 2025 12:17 PM (VwHCD)

218 I'm in the Mid-Atlantic and it was hinting early spring overnight, but tonight it's supposed to be 20 degrees.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2025 12:14 PM (QZThv)

Overnight lows in the 50s by the end of this week...that allows stuff to grow.

Posted by: BignJames at February 01, 2025 12:17 PM (Yj6Os)

219 Bif, glad Smash is recovering
You two get some rest

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 01, 2025 12:17 PM (nrpZ6)

220 KT, I always enjoy your Saturday morning posts. May your needs be met, recover quickly, and be at peace.

Thanks for filling in MisHum.

Good morning everyone.

Now to read the comments.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2025 12:18 PM (PcTds)

221 I always thought that strangling any possible competitors,including your family, with a silk scarf was a nice touch. In Mughal India, they blinded them, since a blind man was not allowed to have power.

Ottoman princes would scheme to have their siblings and half siblings killed as soon as the old Sultan seemed to have lost his grip on power.

And sure it can work, for a while, but...that is not a great system over time.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2025 12:18 PM (t0Rmr)

222 What's stopping Vindman from bugging out to the Ukraine?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2025 12:17 PM (MQJVv)

Can't afford the 2 seats required for him.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 01, 2025 12:18 PM (VwHCD)

223 What's stopping Vindman from bugging out to the Ukraine?

The US government has a fair amount of leverage over Ukraine, if it chooses to make an extradition request.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 12:18 PM (uxCna)

224 We're back up to a blistering 42.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 12:19 PM (KWujZ)

225 > One of the weirdest things about living in DC is that when things are horrible for the country, people in DC tend to feel great. And when things are better for the country, DC feels scared and threatened. They legit LOVED the last four years. And are freaking out now.
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There's a post from a writer who was retiring... back around 2008 or so... can't remember who, but there was a link to it the other day on one of the socials.

Pretty much sums all that above, and then some more.

The gist being that our political class is happy when we're not and threatened when we are the ones happy. Delves deeper into all that and why.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2025 12:19 PM (Q4IgG)

226 For instance, a pint of single malt scotch is almost always a medicinal aide.

Or as a Scotsman would call it, "a wee dram."

Posted by: Oddbob at February 01, 2025 12:19 PM (/y8xj)

227
The US government has a fair amount of leverage over Ukraine, if it chooses to make an extradition request.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 12:18 PM (uxCna)

And I'm not convinced he'd receive a hero's welcome by the families of the dead and maimed.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 01, 2025 12:20 PM (2NXcZ)

228
I'd bet that the grill was not even lit.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 01, 2025 12:09 PM (xG4kz)

It wasn't. Take a look at this full-size version of the photo, showing the controls shut off.

https://tinyurl.com/5d97jw44

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 01, 2025 12:20 PM (FoIOl)

229 We're back up to a blistering 42.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 12:19 PM (KWujZ)

just hit 61

Posted by: BignJames at February 01, 2025 12:21 PM (Yj6Os)

230 206 Weather was frigid here 2 weeks ago, now it's hinting early spring...hope we don't get fooled.

I'm in the Mid-Atlantic and it was hinting early spring overnight, but tonight it's supposed to be 20 degrees.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Bastardi said there would be a faux spring then hell would freeze over. He hasn't put up his Saturday missive today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 12:21 PM (94zWv)

231 Looking back on things, it was bizarre that the end of the cold war had almost no impact on the political structures in the US and Europe. NATO didn't go away. China didn't get isolated. The US kept defending all of our "allies" on our dime against first jihadis...which we had no intention of defeating, and later the people that lived in those countries!

Yup. That should have caused a massive set of changes but nothing happened. In hindsight that's extremely weird.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2025 12:21 PM (QZThv)

232 KT, best regards for a speedy recovery - there are 'words up' for you to The Boss, too.

Posted by: Dr_No at February 01, 2025 12:22 PM (ayRl+)

233 It seems to be off. Is that orange on the grill flame or cheese?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 12:22 PM (KWujZ)

234 Two politicians who brag about their old school 1600 SAT score:

Chuck Schumer and Elliot Spitzer.

Spitzer's an even bigger scumbag.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 01, 2025 12:23 PM (Gqoy+)

235 222 What's stopping Vindman from bugging out to the Ukraine?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
---

They will put him to work and he will end up being a bullet bag.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 12:23 PM (94zWv)

236 And I'm not convinced he'd receive a hero's welcome by the families of the dead and maimed.

Vindman's wife screeching that he didn't get a pardon was hilarious.

Hey, somebody needs to be the fall guy.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 12:23 PM (uxCna)

237 Why would he need a pardon? What did he do?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 12:24 PM (KWujZ)

238 These people in Phili are shameless. Every month about 19 people are murdered. 7 people are killed in a plane crash and only one was even an American citizen and they’re out there grifting for money. Maybe clean up your city.

And somebody please tell Shapiro to stop wearing his daddy’s coat.

Posted by: Truthbomb at February 01, 2025 12:24 PM (y7tvB)

239 I was just looking at a calendar and it occurs to me that Groundhog Day falls exactly six weeks before the astronomical beginning of Spring (Vernal Equinox).

I'm beginning to wonder if we've been lied to lo these many years. Maybe that overgrown rat can't actually predict anything, hmmm....?

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 12:25 PM (/iMjX)

240 What's stopping Vindman from bugging out to the Ukraine?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2025 12:17 PM (MQJVv)

1. Ego

2. He knows it's a shithole, and once Zelensky falls, his life would be worthless.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2025 12:25 PM (8zz6B)

241 231 Looking back on things, it was bizarre that the end of the cold war had almost no impact on the political structures...
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Yup. That should have caused a massive set of changes but nothing happened. In hindsight that's extremely weird.
Posted by: Ian S.
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GHWB, keeper and purveyor of the status quo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 12:26 PM (94zWv)

242 Spitzer's an even bigger scumbag.
Posted by: Ignoramus

You mean Client #9.

Posted by: High-Priced Call Girl at February 01, 2025 12:26 PM (G5+As)

243 Prayers for KT.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 01, 2025 12:26 PM (aD39U)

244 The rest of the post has comments from Senators, including GOP Senators, who are alarmed at the "chaos" of Trump 2.0, "tempting the gods of order and steadiness".

-
Why can't he just stick to rearranging the deck chairs like the GOPe?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 01, 2025 12:27 PM (L/fGl)

245 If you blink you miss something.

>>@realDonaldTrump

>>This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia. These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies. The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians. Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did! The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that “WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!”

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2025 12:27 PM (LkLld)

246 GHWB, keeper and purveyor of the status quo.

NATO suffered from March of Dimes syndrome - instead of folding up after completely succeeding in its sole stated task, it decided to go find other things to do, in order to preserve the bureaucracy.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 12:28 PM (uxCna)

247 Ottoman princes would scheme to have their siblings and half siblings killed as soon as the old Sultan seemed to have lost his grip on power.

And sure it can work, for a while, but...that is not a great system over time.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2025 12:18 PM (t0Rmr)

That’s the classic middle eastern system, and I would argue that the Saudi’s still follow it today. Because of multiple wives, the old King ends up with dozens of potential heirs, and it’s too rough a neighborhood to risk a weak ruler on the throne. So the next King or Sultan is the one who can most cleverly and cleanly murder most of his rivals, thus ensuring that the next King will be a ruthless and calculating SOB.

In Saudi today, several of MBS’ half brothers have died in “mysterious” circumstances. One was a respected military commander, his helicopter blew up all by itself out over the desert. So sad, the Crown Prince wept for him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2025 12:29 PM (Md44Z)

248 Employees are more efficient and productive when they actually come to work? Who knew?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 12:29 PM (KWujZ)

249 What's stopping Vindman from bugging out to the Ukraine?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2025 12:17 PM (MQJVv)

1. Ego

2. He knows it's a shithole, and once Zelensky falls, his life would be worthless.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2025 12:25 PM (8zz6B)
***

Cowardice?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2025 12:30 PM (W/lyH)

250 The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that “WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!”

-
Then play 18 holes while drinking Diet Coke.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 01, 2025 12:30 PM (L/fGl)

251 I can't believe Ol' Man Tits was allowed to use a barbeque in the Biden era...may cooler heads prevail...

Posted by: GEN Jack D. Ripper at February 01, 2025 12:30 PM (NWsL2)

252 239 I was just looking at a calendar and it occurs to me that Groundhog Day falls exactly six weeks before the astronomical beginning of Spring (Vernal Equinox).

I'm beginning to wonder if we've been lied to lo these many years. Maybe that overgrown rat can't actually predict anything, hmmm....?
Posted by: muldoon
-------------------------

youtube.com/watch?v=Vwyj7ySHcC0

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 12:31 PM (94zWv)

253 Ok, time to get moving on the day. That's the number 1 task today, and in the days to come: Keep moving.

Peace and love to all...
Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2025 12:05 PM (IYiPT)

Prayers, brother.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Packing to leave CO at February 01, 2025 12:31 PM (Ad8y9)

254 What's stopping Vindman from bugging out to the Ukraine?

*********

His 24-count ValuPak of Entemann's bearclaws won't fit in the overhead bin.

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 12:31 PM (/iMjX)

255 Is Groundhog Day madeup like Santa Claus?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 12:32 PM (KWujZ)

256 GHWB was Reagan’s big mistake… a big one. Maybe he had no choice but we’d be much better off if he’d selected his friend Paul Laxalt

The Bush family is still spoiling things even here in Texas. Thanks for Dustin Burrows (sarc)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2025 12:33 PM (ZtAny)

257 Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2025 12:27 PM (LkLld)
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Cue the Bryan Mills speech from "Taken."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 01, 2025 12:33 PM (6K6Eu)

258 I can't believe Ol' Man Tits was allowed to use a barbeque in the Biden era...may cooler heads prevail...

Right after they passed a ban on gas stoves some fancy restaurant in SF asked for an exemption because, well, you can't cook fancy food on an electric stove.

And you'll be surprised to learn they got their exemption, as I believe, has every other fancy restaurant that's asked for one.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2025 12:34 PM (t0Rmr)

259 NATO suffered from March of Dimes syndrome - instead of folding up after completely succeeding in its sole stated task, it decided to go find other things to do, in order to preserve the bureaucracy.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 12:28 PM (uxCna)

Which raises an interesting question: just how much effect did March of Dimes have in the effort to conquer polio?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2025 12:35 PM (8zz6B)

260 Employees are more efficient and productive when they actually come to work? Who knew?

Some media outlet had a sob story from a Federal worker who lived in Baltimore, and was "working remotely" from Washington.

How can she be expected to do that lengthy commute every day?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2025 12:35 PM (uxCna)

261 My State banned all camp stoves for apartment dwellers. Not sure if it covers house renters.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 12:36 PM (KWujZ)

262 255 Is Groundhog Day madeup like Santa Claus?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Are you trying to put drunken men in tophats out of work?

Posted by: I Got You Babe at February 01, 2025 12:37 PM (G5+As)

263 We're in good hands.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
@RepJasmine
Happy Black History Month!
America is facing a SUPER villain, but we are the heroes of our own story.
With resilience, grace, & unapologetic power, we rise. No villain can dim our light—our magic is unstoppable. My story is Unleashing Black Girl Magic: The Superpower Within!

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Comic book images of Superjas at the link.

https://is.gd/W7E1m3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 01, 2025 12:37 PM (L/fGl)

264 Get well K.T. Good luck and God bless.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2025 12:38 PM (6v8aM)

265 March of Dimes segued seamlessly from birth defects to prematurity, a condition that will never be cured.

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 12:38 PM (/iMjX)

266 Nothing says "fascism" more than reducing the size and scope of government.

Wait, what?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 01, 2025 12:39 PM (6K6Eu)

267 Which raises an interesting question: just how much effect did March of Dimes have in the effort to conquer polio?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2025 12:35 PM (8zz6B)

Helped fund both Salk and Sabin, spent close to $250M (in 1955 dollars) on polio care.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 01, 2025 12:39 PM (2NXcZ)

268 Thx MisHum.
My Senator Chuck Schumer, causing listeria and salmonella outbreaks since the 1980s

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2025 12:40 PM (6v8aM)

269 March of Dimes segued seamlessly from birth defects to prematurity, a condition that will never be cured.
Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 12:38 PM (/iMjX)
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Will Cuppy noted, "The Roman dermatologists had a funny saying about their patients: 'They never die and they never get well - it's perfect!'"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 01, 2025 12:40 PM (6K6Eu)

270 DC to Baltimore? Talk about a 'tard.

Ride the rail like Joey wants from everyone you idiot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 01, 2025 12:41 PM (qrbVb)

271 Ride the rail like Joey wants from everyone you idiot.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Try to book a ride on Amtrak. I dare you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 12:42 PM (94zWv)

272 244 The rest of the post has comments from Senators, including GOP Senators, who are alarmed at the "chaos" of Trump 2.0, "tempting the gods of order and steadiness".

This is probably the smoothest transition and no nonsense beginning of an Administration I've ever seen with the exception of the Confirmations.. And that's thanks to the RINO's....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 01, 2025 12:42 PM (VE6XX)

273 Sorry if this was noticed before...

Did Schumer put a piece of cheese on a raw burger...?

This is like those CongressAssholes who buy a flag to hang up without bothering to iron out the creases first.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 01, 2025 12:42 PM (cIOlQ)

274 The skin is a mammal’s largest organ.

Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2025 12:42 PM (LHPAg)

275 I'd be sittin' pretty if I could get all those silver dimes back.

Posted by: SemiPrecious Metalhead at February 01, 2025 12:42 PM (G5+As)

276 Jasmine Crockett is to the Congress as Tiffany Henyard is to Mayors

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2025 12:43 PM (6v8aM)

277 Amtrak website is a perfect exemplar of government stupidity.
Using the phone is no better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 12:43 PM (94zWv)

278 276 Jasmine Crockett is to the Congress as Tiffany Henyard is to Mayors
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2025 12:43 PM (6v8aM)

LOL.. I thought the same thing

Posted by: It's me donna at February 01, 2025 12:43 PM (VE6XX)

279 DC to Baltimore? Talk about a 'tard.

Ride the rail like Joey wants from everyone you idiot.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 01, 2025 12:41 PM (qrbVb)

Maybe the Baltimore and DC gangs can get into a semi-legal business - trebuchet service between the cities.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 01, 2025 12:43 PM (VNX3d)

280 Get well KT.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 01, 2025 12:43 PM (qrbVb)

281 I wonder how groundhog would turn out on the pellet smoker.

"Eat Your Phil of Punxsatawney!"

At Bubba's BBQ Hut, This Monday, Feb 3, only.

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 12:44 PM (/iMjX)

282 When I was stationed at Ft. Meade I would catch Amtrack to NYC to visit friends.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 01, 2025 12:45 PM (qrbVb)

283 KT is an ette??
Posted by: San Franpsycho

"Katie"?

Posted by: SFGoth at February 01, 2025 12:46 PM (KAi1n)

284 Anna Puma

I will never say anything.

1st Army HQ, on the other hand ... My Mom worked there for a bit.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2025 12:48 PM (u82oZ)

285 Jasmine should pitch her superhero idea to Marvel. If they green light it maybe she'll quit DC and move to Beverly Hills.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 01, 2025 12:48 PM (qrbVb)

286 Fun fact: Jasmine Crockett's district overwhelmingly voted ( 77% ) for Robert O'Rourke for Goverrnor.

She's just representing her district.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 01, 2025 12:49 PM (PiwSw)

287 274 The skin is a mammal’s largest organ.
Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2025 12:42 PM (LHPAg)

Incorrect. The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ is the largest organ.

Posted by: Google it! at February 01, 2025 12:49 PM (URPBf)

288 239 I was just looking at a calendar and it occurs to me that Groundhog Day falls exactly six weeks before the astronomical beginning of Spring (Vernal Equinox).

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 12:25 PM (/iMjX)

Thank you!! I've been pedantically pronouncing this in every pre-Groundhog Day Teams meeting for years! No one listens.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 01, 2025 12:50 PM (OX9vb)

289 Babylon Bee:

Entire Federal Workforce Replaced By One 16-Year-Old Chick-Fil-A Employee

https://tinyurl.com/39fxdbbm

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 01, 2025 12:50 PM (VNX3d)

290 I always suspected Vindmann to be a foreign spy

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2025 12:50 PM (fwDg9)

291 284 Anna Puma

I will never say anything.

1st Army HQ, on the other hand ... My Mom worked there for a bit.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2025 12:48 PM (u82oZ
Attended a one day conference there. Damn people were so nosy, ‘what’s in your vehicle?’ And suck like.

Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2025 12:51 PM (LHPAg)

292 Chuck looks like the guy at the car lot that gets you 19% financing and still manages to sell you undercoating. Hypnosis.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 01, 2025 12:51 PM (gm9Sb)

293 Prayers for you, KT for a speedy and full recovery!

Posted by: IrishEi at February 01, 2025 12:52 PM (3ImbR)

294 Eromero

My family, not me, has 3 generations of jobs there.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2025 12:53 PM (u82oZ)

295 Salty Dawg,

Thankfully I was only there for a DINFOS school and not with the Borg in the cube.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 01, 2025 12:54 PM (qrbVb)

296
Comic book images of Superjas at the link.

https://is.gd/W7E1m3
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 01, 2025 12:37 PM (L/fGl)

Main character syndrome made flesh.

Posted by: Rough beast slouching in Congress at February 01, 2025 12:55 PM (URPBf)

297 Well. I'm a dumbass.

Was on my way to the range and locked myself out of my apartment.

Neighbor let me in and gave me coffee (really good btw) and let me hang out until my landlady returned. She let me in.

Who locks themselves out of their home? I do.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 01, 2025 12:56 PM (mT+6a)

298 Anna Puma

Whew!

You dodged a bullet there.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2025 12:56 PM (u82oZ)

299 Can we continue the prayer thread and ask that Schumer gets a double dose of what the Hordians get? Or would that be wrong?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I have to assume that the Lord would not look favorably upon prayers for harm. Consider asking that Schumer receive all that he deserves and leave that determination up to GOD.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

The Imprecatory Psalms are just that. Prayers for harm.

Psalm 69:23-28
may their eyes grow so dim that they cannot see, all their muscles lose their strength. Vent your fury on them, let your burning anger overtake them. Reduce their encampment to ruin, and leave their tents untenanted, for hounding someone you had already stricken, for redoubling the pain of one you had wounded. Charge them with crime after crime, exclude them from your saving justice, erase them from the book of life, do not enroll them among the upright.

Ouch.

Posted by: mikeski at February 01, 2025 12:57 PM (DgGvY)

300 {{{nurse ratched}}}

If you had that mentioned right away, you would have been deluged with offer of temporary housing assistance from all the priapism-affected 'Rons.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2025 12:58 PM (u82oZ)

301 I think a Mercedes sedan's suspension and tires could handle a 550 pound rapper okay. That's the equivalent of two 275 pound offensive linemen.

The limiting factor is the space available between the front and back seat.

Try having one 275 pound offensive lineman sit on the lap of another 275 pound offensive lineman in the back seat of a sedan.

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 12:58 PM (/iMjX)

302 Our MicroMoMe is going to the range sometime today!

Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2025 12:59 PM (LHPAg)

303 209 Tom Servo... Absolom, oh Absolom! Would thy God I'd died for thee

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at February 01, 2025 01:00 PM (wBaIH)

304 Thank you!! I've been pedantically pronouncing this in every pre-Groundhog Day Teams meeting for years! No one listens.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

**********

*fist bump*

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 01:01 PM (/iMjX)

305 muldoon

Good to see our Limerick Laureate posting.

I trust you and yours is doing well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 01, 2025 01:02 PM (u82oZ)

306 And here I thought David Hoggy had a chance

@daveweigel 4m
Replying to @daveweigel
Ken Martin wins on first ballot - 246 votes of 428 cast.

Ken Martin is the new chair of the DNC.

Posted by: weft cut-Batman at February 01, 2025 01:03 PM (mlg/3)

307 302 I think a Mercedes sedan's suspension and tires could handle a 550 pound rapper okay. That's the equivalent of two 275 pound offensive linemen.

The limiting factor is the space available between the front and back seat.

Try having one 275 pound offensive lineman sit on the lap of another 275 pound offensive lineman in the back seat of a sedan.

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 12:58 PM (/iMjX
That’s s heap o’ skin organ square footage there.

Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2025 01:03 PM (LHPAg)

308 Ken Martin is the new chair of the DNC.

Ken Martin is an American politician from Minnesota. He is Chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

He is white. Very, very white. What could this mean?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 01:04 PM (xCA6C)

309 Mis Hum

you should feel honored to have received a complimentary comment from a portugal golden visa AI spambot.

@288

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 01:05 PM (/iMjX)

310 He is white. Very, very white. What could this mean?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 01:04 PM (xCA6C)

He's been to the moon?

Posted by: Zombie Gil Scott-Heron at February 01, 2025 01:06 PM (R/m4+)

311 I trust you and yours is doing well.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

**********

We is. We is doing well.

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 01:07 PM (/iMjX)

312 Get Well KT!!

Nood

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 01, 2025 01:07 PM (0XVad)

313 Looks like the sun is trying to peek out. Maybe I'll take the pup out for a walk.

Posted by: muldoon at February 01, 2025 01:10 PM (/iMjX)

314 311 He is white. Very, very white. What could this mean?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 01, 2025 01:04 PM (xCA6C)

It means that the Democrat Party, reacting to a broad based conservative move nationally, has decided to go full communist. Bold move, Cotton.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2025 01:12 PM (Md44Z)

315 Always a bridesmaid, never a bride...

Posted by: Portugal Pewter Mastercard at February 01, 2025 01:14 PM (8zz6B)

316
The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that “WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!”

Peggy Noonon will be so (more) upset.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2025 01:15 PM (63Dwl)

317 GHWB was Reagan’s big mistake… a big one. Maybe he had no choice but we’d be much better off if he’d selected his friend Paul Laxalt

The Bush family is still spoiling things even here in Texas. Thanks for Dustin Burrows (sarc)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2025 12:33 PM (ZtAny)

I have recently been looking at Governor John Connally, and wondering if he wouldn't have been the perfect VP for Reagan. He also had been a candidate in 1980

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2025 01:15 PM (D7oie)

318 Constitutional Amendment:
No Grants of monies from the federal treasury to states, counties, municipalities, private or public organizations, or private citizens shall occur without a specific legislative act, passed by Congress and signed by the President, defining the exact amount, the exact recipient, and the specific time period by which this disbursement must be accomplished. No continuous obligations to other than federal entities shall be set.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 01, 2025 01:16 PM (EVyYf)

319 Seems like with inflation it should be the march of dollars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 01:22 PM (KWujZ)

320 A comment just flared out with the spark of 1000 suns.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 01, 2025 01:23 PM (KWujZ)

321 I hope you get well soon KT, I rarely comment on them but always look forward to seeing them. Thanks, get better soon and continue to spread the sunshine and joy of gardening.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at February 01, 2025 01:36 PM (qZdIZ)

322 I’d like to FOIA her grades in school. I’d also like to FOIA what she scored on the aviation aptitude test she took prior to be given a slot in flight school. (I took that test prior to my selection to attend Navy AOCS. It isn’t easy, but it isn’t overly difficult, either).

And I’d like to FOIA her flight training records to see how many flight “downs” she’d received, if any, and if she’d received more chances to continue in flight training where the average male flight student would have been washed out.

If that makes me a dick, so be it.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 01, 2025 11:13 AM (Y1sOo)

Very similar to the story of Lt Kara Hultgren, the F-14 pilot who died in a carrier landing accident. Her RIO survived but she didn't as the plane had inverted by the time her seat ejected. The internal investigation showed that in training she had multiple incidents that would have washed out any male aviator. But she was a poster girl for gals in jets - her call sign was 'Revlon'.

Thank Patsy Schroeder.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 01, 2025 01:48 PM (ql/Pe)

323 308

As Waltz said, "In Minnesota, we think socialism is just another way of being neighborly!'

All the new DNC guy wants to do is bring neighborliness to the whole country.

Posted by: mnw at February 01, 2025 01:50 PM (NLIak)

324 One of the weirdest things about living in DC is that when things are horrible for the country, people in DC tend to feel great. And when things are better for the country, DC feels scared and threatened. They legit LOVED the last four years. And are freaking out now.
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There's a post from a writer who was retiring... back around 2008 or so... can't remember who, but there was a link to it the other day on one of the socials.

Pretty much sums all that above, and then some more.

The gist being that our political class is happy when we're not and threatened when we are the ones happy. Delves deeper into all that and why.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2025 12:19 PM (Q4IgG)

Reminds me of the capitol in The Hunger Games.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 01, 2025 01:55 PM (ql/Pe)

325 GHWB was the sacrifice Reagan had to take in order to secure the nomination by the GOPe (hidden hand).

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 01, 2025 02:07 PM (94zWv)

326 The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ is the largest organ.

Ahem.

Posted by: Paolo at February 01, 2025 02:14 PM (FhXTo)

327 If, according to Schmuck U, all of these entities require federal monies then all of them have to live by the federal rules.... good and hard.

Posted by: Teacher Unions at February 01, 2025 02:24 PM (17s+e)

328 All the new DNC guy wants to do is bring neighborliness to the whole country.

By Any Means Necessary! If a few hundred million have to die to bring neighborliness to the whole country then that is price he is willing to make his political opponents pay... for the good of the country.

Posted by: Teacher Unions at February 01, 2025 02:26 PM (17s+e)

329 Nick Sortor @nicksortor 4m
🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump has signed an Executive Order requiring that any agency who creates a new regulation must identify at least TEN existing regulations to be repealed

THIS is how you gut big government! 🔥

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 01, 2025 02:58 PM (5LoD7)

330 329 Nick Sortor @nicksortor 4m
🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump has signed an Executive Order requiring that any agency who creates a new regulation must identify at least TEN existing regulations to be repealed

THIS is how you gut big government! 🔥
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 01, 2025 02:58 PM (5LoD7)

I LOVE this! I have been yelling about this concept forever - glad The Donald read my mind.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 01, 2025 03:07 PM (OTdqV)

331 hey guys!

busy weekend here but wanted to note that while the private plane crashing into NE philly was very explodey, it's not actually that weird for us to have small craft crashing - I live near a small airport here and it happens quite a lot. only it lands in someone's field or in a lake or on a barn mostly, so casualties are limited to the crew.

so yeah not sure I'm getting the big deal about the crash last night. of course it's quite tragic but I dont see why that one is national news but none of the others ever were?

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 01, 2025 03:14 PM (Pv3Rg)

332 Artikel ini informatif banget! Saya udah coba sendiri dan hasilnya nggak mengecewakan. Rekomendasi banget buat yang cari maxwin.

Posted by: https://slotthailand.pafilangkatkab.org at February 01, 2025 03:29 PM (ZwAHr)

333 Ok, who's drunk-posting on a Saturday afternoon.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 01, 2025 04:10 PM (KAi1n)

334 So much hilarity happening.

DOJ is now investigating Chuck Schumer's threats against Kavanaugh.

Elon found out the federal government HR department (Office of Personnel Management) was 100% working from home so he changed all their passwords to lock them out.

Trump bombed ISIS in Somalia (Ilhan Omar hardest hit) and put out a statement to terrorists that "WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU". Liam Neeson hardest hit.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2025 04:40 PM (Wov9F)

335 4 days ago: Sky News has revealed plans for a major revamp of both its programming and newsroom.

Posted by: 13times at February 01, 2025 05:36 PM (isyai)

336 Chucky is worth 91 million. How'd he come by that much money as a public servant? Hang him high, the crook.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at February 02, 2025 06:25 PM (bXvrr)

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