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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - May 4, 2025 [Doof]
Non-Wholesome Content Did you catch my guest appearances as Cafe host on Thursday and Friday? I featured lots of great wholesome content. If you missed them, go check them out - but do not comment on "old" threads. Well, tonight I bring you something 180 degrees opposite of wholesome. The "Delco Pooper" Woman charged after viral video shows her defecating on a car
The Brief - A woman dubbed the "Delco Pooper" was arrested by Prospect Park police. - 44-year-old Christina Solemeto was taken into custody after police say she was seen defecating on another car in a viral social media video. - Solemeto tells FOX 29 she has "a sickness." *** The video was taken Tuesday evening and has now been seen millions of times on social media. The video shows the woman getting out of her car and defecating "liquified feces" on the hood of the car of another woman, according to police. She is seen in the video smiling while getting back into her black Nissan. The same Nissan was parked outside of her home Thursday night when she was arrested. Police say it started as a road dispute and escalated. *** "I don’t know it’s been running through my mind all day since I heard about it," said one neighbor. "Just another day in Delco," said another nearby resident. Solameto was booked on charges including indecent exposure, disorderly conduct and a summary offense of depositing waste on the highway. As she was getting arrested Solemeto said, "I have a sickness." Solometo didn’t elaborate on the sickness. But the bizarre case has now gotten international attention. Just not the kind this local police chief wants.Read the whole thing. Seriously! There is a video at the link of a news clip of the story. The actual video of the incident is out there on the interwebs. Unfortunately, I have seen it. Because that's the kind of video clips my "friends" send me sometimes.
A UK man has been given a suspended prison sentence after admitting to setting fire to his own home twice in one night just so he could see firefighters in action. Arsonists are obsessed with fire, but 26-year-old James Brown, from Northumberland, in the UK, has been described as having an obsession and a fascination with firefighters rather than fires. In an ideal world, he would be a firefighter himself, but things didn’t work out that way, so he just settled for admiring firefighters from a distance and calling the fire department incessantly. When that wasn’t enough anymore, he moved on to setting his own house on fire just to see the firefighters in action. *** According to court records, James Brown filmed the firefighters as they rushed to put out the fire and seemed quite enthusiastic by their presence on his property. A simple background check showed that the 26-year-old man had called the fire department 80 times in the previous 12 months, and Brown himself eventually pleaded guilty to two counts of arson while being reckless as to whether life was endangered. “You have said, in an ideal world, you would be a firefighter, and you have a long-standing interest in the fire service. It’s clearly an obsession,” Judge Robert Adams recently said during his ruling. “Your primary interest seems to be contacting the fire service rather than setting fires. “You waste the resources of the fire brigade, which could be used for more important matters where lives are in danger. I hope you have learned a lesson.” Last month, James Brown was sentenced to eight months’ suspended sentence for two years with 150 hours of unpaid work for his 2023 crimes. His lawyer said that he is “extremely remorseful” and is currently seeking help for his obsession. He has refrained from contacting the fire department since his arrest.Dude. Really??
Vader's voice wasn't always James Earl Jones
(did you see what I did there?) The Kentucky Derby, often dubbed "the most exciting two minutes in sports," is as much a fashion spectacle as it is a horse race. The extravagant hats worn by attendees stand out as a symbol of elegance, creativity, and Southern charm. The hats originated with a utilitarian purpose- to shield ladies’ faces from the sun during the Victorian era. However, mirroring European trends, the hats became opportunities to express individuality, but more importantly, social status. This really took off in the 1960s when the Derby was televised. Beyond aesthetics, Derby hats carry a deeper significance. They celebrate Southern hospitality, femininity, and the festive spirit of the event. In today’s world, this tradition is one to be cherished. And now for the hats!
Ladies at the 1900 Kentucky Derby
Ladies at the 1945 Derby
2000 Derby
Kim Kardashian in 2009
From the 2017 Derby
And from the 151st Running of the Roses:
But my absolute favorite wasn’t from the Derby at all, but from the Oaks, which ran Friday at Churchill Downs - they had a pretty significant wind event occur! The dress, the hat, just stunning. She is from Dallas, and I could not find out who this dress is by- I would love to, however!
------ Thank you, Piper! Hats off to you for another great fashion segment.
(See what I did there?)
Not Weird Al, but similar
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
The USGS reported that the earthquake was about 35 miles south of Whites City, New Mexico.
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Experts say it was New Mexico’s fault.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:01 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 04, 2025 10:03 PM (VJc7E)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 04, 2025 10:04 PM (VJc7E)
Posted by: pookysgirl, recalling another SW parody at May 04, 2025 10:04 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2025 10:04 PM (d2kuJ)
Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2025 10:05 PM (lJ0H4)
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
A restaurant owner in Minneapolis was robbed by a man with 50 PRIOR ARRESTS
After the thief's arrest, he was released from custody and robbed the owner's restaurant AGAIN
This is how Gov. Tim Walz treats criminals in his state. They're just set free!
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But Twinkletoes can speak white person code!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:05 PM (L/fGl)
The USGS reported that the earthquake was about 35 miles south of Whites City, New Mexico.
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Experts say it was New Mexico’s fault.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
They tell me the fault line runs right through here.
Posted by: Mama Cass at May 04, 2025 10:05 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: French Jeton at May 04, 2025 10:05 PM (DehcO)
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2025 10:06 PM (d2kuJ)
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 10:06 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 04, 2025 10:06 PM (VJc7E)
🙄
Happy Live Long and Prosper Day
https://youtu.be/EO7xDfTks4c
Posted by: mindful webworker - exponentially at May 04, 2025 10:06 PM (7URu6)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 04, 2025 10:06 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 04, 2025 10:06 PM (uksS7)
In your rose-pink Cadillac
Makin' bets on Kentucky Derby day
I'll be in my basement room
With a needle and a spoon
And another girl to take my pain away
Take me down, little Suzy, take me down.
I know you think you're the Queen of the Underground
And you can send me dead flowers every mornin'
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Say it with dead flowers at my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
Posted by: Jagger/Richards at May 04, 2025 10:06 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: CapeFear at May 04, 2025 10:06 PM (qhuez)
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2025 10:06 PM (d2kuJ)
I try!
Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2025 10:07 PM (RFPHU)
One often worders what they look like without them.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 04, 2025 10:07 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 04, 2025 10:08 PM (qQApd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:08 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: CapeFear at May 04, 2025 10:06 PM (qhuez)
Spaceballs was peak Denise Richards.
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 10:08 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 04, 2025 10:09 PM (w3u3d)
*****
From last thread:
Yeah, let's throw another trillion-plus at this bloated bureaucracy.
Trump's Pentagon policy leaves alot to be desired.
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 09:56 PM (r2ymA)
Yeah, Trump is.. inconsistent on this point. On the one hand, of the last century of Presidents, he articulates the best the case for minding our own damned business and protecting our people.
On the other hand, he promises more money for the MIC. I want America to be safe, of course. I’m willing to pay handsomely to stay on top on technology. To always be sure our shores are safe.
But I also don’t care about who controls the Dnieper or keeping the seas safe for Chinese container ships or the Korean peninsula safe for megacorporation chaebols that undercut American workers.
Call me crazy.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 10:09 PM (l3YAf)
Do not arrest me I am sick, too sick to be arrested.
Oh Sole meatos
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:09 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:10 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 10:11 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2025 10:11 PM (g47mK)
Hunter S. Thompson: Fuck England. This is America and people take those drawings as a deadly insult. Okay, here's the deal: You won't draw them, and I won't mace them.
(they were on assignment covering the Kentucky Derby)
I don't know how many of you are familiar with Steadman's art, but he would (e.g.) draw a recognizable caricature of the subject, except that it would also be a rat vomiting into a toilet.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 04, 2025 10:11 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 04, 2025 10:11 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2025 10:12 PM (BN5pm)
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Ain't feminism wonderful?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:10 PM (L/fGl)
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There is no try. There is only poo.
Posted by: Yoda at May 04, 2025 10:12 PM (uksS7)
Posted by: Little Girls With Little Curls at May 04, 2025 10:12 PM (G5+As)
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Film at 11:00? Dude, I'm not German.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:12 PM (L/fGl)
Tell us something we didn't know.
The video was taken Tuesday evening and has now been seen millions of times on social media.
😝
With the pinnacle of interconnective modern communication tools and a wealth of content available online many times exceeding the knowledge base of only a few years ago, pooping woman is what millions of folks want to see.
💩
(Searches for another funny cat video)
😾
Posted by: mindful webworker - need more giggling babies! at May 04, 2025 10:13 PM (7URu6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:13 PM (B0Ivl)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 04, 2025 10:14 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 04, 2025 10:14 PM (taw0g)
And thanks for your extra posts while Ace was in an undisclosed location.
And thanks to Piper for the Derby hat show. I like the hats from the turn of last century better than those from yesterday's race!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 04, 2025 10:14 PM (rxCpr)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:14 PM (/X/7F)
Good evening, Horde. I am an unabashed Mike Rowe fanboi, having consumed the entirety of his Returning The Favor (RtF) series on Facebook, and it has returned as People You Should Know. First episode is https://bit.ly/4jNqCRK and I shed unabashed tears while watching, because of callbacks to RtF, but mostly because he shows how people can help each other without big daddy government mucking up the works.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at May 04, 2025 10:15 PM (v23vE)
Well done😉...
Although...Yoko?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 04, 2025 10:14 PM (taw0g)
He has a hidden mean streak.
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2025 10:15 PM (d2kuJ)
Posted by: Iris at May 04, 2025 10:15 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2025 10:15 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 04, 2025 10:15 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2025 10:16 PM (d2kuJ)
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2025 10:17 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:17 PM (/X/7F)
Overtime hockey, can't beat it. You'd think teams would play carefully to avoid mistakes but, if anything, they play with even greater abandon.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 10:17 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Warren G. Harding haz a sad at May 04, 2025 10:17 PM (/o0Hl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:17 PM (B0Ivl)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:18 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Wild Horses at May 04, 2025 10:18 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 04, 2025 10:18 PM (yko4N)
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Well, sounds more exciting than coin collecting for a hobby.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:18 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 10:18 PM (6nn2F)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 04, 2025 10:19 PM (taw0g)
Yes... old-school Chuck Berry-style rock-and-roll, classic rock, country, blues, psychedelia, and even disco.
They can play pretty much any musical genre that's ever been invented.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 04, 2025 10:20 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2025 10:20 PM (s8j++)
One often worders what they look like without them.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 04, 2025 10:07 PM (TfUTr)
* * * *
And I'm thinking that is the desired effect...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 04, 2025 10:21 PM (rxCpr)
Posted by: Dr. T at May 04, 2025 10:21 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2025 10:21 PM (BN5pm)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:21 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2025 10:21 PM (wbjSL)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2025 10:21 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May
It’s fashion! (I think I am supposed to roll my eyes and say that really nasally to be authentic)
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2025 10:22 PM (d2kuJ)
He has a hidden mean streak.
Shades of Mis.Hum when he was feeling mean...🤒
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 04, 2025 10:19 PM (taw0g)
It's Admiral Ackbar - a trap is a must!
Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2025 10:22 PM (RFPHU)
"Use the Force, Harry!" -Gandalf
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 04, 2025 10:18 PM (yko4N)
I saw a meme like that earlier today, only it was subtitled "May the 4th Be Ever In Your Favor!"
You should always strive to enrage multiple fanbases at once.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 04, 2025 10:23 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2025 10:24 PM (g47mK)
https://shorturl.at/lP5yG
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:08 PM
My solution? Give some 94 y.o. ladies with numbers tatooed on their arms a sock full of nickels and let them educate the Nazi wannabes.
If their arms get tired, maybe I would help out a little old lady with her chores for a bit.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 04, 2025 10:24 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 10:24 PM (6nn2F)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 10:17 PM (QnmlO)
Game 7 OT!! Nothing like playoff hockey!!!
Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2025 10:24 PM (RFPHU)
mucho heart racing
Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at May 04, 2025 10:25 PM (iNp3L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May
We've been looking for a new Cowboy. Sounds like you'll do.
Posted by: The Village People at May 04, 2025 10:25 PM (yko4N)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: huerfano at May 04, 2025 10:26 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2025 10:26 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Sweet Rural Shade at May 04, 2025 10:26 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)
Back in the days when accidentally seeing an ankle would produce an instant boner, seeing pretty much any female body part led to Impure Thoughts, I guess.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 04, 2025 10:27 PM (W5ArC)
Women should cover their hair in church, hat or veil, whatever. It’s a question of modesty. Hence Melania’s scarf at the late Pope’s funeral.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 10:24 PM (6nn2F)
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Just about every woman at my parish wears a veil or hat at Mass.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 10:27 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 10:27 PM (6nn2F)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 10:17 PM (QnmlO)
Yeah, no better drama in Sports. Winnipeg ties it with 1.6 left.
But it will never get much coverage in the US sports media.
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 10:27 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2025 10:27 PM (mWSu4)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 10:17 PM
I know they want to win, but at some point I think you have been checked into the boards enough for one day's work that you are willing to take some chances just to clock out.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 04, 2025 10:28 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 10:24 PM (6nn2F)
Where does that come from, though? I’m not opposed to it. In fact, I support the recent trend of young Catholic women veiling.
But why does it matter? I want to make sure I’m adopting tradition from savory sources.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 10:28 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2025 10:28 PM (VNX3d)
There's trophies? All I ever got was a vaguely threatening email.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2025 10:29 PM (lUFok)
A week after that, it had become such a phenomenon that my mom said she wanted to see it and asked me to go along with her. She was afraid to go to a movie by herself. My mom wanting to see a sci-fi type movie in first-run at a theater told me the movie was the biggest thing in the country at the time.
I ended up seeing Star Wars five times in 1977. Twice in Phoenix, twice in Santa Fe, NM where I was working a summer job, and once in mid-October in Houston (with a group of fellow college students who like me had seen it several times before).
Incredible.
Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2025 10:29 PM (aBgBM)
In the real world Tartaria is a name for a region in central asia. It has historically been undeveloped and backward.
The conspiracy theory though claims it was the most advanced civilization but then at some point between the 1700s and now it was destroyed by a mud flood.
The evidence? Well, a lot of buildings from the 1800s around the world look the same and...people back then look too primitive to have built them.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 10:29 PM (t0Rmr)
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Is that a Georgia O'Keeffe vagina hat? Because it looks like Georgia O'Keeffe vagina hat.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:29 PM (L/fGl)
I have a couple hats that are sort of like those Derby hats. They don't keep my head warm, and they don't keep the sun out of my eyes. They are hard to keep on my head. People think they're really cool and want to know where I got them.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2025 10:29 PM (U7Gpi)
https://shorturl.at/lP5yG
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:08 PM
Twitchy has a problem, too. It's fucking near unreadable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:29 PM (B0Ivl)
Posted by: Ounce of Prevention at May 04, 2025 10:29 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)
Show up on a Sunday morning just once with a condom wrapper stuck in your hair, and you never hear the end of it.
Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 04, 2025 10:30 PM (yko4N)
Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2025 10:31 PM (wbjSL)
I don’t see how hair enters into it.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:31 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 04, 2025 10:30 PM (yko4N)
On the other hand, I never have to buy hairspray or gel.
Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 04, 2025 10:32 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2025 10:32 PM (BgmlQ)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:31 PM (77rzZ)
You don't think a beautiful head of hair on a woman is sexy?
Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 04, 2025 10:32 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2025 10:33 PM (lUFok)
But why does it matter? I want to make sure I’m adopting tradition from savory sources.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 10:28 PM (l3YAf)
To me, it comes uncomfortably close to muzzies putting their women in hijabs or toebags.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:33 PM (B0Ivl)
Nowadays it is merely a sign of respect and a chance to dress up, but it stems from women being made to cover up.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 10:33 PM (Vvh2V)
Admiral Ackbar, of Horde fame, would be proud of your aural ear bleach link, Monsieur Doof.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 04, 2025 10:34 PM (zqoNi)
Sauces and raw steak are pretty much their only claims to fame.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 04, 2025 10:34 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2025 10:31 PM (wbjSL)
Agree! I've watched that more times than I can count, and it is great every time.
Tawny Platis is very talented and also funny. Did I also mention that she's cute?
Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2025 10:34 PM (RFPHU)
I was expecting a mystery click of Elvis or maybe even The Fine Young Cannibals doing Suspicious Minds. But alas, just Yoko. I need a drink
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2025 10:35 PM (rp63B)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 10:33 PM (Vvh2V)
Eh... pretty sure that men don't usually go to church in muscle shirts and speedos, either.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 04, 2025 10:35 PM (W5ArC)
It was originally named MacadamMacadamia, but that was thought to be too Hawaiian.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2025 10:36 PM (s8j++)
The conspiracy theory though claims it was the most advanced civilization but then at some point between the 1700s and now it was destroyed by a mud flood.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 10:29 PM (t0Rmr)
Tartaria is nice, but it's no Plateau of Leng
Posted by: H.P. Lovecraft at May 04, 2025 10:36 PM (yko4N)
Fight me!
Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2025 10:37 PM (aBgBM)
Incredible.
Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2025 10:29 PM (aBgBM)
Seeing Stars Wars then was something that this current generation could not even imagine. Something so totally new.
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 10:37 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2025 10:36 PM (s8j++)
That's just nutty.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:37 PM (B0Ivl)
A week after that, it had become such a phenomenon that my mom said she wanted to see it and asked me to go along with her. She was afraid to go to a movie by herself. My mom wanting to see a sci-fi type movie in first-run at a theater told me the movie was the biggest thing in the country at the time.
I ended up seeing Star Wars five times in 1977. Twice in Phoenix, twice in Santa Fe, NM where I was working a summer job, and once in mid-October in Houston (with a group of fellow college students who like me had seen it several times before).
Incredible.
Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2025 10:29 PM (aBgBM)
Howdy Gref! Hope all is well with you.
I press-ganged my folks into taking ten-year-old me to see the original Star Wars for the second time. I think that diminished their respect for me, but in any event, that was the first movie I ever saw 2x in a theater.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at May 04, 2025 10:37 PM (v23vE)
Name: Adam MacAdam.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 04, 2025 10:38 PM (W5ArC)
To me, it comes uncomfortably close to muzzies putting their women in hijabs or toebags.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:33 PM (B0Ivl)
_________
There's a ton of difference between a woman wearing a veil in church to show submission to the Lord in His House and a woman wearing a hijab because Muslim men might otherwise get aroused.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 10:38 PM (QnmlO)
I Corinthians 11:14-15
Posted by: Head Pontificator at May 04, 2025 10:38 PM (G5+As)
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I saw one that contends that alien abductions are not really alien abductions. That's just a cover story for the military abducting people, brain washing them, and doing other experiments on them. Well, if the branch of the military doing this is the Navy, it explains the anal probes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:38 PM (L/fGl)
Certainly not. But they don't cover their heads. Au contraire.
I don't have a problem with it, just saying that it comes from the tradition of married women being veiled, long before Judaism, let alone Christianity.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 10:38 PM (Vvh2V)
I was expecting a mystery click of Elvis or maybe even The Fine Young Cannibals doing Suspicious Minds. But alas, just Yoko. I need a drink
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2025 10:35 PM (rp63B)
FYC was in the running. I've used that version on a previous ONT. With the Admiral - it had to be something unexpected.
Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2025 10:38 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: polynikes at May 04, 2025 10:39 PM (VofaG)
People are as God makes them. How I respond to the way He made them is between me and God. The people under consideration are not at fault, so long as they are not being deliberately provocative.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:39 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 10:37 PM (r2ymA)
Exactly.
They have everything at their fingertips, so nothing is special. They wait for nothing, so nothing is exciting!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2025 10:39 PM (mWSu4)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2025 10:29 PM (U7Gpi)
You need a brand new leopard-skin pillbox hat:
https://youtu.be/lOCYQtrm19s
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:39 PM (B0Ivl)
Men caught urinating in public are usually tagged as exposing themselves and get a lifetime subscription to being a "sex offender".
Does Delco Pooper get this prize too?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 04, 2025 10:39 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2025 10:33 PM (lUFok)
Do it. The widespread shrieking from Trump-h@ters will be epic.
Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2025 10:40 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 04, 2025 10:40 PM (yko4N)
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Ain't feminism wonderful?
"You are a pooper in the rectum alliance and a shitter! Flush her away!"
Posted by: Darth Sphincter at May 04, 2025 10:40 PM (fIPNY)
Posted by: Bulg
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You know, that old story about a woman letting her hair down.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:41 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Hoot Mon! at May 04, 2025 10:41 PM (G5+As)
The Kentucky Derby was postponed in 1945 due to a temporary ban on horse racing imposed by the U.S. government during World War II, as the resources and manpower were needed for the war effort. The race was eventually held on June 9, 1945, after the ban was lifted following the end of the war in Europe.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2025 10:42 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 10:38 PM (QnmlO)
Why should only the women have to show submission in this fashion?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:42 PM (B0Ivl)
There are a lot of variants on "the real abductors are..." and I've seen them listed as:
Future Humans
Humans working for aliens
The government
Demons
And if there is something to the experience I'd say the latter is actually the most believable.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 10:43 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at May 04, 2025 10:37 PM (v23vE)
Howdy back at ya, my friend! All is well with me. I hope the same is true for you!
Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2025 10:43 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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No, she has a sickness.
some people just don't understand
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:44 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 10:38 PM (QnmlO)
Why should only the women have to show submission in this fashion?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:42 PM (B0Ivl)
There's a goat joke in there somewhere.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 04, 2025 10:44 PM (yko4N)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 10:44 PM (6nn2F)
Posted by: polynikes at May 04, 2025 10:45 PM (VofaG)
I am merely saying that the tradition of women covering their heads in church is an old one, the origin of which goes back to a time and culture that predates Christianity.
I wear a hat most of the time when I go to church and I always travel with a scarf when abroad, to show respect as needed, be at a church, synagogue, mosque or temple.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 10:45 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 10:38 PM (Vvh2V)
And distinct from the savages of Islam, whose idea of a woman is as chattel, and hiding them from the world with hijabs and worse is considered the only way to deal with femininity.
Because they are sexually inadequate and need to control women....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2025 10:45 PM (mWSu4)
https://youtu.be/J5gCeWEGiQI
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 04, 2025 10:45 PM (klJTj)
Why should only the women have to show submission in this fashion?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:42 PM (B0Ivl)
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The man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. - 1 Corinthians 11:7
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 10:47 PM (QnmlO)
A ten year old boy today would be indifferent to it after a few years of watching porn on his phone.
Glad I was born when I was.
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 10:47 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 10:48 PM (6nn2F)
-- > Everything old is new again
https://youtu.be/ZRVv2b-hL_0?t=91
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:49 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 10:37 PM (r2ymA)
Exactly.
They have everything at their fingertips, so nothing is special. They wait for nothing, so nothing is exciting!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2025 10:39 PM (mWSu4)
Star Wars really was something. Saw it first day, first showing in May 1977. My son was even more impressed when I told him that I saw Empire Strikes Back on its opening day, first showing as well. I will never forget leaving the Loews Astor Plaza theater in Times Square that day to find a sea of people waiting to get in to watch the next showing. They wanted to know how it was, and there was no way we were going to tell them about Darth Vader and Luke. We instinctively knew that it would be beyond terrible to spoil the surprise for them.
I truly lived in a wonderful age. I wouldn't trade that time for anything.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 04, 2025 10:50 PM (zqoNi)
Posted by: lin-duh at May 04, 2025 10:50 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 04, 2025 10:40 PM (yko4N)
Same here. Up till then, sci-fi movies with spacecraft blasting away at each other, were schlok films mostly made in Italy or Japan, with cheap sets and cheesy models of spacecraft. And lousy special effects.
Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2025 10:50 PM (aBgBM)
The man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. - 1 Corinthians 11:7
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Good thing Trump said Two Corinthians.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:51 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 10:48 PM (6nn2F)
So dress in a manner appropriate to a formal office. Fair enough.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:51 PM (B0Ivl)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Concur.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 04, 2025 10:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2025 10:33 PM (lUFok)
Do it. The widespread shrieking from Trump-h@ters will be epic.
Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2025 10:40 PM (aBgBM)
Since tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, a rumor about a tariff on Mexican food would be timely.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2025 10:51 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Bulg
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It's where he puts his hand.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:52 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:51 PM (/X/7F)
I see four Corinthians, all upholstered in fine leather.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:52 PM (B0Ivl)
Damn it, Ricky Bobby !!! You get off your ass and help that lady down. And help me use this remote to find ESPN. The Cowboys are on !!!
Posted by: Big Belly Boomer at May 04, 2025 10:52 PM (MEYgk)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:53 PM (77rzZ)
But I do note that Star Wars attracts way more women as fans.
Posted by: polynikes at May 04, 2025 10:53 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Bluekollar at May 04, 2025 10:54 PM (OxfnK)
I was going to quote some here, but, heck, y'all can ejjimicate yerselves if you're that interested. I have some videos to watch…
Posted by: mindful webworker - long-haired freaky people at May 04, 2025 10:55 PM (7URu6)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 10:55 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310
They can have my General Tso when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:55 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:53 PM (77rzZ)
Nah, don't stop him. He's on a roll.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 04, 2025 10:56 PM (zqoNi)
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2025 10:56 PM (g47mK)
But thanks for the " May the Fourth be with you" roundup. I truly have to admit everything since the original trilogy has been nothing more than pure, unadulterated bull guano. I liked Quigon Jinn, but George killed him off. George wasn't going to have another Han Solo on his hands, stealing the spotlight.
The Lord of the Ring trilogy over lapped the prequels, and it was pathetic. The LotR trailers showed real characters doing real things. The Prequel trailers were nothing more than "Look at these wonderful sfx! And even more sfx! You're going to love these fantastic sfx!"
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 04, 2025 10:56 PM (xoECP)
I tend to agree. I go to a church where some women veil and some wear yoga pants. It seems unbalanced. But I don’t to be fighting a boner while waiting to take the Eucharist. Seems undignified for all involved.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 10:57 PM (l3YAf)
I'm sure Darth Vader being voiced by David Prowse sounds strange to 'Muricans
_________
Wasn't Prowse the one the studio said they couldn't give him a cut because Star Wars hadn't made a profit?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 10:57 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Ron Jeremy at May 04, 2025 10:57 PM (szqEY)
Posted by: Forensic Files at May 04, 2025 10:58 PM (G5+As)
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Is there nothing President Trump can't do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 10:58 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 04, 2025 10:56 PM (xoECP)
What's funny is that the SFX from Episodes 4 and 5 look more timeless than those of the prequel trilogy. They looked dated ten years ago.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 04, 2025 10:58 PM (zqoNi)
youtube.com/watch?v=x5YP_oLcgpg&t=59s
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 10:59 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 10:55 PM (Vvh2V)
This makes the most sense to me.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 11:00 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 11:00 PM (6nn2F)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 11:00 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 04, 2025 11:00 PM (xoECP)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2025 11:01 PM (lUFok)
I hate to say this, but the older I get, the more I understand why A-rabs think women ought to be covered up, locked up, and not let out without supervision! 🤣🤣🤣
But your point is well taken. 😉
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 11:02 PM (Vvh2V)
But I do note that Star Wars attracts way more women as fans.
Posted by: polynikes at May 04, 2025 10:53 PM (VofaG)
How many women watching Star Trek TOS then and now looked up to Yeoman Rand (secretary) or Lt. Uhuru (telephone operator) or Kirk's bimbo of the week?
Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2025 11:02 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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There's a story about tradition being around so long that people forget why it exists. Then they cancel the tradition and the problem it was created for comes back.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 11:02 PM (/X/7F)
https://tinyurl.com/bdh74fwv
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 04, 2025 11:03 PM (vExMx)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 11:00 PM (6nn2F)
I’m sorry, dude.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 11:03 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 11:00 PM (77rzZ)
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Ooh. A theological debate.
Count me in.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2025 11:04 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 11:04 PM (77rzZ)
Another guy in my HS class died age 21, when he slipped off the pumper and fell under the wheels as it left the firehouse.
Posted by: Fireman, Save My Child! at May 04, 2025 11:05 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 11:06 PM (6nn2F)
YEAH MODESTY. I KEEL THEM IF THEY DON'T
Posted by: Achmed Mohammad at May 04, 2025 11:07 PM (szqEY)
https://tinyurl.com/55msnpjd
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at May 04, 2025 11:07 PM (DR8E2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 11:08 PM (S8BjZ)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 10:55 PM (Vvh2V)
A woman's purity is not dependent on her sexual activity.
And covering a woman's hair doesn't make her pure, neither does it hide her possible impurity.
It is also radically different than the covering of women in Islam. That is pure subjugation, and fear of a woman's sexuality.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2025 11:08 PM (mWSu4)
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Melania was the best and most appropriately dressed woman at the funeral.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 11:08 PM (/X/7F)
Is Princess Leia that big of a role model? She was the only female in Star Wars right?
Posted by: polynikes at May 04, 2025 11:08 PM (VofaG)
Grow up.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 11:08 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 11:02 PM (Vvh2V)
Obviously Women in the West have gotten totally out of control and Moslems are largely more correct in their notions of the place of women in society.
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 11:09 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: Bulg
No, Bulg.
"Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 2 Peter 1:21
There's no personal opinion in the Bible. All dictated and preserved by the Lord.
Posted by: Fireman, Save My Child! at May 04, 2025 11:09 PM (G5+As)
It is also radically different than the covering of women in Islam. That is pure subjugation, and fear of a woman's sexuality.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Why do women cover their hair at synogog?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 11:09 PM (/X/7F)
Oh - and Weird Al is, of course, a genius. Not all the song parodies hold up over the years, but 'Yoda' is awesome - and seeing how Mark Hamill did indeed play his part till he was 'old and grey', prophetic...
Posted by: dev2000man at May 04, 2025 11:09 PM (OVaMN)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 11:10 PM (S8BjZ)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 10:57 PM (l3YAf)
Yea, see, that's why the Muzzies do it. They can't risk having boners 24/7, so in to the bags go the wimmenz.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 11:10 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 11:11 PM (6nn2F)
There's a story about tradition being around so long that people forget why it exists. Then they cancel the tradition and the problem it was created for comes back.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Parallel with Chesterton's fence?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2025 11:11 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2025 11:11 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ)
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Have you seen the one with the N scale railroad that circles the brim?
Not stupid.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2025 11:11 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 11:09 PM (/X/7F)
Modesty and respect. And if you think that is anywhere near what Islam demands, then you need to learn about a woman's place in Judaism.
[It's spelled, "Synagogue."]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2025 11:11 PM (mWSu4)
Posted by: scampydog at May 04, 2025 11:12 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 11:12 PM (L/fGl)
It’s the Star Wars folks who need to grow up first.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 11:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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On the other side of the isle too.
No handsies or footsies.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 11:12 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: polynikes at May 04, 2025 11:12 PM (VofaG)
Grow up
Read my comment at 140.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 11:13 PM (6nn2F)
Posted by: scampydog at May 04, 2025 11:13 PM (41CYW)
[It's spelled, "Synagogue."]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo a
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Always the barb.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 11:13 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2025 11:14 PM (RIvkX)
Is Princess Leia that big of a role model? She was the only female in Star Wars right?
Posted by: polynikes at May 04, 2025 11:08 PM (VofaG)
I dunno. Princess with a gun who leads a galactic rebellion and bosses men around and backtalks them? Not exactly Yeoman Rand.
Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2025 11:14 PM (aBgBM)
=
As kids used to say in HS, it's a free country.
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2025 11:14 PM (g47mK)
https://tinyurl.com/55msnpjd
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at May 04, 2025 11:07 PM (DR8E2)
I do miss reading the Sunday comics with Little. Foxtrot and Sherman's Lagoon were a couple of favorites...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 04, 2025 11:15 PM (bA75n)
Name: Adam MacAdam.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 04, 2025 10:38 PM (W5ArC)
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also gravel used to pave roads.
Posted by: Ciampino - more meanings at May 04, 2025 11:15 PM (sPQoU)
Look, I am merely saying, you can see how someone might be persuaded to see their side. 😂
Surely there's a happy median to be struck! 😁
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 11:15 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2025 11:14 PM (g47mK)
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Also, "you're not the boss of me."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2025 11:15 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 11:13 PM (/X/7F)
Always the veiled nastiness.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2025 11:15 PM (mWSu4)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2025 11:15 PM (hY4dx)
And.."talk to the hand".
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2025 11:16 PM (g47mK)
a woman was married, and therefore having sex, and no longer pure
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Having sex with your husband makes you impure? Being married makes you no longer available (theoretically), but impure? Did Adam and Eve have sex before the apple incident? If they did, this impurity case falls apart.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2025 11:16 PM (U7Gpi)
So I put a battery in the Avanti, and aired up the tires, and fed it a quart of ATF to replace what leaked out over the winter, and took it to town, and bought gas and groceries. A good day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 11:16 PM (S8BjZ)
Vital theological rules, practically on a par with the Commandments.
Like in High School when a girlfriend talked me (raised Episcopal) into going to her Catholic church. Assured me that I could take communion with them. I can still see the glaring disapproval of the priest that I had my hands out to receive the host rather than my tongue. I didn't exactly feel welcomed; more like I was some kind of demonic infiltrator.
Posted by: mindful webworker - lesson learned for life at May 04, 2025 11:16 PM (7URu6)
Definitely no footsies with them unshod feet! The horror!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 11:16 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 11:15 PM (Vvh2V)
Behead only half of the western whores?
Posted by: Islam at May 04, 2025 11:16 PM (mWSu4)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 04, 2025 11:16 PM (xoECP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 11:10 PM (S8BjZ)
Of course, I tell someone I’m arguing theology with to grow up, when we have folks here discussing Star Wars.
It’s the Star Wars folks who need to grow up first.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 11:12 PM (77rzZ)
Don't you guys have lawns to go lord over?
Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2025 11:16 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2025 11:14 PM (g47mK)
We used to say it because it used to be true.
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at May 04, 2025 11:17 PM (DR8E2)
Posted by: runner
Well, back when you were in HS, it probably was.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 11:18 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 11:18 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: scampydog at May 04, 2025 11:12 PM (41CYW)
*grins and laughs*
Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2025 11:18 PM (RFPHU)
But why does it matter? I want to make sure I’m adopting tradition from savory sources.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 10:28 PM (l3YAf)
To me, it comes uncomfortably close to muzzies putting their women in hijabs or toebags.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I think that women wear a head veil (just covering their hair) is a sign of respect and reverence, humility toward God, and as an imitation of Mary. Veiling of women (in church) is a longstanding (millenia) tradition in the Catholic Church. And frankly, their is hardly anything cuter than seeing little girls veiled in Church, usually at Latin Mass services.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:19 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2025 11:16 PM (RFPHU)
Eh, it was a fun movie, or series of movies. But not a life-changing experience.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 11:19 PM (S8BjZ)
Catholics take it on the hand now (perhaps unfortunately so..) But Protestants are still forbidden the Eucharist at Catholic churches. That’s a rule I obeyed for nearly a decade.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 11:19 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 11:20 PM (6nn2F)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 11:20 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 11:18 PM (L/fGl)
My HS had metal detectors.
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2025 11:20 PM (g47mK)
President Trump on Sunday said that he's ordering the reopening of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary - the historic prison located in the middle of the San Francisco Bay that closed over six decades ago.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2025 11:20 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2025 11:20 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 10:33 PM (B0Ivl)
Men uncover in church and indoors and women don't. It is one of those things - I mean unless it is in synagogue. Used to be if a man wore his hat into the Elks lodge bar, he bought a round of drinks for the house. The rules have changed since then.
In the Us in the 1800's there were some 'rules" about the ages girls wore braids, and when they started wearing their hair up, and they always wore hats or bonnets.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2025 11:20 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Ripley at May 04, 2025 11:20 PM (PTDkx)
And Blade Runner
And Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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They should try something new.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 11:21 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 11:18 PM (r2ym
Ninja please. Show me any Muslim queens.
Posted by: polynikes at May 04, 2025 11:21 PM (VofaG)
Just theorizing here. It would've been well over 5000 years ago, no telling what the thought process was.
Sending menstruating women off to live in tents away from everyone else is understandable under their circumstances, but who knows what their thought process was when making womwn cover up?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 11:21 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2025 11:20 PM (63Dwl)
That could get expensive, and may piss off the Indians who claim it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 11:22 PM (S8BjZ)
Anything's got to be better than watching the Rockets play
Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2025 11:23 PM (gKWVE)
Catholics take it on the hand now (perhaps unfortunately so..) But Protestants are still forbidden the Eucharist at Catholic churches. That’s a rule I obeyed for nearly a decade.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Yeah, there is a big debate within the Catholic Church about taking the Host in your hand or having it placed in your mouth. The old way (Latin Mass) was to have it placed in your mouth by the priest. Novus Ordo (the Vatican II Mass) allows you to take it in your hand.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:23 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 11:22 PM (S8BjZ)
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Some federal official could give a Land Acknowledgment just before they pull the switch.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2025 11:24 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 11:24 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: dudley at May 04, 2025 11:09 PM (r2ymA)
So you're saying women are like bears?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 04, 2025 11:25 PM (yko4N)
Pretty bizarre trivia.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2025 11:25 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2025 11:26 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Bulg
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Something about Constantine saying, times up, deliberation's over. Put it together. It gives one the feeling that there is a lack of resolution or something.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 11:26 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2025 11:20 PM (D7oie)
Same was true of the Canadian Legion. The cap rule was done away with not long ago at all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 11:26 PM (S8BjZ)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2025 11:25 PM (1m82a)
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In a way it makes perfect sense.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2025 11:27 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2025 11:27 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2025 11:27 PM (1m82a)
The old way (Latin Mass) was to have it placed in your mouth by the priest. Novus Ordo (the Vatican II Mass) allows you to take it in your hand.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:23 PM (tjZg/)
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Even when circumstances dictate that I go to a Novus Ordo Mass, I take Communion on the tongue. But I'm a slave to Crumb Theology.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 11:27 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Ripley
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Tickling the ivories. We got rid of the piano when oldest finished up college. I do miss the piano music in the house. Good luck with Weeping Willow adventure.
Posted by: scampydog at May 04, 2025 11:28 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The Avanti was a really pretty car style. Ahead of it's time when it first appeared. I wish they would have put a more powerful engine in it. How well does yours run? Obviously you have spent a lot of time on it.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:28 PM (tjZg/)
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what about moon rocks ??
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2025 11:28 PM (g47mK)
This is truth. Nietzsche thought ethics was mostly aesthetics. I sometimes think he’s right. High church has the most swagger.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 11:29 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
When I visited the Blue Mosque in Constantinople, my immediate thought was "I want the Love my Carpet" contract for this place
Posted by: Ixnay on the Iklosmay at May 04, 2025 11:30 PM (LP6Fv)
That could get expensive, and may piss off the Indians who claim it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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They piss and moan about everything. The sober one's know how to work the system quite well and don't GAS about their unfortunate brothers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 11:30 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2025 11:31 PM (RIvkX)
Heading out before I get drawn in to set you all straight.
😁
https://youtu.be/GABEHMlhfVU
G'nite, y'all. Be of good cheer.
Posted by: mindful webworker - just a suggestion from the Son of God at May 04, 2025 11:31 PM (7URu6)
Posted by: dudley
Some years ago, I read a biography of Salah -eh-din (known as Saladin). He was held as a "hostage" in his youth by the Crusaders in a town they held. This was a formality, and he was not kept in a prison.
He noted that Christian women were not made to walk behind their husbands, and would stay and talk in public (ZOUNDS!!) even if their husbands left their company.
This was over a 1000 years ago, too.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:31 PM (tjZg/)
Franpsycho, sorta similar, does it make sense that Chevy Chase's father in law was Halsey's chief of staff, and later a carrier commander who was eventually sidelined due to his abrasive personality?
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2025 11:31 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 11:32 PM (6nn2F)
Same here. Up till then, sci-fi movies with spacecraft blasting away at each other, were schlok films mostly made in Italy or Japan, with cheap sets and cheesy models of spacecraft. And lousy special effects.
Star Wars did have the best FX of its time.
It also had prime Harrison Ford, a still functional Carrie Fisher, and the best voice in film - James Earl Jones.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 11:33 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: rhomboid
So soon?
Posted by: Adm. John McCain at May 04, 2025 11:33 PM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2025 11:34 PM (1m82a)
Star Wars is more space fantasy, Star Trek is nominally harder science fiction...but very nominally.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 11:34 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:31 PM (tjZg/)
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*cough*
800 years.
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pedant at May 04, 2025 11:34 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 11:35 PM (Vvh2V)
I dunno, man, sometimes they do.
>> The idea that earthly elements could take on divine attributes is idolatry.
Tell that to Jesus, who was made of earthly elements.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 11:35 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 11:35 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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No. It was a direct question relating to the subject of the moment.
Nothing more.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2025 11:35 PM (/X/7F)
Re-open Alcatraz?
Never a dull moment with the Bad Orange Man.
Posted by: rhomboid
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Considering it was closed because of the expense, I'm not sure how reopening it is going to help, but in any case I'm going to get tickets asap and visit it before the first raft of no-goodniks gets processed in.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2025 11:35 PM (U7Gpi)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2025 11:36 PM (1m82a)
Never a dull moment with the Bad Orange Man.
Posted by: rhomboid
Got to put those insurrectionists in Soviet California somewhere! LoL!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 04, 2025 11:36 PM (sAmhv)
Tell that to Jesus, who was made of earthly elements.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 11:35 PM (l3YAf)
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Hah! Joke's on you.
Posted by: A Docetist at May 04, 2025 11:36 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:31 PM (tjZg/)
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*cough*
800 years.
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pedant
RONG
Posted by: Bishop Usher, doin' the Math at May 04, 2025 11:37 PM (LP6Fv)
I mean no offense to my Roman-Catholic Hordemates. I agree with you politically.
But I enjoy theological arguments, as I enjoy those over the Civil War. But I apologize if I get a little excessive in my rhetoric.
Good night and blessings to you all.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 11:37 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg
Well, to put it kindly, that's just ignorance and stupidity, and lack of understanding what transubstantiation means.
There are videos on YouTube by Ignatian monks that explain the meaning of transubstantiation. The substance does not change its chemical or physical nature, but as the wafer becomes a Holy Sacrament, it takes on the nature of the Body of Christ. This is why the Eucharist is such a big deal in the Catholic Church. I also think that the Eastern Orthodox Church has the same belief. So that's about 1.5 Billion people, give or take.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:37 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. President Trump on Sunday said that he's ordering the reopening of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary - the historic prison located in the middle of the San Francisco Bay that closed over six decades ago.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Easy - Just use helicopter transport. Get close to ground and out you go... Food deliveries same way.
Red cross observers? Same.
Those sentenced to life can be dropped from 50+ ft. They'll be there the rest of their life.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 04, 2025 11:37 PM (/lPRQ)
Even billboards aren't safe.
https://tinyurl.com/yndex4u
Posted by: Ciampino - couldn't find a goat? at May 04, 2025 11:38 PM (sPQoU)
Franpsycho, sorta similar, does it make sense that Chevy Chase's father in law was Halsey's chief of staff, and later a carrier commander who was eventually sidelined due to his abrasive personality?
Posted by: rhomboid
__________
Miles Browning was Chase's maternal grandfather.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2025 11:38 PM (QnmlO)
I think I get Dudley's joke.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2025 11:38 PM (U7Gpi)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 11:35 PM (l3YAf)
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Hah! Joke's on you.
Posted by: A Docetist
Gonna be a fight
Posted by: drunk Bogomil at the bar at May 04, 2025 11:38 PM (LP6Fv)
Frank Lucas Bolt
Little has been documented about Alcatraz’s LGBTQ+ prisoners, but gay men did play a role in the infamous prison. In fact, it was a queer man, Frank Lucas Bolt, who served as the prison’s first official inmate. Bolt was serving in the U.S. Army in Panama when he was convicted of sodomy in 1932 and sent to serve time at a Pacific area military prison. Then, in June 1934, Lucas was shipped to the newly established Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, two months before the prison’s official opening on August 11th.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, perhaps Alcatraz’s staunchest proponent, signed Bolt’s official admission papers as Alcatraz Inmate #1. Hoover wanted Alcatraz seen not only as a prison for America’s most dangerous mobsters and criminals, but also as a symbol of America’s intolerance and prosecution of homosexuality and what he deemed “undesirable lifestyles.”⁹
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 11:38 PM (L/fGl)
This was over a 1000 years ago, too.
The guy that developed modern Islamism, Sayid Qutb, nominally did so in reaction to his time in the American midwest in the 1950s. Women in skirts that showed their ankles dancing with men that's weren't their husbands...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 11:38 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:28 PM (tjZg/)
This one is a bit of a mutt. I know a little of its history. It has a 283 McKinnon (GM) engine that, according to its serial number, was first installed in a 1966 Studebaker sedan. ('65 and '66, Studebakers used GM engines, because engine foundry in South Bend was closed) It is coupled to a GM TH350 transmission, which was not available in Studebakers. Works well enough, though, other than the torque converter drainback issue. Also has the wrong rear axle in it. Plan is to replace the rear axle with the right one (Dana 44), and also replace the TH350 with a 700R4, to get the lockup converter, and overdrive gear.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 11:39 PM (S8BjZ)
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:37 PM (tjZg/)
All wrong!
Posted by: Eat the cracker, drink the HFCS-enhanced thimble of grape juice at May 04, 2025 11:40 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: John Moses Browning at May 04, 2025 11:40 PM (LP6Fv)
Another fifty push-ups in the morning.
But no wet-and-sandy (not at the beach).
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2025 11:41 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
My wife and I go to our closest Church, which has Novus Ordo. We have started going (sometimes) to a Church downtown that is an Oratorio (to get around Francis' edict) and does the Latin Mass.
At times, it is quite beautiful.
The midnight service on Christmas Eve, and the Tenebrae we went to on Good Friday....that was really an amazingly beautiful service.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:41 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: TC at May 04, 2025 11:41 PM (szqEY)
The discussion of Rigneys book and The Sin of Empathy was very interesting. It's a bit tedious, but contains numerous important observations regarding the psychology of the Left in its various incarnations. Sample:
"And then we saw this over the last 10 to 15 years and all things woke, that the common thread that I came to recognize in all of these different controversies, whether it was race or abuse, whether it was manhood, womanhood and sexuality, the common thread underneath was the victim is always right—the alleged victim’s always right, the proposed victim’s always right—and you can’t question challenge or anything because to do so would to be heartless, not empathetic. So empathy became the steering wheel by which opportunistic people took advantage of Christian soft heartedness."
https://albertmohler.com/2025/02/19/joe-rigney/
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2025 11:41 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 11:00 PM (77rzZ)
Martin Luther, John Wesley, and George Fox all agree with you to one degree or another
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2025 11:42 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: former 80s car owner at May 04, 2025 11:43 PM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Friedrich Nietzsche at May 04, 2025 11:43 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Friedrich Nietzsche at May 04, 2025 11:43 PM (l3YAf)
Whoops, meant to say “That’s what I said!”
Posted by: Friedrich Nietzsche at May 04, 2025 11:44 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2025 11:44 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Lucas Leaker at May 04, 2025 11:45 PM (S8BjZ)
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Today, Trump questioned Democrats’ decision to make Jasmine Crockett the “future of the party” — again calling her “a low-IQ person."
Crockett recently said she’d welcome an IQ test to prove she's smarter than Trump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 11:45 PM (L/fGl)
https://albertmohler.com/2025/02/19/joe-rigney/
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc
Comes to it, then we kill dey asses
Posted by: Onward Christian Soldiers at May 04, 2025 11:45 PM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2025 11:46 PM (D7oie)
Christians from a hundred years ago wouldn't recognize the current popular religion of, call it "Buddy Christ", as the same as their own.
Not that empathy isn't a part of Christianity obviously, but imagine if a surgeon felt the same empathy for a cancerous tumor as his patient...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 11:46 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: rhomboid
Northern Alaska.
At least 150 miles from any other settlement.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 04, 2025 11:46 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 11:47 PM (6nn2F)
Posted by: Kindltot
Small Asian women
Bare feet
My back
Posted by: As Intended at May 04, 2025 11:48 PM (LP6Fv)
Today, Trump questioned Democrats’ decision to make Jasmine Crockett the “future of the party” — again calling her “a low-IQ person."
Crockett recently said she’d welcome an IQ test to prove she's smarter than Trump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
.....................................
(Sips beer)
This is a stupid timeline.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 04, 2025 11:48 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2025 11:44 PM (XeU6L)
It is a '63. Black on black. Body and chrome look good, but not show quality. I don't think it was ever a supercharged car, nor did it have A/C. Just a nice driver, that is far from being "correct".
Posted by: Lucas Leaker at May 04, 2025 11:48 PM (S8BjZ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 11:48 PM (6nn2F)
Posted by: 18-1
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That interview is worth the read.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2025 11:49 PM (XeU6L)
Name: Adam MacAdam.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 04, 2025 10:38 PM (W5ArC)
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also gravel used to pave roads.
Posted by: Ciampino - more meanings at May 04, 2025 11:15 PM (sPQoU)
He tried to found a country called "Macadamia". The whole idea was nuts.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2025 11:49 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2025 11:50 PM (S8BjZ)
I once saw a quotation, I don’t remember from whom, that went something like, “I never once learned anything from a man who agreed with me.”
That’s why I love the debates and discussions that we have here on this site.
Goodnight Again, All. God Bless You, All.
So, thank you, All. Good Night.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2025 11:50 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 11:47 PM (6nn2F)
Wow, I guess the Japanese have more than gotten us back for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And then some!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 11:50 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Fresh out of dry Vermouth for the Martinis
Posted by: Insufficient Logistics at May 04, 2025 11:50 PM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 11:50 PM (Vvh2V)
Of course when you stay indoors on a computer it is easier to stay pale...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 11:51 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 04, 2025 11:51 PM (QGaXH)
I wear a veil to Mass.
It’s about being respectful.
Guess what, I cut off my long hair and I like it better now.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2025 11:52 PM (3O3BM)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2025 11:52 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 11:52 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Lucas Leaker, aka Alberta Oil Peon
There was one I saw frequently as a kid, it was kind of a silver color. Really pretty car. This was when they were new, sometime in the mid - 60's.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:53 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
My Uncle John had a level of color blindness.
Kept him out of the Air Corps in WWII
Not severe, by my Aunt had to sort blue from black socks for him
Posted by: vague recollections at May 04, 2025 11:53 PM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: fourseasons at May 04, 2025 11:53 PM (3ek7K)
Open discussion has the advantage of greater understanding, both of alternate viewpoints, and your own.
It does have a notable weakness though, and you see it reflected in the left/right political split.
So what does suppressing discussion do for you then? Well it allows you to have a single coherent narrative and organization as we see with the left.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 11:55 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 11:52 PM (t0Rmr)
Damned tax-and-spend Herods!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 04, 2025 11:55 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Your pleas have been heard, my son.
Blessings upon you
Posted by: Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury at May 04, 2025 11:56 PM (LP6Fv)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - An apartment complex was evacuated late Sunday morning, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD).
. . . .
Police said a man was found dead inside one of the rooms with a grenade in his hand.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 04, 2025 11:56 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: fourseasons
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So, the rescue troops rallying at South of the Border can disperse?
Posted by: Pedro at May 04, 2025 11:56 PM (XeU6L)
They wear 175 sunscreen and carry parasols if need be, to avoid looking like they are the type of person who labors all day in the sun.
Pale skin is the ideal, and the South Koreans have figured out skincare that prevents melanin productionnow. The " Glass Skin" look is all the rage now. Korean skin care is cutting edge, and a lot fairly reasonably priced.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2025 11:57 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
Mary was indeed born Jewish, as was Jesus (Yeshua). And so there were indeed a lot of Jewish customs taken up by the early Christian Church. But Mary, as the Virgin Mother of Jesus, is greatly revered within the Catholic Church, and there was always an urge to imitate her.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:57 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: fourseasons at May 04, 2025 11:57 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2025 11:58 PM (6nn2F)
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 04, 2025 11:58 PM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: Pedro
Only when I Sez
Posted by: Pedro's boss (el Jefe) at May 04, 2025 11:58 PM (LP6Fv)
. . . .
Police said a man was found dead inside one of the rooms with a grenade in his hand.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes!
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The original dead man switch.
Was the pin pulled?
If not. No biggie.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 04, 2025 11:59 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Well, it was an order from Caesar Augustus that there should be an enumeration of all the people in the Empire, and that they should all be taxed.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:59 PM (tjZg/)
CA Politicos: "Yay! More graft and corruption for us!"
Trump: "And I will divert all the High Speed Rail money to fund it!"
CA Politicos: "Wait. What?"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 04, 2025 11:59 PM (yko4N)
Posted by: 18-1
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I might say 'consistent' vs. 'coherent', but I get your point.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 05, 2025 12:00 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 05, 2025 12:00 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: fourseasons
FUN FACT
South of the Border off I-95 (Dillon SC) was started by a guy named Schaeffer
Posted by: more is know than is told at May 05, 2025 12:01 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2025 12:01 AM (S8BjZ)
If you want to have a discussion or argument, please be respectful.
Denigrating the Eucharist is not respectful. And it makes me not want to have anything to do with you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 05, 2025 12:01 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: polynikes at May 05, 2025 12:01 AM (VofaG)
If not. No biggie.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Probably an airman.
(ducks)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 05, 2025 12:02 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Don't get me started on this.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 05, 2025 12:03 AM (XeU6L)
But there was a time!
Black leather pants & high heels, white silk blouse with skinny dark red tie, black leather trench coat... red lipsick... and a black fedora... OH! What a time!
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 04, 2025 11:59 PM (tjZg/)
Well, sure.. but it’s not like the money collected by Herod was being put to much good, either!
And Rome did build some good infrastructure. Frankly, I’m not sure Judea was being taken advantage of then..
And then Jesus is just like “Pay your taxes to Rome, give your soul to God.”
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 05, 2025 12:04 AM (l3YAf)
Of course when you stay indoors on a computer it is easier to stay pale...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2025 11:51 PM (t0Rmr)
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https://tinyurl.com/bdfkc2je
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2025 12:05 AM (yS/3v)
Posted by: polynikes
Conjunctive arguments get complicated
Don't even get me started on subjunctives
Posted by: Commentarius Caroliniensis at May 05, 2025 12:05 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Potato Masher at May 05, 2025 12:06 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:06 AM (77rzZ)
http://trib.al/jjIofSf
Posted by: Ciampino - non-uniform at May 05, 2025 12:08 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: more is know than is told
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I haven't been down that way on I95 in a long time. Does 'South of the Border' still exist?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2025 12:08 AM (sAmhv)
And Carney announced tonight that his government is looking into banning social media like X.
Canada is quickly going to take pre-Milei Argentina's place as the hemisphere's basket case.
I used to think that Alberta and Saskatchewan weren't actually going to leave, but now it seems like this would be the best course of action for both of these provinces.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 05, 2025 12:09 AM (ItW09)
Posted by: JQ
Ok...
Can't promise, but will try
Gotta buy some stuff
Posted by: Anonymous Bartender at May 05, 2025 12:09 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 12:09 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 12:10 AM (6nn2F)
Posted by: JQ
I’ve never had a pair of leather pants. Sounds pretty bad ass.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 05, 2025 12:10 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 05, 2025 12:10 AM (ItW09)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 12:12 AM (6nn2F)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 05, 2025 12:13 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Puddleglum
Schaeffer was a marketing genius.
Turned a wide spot in the road into a Bidnis.
https://tinyurl.com/bdhus3ta
They even have Honeymoon Suites
Posted by: this one girl keeps mentioning the honeymoon part at May 05, 2025 12:13 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 12:14 AM (6nn2F)
So, the rescue troops rallying at South of the Border can disperse?
Posted by: Pedro at May 04, 2025 11:56 PM (XeU6L)
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There is heavy administrative recalcitrance.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 12:14 AM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 05, 2025 12:15 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Wilson Leather, is where I bought.
They were nice. Fully lined. Slim fit... about $200 in early 2000s. Had stored them at Dad's after he passed (space constraints, ya know)
Of course they were stolen when that Ahole broke in at Dad's!
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)
And a motorcycle (a Pannonia)
Now I have neither.
Sic Transit Gloria
Posted by: probably for the better at May 05, 2025 12:16 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: JQ
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You, that's hot.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 12:16 AM (/X/7F)
Oh gosh, yes, absolutely! I'm just saying that wearing a veil/ head covering was the common practice of the day, and Mary wasn't the only one doing it, so I wasn't sure why that specific trait was chosen to be the one venerated. Perhaps it was the easiest to adopt?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 12:16 AM (Vvh2V)
Ah, the famous Tatooine, two suns. They've discovered a little over 40 exoplanets in such circumbinary orbits so far. That's dubbed a P-type orbit. The planet orbits both stars.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 05, 2025 12:17 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 05, 2025 12:09 AM (ItW09)
today Viva Frei said that he figured that if Alberta certifies to leave Canada, Quebec will be off like a shot too, and Canada will lose its two major resource areas.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 05, 2025 12:17 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: JQ at
Same guy?
I have a neighbor named Bill the Asshole.
Because his name is Bill, and he is an asshole.
Posted by: the HOA at May 05, 2025 12:18 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 05, 2025 12:18 AM (ItW09)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 05, 2025 12:19 AM (ItW09)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 12:19 AM (6nn2F)
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)
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Of course. The leather pants are always the first thing they go for.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 05, 2025 12:20 AM (hY4dx)
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 04, 2025 11:58 PM (+I6Y/)
Jr. Anonymous totaled our 2007 Forester in 2012. Not a scratch on him, walked away unharmed. Single car accident, hit a light pole. I tell him if he buys a house with room for me to park my camper so I don't have to pay storage all will be forgiven.
He says 'what do you mean you won't pay storage ?'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 05, 2025 12:20 AM (QGaXH)
Re head covering for women in church. It is traditional, but as with many traditions I think the meaning has been lost.
I think it does have to do with modesty and respect. I also think it had to do with male/female roles and possibly married vs unmarried females.
I don't think it has to do with purity. A married woman having sex with her husband is in no way to be considered impure.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 12:21 AM (PcTds)
In July of 2024, the Labour Party and Kier Starmer won general elections ...seeking to punish conservatives for not following through on their Brexit promises and stopping mass open immigration. ...Brexit movement was a success was because it attempted to address growing concerns among UK natives that their ties to the European Union had trapped them in a prison of progressive politics I...
In 2024, the Reform Party won around 14% of the vote share. This week [2025] in local elections they won 30% of the vote share, crushing Labour and the Conservatives and winning 677 council seats.
Labour lost 187 seats
Conservatives were stunned with a 674 seat loss.
Nigel Farage has hailed Reform UK's gains in Thursday's elections as "unprecedented" and "the end of two-party politics". The party also won two mayoral races and added a fifth MP to its ranks in the Runcorn.
Some critics say Farage does not go far enough in his solutions for saving the country.
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‘E just wonj 677 council seats, 2 mayoral seats and added a 5th MP to the Runcorn you bloody fool.
Nigel --- > https://tinyurl.com/4azvhrzt
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 12:21 AM (/X/7F)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 12:21 AM (6nn2F)
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:03 AM (rdVOm)
Damn, sounds hot. Where were you at, JQ, The Matrix?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 05, 2025 12:22 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:22 AM (77rzZ)
I feel the love in every word you write about her, and it puts tears in my eyes.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 12:24 AM (Vvh2V)
Do you know the reasoning behind that?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 12:24 AM (PcTds)
There is heavy administrative recalcitrance.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Hell...half of my cavalry (NC-Buncombe Cav. Reg 1) is already up in Shelby, drinking beer and eating barbeque. Probably don't even know where their damned horses are.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 05, 2025 12:24 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
When I got hired as an Extra in one of the worst movies ever made (Shag-198
, which I have never seen other than the transatlantic in-flight short version, we had to show up dressed like it was 1962.
The only thing I did not have, but could easily borrow, were my Daddy's Bass Weejuns.
Posted by: barely even saw Pheobe Cates, which (plus $300) was the Main Thing at May 05, 2025 12:25 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:03 AM (rdVOm)
I'm not going to a Mo Meet if I have to wear that......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 05, 2025 12:25 AM (QGaXH)
Please keep us informed of your progress. Joplin's pieces are very entertaining.
I would like to learn Mozart's full "little star" next.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 12:26 AM (PcTds)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Men-Whisky
Horses-beer
Posted by: As I was taught at May 05, 2025 12:26 AM (LP6Fv)
Huh.
Alaska is a strange place.
The Tug Bar is awesome, good food, crusty locals, great drinks, just our kind of vibe. They have live music outdoors on Saturdays, shooting every second Sunday and sometimes on Saturdays as well, and if you get too drunk to drive they can rent you a crappy room out back to sleep it off. Most folks take the 4-wheeler so they don't have to drive on the road.
It's a mile from our place. We chose... wisely.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:27 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:28 AM (77rzZ)
Oh, and he was merely ticketed for "trespassing" because (wah!) homeless or whateverthefuk...
***deep breaths***
Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:29 AM (rdVOm)
Ok
Found most of the stuff
*mirror, turn*
Oh honey, I am lookin' GOOD
Posted by: things...change a man at May 05, 2025 12:30 AM (LP6Fv)
Do you know the reasoning behind that?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 12:24 AM (PcTds)
Same reason real Catholic women cover their heads. A woman's hair is her crown, and it is reserved for the husband, so it is kept covered. In the case of a Catholic woman, it is because St. Paul said it was because of the angels, IOW, because they see everything, and therefore we veil.
Catholics mostly only in Church, but for observant Jewesses, allways.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:30 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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On a date. It was winter time. Very comfortable and *he* thought it was HOT too... ooh la la!
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:31 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 05, 2025 12:17 AM (D7oie)
Quebec has resources, true. But are they major? No oil to speak of. Might have frackable gas/liquids in the Gaspe region, but they are anti-fracking. Minerals? Yes, but hardly unique to Quebec. Most of their developable hydroelectric potential is developed, I believe. Also logging, but again scarcely unique. Not much coal, AFAIK. Ontario can probably match or beat Quebec, dollar for dollar, in resources.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2025 12:31 AM (S8BjZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 12:32 AM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2025 12:31 AM (S8BjZ)
Plus, Quebec, so who would want it?
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:32 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: things...change a man
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Oh honey, made this woman look GOOD too! It was fun fashion.
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:33 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 12:33 AM (6nn2F)
Re female head coverings, it wasn't only in church. It was outdoors anywhere. A woman dashing out with her head uncovered would whip out a handkerchief or whatever and awkwardly hold it on her head while the wind lapped at it. This was quite a few years ago, like I remember reading passages like that in Balzac and Flaubert.
Now onto something else...
Does anyone know what it means that the National Endowment for the Humanities "is an independent federal agency"? Independent of what? I'm trying to figure it out because it's cutting grants that look deserving to me, while the university is a hotbed of DEI. I'm not sure what the official definition of "independent" means is all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2025 12:33 AM (U7Gpi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Hydro power?
Posted by: A somewhat reconciled Panhard at May 05, 2025 12:33 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 05, 2025 12:33 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 12:32 AM (/X/7F)
As I understand it, Tug Bar refers to the dude that originally built it, and he ran one of the tugs for the Port of Anchorage, which isn't far across the Inlet, so he ran from Goose Bay to the Port, and then ran the bar at night.
He doesn't own it anymore, I think his ex runs it, but it remains a staple of Knik culture and also a biker destination. And they know our names, so there's that.
Our neighborhood bar, so to speak.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:34 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)
No, marital sex is not impure, but the woman is no longer virginal, and is impure in that respect. It wasn't meant as an insult, but it necessitated the head covering. She was carnal. Same thing with menstruating; women were considered unclean during their menses, and not allowed in places of worship. And I can just about imagine why, in that heat, no running water, no modern sanitary products. 😂 Some groups sent them to live in special areas outside the city walls! 🤣
All that to say that pure had various connotations. And I've often wondered if all the veils and coverings in general might have helped with odor control in a desert climate thousands of years ago..... 😁
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 12:35 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:30 AM (a4NoL)
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Even though I really want to get an answer to my question about the NEH's independence, I'll add to this discussion yet again, to say:
That doesn't tell us why their heads are shaved or shorn.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2025 12:36 AM (U7Gpi)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 12:33 AM (6nn2F)
Some marriages are one and done. I can't imagine every remarrying were I to lose DH. I think you only get one soulmate in life, and he is certainly it. God is good, and I am particularly blessed. Sounds like you were, too.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:36 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Hydro power?
Posted by: A somewhat reconciled Panhard at May 05, 2025 12:33 AM (LP6Fv)
Niagara Falls ring a bell?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2025 12:37 AM (S8BjZ)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 05, 2025 12:37 AM (1m82a)
Catholics mostly only in Church, but for observant Jewesses, allways.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Speculating, San Franpsycho, story. The ladies shaved their hair and wore wigs, thus they were covered.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 12:37 AM (/X/7F)
Bush I said "Who told you that?"
That is suspected to have changed the independence vote, just enough.
Posted by: Magyar with memory at May 05, 2025 12:37 AM (LP6Fv)
Do you know the reasoning behind that?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 12:24 AM (PcTds)
An female African American co-worker confided to me that many AA ladies wear wigs due to issues with AA hair.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 05, 2025 12:37 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Yes. What's the problem?
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)
Lol, nothing. Just reminds me of my lost youth.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 05, 2025 12:38 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:38 AM (77rzZ)
marital sex is not impure, but the woman is no longer virginal, and is impure in that respect.
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Well that whole idea is just bullshit. I'm pretty sure Adam and Eve had sex before the apple business, and she wasn't impure at that point. She was just doing what she was divinely intended to do. Same for all wives.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2025 12:39 AM (U7Gpi)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:39 AM (77rzZ)
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Tell that to Jesus, who was made of earthly elements.
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Indeed, a central tenet of Christianity is the divine God become "earthly" or incarnate.
Goodnight Bulg - thanks for spurring conversation
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 12:40 AM (PcTds)
But should you meet someone you care for, don't deny yourself another marriage. I am serious when I say that she may well send you someone. Your happiness is still of great importance to her.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 12:40 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 12:35 AM (Vvh2V)
Contact with blood was considered unclean, with good reason. It probably mostly was, before hygiene was improved. If you look at the rules for humane slaughter that meets kosher standards, you will see that the blood matters greatly. It was considered the seat of life, and spilling it was considered somewhat blasphemous, even that of animals. The various temple rituals involved catching the blood, which was a difficult maneuver for menstrual blood, hence the unclean designation. Also why women had to be purified after giving birth, which also involves a fair amount of blood.
A veil meant that one's hair was reserved for one's husband. I think for observant Jewesses, shaving makes wearing a wig easier, but I don't know any other reason for shaving. I have never seen anything in the Torah or Talmud dictating a shaved head, only a covered one. Wigs are a fairly new contrivance to accomplish that task. A fashion?
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:41 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:41 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Seeing those lovely skirts just hanging in a closet, reminds me of my own lost youth, now. It's time to take them to a resale shop I guess.
At 29, I'd look ridiculous in most of them. There are a couple that are longer, classic styles, so will keep them for another while.
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:42 AM (rdVOm)
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Women that hang out together cycle together. I've had the thought that they may have looked forward to it. Sort of a get-a-way for the girls. Let the men fend for themselves.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 12:42 AM (/X/7F)
https://mol.im/a/14678153
Posted by: Ciampino - yikes! at May 05, 2025 12:43 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 05, 2025 12:37 AM (1m82a)
I assume it would be full secession, and then possibly negotiate some sort of association with the rump of Canada? I would prefer to see Alberta and Saskatchewan be annexed by the USA, and given Territorial status to begin with, but that is still a tough sell here, although it is being talked about.
Alberta and Saskatchewan have no military. What happens if we declare secession, and Canada says, No! We cannot just appropriate the military equipment and personnel that exist on the bases here.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2025 12:43 AM (S8BjZ)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:45 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:38 AM (77rzZ)
Of course you are free to believe what you do, but I do not consider it nonsense at all. As Catholics, we veil that which is sacred, meaning we put a veil over the tabernacle that holds the Divine Body of Or Lord. Likewise, we veil women, because they are the closest to Mary, the only human who was without sin. A veil is also a sign of our devotion to Our Lord, who wishes us to be chaste, cleaving only to our husbands, and therefore not to be an image of temptation to others. When a woman visits St. Peter's she will not be allowed in without a head covering of some sort, her shoulders and knees covered. Modesty matters. I feel I am worth it, created by God as I am.
YMMV.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:45 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 12:45 AM (6nn2F)
I agree! I'm very inarticulate, as you, of all people know by now! Impure can be interpreted as simply meaning no longer virgin, or even just mean married. No longer innocent. Little girls are not required to cover their heads ( outside of Confirmation or First Communion, I think?)
It wasn't meant to be insulting, more of a noting of the change in status, and a mark of respect.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 12:46 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2025 12:46 AM (S8BjZ)
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:49 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:42 AM (rdVOm)
Now that I am 29, I only wear dresses or skirts, most of them not very formal, but very comfortable. If they were good enough for Grandma, I guess they are good enough for me. I farm in them, and everything else.
Just a personal preference. Maybe I like the breeze up my parts, or something. But I like it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:49 AM (a4NoL)
I'm very inarticulate, as you, of all people know by now!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Tsk tsk I know no such thing.
But anyway, do you know in what sense the NEH is "an independent federal agency"? I'm trying to figure out why they've yanked funding for a legit-looking project. I imagine there's a good reason somewhere, but I'm trying to start this little inquiry by understanding what these administrative terms mean.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2025 12:50 AM (U7Gpi)
Wasn’t Jesus wholly God and wholly human? And he was without sin. So I think you mean that Mary - according to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception - was the only _other_ person without sin? Pardon me if I have misunderstood.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 12:50 AM (6nn2F)
YMMV.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:45 AM (a4NoL)
Agreed. Reverence must be cultivated. I don’t want my behavior, thoughts or words inside of a sacred place to be the same as outside. If religion should do anything to us, it should change us and make us more modest.
I don’t know that there’s an absolute scale for right and wrong, but I’m always eager to be reverent before the Blessed Eucgarist.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 05, 2025 12:51 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 05, 2025 12:51 AM (l3YAf)
Ugh indeed. Sorry to hear this JQ. I would be very uneasy thinking someone had invaded my space!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 12:53 AM (PcTds)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
My parents had their honeymoon there.
Thankfully, they declined the barrel ride.
Posted by: amazed that I am still here at May 05, 2025 12:53 AM (LP6Fv)
And what does it matter anyway?
Catholics keep bringing up all these irrelevant issues, and acting like they’re necessary for Christian faith.
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:53 AM (77rzZ)
Welllll... I don't believe I'd want to be gardening in a leather miniskirt, LOL.
But I understand the general comfort of skirts & dresses. It's just that my only "feminine attire" is of the formal (or even *racy*) type.
I wear jeans, t-shirts, & sneakers mostly.
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:54 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 05, 2025 12:54 AM (8Xlir)
But chicks covering their heads is a bridge too far.
Whatthefuckever.
Is there anything women won't turn into a federal case?
Posted by: Waaaaah! at May 05, 2025 12:55 AM (lCYIV)
Posted by: Bulg
No you're not
Posted by: i came here for an Argument at May 05, 2025 12:55 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 05, 2025 12:56 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
Veils and coverings in that hot sun?
Your own personal sun shade. Keep them light, billowing, ans airy.
Even the men were flowing dresses and head coverings.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 05, 2025 12:56 AM (/lPRQ)
Wasn’t Jesus wholly God and wholly human? And he was without sin. So I think you mean that Mary - according to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception - was the only _other_ person without sin? Pardon me if I have misunderstood.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 12:50 AM (6nn2F)
Yes, but obviously Jesus was fully God as well as human. I think he had a leg up on the whole no sin thing.
Mary was pure by choice, and it was a wholly human choice. At her dormition, she was assumed body and soul into heaven, because from the time she said yes to the Archangel Gabriel, she was, outside of time and space, entirely without sin, but by her own choice, know as the Fiat ( I will).
Not quite the same thing, at all. Of course Jesus was sinless, but I expect that to be the case because he is also entirely God while being entirely human.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:56 AM (a4NoL)
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President Donald Trump’s budget proposal would eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, reviving his failed first-term attempts to scrap the grantmaking agencies as he moves to reshape the nation’s artistic and cultural landscape.
The proposed cuts come even after the NEH slashed its workforce and the NEA canceled grants in compliance with Trump’s directives to reduce the federal workforce and shut down diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The tentative budget plan also targets the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as part of $163 billion in proposed cuts across much of the federal government.
Established by Congress in 1965, the NEA serves as the largest funder of the arts and arts education for communities across the country, primarily through grantmaking. The NEH helps fund humanities programs by supporting museums, libraries, universities, and public television and radio stations.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 12:56 AM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 05, 2025 12:58 AM (l3YAf)
Mary was pure by choice, and it was a wholly human choice.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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I don't think so. She was born without original sin on her soul. The Immaculate Conception.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2025 12:58 AM (U7Gpi)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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Thanks. It happened 2 years ago-- I've come to terms with it all. Fker *ransacked* the place but did no damage. Thankfully nobody lived there at the time.
I still have... less than charitable feelings... about the whole thing.
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 12:58 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Associate Justice Jumanji-Jackson-Browne at May 05, 2025 12:58 AM (LP6Fv)
Dark times. Suspect dissatisfaction will only increase if the new clown management in Ottawa continues ruinous policies while the US presumably starts to come to life again.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 05, 2025 12:58 AM (1m82a)
Last night, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order ending the taxpayer subsidization of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) — entities that receive tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds each year to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as “news.”
Here are some examples of the trash that has passed for “news” at NPR and PBS:
NPR ran a story titled “Cannibalism: It’s ‘Perfectly Natural,’” in which an author described eating another human’s placenta: “It was really the prep that made it taste good. Granted, the [husband] was a chef and so he knew how to prepare it osso bucco style and used a really nice wine I had brought. It smelled great. It didn’t taste bad.”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 12:58 AM (/X/7F)
Nonsense isn't the right word. I'm Protestant as well, and I would never disparage it. I might not believe it's a necessity, nor do I think not doing so is a sin, but what is nonsensical about it? It's a sign of reverence.
I feel bad dragging it out and hope I haven't offended anyone. I think it's lovely and I was merely pointing out that it predates all the Abrahamic religions, who adapted it as they saw fit.
I hate seeing Muslim women forced in to burquas and abayas, but I also hate the way Western culture has devolved in to glorifying dressing like streetwalkers, especially little girls and teens!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 01:00 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: JQ
*calming beignets and cafe au lait, Mademoiselle*
Posted by: Cafe du Monde waiter at May 05, 2025 01:00 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 12:56 AM (/X/7F)
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w00t, thank you. At least one very cool project just got cut at Saint Louis University (a hotbed of DEI bs and whose president signed that stupid letter defying Trump's determination to reinstall free thought at universities) and I'm trying to figure out what bigger thing is going on. Possibly the end of all NEH grants.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2025 01:02 AM (U7Gpi)
"as he moves to reshape the nation’s artistic and cultural landscape."
WTF? *Ending* federal $$$ to the arts is an attempt to "reshape" them? Obviously it's the opposite. They will now be free to do what they please for $$ they can scam, er, raise from anywhere they like. The feds will have no say whatsoever.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 05, 2025 01:02 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Braenyard
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OH BARF!!!! THAT IS DISGUSTING!
*ahem*
Sorry. It just HURLED out....
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 01:02 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:53 AM (77rzZ)
Nobody said any of this is necessary for Christian faith. Faith is gift from God, undeserved but available to all, just like the river of Grace that flows from heaven.
However, to understand how the entire enterprise works, a great many things have come to light based upon Revelation and Tradition, both of which have been passed down through the ages for our benefit and to support our faith.
If this sound obnoxious, I do not mean it to be so. Get a nice compendium of the Early Church Fathers and read what they have to say about the Jesus they knew. A great deal of intelligent discussion takes place there, based upon both the Bible (that was yet to be codified) and upon what Jesus told them directly. A great deal of clarity about what the Church was meant to be is found in the founding documents, which we have mostly entire from that time period.
Catholics don't make things up out of nothing. All if it is derived from original source material. But if you have faith, you are still good to go.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 01:03 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Cafe du Monde waiter at May 05, 2025 01:00 AM (LP6Fv)
Here's your tip: Don't get banned.
Posted by: RickZ at May 05, 2025 01:04 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2025 12:58 AM (U7Gpi)
Yes, but she was chosen because she would say Yes to God at every point. Humans have free will, even Mary.
God knows the future and the past. Therefore, he could only choose as the vessel of his only begotten Son someone who was completely free of sin. Mary was not a robot made incapable of sin.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 05, 2025 01:04 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 05, 2025 01:05 AM (1m82a)
It means they have no freaking oversight, IMHO. I think it literally means they don't fall under a specific department. Not really sure, but I think that's what it is.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 01:05 AM (Vvh2V)
Thanks anyway!
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 01:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ixnay on the Iklosmay at May 05, 2025 01:05 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Ixnay on the Iklosmay at May 05, 2025 01:05 AM (LP6Fv)
We're not talking about your short stay at the YMCA.
Posted by: RickZ at May 05, 2025 01:06 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 01:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Braenyard
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OH BARF!!!! THAT IS DISGUSTING!
*ahem*
Sorry. It just HURLED out....
Posted by: JQ
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Meh,
What animals do to recover lost nutrients to survive.
They will et the runt of the litter too.
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Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at May 05, 2025 01:07 AM (WvGHv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 01:07 AM (/X/7F)
Exactly. Many ancient peoples in that region believed that the soul resided in the blood. That, again, carried over in to the religios practices.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 01:08 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2025 12:58 AM (U7Gpi)
OK here's the weird thing. Until Mary said yes to the Angel, she was just like the rest of us. But because she said yes, she was then created sinless, i.e., the Immaculate Conception. It happened outside of space and time.
It's confusing as hell, but that's how it worked. She had the choice to say no. Free will is gift from God, and she had it just like we do. She chose wisely. At about the age of 12. None of us were nearly that wise at that age.
As humans, we really can't figure this out chronologically, because it didn't happen chronologically. God is outside of space and time. He sees everything that ever happened and ever will all at one time. We are not capable of that.
Yes, it is supposed to blow your mind. And no, I'm not a dope smoker. Read St. Thomas Aquinas sometime. It will explain it, but you still won't understand it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 01:09 AM (a4NoL)
It doesn’t say it in the Bible, but the pope announced the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception ex cathedra, so a believing Roman Catholic must accept it as a matter of faith. This is one of the key differences between Catholics and Protestants. Protestants are sola scriptural. That’s not all of the differences, but it’s late and I am tired. Note that the Orthodox Churches don’t have the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception either. It’s solely a Roman Catholic doctrine (including the Uniate churches, which share doctrine with the RCC). In any case, I think you must meet people where they stand, if you disagree with a Roman Catholic and want to argue about transubstantiation, or the immaculate conception of Mary, you are really arguing about papal infallibility, and I think you have a much steeper hill to climb there with most Roman Catholics. Best to not imitate Sisyphus.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 01:09 AM (6nn2F)
As Catholics, we veil that which is sacred, meaning we put a veil over the tabernacle that holds the Divine Body of Or Lord. Likewise, we veil women, because they are the closest to Mary, the only human who was without sin.
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These reasons make sense to me. Veiling would then be indications of gender differences.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:09 AM (PcTds)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:10 AM (PcTds)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 01:10 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 12:57 AM (77rzZ)
Nobody here ever said that. Feel free to do so. But so far, your comments are that Catholics are crazy or worse. Please present your case. Nobody is going to pick on your for that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 01:11 AM (a4NoL)
A friend and I made a point of being the last guests and being more-or-less politely kicked out of and closing bars on *sad* only five (5) continents.
Never made it to PixyLand or or the Alien Nazi UFO bases in Antarctica.
Posted by: Iklosmay feels the Mission is Incomplete at May 05, 2025 01:11 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Iklosmay feels James Brown GOOD at May 05, 2025 01:13 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 01:13 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 01:09 AM (a4NoL)
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It doesn't really blow my mind since none of that is new to me. It's how I envision the afterlife, in fact. If we don't come back, then we face an agonizing fate if we have to continue in linear time. Seriously, a billion years, have you thought of that? A trillion years? The only way a human soul would be able to bear eternity is if it's one big Now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2025 01:13 AM (U7Gpi)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 01:10 AM (77rzZ)
Do you believe that Jesus was born of sin? "Mariolatry" is a Protestant term that derides the honor Catholics reserve for the Mother of God. She is not a God, nor is she worshipped. She is honored. It is not the same thing. At all.
I know that most Protestants have to believe that Catholics are wrong, hence they are Protestants. It is the sort of TDS of religions. But if that is what you believe, you are certainly free to do so. I just wish it didn't involve denigrating Catholics for what we have believed for over 2,000 years.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 01:14 AM (a4NoL)
Do it!!
And keep going!!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:14 AM (PcTds)
I think Catholics who have choose their path and stick to it will cross the goal and I believe the same for Protestants. Somewhere in the book it is said that God hates the middling. Either one way or the other or 'I will spit you out', I think.
Arguments between the two groups as to which is superior are counter productive. Time could be better spent better understanding what we agree on. And that is plenty.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 01:15 AM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 01:13 AM (77rzZ)
Nobody is forcing you to do so. The Immaculate Conception was the last ex-Cathedra statement by a Pope, and it really just stated for the record that which was already held by the Early Church Fathers, some of whom knew her.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 01:18 AM (a4NoL)
Do it!!
And keep going!!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
Fuck my life because FASCIST
And thousands like me
I have spent FOUR (4) YEARS doing some kinda art-like stuff.
I was counting on that money
Posted by: You know who else was a frustrated artist? at May 05, 2025 01:18 AM (LP6Fv)
: tcn in AK
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Cut it out. You both know that Thomas Jefferson's letter on, as they call it, separation of church and state was to stop the fighting between the Baptists and the Catholics.
Yall aren't going to settle it tonight.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 01:19 AM (/X/7F)
Show me Biblical support for “veneration” (i.e., worship) of Mary and the “saints.”
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 01:19 AM (77rzZ)
If any of you get to visit Mount Angel Abbey outside of Portland, Oregon, they have a painting of a pregnant Mary meeting Eve. Inspired. Highly recommend.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:19 AM (PcTds)
New Substack Drop: How Soros and the NED Engineered Global Regime Change... with Your Tax Dollars 🇺🇸💸
I ran every issue of the Journal of Democracy (NED’s house organ) through AI to search for Soros references. And what I found is jaw-dropping.
_ Soros-backed groups ran exit polls to discredit elections (Moldova 2009)
_ “Civil society” NGOs blacklisted candidates before votes (Romania 2004)
_ Activists were flown across borders to learn how to topple regimes (Georgia’s Rose Revolution)
_ Soros-funded institutes literally wrote legislation and drafted constitutions abroad
_ Polling was used not just to measure opinion—but to shape political climates ahead of transitions
_ Western-backed coalitions targeted resource control (oil & gas) under the banner of “transparency
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 01:21 AM (/X/7F)
Yall aren't going to settle it tonight.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 01:19 AM (/X/7F)
Its amusing that more than one State, when they ratified the US Constitution, had laws dictating what religions you could have to hold office.
Those laws were NOT immediately moot, because they were State, and not Federal, Laws.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 05, 2025 01:22 AM (QAkQ3)
_President D.J. Trump
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Salary $174,000
Net Worth $9,000,000
Properties :
$2,000,000 townhouse
$1.5 million loft
$1.5 million lakefront cabin
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 01:22 AM (/X/7F)
NEH, as an independent agency, answers to the President, not, say, The Secretary of Health and Human Services. I'm sure Trump just canned everything in General Principal.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 01:23 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 01:15 AM (/X/7F)
The curious part is the arguments, which really amount to nearly nothing. I know both Catholics and Protestants like to claim their differences in belief, but the core of all of it is Jesus, that He came and died to save us, and that He will come again.
If we quit yelling across the divide and start focusing on the Truth, all will be well, all will be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
I don't for one minute think anybody is going to hell because they are Protestants, or Atheists, or Agnostics. That's between them and God. I pray that He sees the heart, not the politics or nonsense, and brings all to light of His love.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 01:23 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 05, 2025 01:23 AM (mH6SG)
What animals do to recover lost nutrients to survive.
They will et the runt of the litter too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Yeah. Animals. They eat bugs, too...
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
Announced on May 1, 2025, this directive applies not only to novel vaccines but also to updates for well-known diseases like measles and COVID-19 boosters, raising critical questions about balancing transparency, safety, and timely access to life-saving immunizations.
I've been able to find 22 of those ‘Pandemic Simulations’. Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates play key roles in them...as it was a way of drilling and practicing a coup d'état against American democracy…”
_RFK Jr. HHS Secretary
https://tinyurl.com/3a8x37ve
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 01:24 AM (/X/7F)
Here's the cool tool that's on the NEH's chopping block.
https://t-pen.org/TPEN/
Click into that embedded YouTube at maybe 3 and a half minutes in. Cool! Actually, what's on the chopping block is not the tool itself but an overhaul, something that will make it more useful to scholars. It's not essential, but I like it better than the National Garden of American Heroes.
THAT said, if the big idea is to get the US gov't out of all this picking of winners and non-winners and leave the funding up to donors and other sources of revenue, I get it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2025 01:26 AM (U7Gpi)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 01:27 AM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 05, 2025 01:27 AM (mH6SG)
Well, an easy and yet in our day and age, controversial answer is: male/female differential roles as indicated by attire.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:27 AM (PcTds)
I wish nothing but blessings on the RC members of the Horde. I do learn from you, believe it or not.
Now, for a change of pace, off to pron.
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 01:28 AM (77rzZ)
Show me Biblical support for “veneration” (i.e., worship) of Mary and the “saints.”
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2025 01:19 AM (77rzZ)
Luke 1:26-38 and 46-55.
For the Saints, both books of Maccabees.
And of course, Revelation (Apocalypse) 12:1-10.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 01:28 AM (a4NoL)
I met some Soros people in a pub in Budapest. I helped with translation (they were young Americans). Some beers and they began to tell me things, most prominently "We got Obama elected" until a Senior Person called them aside and told them not to talk to me.
Posted by: Was I banned, or were they? at May 05, 2025 01:29 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 01:29 AM (6nn2F)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 01:23 AM (Vvh2V)
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That's my sense of it. I know they're busy in D.C., but I wish someone would take the time to spell it out for us.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2025 01:30 AM (U7Gpi)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 05, 2025 01:27 AM (mH6SG)
Some more than others.
Don't tell me God's happy with everybody.
'You know, Adolf, you were a good kid, a little arrogant, but good. That whole Final Solution thing, though, . . . '
Posted by: RickZ at May 05, 2025 01:31 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 01:33 AM (/X/7F)
People ask for (and get) prayers here-there is even a Prayer List- and I suspect that God hears all, whether Katlick, Calvinist or Jew.
Posted by: The Lord Shall Hear You at May 05, 2025 01:34 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: Bulg
Bulg, you are making me laugh. You rhetorically ask if Protestants can talk about their beliefs and then throw out another theological accusation.
I accept that is your belief. Do you want to tell us why that is your belief?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:35 AM (PcTds)
Posted by: You know who else was a frustrated artist
You choose...poorly... 😉
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:36 AM (PcTds)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 01:37 AM (6nn2F)
https://tinyurl.com/4y8d4xdz
Posted by: Braenyard
We used to get a room...rooms...nice rooms, jacuzzi suites...champagne from Room Service....
But the Orange Nazi shut down USAID...
I ain't paying
Posted by: Bernie the Bolshie at May 05, 2025 01:39 AM (LP6Fv)
Yall aren't going to settle it tonight
No it won't be settled tonight, but it is not bad or wrong to explore and explain differences without acrimony, it is a skill that I would like to develop more.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:39 AM (PcTds)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 05, 2025 01:41 AM (XeU6L)
Thanks for this, I wondered if it applied to established vaccines as well as new ones.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:43 AM (PcTds)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Is this a religious or plumbing question?
Posted by: Imklos needs competitive bids for one, not the other at May 05, 2025 01:43 AM (LP6Fv)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 01:44 AM (a4NoL)
528 Is the Reformation over yet? Just asking...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Yes. Catholics still haven't gotten over it.
(Ducks behind couch)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2025 01:49 AM (sAmhv)
Yall aren't going to settle it tonight.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2025 01:19 AM (/X/7F)
Settle it? No. But if I hadn't been exposed to Catholic arguments I never would have converted.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 05, 2025 01:49 AM (l3YAf)
Show me Biblical support for “veneration” (i.e., worship) of Mary and the “saints.”
Do we need to be told that the Mother of God is to be honored? Just to sit a moment with that fact let's know that she is deserving of great honor.
The idea of heroes has been belittled in our day, but it is good to have heroes and saints are wonderful heroes.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:49 AM (PcTds)
Very interesting. No wonder my tinfoil hat fits so well.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:51 AM (PcTds)
But we manage. At arm's length, mostly.
I thought it was sad, that Dad's only brother wouldn't be Dad's best man at his & Mom's (prod) wedding, because he (uncle) didn't get *dispensation to do so* from his parish priest.
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 01:54 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:57 AM (PcTds)
*this was translated from Doggish to English by Grok AI
Posted by: Miss Dixie at May 05, 2025 01:59 AM (LP6Fv)
528 Is the Reformation over yet? Just asking...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
................................
Yes. Catholics still haven't gotten over it.
(Ducks behind couch)
😁 Never!! Reformation forever - (we always need reforming)
*Throws shoe behind the couch*
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:59 AM (PcTds)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 02:01 AM (PcTds)
I find this sad too. As was said above. The things that unite us are greater than the issues that divide us.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 02:03 AM (PcTds)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 02:05 AM (PcTds)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:57 AM (PcTds)
My favorite family religious discussion goes back years.
Born again Baptist S-i-L hinted/told the side of the family that were Catholics that Catholics aren't Christian. They have statues, crucifixes, saint and Mary adoration, all not Christian.
We stopped having religious discussions in the family. We'll go to funerals and weddings, but that's it.
Posted by: RickZ at May 05, 2025 02:06 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 05, 2025 02:08 AM (6nn2F)
(Ducks behind couch)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 05, 2025 01:59 AM (PcTds)
Sure we have, Heathen. Plus, we cornered the Bingo And Booze market.
Posted by: RickZ at May 05, 2025 02:08 AM (gKDq2)
Too complicated, IMO.
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 02:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m at May 05, 2025 02:11 AM (CQE5S)
You may do and say whatever you please, dearest lady. This ol' Protestant loves hearing you, and everyone else, speak so lovingly about your faith. We are Christians, united in our belief in Almighty God.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 02:15 AM (Vvh2V)
Thank you, that was awesome! Sleep good. 😊
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 05, 2025 02:17 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 05, 2025 02:19 AM (VofaG)
Huh.
Alaska is a strange place.
The Tug Bar is awesome, good food, crusty locals, great drinks, just our kind of vibe. They have live music outdoors on Saturdays, shooting every second Sunday and sometimes on Saturdays as well, and if you get too drunk to drive they can rent you a crappy room out back to sleep it off. Most folks take the 4-wheeler so they don't have to drive on the road.
It's a mile from our place. We chose... wisely.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 12:27 AM (a4NoL)
What a great story!
Posted by: m at May 05, 2025 02:22 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: RickZ at May 05, 2025 02:08 AM (gKDq2)
DH, who was nominally Lutheran when we met, was amazed when we went to a funeral followed by beer in the church basement at my Catholic parish. "You guys have beer? Where have I been all my life!" That wasn't what made him convert, but it was one of the things.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 02:26 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2025 02:26 AM (a4NoL)
I went my only time to the KofC Hall (after I got some insurance policy). Cash bar. I never paid. I remember my Dad telling the bartender at one point to cut me off, then when my Dad left to go talk with someone, he'd ask, 'Another, Kid?' Don't remember much of that night.
Posted by: RickZ at May 05, 2025 02:47 AM (gKDq2)
{{{JQ}}} You wear that outfit while dispensing drinks at the club next Saturday and you will make bank!!!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 05, 2025 02:48 AM (0nHVk)
Yeah, it turned more than a few heads back in the day...
The heels would kill me now, though. I can barely walk steadily in low-heel pumps.
And-- my sexy leather pants were stolen.
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 03:00 AM (rdVOm)
''Sure am glad I missed the theological warfare.''
I'm not so sure. Protestants? Catholics? According to the by-laws we should have launched a cavalry charge 2 hours ago.
Posted by: Fen at May 05, 2025 03:01 AM (ciYHQ)
Reading over the above confirms my inclination to never, ever, never ever, never engage in denominational/sectarian discussions, especially among friends and family. Nothing good ever comes out of that in my experience. May not get bad, but never really good. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 05, 2025 03:03 AM (w6EFb)
I am off to sleep and I shall think good thoughts.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 05, 2025 03:05 AM (0nHVk)
You got that right, publius! It's just trouble.
Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2025 03:06 AM (rdVOm)
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