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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 18, 2025 [scampydog]
Unsurprisingly, there are differing explanations of how it started. One version claims a Greek soldier ran over the border chasing his dog (hence, it is sometimes referred to as the War of the Stray Dog), and the soldier was shot by Bulgarian sentries. The second version claims that Bulgarian troops crossed the border and killed a Greek officer and sentry. We have no idea what happened to the dog before anyone asks!This link goes a bit deeper. A couple of reports state that Greece was forced by the League of Nations to pay Bulgaria for the incursion and deaths.
Ah yes, the Pig War. San Juan Island, just off the coast of Washington State. Rosario Strait (channel) granted the Island to the British. Haro Strait - to the United States. I see no potential problems with the survey. Hoo Boy... let the games begin. Real estate and taxes. Never a skirmish over those items. Cheese Cannonball! Battle of Los Angeles, 1942. They fought nothing. Bonus, UFO conspiracy theory.
The potato battle. Get the closer up in the bullpen.
As the destroyer careened toward the submarine that was half its size, ready to send it to the bottom, someone aboard the U.S. destroyer surmised the sub could be a minelayer and take the O'Bannon to the bottom of the ocean in the resulting explosion. The ship turned rudder in a hurry, only to find itself now alongside its determined enemy. They were too close to use that buttload of weapons - or even their sidearms.
The Japanese naturally flipped the f*ck out when they realized they were next to an American destroyer. They scrambled, running for the ship's deck guns, which were the perfect weapon to use on the O'Bannon. The fortunes of the battle just changed 180 degrees. They needed to buy time to keep the enemy away from the deck guns while creating distance enough to use their own weapons - they looked around for anything they could chuck at the Japanese sailors. Luckily, they had been carrying bins of potatoes on the deck, and the Americans began to throw them at the crew of RO-34, who promptly began to flip the f*ck out once more. The half-asleep Japanese sailors thought they were hand grenades.
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Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at March 18, 2025 10:03 PM (QUkJd)
I've hiked in the Columbia River Gorge, it is beautiful but wet. The water comes out of the rocks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 18, 2025 10:03 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 18, 2025 10:03 PM (QXQ4l)
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Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at March 18, 2025 10:05 PM (Ze08y)
5 Sorry I'm late, it was difficult overcoming the corned beef bloat
Posted by: tankdemon at March 18, 2025 10:00 PM (VSht7)
Corned beef hash omelettes & fried potatoes and we toast last night
That's about as Irish as I get
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 18, 2025 10:05 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 18, 2025 10:05 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Bulg at March 18, 2025 10:06 PM (77rzZ)
We could end up with the Supreme Court ordering the President arrested and charged with treason by the end of the week.
Posted by: gKWVE at March 18, 2025 10:06 PM (gKWVE)
"War of Jenkins’ Ear, war between Great Britain and Spain that began in October 1739 and eventually merged into the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–4
. It was precipitated by an incident that took place in 1738 when Captain Robert Jenkins appeared before a committee of the House of Commons and exhibited what he alleged to be his own amputated ear, cut off in April 1731 in the West Indies by Spanish coast guards, who had boarded his ship, pillaged it, and then set it adrift"Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 18, 2025 10:06 PM (KfFMd)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2025 10:06 PM (t0Rmr)
https://tinyurl.com/bdzczka6
Posted by: Ciampino - Meh at March 18, 2025 10:06 PM (KjLnc)
A few you can just drive up to. Almost heaven.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 18, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/)
They were bulk importers, so they sold gazillions of weapons. Franco's entire wartime stocks from the Spanish Civil War were sold to them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2025 10:07 PM (ZOv7s)
https://tinyurl.com/bdzczka6
Posted by: Ciampino
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Whoa. That looks to be some fast moving water.
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 10:08 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2025 10:08 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2025 10:08 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg
Speaking of - my lovely wife informed me that there is a rather new mammogram procedure that doesn't squash the hell out of her sweater puppies as part of the exam.
Medicine marches on!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 18, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)
You're welcome.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 18, 2025 09:57 PM
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Here's the lady in her later days. Still pretty.
http://tiny.cc/ryud001
Safe for work.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 18, 2025 10:10 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: Bulg at March 18, 2025 10:10 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 18, 2025 10:10 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: BillyD at March 18, 2025 10:10 PM (Yt3ED)
Years ago some joker supposedly convinced women there was a new satellite mammogram test so that you just needed to flash the melons out the window and they'd let you know if you were good or not.
True? I really hope not but there are always some people...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2025 10:11 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Zombie JRR Tolkien at March 18, 2025 10:12 PM (i0F8b)
Lovely photo up top of a nice waterfall. Invites strolling along, doesn't it?
That game... I recognize that game... what a blast from the past!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 18, 2025 10:12 PM (rxCpr)
https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/
status/1902008572088909884
I still want to see some well-know American, politician or elite, in orange and SS bing so we can then call them notorious.
Posted by: Ciampino - Meh, more homegrown at March 18, 2025 10:12 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2025 10:12 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Bulg at March 18, 2025 10:12 PM (77rzZ)
I know from waterfalls.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 18, 2025 10:12 PM (Vvh2V)
Fifty four forty or fight!
Obviously meaningless to most here, when WA state still taught state history, it was the chant that James Polk used during his presidential campaign that was thought to have him win the White House. It happened in the San Juan Islands.
Now, the San Juans zip code's residents are the highest wealth average in the entire state.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 18, 2025 10:12 PM (y5Bkh)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 18, 2025 10:15 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Bulg at March 18, 2025 10:15 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at March 18, 2025 10:15 PM (H/u99)
willowed but not mine
457 Do you think there are living things in this picture?
https://tinyurl.com/296yc5tr
Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2025 09:53 PM (AOsQT)
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That is such a beautiful picture that it got dusty in here thinking about the artist that created it for mankind's awe.
Posted by: Ciampino - No words at March 18, 2025 10:16 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
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Thank you. Pic is from my dad's collection. He did well with his camera, and it's nice to be able to share some of his work.
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 10:17 PM (41CYW)
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Built on stolen Anglo-Canadian pigs and vegetables!!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 18, 2025 10:17 PM (/tzYP)
Medicine marches on!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 18, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)
I am told "Left breast, unremarkable; Right breast, unremarkable" is the desired diagnosis of a mammogram, but it is a blow the self image.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 18, 2025 10:18 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: DPICM at March 18, 2025 10:19 PM (M2VUX)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 18, 2025 10:19 PM (34k8f)
Fifty four forty or fight!
Obviously meaningless to most here, when WA state still taught state history, it was the chant that James Polk used during his presidential campaign that was thought to have him win the White House. It happened in the San Juan Islands.
Now, the San Juans zip code's residents are the highest wealth average in the entire state.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 18, 2025 10:12 PM (y5Bkh)
Coming soon to a school (child indoctrination center) near you:
Pigstory: The past as remembered by pigs. Those who fail the class are fed to a group of nearby pigs.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 18, 2025 10:20 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Lirio100 at March 18, 2025 10:20 PM (zS4/f)
Posted by: DPICM
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Had not heard about that one. Thanks. Adding it to the reading list.
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 10:21 PM (41CYW)
Last year an illegal immigrant in Grand Rapids murdered a woman and dumped her body along a freeway. We have enough of our own scumbags, we don't need to import them from foreign countries.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 18, 2025 10:21 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Kindltot
My dear wife fell not long ago and really conked her head good such that, a trip to the Emergency Department was called for. After all the scans and tests, the Dr. declared her spine, skull and brain were 'unremarkable'.
I still remind her of that.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 18, 2025 10:21 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 10:17 PM
Very cool. Thanks for that and the thread in general, SD.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 18, 2025 10:22 PM (mH6SG)
Chagrin Falls and the mighty Chagrin River ...
The dog came home from college to find his parents had moved ... into a house in Gates Mills, on the flood plain of the Chagrin.
Sure as shit, they got flooded out the first spring.
Explaining why they got the house so cheap.
***facepalm***
Posted by: browndog remembers home at March 18, 2025 10:23 PM (TTAGa)
My most memorable falls:
Took a looooong stroll from the hostel in Taroko Gorge in Taiwan, started picking my way along a mountain path that deteriorated until it led into a cave on the side of a loose, damp cliff. I entered the cave and kept pressing in even as it got tighter and tinier and I had to turn around and go out.
Outside, I figured I'd shimmy along the side of the mountain to get to the other side of this cave. Below me was the most tumultuous devil's punchbowl of a waterfall ever. Water roaring straight down into a pool that looked like a giant boiling cauldron it foamed so hard. No idea how deep it was. If you fell into it, you'd never get out; too much dissolved oxygen to float, so your best bet would be that somewhere at the bottom was a current that would shoot you downstream.
I had shimmied about twenty feet along the side of the cliff, over that punchbowl, with another untold to go when I started to slip downward in fast, short slips. I realized the entire cliffside had the consistency of potting soil. I would try to grip it or dig my feet in, and that would either stop my slide or cause a big clump to form and fall away beneath me. ...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 18, 2025 10:23 PM (lCaJd)
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Posted by: Bulg at March 18, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ)
They mostly repeat the propaganda they are fed, but deep inside they think they are helping The Paolo come to the US and that he'll be...grateful.
They just don't realize their fantasy Paolo is actual 5'2 Jose who not only doesn't speak English, also barely speaks any Spanish
Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2025 10:25 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 18, 2025 10:25 PM (mH6SG)
One of these days, I'll host one. Yeah. And you'll find it interesting.
Heh Heh Heh
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 18, 2025 10:25 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: DPICM
There were only two notable japs on island. One Japanese-American supported the pilot. Bookkeeper. Born here. Activiely supported the crashed pilot. The other, born in Japan, a gardener, kept his head down.
Everyone else was native Hawaiian.
Jap popped a local with his nambu, pissed him off. So local bro killed the jap by smashing his skull against a stone wall.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 18, 2025 10:26 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 18, 2025 10:26 PM (VNX3d)
... I realized I was in trouble. Do not panic. Do not slide down this cliff. Every move was dangerous. I somehow inched my way back to firm ground and stared down at that giant pool. It was about 15 feet across, and I think the falls were about as tall as my one-story house, but VIOLENT. I went jaunting back to the hostel.
Some Taiwanese guy asked me where I'd been. "On a hike." "Well, don't go to the side of the mountain that way!!!" (pointing to where I'd been). "That trail was closed since the flood because it's dangerous!"
I'm just not going to do that sort of thing again.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 18, 2025 10:26 PM (lCaJd)
Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stranded at the International Space Station for nine months, are back on Earth after splashing down Tuesday off the coast of Florida.
By Sheri Walsh
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Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at March 18, 2025 10:27 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2025 10:27 PM (T+ixL)
Took the kids on a waterfall tour of the U.P. thirty years ago.
We text, occasionally. Talking is still difficult,
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2025 10:29 PM (j4U/Z)
I think the one-time Christopher Lee ever co-starred with John Belushi and Slim Pickens.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 10:30 PM (Ocj/H)
Let’s argue that most were no threat. But, perhaps 5 to 10 per cent could potentially be trouble. What number is that? I bet it equals an Army division, something like that.
In Politics, nothing happens by chance, if it happens, somebody wants it that way. Keep in mind the Allies were getting their ass handed to them from ‘39 thru ‘43 or near enough. The outcome wasn’t known. And the US government wasn’t willing to leave anything to chance. I don’t believe they had the manpower or the resources for such a large undertaking that internment and relocation entailed for frivolous reasons.
Everything was rationed - you couldn’t even buy a tube of toothpaste without turning in the empty tube (they were made of metal) for recycling.
Ergo, If the government expended that much manpower and resources and $$$ to intern Japanese, that meant they were scared shitless
Posted by: Common Tater at March 18, 2025 10:32 PM (gGTff)
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at March 18, 2025 10:32 PM (y7zkd)
Posted by: gKWVE at March 18, 2025 10:23 PM (gKWVE)
Oh boy,. Chucky gave us a Democrat sound-bite for the ages. He said something along the lines of Americans who don't want to pay taxes are greedy.
This is definitely an interesting timeline.
Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2025 10:32 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 10:33 PM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 18, 2025 10:33 PM (7geUv)
When I first arrived in Nebraska, mumbledy-mumble years ago and complained about the weather, everybody and their brother cheerfully chirped "Oh, you don't like the weather? Just wait an hour."
Posted by: Livia Augusta at March 18, 2025 10:33 PM (xoECP)
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I don't know. Does it have a female captain and executive officer??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 18, 2025 10:34 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 18, 2025 10:34 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * slow dancing at March 18, 2025 10:34 PM (SaMN7)
Hello, Jim SND! 😘😘😘
Transylvania County in North Carolina has a LOT of waterfalls in it - hence the name "Transylvania".
Parents lived there for many years, now DD#3 and her husband live there (in parents' house). It is beautiful country!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 18, 2025 10:34 PM (SRRAx)
https://tinyurl.com/yk2x39bn
Posted by: Ciampino - nice at March 18, 2025 10:35 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Common Tater at March 18, 2025 10:36 PM (gGTff)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 18, 2025 10:36 PM (mlg/3)
Back in the late eighties I took a 7 day raft trip through the Grand Canyon. On one of the side hikes, the guides took us to a falls, don't now the name of it. But you could brace yourself behind the falls, and when you let go, it would pull you straight down, and then shoot you back up. It was a bit scary, but definitely fun.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 18, 2025 10:37 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Livia Augusta
I think they say that in every state without a seacoast. And maybe some of those.
Posted by: mikeski says it in MN at March 18, 2025 10:38 PM (DgGvY)
https://mol.im/a/14509017
Ridiculous. Bet there are no written records to prove religious significance. The Abbos just want money.
Posted by: Ciampino - shame if that pink went black at March 18, 2025 10:38 PM (KjLnc)
I still remind her of that.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 18, 2025
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Dibs on your gubs.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2025 10:39 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: gKWVE at March 18, 2025 10:40 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Livia Augusta
I think they say that in every state without a seacoast. And maybe some of those.
Posted by: mikeski says it in MN at March 18, 2025 10:38 PM (DgGvY)
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There's definitely some truth to that here in MO. 80 degrees and sunny today, predicting snow on Thursday.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 18, 2025 10:40 PM (cweKM)
Rokko 🇯🇵 ✈︎ techiyaki.substack.com @Msamalam Mar 17
Japan’s stereotypes of the world. 1932
Click top right, load in 4K.
For even higher res, see reply↓
http://tiny.cc/k1vd001
linking to the whole [fully-readable] thread because there are some translations and explanations for who some of the characters are like France's Minister of Finance. You don't have to download the map to see/access it.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 18, 2025 10:40 PM (/tzYP)
Posted by: Common Tater at March 18, 2025 10:40 PM (gGTff)
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 10:41 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 18, 2025 10:34 PM (+VovS)
***SNORT***
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 18, 2025 10:42 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Ciampino - shame if we find you at March 18, 2025 10:42 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 10:33 PM (Ocj/H)
We interned them, did not bury them. We had Liberal governments in both Ottawa and Victoria, and therefore they were corrupt and crooked. Much Japanese property, like fishboats and real estate, and home furnishings, were stolen, and they were never compensated. Stolen by Liberals. The internees were not crammed into camps, but resettled in safe interior towns like Greenwood, B.C. and Lethbridge, Alberta, and quickly became part of the local economy. Some of the internees took root there, and never returned to the Coast.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 10:42 PM (MqtqS)
Posted by: gKWVE at March 18, 2025 10:40 PM (gKWVE)
Maybe, but he just might be primaried by a screwball (AOC).
Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2025 10:42 PM (gKDq2)
Ahem.... *BLECHGHGH* (spits)
Thank you, You may now continued with your regular scheduled programming.
Posted by: Orson at March 18, 2025 10:42 PM (dIske)
I think the one-time Christopher Lee ever co-starred with John Belushi and Slim Pickens.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 10:30 PM (Ocj/H)
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I made $2000 in two weeks on that movie. Pretty good money for 1979.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 18, 2025 10:42 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: mikeski says it in MN
"Don't like the weather? Wait 4 mos." Every Northern State.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 18, 2025 10:43 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 18, 2025 10:44 PM (Aqu9a)
https://mol.im/a/14507577
Posted by: Ciampino - shame if we find you at March 18, 2025 10:44 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 10:44 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: pookysgirl, abiding by some very old laws at March 18, 2025 10:45 PM (Wt5PA)
Ahem.... *BLECHGHGH* (spits)
Thank you, You may now continued with your regular scheduled programming.
Posted by: Orson at March 18, 2025 10:42 PM (dIske)
Call me crazy but I'm a big believer in pizza flavored anything be a, you know, pizza.
Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2025 10:46 PM (gKDq2)
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So, may we assume your review of pizza-flavored Pringles would be similar?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 18, 2025 10:47 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 18, 2025 10:47 PM (Vvh2V)
This is cromulent.
Posted by: Ahhhh, so... at March 18, 2025 10:47 PM (ab5KQ)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 18, 2025 10:42 PM (6K6Eu)
Hell yeah that was good money in '79. That was five pounds of good Colombian.
Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2025 10:47 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 18, 2025 10:48 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2025 10:46 PM (gKDq2)
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I'm with ya on that. Hell, I bought these stupid things. But, they don't taste like pizza. I'm getting a "wear your boots and tramp around in a swamp for three days before taking them off" sort of thing.
Posted by: Orson at March 18, 2025 10:48 PM (dIske)
Deported Dominican drug dealer WEEPS as she's arrested by ICE again
https://mol.im/a/14509509
Posted by: Ciampino - shame if we find you at March 18, 2025 10:48 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
If i'm not mistaken fast changes in weather temperature can lead to tornadoes.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 18, 2025 10:50 PM (0Htd1)
Deported Dominican drug dealer WEEPS as she's arrested by ICE again
https://mol.im/a/14509509
Posted by: Ciampino
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Was hoping someone would link that -ONT was already girthy enough. Not as girthy as that drug dealer. Thanks, Ciampino.
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 10:50 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2025 10:47 PM (gKDq2)
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Good thing that I bought a car, then.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 18, 2025 10:50 PM (6K6Eu)
Thomas Sowell has a way of distilling issues down to the basics.
Schumer is a Fossil at this point, arguing points and hurling invective over something that was disingenuous a hundred years ago. Now it’s just absurd. First as tragedy, now as farce.
There is no relationship between spending and tax revenue. The legacy systems and institutions he is referencing, are predicated on an economy that died a long, long time ago. He should know - he helped kill it.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 18, 2025 10:50 PM (gGTff)
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And presumably the more recent Battle: Los Angeles, which was better than I expected.
Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2025 10:51 PM (Dnobf)
Ahem.... *BLECHGHGH* (spits)
Thank you, You may now continued with your regular scheduled programming.
Posted by: Orson at March 18, 2025 10:42 PM (dIske)
Call me crazy but I'm a big believer in pizza flavored anything be a, you know, pizza.
Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2025 10:46 PM (gKDq2)
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Agreed. When it comes to Cheetos there's no substitute for the original...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 18, 2025 10:51 PM (cweKM)
https://mol.im/a/14508883
Posted by: Ciampino - shame if we find you at March 18, 2025 10:51 PM (KjLnc)
And we got the old MTD wood chipper running, but the blades are too dull to work very well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 10:51 PM (MqtqS)
But did they stay in those camps for all of the war? No.
May 1, 1943, edition of Manzanar's Free Press
"Certified by the Federal government as a loyal American, Fred A. Hiroaka ... became Chief Engineer in Hastings Nebraska, recently. ... He is replacing Chief Engineer Duanne B. Allison who is entering the Army after serving the station for the past two years.
Same edition had an advertisement for jobs far from the camp to pick sugar beets for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.
But was it all roses? No. November 1942, when Marines were engaged in savage combat on Guadalcanal, the guard towers at Manzanar lacked electricity and the fence was not finished. Even after the Manzanar Uprising in December 1942 in which three were killed and ten wounded, none escaped.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 10:52 PM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 10:44 PM
Look for one tomorrow.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2025 10:52 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 18, 2025 10:54 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 10:54 PM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Hang on to it. They could still release the Epstein files.
Posted by: mikeski at March 18, 2025 10:54 PM (DgGvY)
Closing time you don't have to go home but you can't stay here...
Jamie Lissow made me laugh tonight when he exclaimed...that's the song my ex-wife's vagina sang at our wedding reception.
Posted by: Farmer at March 18, 2025 10:55 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 10:58 PM (41CYW)
If you follow the timeline, he sent a wire off, had his dog with him in the car and left it, they changed the time Oswald was being moved, it wasn’t totally random, but there’s no way it was “planned”. He did want to kill him, obviously.
I think probably Oswald hung out at Ruby’s strip club, they knew each other, at least in passing. Something like that. Supposedly the secret service partied well into the morn of 22 November ‘63 at Ruby’s club. They were all hung over pretty good.
There was a cover up, but a lot of it was for more mundane reasons.
What’s new in terms of information so far?
Posted by: Common Tater at March 18, 2025 10:58 PM (gGTff)
Jamie Lissow made me laugh tonight when he exclaimed...that's the song my ex-wife's vagina sang at our wedding reception.
Posted by: Farmer at March 18, 2025 10:55 PM (55Qr6)
***
I had to laugh at the discussion about Furries.
Kristy Noem did a Furrie snuff film.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2025 10:59 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 10:33 PM (Ocj/H)
We interned them, did not bury them. ...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 10:42 PM (MqtqS)
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You covered them in cheese and gravy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 18, 2025 11:01 PM (RIvkX)
I conflated that with the Native American mass grave claim I guess.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 10:54 PM (Ocj/H)
Heh. I knew it was a typo. There's no mass graves, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:01 PM (MqtqS)
Rare sighting of four snow leopards together sparks frenzy of excitement
https://tinyurl.com/yk2x39bn
Posted by: Ciampino
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Wow, the way those things are climbing a steep slope covered with snow up to their shoulders. Not a life for the sick or weak.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 18, 2025 11:02 PM (lCaJd)
Reportedly, Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald met at a nightclub weeks before JFK was shot, per JFK files
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 18, 2025 11:03 PM (/tzYP)
Rare sighting of four snow leopards together sparks frenzy of excitement
https://tinyurl.com/yk2x39bn
Posted by: Ciampino
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So beautiful! Thanks for the link.
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at March 18, 2025 11:04 PM (Cu0iA)
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 10:58 PM (41CYW)
Too bad I am on laptop, with poor sound.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:05 PM (MqtqS)
The files may not be easily combed through by AI. There are handwritten documents, old newspaper clippings, etc. and none of it is in text format that can be selected.
Looks like a good deal of it is going to have to be pieced together.
Posted by: Just reporting at March 18, 2025 11:05 PM (yEg2x)
I have a friend whose paternal grandparents were intered. Central CA farmers. (Table grapes, iirc)
The other farmers knew the gvt would steal the land if it became "unkempt" so they all took turns doing whatever it is that must be done to keep table grapes thriving. When her grandparents were released, their farm looked better than any surrounding farm for miles.
Her grandparents never, ever forgot it. They were also very patriotic and she never heard them say anything bad about what had been done.
One of her maternal uncles was in some sort of mitary unit, I think pilots, comprised of all Japanese men. I mean, they were 3rd and 4th generation Americans, but ethnically Japanese.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 18, 2025 11:05 PM (Vvh2V)
Hasn't happened in a long time but who knows?
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2025 11:05 PM (fwDg9)
But whose counting?
Posted by: Ahhhh, so... at March 18, 2025 11:06 PM (ab5KQ)
10 falls within the park, all accessible from a couple of mile trail.
You can walk on a path behind one of them, just like the movie trope.
Lots of pics on yelp:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/silver-falls-state-park-sublimity
Posted by: buddhaha at March 18, 2025 11:07 PM (Vi5xh)
Why doesn't Trump make Elon a US Government official? One of the Powerline lawyers considers the latest reversal (un-firing of USAID employees) to have merit, since DOGE and Elon are not constitutionally or legally empowered to fire government employees. I'm simplifying, but Powerline assures us the opinion is lengthy and balanced.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 18, 2025 11:07 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 11:08 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Just reporting at March 18, 2025 11:05 PM (yEg2x)
Can you say "malicious compliance"? The dirtbags at the 3-letters are not going to lift a finger to make it easy to search those files.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:10 PM (MqtqS)
The files may not be easily combed through by AI. There are handwritten documents, old newspaper clippings, etc. and none of it is in text format that can be selected.
Looks like a good deal of it is going to have to be pieced together.
Posted by: Just reporting
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In cannot read cursive?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 18, 2025 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:11 PM (Ocj/H)
Hasn't happened in a long time but who knows?
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip
Isn't that little scamp adorable?
He can stay up and watch scary movies as long as he does not bother me or my special friend, "Uncle" Willie.
Posted by: Afeectionate and tolerant Auntie Miklos at March 18, 2025 11:11 PM (I8gAO)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 18, 2025 11:12 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 18, 2025 11:07 PM (lCaJd)
Never Trump Powerline is full of shit as usual. DOGE is advisory only. They didn't make any firing decisions. The cabinet heads are.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 18, 2025 11:12 PM (Z3mv7)
I am genuinely shocked, because I was 100% that little shitweasel was gay.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 18, 2025 11:13 PM (W5ArC)
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There's a link towards the bottom for volunteers to transcribe documents, so it will depend on how much interest there is.
Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2025 11:13 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 18, 2025 11:14 PM (Vvh2V)
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They're also not doing any of the firing, they're just making recommendations, which seem to get acted on with alacrity.
Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2025 11:14 PM (Dnobf)
Manzanar. By John Armor and Peter Wright. Times Books. 1988.
It includes many photographs taken by Ansel Adams which shows the residents had a rough time but were far from being stacked like bodies. Unlike what the Germans or the Japanese did.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:15 PM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Miklos expresses Unbreakable Solidarity and Non-Agression Pact with Uncle Palp at March 18, 2025 11:16 PM (I8gAO)
I had seen ads for Medicare 'extra' benefits but I never had them. Then my plan was cancelled and I had to change. There were very few choices, like 7 IIRC, and I chose a $35 extra premium plan (on top of Medicare's $185). This plan has extra benefits. One of them is a pre-paid type credit card that is loaded at the beginning of each quarter with $95; it's money you either use or you lose at the end of a quarter. Free money. I can buy over-the-counter along with a selection of other products like TP. But no food. That's small potatoes compared to what's been stolen and could have gone to us, or never even taken away as taxes in the first place.
The Democrats are why we can't have nice things.
Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2025 11:16 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: gKWVE at March 18, 2025 11:16 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:16 PM (Ocj/H)
I am genuinely shocked, because I was 100% that little shitweasel was gay.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 18, 2025 11:13 PM (W5ArC)
Well, Harry Sisson needs to be doxxed and poxed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:17 PM (MqtqS)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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442nd Infantry Regiment
Served in the European theater, one of the most highly decorated units in the war. Almost all.Nesei.
_Go For Broke_ was a movie about the unit made in the '50s.
Posted by: buddhaha at March 18, 2025 11:17 PM (Vi5xh)
Looks like a good deal of it is going to have to be pieced together.
Posted by: Just reporting
OCR still around?
Posted by: Miklos vaguely remembers at March 18, 2025 11:17 PM (I8gAO)
Posted by: Diogenes
Crinkly or non-Crinkly furries? Oh forget it, just yiff it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:18 PM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Just reporting
No such thing, these days. My iPhone can select text in a .jpg image. Even handwritten cartoon fonts.
It's annoyingly insistent about it, even. If I want to long-press on a meme to save it, I have to press where there isn't any text nearby to get the "save to photos" menu, otherwise it highlights the text and gives me the "copy/select all/look up" menu.
Posted by: mikeski at March 18, 2025 11:19 PM (DgGvY)
amusing meme
https://bit.ly/foot-sneak
Posted by: mindful webworker - weary and weak at March 18, 2025 11:20 PM (h7Ym/)
Though far off in Japan there was Frank Fujita, American POW and proud son of Texas, who refused to change his name because he was afraid if he did and died his parents would never know his fate.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:20 PM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Miklos vaguely remembers at March 18, 2025 11:17 PM (I8gAO)
I am sure it is. But the OCR'ed docs will have to be carefully proof-read, because the process is error-prone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:21 PM (MqtqS)
Posted by: K Noem at March 18, 2025 11:21 PM (W/lyH)
They are just wildly flailing at this point. Whack jobs issuing dictats from the bench. Very sad because it makes the public distrust them and their institutions even more than they already do, they were held about on par with dogshit. They are corrupt, conflicts of interest, on the take. Whatever ultimately happens, it will happen much quicker now, which I think is .. ultimately a good thing.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 18, 2025 11:21 PM (gGTff)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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I did not know that DOGE fired a single person.
A "Judge" declared this to be a fact?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 18, 2025 11:21 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Miklos vaguely remembers
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I recall OCR early days. Spent a lot of time editing/correcting, mumbling under my breath that retyping might be faster.
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 11:22 PM (41CYW)
Never Trump Powerline is full of shit as usual. DOGE is advisory only. They didn't make any firing decisions. The cabinet heads are.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen
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Yes, and didn't Secretary Rubio shut down USAID?
The other part of the argument is whether the president can dissolve an agency established by Congress. I'm afraid Roberts may decide it's a tax.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 18, 2025 11:22 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: gKWVE at March 18, 2025 11:16 PM (gKWVE)
That’s not disqualifying for Democrats. See: Biden.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 18, 2025 11:22 PM (34k8f)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Who do you want doing the careful proofreading? DOGE worshipers or government drones?
Posted by: mikeski at March 18, 2025 11:22 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:16 PM (Ocj/H)
IMAO, Powerline are those "it's just not done that way" country club Republicans. Not much use in a foxhole.
Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2025 11:23 PM (gKDq2)
I am sure it is. But the OCR'ed docs will have to be carefully proof-read, because the process is error-prone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Aren't we all.
Posted by: Hawaiian District Judge Miklos at March 18, 2025 11:23 PM (I8gAO)
Posted by: Diogenes
Furry muffs are out of style these days.
So I've been told.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 18, 2025 11:24 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Common Tater at March 18, 2025 11:21 PM (gGTff)
Aero Pinochet is looking better every day. Start up the rotors!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:24 PM (MqtqS)
Posted by: Diogenes
Crinkly or non-Crinkly furries? Oh forget it, just yiff it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:18 PM (Ocj/H)
They crinkle?
Hell, I have no idea what that means. I was just repeating the joke.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2025 11:25 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: scampydog
But voice to text software works PERFECTLY
Posted by: Miklos wasted time with that at March 18, 2025 11:25 PM (I8gAO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:25 PM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: mikeski at March 18, 2025 11:25 PM (DgGvY)
https://youtu.be/hDDOCds46l0
Posted by: Gref at March 18, 2025 11:25 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Shorpy has Ansel Adams pics of job boards at the camps... They could any time they wanted to (except for one).
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 18, 2025 11:26 PM (/lPRQ)
https://mol.im/a/14508883
Posted by: Ciampino - shame if we find you at March 18, 2025 10:51 PM (KjLnc)
Who does he think he is, Michelle Obama?
Posted by: Kindltot at March 18, 2025 11:26 PM (D7oie)
Hell, I have no idea what that means. I was just repeating the joke.
Posted by: Diogenes
Not only do the crinkle, they FALL DOWN
Worthless fucks
Posted by: the Weebles at March 18, 2025 11:26 PM (I8gAO)
I did not know that DOGE fired a single person.
A "Judge" declared this to be a fact?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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It is odd. "the Appointments Clause of the Constitution; plaintiffs allege that Elon Musk could not make the decision to effectively shut down USAID because he is acting as an Officer of the United States without having been duly appointed to such a role."
But DOGE didn't fire anyone from USAID. Lawsuits were filed against Bessent, Rubio, and Trump.
So is this about a "decision" as opposed to an action?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 18, 2025 11:26 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:21 PM (MqtqS)
OCR is very accurate these days. I used to process 200k pages /month and the error rare was much lower than having a human do it. Even scribbled notes in the margins of documents that had been photocopied to hell and back were legible to the program.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 18, 2025 11:26 PM (34k8f)
Posted by: Cave Johnson at March 18, 2025 11:27 PM (rl83t)
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at March 18, 2025 11:27 PM (tRYqg)
Posted by: gKWVE at March 18, 2025 11:28 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: mikeski at March 18, 2025 11:22 PM (DgGvY)
MAGA folks, mostly. But the proofreading has to be as close to 100% perfect as can be done, lest the Usual Suspects denounce the discoveries as "fabrications".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:28 PM (MqtqS)
Posted by: Cave Johnson at March 18, 2025 11:28 PM (rl83t)
Had to be rescued by helicopter.
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 18, 2025 11:29 PM (fY84s)
Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stranded at the International Space Station for nine months, are back on Earth after splashing down Tuesday off the coast of Florida.
By Sheri Walsh
Updated Mar. 18, 2025 08:48 PM
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at March 18, 2025 10:27 PM (hOUT3)
Were I a reporter I would write that Suni and Butch made a successful prison break today.
Posted by: Gref at March 18, 2025 11:29 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2025 11:29 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:29 PM (Ocj/H)
https://___ur.com/a/KViNYyg
Posted by: Cave Johnson at March 18, 2025 11:27 PM (rl83t)
I laughed when I saw that earlier. I bet ol' Dan Rather would still run with it.
Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2025 11:30 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:30 PM (MqtqS)
I have spent a lot of time at Silver Creek Falls state park
There are also some nice falls in the Coast range, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 18, 2025 11:30 PM (D7oie)
Could LEAVE any time they wanted
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 18, 2025 11:31 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: gKWVE
There is iron in my words.
Posted by: fiercely heterosexual Cory Booker at March 18, 2025 11:31 PM (I8gAO)
Just watch CSI: Las Vegas episode "Furr and Loathing" just to get the highlights of all the lowlifes.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:32 PM (Ocj/H)
https://___ur.com/a/KViNYyg
Posted by: Cave Johnson
They're still redacting them!
https://imgur.com/a/KViNYyg
Posted by: mikeski fixed it at March 18, 2025 11:32 PM (DgGvY)
https://___ur.com/a/KViNYyg
Posted by: Cave Johnson at March 18, 2025 11:27 PM (rl83t)
I laughed when I saw that earlier. I bet ol' Dan Rather would still run with it.
Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2025 11:30 PM (gKDq2)
Hah!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:32 PM (MqtqS)
Posted by: fiercely heterosexual Cory Booker at March 18, 2025 11:31 PM (I8gAO)
there's been some steel in your mouth, i'd believe
Posted by: gKWVE at March 18, 2025 11:33 PM (gKWVE)
Later, I did without solitaire. Freecell was too enticing. I know I can win this! I just know it! (Restart)
Posted by: mindful webworker - not playing games at March 18, 2025 11:33 PM (h7Ym/)
Posted by: fiercely heterosexual Cory Booker at March 18, 2025 11:34 PM (I8gAO)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 18, 2025 11:31 PM (/lPRQ)
Whut?!
Posted by: Resident - Hotel California at March 18, 2025 11:35 PM (+I6Y/)
Not really a Phantom fan. Have exactly one F-4J kit in stash. May get an F-4B and a F-4EJ. But only if they are on sale.
Huns, Scooters, Crusaders, SLUF, Spad; those yeah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:37 PM (Ocj/H)
If I understood it, Suni and Butch and the rest were going to be flown to shore via helicopter after being checked out by the flight surgeons onboard the recovery ship. The ship had a helipad on top if you noticed.
Then they'll stay in Florida for a little bit, checked out and observed for a little while longer, and if all AOK will be flown back to Houston.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 18, 2025 11:37 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
In my experience, it's more being thrown out
Posted by: Miklos has closed bars on four continents at March 18, 2025 11:38 PM (I8gAO)
It's like they're not even trying any more. Their cultists are so brainwashed they could give 'em a dried up cow patty (not beef patty)) and tell 'em it's a pizza and they'd stuff it down.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 18, 2025 11:38 PM (W5ArC)
https://is.gd/XUyV4v
Snoqualime Falls, WA
https://is.gd/qq3f7R
Sitting Bull Falls, NM
https://is.gd/0fPuNU
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 18, 2025 11:38 PM (hjWnr)
Posted by: pookysgirl, abiding by some very old laws at March 18, 2025 10:45 PM (Wt5PA)
A Top Five All-Time mic drop statement.
Reporters are too stupid and too Leftist to understand laws on the books are laws on the books, despite feelz and a desire for A Living Constitution. Leftist Federal Judges nowadays seem to be more stupid and more Leftist than J-School grads. Quite an accomplishment there.
Posted by: Gref at March 18, 2025 11:38 PM (aBgBM)
Gerbil worming?
Posted by: gKWVE at March 18, 2025 11:39 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: gKWVE at March 18, 2025 11:33 PM (gKWVE)
We do not speak of my "third spirit" cousin, Iron Cock Cody.
Posted by: Iron Eyes Cody at March 18, 2025 11:39 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Arrival and welcome song for smelly chick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kKlHBxOVIk
Posted by: Genial late Nite Miklos at March 18, 2025 11:40 PM (I8gAO)
Then they'll stay in Florida for a little bit, checked out and observed for a little while longer, and if all AOK will be flown back to Houston.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 18, 2025 11:37 PM (w6EFb)
I wonder if having been in weightless conditions in space for many months would render a person susceptible to motion sickness aboard a ship in a gentle swell? Or, contrarily, immune to motion sickness?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:41 PM (MqtqS)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:41 PM (Ocj/H)
hope. Heparin complicates everything, even when it is not related to a medical procedure.
Posted by: KT at March 18, 2025 11:42 PM (2g3Eg)
Not really a Phantom fan. Have exactly one F-4J kit in stash. May get an F-4B and a F-4EJ. But only if they are on sale.
Huns, Scooters, Crusaders, SLUF, Spad; those yeah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:37 PM (Ocj/H)
An F-4 Phantom II coming in for a carrier landing, with everything hanging-down, is an aerodynamic and mechanical engineering miracle.
Posted by: Gref at March 18, 2025 11:42 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Miklos vaguely remembers at March 18, 2025 11:17 PM (I8gAO)
>>I am sure it is. But the OCR'ed docs will have to be carefully proof-read, because the process is error-prone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Which is why it looks like some of this will have to be "pieced together", so to speak. Anyone who has ever done research at one of the historical sites like Genealogy Bank can attest to how many errors there can be in generating OCR text transcriptions from old newspapers, let alone handwritten documents. Is there any new, highly advanced tech out there I'm not aware of that can facilitate absolutely accurate text data extraction from *any* materials? Obviously there must not be any errors made with these JFK documents.
Posted by: Just reporting at March 18, 2025 11:42 PM (yEg2x)
https://is.gd/XUyV4v
Snoqualime Falls, WA
https://is.gd/qq3f7R
Sitting Bull Falls, NM
https://is.gd/0fPuNU
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
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Very nice. Been to the first two. And knew a girl from Washtucna. But that's another story.
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 11:43 PM (41CYW)
I reached a point where, with a computer upgrade, I did NOT install Minesweeper. Time stealer indeed.
Later, I did without solitaire. Freecell was too enticing. I know I can win this! I just know it! (Restart)
Posted by: mindful webworker
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The reason I'm here is that I reset Fishdom for the LAST TIME a few weeks ago. I swore on my cousin's grave I wouldn't go back. Otherwise I'd be wasting my time designing virtual aquariums and using my game points to fill them with fish.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 18, 2025 11:43 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:43 PM (Ocj/H)
Gerbil worming?
Posted by: gKWVE at March 18, 2025 11:39 PM (gKWVE)
Sign of an economic slowdown, according to them.
They don't say how they know it's a "slowdown" rather than a rise in supply or other factors. Probably because a "slowdown" is the easiest to blame on Trump.
Posted by: Iron Eyes Cody at March 18, 2025 11:43 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: gKWVE
My 15 pound dog just got a dewormer in two drops.
Don't know how you could portion that for gerbils.
Posted by: Miklos admits Mystification at March 18, 2025 11:43 PM (I8gAO)
IIRC, the "motion sickness" can go both ways, and this varies with each individual. Some will get nauseated on return to 1g.
They will be undergoing physical therapy routines they've worked out to help get them back to 1g as fast as possible. Bone density loss is a problem.
1 year in zero-g is sort of limit. Longer than that, and there may be more permanent problems.
9 months is getting close that. Butch and Suni will have it a little harder than the normal 6 month crew stints.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 18, 2025 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
I am genuinely shocked, because I was 100% that little shitweasel was gay.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Well, maybe he wasn't harassing real women. Maybe he was harassing trans "women".
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 18, 2025 11:45 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Iron Eyes Cody's Sicilain mama at March 18, 2025 11:46 PM (I8gAO)
hope. Heparin complicates everything, even when it is not related to a medical procedure.
Posted by: KT
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Sorry to hear that, KT. Get yourself healthy!
Posted by: scampydog at March 18, 2025 11:46 PM (41CYW)
Zero-g has also sorts of ill effects beyond that which are obvious, turns out. Immune system function gets compromised, and they tend to get more colds and the like after return than normal.
Everything about life here evolved and operated in 1g, and that's just the basic "given" to everything. Every process in the human body works in 1g acceleration, and that can affect things in ways you don't even think about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 18, 2025 11:47 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: No Bullshit at March 18, 2025 11:47 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: KT at March 18, 2025 11:48 PM (2g3Eg)
Entertaining ONT while I am sitting in the hospital waiting to get fluid drained off my lung tomorrow, I
hope. Heparin complicates everything, even when it is not related to a medical procedure.
Posted by: KT
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KT, I hope it goes well. What else might we discuss to entertain you?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 18, 2025 11:48 PM (lCaJd)
There is some tolerance to 1g, long term call it 1g +/- s.
The question is how small is 's'. It's looking more and more like it's pretty small.
There are those think humans will adapt quickly -- think Mars colony, 1/3 g. I'm not optimistic about that at all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 18, 2025 11:50 PM (w6EFb)
Served in the European theater, one of the most highly decorated units in the war. Almost all.Nesei.
_Go For Broke_ was a movie about the unit made in the '50s.
Posted by: buddhaha at March 18, 2025 11:17
One of our local hist soc members served in that unit. He gave a program on his experiences. Was hot down over enemy lines, maybe Hungary, as he paracuted he said he heard angels singing and he survived. Was a much respected dentist in the area.
Posted by: Farmer at March 18, 2025 11:50 PM (55Qr6)
Met one today at lunch. Tried to ignore his beating the bully pulpit where upon he decried his expertise in everything on politics. His lunch partner, an older gentleman, even tried to shut him down politely with "if you know so much why don't you be President."
But he persisted. I had been rolling my eyes the whole time. And his lunch partner caught me rolling them again when he started talking about how cultists they are with the red hats and shirts.
So, the older guy addressed me directly. With invitation in hand, I merely asked the SME "you mean like all those people going 'mmm mm mmm Obama,' like those cultists?"
He quickly changed the subject and started expounding upon why he is such a god when it comes to medicine. Some people refuse to take the hint they ain't hot sh1t.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:50 PM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Anna Puma
>The F-4 Phantom II was a brute force, powerhouse much like the A-10 Warthog.
Once in a while we get things right.
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 18, 2025 11:51 PM (fY84s)
Posted by: KT at March 18, 2025 11:52 PM (2g3Eg)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at March 18, 2025 11:53 PM (yTvNw)
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/
1902187382436143223
Posted by: Ciampino - shame if we find them at March 18, 2025 11:55 PM (KjLnc)
"Captain George Pickett (yes, that George Pickett) and 66 soldiers of the 9th Infantry Regiment under Pickett's command to San Juan Island with orders to prevent the British from landing."
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 18, 2025 11:57 PM (hjWnr)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 18, 2025 11:58 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: raimondo at March 18, 2025 11:58 PM (xZigY)
hope. Heparin complicates everything, even when it is not related to a medical procedure.
Posted by: KT at March 18, 2025 11:42 PM (2g3Eg)
I hope everything comes out all right! Get well soon!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:59 PM (MqtqS)
Criterion Flash Sale started today.
BAGGED ME A COPY OF THE GODZILLA COLLECTOR'S SET!!!!!!!
WOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
And with $90 bucks in their free gift certificates I paid something like $22 bucks.
Also bagged the new edition of Godzilla Vs. Biollante and a Richard Pryor documentary called Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling.
Posted by: Robert at March 19, 2025 12:00 AM (1Yy3c)
The Phantom just kept stumbling into other roles.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2025 12:00 AM (Ocj/H)
All this stuff is slowly coming back to me. What was key to Orbiter prox ops was it being a terrific, precise, prox ops spacecraft.
Posted by: Gref at March 19, 2025 12:00 AM (aBgBM)
Posted by: scampydog
I loved the Stan Getz recording of that best.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2025 12:00 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: pookysgirl is tired at March 19, 2025 12:00 AM (Wt5PA)
From a summary I'm reading:
Most returned astronauts experience postural imbalance, uncoordinated locomotion, and vertigo and nausea similar to space motion sickness for months.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2025 12:00 AM (w6EFb)
hope. Heparin complicates everything, even when it is not related to a medical procedure.
Posted by: KT at March 18, 2025 11:42
Best wishes KT, hope it all goes well and your recovery continues apace.
Posted by: Farmer at March 19, 2025 12:00 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2025 12:01 AM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Ciampino - doctors can be wonderful at March 19, 2025 12:01 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2025 12:01 AM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: raimondo at March 18, 2025 11:58 PM (xZigY)
You sit in the corner jerking off while you watch as your mother gets double teamed by her weed dealer and her meth dealer?
Posted by: Robert at March 19, 2025 12:02 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Miklos wasted time with that at March 18, 2025 11:25 PM (I8gAO)
As my Grandpa used to say to my Grandma: "Ethel, there ain't nothing perfect in the World...except maybe that Shuck Chumer, he's about as close to a perfect ass as humanly possible!" I may have made that last part up....
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at March 19, 2025 12:02 AM (y7zkd)
Thanks.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2025 12:03 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ciampino - amazing what we've done at March 19, 2025 12:04 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: scampydog at March 19, 2025 12:04 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2025 12:05 AM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Ciampino - amazing what we've done at March 19, 2025 12:05 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 12:06 AM (MqtqS)
Posted by: scampydog
Washtucna! I love the Palouse region and have been to all the small towns there many times when conducting one of my many poking around trips. I would have retired there but those winters take some real commitment.
Instead I ended up in New Mexico. Sitting Bull Falls is in a remote area near Carlsbad Caverns, NM.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 19, 2025 12:06 AM (hjWnr)
Hmmm, 0.4g seems to be a minimum. Below that, long term cardiovascular and musculoskeletal effects. So, Mars isn't enough.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2025 12:06 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2025 11:41 PM (MqtqS)
I was getting seasick just watching the capsule bob around in the water. I hope the astronauts are made of sterner stuff than me.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 19, 2025 12:07 AM (KfFMd)
Will need armor piercing rounds if you go for head shots. Densest part after all.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2025 12:07 AM (Ocj/H)
https://mol.im/a/14511403
I wonder where does he meet them?
Posted by: Ciampino - women problems at March 19, 2025 12:07 AM (KjLnc)
I really like your catgirl pirate ones. I need to change it to kitsune because Pooky basically told me I'm a kitsune steampunk pirate for the next campaign. (He got a steampunk hat for Christmas and it only fits me.)
Posted by: pookysgirl is tired at March 19, 2025 12:08 AM (Wt5PA)
So, the older guy addressed me directly. With invitation in hand, I merely asked the SME "you mean like all those people going 'mmm mm mmm Obama,' like those cultists?"
He quickly changed the subject and started expounding upon why he is such a god when it comes to medicine. Some people refuse to take the hint they ain't hot sh1t.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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I'm surprised he'd heard of them.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 19, 2025 12:09 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2025 12:09 AM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Ciampino - time to start shooting arsonists at March 19, 2025 12:09 AM (KjLnc)
Of course he heard of them, that is how the Media probably described them. As cultists who wear red.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2025 12:10 AM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
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Good stuff. I grew up in Eastern, WA. Interesting on Carlsbad. Did some consulting work a few years ago on a multifamily asset purchase for a group. While working through the due diligence, I went down the Caverns rabbit hole - online. All was remote work - but the pictures look amazing.
Posted by: scampydog at March 19, 2025 12:11 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Ciampino - time to start shooting arsonists at March 19, 2025 12:11 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2025 12:12 AM (Ocj/H)
we had weather alerts for tornados while driving along with double rainbows. How does That happen?
Posted by: KT
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It seems to me it's possible to have rain + sunshine + tornado at the same time, but I wouldn't want to find out. Tornadoes scare me.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 19, 2025 12:12 AM (lCaJd)
Combination of male and female hormones.
Mix roid rage with PMS and you've got an ugly, ugly scenario.
Not as ugly as the tranny probably is, but ugly.
Posted by: Iron Eyes Cody at March 19, 2025 12:13 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Ciampino
I'm not an expert, but I don't think that's how you midwife.
Posted by: mikeski at March 19, 2025 12:13 AM (DgGvY)
https://tinyurl.com/77dy7d2x
Time to literally charge these people with adulteration of food?
Posted by: Ciampino - time to start shooting arsonists at March 19, 2025 12:13 AM (KjLnc)
So, SpaceX can hit inside the bullseye but NASA needs to aim for a body of water that is near a full one half of the planet.
But Elon is evil or something.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2025 12:15 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2025 12:15 AM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Ciampino - time to start shooting arsonists at March 19, 2025 12:15 AM (KjLnc)
Elon is a smart, smart man, but somehow he's never learned the lesson that most of us learn at an early age.
Never. Stick it. In crazy.
Ever.
Posted by: Iron Eyes Cody at March 19, 2025 12:15 AM (W5ArC)
Of course he heard of them, that is how the Media probably described them. As cultists who wear red.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Wine moms and cultists are different, I guess. The prima wine mom I know 1) wouldn't have heard of those mm-mm-mm cultists, and 2) when shown, wouldn't know what to think.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 19, 2025 12:15 AM (lCaJd)
She has now been charged with a second felony for using a crowbar to break in. But still they refuse to kick her out.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2025 12:16 AM (Ocj/H)
Posted by: Tonypete
They have become a mite niche.
Posted by: mikeski
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A twofer! * golf clap*
Posted by: buddhaha at March 19, 2025 12:18 AM (Vi5xh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2025 11:43 PM (Ocj/H)
I thought that was the Space Shuttle.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 19, 2025 12:19 AM (VNX3d)
Mercury and Gemini splashdowns were all in the Atlantic, I think. Apollo 7 and 9 were also in the Atlantic.
The Pacific was chosen for the Moon returns because it was much bigger target and more room for error. The Moon return was direct.
Returning from orbit gives you more flexibility in timing and location for weather problems.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2025 12:21 AM (w6EFb)
https://mol.im/a/14511305
I love the 'sovereign citizen' they did not see a warrant and did not think they had to exit their car, because they 'knew their rights.'
Unfortunately the USSC has ruled no warrant needed for a traffic stop and you have to exit the vehicle when ordered.
Posted by: Ciampino - time to start shooting arsonists at March 19, 2025 12:22 AM (KjLnc)
And in the future Dragons will be splashing down in the Pacific. The reason was debris from the jettisoned "trunk" of the capsule. They thought it would completely burn up, but it didn't and some large enough pieces fell back in some various shithole countries somewhere.
Doing it over the Pacific eliminates that problem (mostly).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2025 12:23 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ciampino - time to start shooting arsonists at March 19, 2025 12:22 AM (KjLnc)
Driving is a privilege, not a right.
Posted by: RickZ at March 19, 2025 12:24 AM (gKDq2)
Some years ago, say 25-30 years, some person that was still holding a grudge about all this cut the right foot off a statue of Oñate.
This created a bit of an uproar that went on without end until Oñate's right foot suddenly reappeared a couple years ago.
This massacre was one of many atrocities committed by the Spanish and would result in a widespread revolt by the Pueblos in 1680.
Acoma Massacre
https://is.gd/4jbHdm
Pueblos Revolt
https://is.gd/VQPVAx
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 19, 2025 12:25 AM (hjWnr)
Posted by: Ciampino - time to start shooting arsonists at March 19, 2025 12:22 AM (KjLnc)
Driving is a privilege, not a right.
Posted by: RickZ at March 19, 2025 12:24 AM (gKDq2)
In a lot of countries, it's a left.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 19, 2025 12:26 AM (VNX3d)
https://mol.im/a/14513115
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Democrats hold hands and CRY at town meeting over ICE deportation
https://mol.im/a/14512855
Posted by: Ciampino - time to start shooting arsonists at March 19, 2025 12:29 AM (KjLnc)
Heh, reading about Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell sinking disaster (and he nearly drowned himself, due to his spacesuit taking on water due to an open air valve).
He piloted Gemini 3. He wanted to name it "The Titanic" as a joke, but NASA wouldn't hear of that. So he went with the "Unsinkable Molly Brown".
And Grissom did not panic and blow the hatch early as some claim. It was a malfunction. This has been conclusively settled.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2025 12:30 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ciampino - time to read him the riot act at March 19, 2025 12:30 AM (KjLnc)
https://mol.im/a/14512855
Posted by: Ciampino - time to start shooting arsonists at March 19, 2025 12:29 AM (KjLnc)
I never checked whether anyone captured the tears for sale under the "Liberal Tears" brand.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 19, 2025 12:30 AM (VNX3d)
https://mol.im/a/14511305
I love the 'sovereign citizen' they did not see a warrant and did not think they had to exit their car, because they 'knew their rights.'
Unfortunately the USSC has ruled no warrant needed for a traffic stop and you have to exit the vehicle when ordered.
Posted by: Ciampino - time to start shooting arsonists at March 19, 2025 12:22 AM (KjLnc)
Their lawyer claims they are Nicaraguan, but I have met many Nicas, and they don't look like typical Nicas to me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 12:31 AM (MqtqS)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 19, 2025 12:33 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 12:34 AM (MqtqS)
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The side of the road is not where you argue your supposed rights, go to court.
Posted by: Ciampino - time to read him the riot act at March 19, 2025 12:35 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
So
They have met Darleen
Posted by: Miklos takes supplements for that at March 19, 2025 12:36 AM (I8gAO)
KT, prayers up for you.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Gray box friends can be pretty good friends.
Posted by: Miklos at March 19, 2025 12:38 AM (I8gAO)
The Carlsbad Caverns are an absolute gem. The work done to get the lighting just right and reveals the breathtaking beauty without ever getting in the way. The walk takes about 2 hours to complete and one can get down to the cavern by elevator or by a secondary walking path that drops you down into the cavern. If you are able to do the somewhat steep descent the walk down is the way to go. Either way take the elevator up. Pro tip: get your ticket online instead of just showing up.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 19, 2025 12:38 AM (hjWnr)
https://mol.im/a/14512525
Posted by: Ciampino - time to read him the riot act at March 19, 2025 12:39 AM (KjLnc)
https://mol.im/a/14511305
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Where's the other half of the video?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 12:42 AM (bGbSt)
https://mol.im/a/14512525
Posted by: Ciampino - time to read him the riot act at March 19, 2025 12:39 AM (KjLnc)
For a second, I thought it was because it had too large a proportion of actual food to preservatives.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 19, 2025 12:43 AM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Ciampino - time to read him the riot act at March 19, 2025 12:43 AM (KjLnc)
Ciampino-
"Jeanette Vizguerra, a mother of four, was arrested at a Denver-area Target store where she worked on Monday"
Should be a problem for Target, No?
Posted by: Miklos so opines at March 19, 2025 12:43 AM (I8gAO)
468 Safety features for the illiterate and ignorant.
First gas stove had a line to the burner and to the pilot for each
burner. Turn the gas on and the pilot lights the gas.
Gas became more expensive so dad cut the pilots off.
Presto, comes the kitchen matches. Best idea is to light the
match before turning on the gas.
Ask a welder.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 12:44 AM (bGbSt)
ICE detains woman on Time 100 list as daughter makes stunning claim
https://mol.im/a/14513115
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I couldn't find the stunning claim, could you?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 19, 2025 12:44 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Megthered at March 19, 2025 12:44 AM (wCr+o)
https://mol.im/a/14511457
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What happened to the Kennedy files???
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 12:45 AM (bGbSt)
MiL, 12, was at middle school in Murphysboro, IL. Part of the brick school collapsed.
https://tinyurl.com/342txxy9
Posted by: Ciampino - what a time at March 19, 2025 12:47 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Brave.
Stunning is so 2023
Posted by: Miklos, style maven at March 19, 2025 12:47 AM (I8gAO)
Nature always wins.
Posted by: Orson at March 19, 2025 12:48 AM (dIske)
Posted by: Ciampino
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No, no, h8ter! It's "material from an undocumented newcomer."
Posted by: buddhaha at March 19, 2025 12:49 AM (Vi5xh)
Posted by: Miklos, a bientot at March 19, 2025 12:49 AM (I8gAO)
Posted by: scampydog at March 19, 2025 12:50 AM (41CYW)
https://tinyurl.com/mwcp4zuc
Posted by: Ciampino - what a time at March 19, 2025 12:51 AM (KjLnc)
https://mol.im/a/14513115
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I couldn't find the stunning claim, could you?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 19, 2025 12:44 AM (lCaJd)
They should deport her ass on ugliness grounds alone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 12:51 AM (MqtqS)
He's six months old.
I'm in trouble, aren't I?
Posted by: pookysgirl still lives in the House Of Low Wisdom Scores at March 19, 2025 12:52 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Megthered at March 19, 2025 12:44 AM (wCr+o)
_______________________
There's a nice cave system in Kentucky called Mammoth Cave. When I went through, they had a glass partition over an area of dirt, and spread out on the ground was a full human skeleton. They called it "Lost John." Somehow I think the politically correct among us have since removed those remains...but it upped the anti a little for a kid like me who had never been in a cave that big before. It was motivation not to go off on my own, which I know my parents appreciated.
Posted by: Orson at March 19, 2025 12:54 AM (dIske)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 12:55 AM (bGbSt)
Just reading about Gus Grissom's hatch blowing. This is what they think happened, now:
It was static discharge from the recovery helicopter first touching the capsule that triggered the detonator on the explosive hatch. Grissom's was the first to use this explosive hatch design.
Procedure called for the helicopter crewman to cut some whip antenna on the top of the capsule to get it out of the way to attach the lifting hook. They cut with some long wand thing.
Crewman recalls a spark when he first made contact. They enhanced footage of the recovery operation, which confirms the hatch blew off right when he made contact.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2025 12:55 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Megthered at March 19, 2025 12:44 AM (wCr+o)
I went to Bat Cave, NC, today. Didn't see any bats, or any caves, but saw plenty of reminders of the Hurricane Helene flooding. And lots of ongoing repair work to roads, homes, and businesses. Folks here are tough and resilient.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 12:56 AM (MqtqS)
The Liberty Bell has been recovered. Unfortunately the hatch was not, which could have laid the matter to rest. They may find it yet.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 19, 2025 12:56 AM (SfY1i)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 12:55 AM (bGbSt)
Perhaps. We are trying to tell the kids about what to watch out for at age-appropriate times. Pookette's new therapist doesn't think she's ready to hear about Pooky's suicide attempt, and I agree. Pookette does know that Daddy sometimes sees things that aren't there and that's part of how JT The Wonder Dog helps Daddy.
Posted by: pookysgirl knows that blue squirrels are not real at March 19, 2025 01:01 AM (Wt5PA)
KT, please send an update when you feel up to it.
Posted by: scampydog at March 19, 2025 01:01 AM (41CYW)
Would that be a smoking gun? I assume under employment it wouldn’t say “CIA/FBI/KGB Informant Triple Reverse Double Agent” but maybe there is something there that could be gleaned.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 19, 2025 01:02 AM (SfY1i)
https://tinyurl.com/mwcp4zuc
Posted by: Ciampino - what a time at March 19, 2025 12:51 AM (KjLnc)
Well I’ll be..
Posted by: Zombie Ted Kaczynski at March 19, 2025 01:02 AM (34k8f)
Or so EweTube tells me.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 19, 2025 01:03 AM (KfFMd)
Would that be a smoking gun? I assume under employment it wouldn’t say “CIA/FBI/KGB Informant Triple Reverse Double Agent” but maybe there is something there that could be gleaned.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 19, 2025 01:02 AM (SfY1i)
I’m guessing he didn’t check the box to donate $3 to the Presidential election fund..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 19, 2025 01:04 AM (34k8f)
Babylon Bee: Releases files show JFK killed by seed oils.
Bobby Jr tells Big Seed Oil, I knew it, I'm coming for you and hell's coming with me.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2025 01:05 AM (w6EFb)
You've been watching Donut Operator, haven't you?
Posted by: pookysgirl, not quite wackers at March 19, 2025 01:07 AM (Wt5PA)
Bobby Jr tells Big Seed Oil, I knew it, I'm coming for you and hell's coming with me.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2025 01:05 AM (w6EFb)
(shifty eyes)
Posted by: Olive Oyl at March 19, 2025 01:08 AM (MqtqS)
The Football War (July 14-18, 1969). Started during a soccer match between El Salvador and Honduras and, obviously, escalated rather quickly.
The War of the Golden Stool (March 25-September 30, 1900) An epic struggle between the British Empire and the Ashanti nation, over possession of a - you guessed it - golden stool. The stool (really a throne) conferred the right to rule the Ashanti people upon he who sat in state upon it.
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (38-45 minutes, August 27, 1896) Zanzibar, home to one of the most wide-ranging slave-trade enterprises in all of Africa, was bombarded by the Royal Navy to depose the pro-slavery Khalid bin Bargash.
Posted by: Count Orlok at March 19, 2025 01:09 AM (Wl9BE)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 01:10 AM (MqtqS)
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (38-45 minutes, August 27, 1896) Zanzibar, home to one of the most wide-ranging slave-trade enterprises in all of Africa, was bombarded by the Royal Navy to depose the pro-slavery Khalid bin Bargash.
Posted by: Count Orlok at March 19, 2025 01:09 AM (Wl9BE)
People who live in grass houses should never stow thrones.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 01:13 AM (MqtqS)
Posted by: Common Tater
* sarcastic roar *
Posted by: Gojira at March 19, 2025 01:16 AM (DgGvY)
look at this
https://tinyurl.com/yc3ua4kt
Eat healthy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFv04wcBt4g
Nina Teicholz, PhD @bigfatsurprise
Science journalist, Ph.D. in nutrition, author of The Big Fat Surprise, which argued that saturated fats not bad for health but seed oils/carbs are.
https://x.com/bigfatsurprise
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 01:17 AM (bGbSt)
"Point Nemo" is now the preferred spacecraft graveyard. Plans for deorbiting the ISS are going to aim for there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2025 01:19 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Because some oils are bad oils and some oils are good oils.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 01:20 AM (bGbSt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Because some oils are bad oils and some oils are good oils.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 01:20 AM (bGbSt)
And, if enough bad oils get together, they form a gang, and it's a slippery slope from that point on.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 19, 2025 01:22 AM (VNX3d)
Olive oil is from the pulp rather than the seed. Has omega-9 fatty acids, mainly oleic acid.
Posted by: Ciampino - what a diet at March 19, 2025 01:23 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 01:13 AM (MqtqS)
Well done.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 19, 2025 01:23 AM (34k8f)
The Pork and Beans War, aka the Aroostook War (1838-1839) A bloodless affair that arose from disputes over the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick.
The Korean Expedition (June 1-July 3, 1871) A forgotten clash between the U.S. Navy and Korea's Joseon Dynasty.
Posted by: Count Orlok at March 19, 2025 01:25 AM (Wl9BE)
look at this
https://tinyurl.com/yc3ua4kt
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The American Heart Association has been pushing high-carb diets for decades. Creating a wave of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Bastards.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 19, 2025 01:25 AM (34k8f)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 19, 2025 01:25 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
The British canola gangs are especially evil.
Posted by: mikeski at March 19, 2025 01:25 AM (DgGvY)
May everyone's tomorrow be worthwhile, and you find all the happiness and peace you can.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 19, 2025 01:29 AM (VNX3d)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 19, 2025 01:30 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2025 01:19 AM (w6EFb)
"The first spacecraft to be sent to Point Nemo was the Soviet Union’s Salyut 1 in 1971. Since then, more than 250 spacecraft have been sent to the graveyard, including the Mir space station, the Skylab space station, and the Beagle 2 Mars lander."
Coincidentally, this is also the location of the sunken city of R'lyeh, and Great Cthulhu is getting pissed about all the junk that keeps landing on his roof.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 19, 2025 01:30 AM (KfFMd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Worthy of nomination for best comment of the week!
Posted by: Count Orlok at March 19, 2025 01:33 AM (Wl9BE)
Posted by: Ciampino - what a diet at March 19, 2025 01:23 AM (KjLnc)
I really don't have a problem with olive oil. But I do have a problem with a blanket condemnation of all "seed oils" as bad juju. If certain oils are deemed to be unhealthy, name them, and explain why.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 01:34 AM (MqtqS)
Multnomah Falls (heck, the whole I-84 drive through The Gorge) is beautiful. If you walk up & cross that little bridge, keep walking.. the trail goes up to the top of the falls. There is (was?) a deck up there, overlooking it all. And more trails.
Posted by: JQ at March 19, 2025 01:34 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 19, 2025 01:38 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Count Orlok at March 19, 2025 01:33 AM (Wl9BE)
Not mine. It is the punchline to a very, very old joke of the type known as a "Feghoot".
"And, as the box on the dump truck began to raise up, the rary stirred, opened one eye, and looked over the edge of the cliff, and said, "it's a long, long way to tip a rary."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 01:39 AM (MqtqS)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 19, 2025 01:39 AM (0nHVk)
I don't think the Nihau Incident played any role in the internment decision, at least it didn't show up in the very vigorous debate within the administration over the executive order. There was no internment in Hawaii. Army intelligence believed it had things under control in terms of Japanese espionage or sabotage networks.
However the exact opposite was true on the west coast. Thanks to US penetration of the Japanese diplomatic code ("Purple"), we had good info on the network honcho'd by a Japanese naval attache in Washington. This network stretched from San Diego to Seattle, mostly in port cities, and prior to Pearl Harbor arrests were made by the FBI. It was this network and the fear that there were unknown unknowns that drove the argument to exclude and intern (not "racism" or "hysteria", as was absurdly claimed by the ludicrous commission in the 80s, and is literally inscribed on a boulder outside the Manzanar museum).
(cont)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 19, 2025 01:39 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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You would have been disappointed at Horse Shoe also.
I received a report today re FEMA grant for rebuilding the Veteran's Restoration Quarters. It is as f'd up a bureauracy as is imaginable. The news today is that they insist upon knowing where we disposed of the drywall removed from the flooded strucure beore they will provide any funding. The answer, 'We have no idea, it was FEMA that hauled it away'. And, that's just the start. It is a circular f'd up mess.
Meanwhile, the 100 or so Vets that we have been sheltering in an rented/aged Quality Inn, we have fed using meals supplied/delivered by volunteers. Seeking aid from FEMA, we were told that it would require a common dining area. So, now (even with temps in the 20's a week or so ago, these guys are now 'dining' in a mess tent. Guys in their late 70's, walkers, wheel chairs.
I've got more, but my psyche can only deal with so much at one time.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 19, 2025 01:40 AM (XeU6L)
What will be, well, we won't know 'til we get there.
But what is now is now, for certain.
Which is why this is my exit.
This is me trying to flag the driver to stop:
https://youtu.be/lD7SBgLvjqY
G'nite, y'all. May you rest in the arms of the Lord.
Posted by: mindful webworker - gotta hand it to 'em at March 19, 2025 01:42 AM (h7Ym/)
Posted by: JQ at March 19, 2025 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at March 19, 2025 01:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 19, 2025 01:44 AM (XeU6L)
It's one of many topics where myth exaggeration and imbecilic moral narcissism seem to require stupidity from people today. For such people a good starting point is "why did the exclusion zone stretch along the border into Arizona? No ports there. Hmm." (answer: because the naval attache was expecting war/closure of the embassy and planned for a new hub in northern Mexico). Direct intercepts and intelligence drove the pro-internment argument.
Another good ice-breaker for discussion with the ignorant and mythology-infused: what % of camp internees was the US *obliged* to intern under the Geneva Convention (enemy aliens) - for their own protection? (answer: no hard number, but probably close to 40%, including dual-nationals)
If they're still able to speak, final one to throw at them: if "racism" was the basis for internment, why was a loyalty oath the key to getting out of camp? Doesn't seem to add up.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 19, 2025 01:45 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 19, 2025 01:40 AM (XeU6L)
Who did Trump put in charge of FEMA? Sounds like a direct letter to that person might bear some fruit. Make the pitch that democrat holdouts in the bureaucracy are deliberately stalling needed work for trivial reasons. Something that the MAGA folks could make political hay from.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 01:47 AM (MqtqS)
I just don’t like how they taste generally, and they tend to screw up my gut. They aren’t as easily digested as I get older. It took me a long time to figure that out. Butter, tallow, bacon drippings, coconut oil all taste fantastic for cooking and don’t seem to cause me any discomfort.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 19, 2025 01:50 AM (SfY1i)
"And, as the box on the dump truck began to raise up, the rary stirred, opened one eye, and looked over the edge of the cliff, and said, "it's a long, long way to tip a rary."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
This one was on an ONT a while ago. Might have been the Friday Night Joke?
https://youtu.be/vbkjO0a3xJQ
Posted by: mikeski at March 19, 2025 01:50 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 19, 2025 01:44 AM (XeU6L)
Thinking Friday or Saturday. Pretty much done all the damage we can do here at the Osprey nest.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 01:51 AM (MqtqS)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
So
They have met Darleen
Posted by: Miklos takes supplements for that at March 19, 2025 12:36
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Wait is this seecret code to tell us Joe was a returned astronaut? Who in retirement is now a tranny named Darleen haunting Rehoboth Beach?
Posted by: Farmer at March 19, 2025 01:54 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 01:57 AM (MqtqS)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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We have made assertive noises in influential places, in person, in D.C. If (and that's a big 'if') they bear fruit, it will be from the top.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 19, 2025 02:01 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at March 19, 2025 02:01 AM (qcNUT)
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 19, 2025 02:02 AM (fY84s)
https://mol.im/a/14513669
Posted by: Ciampino - this is war at March 19, 2025 02:02 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: raimondo at March 18, 2025 11:58 PM (xZigY)
The dealerships collect their insurance money, and Elon continues to sell carbon credits?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 19, 2025 02:04 AM (Vvh2V)
I have had to give up going out to eat almost entirely unless we're traveling. We live out in the middle of nowhere, and I cannot make it home in time. Screwing up my gut is an understatement!
I don't have a gallbladder, which amplifies the situation.
When we're traveling, there are usually plenty of restrooms nearby.
I'm looking forward to going to Steak n Shake soon, 3 hour drive though it is.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 19, 2025 02:10 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2025 01:13
LMAO AOP. I just remembered I first heard that punchline during summer church camp, just up the road from here sitting around a campfire, about 55 yrs ago.
Thanks for the smile at that recollection.
Posted by: Farmer at March 19, 2025 02:15 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 19, 2025 02:21 AM (0nHVk)
Yes, middle or high school. Same vintage as 'the squaw on the hippopotamus hide', Rary, and others. 1960s.
Posted by: Ciampino - those were best days at March 19, 2025 02:22 AM (KjLnc)
Up late, gathering records for ours, and for Dad's estate. Should've closed the estate a couple years ago, but hubby needs so much attention & siblings are/were little help at Dad's.. sucks that I have to do *everything* now.
Posted by: JQ at March 19, 2025 02:32 AM (rdVOm)
Cat is 'helping' me, by sprawling out atop all the papers I've strewn across the couch.
Posted by: JQ at March 19, 2025 02:46 AM (rdVOm)
They are always so helpful. Paper weights in case the wind blows?
Posted by: Ciampino - those were best days at March 19, 2025 02:48 AM (KjLnc)
In case there's a whirlwind in the living room-- those statements aren't going *anywhere* hahaha.
Posted by: JQ at March 19, 2025 02:50 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at March 19, 2025 02:56 AM (rdVOm)
Will clear a space for His Majesty, then carry on with the sorting.
Posted by: JQ at March 19, 2025 03:33 AM (rdVOm)
Hell, that's just what I need now, right? Can still lift up & open the gate, so went to autoparts store and got a few muffler clamps to put above, below, and on the split to prevent further trouble. I hope.
Posted by: JQ at March 19, 2025 03:39 AM (rdVOm)
Will clear a space for His Majesty, then carry on with the sorting. Posted by: JQ at March 19, 2025 03:33
I can identify JQ, but in my case it's Butterscotch, her old rescued ass who must be at least 17. I'm paying one more bill and setting it aside for tomorrow.
Posted by: Farmer at March 19, 2025 03:42 AM (55Qr6)
What really disgusts me is just having known, beyond certainty, that he would so happily leap into the fray to defend the Deep State and a million shrieking left-wing judges. There is nothing inside of that man, no core belief. He is craven cowardice wrapped in a black robe, imagining himself above the Presidency, the Constitution and the people of this nation.
Posted by: Sam Adams at March 19, 2025 03:49 AM (X+xvk)
Wish I could zonk-out *at will* like that!
Posted by: JQ at March 19, 2025 03:55 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Sam Adams at March 19, 2025 03:49 AM (X+xvk)
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I've long had the feeling that they're all well trained actors, groomed to fake being "conservative" from the start of their careers until the reached the pinnacles of power.
Call me a conspiracist!
And I'm suspicious of Vivek Ramaswamy, too. I don't lightly dismiss his early on association with the WEF. Something stinks.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 19, 2025 03:58 AM (MVWbi)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 04:01 AM (EvUVd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 04:03 AM (EvUVd)
Posted by: m at March 19, 2025 04:04 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at March 19, 2025 04:05 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 04:01 AM (EvUVd)
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Posted by: m at March 19, 2025 04:06 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: JQ
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Tractor Supply, buy a T-post, they will probably *lend you a driver.
Drive it deep next to the post then wrap some wire (an opened coat hanger) and twist the ends with pliers.
https://tinyurl.com/2dm3bye3
*no lend driver no buy post
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 19, 2025 04:10 AM (EvUVd)
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