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Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Oceanides
Gustave Dore
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025 09:30 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 09:31 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2025 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: BignJames at March 13, 2025 09:31 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (xPSmT)
Year c. 1860
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 127 cm × 185.5 cm (50 in × 73.0 in)
Location Private collection
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (pLaQB)
This "artist" didn't even think to name this crap "Sirens?"
Because that would be a better name for this trash.
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (zlW+y)
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (Bjq84)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: red speck at March 13, 2025 09:33 AM (0Id0S)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 09:33 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
No furry ones, quite a few bare ones!
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Bjq84)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 13, 2025 09:34 AM (cn0tc)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 09:34 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2025 09:34 AM (0oYvV)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 13, 2025 09:34 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: red speck at March 13, 2025 09:34 AM (0Id0S)
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
No furry ones, quite a few bare ones!
Posted by: Pete Bog
D'oh! Yes, I did mean "bare."
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: As you can plainly see at March 13, 2025 09:35 AM (dg+HA)
What is that series of pale figures off to the right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 09:35 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2025 09:35 AM (WzLXQ)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 13, 2025 09:35 AM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Sir Galahad at March 13, 2025 09:35 AM (Aqu9a)
I watched 'Anyone But You' on Netflix last night.
Easily the worst romantic 'comedy' to be shat out upon the small screen in the past five years. Of course the story revolved around a lesbian/mixed-race wedding, because of course it did.
But on the plus side, Sydney Sweeney and her ample bosom are figured prominently throughout. So there's that.
Today's art offering reminded me of that, somehow.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 09:35 AM (xPSmT)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 13, 2025 09:35 AM (35D0c)
Posted by: rhennigantx
What about the ones in the sky above the ocean?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 13, 2025 09:35 AM (cn0tc)
Like this, but I've always liked paintings of Greek and Roman mythology. Would hang, thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2025 09:35 AM (2Km7O)
Posted by: dantesed at March 13, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)
Oh, and boobs. I love boobs, too.
Posted by: Josephistan at March 13, 2025 09:36 AM (bHGBC)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 13, 2025 09:36 AM (0VFM7)
Posted by: Sir Galahad
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Lancelot is way ahead of you.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 09:36 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
They appear to be disembodied nekkid ladies.
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sir Galahad at March 13, 2025 09:35 AM (Aqu9a)
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No, it's too perilous.
Posted by: Sir Lancelot at March 13, 2025 09:37 AM (6K6Eu)
In: You really want to bang your dinghy on the ladies on those rocks
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:37 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Sir Galahad
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Lancelot is way ahead of you.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 09:36 AM (pLaQB)
Bet he's gay.
Posted by: Sir Galahad at March 13, 2025 09:37 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Bob Ross at March 13, 2025 09:37 AM (i0F8b)
Triggered one of Steve Martin's bits that stuck in my mind, about being able to spot the guy who goes to Vegas for the first time. He sits down at a show and just starts shouting, "Look at the tits! Boy! Look at all those tits! There must be... 57 tits up there!"
Posted by: red speck at March 13, 2025 09:37 AM (0Id0S)
Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: George Costanza at March 13, 2025 09:38 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 13, 2025 09:38 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 09:38 AM (xPSmT)
Easily the worst romantic 'comedy' to be shat out upon the small screen in the past five years. Of course the story revolved around a lesbian/mixed-race wedding, because of course it did.
You know Netflix has many, many movies with boobs that don't have this bad of a plot right?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:39 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: redridinghood
No mermaids, either. These chicks all have legs.
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 09:39 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 13, 2025 09:39 AM (35D0c)
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025
***
I count eleven pairs. The twelfth nymph has her back to us; the brunette next to the redhead is almost completely hidden. As for the figures over to the right, I'm not sure they are even female.
There's a human figure atop the rock, but there are wings obscuring it. Is that supposed to be Prometheus, having his liver carved out of him as his daily torture?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 09:39 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)
Nor sea gull shit...not realistic.
Posted by: BignJames at March 13, 2025 09:39 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: redridinghood
No mermaids, either. These chicks all have legs.
And they know how to use them
Posted by: ZZT at March 13, 2025 09:40 AM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 09:40 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 09:40 AM (T+ixL)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 09:38 AM (xPSmT)
The cabin boys are trembling with fear.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rhennigantx
I thought Zeus punished him for that one movie...
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 13, 2025 09:40 AM (ZA5QA)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2025 09:41 AM (JkO4W)
Ditto for me, but swap Sydney Sweeney --> Glen Powell.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 13, 2025 09:41 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2025 09:41 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
They appear to be disembodied nekkid ladies.
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025
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One looks like she is, the one just about to hit the water. Not sure about the others. But if there were supposed to be "innumerable" Oceanids, then I guess these could be more of the clan.
Can you imagine the family get-togethers???
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 09:42 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: red speck at March 13, 2025 09:42 AM (0Id0S)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2025 09:42 AM (JkO4W)
Ditto for me, but swap Sydney Sweeney --> Glen Powell.
Posted by: Lizzy
Glen Powell has an ample bosom?
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (hOUT3)
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Do they have swords?
Posted by: King Arthur recently dug up again.
Posted by: Ciampino - searching for answers to what? at March 13, 2025 09:42 AM (KjLnc)
No mermaids, either. These chicks all have legs.
In some traditions they can look like normal humans - the Northern Slavic version, Rusalkas, have normal legs with green hair and pale skin (I mean they are northern Slavic...everyone is pale!)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:42 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: BignJames at March 13, 2025 09:31 AM (Yj6Os)
More like a Sirens uncover band amirite
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2025 09:42 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Sir Galahad
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Lancelot is way ahead of you.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 09:36 AM (pLaQB)
Bet he's gay.
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Well, he does bathe regularly.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 09:42 AM (pLaQB)
"Obviously."
-- Chris Hansen
Posted by: Lizzy at March 13, 2025 09:43 AM (Cki93)
She's Got Legs >>>>>>>>>>>> WAP
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:44 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 09:44 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025
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If so, Ed Wood is chained to someplace equally unpleasant while movie critics tear at his gallbladder.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 09:44 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 13, 2025 09:44 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Hot Crazy Matrix 6 at March 13, 2025 09:44 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: The Paolo at March 13, 2025 09:44 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2025 09:44 AM (Uq+qx)
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 09:45 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:45 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 09:44 AM (pLaQB)
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Purina Nymph Chow.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 13, 2025 09:45 AM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Tranni Tilapiatwat at March 13, 2025 09:45 AM (n2vLU)
Used to date her.
Posted by: Hot Crazy Matrix 6 at March 13, 2025
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Karen Gillan with green hair
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 09:45 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 09:45 AM (T+ixL)
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: dantesed at March 13, 2025 09:45 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:46 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: dantesed at March 13, 2025
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That's just her morning Pilates routine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 09:46 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 13, 2025 09:46 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Or Call Out The Coast Guard at March 13, 2025 09:46 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 09:47 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 09:47 AM (xPSmT)
Posted by: dantesed at March 13, 2025 09:45 AM (Oy/m2)
modified back stroke
Posted by: BignJames at March 13, 2025 09:47 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2025 09:41 AM (JkO4W)
*****
I count 13 nymphs. Something doesn't add up
Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2025 09:47 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 09:47 AM (T+ixL)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2025 09:47 AM (5MoTz)
Posted by: Beavis at March 13, 2025 09:48 AM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Just the punchline at March 13, 2025 09:48 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2025 09:48 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM (Aqu9a)
I've been to OC, MD more times that I could possibly count over the past 50+ years. Never saw them there. Although I was never aware that I should be looking!
Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2025 09:48 AM (Uq+qx)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (zlW+y)
Posted by: Ciampino - searching for answers to what? at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (xPSmT)
Posted by: Sir Galahad
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I showed that to Junior last night for the first time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Journal of Sudden Fluids and Abrupt Semisolids Quarterly at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (3l52y)
Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (Uq+qx)
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (fY84s)
So zelensky lost Kursk?
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (zlW+y)
Rather careless on the little shit’s part….
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: m at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 13, 2025 09:50 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Fuhrer Merz at March 13, 2025 09:50 AM (t0Rmr)
If Putin is smart, he'd be grabbing up as much land as possible in the next week, stuff he really doesn't want, and then use that real estate to bargain with, keeping the area he does really want.
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 09:50 AM (zlW+y)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (zlW+y)
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You know who else lost Kursk?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2025 09:51 AM (JkO4W)
For instance, grab Kursk, even though he doesn't want it, just to give it back in negotiations, allowing him to keep, say, Odessa, or whatever.
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 09:51 AM (zlW+y)
Yep.
This is why you start negotiating when it is clear you are going to lose, not when you've wasted so much manpower you can't resist any more.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:51 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Chlamydia Soup at March 13, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:52 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 09:52 AM (xPSmT)
Posted by: Something your grandmother would say at March 13, 2025 09:53 AM (dg+HA)
Ok ignore the fact that the Mexicans do run El Paso already.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 09:53 AM (uWKK8)
Hi, Gene - a limerick
Today's art is an intriguing pastiche
Naked women seeming just out of reach
They were smelly and sour
But they didn't have a shower
So instead they washed up on the beach
Posted by: muldoon at March 13, 2025 09:53 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Or Call Out The Coast Guard
I never knew Weird Dave was thespian. I knew he was a little dinghy. Hence the name, Weird Dave.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2025 09:54 AM (k3Vs9)
Supposedly hard to paint/sculpt.
What was the name of the British author who got his sexual education from statues and paintings and then was famously shocked the first time he saw his wife bottomless?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:54 AM (t0Rmr)
I'm on a mission from god !
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 13, 2025 09:54 AM (VofaG)
No more US tax dollars. No more weapons. Nothing. Give that slimy bastard Zelenskyyy a bill for what he’s already received.
Ukraine is Europe’s problem.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2025 09:54 AM (5MoTz)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2025 09:55 AM (JkO4W)
Ok ignore the fact that the Mexicans do run El Paso already.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 09:53 AM (uWKK
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Oh, trust me friend. Russia is so week that just $100 billion of cash will send them to the Sea of Japan.
Also, if we don't give Ukraine that money, Russia will be in Portugal by Spring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)
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Hahahahahahaha!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2025 09:55 AM (RIvkX)
Today's art is an intriguing pastiche
Naked women seeming just out of reach
They were smelly and sour
But they didn't have a shower
So instead they washed up on the beach
Posted by: muldoon at March 13, 2025 09:53 AM (/iMjX)
Well done!
Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2025 09:55 AM (Uq+qx)
I liked that Muldoon.
Posted by: Ciampino - searching for answers to what? at March 13, 2025 09:55 AM (KjLnc)
Ok ignore the fact that the Mexicans do run El Paso already.
Yeah, I want to dunk on the Russians as much as the next guy but between the cartels/WEF controlling much of the US and our embarrassing defeats in 'Stan and Iraq err...I don't think I can.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:55 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2025 09:55 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 09:56 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 09:32 AM
Examine the Adam's apples closely...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2025 09:56 AM (Wnv9h)
I'm on a mission from god !
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 13, 2025 09:54 AM (VofaG)
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I'm part of a club: Single issue voters for really obscure and weird Single Issues.
I'm for copyright reform.
There's no uniform, but we sometimes have donuts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 09:56 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Ciampino - searching for answers to what? at March 13, 2025 09:49 AM (KjLnc)
Where's the guy who can't find his coffee?
Posted by: dantesed at March 13, 2025 09:56 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 13, 2025 09:56 AM (ppCLU)
Also, if we don't give Ukraine that money, Russia will be in Portugal by Spring.
We have too many tourists already!
Posted by: Some Lisboner at March 13, 2025 09:56 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Journal of Sudden Fluids and Abrupt Semisolids Quarterly at March 13, 2025 09:57 AM (3l52y)
An interesting side note to this is that 100% of the COVID stimulus was 100% eaten alive by inflation.
Not 1 real dollar of growth or investment was created.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 09:57 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2025 09:57 AM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:55 AM (t0Rmr)
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Thought exercise:
Congress declares war on Mexico. Trump orders rules of engagement that amount to total war. The objective is destruction of the cartels and existing Mexican government, which is controlled by the cartels.
Can our military succeed better than in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)
Hi, Gene - a limerick
Today's art is an intriguing pastiche
Naked women seeming just out of reach
They were smelly and sour
But they didn't have a shower
So instead they washed up on the beach
Posted by: muldoon
Very nice limerick, I give it a B+. Could have been an A, had you worked in Flotsam and jetsam.
Posted by: All Washed Up at March 13, 2025 09:58 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 13, 2025 09:58 AM (VofaG)
The COVID stimulus WAS the inflation.
Posted by: Journal of Sudden Fluids and Abrupt Semisolids Quarterly at March 13, 2025 09:58 AM (3l52y)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 09:59 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March
Depends on the ROE
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2025 09:59 AM (5MoTz)
Lee knew the time window for the Confederacy to win a major battle on Union territory was running out. He needed the pacifist movement in the Union to gain traction and/or European allies.
But, TBH the war was probably lost by Antietam if not by the inability of the Confederate army to follow up after Bull Run.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:59 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)
Only if we fought it the way we fought the 1st Mexican War, and I don’t think we have the will or resolve to do that anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 09:59 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: All Washed Up at March 13, 2025 09:58 AM (G5+As)
A+ with windward and leeward.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 09:59 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)
our military did succeed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 13, 2025 09:59 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: m at March 13, 2025 10:00 AM (CQE5S)
Make the judiciary follow the law.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2025 10:00 AM (k3Vs9)
Congress declares war on Mexico. Trump orders rules of engagement that amount to total war. The objective is destruction of the cartels and existing Mexican government, which is controlled by the cartels.
Can our military succeed better than in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Probably. But if they make it legal to smoke my cigars on the beach again, I'll chalk it up as a win. Anything less, total annihilation.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 10:00 AM (xPSmT)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 09:39 AM (gbOdA)
Heh. Are you making that up, or did you research the painting?
Because Zeus sent an eagle to eat Prometheus' liver every day, and it would heal every night, so maybe that is the scene!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2025 10:00 AM (L5An7)
Can our military succeed better than in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Congress wouldn't DOW Mexico, and our current military leadership wouldn't follow Trump's orders.
But, if we suppose that in both cases they do...? Of course. In 6 months we'd have Mexico and the Cartels agreeing to whatever terms we wanted.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 10:01 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March
Depends on the ROE
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2025 09:59 AM (5MoTz)
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Yeah. I probably should have mentioned ROE in the comment, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)
ANd make them paint a target on their back.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 10:01 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:01 AM (VofaG)
Because Zeus sent an eagle to eat Prometheus' liver every day, and it would heal every night, so maybe that is the scene!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2025 10:00 AM (L5An7)
I think that is him up on the rock with wings.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 10:02 AM (gbOdA)
Lee knew the time window for the Confederacy to win a major battle on Union territory was running out. He needed the pacifist movement in the Union to gain traction and/or European allies.
But, TBH the war was probably lost by Antietam if not by the inability of the Confederate army to follow up after Bull Run.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:59 AM (t0Rmr)
Lost cause. Betting on a collapse of will of the North after some “ decisive” battle.
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:02 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2025 10:00 AM (L5An7)
With fava beans and a nice chianti
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 10:03 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 10:03 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2025 10:03 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 10:03 AM (zlW+y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2025 10:03 AM (JkO4W)
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It's what happens when you drink a Red Bull.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:03 AM (GBKbO)
In some traditions they can look like normal humans - the Northern Slavic version, Rusalkas, have normal legs with green hair and pale skin (I mean they are northern Slavic...everyone is pale!)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 09:42 AM (t0Rmr)
Well, that's a cool thing to know!
Posted by: m at March 13, 2025 10:04 AM (CQE5S)
Plus we have television, which would be full of "Look how Trump is killing babies! America is awful!"
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 13, 2025 10:04 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 10:04 AM (zlW+y)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 10:03 AM (pLaQB)
Sounds oddly familiar
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:04 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 10:03 AM (pLaQB)
The turning point was Vicksburg, and the Western campaigns.
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:04 AM (PCK5/)
I can't wait to see more rolling space donuts running over Charlize Therons and evil space worms.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 10:04 AM (t0Rmr)
Here's the message:
House Democrats stand united for a four-week funding extension that stops harmful cuts, keeps government open to serve the people, and allows Congress to reach a bipartisan funding agreement. I'm ready to vote tomorrow or Friday to pass a four-week extension.
Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2025 10:04 AM (RHGPo)
I can't wait to see more rolling space donuts running over Charlize Therons and evil space worms.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 10:04 AM (t0Rmr)
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Confirmed:
18-1 lives in 2017.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)
Plus we have television, which would be full of "Look how Trump is killing babies! America is awful!"
If we were to really fight a war any journalist reporting like this would be immediately imprisoned if not hung.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 10:05 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 10:02 AM (gbOdA)
The eagle has the wings...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2025 10:05 AM (L5An7)
If Putin is smart, he'd be grabbing up as much land as possible in the next week, stuff he really doesn't want, and then use that real estate to bargain with, keeping the area he does really want.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Ukraine ( and the US, really) have no playing cards left with Russia. From all appearances, remaining Ukrainian soldiers prefer to be alive rather than fight to the death with Russia.
Best to make whatever ignoble peace with Russia if Ukraine still wants to exist as a separate country.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:05 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Give them Convenience or Give them DEATH!
dawnOfDaDead: the day rises on a new era(error), the newly minted Vampyr Vlodymyr plots in darkness -- gee, didn't figure it wouldn't work during the Day? Wow!
Hillary -- this is where the FUN begins.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at March 13, 2025 10:06 AM (YmNGC)
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:05 AM (ctrM5)
This could have happened two years ago with a better result for Ukraine.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:07 AM (VofaG)
The biggest strength of the left is their rigid hierarchy that keeps them all on message and working for their planned goals.
And the biggest weakness of the left is their rigid hierarchy that keeps them from course correction and thinking for themselves.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 10:07 AM (t0Rmr)
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In Mexico? Not with the CIA involved. Which they are. They've been operating Reaper drones south of the border since January. The big question; are they looking to wipe out the cartels or take them over?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2025 10:07 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Journal of Sudden Fluids and Abrupt Semisolids Quarterly at March 13, 2025 10:08 AM (3l52y)
When those dudes on the island outpost told the Russian cruiser to pound sand instead of surrendering? And then they were obliterated?
To quote Buckwheat: t's been a long time since dem days!
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 10:08 AM (xPSmT)
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In Mexico? Not with the CIA involved. Which they are. They've been operating Reaper drones south of the border since January. The big question; are they looking to wipe out the cartels or take them over?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2025 10:07 AM (Q4IgG)
You almost make it sound like the CIA is a criminal enterprise…
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:09 AM (PCK5/)
REPORT: Michelle Obama has racked up a whopping 25,000 views on YouTube following the launch of her new podcast.
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Wow! 25,000 views! In contrast, the Critical Drinker has 2,200,000 subscribers. You go away now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:09 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: tubal
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Lee reminds me of the forgotten German WWII general Heinrici. Great on the defensive war but not known for their successful offensives.
Lee's two offensive moves to the North were half hearted and poorly managed.
Lee should not be rated as a general on par with a Napoleon as Napoleon would have probably taken DC before the Union ever got its act together in the first place.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:09 AM (ctrM5)
I remember when it finally came out they did surrender.
Can't blame them at all, they had no chance otherwise.
But at that point it was pretty obvious everything the FNM was saying was a lie including "the"
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 10:09 AM (t0Rmr)
And the biggest weakness of the left is their rigid hierarchy that keeps them from course correction and thinking for themselves.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 10:07 AM (t0Rmr)
Same structure I use to describe the Right.
Our greatest strength is our individualism and our greatest weakness is our individualism.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:10 AM (VofaG)
REPORT: Michelle Obama has racked up a whopping 25,000 views on YouTube following the launch of her new podcast.
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Wow! 25,000 views! In contrast, the Critical Drinker has 2,200,000 subscribers. You go away now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Let's hope Mooch takes the suckers for all she can get.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:10 AM (ctrM5)
And the biggest weakness of the left is their rigid hierarchy that keeps them from course correction and thinking for themselves.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2025 10:07 AM (t0Rmr)
And it worked well for 35 years, because the feckless Republicans never pushed back. Once Trump started to push back, that rigidity and lack of independent thought was exposed.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2025 10:10 AM (L5An7)
/Waves
Posted by: Thomas Massie, Rand Paul, etc... at March 13, 2025 10:10 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2025 10:05 AM (L5An7)
now that makes sense
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 10:11 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025
***
Perhaps this is a signal to the art viewer that these women are not human.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 10:11 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: No Name Today at March 13, 2025 10:12 AM (vlXMQ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Preach it!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2025 10:12 AM (L5An7)
Posted by: davidt at March 13, 2025 10:12 AM (i0F8b)
REPORT: Michelle Obama has racked up a whopping 25,000 views on YouTube following the launch of her new podcast.
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Wow! 25,000 views! In contrast, the Critical Drinker has 2,200,000 subscribers. You go away now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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That's hilariously bad.
And, remember, everyone in power in the Democrat Party think she's massively popular with regular people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2025 10:12 AM (2Km7O)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Preach it!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2025 10:12 AM (L5An7)
Yeah… not one Lizzo on the rock…
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:13 AM (PCK5/)
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And later that Russian missile cruiser, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet Moskva was sunk by Ukraine.
Perhaps with a little help.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2025 10:13 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2025 10:13 AM (RHGPo)
An Indiana court has ruled that the state's Department of Corrections must arrange "gender affirming" surgery for a transgender inmate convicted of murdering a baby.
Autumn Cordellioné strangled the infant, calling her a "little b*tch" to police.
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Check xis/xer photo.
https://is.gd/DvJzCi
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:14 AM (L/fGl)
yep Kursk is a city and an oblast . The Ukes took 500 sq miles of the oblast but have just about been thrown out.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
oblast??
You People gonna make me learn a new word?
/sigh
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 10:14 AM (zlW+y)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 10:14 AM (pLaQB)
It took less than 2 months with zero help from Congress.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2025 10:15 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: naturalfake at March 13, 2025 10:15 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Boris Johnson treated the Ukrainians back then with the same wisdom that he used in shutting down the UK for Covid so he could party down at No. 10. Former journalist so you know what they are like.
Being outnumbered something more than 2:1 or greater in an attritional ground war means sooner or later you run outta soldiers.
Both France in WWI and the South in the Civil War had that problem and why both sought to widen the war by bringing others in (the US in WWI, and UK/France in the American Civil War).
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:15 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2025 10:16 AM (2Km7O)
Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2025 10:16 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 10:14 AM (pLaQB)
Not Leonidas Polk??? How’d he ever get a fort named for him? Sheesh…
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:16 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2025 10:16 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Eskimo at March 13, 2025 10:16 AM (ZYNmu)
You People gonna make me learn a new word?
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 10:14 AM (zlW+y)
I substitute "state," which should be close enough.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2025 10:17 AM (L5An7)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2025 10:17 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (zlW+y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2025
***
I've always seen her referred to as "a minor sea goddess." The term "Oceanid" was not one I'd run across.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2025 10:17 AM (KbCG3)
There's always money in the banana stand.
The banana stand being Ukraine.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (KbCG3)
About half of Obamacare free enrollees have never re-signed.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (gbOdA)
You People read to much.
Literacy is overrated.
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (zlW+y)
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What if I'm reading a Star Wars book? Is that even reading?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: SMOD
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Well, with his undeniable track record of success, why wouldn't he?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (fJiXH)
And, remember, everyone in power in the Democrat Party think she's massively popular with regular people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)
There is still a photo of her up in the closed US-A.I.D. offices...
Posted by: Inogame at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (53oGX)
Easily the worst romantic 'comedy' to be shat out upon the small screen in the past five years. Of course the story revolved around a lesbian/mixed-race wedding, because of course it did.
Which are the most boring and tiresome movie killers?
Is it still gay guys or have lesbians now taken the lead in tiresome and boring?
Posted by: naturalfake at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Josephistan at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (bHGBC)
Posted by: Lars at March 13, 2025 10:19 AM (kJH1Z)
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:19 AM (0HaGk)
Posted by: Eskimo at March 13, 2025 10:16 AM (ZYNmu)
I applied for disability and it will not be reviewed until 2026.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2025 10:19 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Lee was the military engineer that he was trained to be at West Point. Given that both sides had homelands to defend, Lee could not simply reproduce Washington's later Fabian tactics because war had changed into something more industrial by that point. Plus South did not have France or UK dropping into the war like France did for the US.
Absent perhaps a swift decapitation strike on DC or McClellan winning as president in 1864, I think the South would have lost anyway. Simply did not have the men, guns, and logistics to win a long struggle.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:19 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: The Count at March 13, 2025 10:19 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Eskimo at March 13, 2025
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I don't think so. My turnaround time was not two months. Of course that was back in 2021-22.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 10:19 AM (J2vNu)
I just had to refund them a large chunk of money.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:19 AM (VofaG)
Which are the most boring and tiresome movie killers?
Is it still gay guys or have lesbians now taken the lead in tiresome and boring?
Posted by: naturalfake at March 13, 2025 10:18 AM (iJfKG)
I would say the lesbians… they seem far more humorless…
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:20 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 10:14 AM (pLaQB)
Sure... an amazing cavalry leader, and a murderer of prisoners!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2025 10:20 AM (L5An7)
Posted by: naturalfake
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I would say that the "Magic Negro" has now been replaced by the "Angelic Tranny."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 13, 2025 10:20 AM (fJiXH)
The 126 pages of the playbook—including emails, talking points, and a “Firewalling for Freedom – Template Gubernatorial Executive Order”—were obtained in a public records request from the office of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro by the private nonprofit watchdog group Government Accountability and Oversight and shared with The Daily Signal.
Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2025 10:21 AM (RHGPo)
I'm for copyright reform.
There's no uniform, but we sometimes have donuts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 09:56 AM (GBKbO)
Hmm. Conundrum for you. Would that be a single flavor in the whole box - or would each donut have it's own unique flavor? Which is more representative of a club of single issue voters??
Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2025 10:21 AM (Uq+qx)
Tired this morning. Too many sirens going off.
Posted by: Lars at March 13, 2025 10:19 AM (kJH1Z)
Those aren't sirens.
They're Oceanides.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 13, 2025 10:21 AM (iJfKG)
And what's going on atop the rock?
Posted by: From about That Time at March 13, 2025 10:21 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 10:14 AM (pLaQB)
Sure... an amazing cavalry leader, and a murderer of prisoners!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2025 10:20 AM (L5An7)
Well, yeah, but he was no Bloody Bill Anderson…
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:21 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2025 10:21 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2025 10:21 AM (Uq+qx)
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It's whatever Todd decides to bring.
We're lucky if any are left in the box by the time he shows up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)
Indian lawmaker offers free cow to women who have a third child
https://is.gd/czuugx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Eskimo at March 13, 2025
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I don't think so. My turnaround time was not two months. Of course that was back in 2021-22.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 10:19 AM (J2vNu)
I got my answer back in a week in 2022 when I took it early at 62.
I would advise everyone who will apply in the future to get on their web site now and establish a history of checking it . I don't know if that helped speed up the process but it couldn't hurt.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:22 AM (VofaG)
btw, when the Republican called that tranny man freak "Mister," he immediately responded with a sarcastic, "thank you, Madame Chairman."
And that's why Fake News isn't too eager to show the clip, but just run the headline about "Republican 'misgenders' member of Congress!"
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 13, 2025 10:22 AM (zlW+y)
Kruk; I ain't an athlete, lady, I'm a baseball player
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2025 10:22 AM (2Km7O)
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:23 AM (0HaGk)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2025 10:23 AM (5MoTz)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 10:23 AM (xPSmT)
When those dudes on the island outpost told the Russian cruiser to pound sand instead of surrendering? And then they were obliterated?
To quote Buckwheat: t's been a long time since dem days!
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix
>I've never given two shits about any pissant conflict in Eastern Europe.
Let them bitches handle their shit! We need to stop manufacturing WMD in these shitholes and get out!
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 13, 2025 10:23 AM (fY84s)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2025 10:24 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2025 10:23 AM (5MoTz)
XX-XY… facts are stubborn things.
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:24 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2025 10:24 AM (cYBz/)
Not everyone.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2025 10:24 AM (LkLld)
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My position on the Ukraine War has not moved one jot since the start:
I don't care.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)
CBD, thanks for choosing this one.
Posted by: JTB at March 13, 2025 10:25 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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That is why uniparty grifters keep recapturing the GOP. Times get good, voters on the Right ignore cowardice, incompetence, and thievery, from their officeholders. I think a lot of the people on the Right simply want to be left alone and vote mainly to keep government off their backs.
On the left, government is their idol and religion as Big Daddy dispensing goodies.
Only way for the Right to win is destroy the machine and that means places like Ukraine, Euroland, etc. have to tend for themselves. The Cold War is over and both the Russians and the US lost. The Russians had their noses rubbed in it but to many of those on the Right of a certain age still can't keep from reverting back to Muh Cold War victory.
At best, it was a pyrrhic victory where we lost our freedoms at home so that Eastern Euros could be free for a time.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:25 AM (ctrM5)
But then I can barely remember to wear pants here.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 13, 2025 10:25 AM (fJiXH)
I applied in early December. They started the review then and finished in mid-February. I was eligible in December so they sent me back-payments for December and January as well as the payment for February in early March. I will now get all payments in the early part of each month. All this was done electronically and was so easy and smooth I thought something must be wrong.
Posted by: Brunnhilde at March 13, 2025 10:26 AM (3AwA+)
were there any?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:26 AM (VofaG)
Sign me up to die in that war. Please.
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:26 AM (0HaGk)
We're lucky if any are left in the box by the time he shows up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)
What is Todd's single issue?
Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2025 10:27 AM (Uq+qx)
were there any?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:26 AM (VofaG)
Benjamin Butler…
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:27 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 13, 2025 10:27 AM (MDua2)
>>I don't care.
I do. Not because I'm a fan of Putin. Because I detest our deep state. This is their war and I want to see them crushed.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2025 10:27 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: dantesed at March 13, 2025 10:27 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2025 10:23 AM
This is wisdom.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2025 10:27 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:28 AM (0HaGk)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2025 10:28 AM (k3Vs9)
"Oh, thank goodness you got here! We're cold, wet, starving, don't have any clothing and completely without hope."
'Unbuttons fly' - "Ladies, this just isn't your day."
Posted by: The Entire Joke at March 13, 2025 10:28 AM (cYBz/)
They've been fighting in that area over borders since well before the US existed. All the noise in the West is just for grift
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2025 10:28 AM (2Km7O)
>>I don't care.
I do. Not because I'm a fan of Putin. Because I detest our deep state. This is their war and I want to see them crushed.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2025 10:27 AM (LkLld)
Yep. Lot of blood on their hands… sadly, not their own.
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:28 AM (PCK5/)
Almost unique among civil war generals, he was criticized by other officers for taking such pains in his battle plans to keep his own troops casualties to a minimum. US Grant never liked him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 10:28 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I really need to get back to writing the business plan for Moron Fortune Cookies.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 13, 2025 10:28 AM (fJiXH)
I don't care.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March
*looks up*
*puts wet finger in the air*
Nope. Still don’t give a shit about Ukraine.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2025 10:28 AM (5MoTz)
We're lucky if any are left in the box by the time he shows up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)
What is Todd's single issue?
Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2025 10:27 AM (Uq+qx)
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He votes for anyone who will make it legal to dig up celebrity corpses to perform grand balls in the style of Jane Austen novels.
But don't let that fool you: he's weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)
were there any?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
William Quantrill wasn't much for set piece battles.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: eleven
Yeah. They march. He sits back in the safe zone. Hell of s plan if you are in the safe zone.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2025 10:29 AM (k3Vs9)
CBD, thanks for choosing this one.
Posted by: JTB at March 13, 2025 10:25 AM (yTvNw)
I was checking out buying a hardback copy of the Dore' illustrated "Gargantua and Pantagruel" on Amazon yesterday.
Yeesh. Pricey. But it seems all of the P&G translations are pricey.
French literature is like their wine...over-rated and too expensive.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 13, 2025 10:29 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I really need to get back to writing the business plan for Moron Fortune Cookies.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
*perk*
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2025 10:30 AM (k3Vs9)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at March 13, 2025
***
Same here regarding the ease issue. They adjusted my payments for the cost-of-living increase last year without my having to do anything, and have adjusted my payments automatically based on my current earnings (my last eight years have topped the list of thirty-five highest earning years).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 10:30 AM (J2vNu)
Good morning, good sir! Nice to see you hanging out again.
Know you are kissed.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2025 10:30 AM (5MoTz)
https://is.gd/IiRCX5
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2025 10:30 AM (247IU)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2025 10:31 AM (5MoTz)
Yeesh. Pricey. But it seems all of the P&G translations are pricey.
French literature is like their wine...over-rated and too expensive.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 13, 2025 10:29 AM (iJfKG)
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I mean, if you just want to read it, Gargantua and Pantagruel has been in the public domain for a long time:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1200
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)
"Oh, thank goodness you got here! We're cold, wet, starving, don't have any clothing and completely without hope."
'Unbuttons fly' - "Ladies, this just isn't your day."
Posted by: The Entire Joke
*snort
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2025 10:31 AM (k3Vs9)
Almost unique among civil war generals, he was criticized by other officers for taking such pains in his battle plans to keep his own troops casualties to a minimum. US Grant never liked him.
Posted by: Tom Servo
The Virginia born Union general obliterated Hood's army at Franklin and Nashville.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:31 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)
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Not so much.
Posted by: Lawrence, Kansas at March 13, 2025 10:32 AM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 13, 2025 10:32 AM (fJiXH)
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:32 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2025 10:32 AM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Everyone Here at March 13, 2025 10:33 AM (fJiXH)
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at March 13, 2025 10:34 AM (V6W16)
... I bet they do better than the Canadian Indian residential school gravesites
Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2025 10:34 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Which happens about once a month or so at March 13, 2025 10:34 AM (dg+HA)
Yesterday at Costco, I saw two guys with shaved heads and wearing track suits and speaking Russian.
Are all Russians guys Russian gangsters now?
They appeared to be discussing the merits of some bargain basement caviar.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 13, 2025 10:35 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at March 13, 2025 10:34 AM (V6W16)
Keep Fucks Snooze from being dead air?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2025 10:35 AM (VoAdT)
Not everyone.
Posted by: JackStraw
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My position on the Ukraine War has not moved one jot since the start:
I don't care.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I am repelled by both country's war aims and Russians and Ukrainians have been served poorly by their political leadership. I fully understand that the US intervening in Ukrainian politics in 2014 was both counterproductive and ensured that Russia increased its animosity toward the Ukrainian state which is exactly what the CIA etc. wanted.
But Putin took the bait because he cannot discard the programming of a lifetime about mythical Slav unity and traditional sphere of influence politics. He got a lot of Russians killed.
Zelensky should have made a deal after the decap strike failed, and Putin set back Russian society several decades in economic development to gain Lebensraum using Russian blood and treasure to do so.
I find justifications for stupid wars of choice from people here equally appalling. Simply put, like WWI, it was a war that did not have to be and screwed both the Ukrainian and the Russian populations at large.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:35 AM (ctrM5)
That's the old dudes up in the balcony on the Muppet Show that heckle everyone, right?
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 10:35 AM (xPSmT)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 13, 2025 10:35 AM (fJiXH)
Why Not: Oregon Mental Health Advisory Board Includes Member Who Identifies As A Turtle
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Which happens about once a month"
Wait until they get around to hashing out the whole religion thing.
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:36 AM (0HaGk)
That's the old dudes up in the balcony on the Muppet Show that heckle everyone, right?
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 10:35 AM (xPSmT)
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Heh.
I actually read it once. I remember nothing about it.
Trivia: What's the name of the black hole in Interstellar?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:36 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2025 10:36 AM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2025 10:36 AM (/U5Yz)
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"First of all, Jeff, it's pronounced Les-boss."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:37 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 10:37 AM (xPSmT)
Others say "re-plowable ground."
Posted by: But whatever at March 13, 2025 10:37 AM (dg+HA)
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Possessed by Satan?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)
I think it is much simpler than that. Putin did not want NATO on his border in any of the former Soviet Union states. He warned the West repeatedly.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:38 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)
Franklin is the saddest battle of the entire war, I think. Although technically a win for the Confederacy, their entire remaining officer corps was wiped out there. It reads as though they knew they were losing the war, and so the entire army decided to go out in one last blaze of Seppuku rather than accept defeat. They charged and charged fortified union lines until the Federal Army ran out of ammunition and had to retreat, but the cost to them was horrific. The photo of 7 dead generals laid out at the field hospital tells the story better than anything else can.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 10:38 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 13, 2025 10:38 AM (MDua2)
That's the old dudes up in the balcony on the Muppet Show that heckle everyone, right?
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025
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My geometry teacher in high school was named Rabalais (different spelling from the author, but same pronunciation), so whenever I hear the title of that book, I think of her. She wasn't hot, but she was oddly attractive. (And I liked geometry. So sue me.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 10:39 AM (J2vNu)
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Laying into the firepower of revolvers and swiftness of horses was a smart move. The Comanche's didn't have an answer to it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 10:39 AM (pLaQB)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1200
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)
Thanks.
I was looking for the Screech translation.
I read the Urquhart long ago but wanted to try an updated, more accurate translation.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 13, 2025 10:39 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: DaveA at March 13, 2025 10:40 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
She had an angular physique.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 13, 2025 10:40 AM (MDua2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 10:38 AM (uWKK
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Supposedly, Hood ordered the assault in a fit of pique at the army for letting Schofield's troops escape a few days earlier.
Posted by: Lawrence, Kansas at March 13, 2025 10:40 AM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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She had an angular physique.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 13, 2025
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Similar to a lot of her students.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 10:41 AM (J2vNu)
Stacy Abrams?
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 10:37 AM (xPSmT)
'I wanna name it Dottie after my wife. Because she's a vicious life destroying monster from which there's no escape.'
- amateur astronomer from Armageddon
That was just a fun movie. Not deep. Man v Nature.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2025 10:41 AM (/x6eu)
Not everyone.
Posted by: JackStraw
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My position on the Ukraine War has not moved one jot since the start:
I don't care.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Can they both lose?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2025 10:41 AM (k3Vs9)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2025 10:42 AM (247IU)
*checks notes
Fani Willis?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks
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Whatchoo tawkin 'bout?
Posted by: Fani Arnold at March 13, 2025 10:42 AM (64qRd)
But then I can barely remember to wear pants here.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
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I have fundamental sympathy for those being invaded rather than the less than stellar values of spheres of influence. That being said, Ukrainian leadership and the CIA purposefully bought off American pols, and big defense contractors, as the Middle East wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were winding down, sought new customers in Ukraine for their wares.
But Ukraine is a war where nobody looks good. Euroland, our Defense establishment, Putin, Ukraine, etc. About the only one benefitting strategically from the bloodletting from men and money is China. Like Iraq was to the US, a stupid war in a stupid place that resolved to make the US weaker by spending its blood and treasure. Made our more direct enemy in the area, Iran, stronger by measure.
Hubris and graft are not a sound reason to go to war.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:42 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:42 AM (0HaGk)
Yeesh. Pricey. But it seems all of the P&G translations are pricey."
Hi Naturalfake,
Can't help with P and G but a number of used Dore illustrated classics like The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, and others are available usually for under ten bucks. I especially like the Dore illustrations for Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Posted by: JTB at March 13, 2025 10:42 AM (yTvNw)
Can they both lose?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2025 10:41 AM (k3Vs9)
They have, in a sense…
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:42 AM (PCK5/)
Armageddon. >>> Deep Impact
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:42 AM (VofaG)
I don't care.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Can they both lose?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2025 10:41 AM (k3Vs9)
They are
Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2025 10:42 AM (VE6XX)
REPORT: Michelle Obama has racked up a whopping 25,000 views on YouTube following the launch of her new podcast.
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Wow! 25,000 views! In contrast, the Critical Drinker has 2,200,000 subscribers. You go away now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:09 AM (L/fGl)
Here's a video by "The Spiffing Brit" where he asks you to watch the whole 71 second video at half speed to fuck with YouTube's algorithm. 7.2M views.
https://youtu.be/TyguvcHwE3s
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: DaveA at March 13, 2025 10:43 AM (FhXTo)
The order specifically targets the reckless pursuit of frivolous injunctions, which have repeatedly cost taxpayers millions and disrupted republican governance.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2025 10:43 AM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2025 10:44 AM (QPFk7)
Posted by: rickb223
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Pretty much has happened. Not sure that Ukraine will survive as a state out of it and it hurt Russians pretty bad too for a territory that is not worth the price paid in blood and treasure.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:44 AM (ctrM5)
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But they had the Pope's seal of approval!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Lawrence, Kansas at March 13, 2025 10:40 AM (6K6Eu)
They didn't have to obey an officer who was out of his head with pain and laudanum (opium) addiction - instead they obeyed with the most suicidal dedication possible. They limped from Franklin to Nashville, and at Nashville Hood's army was so completely wiped out that it was never an organized fighting force again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 10:45 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2025 10:45 AM (/U5Yz)
Hadrian. I haven't seen him lately, any else? Usually he would be on Pixy, but not today, or yesterday, either.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 13, 2025 10:45 AM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth"
I fast forwarded through almost the entire Deep Impact.
The whole movie was the impact, which was the last 8 minutes of the move.
Armageddon was just terrible.
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:45 AM (0HaGk)
I don't think Putin took the bait anymore than Kennedy did when the Soviets tried to park missiles in Cuba or Reagan did with communist infiltration in Latin America. Trump will be pushing back on China in the Western Hemisphere as well. And I bet if Xi or Putin took out the leadership in Canada and installed his puppet that would cause some problems.
Putin has objected to NATO encroachment on Russia for many years. This is not something that just occurred a couple years ago. Everyone in the foreign policy world knew it because Putin said it over and over, NATO membership for Ukraine would cross his red line. He didn't just wake up one day with a hair across his ass and invade.
NATO is a relic of a long gone time. The purpose it was created for no longer exists and it has instead become a cover for expansion and aggression.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2025 10:46 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 10:46 AM (xPSmT)
Post Soviet problems that could've been fixed with a fleet of U-hauls.
Posted by: DaveA
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We are not immune to stupid wars. Somalia involved by GHWB is a perfect example of how even a small war ain't worth the candle to involve US blood and treasure to wade into tribal disputes.
Too many people not on the tip of the spear simply cannot say, "I don't care!" and that is one of the reasons that the Founders disliked a standing army. History teaches us that a nation with one sometimes finds less than optimal ways in employing it.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:47 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 10:47 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth"
I fast forwarded through almost the entire Deep Impact.
The whole movie was the impact, which was the last 8 minutes of the move.
Armageddon was just terrible.
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:45 AM (0HaGk)
I tried rewatching a couple of big movies from the past…Armageddon and Independence Day… I must have changed because neither of them were any good…
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:47 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 10:45 AM (uWKK
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More recent scholarship has shown that Hood was not using painkillers - he was gutting out what must have been incredible agony of riding with one leg on his own.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 13, 2025 10:48 AM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Dr_No at March 13, 2025 10:48 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth"
I fast forwarded through almost the entire Deep Impact.
The whole movie was the impact, which was the last 8 minutes of the move.
Armageddon was just terrible.
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:45 AM (0HaGk)
Armageddon out of this crappy Deep Impact movie.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 13, 2025 10:48 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 13, 2025 10:48 AM (64qRd)
Posted by: tubal"
Roland emmerich is sososo bad.
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:49 AM (0HaGk)
Good. Hopefully lots of arrests and and end to these grifters.
Posted by: Zombie Buford Pusser at March 13, 2025 10:50 AM (Ic155)
Dear sirs, I went to see the Black Hole expecting a show. I didn't see Lola Falana anywhere. The movie sucked
Signed , Cleon Smith
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2025 10:50 AM (2Km7O)
Kruk; I ain't an athlete, lady, I'm a baseball player
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2025 10:22 AM (2Km7O)
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Had the pleasure of getting to see John Kruk play for the Padres AAA team in Las Vegas (the Stars, later the 51s?) in the mid-80s before he made it to The Show -- along with a couple other guys like the great MLB catcher Sandy Alomar, Jr.
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 13, 2025 10:50 AM (pkm6L)
Posted by: Independence day at March 13, 2025 10:50 AM (iC9mg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2025 10:51 AM (247IU)
the Gerard Butler movie, "Greenland" is pretty good.
I enjoyed it. And it's currently on Prime? Maybe Max or Hulu? I forget.
Trump better hurry up and buy Greenland in case SMOD shows up.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 13, 2025 10:51 AM (iJfKG)
I tried rewatching the 2019 Midway last night. It's not very good. Woody Harrelson is alright, but that's about it.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 10:51 AM (xPSmT)
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:51 AM (0HaGk)
I tried rewatching the 2019 Midway last night. It's not very good. Woody Harrelson is alright, but that's about it.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 13, 2025 10:51 AM (xPSmT)
That movie was really bad.
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:52 AM (PCK5/)
Hadrian. I haven't seen him lately, any else? Usually he would be on Pixy, but not today, or yesterday, either."
Hadrian usually doesn't comment during Lent. Considering how much he enjoys AOSHQ, that is a big sacrifice.
Posted by: JTB at March 13, 2025 10:53 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 13, 2025 10:53 AM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Guess what, this is not Cuba back in 1960's, nor Nicaragua in the 80s' as both of those situations were part of the global great game of Risk between the US and the USSR. The constant whining about spheres of influence, red lines, etc. is the mindset of the past and Putin is enslaved by it. His 'protection' of the Russian people scattered deliberately in their Near Abroad colonies resembles that of Herr Schickelgruber. He is not an admirable man, mebbe a necessary one for Russia depending on your view, but equally involved in adventures abroad in Africa, the Middle East, Euroland, etc.
Both teh CIA and Putin deserve each other because they cannot stop playing Cold War games, but the rest of us don't.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:53 AM (ctrM5)
I don't care.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)
I'm so old, I remember when that position made you a Russian stooge.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2025 10:53 AM (ExV1e)
Ok ignore the fact that the Mexicans do run El Paso already.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 09:53 AM (uWKK
You are thinking along the lines of US/NATO war doctrine. "Shock and Awe". Reliance on naval, air , etc. The old USSR , land based doctrine (based on needs of the territory) is different. And moves at a different pace. The front line in Kursk is something like a border from Paris to Warsaw.
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2025 10:53 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2025 10:53 AM (ExV1e)
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Probably still does.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 13, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)
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We may need a RICO Czar (her name was Lola ...).
Second look at Rudy Giuliani?
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 13, 2025 10:54 AM (pkm6L)
Good. Hopefully lots of arrests and and end to these grifters.
Posted by: Zombie Buford Pusser
It may die of internal causes. The national level Catholic Charities is also under attack from state and regional level CC due to their support for illegals. Lots of lawsuits and withholding of donations and the like are currently being experienced.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2025 10:54 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Captain Obvious"
Speaking of anuses the lunar eclipse is tonite.
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:54 AM (0HaGk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2025 10:54 AM (/x6eu)
yeah i said it.
Posted by: eleven
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Whenever he gets full of himself I think about him with DJ Jazzy Jeff and laugh my ass off.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 13, 2025 10:55 AM (64qRd)
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:55 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2025 10:55 AM (AOsQT)
Really? So why is NATO currently building the largest NATO base in Europe right next door to Ukraine in Romania?
You know, the country where the globalist blob just took out the one nationalist candidate who wouldn't play ball with the globalists.
If you think the game is over you aren't watching.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2025 10:55 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:56 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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I wanted a f*ckin pony as a kid and got one. Miserable Shetland that like to suddenly roll when you were in the saddle or delighted in taking a kid through a grove of trees to knock you off. Beware of your desires because they can betray you. Putin wanted a war, got one, and impoverished his own country (and Ukraine) of blood and treasure.
One can always find a reason to go to war; a wise man finds the path to peace.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:56 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 13, 2025 10:48 AM (6K6Eu)
if true that's even worse - he had to have been completely out of his head with the pain, and should have been in hospital. I get much the same sense with the Confederate officers at the end as was present in the English and French officer corps in WW1 - their dedication to their duty and strict rules of obedience drove them inevitably to their own complete destruction. It's almost Shakespearian, if not Homeric.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 10:56 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:55 AM (PCK5/)
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You don't remember Uncle Joe?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 13, 2025 10:56 AM (6K6Eu)
I forgot Hadrian gives us up for Lent.
Thanks for the reminder. I like him, his updates on his doggehs.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 13, 2025 10:56 AM (Eo96p)
If you think the game is over you aren't watching.
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Yep.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2025 10:56 AM (pLaQB)
Irish, undocumented, and unsure of their future in Trump's America
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You destroyed your own country. Don't destroy ours.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 13, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 13, 2025 10:55 AM (64qRd)
Wild Wild West. Although the exchange between him and Kenneth Brannagh where he makes fun of him for being crippled and the other makes fun of him for being black is kind of breathtaking. They should play it at the Oscar's.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2025 10:57 AM (/x6eu)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 13, 2025 1
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Herschel originally thought it was a comet. Or maybe a marquis or parklane.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 10:58 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: eleven at March 13, 2025 10:58 AM (0HaGk)
Peace isn't nearly as profitable as war, apparently.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 13, 2025 10:58 AM (Eo96p)
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:55 AM (PCK5/)
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You don't remember Uncle Joe?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 13, 2025
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Sure. He was the one afraid to cut the cane.
I dread telling Aunt Sarah about him and the lake, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 13, 2025 10:59 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:53 AM (ctrM5)
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Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when the Cold War "ended" with the Berlin Wall crumbling.
"The End of History" in fact ...
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 13, 2025 10:59 AM (pkm6L)
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 10:56 AM (PCK5/)
Yeah, the idea was that you do not concentrate any one ethnic or tribal group in one area, but break them up and disperse the groups everywhere. Prevents uprisings.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2025 10:59 AM (/x6eu)
You know, the country where the globalist blob just took out the one nationalist candidate who wouldn't play ball with the globalists.
If you think the game is over you aren't watching.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I am well aware of Romania and I simply do not care. I also want the US out of NATO but 'large bases' in Nato territory are simply a stupid way of providing Russian missiles with a bigger target.
Trump seems to be a Jacksonian like I am; you fight to the death when necessary but avoid fighting for noxious power politics or other rotten historical ideas to go abroad looking for monsters to slay.
Risk is and should be a game for kids not adults playing with real people and real consequences.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 10:59 AM (ctrM5)
What about those being sporadically shelled for a decade because they didn't want to support the cabal that overthrew their government?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2025 10:59 AM (ExV1e)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang allergies. The meds knock me out and I slept in. Clearly missed a good thread.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2025 10:59 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2025 10:56 AM (uWKK
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I agree. I remember Harvey Hill's haunting comment (which shows up in Sears' "On To Richmond"): "We thought it a fine thing to charge an artillery battery. We were lavish of blood in those days."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 13, 2025 11:00 AM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2025 11:00 AM (/x6eu)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2025 11:01 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2025 11:00 AM (/x6eu)
Had never heard of such a thing… the things we learn here…
Posted by: tubal at March 13, 2025 11:02 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: whig
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If Risk was real, Ukraine would be kicking ass all the up to Archangel.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 13, 2025 11:02 AM (VsjNo)
It should be but it hasn't been since the end of WWII. That's the problem. And that's why I want Ukraine to lose.
The president of Poland is out today saying he wants US nuclear missiles in his country. That seems just a tad provocative, no?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2025 11:03 AM (LkLld)
It's weird how lousy the movie of "The Wild Wild West" was.
That was like a golden offshoot of James Bond just waiting to be made and make Hollywood a ton o' cash.
Though, if made now it'd be even worse.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 13, 2025 11:03 AM (iJfKG)
"The End of History" in fact ...
Posted by: ShainS
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And yet, GHWB promptly involved us in nasty little actions in Somalia, The Gulf War, and Panama to set up a noxious New World Order.
Simply put, if the US is to retain being a republic, we have to put away childish intentions to try to control the world around us by military power, subterfuge, and 'soft power'. The nature of a republic over time gets degraded when you add imperial trappings to it and it inevitably ends up with overextension, bankruptcy, and wars.
I prefer another way.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 11:04 AM (ctrM5)
It was a humanitarian mission in conjunction with the UN and not one US soldier killed during Bush's term. What is with the Bush's being the boogeymen for everything.
It was Clinton who expanded the mission and then ran like a pussy .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 13, 2025 11:08 AM (VofaG)
The president of Poland is out today saying he wants US nuclear missiles in his country. That seems just a tad provocative, no?
Posted by: JackStraw
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Tusk can ask, provocate, etc. but I don't think Trump has any intention in sending him nukes and the idea of moving US NATO bases out of Germany to Hungary is actually a disengagement move.
Orban is the odd man out in Euroland (aside from the prezzie of Slovenia) and wants a peaceful relationship with Russia. So does Meloni in Italy.
And my guess is that Putin ends up with most of Ukraine because he is in the driver's seat and Ukraine is collapsing just like Afghanistan did with the Taliban. When people no longer want to fight and die to keep a country; it will fold.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 11:09 AM (ctrM5)
It was Clinton who expanded the mission and then ran like a pussy .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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I don't care whether it was 'humanitarian' or not.
Leave that shit to the UN if you must--our troops are not and should not be social workers of the World. The problems of the Horn of Africa and its awful societies are not solvable by mres and American troops. To reorder a society, you have to forcibly colonize and run the place for something more than 20-30 years and it helps if the place had civilization once like Germany, Japan or S. Korea. While running the place as a colonizer, you have to be ruthless and play internal games of divide and conquer with factions like the British did or simply ignore them and exploit like the French and Belgians did.
Not a game worth playing and as a result, you have large Somalian colonies in the US in ME and Minnesota and a POS like Illhan Omar in Congress. Doesn't strike me as success from GHWB's adventure.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 11:15 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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And they shelled right back and blew up a Malaysian Air Liner. I don't care and posing their Donbass separatists as angels hardly fits the facts on the ground.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2025 11:17 AM (ctrM5)
Will the free spirits be ramping up with the coming eclipse?
Wikipedia, In part, "A total lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Friday, March 14, 2025,[1] with an umbral magnitude of 1.1804."
Nice seductive colors used for the painting, but I'd pass hanging. Thanks.
Posted by: L - No nick, another fine day at March 13, 2025 12:17 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2025 12:38 PM (NpAcC)
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