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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - April 1, 2025 [scampydog]
I typically try to avoid jumping into the deep end of the political pool on Tuesday evenings, but this one requires some discussion. Not quite Flaming Skull worthy. Another activist judge ruling.
Good evening clever and busy brained people. Thank you for stopping by on Tuesday, March 32nd for the April Fool's ONT edition. April 1st - where we all get to lie a bit for a joke (good or bad...don't make me no nevermind).
Here is a touching tribute to the Boston Red Sox fans played on the big screen at Petco Park, in San Diego.
What is the best April Fool�s prank you have played or have been the victim of? My staff snuck the keys of my truck off my desk and parked it in a high traffic area. They wrote on the windshield in white shoe polish: "For Sale - $1500" and added my mobile number.
Baseball has cranked back up and there will be the annual viewing of the Sandlot. Oh yes, there will be quotes.
Election updates from 8:50pm EST.
Wisconsin Supreme Court. Heavy turnout. Ballot shortages in blue Milwaukee. The old - anyone in line by 8pm local time would be able to vote - has been rolled out. There will be legal challenges. Early numbers favor the Susan Crawford, the choice of the Democrat Party. 57.3% to 42.7% for Brad Schimel. About 40% reporting. If Crawford wins, which appears extremely likely, we will see very predictable headlines tomorrow.
Florida. House seats formerly occupied by Matt Gaetz and Glen Waltz. GOP projected wins for both seats. Jimmy Patronis with 57% - 95% reporting. Randy Fine with 56.7% - 95% reporting.
We should be running up the score while we can. The left never quits.
Below is a very brief Q1 Report.
It's been about 70 days since Trump took office. We can have a bit of ONT fun with all the winning.
Summary - ONT Style
Prior to January 20, 2025: Living in a country with an administration and alphabet agencies focused on graft. State weakness and no border control. Lawlessness, highly partisan enforcement of federal laws (targeting conservatives and Christians) - add in some Identity Politics / DEI, inflation, energy dependence, and a constant stream of pretentious media gaslighting and social media content. Credentialed people acting like they were first-round draft picks while riding the money train of the system. They absolutely sucked at leadership and Americans told them so - with their votes.
Where we are today: America first. We have transitioned in about 70 days to the early stages of the grown-up version of leadership and governing for the betterment of the United States and its citizens. January 6th pardons. Illegal border crossings have slowed to a drip, rounding up the criminals-invaders, deportations, strengthening the military and its leadership, protection of the US Dollar, getting men out of women's sports, USAID and their Marxist agenda has been gutted, DEI / CRT has a finger in their eye to the second knuckle, the Education Department is getting squeezed, progress being made with smoking out the deep state actors, emission rules rolled back, and withdrawal (again) from the Paris Agreement. And egg prices falling/normalizing! Trump has a vision, talented people around him, and the balls to make things happen.
Sprinkling of Accomplishments and Progress
Border: Invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Deporting Criminals. Deporting pro-Hamas students and professors from college campuses. Illegal border crossings cut to very low levels. Drug cartels designated as foreign terrorist organizations.
Fun Stuff: Liberals Crying. Further eroding the reach and effectiveness of the legacy media. Released JFK records. Revocation of secret service details. Revocation of security clearances.
Sampling of In Progress
Judiciary: Strange, I have no recollection of voting for any of these judges. The activist judiciary branch must be reined in. SCOTUS inaction is getting tiresome.
Law Enforcement: Would like to see the DOJ go on offense a lot more. The FBI has a lot of house cleaning to do. When Epstein files?
Doge: Off to a great start. Much work to be completed. Too many things to list!
College: This is going to be a long march.
A Look to the Future?
Taxes: No taxes on: Tips, overtime pay, or Social Security. Making the Trump tax cuts permanent. Cut the corporate tax rate.
Trump and Vance are on pace to be the most impactful president and vice president in my lifetime.
Pretty good cover by Gretchen Wilson and Alice in Chains. Nancy Wilson on stage rocking it and Jerry Cantrell doing the song justice with his guitar work.
Touring an old missile site during daylight hours would be kind of cool. Atlas E, specifically.
Spartan website design but it has an excellent aggregation of some amazing resources (sounds familiar) for the Atlas E missiles.
Following is a series of documents pertaining to the Atlas E version of the SM-65 missile system. There are different sections including news articles, diagrams, construction, operational and historical documents, etc. This page has sub-sections for the three operational Atlas E ICBM squadrons with information specific to that squadron.
This is a pretty good link detailing the size and capabilities of the Atlas E.
The 82-foot-tall missile had a speed reaching nearly 16,000 miles per hour. A self-contained, automatic inertial guidance system was accurate to within one-and-one-half miles. It was a liquid-fueled missile that delivered a nuclear warhead more than 100 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped at Nagasaki in 1945.
The liquid fuel, a mixture of liquid oxygen and kerosene, which propelled both the Atlas E and Titan missiles, was a major problem. It required that the missile be stored empty and fueled for flight.
As the song goes, a fine girl.
I Would actually wear these pic.twitter.com/689zzSTrok
— Sensurround (@ShamashAran) March 23, 2025
Horde Mind is not limited to the comment section. That Master of Mischief, Doof beat me to the punch with some wholesome content on the Sunday, ONT. Below is the replacement content. April Fool's Day? Fool Day - everyday for some.
While brain drifting the word Dantean popped in my head. Which removed the brain from drift mode and moved it to nerd mode. Words that are a bit more philosophical, or have more depth? Paint a picture with one word?
A few of the obvious ones:
Machiavellian
Orwellian
Socratic
Laconic
Kafkaesque
Poked around and didn't find a link that perfectly fit. This one is close enough.
When the brain got to mnemonic the jig was up and I was off to the next topic.
Ready, set, go. Share some of your favorites in the comments.
Rep. Tim Burchett is a national treasure:
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 28, 2025
RANDOM: �Do you trust Trump's national security team to keep our war plans top secret?�
BURCHETT: �Do you trust your mother every night to fix your hot pockets and make sure your game boy is turned on?�
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Update: Notified by Doof that Ben Had provided an update on Jim Sunk New Dawn. Jim is an absolute treasure and we are all sending prayers and well wishes.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 01, 2025 09:58 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 01, 2025 09:59 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 09:59 PM (SDgnC)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 01, 2025 09:59 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 01, 2025 10:00 PM (S4K2e)
Posted by: ZOD at April 01, 2025 10:01 PM (E6cid)
What could possibly go wrong?" they said...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 01, 2025 10:01 PM (hOUT3)
From the precinct maps I just saw, the current vote count is heavily skewed toward Dem strongholds like Madison and Milwaukee.
Lots of rural counties with no results yet.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 10:01 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at April 01, 2025 10:01 PM (H/u99)
*sinister laugh*
Posted by: Doof at April 01, 2025 10:02 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 01, 2025 10:02 PM (Glfue)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 01, 2025 10:02 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Mr. T at April 01, 2025 10:02 PM (63Dwl)
The pressing question for me tonight is: What sticker do I afix to my new laptop?
Daniel Defense
Palmetto State Armory
Aero Precision
AlienGear Holsters
Buc-ee's
Or St Michael the Archangel?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 01, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 09:59 PM (SDgnC)
Still here, nurse?
I left a late comment on the book thread for you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 01, 2025 10:03 PM (0eaVi)
Jim is still reading the ONT even if he can't comment. He and Iris greatly appreciate the prayers.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 01, 2025 08:41 PM (rUsvx)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 10:03 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 10:04 PM (dQoNW)
Posted by: ZOD at April 01, 2025 10:04 PM (E6cid)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 01, 2025 10:05 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 01, 2025 09:58 PM (lUFok)
Might be a defunct one when they do away with the penny
Posted by: Doof at April 01, 2025 10:06 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: mindful webworker - get into my big black car... at April 01, 2025 10:06 PM (MsUjn)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 10:06 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 01, 2025 10:06 PM (hOUT3)
I picture Chief Justice Joanie Roberts pressing his hands to his ears and yelling 'NAH-NAH-NAH-NAH' all day every day, to avoid hearing about the Fed District Court judges illegal lawfare, thus not needing to deal with it.
Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2025 10:06 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 01, 2025 10:07 PM (2ZThz)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 01, 2025 10:08 PM (cYBz/)
Help me, Nerds! anyone know how to exfiltrate this shite?
Posted by: Beverly at April 01, 2025 10:08 PM (Epeb0)
Spawn says, "hey" too.
Posted by: lin-duh at April 01, 2025 10:08 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: ZOD at April 01, 2025 10:08 PM (E6cid)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 01, 2025 10:08 PM (OuB2L)
Posted by: runner at April 01, 2025 10:08 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 01, 2025 10:08 PM (S4K2e)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 01, 2025 10:09 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: four seasons at April 01, 2025 10:09 PM (3ek7K)
_______________________
I remember this one from little while back:
"Fisked"
Posted by: Orson at April 01, 2025 10:09 PM (dIske)
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 10:09 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 01, 2025 10:09 PM (fqoL0)
Daniel Defense
Palmetto State Armory
Aero Precision
AlienGear Holsters
Buc-ee's
Or St Michael the Archangel?
Posted by: Tonypete
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Yes!
Posted by: lin-duh at April 01, 2025 10:09 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 01, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)
https://tinyurl.com/3wtx3vh7
I realize you're not Jewish, but this one is guaranteed to make all the proper people throw a clot.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 10:09 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at April 01, 2025 10:10 PM (y7zkd)
Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2025 10:10 PM (aBgBM)
You better do you therapy ! I expect to see you in Corsicana, mister.
OrangeENT, my phone won’t let me go back to Sunday.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 10:10 PM (SDgnC)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 01, 2025 10:10 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: runner at April 01, 2025 10:11 PM (g47mK)
Discover my doctor retired.
Pharmacy won't refill with expired license.
Summons for jury duty.
Fuuuuuuck
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 01, 2025 10:11 PM (dCs0D)
TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH!!!
Posted by: leftists at April 01, 2025 10:11 PM (Vqx30)
Stupid people in Wisconsin ... so sad ... seems they won even beyond them cheating big (maybe).
Posted by: illiniwek at April 01, 2025 10:11 PM (Cus5s)
Help me, Nerds! anyone know how to exfiltrate this shite?
Posted by: Beverly at April 01, 2025 10:08 PM (Epeb0)
Delete that app and install LibreOffice.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 01, 2025 10:12 PM (VBfi5)
Glad you’re out of the belly of the beast. Good gor you! How is the cheese making?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 10:12 PM (SDgnC)
Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2025 10:06 PM (aBgBM)
You’re assuming Roberts has a problem with it. I think he thinks the system is working the way it us supposed to, to rein in a criminal President and the unruly majority who voted for him.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 10:12 PM (l3YAf)
ZOD IMPERIAL. BEAUTIFULLY MUTATED.
The world-changers will act and respond.
Posted by: ZOD at April 01, 2025 10:12 PM (E6cid)
Posted by: Tonypete
Palmetto State Armory Plus St Michael the Archangel would seem to be a good combination!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 01, 2025 10:12 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at April 01, 2025 10:12 PM (y7zkd)
"That's out in motherfucking Wisconsin."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 10:13 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 01, 2025 10:13 PM (S4K2e)
Posted by: illiniwek at April 01, 2025 10:13 PM (Cus5s)
Just curious, is there any field artillery that Jim might get to fire once he's home? Go shooting at least one more time, with a really big gun.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 10:13 PM (VNX3d)
Delete that app and install LibreOffice.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen
Amen!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 01, 2025 10:13 PM (hOUT3)
*Nite: Liberals v. Democrats.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 01, 2025 10:13 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Beverly at April 01, 2025 10:14 PM (Epeb0)
Johnny Hot Pockets, ace boy reporter: "How dare he disrespect me and my reporting chops?! Who but me would have been able to crack the Great Popcorn Concession Kickbacks case? Who?"
* shrieks * "WHO, GODAMMIT?!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 01, 2025 10:15 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 01, 2025 10:15 PM (HabA/)
Jim SND and Iris - you are both in our prayers everyday. May God bless you both as you challenge this chapter.
Wisconsin: seriously?
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at April 01, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: davidt at April 01, 2025 10:15 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: SFGoth at April 01, 2025 10:15 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: runner at April 01, 2025 10:15 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Grammie's phone at April 01, 2025 10:16 PM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 01, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)
_______________
I have a bumper sticker I really want to put on an old truck I own, but I know it will result in vandalism:
"Hamas sucks!!! Chickpeas are not food"
Posted by: Orson at April 01, 2025 10:16 PM (dIske)
Hey - I never said we were smart.
Posted by: 496 at April 01, 2025 10:16 PM (1OIAD)
Posted by: Grammie's phone at April 01, 2025 10:17 PM (SfhV1)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 10:18 PM (LweC0)
Help me, Nerds! anyone know how to exfiltrate this shite?
Posted by: Beverly at April 01, 2025 10:08 PM (Epeb0)
Delete that app and install LibreOffice.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 01, 2025 10:12 PM (VBfi5)
Or go for the full Monty, and delete Windows altogether, and install Linux. Libre Office comes with. There may be a few of us who "must" have Windows for work requirements, but Linux works jut fine for those of us who only use our coputers for personal purposes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2025 10:18 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: davidt at April 01, 2025 10:18 PM (i0F8b)
Poop.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 01, 2025 10:18 PM (cYBz/)
I have a Buc-ees sticker on my laptop...
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at April 01, 2025 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Grammie's phone at April 01, 2025 10:19 PM (SfhV1)
Came up with the idea to prank my Army roommate, we were living in spiffy new “barracks” that shared a common kitchen and bath and individual rooms. We each had phones, too. Pretty swank for Army dogs. We’d play hours against each other on Descent as well.
Anyway, I came up with a “Robocall” scenario. I called it the “US Army Automated Information System”
Phone rings
“Hello?”
(Computer voice)
Welcome to the United States Automated Information System.
Important Career Information follows for (full name, rank, etc)
Please press 1 if you wish to hear …
*beep*
Had a whole long script going, with suitable commas in the text to allow for pauses, and him to press appropriate keys. I roped him in really good
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 10:19 PM (uG1+h)
Jim is still reading the ONT even if he can't comment. He and Iris greatly appreciate the prayers.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 01, 2025 08:41 PM (rUsvx)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 10:03 PM (VNX3d)
Jim, I have decided to NOT pour whiskey in my pegtube…….unless………I do it once with you. And quite frankly I don’t think you should do it. Let’s play it by ear. And be confident that GOD is on his throne and rules supreme. He performs wonders when we least expect them. I love you, man.
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 10:19 PM (FYKyG)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 01, 2025 10:19 PM (HabA/)
Their friends were jealous because their moms didnt prank them.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 10:19 PM (jydPj)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 01, 2025 10:19 PM (HabA/)
Never mind the sticker, just saw your post re DIL. Prayers up for a safe delivery and a healthy Momma and baby. 31 weeks is early, but baby will do fine in NICU.
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at April 01, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: IrishEi at April 01, 2025 10:21 PM (3ImbR)
The Titan I used the same propellants as the Atlas. Titan I had a very short operational life. The Titan II was a major redesign that used on-board storable hypergolic propellants instead of liquid oxygen and kerosene. Titan II was a success. Titan II ICBMs were on SAC operational alert from 1963 to 1987. Titan IIs were the launch boosters for all of the NASA Gemini missions to Earth orbit.
Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2025 10:22 PM (aBgBM)
Poop.
Posted by: Tonypete
That’s very doable. Prayers for baby and momma. Odds are very good.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 10:22 PM (jydPj)
Even strong R strongholds near Milwaukee seem to be turning blue (Ozaukee and Waukesha counties).
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 10:23 PM (VNX3d)
*raises bourbon glass*
Posted by: Doof at April 01, 2025 10:23 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: four seasons at April 01, 2025 10:24 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: ghost of kari at April 01, 2025 10:24 PM (QyZFf)
Hey, all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 10:25 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 01, 2025 10:26 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 10:27 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 10:10 PM (SDgnC)
Oops. Sorry, was away.
You mentioned a Yakima MoMe. I said "I Canute come."
Yakima Canute: famous early H'wood stuntman.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 01, 2025 10:27 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 01, 2025 10:28 PM (HabA/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 10:28 PM (Il8IG)
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 10:28 PM (41CYW)
Even strong R strongholds near Milwaukee seem to be turning blue (Ozaukee and Waukesha counties).
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 10:23 PM (VNX3d)
Do out-of-state college students in Wisconsin get to vote?
Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2025 10:28 PM (aBgBM)
Can we get an interview with the people that are voting for both and what they are thinking?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 10:28 PM (t0Rmr)
Tonypete, prayers up for your DIL, son, and soon-to-be grandbaby. Modern medicine is a wonderful thing ❤️❤️❤️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 01, 2025 10:29 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 10:29 PM (Il8IG)
Posted by: SamIam at April 01, 2025 10:29 PM (oasF3)
One April 1st, he cut a wooden board out, just the size of the brownie pyrex, with one piece missing. Iced it.
My younger brother was the first up...
Dad, these brownies are a little hard.
I think that was over 50 years ago.
We still laugh about it.
Posted by: MkY at April 01, 2025 10:29 PM (cPGH3)
Scampydog, I was a Minuteman from 06-09, then ubama happened. During my time on the border was when we were actually building concrete bulkhead wall in Texas and Israeli-style fine mesh steel in Arizona. We had liaison ops with feds, state, county, and municipal agencies. Never a cross word with any of them. I’m glad Tom Homan is on the job.
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 10:30 PM (FYKyG)
Sucks to hear about the WI court race, but I can't say I'm surprised; I listened to a Milwaukee radio host yesterday and she made it sound like, though a toss-up, it was leaning towards the leftist.
As Ace said, our side hasn't yet learned its lesson. Evil never sleeps.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 01, 2025 10:31 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 01, 2025 10:31 PM (HabA/)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 01, 2025 10:32 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 10:32 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 01, 2025 10:33 PM (HabA/)
Basically, it was "Listen you sanctimonious fvcking retarded mewling quims I am NOT my lady bits. Fvck you!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 10:34 PM (Il8IG)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 01, 2025 10:34 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 01, 2025 10:34 PM (Q4Dc6)
Posted by: Miklos back atcha at April 01, 2025 10:34 PM (RgW1J)
As Ace said, our side hasn't yet learned its lesson. Evil never sleeps.
Posted by: Dr. T
================
Are Wisconsin Republicans going to wake up tomorrow and say wtf?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 10:34 PM (lCaJd)
I will be in Galveston this weekend. If I can pick up groceries to drop off, or food, Ben Had has my email. God Bless.
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 10:35 PM (dQoNW)
I found a 700+ page .pdf on the Mercury program that goes through NACA and NASA and all the thinking that went into the early rocket development.
The Army had their Nazi team installed down at Huntsville, the Air Force had Dynasoar, and lots of missile programs, the Ames research team, another at Langley, and the Soviets were kicking our ass. Eisenhower finally decided to do something about it.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 10:35 PM (uG1+h)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 01, 2025 10:36 PM (SRRAx)
The Charlton Heston Ben-Hur movie.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 10:29 PM (Il8IG)
A lot of the classic stunts were developed by Canute. The jumping on the horses pulling a stage was his. Re: Stagecoach. The Indian trying to stop the stagecoach was him.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 01, 2025 10:36 PM (0eaVi)
Retreat and regroup. Put some district court judges covering the retreat to buy some time.
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 01, 2025 10:36 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Eromero
Dittos
Posted by: Miklos at April 01, 2025 10:37 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 10:34 PM (lCaJd)
Real question is how many wake up tomorrow and say, "Wait, there was an election?!"
Posted by: Dr. T at April 01, 2025 10:37 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Iris at April 01, 2025 10:37 PM (bOJ2I)
Scampydog, I was a Minuteman from 06-09, then ubama happened. During my time on the border was when we were actually building concrete bulkhead wall in Texas and Israeli-style fine mesh steel in Arizona. We had liaison ops with feds, state, county, and municipal agencies. Never a cross word with any of them. I’m glad Tom Homan is on the job.
Posted by: Eromero
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Thanks Eromero. My dad took the pic up top in Eastern Oregon. I'm with you - Tom Homan is a favorite of mine.
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 10:38 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
Unidentified wierd shit with red blood cells and hemoglobin.
One type of blood cancer ruled out, which I took as Good News
Posted by: Miklos, but not as good as the "Good News" at April 01, 2025 10:39 PM (RgW1J)
Take a small space plane made mostly from Rhemium and plop it atop a Titan booster. The space plane being the reusable part. Neil Armstrong was part of that program before transferring to NASA.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 10:39 PM (Il8IG)
Looks like the leftwing nutter will get around 1.2M votes.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 10:39 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 01, 2025 10:40 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 10:40 PM (uG1+h)
Posted by: Iris at April 01, 2025 10:40 PM (bOJ2I)
Understanding role and responsibilities of Payee Representative
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 01, 2025 10:40 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Gref
YOU get a vote....and YOU get a vote....
Posted by: Miklos, vaguely recalls some fat chick on TeeVee at April 01, 2025 10:41 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 01, 2025 10:41 PM (HabA/)
Real question is how many wake up tomorrow and say, "Wait, there was an election?!"
Posted by: Dr. T
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Better still!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 10:41 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 10:41 PM (dQoNW)
Posted by: Miklos
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Very good news and let's keep the good news rolling your way, Miklos.
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 10:42 PM (41CYW)
Daniel Defense
Palmetto State Armory
Aero Precision
AlienGear Holsters
Buc-ee's
Or St Michael the Archangel?
Posted by: Tonypete
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Just got a sticker for MCM Tactical.
Just bought a few 10mm mags from them and they threw in a FREE sticker!
... and a handwritten thank you note.
Want either one?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2025 10:42 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Gref
Not legally, but many do.
Posted by: davidt at April 01, 2025 10:42 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
Unidentified wierd shit with red blood cells and hemoglobin.
One type of blood cancer ruled out, which I took as Good News
Posted by: Miklos, but not as good as the "Good News" at April 01, 2025 10:39 PM (RgW1J)
Smoked paprika?
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 01, 2025 10:42 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
This is Proof that the Unimaginable Exists and Happens.
Posted by: Miklos, impressed at April 01, 2025 10:42 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Common Tater
Anhydrous was the fuel for the Oklahoma Federal Building bombs. Screwed up a whole lotta farm purchases.
Posted by: MkY at April 01, 2025 10:43 PM (cPGH3)
All is in God's hands. Be of faith.
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 01, 2025 10:43 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Miklos, high on life at April 01, 2025 10:43 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
Unidentified wierd shit with red blood cells and hemoglobin.
One type of blood cancer ruled out, which I took as Good News
Posted by: Miklos, but not as good as the "Good News" at April 01, 2025 10:39 PM (RgW1J)
Praying great news!
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 10:44 PM (FYKyG)
I have printed one of the site maps and taken the Boy Scouts over to examine the site. They could observe the cement plugs for every single component except for one.
We also have a "cadillac" water well on our farm that was used by the missile site. That water well is NOT in the state database of water wells. I am sure that completely fooled the Soviets.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 01, 2025 10:45 PM (Q4Dc6)
Posted by: MkY at April 01, 2025 10:45 PM (cPGH3)
For a long time, anything to do with space - Man in a Can atop an ICBM - was a bit risky as far as careers go. It took commitment to think it would actually happen.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 10:46 PM (uG1+h)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
Unidentified wierd shit with red blood cells and hemoglobin.
One type of blood cancer ruled out, which I took as Good News
Posted by: Miklos, but not as good as the "Good News" at April 01, 2025 10:39 PM (RgW1J)
Hope they don't find anything bad! My blood numbers had been a little weird for a while - GP was getting ready to start looking into what was causing it, but then a different doctor found my tumor while looking for something else.
Has your doctor run blood marker tests for different types of other cancers?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 01, 2025 10:46 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 10:35 PM (uG1+h)
Propellant tanks of that design had to be constantly pressurized for structural stability. Those tanks were similar to current beer and soda cans. When pressurized they resist buckling and sagging. When unpressurized they are flimsy shells that can withstand very little force from any direction. It must have been an operational nightmare keeping Atlas tanks constantly pressurized during final missile assembly, acceptance testing, transport, storage, and tanking with propellant.
Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2025 10:47 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 01, 2025 10:48 PM (25kuG)
Take a small space plane made mostly from Rhemium and plop it atop a Titan booster. The space plane being the reusable part. Neil Armstrong was part of that program before transferring to NASA.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 10:39 PM (Il8IG)
Sounds like a project TRex could revitalize.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 10:48 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Miklos, coated in yellow pollen at April 01, 2025 10:48 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Bulg at April 01, 2025 10:48 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 10:41 PM (dQoNW)
Srsly?!?!?
Cybersmythe is going, too! Shoot me an email at teresa.hamilton.koch at the gmail thingie - we have reservations for dinner ahead of the concert; we can add you to the party!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 01, 2025 10:50 PM (SRRAx)
Sounds like a project TRex could revitalize.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 10:48 PM
***
Damn right. Anything with a name that cool has promise.
Posted by: TRex at April 01, 2025 10:50 PM (NQnfP)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
Unidentified wierd shit with red blood cells and hemoglobin.
One type of blood cancer ruled out, which I took as Good News
Posted by: Miklos, but not as good as the "Good News" at April 01, 2025 10:39 PM (RgW1J)
Smoked paprika?
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 01, 2025 10:42 PM (Aqu9a)
Hungarian Wax Peppers?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 10:50 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
I inherited all kinda cancer markers.
Never hit previous generations until their 80s, until The Vaxx. Things speeded up then.
Posted by: Miklos, rolling another and pouring one to go with it at April 01, 2025 10:52 PM (RgW1J)
Cybersmythe is going, too! Shoot me an email at teresa.hamilton.koch at the gmail thingie - we have reservations for dinner ahead of the concert; we can add you to the party!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 01, 2025 10:50 PM (SRRAx)
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WoW! Cool beans! Will do so!
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 10:53 PM (dQoNW)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at April 01, 2025 10:53 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
I buy those by the half bushel at the State Farmers Market.
From Florida though, perfectly adequate for lecso.
Posted by: Miklos, rolling another and pouring one to go with it at April 01, 2025 10:53 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
This is Proof that the Unimaginable Exists and Happens.
Posted by: Miklos, impressed at April 01, 2025 10:42 PM (RgW1J
A brother is in the same rehab as me, we swapped sea stories for an hour, til My nurse came looking for me at 700 pm., wanted to know did I get my supper at 500pm.
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 10:54 PM (p4vtc)
Posted by: Miklos, don't deport me, Bro! at April 01, 2025 10:54 PM (RgW1J)
I have printed one of the site maps and taken the Boy Scouts over to examine the site. They could observe the cement plugs for every single component except for one.
We also have a "cadillac" water well on our farm that was used by the missile site. That water well is NOT in the state database of water wells. I am sure that completely fooled the Soviets.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 01, 2025 10:45 PM (Q4Dc6)
Hi there PI!
Is that silo open to the public? I expect not the way you describe it. If you ever want to see the insides of a Titan II launch site, one has been made into a museum near Tucson. I toured it about 10 years ago. Everything has been deactivated, but the control panels, launch console, etc., have been left in-place as much as possible and maintained in pristine condition. There is a de-activated missile in the silo. All very fascinating.
Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2025 10:55 PM (aBgBM)
Drink more rum. It will make everything better.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 10:55 PM (SQHBz)
They had a lot of trouble keeping warheads from burning up and being destroyed due to the tremendous friction heat build up of the earth’s atmosphere. Eventually they settled on a blunt shape, and ablative material to shed heat and keeping things nice and cool, so warheads, instrumentation, and later Astronauts, wouldn’t burn up. Maxime Faget was kind of the brainchild for that, smart guy.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 10:55 PM (uG1+h)
Drink more rum. It will make everything better.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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There is Iron in the Words of nurse.
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: TRex at April 01, 2025 10:57 PM (NQnfP)
A few of the obvious ones:
Machiavellian
Orwellian
Socratic
Laconic
Kafkaesque
Asshole
It really should be expressed when one needs a comprehensive assessment of a person's character and there are no words to properly express the sentiment.
There are many words that have lost all meaning and are the communication equivalent of a cough:
racist, nazi, hitler ...
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 01, 2025 10:57 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Gref
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And this is why I love this place.
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 10:57 PM (41CYW)
Deus Vult
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at April 01, 2025 10:58 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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There is Iron in the Words of nurse.
Posted by: scampydog
Bourbon
This is known
Posted by: Prof. Dr Chikoinanda Wnankpa, with CDC approved Remedies for all Instances at April 01, 2025 10:58 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Bulg at April 01, 2025 10:58 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 01, 2025 10:59 PM (HabA/)
Posted by: MkY at April 01, 2025 10:43 PM (cPGH3)
OKC bombing was ANFO: ammonium nitrate (a crystalline solid) and fuel oil, commonly used as a commercial explosive in mining. NH4NO3
Anhydrous ammonia is NH3, a building block for lots of chemistry, and used as commercial fertilizer, too.
NH4+ is the ammonium ion. When NH3 reacts with something, like water or acid, it snags a proton from the anion, and becomes NH4+. E.G.: NH3 + H2O = NH4OH, ammonium hydroxide, found under nearly every kitchen sink.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2025 10:59 PM (8zz6B)
Drink more rum. It will make everything better.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 10:55 PM (SQHBz
Do not put the lime in the coconut.
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 10:59 PM (p4vtc)
Drink more rum. It will make everything better.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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There is Iron in the Words of nurse.
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)
Why is the rum gone?
Posted by: Captain Jack Sparrow at April 01, 2025 10:59 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 10:59 PM (uG1+h)
Miklos, Cheers!
Posted by: Bulg
Do not EVER disagree with Nurse.
Posted by: zombie woodpecker at April 01, 2025 11:00 PM (RgW1J)
Fervent prayers for all of the Horde who need prayers. Y'all are amazing. +
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Me no type good at April 01, 2025 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: PabloD at April 01, 2025 11:00 PM (/0qJC)
Posted by: raimondo at April 01, 2025 11:00 PM (ZBFkw)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 01, 2025 11:00 PM (0ohAJ)
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 11:00 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Eromero
Oh
*removes "coconuts" from grocery list*
Posted by: Miklos checks the weekly sale items at April 01, 2025 11:01 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: raimondo on tap at April 01, 2025 11:02 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 11:03 PM (9SDsN)
One type of blood cancer ruled out, which I took as Good News
Posted by: Miklos, but not as good as the "Good News" at April 01, 2025 10:39 PM (RgW1J)
I went through all that blood business a little while back. Have a blood oncologist who takes good care of me. Got my blood numbers back in line and tested for a bunch of blood cancers, none of which I have. It's good to have competent Dr's
Hope yours works out OK.
Jim, so sorry to hear of your troubles. My best thoughts go out to you and yours.
Posted by: javems at April 01, 2025 11:03 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: raimondo on tap at April 01, 2025 11:02 PM (RgW1J)
rainmandodo will be voting for Vance any minute now...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2025 11:04 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 11:04 PM (uG1+h)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 11:04 PM (9SDsN)
Posted by: Bulg at April 01, 2025 11:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 01, 2025 11:05 PM (Aqu9a)
Drink more rum. It will make everything better.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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There is Iron in the Words of nurse.
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)
***
No no.
That's all BS.
Don't listen to these guys.
Irish whiskey. That's the ticket!
Posted by: Diogenes at April 01, 2025 11:06 PM (W/lyH)
Also created a spectacular Boom in the Texas town of West. Meth cooks kept sneaking in to the West Fertilizer Company to steal NH3; apparently didn't turn off the taps.
Either that, or a side-effect of chronic methamphetamines abuse is a particular fondness for large fires and getting them going.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 01, 2025 11:06 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Bulg
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Authorial. Not too shabby!
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 11:06 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Bulg
I am more Hogarthian, myself.
Posted by: Miklos is sometimes visually oriented at April 01, 2025 11:07 PM (RgW1J)
yakima is close to your old stomping grounds. You and wifey could head west in May, you know.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 11:07 PM (9SDsN)
https://shorturl.at/KkLrS
Posted by: ask and ye shall receive at April 01, 2025 11:08 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Diogenes
Likka sto closed at 7.
Will get prescription filled tomorrow.
Posted by: Miklos O'Miklos at April 01, 2025 11:09 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 11:09 PM (dQoNW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2025 11:09 PM (8zz6B)
yakima is close to your old stomping grounds. You and wifey could head west in May, you know.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Hahaha. You and Doof. He is working on me for out east, too. Much travel on the books this year already. In fact, there will be a mystery ONT author next Tuesday.
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 11:09 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: muldoon at April 01, 2025 11:09 PM (/iMjX)
Yeah, I want me some of that!
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 11:10 PM (uG1+h)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 11:10 PM (l3YAf)
Runyonesque
Posted by: Bulg at April 01, 2025 11:11 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg
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Authorial. Not too shabby!
Posted by: scampydog
I hope your relationship is merely Platonic.
Posted by: Ancient Greek Miklosopopulos (no homo) at April 01, 2025 11:11 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 10:59 PM (uG1+h)
One of the Gemini missions was an endurance test. The two astronauts spent two weeks in orbit, IIRC. Yow! Ooooowee! That capsule must have stunk!
Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2025 11:11 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: zombie woodpecker at April 01, 2025 11:00 PM (RgW1J)
HA!
You l'il bastard!
There's a reason you're a zombie! Tomorrow morning I'm gunning for hour brother. 500 feet of gutters on this house and you sit right above where I sleep.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 01, 2025 11:13 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: muldoon at April 01, 2025 11:13 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 01, 2025 11:13 PM (eUEwM)
Posted by: ScaryMary
I can send you some
They call it The Flying Pig
https://www.piggiepark.com/shop/
Posted by: Down Home Miklos at April 01, 2025 11:13 PM (RgW1J)
——
English, please?
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 11:14 PM (PbQyP)
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 11:15 PM (FYKyG)
Looks like the leftwing nutter will get around 1.2M votes.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 10:39 PM (t0Rmr)
*********
So an off-year election in WI is short 900,000 votes from the presidential election. The Dems were itching for a win here and got it. The GOP needs to do a better job of getting their vote out, obviously, and to figure out how to reach the voters that vote for Trump but are reluctant to vote for the GOP.
Pretty much what we've known all along, with a regrettable result tonight in WI.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 01, 2025 11:15 PM (eUEwM)
Posted by: muldoon
I have said one for you and yours, hoping that your quest for justice succeeds.
Posted by: Miklos at April 01, 2025 11:16 PM (RgW1J)
Unfortunately, our site is all cement plugged and abandoned.
They kept a little 10-acre plot that was not allowed to revert back to farmland. There is no gate, but there is a Do Not Enter sign with property of U.S. Air Force?
The neighbor said he believes they had a little oxidizer spill while transporting the missile. (Probably nitrogen tetroxide.)
I suspect they don't want that soil disced up a couple of times per year.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 01, 2025 11:16 PM (Q4Dc6)
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 11:16 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Me no type good at April 01, 2025 11:16 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 01, 2025 10:41 PM (HabA/)
Until you pry the communists out of Madison, your vote will never count.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 11:17 PM (LweC0)
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I remember Maurice's BBQ sauce from back in the day. I don't remember the restaurants. Pulled pork is the best BBQ.
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 11:18 PM (dQoNW)
One thing I haven’t figured out. The Gemini photography looks better to me, the color balance maybe, than the later Apollo missions. It has a certain warmth to it that I prefer. I suppose it wasn’t as accurate or something like that.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 01, 2025 11:18 PM (PbQyP)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 11:10 PM (l3YAf)
NY and NYC is doable, although a pain in the ass and expensive.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 11:18 PM (L5An7)
Window video of re-entry of the Orion capsule from the Artemis I mission:
https://tinyurl.com/2bhma94m
This is the complete video from entry to splashdown. There are problems with the heat shield on this thing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2025 11:19 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 01, 2025 11:19 PM (eUEwM)
Posted by: Ancient Greek Miklosopopulos (no homo) at April 01, 2025 11:11 PM (RgW1J)
It’s more Homeric: she carried off by a Trojan.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 11:19 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Common Tater
Nerdy enough to be a literal rocket scientist, and his name was Maximum Faggot? That poor boy. I can't imagine the wedgies he endured.
Posted by: mikeski winces at April 01, 2025 11:19 PM (DgGvY)
I owe you an email...got a story for ya...
Anyways pull up a chair. We can have cocktails while waiting for the Rat...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 01, 2025 11:19 PM (0ohAJ)
********
Inching closer. B8t by bit. It's going to happen. We've got a tenacious bulldog of an investigator on the case.
Posted by: muldoon at April 01, 2025 11:20 PM (/iMjX)
That'll show everyone we're a serious party.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 01, 2025 11:20 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 01, 2025 11:17 PM (LweC0)
Wisconsin has got the Madison Blues:
https://youtu.be/nQ02Yt-Bla8
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2025 11:21 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 11:21 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 11:22 PM (FYKyG)
That'll show everyone we're a serious party.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 01, 2025 11:20 PM (gKWVE)
“Let’s elect an Insta-thot! That won’t result in drama!”
Posted by: GOP at April 01, 2025 11:22 PM (l3YAf)
Keep your sense of humor...it helps A LOT! I know this to be true.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 01, 2025 11:23 PM (0ohAJ)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 11:24 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Ha!
I remember when the two USCs played football-
University of South Carolina Fighting Gamecocks
v
University of Southern California Trojans
In South Carolina, many t-shirts and bumper stickers said "Their Trojans can't hold our Cocks"
Posted by: Miklos recalls with amusement at April 01, 2025 11:24 PM (RgW1J)
IDF strikes in Gaza said to hit targets in southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis
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Pentagon announces deployment of second US aircraft carrier to Mideast * As federal grants frozen, Princeton University vows to ‘cooperate with government in combating antisemitism’
_TimesOfIsrael
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 11:24 PM (4GPKZ)
Posted by: muldoon at April 01, 2025 11:20 PM (/iMjX)
Keeping fingers crossed.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 01, 2025 11:24 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 01, 2025 11:25 PM (HabA/)
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 11:21 PM (41CYW)
Luckily, the best croissants are a long way away, otherwise I would weigh 400 pounds!
The French don't drink coffee the way we do in America, but I have to admit that their espresso is fantastic. I haven't had a bad one yet. Hell, they have all been great!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 11:25 PM (L5An7)
Keep your sense of humor...it helps A LOT! I know this to be true.
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Take care of me?
Hell I just paid Marleen's Auto Title Loan off AGAIN
Posted by: Miklos has the patience of a New Orleans Saint at April 01, 2025 11:26 PM (RgW1J)
I was eating at Piggie Park every time we went to ‘town’ in the 50s-60s.
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 11:22 PM (FYKyG)
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I grew up near Rock Hill. Sonny's Pit BBQ was the BBQ place around those parts. Unless someone had a pig-pickin' in the backyard. But I remember Maurice's mustard sauce. I like it so much more than tomato-based sauce.
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 11:26 PM (dQoNW)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Ha!
I remember when the two USCs played football-
University of South Carolina Fighting Gamecocks
v
University of Southern California Trojans
In South Carolina, many t-shirts and bumper stickers said "Their Trojans can't hold our Cocks"
Posted by: Miklos recalls with amusement at April 01, 2025 11:24 PM (RgW1J)
Epic, it was! But not ‘the’ game, the last one of regular season. Tigers/Gamecocks.
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 11:27 PM (FYKyG)
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Nowhere do they ever quit. It's an infectious disease. Pfizer should work on a vaccine against communist liberalism -/- oh! wait.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 11:28 PM (4GPKZ)
Posted by: muldoon at April 01, 2025 11:28 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Nicely done in the Art Thread today. Any that missed it, go have a look. Embiggen the pic.
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 11:29 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 11:26 PM (dQoNW)
Vinegar-based sauces are also amazing!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 11:29 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2025 11:30 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 11:30 PM (dQoNW)
Prayer for complete and immediate recovery for Jim SND.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 01, 2025 11:30 PM (cCZTD)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 11:26 PM (dQoNW)
Vinegar-based sauces are also amazing!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 11:29 PM (L5An7)
Yes, and white sauces!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 11:31 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: fourseasons at April 01, 2025 11:31 PM (3ek7K)
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Anyone see this pic of Melania in the media?
https://tinyurl.com/534d4vj4
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 11:32 PM (4GPKZ)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 11:31 PM (l3YAf)
Chicken with white sauce was a revelation!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 11:32 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 11:32 PM (41CYW)
I was eating at Piggie Park every time we went to ‘town’ in the 50s-60s.
Posted by: Eromero
Now see? Did they have the waitress girls on roller skates for the drive in? I told AOP and Osprey about that, not sure if they believed me.
Over across the river in Columbia nothing but Big City Fancy Pants types.
Posted by: Miklos notes that West Columbia has a defensive river situation at April 01, 2025 11:32 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 11:26 PM (dQoNW)
Vinegar-based sauces are also amazing!
Posted by
Hello CBD, do you remember the mustard sauce I made? It was not the MudMoMe, maybe the year after?
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 11:33 PM (FYKyG)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 11:29 PM (L5An7)
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CBD, they are! I live in an area that is epic for TX BBQ , but shall never forget Carolina BBQ. And Memphis BBQ is also delicious.
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 11:33 PM (dQoNW)
Keep your sense of humor...it helps A LOT! I know this to be true.
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Truth. Keep your chin up, Miklos. And keep laughing. Or just shake your head and roll your eyes. Which usually leads to a smirk.
*smooches*
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 11:34 PM (CbEfR)
Posted by: muldoon at April 01, 2025 11:35 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 11:37 PM (dQoNW)
Posted by: Cheri at April 01, 2025 11:37 PM (FGQ5G)
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 11:33 PM (FYKyG)
I missed that one!
But I love those sauces. Both vinegar and mustard based are great.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2025 11:37 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: Eromero
I have friends who have Clempson tickets, sometimes I am invited.
I studied at USC, but my inclinations are more Clempsonian.
Great football, moral and ethical quandary.
Posted by: Miklos considers the first cool day in the Fall FOOTBALL DAY at April 01, 2025 11:37 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 01, 2025 11:38 PM (cCZTD)
https://tinyurl.com/534d4vj4
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 11:32 PM (4GPKZ)
Is Melania taller than Lil’ Marco? Lol.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 11:38 PM (l3YAf)
You just have to accept that the state is completely fucking retarded.
Its two current senators are Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin. Which makes no sense.
It didn't make any more sense when I was there.
I despise California's politics, for example. But they at least know what they want there.
Wisconsin has no idea. They totter from election to election like retarded kids on roller skates.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 01, 2025 11:38 PM (YtQZg)
Over across the river in Columbia nothing but Big City Fancy Pants types.
Posted by: Miklos notes that West Columbia has a defensive river situation at April 01, 2025 11:32 PM (RgW1J
I hate to admit I was more interested in bbq and a cocola.
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 11:39 PM (FYKyG)
*smooches*
Posted by: nurse ratched
Thank you, but this suggestion may be a bit redundant
*rolls eyes like a 15 year old while smirking and shrugging like a Frenchman with an Italian father*
Posted by: Miklos, what ya gonna do, Rite? at April 01, 2025 11:41 PM (RgW1J)
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One people, one Reich, one Fuhrer!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 01, 2025 11:42 PM (cCZTD)
Posted by: Eromero
Maurice's is the only place I know that has Grape Nehi.
Posted by: Miklos knows...things at April 01, 2025 11:42 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2025 11:42 PM (w6EFb)
The sides at Piggie Park are great. Hash and rice, BBQ beans, slaw, onion rings and hush puppies. That is what I ate.
Posted by: fourseasons at April 01, 2025 11:42 PM (3ek7K)
Nitrogen tetroxide is nasty stuff, but it isn't the kind of thing that hangs around for years and years. Effective oxidizers (especially in a rocket context) are reactive as hell, and they'll oxidize just about anything they touch, generally breaking down in the process.
Nitrogen tetroxide, though colorless itself, exists in equilibrium with nitrous oxide, which is brownish/reddish/orangish, making it easy to spot leaks.
I remember reading a story from a NASA dude who was visiting one of the Chinese space facilities, many years back. He'd pretty much shit his pants every time he looked up at the current rocket on the pad and saw the tell-tale orange plume coming out. This was a near-daily occurence, the way he told it.
China is the honey badger of countries. China doesn't give a fuck.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 11:42 PM (W5ArC)
A pregnant woman trailed her husband to a stranger’s house expecting to catch him with another woman. Turns out it was another man.
The video went viral on FB and the woman got fired for it
https://tinyurl.com/bp7v4u7p
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 11:44 PM (4GPKZ)
They are also extremely poisonous, if I'm not mistaken
Posted by: gKWVE at April 01, 2025 11:44 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Miklos
You're on a roll, mang. Keep it up!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 11:44 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 01, 2025 11:44 PM (dQoNW)
Posted by: Bulg at April 01, 2025 11:44 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 01, 2025 11:44 PM (gKWVE)
Well, yeah. They'll happily oxidize your eyes, the inside of your lungs....
It's really kind of amazing that we can even handle oxygen itself. There's still plenty of stuff around that can't.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 11:46 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 01, 2025 11:46 PM (cCZTD)
Posted by: muldoon
Limerick improv!
Clever rhymes, wry conclusion.
So Muldoonian.
Posted by: mikeski at April 01, 2025 11:46 PM (DgGvY)
https://tinyurl.com/3jj72fsr
BTW, Banks has updated his X profile pic. I kid you not:
https://x.com/SenatorBanks/photo
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 11:46 PM (vGzaJ)
Saying prayers for all the Horde's health and wellbeing. I may not post much at all, but I've become very attached to you all.
Posted by: JediArashi at April 01, 2025 11:48 PM (7AQGk)
Posted by: muldoon at April 01, 2025 11:49 PM (/iMjX)
The video went viral on FB and the woman got fired for it
https://tinyurl.com/bp7v4u7p
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 01, 2025 11:44 PM (4GPKZ)
She didn’t realize that Aidsy McGee was gay?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 11:49 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Did not know they opened a location in Sky Harbor. Was living in PHX in the 90's and ate at the downtown Honey Bear's location regularly. It was the best in the Valley - by a long shot. *drooling*
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 11:50 PM (41CYW)
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One people, one Reich, one Fuhrer!
Posted by: San Franpsycho
California Uber Alles!
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at April 01, 2025 11:50 PM (y7zkd)
I remembered some funny quotes from somebody about rocket fuels. It was John Drury Clark:
"Now it is clear that anyone working with rocket fuels is outstandingly mad. I don’t mean garden-variety crazy or a merely raving lunatic. I mean a record-shattering exponent of far-out insanity."
"It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminum, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminum keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2025 11:50 PM (w6EFb)
Trump should appoint Schimel US Attorney for Eastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee, et. al.)
You heard it here first!
Posted by: lurk at April 01, 2025 11:51 PM (FIL9P)
https://tinyurl.com/3jj72fsr
BTW, Banks has updated his X profile pic. I kid you not:
https://x.com/SenatorBanks/photo
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 01, 2025 11:46 PM (vGzaJ)
Dude deserves a lot worse than being fired. Good for Jim Banks.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 01, 2025 11:52 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: JediArashi
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Thanks for the post and jumping in, Jedi.
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 11:52 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Miklos, Rush Chairman at April 01, 2025 11:52 PM (RgW1J)
Greetings! Please. Don’t be a stranger. Hop right in. I’m in Seattle. Couldn’t possibly be less retarded than where you live.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 11:53 PM (CbEfR)
Posted by: scampydog
Are you sure this is the Jedi we are looking for?
Posted by: Miklos, scratching helmet at April 01, 2025 11:53 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Miklos, all I wanted was a Pepsi at April 01, 2025 11:55 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: publius
ClF3. Fun stuff. "How is the asbestos tile on fire?"
Posted by: mikeski at April 01, 2025 11:56 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JediArashi
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We're a lovable lot. Except for those two or three people from, well, you know, you'll recognize them soon enough.
Posted by: muldoon at April 01, 2025 11:56 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Tank Abrams at April 01, 2025 11:57 PM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2025 11:42 PM
Thanks. I was slightly worried about some long-term groundwater pollution.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 01, 2025 11:57 PM (Q4Dc6)
Posted by: scampydog at April 01, 2025 11:50 PM (41CYW)
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Yes, I was working for the state in Phoenix most of 1994-1995. There was a lot of good food there, I ate out every meal but breakfast.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 01, 2025 11:57 PM (cCZTD)
Posted by: muldoon
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Miklos finds reason to stay behind this sofa at April 01, 2025 11:58 PM (RgW1J)
Over across the river in Columbia nothing but Big City Fancy Pants types.
Posted by: Miklos notes that West Columbia has a defensive river situation at April 01, 2025 11:32 PM (RgW1J)
Of course I believed you. Car hops on roller skates was definitely thing, once upon a time.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2025 11:59 PM (8zz6B)
Maybe now people will finally stop with the Democrats are dead nonsense.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 01, 2025 11:59 PM (A+/01)
It's only the practice life.
https://youtu.be/swloMVFALXw
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - into each life at April 01, 2025 11:59 PM (MsUjn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 12:00 AM (Il8IG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Breakfast burrito in Ahwatukee. Potato, egg, chorizo. It was like CBD is with his croissants. Good it was far enough away.
Posted by: scampydog at April 02, 2025 12:00 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: JediArashi at April 01, 2025 11:48 PM (7AQGk)
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God bless you. Chin up. Relax and enjoy some Allman brothers, from your rebellious Southern kinsfolk.
https://tinyurl.com/3yabmetz
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 12:01 AM (dQoNW)
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Well. If you are going to couch it in those terms....
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 12:01 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: muldoon
*sits in corner*
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 12:01 AM (ti1MH)
That, as many of us have pointed out before too many times to count, is what we need to do. Hopefully, this will happen, though there are too many squishes in the GOP to count on this happening.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 02, 2025 12:02 AM (eUEwM)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 12:02 AM (l3YAf)
We're a lovable lot. Except for those two or three people from, well, you know, you'll recognize them soon enough.
Posted by: muldoon
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*glares*
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2025 12:02 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Position as Fact Checker and Ultimate Arbiter All that is True
APPROVED
Posted by: The Non-Profit Institute of Miklos at April 02, 2025 12:02 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 12:03 AM (/iMjX)
One man died while trying to stop the leak when pressurized oxidizer went through one of the seams in his suit. A second man also died, apparently trying to rescue his buddy.
Definitely nasty stuff for breathing or direct contact.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 02, 2025 12:04 AM (Q4Dc6)
"Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard things were, tomorrow’s a fresh opportunity to make it better.”
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2025 12:05 AM (0ohAJ)
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 12:05 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 12:02 AM (l3YAf)
$20, just like downtown.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2025 12:05 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: muldoon
Shit
*ducks behind the davenport*
Posted by: Evasive Miklos at April 02, 2025 12:05 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Sid at April 02, 2025 12:05 AM (H3cwr)
Posted by: PabloD at April 02, 2025 12:05 AM (bYWVt)
Another depressed Wisconsinite checking in. *deep deep sigh* I'm not sure if we're two steps forward, one step back, vice versa, or just marching in place while spinning around a bit.
Posted by: JediArashi
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Depressing at close range, but just imagine if this was in the context of President Harris's administration.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2025 12:06 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 12:05 AM (/iMjX)
318 > 311 What’s a Duckworth?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 12:02 AM (l3YAf)
$20, just like downtown.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Both beautiful and frightening.
Posted by: Horde Mindful Miklos at April 02, 2025 12:06 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Sid's Mom at April 02, 2025 12:07 AM (dQoNW)
Posted by: muldoon
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Let's not get sofisticated.
Posted by: scampydog at April 02, 2025 12:07 AM (41CYW)
I've lived in Wisconsin for all but about a year and a half of my life, most of it in one city. My parents and brother live close by, as does my husband's family. I don't know how Wisconsin will turn out in the end, but leaving doesn't feel like an option.
To the one who mentioned WI being like a toddler? That's probably largely related to the booze consumption. Along with Madison and Milwaukee, naturally.
Posted by: JediArashi at April 02, 2025 12:09 AM (7AQGk)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 12:10 AM (A+/01)
Posted by: scampydog
Careful
CBD may be in France, but we could still get the Ottoman Guy
Posted by: Cautionary Miklos at April 02, 2025 12:12 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy - OT but harmless at April 02, 2025 12:12 AM (v23vE)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 02, 2025 12:13 AM (cnUr3)
Posted by: Tuna at April 02, 2025 12:14 AM (lJ0H4)
But muh bortions. Good luck with that reasoning before the Final Judge.
Posted by: Bete at April 02, 2025 12:14 AM (LX4y3)
I'm doing my best to remember that, while also holding out a modicum of hope that the USSC might cancel out some dumber choices the WISC will inevitably make (big huge emphasis on "might cancel", obviously).
The ads here were about 75% on the abortion issue, with the rest hitting Schimel for supposedly releasing criminals with plea deals or lesser sentences. If I had to guess, the whole "buh much abortions" fueled a lot of votes for Crawford.
Posted by: JediArashi at April 02, 2025 12:14 AM (7AQGk)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 12:14 AM (dQoNW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 12:15 AM (Il8IG)
The country is still in a topsy turvy state, as are our lives much of the time these days. We can only hope and connect with the higher diety to seek healing and in some cases, salvation.
The pain is evident, it rarely ever seems fair what happens to you in life and you have a lot of judgmental feelings questioning why is this happening to me?
But there's always a higher purpose and reason for whatever causes and events our lives experience...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at April 02, 2025 12:16 AM (TGPs7)
Heh, you beat me by seconds. I swear the abortion issues probably carried a lot of the Dem enthusiasm. Hard to imagine being that gung ho for...that.
Posted by: JediArashi at April 02, 2025 12:16 AM (7AQGk)
Tonypete should've checked in by now, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 02, 2025 12:17 AM (cnUr3)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 12:17 AM (A+/01)
Posted by: ScaryMary
I was working at the Superdome when the Rolling Stones had their (first) farewell concert tour. I didn't pay, because I wouldn't have anyway, but worked that show.
It seems a lot of people should get a refund, considering that the "Farewell Tour" was in the 80s.
As are the Stones nowadays.
Posted by: Class Action Miklos at April 02, 2025 12:18 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Tuna
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Damn. Raises glass to the Ice Man/Doc Holliday/Simon Templar.
Posted by: scampydog at April 02, 2025 12:18 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 12:19 AM (dQoNW)
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Induction of anesthesia, low transverse abdominal incision, exposure of the lower uterus, uterine incision deliver fetal head through the uterine incision, baby expressed through the surgical incision...
...30 minutes tops,
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 12:20 AM (/iMjX)
But we all answer some day, some of us just try to live by His Word so we don't get the "freedom" of living an eternity separated from His grace.
Posted by: Bete at April 02, 2025 12:20 AM (LX4y3)
Posted by: Miklos might need to visit at April 02, 2025 12:20 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at April 02, 2025 12:20 AM (TdCYS)
On a scale from 0-Nothing, what did cory booker's stunt accomplish?
btw, notice how he spoke for 20 hours* and said absolutely nothing worthy of repeating.
*not really
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 02, 2025 12:20 AM (cnUr3)
They had a little mishap with the hypergolic hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide on the Apollo-Soyuz mission in '75. That was the last flight of the Apollo spacecraft.
Anyway, one of the astronauts failed to flip some switched to turn off the reaction control engines during late reentry.
When the cabin vents opened to atmosphere, it sucked in some of the shit. All three of the ended up in the hospital. One passed out inside, but they got O2 on him, and all the rest before it got too bad.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2025 12:21 AM (w6EFb)
Actors can be dumb about roles.
Posted by: Bete at April 02, 2025 12:21 AM (LX4y3)
...30 minutes tops,
Posted by: muldoon
Guy here at the bar says yer rong and an idiot.
But he's buying
Posted by: Open Source Miklos at April 02, 2025 12:22 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Rusty Nail
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Good comment. I spend a stupid amount of time on images. Surprisingly difficult to find a "free to share and use" picture of Missile Command (and other things). Was about ready to fire up the Intellivision and Atari to see what could be used.
Posted by: scampydog at April 02, 2025 12:23 AM (41CYW)
Actors can be dumb about roles.
Posted by: Bete at April 02, 2025 12:21 AM (LX4y3)
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Iceman volleyball scene. Sigh. I'll be in my bunk.
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 12:24 AM (dQoNW)
*not really
Posted by: Soothsayer
That boy got much to learn
Posted by: J. Strom Thurmond, f 24 hours and 18 minutes at April 02, 2025 12:24 AM (RgW1J)
I have no idea, even though I am a woman. I stay at home and do embroidery or play video games. :-P
Thanks for the political pep talk, everyone. Gotta go for the night. Take care!
Posted by: JediArashi at April 02, 2025 12:24 AM (7AQGk)
I love Seattle. I won’t leave here unless my
Boys make babies and want me to move to help them raise their family.
It’s ok to live in a blue place and still love it. We love it for reasons our own. Our new governor, surprisingly, is less progressive than I feared.
He’s still a lefty, but less catastrophic than I envisioned.
Hang in there.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 12:24 AM (NMkeY)
Posted by: scampydog at April 02, 2025 12:25 AM (41CYW)
btw, notice how he spoke for 20 hours* and said absolutely nothing worthy of repeating.
*not really
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 02, 2025 12:20 AM (cnUr3)
The AoS Style Guide requires that he only be referred to as "Fiercely Heterosexual Cory Booker."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2025 12:25 AM (/MyY+)
The video went viral on FB
He should have known better than to cheat a friend.
To waste that chance that he'd been given.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2025 12:26 AM (gKWVE)
Abortion?
Transing kids?
Illegal immigration?
Censorship?
Covid tyranny?
Gun rights?
Trillions on graft and welfare?
Seems like our side has a lot of reasons to vote. There’s really no excuse for Democrats winning, ever.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 12:26 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Miklos attributes this to Ben Franklin at April 02, 2025 12:26 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
SO AFFIRMED
Posted by: Miss Lindsey, of the Carolina Lindseys at April 02, 2025 12:28 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 12:28 AM (NMkeY)
*not really
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 02, 2025 12:20 AM (cnUr3)
Corey Booker’s jaw hasn’t gotten a workout like that since he met John Holmes!
(Recycled joke. 100% post-consumer content.)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 12:30 AM (l3YAf)
To waste that chance that he'd been given.
Posted by: gKWVE at
So I’m never gonna dance again. The way I danced with you. Ooooo oooooo
Ohhh ohhb
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 12:30 AM (NMkeY)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 12:30 AM (dQoNW)
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 12:30 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: scampydog at April 02, 2025 12:31 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 02, 2025 12:31 AM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Miklos, mere magyar Moron at April 02, 2025 12:32 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Bete at April 02, 2025 12:32 AM (LX4y3)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 12:33 AM (A+/01)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway
And Four Time US and North American Skeet Surf Champion
Posted by: Miklos, admiring genuine skill at April 02, 2025 12:33 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 12:33 AM (A+/01)
They tax your soul
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 02, 2025 12:34 AM (WF/xn)
With an annual budget of nearly $40 billion and operations in over 100 countries, it represents one of the largest foreign aid institutions in the world. But recent disclosures reveal its true nature as something far more systematic: an architect of global consciousness.
...
The ultimate battle isn’t just for truth – it’s for the human spirit itself. A system that can engineer perception can engineer submission.
_zerohedge
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 12:34 AM (4GPKZ)
Posted by: Cory Booker, at the 19 hour mark at April 02, 2025 12:38 AM (eUEwM)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 12:28 AM (NMkeY)
Looks like his last comment was Feb 27:
tinyurl.com/bddjymdk
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 12:42 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
And I got $100 bucks back from the IRS!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 12:43 AM (7/VSu)
USAID was a propaganda/money laundering scheme. Burn it down. Burn it down to the ground.
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 12:44 AM (dQoNW)
You can read the story of Strom's filibuster. To pee, he he rigged a contraption with bag or bottle in his pants. An external catheter type thing.
He even planned for a #2. He set up a shittin' bucket. He couldn't leave the floor, so he had instruction for aides to fetch the shittin' bucket from a cloakroom. They were to hold some blankets to cover him while he took a dump on the floor of the Senate.
He didn't have to make use of that, thankfully.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2025 12:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 02, 2025 12:44 AM (eUEwM)
The rain makes leftists forget how to left.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 12:45 AM (A+/01)
India is considering cutting tariffs on $23 billion worth of US imports to avoid President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 12:45 AM (4GPKZ)
He didn't have to make use of that, thankfully.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Now you tell me
Posted by: J. Biden at April 02, 2025 12:46 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: ScaryMary
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USAID was on my sh*tlist for a long time. Where the money was going and the amounts were an earthquake.
Posted by: scampydog at April 02, 2025 12:47 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 12:45 AM (4GPKZ)
Nice.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 12:49 AM (A+/01)
Fuck ‘em. I hope the tariffs destroy their economy to the ground.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 12:51 AM (A+/01)
Posted by: scampydog
I lived and worked overseas for more than 30 years and never got a dime from USAID.
Obviously, I did not know the Right People.
Posted by: Stupid Miklos at April 02, 2025 12:52 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: Stupid Miklos
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And be willing to do the thing. You know, the thing, man.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 12:54 AM (4GPKZ)
Obviously, I did not know the Right People.
Posted by: Stupid Miklos
You hang out here. You seem to prefer the Wrong People.
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 12:55 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Stupid Miklos
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EO 10988 too. Which we have chatted about. That remains in Pole Position on my list of items.
Posted by: scampydog at April 02, 2025 12:55 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 01:00 AM (dQoNW)
Love Nuclear Power?
Want to make America Energy Dominant?
I’m hiring
https://tinyurl.com/yrm932un
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 01:00 AM (4GPKZ)
{{{Jim and Iris}}} Continued prayers for both of you.
Miklos, I want you to feel better and fail all tests!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 02, 2025 01:03 AM (0nHVk)
I have about eleven feet of wall left to do in this room. Three panels, two joints to tape and mud. Then paint that, and move on to trim. I will have this room finished before I make the trek back North.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 01:03 AM (8zz6B)
It's a combination of "precarious" and "proletariat" that is used to describe those at the bottom of the UK social structure, whose lives are made miserable by the absence of predictability and security, leading to material and psychological harm.
Orlok merely reports here - you decide.
Posted by: Count Orlok at April 02, 2025 01:04 AM (Wl9BE)
RIP
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 02, 2025 01:04 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at April 02, 2025 01:04 AM (TGPs7)
Posted by: ScaryMary
Yep. Pretty much my take too.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 02, 2025 01:05 AM (sAmhv)
Fuck ‘em. I hope the tariffs destroy their economy to the ground.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 12:51 AM (A+/01)
The talk I see from home is this: which ever party wins the election, if they get a majority, the new PM will go to Trump, hat in hand, and basically agree to Trump's demands, which are in no way unreasonable, and by the time they face the electorate again, the capitulation will be forgotten.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 01:07 AM (8zz6B)
Like girls in bikinis?
Like bikini girls at pool parties?
https://tinyurl.com/5fcpjczn
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 01:08 AM (4GPKZ)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at April 02, 2025 01:04 AM (TGPs7)
Well, Doc Holliday died of tuberculosis. Maybe Val was taking the method acting a wee bit too far? RIP.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 01:10 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: schizoid at April 02, 2025 01:11 AM (ppQY2)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2025 01:12 AM (VE6XX)
Like girls in bikinis?
Like bikini girls at pool parties?
https://tinyurl.com/5fcpjczn
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 01:08 AM (4GPKZ)
Man, that looks like a rendering pot for walrus blubber. (denounces self)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 01:12 AM (8zz6B)
Like girls in bikinis?
Like bikini girls at pool parties?
https://tinyurl.com/5fcpjczn
Posted by: Braenyard
Yes.
This does make you a Bad Person.
Posted by: Judge Miklos at April 02, 2025 01:13 AM (RgW1J)
Get thee to a MoMe.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 02, 2025 01:14 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Sounds about right.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 01:14 AM (4GPKZ)
Posted by: Miklos, waiting for the Short Bus at April 02, 2025 01:15 AM (RgW1J)
This does make you a Bad Person.
Posted by: Judge Miklos
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A mild toast to Admiral Ackbar who has been MIA.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 01:15 AM (4GPKZ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 12:33 AM (A+/01)
Several years ago Washington had a taxpayer's rebellion, that was just a couple of steps short of involving ropes and lamp posts. Perhaps the politicians remember.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2025 01:16 AM (/MyY+)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 01:17 AM (CO2jt)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at April 02, 2025 01:04 AM (TGPs7)
Well, Doc Holliday died of tuberculosis. Maybe Val was taking the method acting a wee bit too far? RIP.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Next you'll tell me Jan-Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine are gone too.
Posted by: Miklos, Airwolf fan at April 02, 2025 01:18 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 01:19 AM (CO2jt)
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nurse ratched
You have to start as a minion.
Then lackey.
Then flunky.
Finally ( my goal)- hatchetman
Posted by: Miklos, aspiring bete noire at April 02, 2025 01:22 AM (RgW1J)
Like girls in bikinis?
Like bikini girls at pool parties?
Posted by: Braenyard
* throws flag *
It is no longer April Fools Day. Unsportsmanlike conduct, 15 yards.
Coincidentally, also the amount of fabric in some of those suits.
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 01:23 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 01:24 AM (CO2jt)
Posted by: Miklos, aspiring bete noire at April 02, 2025 01:26 AM (RgW1J)
As usual, she is right.
Now is the Time of Horizontalization.
Posted by: Miklos, yawning a bit at April 02, 2025 01:30 AM (RgW1J)
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 01:32 AM (rdVOm)
Friendly Reminder:
If China invades Taiwan the stock market gets cut in half. Apple, Nvidia, all of it.
Conflict/trade issues would cause a global recession on top of it. It would make tariffs and Ukraine look like nothing. Immediate global disaster.
Still the ultimate risk.
---
I don't think so. They are building foundries over here, American companies are building foundries too. Besides it's doubtful that China can just take over Taiwan.
Did you see the list of goodies we just sold the Philippines?
Everyone is arming up and, you know, China can't build water tight hatches yet.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 01:32 AM (4GPKZ)
Posted by: schizoid at April 02, 2025 01:11 AM (ppQY2)
Problem is the representative system was conceived at a time when candidates rode on horseback around their district to campaign and meet their voters. Towns were fairly small, and most of the population was rural. Now the cities have become large, and rural areas are relatively depopulated. Perhaps it's time to get away from strictly geographic representation, and start to apply "affinitive" representation. Say a State has 50 reps. make half of them tied to districts as before. Make the other half tied to "affinity groups" (like the pop breakdowns used in polling, for example). These would "at large" reps. If you had a rep for "white, college-educated", any voter in the State, could vote for that candidate, as long as they fit the descriptor.
Not sure if this could be made to work. Just a random thought.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 01:33 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 01:35 AM (8zz6B)
A few weeks later it did actually erupt though.
Posted by: Jim S. at April 02, 2025 01:42 AM (jxoez)
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 02, 2025 01:42 AM (QAkQ3)
- - - - - - -
If the ukelele's are making hooting sounds, then they're being played *really* wrong...!!!
Posted by: You don't say...! :-o at April 02, 2025 01:44 AM (YEdnz)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 01:24 AM (CO2jt)
It is overrated... you have to take care of minions... you have to constantly pay attention to them so they don't do something stupid...
or.. as we called it... being a Non Com in the Military.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 02, 2025 01:44 AM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 02, 2025 01:50 AM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 02, 2025 01:50 AM (0nHVk)
Good evening.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 01:51 AM (4GPKZ)
Today was a good day here. Hubby was calm and reasonable. We had lunch together.
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 01:52 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2025 01:53 AM (/MyY+)
For he's a jolly good fellow
and so say all of us!
Posted by: Count de Monet
Indeed. Besides being a very interesting, intelligent poster he is a very kind man At some point. Several years ago he either said he would pay so that I could come to the TX moron meet up or would ask that he and some others do so. I think it was the former. I had to decline but I was so. very touched by that thoughtfulness. What a generous man!. There are truly some wonderful people here who make the world a better place. I'm sure everyone here who's not a troll or a bot makes the world a better place, but not everyone would offer that.
I am praying for him. I would anyway, but that act was offer was amazing to me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 02, 2025 01:58 AM (42Vb+)
Not sure if this could be made to work. Just a random thought.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 01:33 AM (8zz6B)
Would violate the 15th Amendment:
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Arguably denying someone the right to vote for a candidate based on their race is "abridging" their right to vote.
I take probably one of the most reactionary views of the Constitution, so if I think it wouldn't pass muster, it probably wouldn't.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 01:59 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 02, 2025 01:59 AM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 02, 2025 02:00 AM (0nHVk)
Remember, we are Americans, so that head is held HIGH and PROUD, as it is part of our heritage.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 02, 2025 02:02 AM (hKoQL)
I'm good so far. Looking forward to hubby's son & XW coming to visit next week. He gets so lonely and bored, and hasn't seen them since last summer.
He'll be thrilled!
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 02:04 AM (rdVOm)
Fen, I hope you can come to the TX MoME. I've never been but am driving up this year. I don't know what to expect, but it will be an adventure! It is like a whole 'nother country out here.
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 02:05 AM (dQoNW)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 02:11 AM (4GPKZ)
I think that's great you're going, notsoscaryMary
I😊 im sure people will enjoy meeting you very much . I know somebody else who plans to go for the first time. As It is a wonderfully kind and generous thing for Ben Had to arrange and do. Texas is much too far for me to drive and I'd have to get what we call in NJ "real ID" in order to fly and that is a pain.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 02, 2025 02:12 AM (aVyep)
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 02:12 AM (rdVOm)
Fen, you should make the effort, it is wonderful experience. Jim SND also asked here one night how he could help hubs and I get a MoMe, it was not the right time for us, but I really appreciated the offer.
I think that the big win in Wisconsin tonight was the overwhelming support for Voter ID. It is a start. I would like to get working on this in Mass.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 02, 2025 02:14 AM (0nHVk)
What is an XW? My brain is not functioning too well right now. Sorry. I hope whoever is coming and your husband and you have a wonderful visit.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 02, 2025 02:15 AM (aVyep)
Today was a good day here. Hubby was calm and reasonable. We had lunch together.
Posted by: JQ
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Nice!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2025 02:16 AM (lCaJd)
And that's very nice of you to say that you hope I can come.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 02, 2025 02:16 AM (aVyep)
What is an XW? My brain is not functioning too well right now. Sorry. I hope whoever is coming and your husband and you have a wonderful visit.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Ex-wife? Stepping in here in case JQ leaves her keyboard.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2025 02:17 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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We're in the same boat, Fen. My long-distance driving days are over. Real ID? Nope.
And yes, it's *very* generous (and amazing!) of Ben Had to put on such a grand party! It's the talk o' the blog year 'round.
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 02:17 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 02:18 AM (dQoNW)
That makes perfect sense and what I originally thought, but then I thought maybe an ex wife wouldn't want to visit. If so ,she's a special sort of woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 02, 2025 02:19 AM (aVyep)
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 02:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 02, 2025 02:22 AM (aVyep)
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 02:22 AM (rdVOm)
It doesn't seem strange but probably somewhat unusual . My mother stayed in touch with her ex and he was a professor where I went to college.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 02, 2025 02:24 AM (aVyep)
JQ, it is great that you and XW get along. I don't think it's weird. If it helps your hubby that is good.
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 02:24 AM (dQoNW)
ScaryMary-- it's kind of funny sometimes, to see the look on hubby's face when XW & I have a friendly chat! LOL
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 02:38 AM (dQoNW)
tires into the crater of a dormant volcano in
Alaska and set them on fire, terrifying the nearby
residents into thinking the volcano was erupting again
ILa_NewX
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 02:40 AM (4GPKZ)
I miss my baby Piper and want her home, but not until she can eat, certainly. Maybe tomorrow.
Ruby walked circles around here waiting for DH and Piper to come home. She is still a bit restless, but I think she's exhausted now. The bond with littermates is remarkable.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2025 02:42 AM (LweC0)
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at April 02, 2025 02:42 AM (y7zkd)
From what I've been told... Hubby & XW also had a very drama-filled divorce. (I had nothing to do with it, btw)
Hubs & I started dating several years afterward. We attended son's HS graduation with XW and her husband. It was awkward then, but we all behaved ourselves to honor the young man!
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 02:43 AM (rdVOm)
tires into the crater of a dormant volcano in
Alaska and set them on fire, terrifying the nearby
residents into thinking the volcano was erupting again
ILa_NewX
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 02:40 AM (4GPKZ)
He did, and I remember that stunt. It was actually sort of hilarious, considering how much work he went to for a fairly short duration of burn. Winter in Alaska does weird things to people, for certain.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2025 02:43 AM (LweC0)
Braenyard, that was a funny pic, why only this afternoon did I get a half consumed bottle of wine left in my mailbox.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 02, 2025 02:46 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
WTH? Hahahahaha!
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 02:49 AM (rdVOm)
'night.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 02:57 AM (4GPKZ)
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 02:58 AM (rdVOm)
Well, just learned why there weren't any pics or videos from the Fram2 yet. There are now, see SpaceX X feed.
The entire crew, all four of 'em, got motion/space/zero g sickness. They were puking about all day. They're good now.
One of them said he would think the nausea was gone, then try to sip a little water, and boom, he'd be puking again.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2025 03:03 AM (w6EFb)
tcn, I really hope that you get to Texas in October. JQ, someday you need to get there too, it is a healing place.
I don't have to get up early, but I have a long afternoon in store. I do not want to top off my drink again. I am going to bed. Good night, Horde.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 02, 2025 03:04 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 03:07 AM (rdVOm)
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Ooof. Poor crew! I can relate... I was always *that kid* hanging out the car window on road trips, spewing.
Dramamine FTW!
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 03:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 02, 2025 03:16 AM (V4rQC)
It's funny, but there is no correlation between earth 1g types of motion sickness, and space sickness at all. People who get terribly car sick can have no space sickness, and then those who don't have earth motion sickness much and be the worst in space.
They have a scale named after senator and Shuttle astronaut Jake Garn, the Garn scale. Garn suffered the worst space sickness every seen. On earth, he had no motion sickness trouble at all.
They say Garn was so bad, that the other severe cases they'd had would only be about 0.1 Garns.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2025 03:21 AM (w6EFb)
Even if I were smart enough, would never attempt to become an astronaut. I *hate* puking.
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 03:26 AM (rdVOm)
The mechanism of motion sickness is not known definitely. There are only theories, educated theories, but not proven. They are convinced it is sensory conflict. Different sensory systems are giving your brain conflicting information. But exactly which systems and what conflicts are involved is not well understood.
Car sickness is usually your body is telling you you're moving, but, if you're reading or something (that would always get me, especially in the back seat), your visual system is telling you you're not moving. So, look out the window, and let your visual system sense movement.
In space, 0g, your vestibular system gets all confused. The little things in your inner ear that tell you which way is down are useless. Here your eyes can tell you're moving, but your vestibular system senses nothing. So here, close your eyes or focus on something narrow field not in relative motion. That can help.
But it's a lot more complicated than that in zero g.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2025 03:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2025 03:38 AM (ypFCm)
There weren't enough bags for all of us. Upon landing, Mrs. BD laid flat on the tarmac and couldn't move, let alone get up, for about 15-20 minutes.
I felt very sorry for the pilot. The plane was a mess!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 02, 2025 03:39 AM (V4rQC)
Prayers up from here for you. I don't know if you realize how respected and loved you are here.
I remember when you were roofing, fell thru and busted yourself up, esp your ankle. It was shortly after I busted up my ankle and you kindly emailed advice for rehab.
Thanks for being such a good friend, you are a good soul.
T
Posted by: Farmer at April 02, 2025 03:46 AM (55Qr6)
Yes, I do have some inner-ear issue that has caused vertigo in the past. Also, some hearing loss & tinnitus...but not when I was a child.
Meh. I just keep my feet on the ground and don't try to read while traveling, take Dramamine when 'in doubt' and so forth.
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It only ends one way.
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