Mid-Morning Art Thread

City on the seashore
Volodymyr Orlovsky

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Nernst!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 23, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

3 st

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

4 Bad place to put that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

5 Buried Statue of Liberty just around the bend.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 23, 2025 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

6 Don't think it would be a good vacation spot

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2025 09:31 AM (M4ZvW)

7 "Seems a good day to don a tuxedo and go for a stroll on the beach."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

8 Looks... worn out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 23, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

9 Damn you! Damn you to hell!!

Posted by: George Taylor at April 23, 2025 09:32 AM (jc0TO)

10 Don't they know about global warming? That city will be under water by 2028!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

11 4 Bad place to put that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
----
That's wat she said.

Posted by: Ciampino - Long one at April 23, 2025 09:32 AM (sPQoU)

12 What shore would this be?

Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 09:32 AM (jc0TO)

13 Not bad, but not close to yesterday's.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 23, 2025 09:33 AM (1bNHn)

14 Amazing details.
Very realistic.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 23, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

15 Buried Statue of Liberty just around the bend.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 23, 2025 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

With Dark Helmut climbing down from her nostril.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

16 Very nice. Odessa?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

17 Vladimir Orlovsky

1842-1914

Russianpainter

City on the Seashore

1870

35 x 62 cms | 13 3/4 x 24 1/4 ins
Oil on canvas

The Tretyakov Gallery

Moskva| Russian Federation

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

18 Whuh, no nekkid women today?

Oh well, at least you don't have to wait for low tide to walk home in this one.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 23, 2025 09:33 AM (FCbAQ)

19 Not exactly throwin' off a tropical vibe.

Would not hang.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 23, 2025 09:33 AM (kJSnN)

20 That is wild - that ginormous castle? government building? plopped there on the beach. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2025 09:33 AM (GcdCE)

21 So, the Black Sea?

Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 09:33 AM (jc0TO)

22 Is that a fortress? Because it looks like a fortress. Ima go with it being a fortress.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 09:34 AM (2J/Lj)

23 Nice painting. However, I still know that if you build anything on the sea shore, the sea will come and take it. Not a matter of if, but when.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 23, 2025 09:34 AM (pohLc)

24 Volodymyr Orlovsky was apparently a pioneer of what later became known as "Soviet Realism"

This is not a compliment.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 23, 2025 09:34 AM (W5ArC)

25 Not bad, but not close to yesterday's.
Posted by: Eeyore

To say nothing of Monday's.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

26 Yes, the Château d'If cleaned up nicely after I put a few hundred thousand francs into it.

Posted by: Edmond Dantès at April 23, 2025 09:34 AM (JCZqz)

27 Looks Baltic.

Posted by: huerfano at April 23, 2025 09:34 AM (n2swS)

28 Kind of a depressing city considering it's on the seashore.

Might as well be Detroit.

Posted by: Stateless.. 19% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 23, 2025 09:34 AM (jvJvP)

29 Dracula's Castle -- The Beach House

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2025 09:34 AM (omVj0)

30 Own a museum-quality handmade reproduction of Town on the Seashore by Vladimir Orlovsky (1842 - 1914). Your replica painting of Town on the Seashore will be 100% hand-painted with artist-level oil on canvas by one of our talented artists. You may choose to have it framed and ready to hang.
1 - Choose Size+ $189.19

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

31 It certainly is that.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 23, 2025 09:35 AM (n4GiU)

32 >>Is that a fortress? Because it looks like a fortress. Ima go with it being a fortress.

That makes more sense than my guess.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2025 09:35 AM (GcdCE)

33 So, the Black Sea?
Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 09:33 AM (jc0TO)

Why's it gotta be black?!?

Posted by: John Wylie Price at April 23, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

34 They were looking to develop time-shares on the islands.

They sold Seychelles by the seashore.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 23, 2025 09:35 AM (w9Wax)

35 That's quite nice. Good composition and use of color, light and dark. I like it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 23, 2025 09:35 AM (WPL6O)

36 > 12 What shore would this be?
Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 09:32 AM (jc0TO)

The one where she sells sea shells. Just the shells, because there's no actual food in Marxism.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 23, 2025 09:35 AM (W5ArC)

37
To say nothing of Monday's.
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

Errybody hates Mondays.

Posted by: John Wylie Price at April 23, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

38 Oops.

Damn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

39 >>Dracula's Castle -- The Beach House

Heh

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2025 09:36 AM (GcdCE)

40 Looks Baltic.
Posted by: huerfano at April 23, 2025 09:34 AM

One or the other if it's Soviet. I do not count the Northern Pacific as no Russian has ever seen it.

Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 09:36 AM (jc0TO)

41 Prototype of Alcatraz.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 23, 2025 09:36 AM (Oq5OE)

42 Looks like a row of town houses behind the fortress to the left. The hovels of the former servants, I suppose.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2025 09:36 AM (omVj0)

43
She sells sea shells by the seashore, five times fast.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 23, 2025 09:36 AM (uDnyh)

44 But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open and people are having a wonderful time. Amity, as you know, means "friendship".

Posted by: Mayor Vaughn at April 23, 2025 09:36 AM (kJSnN)

45 She sells seashells by the shoe store.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 23, 2025 09:36 AM (Oq5OE)

46 You just know all the sewage effluent runs directly into the surf. Hope the residents have mastered the art of only flushing on the outgoing tide.

Posted by: Ty-D-Bol Man at April 23, 2025 09:36 AM (G5+As)

47 Oak Island, Soviet style.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 23, 2025 09:37 AM (Q4IgG)

48 Jerzy shore

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2025 09:37 AM (GcdCE)

49 1. She sells sea shells by the seashore, five times fast.
2. She sells sea shells by the seashore, five times fast.
3. She sells sea shells by the seashore, five times fast.
4. She sells sea shells by the seashore, five times fast.
5. She sells sea shells by the seashore, five times fast.

I don't get it.
- Not TJM

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 23, 2025 09:38 AM (MsrgL)

50 Looks like a fisherman has hauled his boat ashore and is repairing it, over to the left near the outbuilding.

The figure just to the left of center looks like a nun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2025 09:38 AM (omVj0)

51 46 You just know all the sewage effluent runs directly into the surf.
Posted by: Ty-D-Bol Man at April 23, 2025 09:36 AM (G5+As)

Plyazh Der'ma ("Shit Beach" in Russian).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 23, 2025 09:38 AM (W5ArC)

52 They were looking to develop time-shares on the islands.

They sold Seychelles by the seashore.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

Inhabitants of islands in the Indian Ocean are prone to maldive dyskinesia.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

53 Not the happiest of seashore paintings - a tad "Walking Dead" like - but I like the body of work by Artist Vladimir Orlovsky a great deal.

Painting on display could wind up in rotational hanging.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 23, 2025 09:38 AM (NFX2v)

54 A painting of a bright sunny day somehow manages to look dim and gloomy. Gotta be Russian!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 09:38 AM (2J/Lj)

55 I hear there's a sweet LairBnB in the ~~dungeon~~ basement!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2025 09:38 AM (GcdCE)

56 She sells seashells by the shoe store.

Posted by: WitchDoktor

She shell peanuts by the pier just doesn't sound as catchy.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 23, 2025 09:39 AM (MsrgL)

57 46 You just know all the sewage effluent runs directly into the surf. Hope the residents have mastered the art of only flushing on the outgoing tide.

Come now. Nothing too distasteful in a few thousand surfing Mexican turds, is there?

Posted by: San Diego at April 23, 2025 09:39 AM (pohLc)

58 This cruise port sucks.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 23, 2025 09:39 AM (kJSnN)

59 Where's all the beach vear?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

60 Pretty atmospheric. You can almost feel the chill coming off the water.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 23, 2025 09:40 AM (Dg2sF)

61 Inhabitants of islands in the Indian Ocean are prone to maldive dyskinesia.
Posted by: Bulg

*ahem*

Posted by: Tsunami at April 23, 2025 09:40 AM (w9Wax)

62 The building in front of the fortress looks like it's about to fall over.

Posted by: dantesed at April 23, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

63 Talk about a playground for snipers!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 23, 2025 09:41 AM (0sNs1)

64 No one seems to paint North Sentinel Island. Why is that?

Posted by: Natives, Restless, Some Assembly Required at April 23, 2025 09:41 AM (G5+As)

65 Romania, I believe, has some Black Sea beachfront. This could be located there, if that area has beaches and not just rocky cliffs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2025 09:41 AM (omVj0)

66 Where's all the beach vear?
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

Dude! It's Russian! That is beach vear.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 09:41 AM (2J/Lj)

67

Only use the latrines in the fortress at high tide....

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at April 23, 2025 09:42 AM (txVB8)

68 Bet there are a lot of sandy britches there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 23, 2025 09:43 AM (Q4IgG)

69 I saw Surfing Mexican Turds open for Red Hot Chili Peppers in Springfield in '91.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 23, 2025 09:43 AM (Dg2sF)

70 The building in front of the fortress looks like it's about to fall over.
Posted by: dantesed at April 23, 2025

***
It does look like it's seen a lot of hard weather. The slanting door on the side toward us, I think, is partly cut off by a ramp of some kind, which adds to the impression that the building is crooked.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2025 09:43 AM (omVj0)

71 Looks like Monday was this Thread-week's high water mark.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 23, 2025 09:44 AM (0sNs1)

72 Wikipedia says he was born a Ukrainian, spent most of his life as an art academic, and retired to Genoa, Italy.

I don't think this can be Genoa, unless it's seen through a Slavic filter.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 23, 2025 09:44 AM (W5ArC)

73 >>Where's all the beach vear?

"Yoohoo!"
-- Beach Bear, waving wildly

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2025 09:44 AM (GcdCE)

74 Bloody hell! They're blasting at the base and its vibrating my house! Why must they detonate so much ordinance at once? This isn't a fucking war zone.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 09:45 AM (2J/Lj)

75 Looks like Monday was this Thread-week's high water mark.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

High something-else mark, too

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

76
btw, brilliant move building a city on the shore.

Posted by: New Orleans at April 23, 2025 09:45 AM (uDnyh)

77 No one seems to paint North Sentinel Island. Why is that?
Posted by: Natives, Restless, Some Assembly Required at April 23, 2025

***
You won't let anybody land. Plays hell with trade, I suspect.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2025 09:45 AM (omVj0)

78 67

Only use the latrines in the fortress at high tide....

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at April 23, 2025 09:42 AM (txVB

----
At high tide the toilet is also the bidet.

Posted by: Ciampino - Shallow one at April 23, 2025 09:45 AM (sPQoU)

79 It does look like it's seen a lot of hard weather. The slanting door on the side toward us, I think, is partly cut off by a ramp of some kind, which adds to the impression that the building is crooked.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Everything crooked in Russia.

Posted by: Worse Than N'awlins at April 23, 2025 09:46 AM (G5+As)

80 Good morning.
This is a beautiful painting. The detail is amazing. I just wish it didn't remind me of Gaza. The word ruination comes to mind.

Posted by: Sharon(mwillow's apprentice) at April 23, 2025 09:46 AM (t/2Uw)

81 The Genoa shore:

https://tinyurl.com/7f9sja5u

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 23, 2025 09:46 AM (W5ArC)

82 Crimea?

Posted by: runner at April 23, 2025 09:47 AM (g47mK)

83 80 Hi, Sharon. How are you doing these days? Didn't you just have some surgery?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

84 City on the Seashore

***********

TongueTwister - a limerick

An entrepreneurial gal named Bea Wells
Had business ideas, (some of which she tells)
She had a profitable notion
In the Indian Ocean
Now she sells sea shells on the Seychelles

Posted by: muldoon at April 23, 2025 09:48 AM (uCfKO)

85 This is damn impressive. His use of color is outstanding from the depth of blues in the sky and water to the hues in the sand to the weathered look of the buildings. The detail is realistic and accurate without looking like a photo. The buildings have the worn, but not decrepit, look of having faced the ocean. I've seen a lot of that. The people provide some perspective and add to the feel of the place. Even the wet areas on the beach left by the receding waves is right. It is thoroughly enjoyable and makes me want to know more of Orlovsky's work.

I looked up some of his other paintings. They all make wonderful use of color and set a mood for the viewer to enjoy.

Posted by: JTB at April 23, 2025 09:48 AM (yTvNw)

86 They're blasting at the base and its vibrating my house!

**perks up**

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 23, 2025 09:48 AM (Dg2sF)

87 Well.

It's no Kowloon.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 23, 2025 09:49 AM (Oq5OE)

88 Is next....svimvear!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 23, 2025 09:49 AM (LCT5p)

89 37
To say nothing of Monday's.
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

Errybody hates Mondays.
Posted by: John Wylie Price

I used to hate Mondays, too, until I figured out how to make tens of millions of dollars telling the same lame joke for 30+ years!

Posted by: Jim Davis at April 23, 2025 09:49 AM (JCZqz)

90 I read something a while back that suggested the Sentinalese weren't quite as "uncontacted" as commonly believed.

According to this story, some English colonial officials used it as a source of undocumented (and unwilling) buttboys back in the 19th Century. When they were done with them, they'd dump them back on the island.

That's definitely the kind of thing that would make you have a dim view of strangers.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 23, 2025 09:49 AM (W5ArC)

91 74 Bloody hell! They're blasting at the base and its vibrating my house! Why must they detonate so much ordinance at once? This isn't a fucking war zone.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 09:45 AM (2J/Lj)

When I was a kid, my Dad was stationed at Edwards AFB. The windows were loose in their frames so the sonic booms would not shatter them. They tested rocket engines and the whole base shook. At least once every couple of weeks. There was solid monolithic rock that connected the engine test stands and extended under the base. Scary at first as it seems like an earthquake, after a while unnoticable.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 23, 2025 09:49 AM (pohLc)

92 Not far off from Asbury Park, NJ in the late 1970's, 1980's & 1990's.

APP dot com: Community Change
History of Asbury Park: Must-see images of the city through the years, @AustinBogues, 2017 & 2020

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 23, 2025 09:49 AM (NFX2v)

93 Is next....svimvear!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 23, 2025 09:49 A

Very nice.

Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 09:50 AM (jc0TO)

94 What the fuck is going on over on the left? Looks like a couple of somebodies are getting a few somethings going there.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 09:50 AM (2J/Lj)

95 Inside that castle is Mrs. Danvers.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 23, 2025 09:50 AM (qBdHI)

96 It does look like it's seen a lot of hard weather. The slanting door on the side toward us, I think, is partly cut off by a ramp of some kind, which adds to the impression that the building is crooked.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Everything crooked in Russia.
Posted by: Worse Than N'awlins at April 23, 2025

***
In Russia, ramp slants you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2025 09:50 AM (omVj0)

97 Grok says

The seashore setting evokes a sense of place, possibly tied to Crimea, where Orlovsky painted extensively. His gold medal-winning Crimean landscapes informed his ability to convey the unique character of coastal regions, blending Ukrainian and broader European influences from his travels in Italy and France.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 09:50 AM (gbOdA)

98
Carol Burnett will be 92 in three days. Think she'll make it?

Posted by: New Orleans at April 23, 2025 09:50 AM (uDnyh)

99
sonofa...

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 23, 2025 09:51 AM (uDnyh)

100 100

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 09:51 AM (gbOdA)

101 We lived about 25 miles from Redstone Arsenal when they were test firing the Saturn V first stage engines.

It was like a minor earthquake at our house.

Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 09:51 AM (jc0TO)

102 Carol Burnett will be 92 in three days. Think she'll make it?
Posted by: New Orleans

As long as she doesn't meet with JD Vance.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

103 This would make an interesting Lego model kit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)

104 If it is a fortress, there are no outworks.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 23, 2025 09:52 AM (UBKzV)

105 Trump and Elon float plan to give welfare queens $5 k per baby.

https://tinyurl.com/3njwa534

Posted by: Real Men of Genius at April 23, 2025 09:52 AM (i8qYm)

106
Anyone else hearing the Roger Whitaker album tv commercial when they look at that painting?

And thinking of white cable-knit turtle-neck sweaters?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 23, 2025 09:53 AM (uDnyh)

107 > 105 Trump and Elon float plan to give welfare queens $5 k per baby.

Doesn't say anything about them being "welfare queens", liebot.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 23, 2025 09:53 AM (W5ArC)

108 House on the rock, and all that...

Posted by: Biblical stuff at April 23, 2025 09:54 AM (94e6x)

109 Doesn't say anything about them being "welfare queens", liebot.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 23, 2025 09:53 AM (W5ArC)

Yes. They leave the quiet part unsaid.

Posted by: Real Men of Genius at April 23, 2025 09:55 AM (i8qYm)

110 Bloody hell! They're blasting at the base and its vibrating my house! Why must they detonate so much ordinance at once? This isn't a fucking war zone.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem

Redstone Arsenal does that a lot too. Sapper School, ATF/FBI bomb squads, and Army Corps of Engineers all share a bomb disposal school here. Graduation Fridays are a literal blast. We're on the lee of a ridge away from the Arsenal, but it still rattles the windows. MegaRoy hates it.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 23, 2025 09:55 AM (MsrgL)

111 Anyone else hearing the Roger Whitaker album tv commercial when they look at that painting?

And thinking of white cable-knit turtle-neck sweaters?
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 23, 2025 09:53 AM (uDnyh)
---
No, it reminded me of the Sapienza, Italy level in Hitman: World of Assassination.

You know a supervillain is cooking up a world-ending virus in that fortified compound.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 23, 2025 09:56 AM (7fElN)

112 Los Angeles approves just 4 permits to rebuild in Pacific Palisades after nearly 7,000 homes burned in wildfires

4 permits every 60 days = 24 per year
7000/24=291 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 09:56 AM (gbOdA)

113 Doesn't say anything about them being "welfare queens", liebot.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 23, 2025 09:53 AM (W5ArC)

If you’re getting paid $5k in taxpayer money to crap out babies, you are by definition a welfare queen.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 09:56 AM (/dDa4)

114
Where Are They Know?!

Today's famous celery is the Yorktown. Born in 1936, you can see what she looks like today.

USS Yorktown CV-5, an aircraft carrier. Sank by the Nips in June 1942 at a small skirmish known the Battle of Midway.

https://is.gd/FtnE21

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 23, 2025 09:57 AM (uDnyh)

115 Home by the Sea
Genesis 🎶
--------------

98. Carol Burnett will be 92 in three days. Think she'll make it?
Posted by: New Orleans

She's one of my favorite comedians.
If she wants to, yes.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 23, 2025 09:57 AM (NFX2v)

116 113 Doesn't say anything about them being "welfare queens", liebot.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 23, 2025 09:53 AM (W5ArC)

Hope Trump specifies American citizens only...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 23, 2025 09:57 AM (VE6XX)

117 The sea wasn't very angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at April 23, 2025 09:57 AM (94e6x)

118 112 Los Angeles approves just 4 permits to rebuild in Pacific Palisades after nearly 7,000 homes burned in wildfires

4 permits every 60 days = 24 per year
7000/24=291 years.

Knowwhut? Those assholes voted for that shit. Fukkem.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 23, 2025 09:58 AM (pohLc)

119 > If you’re getting paid $5k in taxpayer money to crap out babies, you are by definition a welfare queen.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 09:56 AM (/dDa4)

Nonsense.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 23, 2025 09:58 AM (W5ArC)

120
If you’re getting paid $5k in taxpayer money to crap out babies, you are by definition a welfare queen.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 09:56 AM (/dDa4)

I'd be more likely to accept it were it specifically for middle class American married couples looking to start / raise a family.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

121 >> Redstone Arsenal does that a lot too. Sapper School, ATF/FBI bomb squads, and Army Corps of Engineers all share a bomb disposal school here. Graduation Fridays are a literal blast.

The homework must be fun.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 09:58 AM (/dDa4)

122 Scary at first as it seems like an earthquake, after a while unnoticable.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 23, 2025 09:49 AM (pohLc)

Having lived within a few miles of a munitions depot for most of my life, I understand this. People who aren't from around here tend to freak out the first time they experience it. I barely notice it anymore unless, like today, they're doing a lot at once. Then it shakes my house enough to notice. They occasionally will put out a notice that it's gonna be a lot. That's when it gets even worse than today.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 09:58 AM (2J/Lj)

123 Thinking further on the 3 Hegseth aides fired.

The fact that they are speaking to any media, even if they are 100% innocent, is all the proof I need that they are unfit to be anywhere in the Trump administration.

We are in a war for the survival of the Republic.

They proved themselves to be 2003 Republicans; "just one more victory in the War on Terror and we'll win the election!"

Completely oblivious to the real enemy, the enemy at home.
Giving that enemy aid and comfort.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 23, 2025 09:58 AM (+3+7z)

124 What's today's famous rutabaga?

Posted by: Vegetable curious at April 23, 2025 09:59 AM (94e6x)

125 >>Trump and Elon float plan to give welfare queens $5 k per baby.

Step 1: Biden opens the border, 10's of millions stream in
Step 2: Trump closes the border
Step 3: Trump offers money for people to have kids before ending birthright citizenship

Yeah, how could this possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2025 09:59 AM (GcdCE)

126 105 Trump and Elon float plan to give welfare queens $5 k per baby.
Posted by: Real Men of Genius

I'm sure the Left will fully support this...right?

Horrifying. White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children. The Pervert Proposals. These people have an obsession with controlling women's lives and overreaching the boundaries a good government has for its citizens.

The same republicans who have spent decades telling everyone about anchor babies and that poor people have kids just for whatever negligible, below sustenance-level benefit they get? Now want entitlements for MAGA babies?

BTW, birth rates are down because people can't afford homes, food, to pay the Dr., hospital, or health care for the mother and child, and have no right to leave and cannot afford to miss work. Fix that shit.

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." ― Voltaire + Some have yet to recognize that the planet is already suffering from our overuse...including climate change, biodiversity loss, and degradation of ecosystems.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 23, 2025 09:59 AM (JCZqz)

127
But yeah, the Yorktown has retired to a nice seaside community, and enjoys spending time under water.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 23, 2025 09:59 AM (uDnyh)

128 The longhairs mis-placed a decimal with one of the hydrogen bomb tests in the 1950s, Upshot-Bunghole or whatever, at the Pacific proving ground. Yield was approximately two and one half times larger than predicted. Oops.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2025 09:59 AM (nHMnf)

129 That ain't St. Petersburg.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 23, 2025 10:00 AM (RIvkX)

130 I'd be more likely to accept it were it specifically for middle class American married couples looking to start / raise a family.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

How about instead we follow the Hungarian model.

Your income tax liabilities are completely removed once you have 3 children in a married household, for the rest of your life.

Posted by: Real Men of Genius at April 23, 2025 10:00 AM (i8qYm)

131 128 The longhairs mis-placed a decimal with one of the hydrogen bomb tests in the 1950s, Upshot-Bunghole or whatever, at the Pacific proving ground. Yield was approximately two and one half times larger than predicted. Oops.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2025 09:59 AM (nHMnf)

Close only counts in horseshoes and H Bombs

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:00 AM (gbOdA)

132 We must hold the Administration accountable for these illegal acts and demand Kilmar’s release. Today it’s him, tomorrow it could be anyone else,

Don't worry though, we'll put in just the right amount of chemicals to only blot out the sun a little.

Posted by: Britain at April 23, 2025 10:00 AM (t0Rmr)

133 Carol Burnett will be 92 in three days. Think she'll make it?
Posted by: New Orleans

I know a fellow who used to work at a country club Burnett was a member of. She tried to set him up with her daughter, but the girl was too much of a druggie.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 23, 2025 10:00 AM (Dg2sF)

134 Carol Burnett will be 92 in three days. Think she'll make it?
Posted by: New Orleans

Hootersville Rutabagas!
-- Lisa Douglas

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

135 Thx CBD, would hang. Beautiful but sparse.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 23, 2025 10:01 AM (6TePA)

136 BTW, birth rates are down because people can't afford homes, food, to pay the Dr., hospital, or health care for the mother and child, and have no right to leave and cannot afford to miss work. Fix that shit.

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." ― Voltaire + Some have yet to recognize that the planet is already suffering from our overuse...including climate change, biodiversity loss, and degradation of ecosystems.

Wow.

How is it they can see this ONLY when it can be used to reject a Trump idea?

How can they NOT understand these facts within the context of open borders??????

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2025 10:02 AM (GcdCE)

137 If anyone knows Readchoi he normally makes comedy videos, but he made one of the most powerful videos about God and the existence if evil I've seen in a long time: https://tinyurl.com/27r685uy

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:03 AM (t0Rmr)

138 So DOGE team ask SSA to move ssa.gov log on to upper right hand corner like about 90% of all WWW.

71 days to get an engineer to review and write proposal to fix said issue. Not fix just write up.

DOGE did it in around 17 minutes with ZERO down time at ssa.gov.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:03 AM (gbOdA)

139 So where's the nearest Holiday Inn Express and Waffle House?

Posted by: Dr_No at April 23, 2025 10:04 AM (ayRl+)

140 How about instead we follow the Hungarian model.

Your income tax liabilities are completely removed once you have 3 children in a married household, for the rest of your life.

Posted by: Real Men of Genius at April 23, 2025 10:00 AM (i8qYm)

Hmm.. okay, but they can’t be your bio-children. They have to be adopted from Haiti.

Posted by: Co-President Amy Coney Barrett at April 23, 2025 10:04 AM (/dDa4)

141 How about instead we follow the Hungarian model.

Your income tax liabilities are completely removed once you have 3 children in a married household, for the rest of your life.

Posted by: Real Men of Genius at April 23, 2025 10:00 AM (i8qYm)

So, we're not eligible since my wife basically lost the ability to have children after our first one........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)

142 Aw, crap. Cut paste fail. Let's try again:

What's today's famous rutabaga?
Posted by: Vegetable curious

Hootersville Rutabagas!
-- Lisa Douglas

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

143
Horrifying. White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children. The Pervert Proposals. These people have an obsession with controlling women's lives and overreaching the boundaries a good government has for its citizens. /i]

The left: I have a right to have the fruit of the labor of people forever whenever I want it. And I have a lot of wants so get working people!

Also the left: Who needs more people...we already have too many.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:05 AM (t0Rmr)

144 It was OK not long ago -

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Stimulus Payments, Child Tax Credit Expansion Were Critical Parts of Successful COVID-19 Policy Response, June 22, 2022

Beyond reducing immediate hardship, the Child Tax Credit expansions constitute a high-return investment in children’s futures. Poverty and its attendant hardships shortchange children for decades, research shows.[21] Early results from a recent major study also show that cash assistance to mothers may aid children’s brain development from infancy.[22] These near-term results bolster previous studies linking additional income to better outcomes for children in families with low incomes, including better educational performance and attainment, higher earnings in adulthood, and better health, which can yield benefits for children and their communities over the course of their lives.[23]

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 23, 2025 10:05 AM (NFX2v)

145
Here's a bell, just hanging out, on the Yorktown:

https://is.gd/4GURAB

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 23, 2025 10:05 AM (uDnyh)

146 Bloody hell! They're blasting at the base and its vibrating my house! Why must they detonate so much ordinance at once? This isn't a fucking war zone.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 09:45 AM (2J/Lj)

We found another whale on the beach.

Posted by: Oregon Highway Department at April 23, 2025 10:05 AM (q2NNn)

147 139 So where's the nearest Holiday Inn Express and Waffle House?
Posted by: Dr_No at April 23, 2025 10:04 AM (ayRl+)

WaHo adding first new menu item in over 20 years.

Strawberry Shortcake Waffles

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:05 AM (gbOdA)

148 >>Your income tax liabilities are completely removed once you have 3 children in a married household, for the rest of your life.

Ah, but they've already started destroying the definition of marriage. hen this all started to gain steam in 2012, one of the instigating organizations, Beyond Marriage, explicitly explained that the goal was not SSM, but redefining the term legally to include any kind of union - more than 2 people, relatives, platonic friends, whatever, in order to ensure everyone could benefit from things that apply to married couples.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2025 10:05 AM (GcdCE)

149 138 So DOGE team ask SSA to move ssa.gov log on to upper right hand corner like about 90% of all WWW.

71 days to get an engineer to review and write proposal to fix said issue. Not fix just write up.

DOGE did it in around 17 minutes with ZERO down time at ssa.gov.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I STILL haven't been able to find the login link here at AoS. What perks and benefits of cardboard membership am i missing out on?!?!?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 23, 2025 10:06 AM (JCZqz)

150 We found another whale on the beach.
Posted by: Oregon Highway Department at April 23, 2025 10:05 AM (q2NNn)

funny every dayum time

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:06 AM (gbOdA)

151 Yorktown was Gene Roddenberry's initial name for the starship that later became the Enterprise.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 23, 2025 10:06 AM (Dg2sF)

152 How about instead we follow the Hungarian model.

Your income tax liabilities are completely removed once you have 3 children in a married household, for the rest of your life.

Or the Spanish model:

Have seven sons for the nation and you become a "Knight of the Codpiece".

Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 10:06 AM (jc0TO)

153
Fun fact: Carol Burnett is older than the Yorktown.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 23, 2025 10:06 AM (uDnyh)

154 I STILL haven't been able to find the login link here at AoS. What perks and benefits of cardboard membership am i missing out on?!?!?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 23, 2025 10:06 AM (JCZqz)

open command window

type

format c: /s

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:07 AM (gbOdA)

155 So where's the nearest Holiday Inn Express and Waffle House?
Posted by: Dr_No

You see statue of Lenin over there? You go to statue and turn right. Go down the prospekt until you come to statue of Stalin. Turn left there, and walk down ulitsa until you come to statue of Putin beating Zelensky with bare fists, then...

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

156 So, we're not eligible since my wife basically lost the ability to have children after our first one........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)

Sometimes things can be good, even though we do not personally benefit from them.

Posted by: Real Men of Genius at April 23, 2025 10:07 AM (i8qYm)

157 Have seven sons for the nation and you become a "Knight of the Codpiece".
Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 10:06 AM (jc0TO)

Once a king always a king but once a night is enuf

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:07 AM (gbOdA)

158 How about instead we follow the Hungarian model.

Your income tax liabilities are completely removed once you have 3 children in a married household, for the rest of your life.
Posted by: Real Men of Genius
-----
Hmm.. okay, but they can’t be your bio-children. They have to be adopted from Haiti.
Posted by: Co-President Amy Coney Barrett

Amy doesn't qualify. The three children SHALL be the genetic offspring of the married couple applying for the benefit.

Cannot get married to to a chick that has three kids from 3 different baby daddys and qualify.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 23, 2025 10:08 AM (MsrgL)

159 Sometimes things can be good, even though we do not personally benefit from them.
Posted by: Real Men of Genius at April 23, 2025 10:07 AM (i8qYm)

Because alienating the few is good for the many.

Got it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 10:08 AM (Zz0t1)

160 Fun fact: Carol Burnett is older than the Yorktown.
Posted by: Soothsayer

And she was born in San Antonio. Never knew that.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

161 Another thought:
Can we stop calling it "health insurance" and start calling it "hospital insurance?"

That insurance exists to make sure the hospital gets paid, not so you can be healthy.

My car insurance pays me if my car gets damages--it insures my car.

My hospital insurance pays the hospital if I get damaged--it insures the hospital.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 23, 2025 10:08 AM (+3+7z)

162 If you want to fix everything this would about do it - you only get to vote if:

1) You are married and have at least one child - can be adopted or your bio-kid
1a) Homo-gamy doesn't count

2) You are active duty military in a combat unit

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:08 AM (t0Rmr)

163 >> Early results from a recent major study also show that cash assistance to mothers may aid children’s brain development from infancy.

Oh.

I really hate this country sometimes.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:09 AM (/dDa4)

164 Can we stop calling it "health insurance" and start calling it "hospital insurance?"

It used to be exactly that; Hospitalization Insurance. Then it got called Catastrophic Insurance, and then it got banned by ObamaCare.

Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 10:10 AM (jc0TO)

165 So, who, besides Carol herself, is still alive from the Carol Burnett show? Vicky Lawrence?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

166 So, we're not eligible since my wife basically lost the ability to have children after our first one........

Posted by: Sponge

Us as well.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 23, 2025 10:10 AM (MsrgL)

167 Because alienating the few is good for the many.

Got it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2025 10:08 AM (Zz0t1)

Your wife is registered for the draft, I presume?

Posted by: Real Men of Genius at April 23, 2025 10:11 AM (i8qYm)

168 Its silly that medical "insurance" pays for things like regular checkups

Does your auto-insurance pay for oil changes?

How about your home owners insurance paying for carbon monoxide detectors?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:11 AM (t0Rmr)

169 You mean Walter Nernst, the discoverer of the Third Law of Thermodynamics? He was a real Cracker Jack physical chemist, he was.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 23, 2025 10:13 AM (g/Chl)

170 >> How about your home owners insurance paying for carbon monoxide detectors?

My homeowner’s insurance pays for monitored smoke and CO detectors.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:13 AM (/dDa4)

171
The Match Game is another celery graveyard.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 23, 2025 10:13 AM (uDnyh)

172 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 23, 2025 10:14 AM (vKNmo)

173 On an amusing note by nephew turned 18. Most of the women in my family didn't realize that he needed to sign up for the draft.

"No they never got rid of that. And no women still don't have to sign up even though they can now serve in combat units which was the stated reason they didn't have to. "

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:14 AM (t0Rmr)

174 My homeowner’s insurance pays for monitored smoke and CO detectors.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Yeah, that makes sense to me.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

175 My homeowner’s insurance pays for monitored smoke and CO detectors./i]

Oh FFS. "Insurance"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:15 AM (t0Rmr)

176 >> Early results from a recent major study also show that cash assistance to mothers may aid children’s brain development from infancy.

Oh.

I really hate this country sometimes.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

This is stupid. It isn't the cash assistance that helps. It's better nutrition, health care, etc. associated with higher income. Better income = better outcome for the kids. They don't need welfare, they need jobs and affordable goods and services. Jobs + lower inflation = healthier, happier families.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 10:15 AM (2J/Lj)

177 If anyone knows Readchoi he normally makes comedy videos, but he made one of the most powerful videos about God and the existence if evil I've seen in a long time: https://tinyurl.com/27r685uy
Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:03 AM (t0Rmr)

Wow.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 23, 2025 10:16 AM (FCbAQ)

178 It pisses me off that Volodymyr Orlovsky is hardly known but the amorphous dreck that is so much of the 20th century art (looking at about ninety percent of Picasso paintings) is lauded and sells for millions. I can't even find a book of Orlovsky's works available in this country. He should be praised as the John Constable of Crimea.

I wish he had been around to do an illustration of Lothlorien in LOTR. His ability to capture light and nature is exquisite.

Mini rant off.

Posted by: JTB at April 23, 2025 10:16 AM (yTvNw)

179 This is stupid. It isn't the cash assistance that helps. It's better nutrition, health care, etc. associated with higher income. Better income = better outcome for the kids. They don't need welfare, they need jobs and affordable goods and services. Jobs + lower inflation = healthier, happier families.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 10:15 AM

Yep. Cargo Cult mentality. Homeowners have brighter and more successful children so we should buy houses for the poor to get more bright children.

Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 10:17 AM (jc0TO)

180 So, who, besides Carol herself, is still alive from the Carol Burnett show? Vicky Lawrence?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

------------

Coming to our local Community College Performing Arts Center: "Vicki Lawrence & Mama: A Two-Woman Show" on Friday night April 25.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 23, 2025 10:17 AM (8W3ml)

181 Hey hey
Ho Ho
MS13 gang bangers have go to go

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 23, 2025 10:17 AM (DKKgv)

182
MSNBC13

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 23, 2025 10:18 AM (uDnyh)

183 I liked Gene Rayburn and the Match Game.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 23, 2025 10:18 AM (asR6R)

184 One of the biggest Keynesian Experiments was WWII.

Here is a summery written in 2010:

While government spending fell like a stone, federal tax revenues fell only a little, from a peak of $44.4 billion in 1945 to $39.7 billion in 1947 and $41.4 billion in 1948. In other words, from peak to trough, tax revenues fell by only $4.7 billion, or 10.6 percent. Yet, the economy boomed. The unemployment rate, which was artificially low at the end of the war because many millions of workers had been drafted into the US armed services, did increase. But during the years from 1945 to 1948, it reached its peak at only 3.9 percent [italics mine] in 1946, and, for the months from September 1945 to December 1948, the average unemployment rate was only 3.5 percent.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:18 AM (gbOdA)

185 Oh FFS. "Insurance"
Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:15 AM (t0Rmr)

I’m guessing they consider the chance to detect a problem early worth it? If the house burns down or people die from CO poisoning they’ll be out a lot more money.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:19 AM (/dDa4)

186 City on the seashore
Volodymyr Orlovsky

Love this. Great scene.

Posted by: t-bird at April 23, 2025 10:19 AM (/GaVB)

187 I’m guessing they consider the chance to detect a problem early worth it? If the house burns down or people die from CO poisoning they’ll be out a lot more money.

That's why and...that is then no longer insurance

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:20 AM (t0Rmr)

188 Yorktown was Gene Roddenberry's initial name for the starship that later became the Enterprise.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 23, 2025 10:06 AM (Dg2sF)

The very first one under Capt Archer should have been called Dorktown.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 23, 2025 10:20 AM (snZF9)

189 I liked Gene Rayburn and the Match Game.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

He invented that long microphone that he used on that show.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

190
Re: shipwrecks

I gotta say, I wanna see skeletons.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 23, 2025 10:22 AM (uDnyh)

191 Homeowners have brighter and more successful children so we should buy houses for the poor to get more bright children.
Posted by: toby928 at April 23, 2025 10:17 AM (jc0TO)

Buy houses for the "poor" in this country and what you get is trashed houses, declining property values in the neighborhood, and an area infested with crime, drugs, and rodents. A place so awful it has to be burned down to improve.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 10:22 AM (2J/Lj)

192
George met his new daddy yesterday. Kind of embarrassing to say, but we were a bit concerned because George's new owner is black and we couldn't recall him having met any blacks in the past. But they hit it off just fine. He's going to be treated like a king.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2025 10:22 AM (QnmlO)

193 One of the biggest Keynesian Experiments was WWII.

Government is very, very good at killing people.

So spending on wars is very efficient - wars are mostly what governments were created for.

Anything else though? Government is horribly inefficient and that's an iron rule of government. If I'm paying for an improvement to my house, I'm highly interested in getting the best quality and lowest price I can.

Government though doesn't care about price because it is someone else's money, and only cares about quality to the extent it will directly move votes against the current office holders.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:22 AM (t0Rmr)

194 Don't like the baby bonus idea. It's been done before. I don't need commies getting any more Uncle Sugar money. Just make the fucking country better and stop the bullshit.

Posted by: ... at April 23, 2025 10:23 AM (hxILi)

195 168 Its silly that medical "insurance" pays for things like regular checkups

Does your auto-insurance pay for oil changes?

—

That’s a bad analogy,

Auto insurance doesn’t cover an engine that blows up due to no oil changes. Auto insurance isn’t a warranty.

A better analogy would be does your auto insurance cover new tires and brakes? Because that would reduce accidents which would lower the cost for insurance companies.but they don’t probably because the cost of new brakes and tires is higher than the expected reduction in payouts.

With health care the equation is different. Early detection of something serious can save $1M in treatment costs. That’s worth the $150 checkup cost the insurance company pays.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 23, 2025 10:23 AM (DKKgv)

196 Buy houses for the "poor" in this country and what you get is trashed houses, declining property values in the neighborhood, and an area infested with crime, drugs, and rodents. A place so awful it has to be burned down to improve.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 10:22 AM (2J/Lj)

You're just a Debbie Downer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 23, 2025 10:24 AM (asR6R)

197 That's why and...that is then no longer insurance
Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:20 AM (t0Rmr)

I agree that “health insurance” is mostly a scam, and not insurance. But auto insurance gives a discount if you have anti-theft devices. Seems sensible, since it cuts down on claims.

I pay more for homeowner’s insurance because I refuse to fence-in my pool.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:24 AM (/dDa4)

198 128
Something about not knowing the Lithium in Lithium Hydride would get involved?

Posted by: Ciampino - big one at April 23, 2025 10:24 AM (sPQoU)

199 George met his new daddy yesterday. Kind of embarrassing to say, but we were a bit concerned because George's new owner is black and we couldn't recall him having met any blacks in the past. But they hit it off just fine. He's going to be treated like a king.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I wonder how much difference between human races dogs can even detect, given that their eyesight is worse than humans'.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

200 Don't like the baby bonus idea. It's been done before. I don't need commies getting any more Uncle Sugar money. Just make the fucking country better and stop the bullshit.

You could handle that via non-refundable tax deductions I suppose.

If we gave real child credits this way it might incentivize middle/upper middle class people to have more kids. But the current structure is almost meaningless for people in these income brackets.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:24 AM (t0Rmr)

201 Early results from a recent major study also show that cash assistance to mothers may aid children’s brain development from infancy.
--------

Let me guess. The study defined "brain development" to mean how likely they are to become a leftard commie shitstain.

Honestly the only worse phrase in the language than "experts say" is "a study shows".

Posted by: ... at April 23, 2025 10:25 AM (hxILi)

202 With health care the equation is different. Early detection of something serious can save $1M in treatment costs. That’s worth the $150 checkup cost the insurance company pays.

And then you end up with health "insurance" coming with so many "perks" nominally related to prevention you can't keep up with them - but I am paying for them all...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:26 AM (t0Rmr)

203 Hi Bulg
Had to check out the Morning Report so just got back here.
Yes, had cataract surgery two weeks ago. Doing fine. Get to swim again starting today so I can stop feeling like a blob.
Will you be at NoVa this year?

Posted by: Sharon(mwillow's apprentice) at April 23, 2025 10:27 AM (t/2Uw)

204 I never understand people who are upset that they don’t get “their moneys worth” with insurance. It’s like OK you pay a bunch of money and never get it back.

Would you prefer you go really sick and made a profit from your health insurance? Cuz that’s the alternative.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 23, 2025 10:28 AM (DKKgv)

205 Speaking of government aid, one area that would make a major, immediate positive impact would be stop giving people EBT cards, give them actual food.

And no cheetos and ho-hos. You get chicken, rice, beans, veggies, etc. If you want junk food you can earn the money to buy it.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:28 AM (t0Rmr)

206 Something about not knowing the Lithium in Lithium Hydride would get involved?
Posted by: Ciampino - big one at April 23, 2025 10:24 AM (sPQoU)

That was Castle Bravo.

Upshot-Knothole preceded the Castle series of tests and included the first use of atomic artillery.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:29 AM (/dDa4)

207 I celebrated Erff Day 2025 by watching videos of AoC and Bernie deplaning G5 private jet.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:29 AM (gbOdA)

208 I wonder how much difference between human races dogs can even detect, given that their eyesight is worse than humans'.
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

We have a rescue dog that came from Mexico and when she hears spanish speakers she barks.. I'm imagining she was mistreated in Mexico...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 23, 2025 10:29 AM (VE6XX)

209 Posted by: Sharon(mwillow's apprentice)

Good to hear, Sharon.

Has a date been set for the NoVa MoMe yet? I will be going back to Michigan in June for my great-niece's high-school graduation, so I won't be able to go to the MoMe if there is a date conflict.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

210 I liked Gene Rayburn and the Match Game.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

He invented that long microphone that he used on that show.
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

Did somebody say 'long microphones?' Oh-HO!

Posted by: Charles Nelson Reilly at April 23, 2025 10:30 AM (Dg2sF)

211 Speaking of government aid, one area that would make a major, immediate positive impact would be stop giving people EBT cards, give them actual food.

The old fashioned, original, generic packaging government cheese.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2025 10:30 AM (dTleh)

212 Would you prefer you go really sick and made a profit from your health insurance? Cuz that’s the alternative.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 23, 2025 10:28 AM (DKKgv)

Yes, dammit! I’m paying for it, I better get my money’s worth. Time to smoke another pack of Camel unfiltereds..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:31 AM (/dDa4)

213 If anyone knows Readchoi he normally makes comedy videos, but he made one of the most powerful videos about God and the existence if evil I've seen in a long time: https://tinyurl.com/27r685uy

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:03 AM (t0Rmr)

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Powerful analogy (birth and ~~death~~ rebirth) from Dukes of Hazzard co-star John Schneider:

https://is.gd/l1kkri

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 23, 2025 10:31 AM (rTAb+)

214 The old fashioned, original, generic packaging government cheese.
Posted by: rickb223

My aunt used to get the government cheese, and sometimes she would give some to us. It was really tasty.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

215 There was talk about Cardinal Sarah on the last thread, and I have a question:

How big are her boobs?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

216 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
Dang. That's a depressing looking city. Good painting though. You can almost smell the waste being dumped into the water.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 23, 2025 10:33 AM (W/lyH)

217 Would you prefer you go really sick and made a profit from your health insurance? Cuz that’s the alternative.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 23, 2025 10:28 AM (DKKgv)

Our premiums keep going up and our life expectancy is going down.

Reality doesn't track with your theorized correlation.

Posted by: Real Men of Genius at April 23, 2025 10:33 AM (i8qYm)

218 I never understand people who are upset that they don’t get “their moneys worth” with insurance. It’s like OK you pay a bunch of money and never get it back.

Would you prefer you go really sick and made a profit from your health insurance? Cuz that’s the alternative.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

No. You pay & pay & pay and then they decline treatments & payments. THAT'S what has people pissed off.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2025 10:33 AM (dTleh)

219 Posted by: Diogenes at April 23, 2025 10:33 AM (W/lyH)

How did the geezer-fleecing go yesterday?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

220 She shells shambling shack shows for the Shoviets.

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 23, 2025 10:35 AM (5SvjB)

221 Are viatical settlements still a thing?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

222 188 The very first one under Capt Archer should have been called Dorktown.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 23, 2025 10:20 AM (snZF9)

Nah. Dorktown is Jon Bois' thing, and he's a rabid leftist.

Posted by: XTC at April 23, 2025 10:35 AM (UnA8+)

223 Well that don't look like a fun day at the beach.
I wouldn't waste my hard earned money to vacation at that dump. Give me the Gold Coast in Australia. Now that would be nice.

Posted by: Case at April 23, 2025 10:35 AM (OrSPY)

224 I guess Frankie the Red seeded the papal selection committee with his commie buddies. Don't expect much.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 23, 2025 10:36 AM (asR6R)

225 If anyone knows Readchoi he normally makes comedy videos, but he made one of the most powerful videos about God and the existence if evil I've seen in a long time: https://tinyurl.com/27r685uy

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:03 AM (t0Rmr)

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Interesting, I watched that with the sound off -- just reading the Closed Caption -- and I heard it in Bruce Lee's voice.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 23, 2025 10:36 AM (rTAb+)

226 JFK’s Radical Grandson, Jack Schlossberg, Accuses Vice President J.D. Vance of ‘Killing the Pope’ in Unhinged Online Rant

Posted by: SMOD at April 23, 2025 10:36 AM (RHGPo)

227 No. You pay & pay & pay and then they decline treatments & payments. THAT'S what has people pissed off.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2025 10:33 AM (dTleh)

I have a “gold tier” PPO. That used to be good insurance. Eight years ago the deductible was $250.

Today it’s $4500. They also now require referrals and prior authorization for everything. The whole point of a PPO was to avoid those.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:36 AM (/dDa4)

228 Somebody on my wife's virtual meeting just used the phrase "circle back."

I always think of it as "Psrircle back" now, thanks to JJ.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

229 Speaking of government aid, one area that would make a major, immediate positive impact would be stop giving people EBT cards, give them actual food.

And no cheetos and ho-hos. You get chicken, rice, beans, veggies, etc. If you want junk food you can earn the money to buy it.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:28 AM (t0Rmr)

Eh, the gov't should provide some kind of "Poverty Loaf"-

like something texturally between tofu and bread with all the protein, vitamins, minerals, fiber required on a daily basis by the human body.

Provide it free, so nobody is in danger of starving to death,

Buuuuut, if you want something different...yup, get off your rear and earn it.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 23, 2025 10:38 AM (iJfKG)

230 Give me the Gold Coast in Australia. Now that would be nice.
Posted by: Case

Only about half a dozen critters that can kill you there, as opposed to in the Outback.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

231 I wonder how much difference between human races dogs can even detect, given that their eyesight is worse than humans'.
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)
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Our shih-tzu has one brown eye and one blue eye and he's the only one we've ever had that watches the tv. He absolutely loses his mind when dogs, cats, horses and people with dreds or large afros appear on the screen. It's very weird.

Posted by: jhawk90 at April 23, 2025 10:39 AM (ggOdn)

232 Heh, insurance. It is a racket, has always been a racket, will always be a racket, and insurance salespersons are racketeers minions.

Posted by: tubal at April 23, 2025 10:39 AM (PCK5/)

233 The entire notion of health insurance could never really reduce costs of health care, because you are employing someone to pay all of your health bills.

If you told me you wanted me to "insure" your bar tab, I'm going to have to either place limits on what you can drink (which will be less than what you give me money for) or charge you for more than you can possibly drink.

That's the only way I can make money.

Posted by: Real Men of Genius at April 23, 2025 10:39 AM (i8qYm)

234 You're just a Debbie Downer.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Debbie Downer at April 23, 2025 10:39 AM (5hfjS)

235 Zoom meeting Phrase Bingo

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:40 AM (gbOdA)

236 Our shih-tzu has one brown eye and one blue eye and he's the only one we've ever had that watches the tv. He absolutely loses his mind when dogs, cats, horses and people with dreds or large afros appear on the screen. It's very weird.
Posted by: jhawk90 at April 23, 2025 10:39 AM (ggOdn)

heterochromatic

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:40 AM (gbOdA)

237 I thought there was a date set for the NoVa MoMe but I don't see it in the sidebar. Maybe it was on the gun thread?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 23, 2025 10:41 AM (t/2Uw)

238 228 Somebody on my wife's virtual meeting just used the phrase "circle back."

I always think of it as "Psrircle back" now, thanks to JJ.
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

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At least where I work, I'm absolutely certain it's use was popularized by Psircle Back Psaki. And yes, it annoys me that people choose that expression over "get back to" or "follow up".

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 23, 2025 10:41 AM (LPS7w)

239 There are dogs, cats, and horses with dreds or large afros?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

240 circle back=circle jerk

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:42 AM (gbOdA)

241 Eh, the gov't should provide some kind of "Poverty Loaf"-

like something texturally between tofu and bread with all the protein, vitamins, minerals, fiber required on a daily basis by the human body.

***

Purina Poverty Chow.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:42 AM (/dDa4)

242 No. You pay & pay & pay and then they decline treatments & payments. THAT'S what has people pissed off.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2025 10:33 AM (dTleh)

I have a “gold tier” PPO. That used to be good insurance. Eight years ago the deductible was $250.

Today it’s $4500. They also now require referrals and prior authorization for everything. The whole point of a PPO was to avoid those.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:36 AM (/dDa4)

Before the Clinton Healthcare "Reforms", health insurance was great- easy to get, easy to buy, low cost, low or no deductibles after an initial period.

It was like healthcare heaven, but then the Democrats you their best sucker bait- "It'll be free!!!!" and with HMOs you'll get better care and pay next to nuthin"

and the gimmes and idiots voted for it and here we are.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 23, 2025 10:43 AM (iJfKG)

243 Colombian Marxist Leader Petro Says His US Visa Has Been Revoked – Goes on a Deranged Rant, Calls Trump ‘Donald Duck’

Posted by: SMOD at April 23, 2025 10:43 AM (RHGPo)

244 At least where I work, I'm absolutely certain it's use was popularized by Psircle Back Psaki. And yes, it annoys me that people choose that expression over "get back to" or "follow up".
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

The phrase that really bugs me is "reach out" to someone.

Unless they're telling me to reach out to my female co-worker with the huge boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

245 It's like none of these DOJ lawyers have been yelled at by a judge before.

You forget that the ABA is a Marxist Communist organization and fear of being disbarred is real.

This criminal guild has a choke-hold on justice.
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DOJ lawyers don't have to be licensed in the state where they are arguing a federal case.
They only have to have any state license.
TX kneecapped its state bar recently; cutting the annual "dues" it was collecting in half.
And the bar couldn't do shit to stop them.
Imagine what they'd do the state bar if it tried to disbar a Trump DOJ lawyer?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 23, 2025 10:44 AM (+3+7z)

246 Eh, the gov't should provide some kind of "Poverty Loaf"-

like something texturally between tofu and bread with all the protein, vitamins, minerals, fiber required on a daily basis by the human body.

***

Purina Poverty Chow.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:42 AM (/dDa4)

Well...."Gravy Train" for those fancy occasions but yeah.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 23, 2025 10:44 AM (iJfKG)

247 Purina Poverty Chow.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:42 AM (/dDa4)

Sit D'angleo Sit

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:44 AM (gbOdA)

248 There are dogs, cats, and horses with dreds or large afros?
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)
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We've got FuboTV - there's a channel for everything

Posted by: jhawk90 at April 23, 2025 10:44 AM (ggOdn)

249 There are dogs, cats, and horses with dreds or large afros?
Posted by: Bulg

Ya mon!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2025 10:45 AM (dTleh)

250 The old fashioned, original, generic packaging government cheese.
Posted by: rickb223

My mom was a meals-on-wheels driver. She delivered hot meals to homebound seniors. She also delivered those government food boxes. Giant block of cheese, rice, beans, canned milk. The government delivered dozens of these boxes to the senior center, the staff at the center wrote the name of the recipient on the box, the drivers delivered the boxes. The government delivered way more than needed and when the staff told them they didn't have space to store the extra boxes, government drone said give everyone two boxes and then whatever is left can go to the staff. This is how I know that government cheese was really good. Nice flavor and great for grilled cheese sammiches!
Staff figured the next food box delivery would be adjusted for the right number of people. Nope! We kept getting some of the extra.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 10:45 AM (2J/Lj)

251 Poverty Loaf opened for Bread back in the 70's.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 23, 2025 10:45 AM (asR6R)

252 JFK’s Radical Grandson, Jack Schlossberg, Accuses Vice President J.D. Vance of ‘Killing the Pope’ in Unhinged Online Rant

Don't make JD come to your house, Jack!

Posted by: t-bird at April 23, 2025 10:45 AM (BIMpQ)

253 Purina Poverty Chow.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:42 AM (/dDa4)

Well...."Gravy Train" for those fancy occasions but yeah.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 23, 2025 10:44 AM (iJfKG)

Soylent Green has entered the chat

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:45 AM (gbOdA)

254 The New York Times is touting Senator Charles Schumer’s recipe for “a meatloaf of beef, veal and pork surrounded by pieces of barbecued chicken.”

.. it has to have "pork"

Posted by: SMOD at April 23, 2025 10:45 AM (RHGPo)

255 234 You're just a Debbie Downer.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Debbie Downer at April 23, 2025 10:39 AM (5hfjS)

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*sad trombone*

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 23, 2025 10:46 AM (LPS7w)

256 That building typifies Russian architecture, squat, brooding and unpleasant to look at or live in. Not surprising, a tremendous amount of Russia is still 3rd world in appearance.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 23, 2025 10:46 AM (hKoQL)

257 251 Poverty Loaf opened for Bread back in the 70's.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 23, 2025 10:45 AM (asR6R)

I think they covered Naked with You

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:46 AM (gbOdA)

258 234 You're just a Debbie Downer.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Debbie Downer at April 23, 2025 10:39 AM (5hfjS)

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Kwitcher bitchin

Posted by: Sally Sourpuss at April 23, 2025 10:47 AM (hY4dx)

259 Purina Poverty Chow.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:42 AM (/dDa4)

Well...."Gravy Train" for those fancy occasions but yeah.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 23, 2025 10:44 AM (iJfKG)
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Freeloader Fancy Feast!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 23, 2025 10:47 AM (7fElN)

260 @233

>>The entire notion of health insurance could never really reduce costs of health care, because you are employing someone to pay all of your health bills.

The way to reduce HealtCare costs have been known, the problem is government will not allow the system to work as a free market, ie, all health insurance companies should be allowed to create any sort of healthcare plan and be allowed to offer their product and services to the widest group as possible, ie any health insurance product to anyone, anywhere.

This would put Insurance Companies in competition which currently, there is no competition, by design.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 23, 2025 10:47 AM (XV/Pl)

261 Only about half a dozen critters that can kill you there.....

I would take my chances. If I was wealthy enough I would live there.

Posted by: Case at April 23, 2025 10:48 AM (OrSPY)

262 A black horse with a huge afro would be worth a lot of money.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at April 23, 2025 10:48 AM (MNo6I)

263 The New York Times is touting Senator Charles Schumer’s recipe for “a meatloaf of beef, veal and pork surrounded by pieces of barbecued chicken.”

.. it has to have "pork"
Posted by: SMOD at April 23, 2025 10:45 AM (RHGPo)
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Does he put cheese on it before or after it's cooked?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 23, 2025 10:48 AM (7fElN)

264 That building typifies Russian architecture, squat, brooding and unpleasant to look at or live in. Not surprising, a tremendous amount of Russia is still 3rd world in appearance.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA

Russian churches, though, are wonderful. St. Basil's Cathedral is probably my favorite building in the world.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

265 Soylent Green has entered the chat
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:45 AM (gbOdA)

Soylent Orange is made from Democrats!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:48 AM (/dDa4)

266 262 A black horse with a huge afro would be worth a lot of money.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at April 23, 2025 10:48 AM (MNo6I)

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Tell me more.

Posted by: Catherine the Great at April 23, 2025 10:49 AM (hY4dx)

267 This is how I know that government cheese was really good. Nice flavor and great for grilled cheese sammiches!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem

That stuff must have been magical. You are about the 600th person I've seen say that.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2025 10:49 AM (dTleh)

268 Brutalist architecture??

Posted by: tubal at April 23, 2025 10:49 AM (PCK5/)

269 I guess Frankie the Red seeded the papal selection committee with his commie buddies. Don't expect much.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 23, 2025 10:36 AM (asR6R)

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Pope Biden I?
Pope Pelosi I?
Pope Dawkins I?

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 23, 2025 10:49 AM (VgL6v)

270
JFK’s Radical Grandson, Jack Schlossberg, Accuses Vice President J.D. Vance of ‘Killing the Pope’ in Unhinged Online Rant

__________

We know what great Catholics the Kennedys are.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2025 10:49 AM (QnmlO)

271 A black horse with a huge afro would be worth a lot of money.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot

Probably not as a racehorse, though. Too much wind resistance.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

272 Speaking of government aid, one area that would make a major, immediate positive impact would be stop giving people EBT cards, give them actual food.

The old fashioned, original, generic packaging government cheese.
Posted by: rickb223

Were I your King, it would be beans and rice only.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 23, 2025 10:49 AM (vKNmo)

273 233
If you told me you wanted me to "insure" your bar tab, I'm going to have to either place limits on what you can drink (which will be less than what you give me money for) or charge you for more than you can possibly drink.

That's the only way I can make money.

Posted by: Real Men of Genius at April 23, 2025 10:39 AM (i8qYm)

Or, you can get the government to require that everyone buys "bar tab insurance", including people who don't incur bar tabs, so that the people who don't use the product subsidize the ones who do.

So-called "health insurance" is mostly just someone else paying for your health care, either your employer or the government in the form of Medicare and Medicaid.

The exception is people who pay their own premiums in full, with no employer or government assistance, and those people pay high premiums and have high deductibles and co-pays.

Posted by: BillyD at April 23, 2025 10:50 AM (Yt3ED)

274 263 The New York Times is touting Senator Charles Schumer’s recipe for “a meatloaf of beef, veal and pork surrounded by pieces of barbecued chicken.”

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Siege Loaf

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2025 10:50 AM (hY4dx)

275 Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2025 10:03 AM (t0Rmr)

Entertaining stuff and yeah that last one is a good message.

Posted by: ... at April 23, 2025 10:51 AM (hxILi)

276 Were I your King, it would be beans and rice only.
Posted by: Tonypete

Occasionally swapped out with rice and beans, for variety's sake.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

277 We got government cheese when I was a kid. I thought it was gross. We fed it to the hogs.

The cheese they served in the school cafeteria must’ve been the same. It had a weird, spoiled smell and would make me nauseous if I ate it.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:51 AM (/dDa4)

278 Were I your King, it would be beans and rice only.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 23, 2025 10:49 AM (vKNmo)

The spam spam spam spam spam and beans does not have much spam in it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:51 AM (gbOdA)

279
Did someone say...Government Cheese?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR9ttAdrEHY

Posted by: Zombie Rainmakers at April 23, 2025 10:51 AM (iJfKG)

280 278 Were I your King, it would be beans and rice only.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 23, 2025 10:49 AM (vKNmo)

The spam spam spam spam spam and beans does not have much spam in it.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:51 AM (gbOdA)

I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!!!

Posted by: Terry Jones at April 23, 2025 10:52 AM (PiwSw)

281 Siege Loaf
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2025 10:50 AM (hY4dx)

You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in Denver who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 23, 2025 10:52 AM (gbOdA)

282 No. You pay & pay & pay and then they decline treatments & payments. THAT'S what has people pissed off.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2025 10:33 AM

Agree, but why are the providers ever called out for what they charge? That's why premiums are so high and they're denying crap. When I was born 29 years ago, my parents paid out of pocket. They paid out of pocket for all the stitches I had over the years. Insurance was for major stuff. A regular delivery of a baby now costs 20K! WTF?

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 23, 2025 10:53 AM (4p0Xq)

283 How did the geezer-fleecing go yesterday?
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

Well, some of those snow birds got in from wintering in Arizona and they've been practicing. But I still was able to win a couple skins but sadly, not enough to cover my bar tab.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 23, 2025 10:54 AM (W/lyH)

284 Cheese. I buy 5 pound blocks of cheese from the Amish store.. very good, inexpensive compared to supermarket chain cheese.

Posted by: tubal at April 23, 2025 10:54 AM (PCK5/)

285
I guess Frankie the Red seeded the papal selection committee with his commie buddies. Don't expect much.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 23, 2025 10:36 AM (asR6R)

__________

Who knows? When Pope Leo XIII, largely liberal, died in 1903, there were only a couple of cardinals from his predecessor's day. They elected Pius X, who was a hard-ass. He was followed in 1910 by Benedict XV, a nice guy, who was followed in 1922 by Pius XI, another hard-ass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2025 10:54 AM (QnmlO)

286 283 How did the geezer-fleecing go yesterday?
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

Well, some of those snow birds got in from wintering in Arizona and they've been practicing. But I still was able to win a couple skins but sadly, not enough to cover my bar tab.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 23, 2025 10:54 AM (W/lyH)

You won skins??? Deer, ostrich, pig ???

Posted by: tubal at April 23, 2025 10:55 AM (PCK5/)

287 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2025 10:54 AM (QnmlO)

I keep telling you, we need Pope Hadrian VII. You've already got the name and number picked out. I say, go for it!

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

288 The New York Times is touting Senator Charles Schumer’s recipe for “a meatloaf of beef, veal and pork surrounded by pieces of barbecued chicken.”

.. it has to have "pork"
Posted by: SMOD
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Does he put cheese on it before or after it's cooked?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

What is this "cooked" are you talking about?
Posted by: Senator Schumer

Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2025 10:56 AM (dTleh)

289 Drug dealers will start scheduling operations and pharmaceuticals.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at April 23, 2025 10:56 AM (MNo6I)

290 @218

>>No. You pay & pay & pay and then they decline treatments & payments. THAT'S what has people pissed off.

I was recently prescribed xdemvy for my upcoming cataract surgery, the street price for xdemvy is over $2k for a 10ml bottle, my insurance company declined to authorization, I went to my Ophthalmologist and he made a couple of calls and got a 2k off coupon for it from the manufacturer, and I was able to get it for 30 bucks.

Ironically, the Insurance company recommended Ivermectin as a substitute for xdemvy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 23, 2025 10:57 AM (XV/Pl)

291 One thing about living a long time, you get to see the same ideas brought up again by people who think they’ve discovered something.

USDA “food stamps” did just that. You were able to “purchase” commodity foodstuffs - flour, rice, potatoes, peanut butter, cooking oil, cheese, etc.

There was a ready market for food stamps, which were traded for cash, at maybe 20c on the dollar.

By the 1990s the Clinton apparatchiks and usual suspects declared that food stamps were “demeaning” and ushered in the era of credit card style direct payments, which now presumably can be used for anything. Mountain Dew, lap dances, and legal cannabis most likely.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2025 10:57 AM (/FU0J)

292 I read about that Cardinal Sarah. Seems he has little tolerance for all the bullshit going on.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 23, 2025 10:58 AM (asR6R)

293 282 No. You pay & pay & pay and then they decline treatments & payments. THAT'S what has people pissed off.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2025 10:33 AM

Agree, but why are the providers ever called out for what they charge? That's why premiums are so high and they're denying crap. When I was born 29 years ago, my parents paid out of pocket. They paid out of pocket for all the stitches I had over the years. Insurance was for major stuff. A regular delivery of a baby now costs 20K! WTF?

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 23, 2025 10:53 AM (4p0Xq)

Part of it is improved, and more expensive, medical technology, part of it is defensive medicine, to avoid possible malpractice lawsuits, and part of it is to cover the outrageous costs of actual malpractice lawsuits.

Posted by: BillyD at April 23, 2025 10:58 AM (Yt3ED)

294 Systemic Racist Eva Longoria Claims DEI Is A "Moral Imperative" And "Good Business”

Posted by: SMOD at April 23, 2025 10:59 AM (RHGPo)

295 Before 1980 there were no knee replacements. Now they are done as frequent as getting tonsils removed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2025 11:01 AM (VofaG)

296 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

297
I say, go for it!
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

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There's the small matter of my being married. But who knows what the Holy Spirit might suggest to Their Emininces?

- No more Communion in the hand.
- Altar rails are back.
- No more altar girls.
- No more Extraordinary Ministers.
- Confession behind a screen only.
- Priests want to say a Traditional Latin Mass? Go for it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2025 11:01 AM (QnmlO)

298 Part of it is improved, and more expensive, medical technology, part of it is defensive medicine, to avoid possible malpractice lawsuits, and part of it is to cover the outrageous costs of actual malpractice lawsuits.

Posted by: BillyD at April 23, 2025 10:58 AM

And also the deadbeats like illegals that never pay their bills and treat the ER like their primary care. but there's zero justification for 20K for a regular birth. Babies have been being born for a little while now. And if it's a normal birth, there's not a lot of expensive stuff that needs to be thrown at it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 23, 2025 11:01 AM (4p0Xq)

299 Government Cheese was good, in part because it was a way of storing commodity price support dairy output from the farmers. “What are we gonna do with all this Milk?” Well - turned into Cheese, that’s what. And then store it in caves. Aged Cheddar, sort of.

They weren’t trying to maximize profits with ersatz fillers or expanders, they made it dense as they could make it, I expect. My dad brought home a small chunk he scored somewhere, and we made grilled cheese sammiches, and omelets. It was good stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2025 11:02 AM (dDLWu)

300 Part of it is improved, and more expensive, medical technology, part of it is defensive medicine, to avoid possible malpractice lawsuits, and part of it is to cover the outrageous costs of actual malpractice lawsuits.

Posted by: BillyD at April 23, 2025 10:58 AM (Yt3ED)

Massive rent-seeking from pharma and medtech companies, doctors making loads of money, obscene bureaucracies to manage insurance paperwork and keep you from seeing a real doctor as much as possible.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 11:02 AM (/dDa4)

301 Purina Poverty Chow.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:42 AM (/dDa4)

Well...."Gravy Train" for those fancy occasions but yeah.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 23, 2025 10:44 AM (iJfKG)
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Freeloader Fancy Feast!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 23, 2025 10:47 AM (7fElN)

Hobo Helper.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 23, 2025 11:04 AM (Dg2sF)

302 . We got government cheese when I was a kid. I thought it was gross. We fed it to the hogs.

The cheese they served in the school cafeteria must’ve been the same. It had a weird, spoiled smell and would make me nauseous if I ate it.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

It was the same. And it was the same as the military used.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 23, 2025 11:05 AM (2J/Lj)

303 Colombian Marxist Leader Petro Says His US Visa Has Been Revoked – Goes on a Deranged Rant, Calls Trump ‘Donald Duck’
Posted by: SMOD at April 23, 2025 10:43 AM (RHGPo)

Petro is having a little problem right now, there are accusations that he disappeared for a couple of days during a state visit to Paris France, and that he spent that time doing drugs.
Petro is stating that he went to go see museums.

However, has anyone asked recently how all those "migrant caravans" managed to collect all those "migrants" in camps in the Darien to invade the US, in the deep south part of Panama, if they didn't come over the border from Colombia?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 23, 2025 11:17 AM (D7oie)

304 I pay more for homeowner’s insurance because I refuse to fence-in my pool.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 23, 2025 10:24 AM (/dDa4)

Around here, you'd go broke paying the fines involved, eventually losing your house.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 23, 2025 11:21 AM (5xuJ/)

305 The place looks like hang out for Ghouls at Night

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 23, 2025 04:43 PM (wGqjj)

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