Are the ghosts of previous presidents returning to interfere with the leftist project again?

Andrew Jackson is a 1928 bronze sculpture of Andrew Jackson by Belle Kinney Scholz and Leopold Scholz, installed in the United States Capitol, in Washington D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection.

It is one of two statues donated by the state of Tennessee.

The Democrats used to hold Jefferson-Jackson fundraising dinners. Not anymore.

Andrew Jackson's Beginnings:

His father died shortly before he was born. His widowed mother was left to raise three sons, one a newborn, alone. When the American Revolutionary War reached the Carolinas, the Jacksons paid a high price. Andrew’s older brother Hugh died of heatstroke in 1779, after a battle. In 1781, Andrew and his brother Robert who had joined the patriot cause, were captured by the British. Andrew was only thirteen.
During their captivity, the Jackson brothers were mistreated and contracted smallpox. Robert would not survive. He died shortly after Mrs. Jackson had arranged for their release. Andrew had been slashed by a British officer when he refused to polish the officer’s boots. Young Andrew would survive, but soon after he was well, his mother volunteered to aid sick soldiers in Charleston where she contracted cholera and died. Orphaned at age fourteen, Andrew Jackson unsurprisingly would hold a lifelong hostility towards Great Britain.
With rather a piecemeal form of education, as many at the time had, young Andrew Jackson apprenticed with a saddle-maker, taught in the local school a bit, and then worked in the law office of Spruce McCay where he learned enough law to be admitted into the North Carolina bar in 1787.

Not the typical picture of a patrician.

Young Mr. Jackson knew enough about the law to get work in the frontier towns. He soon moved west to what was soon to be the state of Tennessee. He boarded at the home of Rachel Stockly Donelson, where he met her daughter Rachel, who would become his wife and lifelong love.
Jackson would find himself in many fights defending Rachel’s honor. Rachel had been in a bad marriage, and although she thought she was divorced when she married Andrew in 1791, it turns out she wasn’t. Legal mayhem in the newly shifting jurisdictions were to blame. The Jacksons married again in 1794, but this legal technicality would dog them Rachel’s entire life.
Amazingly, when Andrew Jackson ran for the U.S. Presidency in 1828, this confusion about Rachel’s marital status at the time she married Andrew, was a major issue raised by Andrew Jackson’s opposition, while the fact that he had killed a man in a duel in 1806, was not!

Influences of past presidents on today's politics

What to you think about these characterizations?

Everyone needs to go read up about Jacksonianism.

I'll wait...

Okay long enough.

Wilsonians are the Clinton wing of the Democratic party. They are also all through the State Department and to a great extent the the 'permanent bureaucracy' in DC. (Though they've lately been…
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo150 February 21, 2025

This is the wrap-up of John Ringo's main points, but the thread continues after this.

What you are seeing now and have been for the last ten years or so is the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian wing going at it hammer and tongs live in living color. When antifa was going at it with Proud Boys that was Jeffersonian vs Jacksonian.
Trump is the first fully Jacksonian President and JD Vance is the poster child for Jacksonianism.
This is what has everyone in the establishment confused. They had no clue the Jacksonians even EXISTED. Most of the Jacksonians were checked out because no party really represented their interests.
The two revolutionary, reactionary, head banger elements of American politics are finally going at it hammer and tongs and the Jeffersonians are losing badly. (Currently.)
This is also MASSIVELY confusing on the international front because NOBODY ever lets the Jacksonians near international politics. They are strictly invisible.
Now, all of a sudden, the international community is seeing this snarling pit bull of Jacksonianism rising in the US and it has no clue how to react.
Anything absolutely new is terrifying. And Jacksonianism is pretty scary. When we get mad, we don't think in terms of 'negotiated settlements.'
The near future appears to continue to be the Jacksonians and Jeffersonians fighting it out with the Wilsonians and Madisonians increasingly sidelined.
What the long term holds will be interesting to see.
But the world had better get used to the Jacksonians.
We're out of the den and not interested in being put back in 'our place.'
You really should have left the kids alone.

Ringo makes reference to an earlier essay. Here are some excerpts from an academic version, 1999.

The Jacksonian Tradition. Walter Russell Mead.

Abstract: The author examines the history and nature of US foreign policy. Topics include goals of government, post-cold war politics, and protectionism

The School of Andrew Jackson

IT IS a tribute to the general historical amnesia about American politics between the War of 1812 and the Civil War that Andrew Jackson is not more widely counted among the greatest of American presidents. Victor in the Battle of New Orleans--perhaps the most decisive battle in the shaping of the modern world between Trafalgar and Stalingrad--Andrew Jackson laid the foundation of American politics for most of the nineteenth century, and his influence is still felt today. With the ever ready help of the brilliant Martin Van Buren, he took American politics from the era of silk stockings into the smoke-filled room. Every political party since his presidency has drawn on the symbolism, the institutions and the instruments of power that Jackson pioneered.

A principal explanation of why Jacksonian politics are so poorly understood is that Jacksonianism is less an intellectual or political movement than an expression of the social, cultural and religious values of a large portion of the American public. And it is doubly obscure because it happens to be rooted in one of the portions of the public least represented in the media and the professoriat. Jacksonian America is a folk community with a strong sense of common values and common destiny; though periodically led by intellectually brilliant men--like Andrew Jackson himself--it is neither an ideology nor a self-conscious movement with a clear historical direction or political table of organization. Nevertheless, Jacksonian America has produced--and looks set to continue to produce--one political leader and movement after another, and it is likely to continue to enjoy major influence over both foreign and domestic policy in the United States for the foreseeable future.

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Which presidential tradition is this?

Raised on the idea that WW1 was a gruesome, unimaginable folly of pointless mass death that nearly extinguished generations of European soldiers, I never thought I'd see calls for more trench warfare

But they just won't stop
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) February 21, 2025

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Music

The Battle of New Orleans

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, February 15, What has surprised you (and others) most about Trump 2?

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Posted by: K.T. at 11:16 AM

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1 Jackson hated central banks and he was right

Posted by: MAC V SOG at February 22, 2025 11:20 AM (P4Pk9)

2 I like both Jefferson and Jackson, as different as they are.

Using them and their differences as a metaphor for our current political divide is an infamnia. Neither were traitors.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 22, 2025 11:23 AM (Gqoy+)

3 Dang. Read the whole thing.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 22, 2025 11:24 AM (FCbAQ)

4 Jacksonian?

I'll take it, but I'll never give up my garbage people status.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 11:24 AM (dDmld)

5 I coulda been a contender. Oh well.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 22, 2025 11:24 AM (FCbAQ)

6 Americans would have to be better schooled in their history, to be influenced by it.

Maybe think tanks are, but thankfully, think tanks are becoming substantially less influential on politicians.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 11:24 AM (4i8P7)

7 > Anything absolutely new is terrifying. And Jacksonianism is pretty scary. When we get mad, we don't think in terms of 'negotiated settlements.'
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No shit.

Posted by: Andrew Jackson at February 22, 2025 11:25 AM (Q4IgG)

8 I like both Jefferson and Jackson, as different as they are.

Using them and their differences as a metaphor for our current political divide is an infamnia. Neither were traitors.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 22, 2025 11:23 AM (Gqoy+)

Was kind of wondering about that myself.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 22, 2025 11:25 AM (VwHCD)

9 I gotta admit that at one time I was very well read for my age. Years of reading news that turns out to be fake, and pundits who turn out to be charlatans, and here I am as a 29 year old who is no longer "well read".

These portraits of past presidents (don't try saying that with Saltines in your mouth) are pretty interesting, but I can't say I'm very familiar with them, Jackson in particular.
I know what the grade schools taught me, and Johnny Horton.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 22, 2025 11:28 AM (FCbAQ)

10 "Orphaned at age fourteen, Andrew Jackson unsurprisingly would hold a lifelong hostility towards Great Britain."

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I was not aware of his experience as a prisoner of the Brits, and it hasn't been a lifelong hostility, but I too have come to disdain Great Britain. And not just as it is currently ruled.

Of course, I was never raped and beaten by British soldiers, so I guess that explains why it took me longer than it took Jackson to figure out these people are evil pricks.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 11:28 AM (4i8P7)

11 The military insight of Schifty Adam.

Adam Schiff
@SenAdamSchiff
Donald Trump just fired a well-respected General who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
And his Administration announced they’re replacing other officers, too.
The purge of people of stature and independence goes on.

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If the Ruskies attack us a tranny army, we'll have nothing to oppose them with!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)

12 I have a short book on Jackson hete somewhere, read it decades ago and don't remember anything about it

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 11:30 AM (fwDg9)

13 For your listening pleasure
Girl power,
https://tinyurl.com/46yhey3w

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 11:30 AM (t/2Uw)

14 I hated how the Lefties tried to down play or accuse Mel Gibson's portrayal of the Brits to be false in his movie The Patriot.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 22, 2025 11:30 AM (VofaG)

15 > The military insight of Schifty Adam.
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Most people who know even a tiny bit about the military know that what Trump's doing needed... doing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2025 11:31 AM (Q4IgG)

16 The world would be much better off if everyone would just stop with all this nonsense and acknowledge that I should be the absolute ruler of the globe. Why is that so difficult to understand?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2025 11:32 AM (IZ8XM)

17 I hated how the Lefties tried to down play or accuse Mel Gibson's portrayal of the Brits to be false in his movie The Patriot.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 22, 2025 11:30 AM (VofaG)

Well, some of that movie was bullshit. So was Braveheart, but I guess nowadays I can say I understand why Mel hates the Brits.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 11:32 AM (4i8P7)

18 "You really should have left the kids alone."

Yep

Posted by: javems at February 22, 2025 11:33 AM (8I4hW)

19 Non Chriatians swearing an oath on (for me) obscure texts makes me ask: is that oath actually equivalent to the one on the Bible? For example, in the koran it says a mohammedan can lie to an infidel without consequence! So a worthless oath right there. Then again the same ROP, won't abide by 10 Commandments.

Also:“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
-John Adams

Posted by: Ciampino - eMail returned for insufficient voltage! at February 22, 2025 11:33 AM (KjLnc)

20 I hated how the Lefties tried to down play or accuse Mel Gibson's portrayal of the Brits to be false in his movie The Patriot.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 22, 2025 11:30 AM (VofaG)

Never seen the movie....the Revolution was more of a civil war down here....and Tarleton was asshole.

Posted by: BignJames at February 22, 2025 11:33 AM (Yj6Os)

21 What most surprises about Trump 2.0 is the assured ferocity with which he and his lieutenants have debouched from the folds and hills of his exile straight into the swamp, dealing death blows on all sides. It is an awesome thing to see, and I thank God that I have lived long enough to experience it.

Posted by: Paco at February 22, 2025 11:33 AM (mADJX)

22 I love the !812 Overture. I can hear the battle for New Orleans like I was there.

Posted by: Lefty trying to sound spophisticated at February 22, 2025 11:33 AM (VofaG)

23 I'm rather partial to Jimmy Driftwood's version of "The Battle of New Orleans". Driftwood, after all, wrote the song.

LINK (YT): https://tinyurl.com/2nb7m5xw

Posted by: mrp at February 22, 2025 11:35 AM (rj6Yv)

24 16 The world would be much better off if everyone would just stop with all this nonsense and acknowledge that I should be the absolute ruler of the globe. Why is that so difficult to understand?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2025 11:32 AM (IZ8XM)

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Eat iron, Gear Man

Posted by: The Romans at Syracuse at February 22, 2025 11:36 AM (dDmld)

25 Most people who know even a tiny bit about the military know that what Trump's doing needed... doing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2025 11:31 AM (Q4IgG)

Apparently Trump elevated the guy to head the Air Force, and it was Biden who made him Joint Chiefs chair.

Still, like everyone else Trump is firing, he is the President. He's allowed to do it. This might be one case where he's just not the guy for the job Trump wants done. Simple as that.

McClellan was apparently second to none, when it came to organizing and professionalizing the Army of the Potomac. But he couldn't lead men in battle. Eventually, you needed Grant to do that.

You need the right man for the job, when you need him.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 11:36 AM (4i8P7)

26 You really should have left the kids alone.

^This^

Posted by: Emmie at February 22, 2025 11:38 AM (Sf2cq)

27 Johnny Horton was a strange dude. Prospector, hunter well versed in the wilds and had premonitions of his death here and there. Great rockabilly singer.

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Cash at February 22, 2025 11:38 AM (R/m4+)

28 Also:“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
-John Adams
Posted by: Ciampino - eMail returned for insufficient voltage! at February 22, 2025 11:33 AM (KjLnc)

moral and religious. Seems Patel is both from what I gather though to be honest I would prefer the Judeo-Christian ethos.

Posted by: Lefty trying to sound spophisticated at February 22, 2025 11:38 AM (VofaG)

29 McClellan was apparently second to none, when it came to organizing and professionalizing the Army of the Potomac. ----------
"A Berthier without a Napoleon."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:38 AM (6K6Eu)

30
*Using them and their differences as a metaphor for our current political divide is an infamnia.*

Don't take Infamnia if you're allergic to Infamnia.

Posted by: The Legal Department at February 22, 2025 11:39 AM (dg+HA)

31 off sock

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 22, 2025 11:40 AM (VofaG)

32 Are the ghosts of previous presidents returning to interfere with the leftist project again?

Could be, KT. Thanks for another thoughtful, educational thread.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 22, 2025 11:41 AM (NFX2v)

33 The song The Battle of New Orleans just doesn't scan properly if you use The Gulf of America.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at February 22, 2025 11:41 AM (yQzMM)

34 I would not be surprised if Trump makes additional personnel changes even after the shuffling that's already done. He'll move people around until satisfied.

So, IMO people in the positions they're in now may not be in those positions tomorrow, next week, month, whatever. He seems to thrive in chaos.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2025 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

35 Trump truly is a Jacksonian President. I love it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2025 11:43 AM (73vBl)

36 For your listening pleasure
Girl power,
https://tinyurl.com/46yhey3w
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 11:30 AM (t/2Uw)

Pretty cool.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)

37 *Using them and their differences as a metaphor for our current political divide is an infamnia.*
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Don't take Infamnia if you're allergic to Infamnia.
Posted by: The Legal Department at February 22, 2025 11:39 AM (dg+HA)

January 20, 2025... A day which will live in infamnia.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 11:45 AM (4i8P7)

38 28 Also:“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
-John Adams
Posted by: Ciampino - eMail returned for insufficient voltage! at February 22, 2025 11:33 AM (KjLnc)

moral and religious. Seems Patel is both from what I gather though to be honest I would prefer the Judeo-Christian ethos.

Posted by: Lefty trying to sound spophisticated at February 22, 2025 11:38 AM (VofaG)
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I was thinking about that hoe from Somalia who married her brother. Also Jeffries.

Posted by: Ciampino - email returned for insufficient voltage! at February 22, 2025 11:46 AM (KjLnc)

39 Some are screeching Trump can't fire Brown.

My reply: Yes he can.

Posted by: mpfs at February 22, 2025 11:46 AM (x2Ano)

40 Most people who know even a tiny bit about the military know that what Trump's doing needed... doing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2025 11:31 AM (Q4IgG)

Yeah, how many people are aware that the well-respected General who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the Air Force was "too white"?

I remember being told that everyone in my branch was Navy blue.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2025 11:46 AM (ExV1e)

41 13 For your listening pleasure
Girl power,
https://tinyurl.com/46yhey3w
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 205 11:30 AM (t/2Uw)

Virtuosity + Whimsy == Awesomeness!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 22, 2025 11:46 AM (PiwSw)

42 I found out that a general I know has been fired. I have no idea why. He isn't a DEI type.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2025 11:47 AM (IZ8XM)

43 I would not be surprised if Trump makes additional personnel changes even after the shuffling that's already done. He'll move people around until satisfied.

So, IMO people in the positions they're in now may not be in those positions tomorrow, next week, month, whatever. He seems to thrive in chaos.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2025 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

My suggestion is, if you are a political appointee, have another source of income, because your current job should have always been viewed as temporary.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 11:47 AM (4i8P7)

44 The whole idea of oaths makes no sense outside of religious considerations, other than “yeah I know I will be in trouble if you catch me lying.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2025 11:49 AM (73vBl)

45 27 Johnny Horton was a strange dude. Prospector, hunter well versed in the wilds and had premonitions of his death here and there. Great rockabilly singer.

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His brother Tim made a great cup of coffee.

Posted by: Residents of Canadia at February 22, 2025 11:49 AM (dg+HA)

46 I was reading that Ringo thread this morning
Glad KT picked it up

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 22, 2025 11:49 AM (WL2lA)

47 When I was young, I read a story about Old Hickory, that has stuck with me to this day:

Upon his Inauguration, the locals has set out rows of chairs for the attendees.
With velvet cushions. For some crazy ass reason.
It had rained the night before and the ground was muddy.
These Jacksonians came to town, all rough and rowdy, to see their President.
To get a better view, they stood on the chairs.
With their muddy boots on the velvet cushions!
Which absolutely horrified and scandalized the socialites of the day.

Setting permanently, as with Trump, it's not the man they hate so much as it is the people who support him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 22, 2025 11:50 AM (CyWf7)

48 The movie The Patriot is hardly historical

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 11:50 AM (fwDg9)

49 Andrew Jackson was a populist politician in an age of often effete "silk stocking" politicians. He was a competent and well-admired military officer, even if his most famous victory (New Orleans) was technically after official hostilities (peace treaty had already been concluded in Europe).

He was also a hate-filled man, hating the Brits (the revolutionary war having killed all his close family and having been mistreated as a POW), hating all Indians wether peaceful or not, and hating the political trickery the then political parties had used to rob him of a presidential election where he'd won both the largest share of electors and the popular vote.

He founded the Democratic Party in response, later winning the presidency. Again.

His mistreatment of Indians makes him persona non grata to modern Dems, who prefer to memory hole their own backstory whilst holding any opposition guilty for their backstories.

If being a bigot makes you Hitler, every single blessed Dem president prior to Truman deserves to also be memory holed, including the Blessed Saint FDR himself.

Posted by: BobM at February 22, 2025 11:51 AM (BPN3v)

50 Not only is their musical talent off the charts, but what it took to choreograph that is unbelievable.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 11:51 AM (t/2Uw)

51 Gotta love that Trump said Elon was being a bit weak with DOGE. Needs to go harder.

https://tinyurl.com/yyjpbj49+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2025 11:51 AM (ExV1e)

52 I found out that a general I know has been fired. I have no idea why. He isn't a DEI type.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2025 11:47 AM (IZ8XM)

Speed. Sometimes babies get tossed out with the bath water.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 22, 2025 11:51 AM (FCbAQ)

53 The movie The Patriot is hardly historical
Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 11:50 AM (fwDg9)

Next you'll tell me that 300 wasn't accurate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2025 11:52 AM (ExV1e)

54 CQ Brown was a leading proponent of DEI in the military. He was subtle about it and it's probably why Biden put him in the job to begin with.

This is probably the least surprising thing Trump has done in the last few days.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2025 11:52 AM (LkLld)

55 24 16 The world would be much better off if everyone would just stop with all this nonsense and acknowledge that I should be the absolute ruler of the globe. Why is that so difficult to understand?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2025 11:32 AM (IZ8XM)

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Eat iron, Gear Man
Posted by: The Romans at Syracuse at February 22, 2025 11:36 AM (dDmld)

Ixnay on roniay! eshay otgay an eathday ayray!

Posted by: Porcinus the Younger at February 22, 2025 11:53 AM (pIfcn)

56 At the Star Wars addict support group.

https://is.gd/KYldiO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

57 His brother Tim made a great cup of coffee.
Posted by: Residents of Canadia at February 22, 2025 11:49 AM (dg+HA)

Now there's an interesting cat. I was aware that Tim Horton was a hockey player, but knew basically nothing about him. Turns out he's in the NHL Hall of Fame, and my first thought was "for starting a coffee and donut empire?"

Well, no. Tim Horton was a badass of epic proportions, one of the greatest defensemen in NHL history. He was still playing at age 44, when he decided to take a high speed drive from Buffalo to, I think Toronto, whilst on alcohol and speed.

Oops. That didn't end well.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 11:53 AM (4i8P7)

58 >35 Trump truly is a Jacksonian President. I love it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2025 11:43 AM (73vBl)

I was born from a storm and calm does not suit me.

~Pres. Andrew Jackson

Trump is certainly of the same mold.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 22, 2025 11:54 AM (GTqXr)

59 52 I found out that a general I know has been fired. I have no idea why. He isn't a DEI type.
Posted by: Archimedes
Maybe it is just downsizing. So many institutions have gotten top heavy.
I think it was UC that has 4 admin for every student. I imagine the DEI era just caused a lot of unnecessary hiring which then pushed others up,the ladder.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 11:54 AM (t/2Uw)

60 Comments from DataRepublican...

x.com/i/status/1893000158230745200

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2025 11:56 AM (ExV1e)

61 willowed
500 Moody Blues at The Royal Albert Hall on DVD is outstanding.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 22, 2025 11:23 AM (Y1sOo)
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Which year?

Posted by: Ciampino - email returned for insufficient voltage! at February 22, 2025 11:56 AM (KjLnc)

62 Th chairman of the Joint Chiefs serves at the pleasure of the Pesident. That is the entire answer.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 11:56 AM (t/2Uw)

63 I hated how the Lefties tried to down play or accuse Mel Gibson's portrayal of the Brits to be false in his movie The Patriot.
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By the same people who cheered the IRA as justified due to British brutality.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 22, 2025 11:56 AM (CyWf7)

64 Speed. Sometimes babies get tossed out with the bath water.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 22, 2025 11:51 AM (FCbAQ)

I'm of the belief the rot is too deep, and it will be nearly impossible to sort out the good generals from the bad ones.

It's not unlike the Senate. Tell me your guy is good, but the fact is, if all 100 were vaporized by Martians, the country would be better off.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 11:57 AM (4i8P7)

65 Gah. I hate when I make typos.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 11:58 AM (t/2Uw)

66 I was born from a storm and calm does not suit me.

~Pres. Andrew Jackson

Trump is certainly of the same mold.
Posted by: Heavy Meta
______

"I was borne in a crossfire hurricane"
-Jumpin Jack Flash

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 22, 2025 11:59 AM (Dv3i1)

67 All that money over all those years laundered and kicked back. All that demegogery. Who knew?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 22, 2025 11:59 AM (QSrLX)

68 I was born from a storm and calm does not suit me.

~Pres. Andrew Jackson

Trump is certainly of the same mold.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 22, 2025 11:54 AM (GTqXr)

The concept of homeostasis is used in mental health. It basically means what Jackson's quote says.

Generally, it's not a good thing. If you were raised in chaos, and you spend your whole adult life seeking chaos, it tends to be bad for your relationships. All of them.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 12:00 PM (4i8P7)

69 60
Link doesn't work

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 12:00 PM (t/2Uw)

70 69 It does. Open a new tab and paste it in.

Also here
https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/
status/1893000158230745200

Posted by: Ciampino - email returned for insufficient voltage! at February 22, 2025 12:02 PM (KjLnc)

71 This is insanity

Shadow of Ezra
@ShadowofEzra
The pilot behind the dramatic Delta crash that flipped a plane upside down at Toronto Pearson Airport has been identified as 26-year-old First Officer Kendal Swanson.

A Minnesota beauty pageant winner who completed her training just last April with under 1,500 flight hours.

The more experienced captain, James Henneman, was handling communications as Swanson piloted during the crash.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 12:03 PM (t/2Uw)

72 >>I was born from a storm and calm does not suit me.

>>~Pres. Andrew Jackson

>>Trump is certainly of the same mold.

It was at that point that Trump looked at Platon and said, "I am the storm."

https://tinyurl.com/5t4c8fum

Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2025 12:03 PM (LkLld)

73 60
Link doesn't work
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 12:00 PM (t/2Uw)

Weird, works for me.

https://tinyurl.com/yc562x6a+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2025 12:04 PM (ExV1e)

74 Was watching some Instagram reels this AM.

You all, the left is losing their fucking minds.

They really think all conservatives are stupid, poor and on welfare.
And they really, really, believe, with more sincerity than a 4-year old in Santa, that Trump is being controlled by Putin. I mean, you have to hear them.
They are not going to moderate any time soon, no, they are going to get even more radical.

Oh, and another disturbing AF trend that's popping up from the left?
AI English translation of clips of Hitler's speeches.
Y'all be ready: The antisemitism is going to blow up big time.
They're going to start blaming the Jews for Trump.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 22, 2025 12:05 PM (CyWf7)

75 Ciampino, just takes me to Chief Nerd. I'm on X and follow her so will see if I can pick it up that way.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 12:05 PM (t/2Uw)

76 he movie The Patriot is hardly historical
Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 11:50 AM (fwDg9)

It has a historical timeline and historical characters and characters based on historic people. I would venture to say that there were real historic events that would make some of the fictional events in the movie pale by comparison. Almost all based on true event movies contain fiction or composite characters.

Hope people didn't think an American WW2 POW jumped a fence on a motorcycle while trying to escape his Nazi pursuers.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 22, 2025 12:05 PM (VofaG)

77 The Ringo commentary I don’t quite grasp…. I don’t see Thomas Jefferson’s view of politics diametrically opposed to that of Andrew Jackson. Both would’ve been aghast at the Wilsonian administrative state…. I think it’s a slander of Jefferson to align him with Antifa… he was a patriot. Antifa hates America

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 22, 2025 12:06 PM (ANuwa)

78 I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus
Rollin' down Highway 41.

Posted by: A ramblin' man at February 22, 2025 12:06 PM (dg+HA)

79 A Minnesota beauty pageant winner....

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 12:03 PM (t/2Uw)

*Finds her photo*

Yeesh, one more thing Minnesota should be ashamed of.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 12:08 PM (pwpAH)

80 Too many songs about the Mrs. Sippi. What about Mr. Pippi?

Posted by: Stymie at February 22, 2025 12:08 PM (G5+As)

81 Trump had to learn to become Jacksonian. I'm glad he did. His first term was him being captured by the Left and sliced across the face when he did not lick their boots.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 22, 2025 12:08 PM (VofaG)

82 Finally got there. Took two clicks though. Usually when I copy a link, it goes directly to the particular post.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 12:09 PM (t/2Uw)

83 71 This is insanity

Shadow of Ezra
@ShadowofEzra
The pilot behind the dramatic Delta crash that flipped a plane upside down at Toronto Pearson Airport has been identified as 26-year-old First Officer Kendal Swanson.

A Minnesota beauty pageant winner who completed her training just last April with under 1,500 flight hours.

The more experienced captain, James Henneman, was handling communications as Swanson piloted during the crash.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 12:03 PM (t/2Uw)
----
Nope. thats SOP. How do you get flying hours? By flying under supervision.
Now is that 1500 since qualifying as a First Officer or what? Also would be interesting how many hours in that type of aircraft. I bet the wind is the culprit. Maybe a sudden tailwind followed by a crosswind -- wind sheer?

Posted by: Ciampino - let's wait for the NTSB report at February 22, 2025 12:09 PM (KjLnc)

84 I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus
Rollin' down Highway 41.
Posted by: A ramblin' man at February 22, 2025 12:06 PM (dg+HA)

But were you conceived on the pullmanized seats of a Rambler?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 22, 2025 12:10 PM (8zz6B)

85 Weird, works for me.

https://tinyurl.com/yc562x6a+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2025 12:04 PM (ExV1e)

If one uses a VPN, lots of sites' links don't work from here.

Also, anyone posting any link should be using tinyurl. Always, every time.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 12:10 PM (pwpAH)

86 So late. Setting the alarm for next Saturday.

Good to see you K.T. hope you are mending well.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 12:11 PM (kx9a7)

87 84 Mouse fur seats in a Hudson?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2025 12:13 PM (gm9Sb)

88 Mrs. DIG's least favorite actor (Bogart) is on TCM in The Maltese Falcon which just started.

Ten more minutes of filler until HOCKEY, Red Wings V Minnesota Wild rice on DEIsney's ABC.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 12:13 PM (ufFY8)

89 74 Was watching some Instagram reels this AM.

You all, the left is losing their fucking minds.

And they really, really, believe, with more sincerity than a 4-year old in Santa, that Trump is being controlled by Putin. I mean, you have to hear them.
They are not going to moderate any time soon, no, they are going to get even more radical.

Oh, and another disturbing AF trend that's popping up from the left?
AI English translation of clips of Hitler's speeches.
Y'all be ready: The antisemitism is going to blow up big time.
They're going to start blaming the Jews for Trump.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 22, 2025 12:05 PM (CyWf7)

They are also cultivating as much fear as they can. "I heard people are being racially profiled and threatened with deportation even though they are citizens, so I tell all my clients to make sure they carry their proof of citizenship at all times!" "Parents of schoolchildren are crying to me that their children are going to be denied essential services because Trump is defunding Medicaid and closing the Dept of Ed!" "Trump and RFKJ are making mental health medications illegal!"

Posted by: Emmie at February 22, 2025 12:13 PM (Sf2cq)

90 Nope. thats SOP. How do you get flying hours? By flying under supervision.
Now is that 1500 since qualifying as a First Officer or what? Also would be interesting how many hours in that type of aircraft. I bet the wind is the culprit. Maybe a sudden tailwind followed by a crosswind -- wind sheer?
Posted by: Ciampino - let's wait for the NTSB report at February 22, 2025 12:09 PM (KjLnc)

Well, fortunately, no fatalities. So we can get an account from all the persons of interest. And the data recorders.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 22, 2025 12:13 PM (8zz6B)

91 Nope. thats SOP. How do you get flying hours? By flying under supervision.
Now is that 1500 since qualifying as a First Officer or what? Also would be interesting how many hours in that type of aircraft. I bet the wind is the culprit. Maybe a sudden tailwind followed by a crosswind -- wind sheer?
Posted by: Ciampino - let's wait for the NTSB report at February 22, 2025 12:09 PM (KjLnc)

I can accept that but if there was any weather condition that required an experienced pilot , she shouldn't have been at the wheel.

Wind shear is a tricky situation and ou don't always know when the conditions might be there though technology has advanced to detect.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 22, 2025 12:13 PM (VofaG)

92 Sarah hoyt has a great response to the Ringo thread here:

x.com/SarahAHoyt/status/
1893342949402124718

Gist is she only objects to woke being categorized as Jeffersonian, which she feels us old school libertarian
Woke she says us more Rosseau-ian

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 22, 2025 12:13 PM (WL2lA)

93 That man in the pic would certainly kick your ass.

Ringo gets it right and really sets the hook hard with the exiting line:

"You really should have left the kids alone."

Posted by: pawn at February 22, 2025 12:14 PM (QB+5g)

94 "Also, anyone posting any link should be using tinyurl. Always, every time."

That would deprive posters of the opportunity of posting links with line breaks and hidden spaces in them. Don't you want people to have to work to get that info?

How rude...

Posted by: New nick time! Certified dangerous radical that puts ketchup on hotdogs plus, imma wannabe ratfink! at February 22, 2025 12:14 PM (89Sog)

95
Trump hung a large portrait of Jackson in the oval office for both terms now.

Trail of Tears stuff coming up soon and hard from the left.

Posted by: Auspex at February 22, 2025 12:15 PM (j4U/Z)

96 First, happy Washington's Birthday, everyone! A far more deserving holiday than "Presidents Day."

Second, the Patriot has plenty of historical inaccuracies, to be sure, especially when it comes to the battles. But it's a good movie nonetheless. Good luck getting Hollywood to make a flick openly celebrating America and its fight for liberty more than once in a generation. Also, while some aspects of British behavior in the South may have been overdone, His Majesty's army certainly did not behave like lambs as a rule. Read David Hackett Fischer's "Washington's Crossing" for details of their conduct in New Jersey in 1776-77; even some of the Quakers were ready to take up arms after a few weeks of occupation.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 22, 2025 12:15 PM (lHPJf)

97 89 Those panic-stricken lefties haven't observed any of those things actually happening, but we must all be rilly, rilly concerned about it.

Posted by: Emmie at February 22, 2025 12:15 PM (Sf2cq)

98 Rush Limbaugh warned us about the danger of women farding in cars. Perhaps First Officer Swanson was farding while landing the plane.

Posted by: More Like Plummeting Than Landing at February 22, 2025 12:15 PM (G5+As)

99 Jackson, gotta luv a Man who fought the Banksters, and won... at least for awhile.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 12:15 PM (QAkQ3)

100 Mrs. DIG's least favorite actor (Bogart) is on TCM in The Maltese Falcon which just started.

Ten more minutes of filler until HOCKEY, Red Wings V Minnesota Wild rice on DEIsney's ABC.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 12:13 PM (ufFY

Why least favorite? Im no fanboy but there has to be a reason he's in five of my all time top ten movies.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 22, 2025 12:16 PM (VofaG)

101 That would deprive posters of the opportunity of posting links with line breaks and hidden spaces in them. Don't you want people to have to work to get that info?

How rude...
Posted by: New nick time! Certified dangerous radical that puts ketchup on hotdogs plus, imma wannabe ratfink! at February 22, 2025 12:14 PM (89Sog)

Heh, yes. I hear work sets you free.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 12:17 PM (pwpAH)

102 For the first pictures President Trump said of the room, 'they decorated it safely'. Today, Jackson's portrait is, again, in the oval office.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 12:17 PM (kx9a7)

103 95 The trail of tears. You see those signs on US 64 from Fort Smith to Roland, OK. All the way to the Cherokee Casino and Resort. Damn, there should be more of those signs eastbound.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2025 12:17 PM (gm9Sb)

104 I agree that Trump is Jacksonian. Jackson is still our number 1 President, although Trump is making a run for his record. Jackson was the only President who paid off the national debt.

Calling the “woke” Jeffersonian is an insult to Jefferson, and highly inaccurate. Jefferson was a patriot, and while he was pretty radically pro-liberty, he’s more the intellectual father of modern libertarianism than anything. He wasn’t a commie.

The modern left isn’t that hard to understand: the communists started subverting American culture and institutions in the early 20th century. Those early communists sucked, but they were mostly rational and intelligent.

However, the communists we have nowadays are fourth or fifth generation. They’ve been miseducated. So their worldview is “white = bad, male = bad, straight = bad, normal = bad”. They’re engaged in a race to the bottom of degeneracy because their highest value is perversion of any order.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 22, 2025 12:18 PM (l3YAf)

105 but we must all be rilly, rilly concerned about it.
Posted by: Emmie at February 22, 2025 12:15 PM (Sf2cq)

The shitlibtards in my town's reddit have been awfully quiet.

I hope they are sobbing uncontrollably in their closets.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 12:18 PM (ufFY8)

106 The late early blogger Steven den Beats wrote a lot about Jacksonian vs Jeffersonian politics after 9/11. At the time, it looked as though George W. Bush would be Jacksonian.
https://erbosoft.com/ussclueless/bestof.htm

Posted by: Juan Paxety at February 22, 2025 12:19 PM (wNXQ9)

107 Why least favorite? Im no fanboy but there has to be a reason he's in five of my all time top ten movies.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 22, 2025 12:16 PM (VofaG)

I think Bogart is way underrated as an actor. Much more talented than many of the hunky leading men of his day.

Still, my mother has a strong dislike for him. She being a female of a certain age, and all, I believe I know why.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 12:19 PM (pwpAH)

108 Why least favorite? Im no fanboy but there has to be a reason he's in five of my all time top ten movies.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 22, 2025 12:16 PM (VofaG)

I have no clue.
Women!

I am indifferent to him. Maybe because he is parodied in manner frequently.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 12:20 PM (ufFY8)

109 "Heh, yes. I hear work sets you free."

You have to admire the steadfast refusal to use a url shortenerr though. It shows dedication to the cause!

Posted by: New nick time! Certified dangerous radical that puts ketchup on hotdogs plus, imma wannabe ratfink! at February 22, 2025 12:21 PM (89Sog)

110 Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 22, 2025 12:18 PM (l3YAf)

I agree with you about Jackson and Jefferson. The parallels between Trump and Old Hickory have been obvious for a long time now, and as for Jefferson: sorry, I just don't see any connection between him and the woke mob.

I suppose you could argue that said woke mob is among the poisoned fruit of the Enlightenment, which Jefferson of course was very much a part of; but that's a tenuous link at best.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 22, 2025 12:21 PM (lHPJf)

111 Even Ruy Teixeira of "The Coming Democrat Majority" is screaming at the Dems to stop--"what would the working class do?" he's begging them to introspect.

His entire book, that the Obamaites took as set in stone, the inevitable, unstoppable, permanent rise of the Left, was premised on the Democrats retaining their Jacksonian base of working class.

But the Obamaites hate, hate, hate the actual working class. They love to talk about the silver screen working class, the fictional poor, the poor from history.

But today's poor? Today's working class? Just throw money at them so you don't have to look at them, talk to them or hear from them.
But they absolutely do not want anything to do with them. Not in their communities, not in their schools, not in their government.

And Trump saw all this--the Dems throwing them away, the R's still ignoring them--and grabbed a coalition that has shocked the world.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 22, 2025 12:22 PM (CyWf7)

112
If you look back to the elections of 1824 and 1828, there are strong resemblances to our elections of 2020 and 2024.

Hotly contested, and even stolen elections in 1824 and 2020. The person from whom the election was stolen came back in 1828 and 2024 to crush the "recognized winner" of the prior election. And those two were Jackson and Trump.

The kiddie diddlers are in for an extinction level event if they do not back off, and back off soon.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 22, 2025 12:22 PM (FEwQs)

113 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 15-1
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: February 22, 2025 (PT)
Launch Time: 3:43 p.m. PT, 1143 UTC - February 23, 00:43 CET
Launch Window: Open until 6:24 p.m. PT

https://www.youtube.com/live/qAuCnc1WrPI

Posted by: Ciampino - another Falcon at February 22, 2025 12:24 PM (KjLnc)

114
I'll take it, but I'll never give up my garbage people status.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Jacksonians were the garbage people of their day.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 22, 2025 12:24 PM (FEwQs)

115 I think a real Maltese Falcon in gold would weigh 5p pounds or more

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 12:24 PM (fwDg9)

116 I am indifferent to him. Maybe because he is parodied in manner frequently.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 12:20 PM (ufFY

It's hard to pick a favorite Bogart film, but The Big Sleep is right up there.

The funny thing about it, every hot chick in the movie comes on to him! Every. Single. One.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 12:24 PM (ss0cA)

117 Even with experience the weather can still get you.

Delta L-1011 that crashed at Dallas, the crew expected the micro-burst and were doing everything right. And yet the weather won.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 22, 2025 12:25 PM (J7+/X)

118 You have to admire the steadfast refusal to use a url shortenerr though. It shows dedication to the cause!
Posted by: New nick time! Certified dangerous radical that puts ketchup on hotdogs plus, imma wannabe ratfink! at February 22, 2025 12:21 PM (89Sog)

That's true. Me being a lazy sot though, whenever I see a long url, I just ignore it. I figure my life will go on without knowing what the person posted.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 12:26 PM (ss0cA)

119 I think a real Maltese Falcon in gold would weigh 5p pounds or more
Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 12:24 PM (fwDg9)

Falcon want a cracker?

RRAAAWWWKK!

Posted by: Random Pirate Parrot at February 22, 2025 12:27 PM (ufFY8)

120 115 Some guy on local Armslist has a Colt Model 1908 .25 for sale. Doesn't say if it comes with an ever so slightly perfumed handkerchief.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2025 12:27 PM (gm9Sb)

121 Thx K.T. hope you're feeling better.
Got into a trivia argument about who was the last president who had served in the revolution. Other guy argued Monroe. I said no Jackson because of his service in SC militia and capture. Much arguing ensued.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 12:28 PM (cMcMn)

122 23 I'm rather partial to Jimmy Driftwood's version of "The Battle of New Orleans". Driftwood, after all, wrote the song.

LINK (YT): https://tinyurl.com/2nb7m5xw
Posted by: mrp
---

The authors always bring something extra.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 12:28 PM (kx9a7)

123 Sometimes I cannot get to tinyurl from my phone
Sorry about the multiline links

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 22, 2025 12:29 PM (7gFa4)

124 Why least favorite? Im no fanboy but there has to be a reason he's in five of my all time top ten movies.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Here's a top ten movie no one ever mentions. Million Dollar Legs (1932) not the Betty Grable one. W.C. Fields at his best, Jack Oakie, and Lyda Roberti as Mata Macree, "the woman no man can resist".
Backdrop was the 1932 LA Olympics and it's the most Dada-esque movie anywhere. Out-crazies the Marx Brothers Duck Soup, which came out a year later.

Posted by: Lunatic Musical Satire at February 22, 2025 12:29 PM (G5+As)

125 Horton died in a car crash in 1960 just as he was about to make the big time. “North to Alaska” was a hit tune from the movie of the same name.

He doesn’t have a huge catalog but there are some good deep rockabilly cuts that never get any airplay, only his story-telling novelty tunes. He had good musicians backing him up, especially Grady Martin, a studio musician guitarist who is one of the more famous people you’ve never heard of. He played on everything. “Goodbye Lonesome” has a nice classic country solo. Good jukebox dive bar beer drinkin’ hillbilly music.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 22, 2025 12:29 PM (TgO2L)

126 Even with experience the weather can still get you.

Delta L-1011 that crashed at Dallas, the crew expected the micro-burst and were doing everything right. And yet the weather won.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 22, 2025 12:25 PM (J7+/X)

That may be true, but since this spate of crashes, the left has been screaming about Trump cutting employees as a cause.

A more plausible cause, one worth examining, is whether the increase in DEI pilots has made air travel less safe.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2025 12:29 PM (ss0cA)

127 Driftwood wrote “Tennessee Stud” another tune covered by lots of people. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band covered this, with an assist from Doc Watson on their “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” LP

Posted by: Common Tater at February 22, 2025 12:31 PM (TgO2L)

128 Even with experience the weather can still get you.

Delta L-1011 that crashed at Dallas, the crew expected the micro-burst and were doing everything right. And yet the weather won.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 22, 2025 12:25 PM (J7+/X)

Of course but that doesn't mean you don't put the most experienced pilot in the seat.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 22, 2025 12:32 PM (VofaG)

129 Two dork announcers in ugly gray suits.
Nice job, ABC.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 12:33 PM (ufFY8)

130 >>Now is that 1500 since qualifying as a First Officer or what?

No. That 1500 hours is the minimum required to get hired as a FO. That was mandated by the FAA after the Colgan Air crash.

After getting her FAA private ticket, she built time to go for her instructor pilot qual.

Then, she built time instructing in light aircraft to get to the 1500 hours.

She completed training at Endeavor and probably got her type rating out of it.

Then she started flying the line.

At some point, she received her Airline Transport Pilot certification, but it's murky when that occurred.

My guess is that she got that on a flight with a check airman after completing training in the simulator.

How much time she has in type is unknown.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 22, 2025 12:35 PM (Y1sOo)

131 Emily Kaplan >> Leah Hextall
Although, Leah is dressed slightly more sluttily.

So, she's got that going for her.
Which is nice.

Drop the puck!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 22, 2025 12:35 PM (ufFY8)

132 Which presidential tradition is this?

This one is easy, George Washington of course. What's wrong with you people anyway?

Posted by: Kamala Harris at February 22, 2025 12:38 PM (/U5Yz)

133 Here's a direct link to Mead's article, The Jacksonian Tradition.

https://is.gd/fASIRI

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 22, 2025 12:38 PM (hoCmQ)

134 @130 I read somewhere that the pilot has just gotten bher certification ba month ago. Did anyone else see that?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 12:39 PM (cMcMn)

135 Ah, should have checked the comments to see the link issue was addressed.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 22, 2025 12:39 PM (hoCmQ)

136 "Sometimes I cannot get to tinyurl from my phone"

tinyurl can be the shitz from a pc also if it doesn't like your ip address.

I've never tried is.gd. Maybe somebody can chime in on ease of use?

Posted by: New nick time! Certified dangerous radical that puts ketchup on hotdogs plus, imma wannabe ratfink! at February 22, 2025 12:40 PM (89Sog)

137 >>134 @130 I read somewhere that the pilot has just gotten bher certification ba month ago. Did anyone else see that?

Which certification? Type rating or ATP?

Posted by: one hour sober at February 22, 2025 12:41 PM (Y1sOo)

138 Tom Jones singing the Tennessee Waltz with The Chieftains on the album The Long Black Veil is fantastic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 12:41 PM (cMcMn)

139 rather partial to Jimmy Driftwood's version of "The Battle of New Orleans". Driftwood, after all, wrote the song.

LINK (YT): https://tinyurl.com/2nb7m5xw
Posted by: mrp
=====
It went nowhere with Jimmy, took off like a rocket with Johnny.
Kind of like Hot Rod Lincoln with Commander Cody. Off top of my head no idea who wrote it, late fifties I think.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 22, 2025 12:42 PM (n4GiU)

140 @137 I believe it said ATP. Trying to find the article

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 12:42 PM (cMcMn)

141 practice....

https://is.gd/WHavI2

should lead right back to here.

Posted by: New nick time! Certified dangerous radical that puts ketchup on hotdogs plus, imma wannabe ratfink! at February 22, 2025 12:42 PM (89Sog)

142 is.gd appears to be easier than tinyurl.

YMMV

Posted by: New nick time! Certified dangerous radical that puts ketchup on hotdogs plus, imma wannabe ratfink! at February 22, 2025 12:43 PM (89Sog)

143 Tom Jones singing the Tennessee Waltz with The Chieftains on the album The Long Black Veil is fantastic
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February

I have no doubt. I like the version by Bonnie Raitt and Norah Jones.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 22, 2025 12:44 PM (SXxzC)

144 I think a real Maltese Falcon in gold would weigh 5p pounds or more
Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 12:24 PM (fwDg9)

No, a little closer to 45 pounds. And the damned jewels keep falling off.

So I hear.

Posted by: Paco at February 22, 2025 12:44 PM (mADJX)

145 131 Emily Kaplan >> Leah Hextall
Although, Leah is dressed slightly more sluttily.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 22, 2025 12:35 PM (ufFY

----
Would that Leah Hextall be related to the old time Flyers goalie Ron Hextall?

Posted by: Ciampino - He scored a goal at February 22, 2025 12:44 PM (KjLnc)

146 I.have tinyurl.com up on a open tab on my phone almost always. Works fine

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 12:45 PM (fwDg9)

147 For your listening pleasure
Girl power,
https://tinyurl.com/46yhey3w
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 11:30 AM (t/2Uw)

Absolutely fantastic!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 22, 2025 12:45 PM (dgRL6)

148 Th chairman of the Joint Chiefs serves at the pleasure of the Pesident. That is the entire answer.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 22, 2025 11:56 AM (t/2Uw)

Yup...good riddance.

Posted by: Zombie Harry S. Truman at February 22, 2025 12:47 PM (R/m4+)

149 136
I really liked is.gd but it stopped working for a long while so I went back to tiny.url. It works ok.

Posted by: Ciampino - is that shortcut still there in a year? at February 22, 2025 12:48 PM (KjLnc)

150 One of the key traits of Jacksonianism versus other strains of American politics is that it emphasizes pragmatism over ideology. Opponents call this anti-intellectual, and it can be at times, but I’d say it’s more of the notion that intellectual pursuits should have concrete benefits; not just the building of elaborate castles of gossamer in which to retreat from the real world.

So opponents yell “muh sacred norms” or “rules-based order”. The Jacksonian reply is, I think, “If your norms and rules led to our current state, they are wrong.”

I’m a fan of the Constitution and rule of law, but we are at a point where the system is saying you have to let government employees brainwash your little boy into castrating himself. And that’s obviously wrong. There’s no need to try to justify your opposition to that within the “norms” of the system, because the system is clearly off the rails.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 22, 2025 12:48 PM (l3YAf)

151 Kind of like Hot Rod Lincoln with Commander Cody. Off top of my head no idea who wrote it, late fifties I think.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 22, 2025 12:42 PM (n4GiU)

Hot Rod Lincoln was written by Charlie Ryan, a local rockabilly legend from Wasington/Idaho country. It got a lot of airplay back in the fifties, and Charlie really did build and own a Model A hotrod powered by a V12 Lincoln engine. The car still exists, but Charlie has gone to his reward.

The Commander Cody version was a mostly respectful cover, some 20 years after the original.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 22, 2025 12:49 PM (8zz6B)

152 Use to be that 80% of a type rating could be accomplished in the simulator with the remaining 20% required to be conducted in the actual aircraft.

That's how it was for many of my six type ratings.

I believe now, but not sure, that with the advancement in simulator technology, 100% of a type-rating for most transport category aircraft can now be conducted in the simulator.

If that's true, she came out of initial training with Endeavor with a type rating in the CRJ-900.

I have no idea if an ATP can now be accomplished in a simulator.

100% of mine was conducted in the aircraft with an FAA guy observing.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 22, 2025 12:50 PM (Y1sOo)

153 It went nowhere with Jimmy, took off like a rocket with Johnny.
Kind of like Hot Rod Lincoln with Commander Cody. Off top of my head no idea who wrote it, late fifties I think.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 22, 2025 12:42 PM (n4GiU)

4 minute pop songs were too long for radio and the original lyrics were on the bawdy side of the culture in the 1950s. Horton shortened and cleaned it up for popular consumption.

Posted by: mrp at February 22, 2025 12:50 PM (rj6Yv)

154 One ounce gold coin is smaller than a silver dollar. How many silver dollars would it take to make the falcon? First guess the Maltese Falcon would weigh in close to 40 lbs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 12:51 PM (kx9a7)

155 Incandescently stupid jackass Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) is writing an article he threatens to publish at The Atlantic, wherein he claims President Trump firing generals and placing Kash Patel at the FBI is "Praetorianism".

We here at the Blog know, because we are not hyperventilating imbeciles, that "Praetorianism" is when a country's military is so powerful that it chooses that country's leaders, which is opposite of what Nichols is bleating out.

Simply exercising his Article II prerogatives, as every single fucking DemonRat president always does, means TRUMP IS A DICTATOR YOU GUYS!!

What an idiot.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 22, 2025 12:52 PM (l7O09)

156 >>So opponents yell “muh sacred norms” or “rules-based order”. The Jacksonian reply is, I think, “If your norms and rules led to our current state, they are wrong.”

“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”

- Cormac McCarthy

Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2025 12:52 PM (LkLld)

157 103 95 The trail of tears. You see those signs on US 64 from Fort Smith to Roland, OK. All the way to the Cherokee Casino and Resort. Damn, there should be more of those signs eastbound.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin,
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More slaves of the Indians died than Indians.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 12:53 PM (kx9a7)

158 In that duel where he killed Dickinson, Jackson wore a big overcoat and turned his body to present a smaller profile. He knew Dickinson was an expert shot. Dickinson hit him anyway, but Jackson apparently didn't flinch. Jackson, having held his shot, made Dickinson retake the line and then shot him dead.

At least that's what I read in American Heritage when I was a kid.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 22, 2025 12:54 PM (Dm8we)

159 Speaking of Maltese, whatever happened to malted milk milkshakes? Used to be any decent shake shop had chocolate malteds. Now they are really hard to find.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 22, 2025 12:56 PM (8zz6B)

160 In that duel where he killed Dickinson, Jackson wore a big overcoat and turned his body to present a smaller profile. He knew Dickinson was an expert shot. Dickinson hit him anyway, but Jackson apparently didn't flinch. Jackson, having held his shot, made Dickinson retake the line and then shot him dead.

Long jacket short pants?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 22, 2025 12:56 PM (SXxzC)

161 There’s no need to try to justify your opposition to that within the “norms” of the system, because the system is clearly off the rails.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 22, 2025 12:48 PM (l3YAf)

The system is rigged.

Posted by: mrp at February 22, 2025 12:56 PM (rj6Yv)

162 Just catching up with reading everything on site since Friday morning.

One comment on Brock's EV article. It mentioned a failed battery company named Freyr Batteries. Besides "frier" being an English word which should be avoided when naming a battery company, "frier" in Yiddish means "sucker." Surprised neither JJ nor CBD picked up on that.

This reminds me of a visit to the middle of nowhere somewhere in Africa many years ago, when I came across an abandoned business building, with the name of the company being "Kaput Industries."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 22, 2025 12:56 PM (vOvpU)

163 Would that Leah Hextall be related to the old time Flyers goalie Ron Hextall?
Posted by: Ciampino - He scored a goal at February 22, 2025 12:44 PM (KjLnc)

Cousin.
Don't know if they are in the "Kissin" category.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 22, 2025 12:57 PM (ufFY8)

164 Incandescently stupid jackass Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) is writing an article he threatens to publish at The Atlantic, wherein he claims President Trump firing generals and placing Kash Patel at the FBI is "Praetorianism".

I thought he was incandescently expert.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 22, 2025 12:58 PM (SXxzC)

165 The talk re Horton brought to mind 'Sink the Bismarck'. In both cases, it's interesting that a song about a historic event would become top 40 play. I mean, there had to be some psychological involvement beyond just the tune for the listeners.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 12:58 PM (XeU6L)

166 60 Comments from DataRepublican...

x.com/i/status/1893000158230745200
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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She gets on point and makes it well. I had assumed a numbers nerd to not be so expressive.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 12:58 PM (kx9a7)

167 Fantastic post !

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 22, 2025 01:01 PM (H83Ub)

168 When Honest Abe heard the news about your fall
The folks thought he'd call a great victory ball
But he asked the band to play the song "Dixie"
For you Johnny Reb and all that you believed
'Cause you fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb
Yeah, you fought all the way, Johnny Reb...

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Horton at February 22, 2025 01:01 PM (R/m4+)

169 before the Beatles there was:
Johnny Horton "The Battle Of New Orleans" on The Ed Sullivan Show
https://tinyurl.com/yktvb24v

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 22, 2025 01:01 PM (w4nzS)

170 100% of mine was conducted in the aircraft with an FAA guy observing.

Posted by: one hour sober

Good nic for a pilot.

Posted by: Kratwurst at February 22, 2025 01:02 PM (fcDpY)

171 >>She gets on point and makes it well. I had assumed a numbers nerd to not be so expressive.

I listened to that yesterday and I thought her summation of the situation was brilliant. They have their own government within the government.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2025 01:02 PM (LkLld)

172 Incandescently stupid jackass Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) is writing an article he threatens to publish at The Atlantic, wherein he claims President Trump firing generals and placing Kash Patel at the FBI is "Praetorianism".

I thought he was incandescently expert.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 22, 2025 12:58 PM (SXxzC)

If Jefferson Davis had fired or relieved generals as quickly as Lincoln did, the war might have lasted longer.

Posted by: mrp at February 22, 2025 01:02 PM (rj6Yv)

173 In that duel where he killed Dickinson, Jackson wore a big overcoat and turned his body to present a smaller profile. He knew Dickinson was an expert shot. Dickinson hit him anyway, but Jackson apparently didn't flinch. Jackson, having held his shot, made Dickinson retake the line and then shot him dead.
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Yes. Jackson considered that he was a dead man after challenging Dickinson, but went ahead anyway. After receiving Dickinson's shot (which broke a rib) he pulled the trigger and the hammer fell to half-cock only. Jackson coldly recocked the piece and shot Dickinson dead.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 01:02 PM (6K6Eu)

174 Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers introduces budget recommendation that replaces "mother" with "inseminated person" 🤡

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He'd better hurry because Inseminated Person's Day is coming up in a couple of months.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 01:03 PM (L/fGl)

175 >>>Well, fortunately, no fatalities. So we can get an account from all the persons of interest. And the data recorders.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yeah, we don't know until we see the facts. But many experienced pilots have said she came in too fast.

If it was the wind that caused the right side to hit first and fail may have been a blessing. If it came in level both wheels may have failed, no wings broken off and it would have become/became a fireball.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 01:03 PM (kx9a7)

176 I missed out on appreciating history when I was in school. Don't know why I was such a bump on a log. I always liked a good story.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at February 22, 2025 01:03 PM (Sf2cq)

177 If Jefferson Davis had fired or relieved generals as quickly as Lincoln did, the war might have lasted longer.
Posted by: mrp at February 22, 2025 01:02 PM (rj6Yv)
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He tried it with Joe Johnston before Atlanta. Didn't work out.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 01:04 PM (6K6Eu)

178 As the descendent of Seminole Maroons, I can tell you Jackson fought the first two Seminole Wars because he hated American Indians and hated Blacks. So, you'll excuse me not being enthused about AJ....

Posted by: SouthCentralPA at February 22, 2025 01:04 PM (muRIc)

179 152
Posted by: one hour sober at February 22, 2025 12:50 PM (Y1sOo)
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Do you have an answer for me at #61 ? Thanks.

Posted by: Ciampino - is that shortcut still there in a year or 2 at February 22, 2025 01:05 PM (KjLnc)

180 >>>One comment on Brock's EV article. It mentioned a failed battery company named Freyr Batteries. Besides "frier" being an English word which should be avoided when naming a battery company, "frier" in Yiddish means "sucker." Surprised neither JJ nor CBD picked up on that.

This reminds me of a visit to the middle of nowhere somewhere in Africa many years ago, when I came across an abandoned business building, with the name of the company being "Kaput Industries."
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarke
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What does it mean in Norwegian?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 01:06 PM (kx9a7)

181 I have lead ingots I made from my now gone cats water bowl, they weigh 20 pounds and are no where the size of the Maltese Falcon

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 01:06 PM (fwDg9)

182 When I find myself in times of trouble
Inseminated Person Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom
Let it be, let it be

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 01:07 PM (L/fGl)

183 Glad to see (and fully expected once I read it) others before me disagree with the association of pantyfa with Jefferson.

They should have been associated with that scumbag anti-American "Progressive" Woodrow Wilson and Wilsonianism.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight AND Dharma at February 22, 2025 01:07 PM (zFML4)

184 Sen Kennedy is a real Hoot!

Senator John Kennedy Blasts Continued Funding of “Public” Media NPR and PBS: “Gravy Train with Biscuit Wheels”

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 22, 2025 01:08 PM (w4nzS)

185 He'd better hurry because Inseminated Person's Day is coming up in a couple of months.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 01:03 PM (L/fGl)

What about me?

Posted by: OctoInseminated Person at February 22, 2025 01:08 PM (R/m4+)

186 TBH I think this is trying to hard to fit current events into a historical narrative.

Yes much of the left/government are Wilsonians, but they couldn't tell you so because they are ignorant of such things.

Their movement is hierarchical, and the people in government highly praise their hierarchy because they have positions in it. Threats to this system are obviously wrong and evil because they reduce the status and material wealth of these people. And that's really as far as it goes.

Do they think American should be paying for tranny comic books in Peru or spreading globohomo in general? They don't really are. The experts say yes and the experts are also saying the members of the uniparty are good civil servants that should be paid more so...obviously the experts are right.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 01:08 PM (t0Rmr)

187 181 I have lead ingots I made from my now gone cats water bowl, they weigh 20 pounds and are no where the size of the Maltese Falcon
Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 01:06 PM (fwDg9)

xnay on the lead ingotsay
-Fort Knox Accountant

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 22, 2025 01:09 PM (w4nzS)

188 Windy runways, women and minorities hardest hit

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)

189 So, was the Democratic Party decent when Jackson founded it? Because, if so, they sure went bad quickly.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at February 22, 2025 01:10 PM (Sf2cq)

190 I have lead ingots I made from my now gone cats water bowl, they weigh 20 pounds and are no where the size of the Maltese Falcon
Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 01:06 PM (fwDg9)
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Gold is nearly twice as dense as lead. A chunk of solid gold as big as the Falcon would be impossible for people not Hathor Bjornsson.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 01:10 PM (6K6Eu)

191 >>Do you have an answer for me at #61 ? Thanks.

Sorry, I didn't see that.

Google tells me it was the one in 2000, not the one earlier in the band's existence.

I have the DVD. It's fantastic.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 22, 2025 01:10 PM (Y1sOo)

192 And as for Trump and Vance they should be first understood as pro-American. They want the to improve the lot of heritage Americans and productive class Americans.

The left/uniparty sees heritage Americans as irredeemable racists that should be destroyed/replaced and productive class Americans as nothing more than a cash cow that need more Sumptuary laws to remember their place.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 01:11 PM (t0Rmr)

193 162
This reminds me of a visit to the middle of nowhere somewhere in Africa many years ago, when I came across an abandoned business building, with the name of the company being "Kaput Industries."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 22, 2025 12:56 PM (vOvpU)
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A word I have used countless times in my 40+ years in Africa - funny.

Posted by: Ciampino - All Gazans should be kaput at February 22, 2025 01:11 PM (KjLnc)

194 If Jefferson Davis had fired or relieved generals as quickly as Lincoln did, the war might have lasted longer.
Posted by: mrp at February 22,
There are car dealerships that fire the worst salesman every month

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 22, 2025 01:11 PM (SXxzC)

195 Insert "picking up".

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 01:11 PM (6K6Eu)

196 Oh, inseminated person.
Can this really be the end?
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at February 22, 2025 01:12 PM (99t1i)

197 Dang. Trump has screwed up Horton's song.
We're gonna have to re-master it with someone doing a voice-over saying "Gulf of America, that is," a la the Beverly Hillbillies song.

Posted by: GWB at February 22, 2025 01:12 PM (Jf1zl)

198 I missed out on appreciating history when I was in school. Don't know why I was such a bump on a log. I always liked a good story.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump!

Sheriff Andy makes this exact point on an episode of The Andy Griffith Show when Opie was having trouble.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 01:14 PM (L/fGl)

199 The MSM news is such horsesh*t, 'cause it has its NP agitators and low information voters.

>The US president appoints the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Senate confirms the selection.

>Navy Times, Nov. 2, 2023, Senate finally confirms Adm. Franchetti as Navy’s top officer. Lisa Franchetti becomes the first woman to serve as the Navy’s chief of naval operations and as a Joint Chiefs of Staff member.
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Remember the eight-month blockade by the Alabama Republican Tuberville of nearly all senior military nominations and promotions?

Oh, well.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 22, 2025 01:15 PM (NFX2v)

200 Was it Johnny Horton who San Big Bad Don?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 22, 2025 01:15 PM (SXxzC)

201 This reminds me of a visit to the middle of nowhere somewhere in Africa many years ago, when I came across an abandoned business building, with the name of the company being "Kaput Industries."

A story I heard from an aid worker in Africa. Aid worker was friends with a young man who had saved his money and wanted to open a bread business. He figured there were plenty of people that would pay him for a loaf of bread instead of having to bake it themselves.

So he used his saving to buy flour and everything else he needed, baked a bunch of loaves of bread early in the morning and set up a stand in a busy crossroads in the village. And sure enough he found some customers.

Until one of the village elders saw him and his stand. The elder asked why he had all this bread when "there are hungry children in the village". The man said he was starting a business which was an answer the elder didn't like and took all his bread...nominally for the children.

So what did our young man learn? There was no point in saving your money, no point in trying to start a business, no point in trying to better yourself.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 01:15 PM (t0Rmr)

202 Dude looks like the runner up in a Ru Paul look alike contest.

President Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles “CQ” Brown, on Friday and announced his replacement.
Colonel Queen?

https://tinyurl.com/2wxvd2rh

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 22, 2025 01:17 PM (w4nzS)

203 Bogie worked Shore Patrol in Portsmouth, NH (remember The Last Detail?). He was short, but you have to be tough to work that duty. Apparently that was where his lip was screwed up.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 22, 2025 01:18 PM (wBaIH)

204 >>> he hated American Indians and hated Blacks. So, you'll excuse me not being enthused about AJ....
Posted by: SouthCentralPA
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Those comic book histories are not always accurate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 01:18 PM (kx9a7)

205 If Jefferson Davis had fired or relieved generals as quickly as Lincoln did, the war might have lasted longer.

Lee and his associates were good. The generals in the rest of the confederacy were generally not so you're point is a good one, but Davis did have political considerations to worry about.

I think realistically the Confederates best chance of winning is right at the start is if they have a bit more organization after Bull Run and march straight on the then unfortified DC. Whether they capture much of the Union leadership or not a Confederate army in DC likely completely changes the public's view of the war and Europe's interest in pushing for a negotiated settlement.

After Bull Run each year reduces the chances of success.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 01:20 PM (t0Rmr)

206 *Sheriff Andy makes this exact point on an episode of The Andy Griffith Show when Opie was having trouble.*

Barney on the Emancipation Proclamation:
https://youtu.be/yupu8DE6vzw

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 22, 2025 01:21 PM (dg+HA)

207 So what did our young man learn? There was no point in saving your money, no point in trying to start a business, no point in trying to better yourself.
Posted by: 18-1
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See: 'The Little Red Hen'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 01:22 PM (XeU6L)

208 Sang Big Bad Don

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 22, 2025 01:23 PM (SXxzC)

209 159 Speaking of Maltese, whatever happened to malted milk milkshakes? Used to be any decent shake shop had chocolate malteds. Now they are really hard to find.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
____

Supply chain disruption during to covid 19

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 22, 2025 01:24 PM (VmRXw)

210 Garden thread nood, but "closed" LOL

Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 01:24 PM (rdVOm)

211 Nevertheless, Jacksonian America has produced--and looks set to continue to produce--one political leader and movement after another, and it is likely to continue to enjoy major influence over both foreign and domestic policy in the United States for the foreseeable future.

***

Newt Gingrich said much the same a couple weeks ago. If we don't screw it up, the Republicans are in the same position the dems were under FDR. They can set the tone for what comes for the next half century.
Oh Lord I pray for the safety of Trump and Vance.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 01:25 PM (W/lyH)

212 Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump

I want to thank General Charles “CQ” Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, including as our current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader, and I wish a great future for him and his family.

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For being an absolute ass-kicking asshole, Trump is remarkably gracious. You just don't want to poke the bear.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 01:25 PM (L/fGl)

213 Incandescently stupid jackass Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) is writing an article he threatens to publish at The Atlantic, wherein he claims President Trump firing generals and placing Kash Patel at the FBI is "Praetorianism".

One line I would like Trump to hammer home is that Fedgov has abjectly failed at just about everything it was supposed to be doing for the last 20 years.

All these "leaders" should be apologizing to the public and resigning on their own. And to complete the picture I would give each fired general a last order to go down the rows of deceased WoT soldiers in Arlington and apologize to each and every one and THEN they can get their box and clean out their desks.

Military leadership has become another source of graft and privilege just like the rest of the bureaucracy when it is supposed to entail a responsibility to the men under your command. Every one of these assholes should have resigned rather than making their men take the clot shot let alone dick around in 'Stan and Iraq with no plans to win.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 01:25 PM (t0Rmr)

214 Detroit 1, Wild 0
First intermission.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 01:26 PM (ufFY8)

215 Is Expert Guy a true conservative?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 22, 2025 01:26 PM (SXxzC)

216 Whoa! check out this 'little ditty' and it ain't from Jackie and Diane:
🚨 TRUMP FIRES GEN. CQ BROWN — who filmed a sympathetic video amid the George Floyd riots and pushed DEI in the Air Force

https://tinyurl.com/cmh3mhss

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 22, 2025 01:26 PM (w4nzS)

217 Speaking of Maltese, whatever happened to malted milk milkshakes? Used to be any decent shake shop had chocolate malteds. Now they are really hard to find.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I make my own.
Chocolate, vanilla and, when in season, strawberry.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 01:26 PM (W/lyH)

218 TBH I think this is trying to hard to fit current events into a historical narrative.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 01:08 PM (t0Rmr)

Because historical conflicts are usually fights for survival. Fights over resources, goods, wealth.

The success of western civ has minimized these concerns while allowing other motivations to flourish. Plus, the ready supply of resources has meant that other causes are promoted (see USAID.) And groups that should be dealt with harshly are allowed to flourish.

Take for example HAMAS. Imagine if you will same situation, but Gaza was controlled by the Romans. They would have leveled the enclave, killed all the men and sold the women and children into slavery. You need not even change location. Look at how Hadrian (not my favorite person) dealt with the Jewish revolt. An attempt to annihilate Jewish tradition wholesale- which led to Judaism spreading around Europe and the Mediterranean (which was not his intent.) Genocide? These people think they understand genocide.

The thing is... there was not another Jewish revolt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 22, 2025 01:26 PM (bss/y)

219 Am I banned yet, for trying to comment on a closed thread? Testing...

Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 01:27 PM (rdVOm)

220 Thought I had a first on the Garden Thread. But it's "closed."

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 22, 2025 01:27 PM (XMwZJ)

221 I think KT screwed up which post was closed...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 22, 2025 01:28 PM (XMwZJ)

222 219 Am I banned yet, for trying to comment on a closed thread? Testing...
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 01:27 PM (rdVOm)

Nope. Still kickin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 22, 2025 01:29 PM (bss/y)

223 Big Don, big bad Don

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 22, 2025 01:29 PM (SXxzC)

224 Falling asleep again

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 01:29 PM (fwDg9)

225 'The Patriot' got a lot of things right, such as the countryside, the costumes, the weapons, and the lovely cinematography, but the story, characters, battles, were all a goofy mishmash. The actual history is far more colorful and gripping, with interesting fellows like Daniel Morgan, Nathaniel Greene, and an evil villian in Banastre Tarleton.

It was Tarleton who massacred Patriot troops at Waxhaws, and took prisoner a drummer boy named Andrew Jackson...

Posted by: Brewingfrog at February 22, 2025 01:29 PM (QVAuG)

226 Heh. Will check garden thread later.

Happy Caturday, all!

Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 01:30 PM (rdVOm)

227 The thing is... there was not another Jewish revolt.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

Posted by: Robert Heinlein at February 22, 2025 01:30 PM (t0Rmr)

228 I thought Maltese was a purse dog.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 22, 2025 01:30 PM (SXxzC)

229 Hmm. The once and future thread.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 01:30 PM (XeU6L)

230 @SenAdamSchiff
Donald Trump just fired a well-respected General who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
And his Administration announced they’re replacing other officers, too.
The purge of people of stature and independence goes on.

Shut the fuck up you bug eyed, pencil neck freak.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 22, 2025 01:30 PM (4XwPj)

231 Mark Messier interviewing Ovechkin.

Messier: Watching the 4 Nations tournament, did you want to be there playing?
Ovechkin: I only saw the last game. I was busy.
Messier: What were you doing?
Ovechkin: I was on the beach.

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 01:30 PM (ufFY8)

232 I'm drinking beer so I apologize for being chatty. That isn't like me

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 22, 2025 01:31 PM (SXxzC)

233 All these "leaders" should be apologizing to the public and resigning on their own. And to complete the picture I would give each fired general a last order to go down the rows of deceased WoT soldiers in Arlington and apologize to each and every one and THEN they can get their box and clean out their desks.

Military leadership has become another source of graft and privilege just like the rest of the bureaucracy when it is supposed to entail a responsibility to the men under your command. Every one of these assholes should have resigned rather than making their men take the clot shot let alone dick around in 'Stan and Iraq with no plans to win.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 01:25 PM (t0Rmr)

Amen.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 22, 2025 01:31 PM (l3YAf)

234 Something is wrong upstairs

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 01:31 PM (fwDg9)

235 The Patriot' got a lot of things right, such as the countryside, the costumes, the weapons, and the lovely cinematography, but the story, characters, battles, were all a goofy mishmash.

OTOH I do blame Gibson for making a movie it was easy for people to attack for its a-history, on the other hand he made an entertaining yarn that you don't have to think about to understand.

Of course his historical revisionism is nothing compared to African vikings or feminist medieval leaders so graded on a curve he's still making A+ movies from a historical perspective

Posted by: Robert Heinlein at February 22, 2025 01:32 PM (t0Rmr)

236 Getting Thread Closed on the Gardening thread when I try to post

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 22, 2025 01:33 PM (o5+a9)

237 190 I have lead ingots I made from my now gone cats water bowl. Post by Skip

You probably know lead alloy pours and mold fabrication is a very specialized industry and lead is a toxic metal, but...
careful, Skip.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 22, 2025 01:33 PM (NFX2v)

238 I'm drinking beer so I apologize for being chatty. That isn't like me
Posted by: Northernlurker
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Not slurring your words, or belching, so all's well.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 01:34 PM (XeU6L)

239 The purge of people of stature and independence goes on.
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The purge of failure, Schiffty.

Also, I'm curious it the rumors of the reason behind Anthony Boirdain's death are true.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 22, 2025 01:34 PM (VmRXw)

240 Well at least I won't get banned

Posted by: jsg at February 22, 2025 01:34 PM (UJ+K5)

241 The purge of failure, Schiffty.

Also, I'm curious it the rumors of the reason behind Anthony Boirdain's death are true.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 22, 2025 01:34 PM (VmRXw)

I think that was an Archer episode.

Posted by: jsg at February 22, 2025 01:35 PM (UJ+K5)

242 Speaking of Maltese, whatever happened to malted milk milkshakes? Used to be any decent shake shop had chocolate malteds. Now they are really hard to find.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Malts are far superior to shakes. It's also tough to find a place with a decent ice cream soda.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 22, 2025 01:36 PM (Dm8we)

243 Don't post on new threads!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 22, 2025 01:36 PM (dg+HA)

244
Take for example HAMAS. Imagine if you will same situation, but Gaza was controlled by the Romans. They would have leveled the enclave, killed all the men and sold the women and children into slavery.

There are four possible outcomes to this war:

1) The Muslims commit genocide on the Jews
2) The Jews kill all of Hamasistan
3) Everyone accepts yearly Oct 7 attacks and reprisals. Forever
4) The jihadis in Hamas are moved far enough away that they can't attack Jews anymore.

#4 seems the obvious "humanitarian" answer. And I find any time you engage with Hamas supporters they want to call for #1 but...just barely bite their tongues and argue for a "two state solution" which is what they had on Oct 6th of course.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 01:36 PM (t0Rmr)

245 OPENED THE GARDENING THREAD!

Just for you.

Posted by: KT at February 22, 2025 01:37 PM (xekrU)

246 This reminds me of a visit to the middle of nowhere somewhere in Africa many years ago, when I came across an abandoned business building, with the name of the company being "Kaput Industries."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 22, 2025 12:56 PM

[Listening skeptically to German propaganda coming over a loudspeaker]

Captain Miller: "The Statue of Liberty is kaput" - that's disconcerting.

Posted by: Saving Private Ryan at February 22, 2025 01:37 PM (P5BPp)

247 234 Something is wrong upstairs
Posted by: Skip
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I'm totally fine, not compo, coco, uh, coke and mentos, Jack! Can you even do a push up! C'mon man!

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 22, 2025 01:38 PM (VmRXw)

248 Using them and their differences as a metaphor for our current political divide is an infamnia. Neither were traitors.

++++

Agree! It's wrong to call the Woke anything but Un-American

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 22, 2025 01:38 PM (jPdyB)

249 I'd pay to see this movie.

https://is.gd/WWbuLB

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 01:38 PM (L/fGl)

250 #4 seems the obvious "humanitarian" answer. And I find any time you engage with Hamas supporters they want to call for #1 but...just barely bite their tongues and argue for a "two state solution" which is what they had on Oct 6th of course.

Nobody wants them. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia.

No bueno.

They celebrate death.

Give them what they want.

Posted by: jsg at February 22, 2025 01:39 PM (UJ+K5)

251 Give them what they want.

/mumbling

Dude, that's what I'm say'in

Posted by: Kendrick Lamar at February 22, 2025 01:40 PM (t0Rmr)

252 Lead ions are poisonous but you have to ingest them first. The metal is not volatile, it's just metal like tin, low melting sort of. For years as a teen I used to collect wheel weights and the seals on milk urns (yes I'm that old) then melt them in a crucible and it was a paperweight.

Posted by: Ciampino - All Gazans should be kaput! at February 22, 2025 01:42 PM (KjLnc)

253 148 Th chairman of the Joint Chiefs serves at the pleasure of the Pesident. That is the entire answer.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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They need to check the reference manual under Executive Office Authority. Anyone in the executive branch serves under the boss of the executive branch who is the President of the US. The president is the chief executive officer and they serve at his pleasure. The president is also Commander In Chief of the US Armed forces and they also serve at his pleasure.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 01:43 PM (kx9a7)

254 Super educational post and comments. Thanks KT!

I'm reading through Mead's essay. In depth article that details many aspects of Jacksonianism. Helpful to me as a list of traditional American values: honor, self reliance, respect, absolute equality of dignity and right, loyalty to family, raising children, sexual decency, honesty, entrepreneurial spirit, and courage. Good list of values.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 22, 2025 01:43 PM (PcTds)

255 K. T. Thanks for the link to the song.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at February 22, 2025 01:44 PM (wVNP5)

256 Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers introduces budget recommendation that replaces "mother" with "inseminated person.

So...how does Mother Mary fit into this?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 01:48 PM (W/lyH)

257 Inseminated Person
Tell your children not to walk my way
Tell your children not to hear my words
What they mean, what they say, inseminated person

Inseminated Person
Can you keep them in the dark for life?
Can you hide them from the waiting world?
Oh, inseminated person

Posted by: Danzig at February 22, 2025 01:52 PM (P5BPp)

258 Things are tough all over.

https://is.gd/UaqJCi

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 01:52 PM (L/fGl)

259 @137 the pilot got her ATP last month . Her name is Kendall Swanson

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 01:53 PM (cMcMn)

260 Vatican: Pope Francis in critical condition after a sustained respiratory crisis Saturday morning.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 22, 2025 01:53 PM (8qqeN)

261 Weird PP goal by Detroit.
Hit the pipes, didn't go in, lights and horn went off. Puck goes behind goalie. Dylan Larkin pushes the puck in the net.

Wild gave up, Larkin followed through.

Reviewed it, and declared it a goal (no whistle stopped play).

Suck it, Wild.

The lesson?
Never give up, follow through.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 01:53 PM (ufFY8)

262 Vatican: Pope Francis in critical condition after a sustained respiratory crisis Saturday morning.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 22, 2025 01:53 PM (8qqeN)

Hope the commie repents before meeting his Maker.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 01:54 PM (ufFY8)

263 Inseminated persons, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 01:55 PM (L/fGl)

264 48 The movie The Patriot is hardly historical
Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 11:50 AM (fwDg9)
Loosely (very much loosely) based on General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. A much revered South Carolinian.

Posted by: Eromero at February 22, 2025 02:02 PM (jgmnb)

265 I do think the difference between "Jeffersonian" and "Jacksonian' is not so much the need to be free of the state, to search for ones own goals, and self determinism, but instead whether the leaders of society should be a highly educated property owning elite, or the well educated who actually did the work.
This was more an element of the times and economics than it was a true issue, property was a bit more widely held, and not held by "planters and other well born men" but had been chewed out of the forests and open lands.

I will take both of their positions on banking, the role of government, and the rights of the individual; I admire Jefferson's erudition and knowledge which were essential to founding the republic, and also admire Jackson't willingness to take a blow and keep swinging for what his goals were to assure the republic will survive.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 22, 2025 02:03 PM (D7oie)

266 Kendall Upside Down Swanson

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 02:04 PM (fwDg9)

267 Garden thread nood, but "closed" LOL
Posted by: JQ

Thought I had a first on the Garden Thread. But it's "closed."
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

Getting Thread Closed on the Gardening thread when I try to post
Posted by: Notsothoreau

OPENED THE GARDENING THREAD!
Just for you.
Posted by: KT

No "walled garden" comments? Who are you people?

Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 02:04 PM (DgGvY)

268 I don't know why this isn't where it should be but, anyway, The Week In Pictures.

https://is.gd/E5hALB

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 02:05 PM (L/fGl)

269 The military insight of Schifty Adam.

Adam Schiff
@SenAdamSchiff
Donald Trump just fired a well-respected General who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
And his Administration announced they’re replacing other officers, too.
The purge of people of stature and independence goes on.

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If the Ruskies attack us a tranny army, we'll have nothing to oppose them with!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 22, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)

Yeah, in the same way that the communist fuck Obama purged the military. And gave us the likes of Milley and Brown and those Navy guys that think diversity training is more important than basic seamanship. Et fucking cetera.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 22, 2025 02:06 PM (z4+bR)

270 The whole idea of oaths makes no sense outside of religious considerations, other than “yeah I know I will be in trouble if you catch me lying.”
Posted by: Tom Servo

In a society where moral failings are personal, like ours, yes.

In an Honor society, where your failings reflect on your family, clan, country, etc., an oath can carry weight without a deity's vengeance.

Though part of that is the "trouble" you're in for lying can be pretty severe. If going back on your word means the clan head "asks" you to commit seppuku, or the Godfather is gonna have you whacked, that concentrates a man's mind wonderfully.

Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 02:10 PM (DgGvY)

271
Loosely (very much loosely) based on General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. A much revered South Carolinian.
Posted by: Eromero
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Long, long before the movie, myself and fellow kids played Swamp Fox games, running through low country swamps in SC. Marion was very much a part of our history. I have stayed at the Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston on occasion.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 02:17 PM (XeU6L)

272 In a society where moral failings are personal, like ours, yes.

In an Honor society, where your failings reflect on your family, clan, country, etc., an oath can carry weight without a deity's vengeance.

Though part of that is the "trouble" you're in for lying can be pretty severe. If going back on your word means the clan head "asks" you to commit seppuku, or the Godfather is gonna have you whacked, that concentrates a man's mind wonderfully.
Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 02:10 PM

I recently read about an anthropologist (sorry, don't remember her name) that classified societies into two catagories, 'shame' and 'guilt'. Shame is feeling bad when someone sees (or becomes aware of) something you did. Guilt is feeling bad about something you did, whether anyone knows or not. Japan and Arabs are examples of shame societies. America is (or was?) a guilt society.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 22, 2025 02:19 PM (a3Q+t)

273 The lesson?
Never give up, follow through.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 01:53 PM

I always, how you say, do this.

Posted by: Paolo at February 22, 2025 02:22 PM (a3Q+t)

274 Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers introduces budget recommendation that replaces "mother" with "inseminated person"
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Hell, would include Pete Buttigieg.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 22, 2025 02:27 PM (YqDXo)

275 I'm getting better!

Posted by: Pope Frankie at February 22, 2025 02:30 PM (63Dwl)

276
Hell, would include Pete Buttigieg.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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So, Butterjug's children actually do have 'Two Mommies'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 02:32 PM (XeU6L)

277 Kaitlin Collins sure is a handsome man

Posted by: big questions at February 22, 2025 02:33 PM (0pLZt)

278 When we get mad, we don't think in terms of 'negotiated settlements.'
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Or, in the colloquial version, "Fuck you. War."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 22, 2025 02:35 PM (zicBV)

279 Senator John Kennedy Blasts Continued Funding of “Public” Media NPR and PBS: “Gravy Train with Biscuit Wheels”

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 22, 2025 01:08 PM (w4nzS)
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Excellent! Elon, over to you.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 22, 2025 02:44 PM (YqDXo)

280 Just once Point out a male who gave birth to a baby

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2025 02:45 PM (fwDg9)

281 How many thousands of gubmint employees have been fired today?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 02:48 PM (ufFY8)

282 Jackson was a great president. Vastly under rated.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at February 22, 2025 02:51 PM (bXvrr)

283 Jackson was a great president. Vastly under rated.
Posted by: TJ Jackson at February 22, 2025 02:51 PM (bXvrr)

TJ Jackson is right!

Posted by: Howard Jackson at February 22, 2025 02:55 PM (ufFY8)

284 I make my own.
Chocolate, vanilla and, when in season, strawberry.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 01:26 PM (W/lyH)

Don't forget the malt powder. Otherwise it's just a shake. Growing up in the 50's, there were plenty of little candy stores in town that had a counter where one could sit and order a chocolate (or other flavor) malt. After it was mixed on that little green mixer in a stainless steel cup, they would pour it onto a chilled glass to the top and place the container next to it. Was heaven!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 22, 2025 02:57 PM (dgRL6)

285 I have no clue.
Women!

I am indifferent to him. Maybe because he is parodied in manner frequently.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

The Y chromosome creates an impenetrable barrier in certain areas of the brain which prevents a fired neuron from making the proper connection. I am a happier man because of this.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * scio te ipsum at February 22, 2025 02:57 PM (7DVqy)

286 Our illustrious President is addressing CPAC right now, keeping the crowd on the edge of its seats as only he can

Posted by: kallisto at February 22, 2025 03:09 PM (scXbt)

287 Trump just said ‘Everything Biden touched turned to shit’

Lolol

Posted by: kallisto at February 22, 2025 03:14 PM (T8bOV)

288 Bad news: Detroit blew their 3-1 lead in the 3rd against the Wild.

Good news: Detroit gets at least one point, and bonus hockey.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 22, 2025 03:15 PM (ufFY8)

289 I make my own.
Chocolate, vanilla and, when in season, strawberry.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 01:26 PM (W/lyH)

Don't forget the malt powder. Otherwise it's just a shake. Growing up in the 50's, there were plenty of little candy stores in town that had a counter where one could sit and order a chocolate (or other flavor) malt. After it was mixed on that little green mixer in a stainless steel cup, they would pour it onto a chilled glass to the top and place the container next to it. Was heaven!!
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 22, 2025 02:57 PM (dgRL6)
***

Gotta have the powder!
Nothing beats a good malt!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 03:20 PM (W/lyH)

290 Just once Point out a male who gave birth to a baby
Posted by: Skip
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George Washington. And, btw, today is the no-longer celebrated date of his birth. February 22, 1732.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 03:44 PM (XeU6L)

291 277 Kaitlin Collins sure is a handsome man
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Is she a dyke? The way she looks is deliberate. She could look better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 04:12 PM (kx9a7)

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