Mid-Morning Art Thread

American Farm
Joe Jones

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 nice

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

2 OK this is interesting...the artist is trying to make a point but it escapes me

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 09:32 AM (dCxaZ)

3 Looks like a flood happened.

Posted by: Kwak! at May 09, 2025 09:32 AM (89Sog)

4 Whitney Museum of American Art

https://whitney.org › collection › works › 208

Date
1936

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil and tempera on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 29 13/16 × 39 15/16in. (75.7 × 101.4 cm)

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

5 I've never seen an American farm that looked like that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 09:33 AM (7fElN)

6 "Pa says we're gonna build a road up to the house next year."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 09:34 AM (dDmld)

7 Looks like a sleeping walrus with an open vagina. Would not hang. Sky is nice though.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 09, 2025 09:34 AM (aeiyZ)

8 On top of old smokey...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

9 That shed looks tipsy.

Also looks like the location of the schoolhouse my grandfather had to walk to.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 09, 2025 09:34 AM (R256O)

10 It looks ominous and headachey

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 09, 2025 09:34 AM (rT96s)

11 The painting is one of a group produced under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration, which employed artists on government projects during the Depression; Jones was commissioned to record drought conditions on American farms.

I call this guns for art. As Big Govt uses guns to coerce money from people to pay other people to paint and draw.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

12 OK this is interesting...the artist is trying to make a point but it escapes me
Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 09:32 AM (dCxaZ)

That's what I'm thinking too.

Otherwise, it's just dumb

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 09, 2025 09:35 AM (FCbAQ)

13 "Why sure the place produces wheat, Mr. Douglas."

Posted by: Mr. Haney at May 09, 2025 09:35 AM (dDmld)

14 Whitney Museum of American Art

https://whitney.org › collection › works › 208

Date
1936

Thought it had that commie vibe to it.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 09:35 AM (y6oPX)

15 What crops are they growing?

Posted by: Emmie at May 09, 2025 09:35 AM (Sf2cq)

16 Needs more accessible land and a road

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (Vnr18)

17 It looks windswept.

Posted by: PG at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (afPT4)

18 White Smoke!! oh..never mind

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (g47mK)

19 Top of the hill? Wouldn't an American be smart enough to farm nearer the water supply?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (wUQJO)

20 A farm of wrinkles?

Posted by: dantesed at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

21 Hey, give me a break. There was a sale on brown paint. I overbought.

Posted by: Joe Jones at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

22 This reminds me of those buildings perched on impossible land formations that one sees from time to time, like this:

https://tinyurl.com/4ps6uyv6

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (dCxaZ)

23 The art thread has plateaued.

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (5SvjB)

24 Badlands farming was all the rage that year.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 09:37 AM (dDmld)

25 The cabin boys will need comforting tonight.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 09, 2025 09:37 AM (mT+6a)

26 What kind of Farm is this?

Posted by: redridinghood at May 09, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

27 More WPA-ish crap.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

28 I think I have identified his problem of low yield per acre.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 09, 2025 09:37 AM (cYBz/)

29 Dust Bowl, maybe, but the farms were buried under the dust, not sitting on top.

Posted by: huerfano at May 09, 2025 09:37 AM (n2swS)

30 One of the worst paintings ever to foul the Mid-Morning Art Thread. Two thumbs down.

Posted by: Art Maven at May 09, 2025 09:37 AM (G5+As)

31 Wickard v. Filburn just ruined everything.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 09:38 AM (dDmld)

32 OK this is interesting...the artist is trying to make a point but it escapes me
Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 09:32 AM (dCxaZ)

The point is one of two things...

1. It rains here... a lot.
2. American farmers are retarded.

Also, how has the outbuilding on the left not fallen over?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 09:38 AM (ExV1e)

33 Hard to get past the things that don't make sense, but it's not ugly.

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 09:38 AM (GUvny)

34 Looks like a sleeping walrus with an open vagina.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Look - I was drunk and it was dark. How was I to know?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 09, 2025 09:38 AM (cYBz/)

35 I am starting to deeply dislike 1930s art. What style of painting is it ?

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 09:38 AM (g47mK)

36 What are they growing on that “farm?” Rock?

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

37 What crops are they growing?
Posted by: Emmie at May 09, 2025 09:35 AM (Sf2cq)

Rocks, mostly, by the looks of things. Stones, pebbles, all sorts.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (Aqu9a)

38 15 What crops are they growing?
Posted by: Emmie at May 09, 2025 09:35 AM (Sf2cq)

Misery and discontent.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (R256O)

39 This reminds me of those buildings perched on impossible land formations that one sees from time to time, like this:

https://tinyurl.com/4ps6uyv6
Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (dCxaZ)

Those make sense considering the predations Christians have faced from various sources over the centuries.
Pure survival instinct there.

This just look like Dr. Seuss smoked something new to him, and there's no cute senseless critter

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (FCbAQ)

40 Before the big flood that house and barn were on flat acreage.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (dDmld)

41 Much like yesterday's Labyrinth. Would hang but kind of weird.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (vmkyp)

42 Also looks like the location of the schoolhouse my grandfather had to walk to.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 09, 2025 09:34 AM (R256O)

I think you need something from Escher for that since it was uphill both ways.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (ExV1e)

43 Joe Jones must be an America hating eurotrash cretin.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (Vnr18)

44 38 15 What crops are they growing?
Posted by: Emmie at May 09, 2025 09:35 AM (Sf2cq)

Misery and discontent.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (R256O)

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So...it's Swedish?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (GBKbO)

45 The fields were angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (dg+HA)

46 Bring back the Flemish School!!

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 09:40 AM (g47mK)

47 More WPA-ish crap.
Posted by: Bulg

Yeah. See #14.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 09:40 AM (y6oPX)

48 I guess farmer John doesn’t store his tractor in the barn.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 09, 2025 09:40 AM (mT+6a)

49 What crops are they growing?
Posted by: Emmie at May 09, 2025 09:35 AM (Sf2cq)

Snipers. With a vantage point like that, what else would you grow?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 09:40 AM (ExV1e)

50 What crops are they growing?

Maybe he's a dirt farmer. He has shipped a LOT of dirt from that plain he used to live on.

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 09:40 AM (GUvny)

51 35 I am starting to deeply dislike 1930s art. What style of painting is it ?
Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 09:38 AM (g47mK)

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Soviet Realism

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 09:41 AM (dDmld)

52 A moisture farm on Tatooine looks more productive.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 09:41 AM (7fElN)

53 51 35 I am starting to deeply dislike 1930s art. What style of painting is it ?
Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 09:38 AM (g47mK)

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Soviet Realism
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 09:41 AM (dDmld)

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Not very realistic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:41 AM (GBKbO)

54 So, how well does a crap farm do, anyway?

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

55 There was an NFL defensive end in the 1970s named Joe "Turkey" Jones. I don't think this is the same guy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 09:42 AM (vmkyp)

56 >>Joe Jones must be an America hating eurotrash cretin.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM

A homegrown commie who worked for FDR's WPA.

Posted by: huerfano at May 09, 2025 09:42 AM (n2swS)

57 Horrible

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 09:42 AM (BI5O2)

58 *Looks like a sleeping walrus with an open vagina.*

Help me find my keys and we'll drive out of here.

Posted by: Just the punchline at May 09, 2025 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

59 Odd that this commentary makes the painting seem patriotic. That’s not the vibe I get from it.

“ Depicting a stripped wheat field amid a barren landscape, Joe Jones’s American Farm dramatizes the disastrous effect of the Great Depression on the nation’s heartland and champions the resiliency of its farmers. The painting is one of a group produced under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration, which employed artists on government projects during the Depression; Jones was commissioned to record drought conditions on American farms. Although the land pictured in American Farm is gouged by soil erosion, Jones did not intend this painting to be an accurate historical record. Instead, Jones cast the Midwestern farmer in the role of Noah, with the farm perched like the ark atop Mount Ararat after the Flood. The barn and windmill, overlooking a ravaged landscape, have survived disaster, while the sun, barely peeking through gloomy clouds, hints at a continued faith in the endurance of American farm life.”

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 09, 2025 09:42 AM (aeiyZ)

60 54 So, how well does a crap farm do, anyway?
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

People seem to have an unquenchable desire to keep buying crap, so it might be profitable.

Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 09:43 AM (FZn/N)

61 Two mentally ill artists in a row! If you're going to feature art by mental patients, go with Scandi nut artists. They do it better!

Posted by: Munch A Bunch at May 09, 2025 09:43 AM (G5+As)

62 One great thing about farming dirt is, you don't have to worry about fires.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 09:43 AM (dDmld)

63 Meesa mesa.

Posted by: Jar Jar Binks at May 09, 2025 09:43 AM (0sNs1)

64 3 Looks like a flood happened.
Posted by: Kwak!

Those amber waves of grain will fuck you up, son!

Posted by: American Farmers at May 09, 2025 09:43 AM (GNjcL)

65 The Amazon delivery guy must have a hell of a time getting the truck up there.

Posted by: dantesed at May 09, 2025 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)

66 So, how well does a crap farm do, anyway?
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

Since the American people have been buying a load of crap from politicians for decades, I'd say it's quite the lucrative commodity.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 09, 2025 09:43 AM (FCbAQ)

67 I would go stark raving mad if I had to live in that place.
No wonder why the animals left.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 09, 2025 09:44 AM (NpAcC)

68 Plowing uphill.must be a bitch.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 09, 2025 09:44 AM (NVNRw)

69 go with Scandi nut artists. They do it better!
Posted by: Munch A Bunch at May 09, 2025 09:43 AM

Some say Canadians are the best of all.

Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at May 09, 2025 09:44 AM (0sNs1)

70 Find the hidden vulva

Posted by: Highlights for Children at May 09, 2025 09:45 AM (dDmld)

71 Anyway, Joe Jones was total Marxist.

Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 09:45 AM (FZn/N)

72 Look at the rest of his work Obviously a junkie. He has Neil Young levels beta cuckism.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:45 AM (Vnr18)

73 Topography seems a little off for farming.

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2025 09:45 AM (AOsQT)

74 I this post-Dust-Bowl era? Is that what this guy's trying to depict? Otherwise, it looks like the kind of farm the Green New Deal would promote.

Posted by: red speck at May 09, 2025 09:45 AM (0Id0S)

75 No love for the farmer's daughter!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 09:46 AM (0sNs1)

76 Looked up the artist. Not surprisingly he was a communist but his art was pretty good. He lived in NYC for a while, but never managed to get up here and live in the Woodstock art colony. Piker

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 09:47 AM (vmkyp)

77 41 Much like yesterday's Labyrinth. Would hang but kind of weird.
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Yesterday’s Labyrinth was creepy and disturbing. But there was a cohesiveness to it.

This one could be beautiful if it made sense. It obviously isn’t a farm, in any literal definition. So, is the artist condemning the farmer or the country?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 09, 2025 09:47 AM (mT+6a)

78 "Consarn it, boy - don't git above yet raisin' now, ya hear! I grew gigantic, dingy flophouse blankets on this land, just like my father and his before him, and I'll be damned if some son of my mine is too big a man to go out and soil the north forty!"

Posted by: Farmer in the House at May 09, 2025 09:47 AM (BI5O2)

79 100 comment rule

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 09, 2025 09:47 AM (UarWD)

80 City On a Hill

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2025 09:48 AM (RIvkX)

81 Honestly, I'm surprised we haven't gotten "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" by Lucian Freud. At one point in time it was the highest priced painting by a living artist... for some unfathomable reason.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 09:48 AM (ExV1e)

82 The guy who built the outbuilding needs to have his carpenter's square calibrated.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 09:49 AM (dDmld)

83 He can't paint an idyllic farm like Van Gogh. Fortunately he is dead and in hell with the rest of his kind.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:49 AM (Vnr18)

84 OK this is interesting...the artist is trying to make a point but it escapes me
Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025

***
Dust Bowl events of the 1930s? Devastation everywhere?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 09:49 AM (omVj0)

85 Oops. My bad. Nice painting.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 09, 2025 09:49 AM (UarWD)

86 Given there's no town nearby, is there any elasticity in pricing?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 09:49 AM (0sNs1)

87 65 The Amazon delivery guy must have a hell of a time getting the truck up there.
Posted by: dantesed

There’s a functioning trebuchet at the bottom of the hill.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 09, 2025 09:49 AM (mT+6a)

88 Suess. The early years.

Posted by: Art History major at May 09, 2025 09:49 AM (dg+HA)

89 growing weed on the other side of that bluff...

Posted by: Troofer at May 09, 2025 09:49 AM (ASvvW)

90 Me thought it was the bat signal for the pope with the white smoke.

So much for my interpretation skills.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 09, 2025 09:50 AM (UarWD)

91 So, how well does a crap farm do, anyway?
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)
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Mom from Futurama built an entire industry on it...("dark matter" fuel is harvested from Nibblonian droppings)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 09:50 AM (7fElN)

92 And when there was no crawdad, we ate sand.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 09, 2025 09:50 AM (UBKzV)

93 Scenes like this is what made us McCoys leave West Virginny and commence ta farmin' in Californy.

Posted by: Amos McCoy, Now From Californy at May 09, 2025 09:50 AM (G5+As)

94 I remember when the Mojave Saguaros played the Great Basin Wickiups in the Dust Bowl in '74.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

95 That's going to be a distance shot with lots of wind...

Posted by: The Sniper at May 09, 2025 09:51 AM (9JZPQ)

96 I don't understand how a dream could run in that path.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 09:51 AM (dDmld)

97 "The painting is one of a group produced under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration, which employed artists on government projects during the Depression; Jones was commissioned to record drought conditions on American farms. "

Seems to me the problem here is not drought but a massive rain/flood that took away all the fields.

Posted by: Ripley at May 09, 2025 09:51 AM (GUOwU)

98 What's the medium? Crayon?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 09, 2025 09:52 AM (UarWD)

99 My "crap farm" comment was quoting an MST3K line.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

100 Anyway, Joe Jones was total Marxist

Wikipedia cites the following many times in his bio:
Hemingway, Andrew (2002). Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956.

Can't find him on wikiart, though.

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 09:52 AM (GUvny)

101 94 Scenes like this is what made us McCoys leave West Virginny and commence ta farmin' in Californy.
Posted by: Amos McCoy, Now From Californy at May 09, 2025

***
Your ancestor Stumpy from Rio Bravo wouldn't have put up with this for a second! Nossir!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 09:52 AM (omVj0)

102 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
Dang. Living there, I'd hate to have to walk down to the mailbox every day.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 09, 2025 09:52 AM (W/lyH)

103 54 So, how well does a crap farm do, anyway?
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

People seem to have an unquenchable desire to keep buying crap, so it might be profitable.
Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 09:43 AM (FZn/N)
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Many fortunes have been built on harvesting other peoples' waste...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 09:52 AM (7fElN)

104 Look at his Wikipedia page. His so called art should have gotten him killed. Communist rabblerouser.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:52 AM (Vnr18)

105 Stream

Forget it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 09:52 AM (dDmld)

106 That's going to be a distance shot with lots of wind...
Posted by: The Sniper at May 09, 2025 09:51 AM

Focus on fundamentals, and you'll be fine.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 09:52 AM (0sNs1)

107 Commie art isn't art. Tis propaganda.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 09, 2025 09:53 AM (UarWD)

108 All these negative comments. I fear we're about to be directed over to the vibrant Hot Air Art Thread by CBD.

Posted by: Didn't Like It There, Either at May 09, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)

109 Cheery.

Posted by: Yo mama at May 09, 2025 09:53 AM (3yhuy)

110 OK this is interesting...the artist is trying to make a point but it escapes me

It's pointing out that global warming is destroying the earth. Can you not see the erosion? Duh.

I don't care if this was painted in 1936. The artist was clearly a visionary.

Posted by: Pope Francis at May 09, 2025 09:53 AM (s8j++)

111 Meet the new pontiff, same as the old pontiff.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 09:53 AM (dDmld)

112 Black gold. Texas tea.

Posted by: Earl and Lester at May 09, 2025 09:53 AM (dg+HA)

113 55 There was an NFL defensive end in the 1970s named Joe "Turkey" Jones. I don't think this is the same guy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 09:42 AM (vmkyp)

you sure he wasn't multitasking?

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 09:54 AM (dCxaZ)

114 All these negative comments. I fear we're about to be directed over to the vibrant Hot Air Art Thread by CBD.
Posted by: Didn't Like It There, Either at May 09, 2025 09:53 AM

Perhaps French ennui is beginning to creep in?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 09:54 AM (0sNs1)

115 Meet the new pontiff, same as the old pontiff.
Posted by: Cicero

Muldoon is our Puntifex Maximus.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

116 All these negative comments. I fear we're about to be directed over to the vibrant Hot Air Art Thread by CBD.
Posted by: Didn't Like It There, Either at May 09, 2025 09:53 AM

Perhaps French ennui is beginning to creep in?

Dammit, where's my beret?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 09:55 AM (s8j++)

117 Find the hidden vulva
Posted by: Highlights for Children

If you were talking prog rock album covers I'm your man.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 09, 2025 09:55 AM (cYBz/)

118 Masada it ain't

Posted by: Ben Had at May 09, 2025 09:55 AM (NVNRw)

119 Someone built a farm on top of a dinosaur turd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 09:55 AM (vmkyp)

120 The limericks almost write themselves...

Posted by: muldoon at May 09, 2025 09:56 AM (HOX+I)

121 91 Me thought it was the bat signal for the pope with the white smoke.

So much for my interpretation skills.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 09, 2025 09:50 AM (UarWD)

I think this is how they elected the Pope character in The Grapes of Wrath tho'

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 09:56 AM (dCxaZ)

122 The shed over to the left of the hill looks like one good gust of wind will take it down.

The rise toward the center of the painting looks like a brontosaurus lying down. Too many legs, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 09:56 AM (omVj0)

123 Farm ? Never seen a farm on top of a hill...

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

124 The farm has been eroded away I guess.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 09, 2025 09:57 AM (WPL6O)

125 Then a strong rain came and blowed all the crops away....

Posted by: Patches, Dependin' On You, Son at May 09, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

126 121 The limericks almost write themselves...

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Pffft.

Posted by: A Man from Nantucket at May 09, 2025 09:57 AM (dDmld)

127 I think I'll go back and read some Steinbeck.

I read some of his work earlier in life but now I might get more out of it

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 09:57 AM (dCxaZ)

128 Wait.

If Jones was a Communist, then isn't his depiction more representative of a SOVIET farm?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 09:57 AM (7fElN)

129 Looks like something some kid might build in Minecraft. Except it makes less sense.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 09, 2025 09:57 AM (OUMaO)

130 OK this is interesting...the artist is trying to make a point but it escapes me

"I have never seen a farm and don't know how the world works."

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 09:58 AM (uREkD)

131 WTF?!?!
American Farm?!?

Did this guy ever even SEE an America farm?

I live on a farm in Indiana. The house is on a hill that has a gentle slope to the south and to the east. That's where the field is. Also a field across the road to the north where it is a bit of a plateau that further north slopes gently to the north. This is the kind of hill that works for farming.

Whatever the fuck that is in the painting, is NOT a farm. Unless that hilltop is over 100 acres, it's useless for farming. The fact that there is no easy access to the top also makes it useless for farming. No one, not even Hubbymayhem, would want to try to drive a big rig grain truck up that hill! So even if there's room for fields.... It's useless.
That. Is. Not. A. Farm.

Verdict: painting is nice but the title is a big fat LIE!!

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

132 If Jones was a Communist, then isn't his depiction more representative of a SOVIET farm?

Right? A few thousand emaciated corpses lying about would lend the painting a great deal of authenticity.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 09:58 AM (s8j++)

133 I'd hate to have to walk down to the mailbox every day.
Posted by: Diogenes

The other side of the mountain has a giant slide built into it. Problem solved.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

134 Would assume that "Joe Jones" isn't his real name, and if this was supposed to be commie "America Bad" propaganda, he was trying to obfuscate his identity.

Posted by: XTC at May 09, 2025 09:59 AM (UnA8+)

135 Hill has one of those old Cold War communications bunkers in its base. The "farmhouse" is a decoy/sniper's nest.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 09, 2025 09:59 AM (OUMaO)

136 "You moron, I told you the farm goes in the valley! The Fort goes on top of the hill!"

Posted by: Charles Martel at May 09, 2025 10:00 AM (smrxK)

137 Whatever the fuck that is in the painting, is NOT a farm. Unless that hilltop is over 100 acres, it's useless for farming. The fact that there is no easy access to the top also makes it useless for farming. No one, not even Hubbymayhem, would want to try to drive a big rig grain truck up that hill! So even if there's room for fields.... It's useless.
That. Is. Not. A. Farm.

You don't understand. He's saying if the farm was collectivized, the ground would flatten, the sun would shine, and the fields would be full of corpulent, happy peasants.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 10:00 AM (s8j++)

138 I don't like this painting at all. How can anyone make fish puns on this one??

Posted by: dantesed at May 09, 2025 10:00 AM (Oy/m2)

139 As a standalone piece, I like it.

I admire the curve of the wrinkly brown land form, reminiscent of the NIKE swoosh

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 10:00 AM (dCxaZ)

140 House on a bewb

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at May 09, 2025 10:00 AM (Uzn0I)

141 If Jones was a Communist, then isn't his depiction more representative of a SOVIET farm?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 09:57 AM (7fElN)

I suspect this is his view of what was left of an American farm after the capitalists destroyed it.

Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 10:01 AM (FZn/N)

142 I think I'll go back and read some Steinbeck.

I read some of his work earlier in life but now I might get more out of it
Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025

***
I'm no fan of Grapes of Wrath, but his novelette "Of Mice and Men" and the novel East of Eden are both fantastic. As are Cannery Row and its sequel Sweet Thursday. There's also the short novel The Moon Is Down (which is about the Nazi occupation of Norway).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 10:01 AM (omVj0)

143 138 You don't understand. He's saying if the farm was collectivized, the ground would flatten, the sun would shine, and the fields would be full of corpulent, happy peasants.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 10:00 AM (s8j++)

=======

I feel like the intended metaphor would work better if the farm was at the bottom of some kind of sink hole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

144
There once was a farm on a hill
with soil too shitty to till

that's as far as I got

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2025 10:01 AM (AOsQT)

145 Verdict: painting is nice but the title is a big fat LIE!!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 09, 2025 09:58 AM

Sez the woman who' seen some things that a woman ain't s'posed to see.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 10:01 AM (0sNs1)

146 Souter is mort

Posted by: LASue at May 09, 2025 10:01 AM (lCppi)

147 The "artist" is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art", and everything is ok. Rotting corpses with snails crawling all over them are ok, kicking little girls in the head is ok, even this crap we see here today is ok.
Of all the types of human beings, only the artist takes it upon themselves that they cannot work.

Posted by: Zombie George Orwell at May 09, 2025 10:01 AM (imQ+3)

148 He did the racial dick moce that his people are so famous for. Trying to start a racewar. The Neil Young thing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 10:01 AM (Vnr18)

149 If Jones was a Communist, then isn't his depiction more representative of a SOVIET farm?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 09:57 AM (7fElN)

I suspect this is his view of what was left of an American farm after the capitalists destroyed it.

What's even more amazing than the fact that people used to think like that is that many still do.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 10:02 AM (s8j++)

150 139 I don't like this painting at all. How can anyone make fish puns on this one??
Posted by: dantesed at May 09, 2025 10:00 AM (Oy/m2)

Mudskippers are sort of aquatic.

....

That's all i got

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 10:02 AM (yvnLa)

151 150 I suspect this is his view of what was left of an American farm after the capitalists destroyed it.

What's even more amazing than the fact that people used to think like that is that many still do.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 10:02 AM (s8j++)

=======

We only are able to feed ourselves because Cuba and North Korea send us all of their excess grain for humanitarian reasons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:02 AM (GBKbO)

152 This one is trippy! Like it's them against the world. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:03 AM (ke82b)

153 I like Jeanine Pirro, but not sure she has the wits/stones to handle the snakes in the DoJ

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at May 09, 2025 10:03 AM (V6W16)

154 I don't like this painting at all. How can anyone make fish puns on this one??
Posted by: dantesed at May 09, 2025 10:00 AM

No love for mudsharks and The Edgewater Inn?

Posted by: Led Zeppelin at May 09, 2025 10:04 AM (0sNs1)

155 I'm no fan of Grapes of Wrath, but his novelette "Of Mice and Men" and the novel East of Eden are both fantastic. As are Cannery Row and its sequel Sweet Thursday. There's also the short novel The Moon Is Down (which is about the Nazi occupation of Norway).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 10:01 AM (omVj0)

I read Cannery Row, that will be one of my re-dos.
East of Eden sounds like a challenge, but I may just go for it. The iconic James Dean character "resignates" in my mind.
Of Mice and Men has been memed so much, I don't know if I'll be able to appreciate it.

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 10:05 AM (dCxaZ)

156 Indoor pot farm. Grow lamps, ebb and flow tables, rockwool cubes, fish emulsion, etc...

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at May 09, 2025 10:05 AM (wa0T/)

157 I wonder what his real name was No early life section. It was scrubbed.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 10:05 AM (Vnr18)

158 The media are all praising Souter for being a stealth liberal. One suspects they'd feel differently if he'd become surprisingly conservative.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 10:06 AM (s8j++)

159 156 East of Eden sounds like a challenge, but I may just go for it. The iconic James Dean character "resignates" in my mind.

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 10:05 AM (dCxaZ)

======

I only remember that the book ends on a weirdly melodramatic note. I remember almost nothing else about the book.

"TIMSHEL!!!!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:06 AM (GBKbO)

160 I don't like this painting at all. How can anyone make fish puns on this one??
Posted by: dantesed

They still have fish in the desert. There are some monster ones in the Gilla River.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

161 Two mentally ill artists in a row! If you're going to feature art by mental patients, go with Scandi nut artists. They do it better!

Posted by: Munch A Bunch

I need to get my brain out of the gutter. I read that as Scandi Art Nutists.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 09, 2025 10:06 AM (MsrgL)

162 monster ones in the Gilla River.
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

Muh Gilla gorillas?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 10:07 AM (yvnLa)

163 How'd it get up there?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 09, 2025 10:07 AM (CTj1y)

164 145
There once was a farm on a hill
with soil too shitty to till

that's as far as I got
Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2025 10:01 AM (AOsQT

Let me help

There once was a farm on a hill
with soil too shitty to till
With no pigs left to slaughter
He turned to his daughter
And said it's time to get you on the pill

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 09, 2025 10:07 AM (UarWD)

165 I wonder what his real name was No early life section. It was scrubbed.
Posted by: Boss Moss

The world according to Grok:
Born: April 7, 1909, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Family Background: The youngest of five children, Jones was born to a Welsh immigrant father, a one-armed house painter, and a German-American mother. His family lived on the edge of a slum neighborhood in St. Louis.

Education: Largely self-taught as an artist, Jones quit school at age 15 to work as a house painter alongside his father, following a brief stint in a Missouri reformatory at age 10 for graffiti-related offenses. His early exposure to manual labor shaped his identity as a “worker-artist.”

Posted by: Tonypete at May 09, 2025 10:08 AM (cYBz/)

166 109 All these negative comments. I fear we're about to be directed over to the vibrant Hot Air Art Thread by CBD.

Posted by: Didn't Like It There, Either

That or he'll give us a visit from the Ottoman Empire. Staffed exclusively by nekkid fat fucks.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 09, 2025 10:08 AM (MsrgL)

167 >> I don't like this painting at all. How can anyone make fish puns on this one??

No need to grouse about it! Owl try one. . . oh wait, fish?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:08 AM (ke82b)

168 I swam up the hill
on a fish with no name.
It felt good
to be out of the rain.

Posted by: America at May 09, 2025 10:08 AM (0sNs1)

169 Republicans just BLOCKED one of the most pro–2A bills we’ve ever seen. Yeah, you read that right!
Rep. Andrew Clyde introduced a bill to remove the unconstitutional $200 tax and federal registry requirement for suppressors. A bill that should’ve flown through a Republican-led House like a suppressed round through a paper target. But guess what? Republicans helped kill it.
I break down why this bill matters, what Clyde actually said, and why the $200 suppressor tax is more than just a number—it's a paywall on your rights. Suppressors don’t turn people into assassins. They protect hearing. They save lives. And in most countries with more gun control than we have? Suppressors are encouraged for public safety. So why are our own so-called “pro-gun” lawmakers blocking it? Because for some of them, the Second Amendment stops at duck hunting.
And if it’s not wood-stocked and bolt-action, they want nothing to do with it.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:08 AM (y6oPX)

170 a sleeping walrus with an open vagina.

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 09, 2025 10:08 AM (CTj1y)

171 I don't like this painting at all. How can anyone make fish puns on this one??
Posted by: dantesed

They still have fish in the desert. There are some monster ones in the Gilla River.
Posted by: Bulg

That farm is perched atop a mountain.

Posted by: Tuna at May 09, 2025 10:09 AM (lJ0H4)

172 Family Background: The youngest of five children, Jones was born to a Welsh immigrant father, a one-armed house painter, and a German-American mother.
--------

That's tragic.

*sob*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at May 09, 2025 10:09 AM (dDmld)

173 You know who else was a painter?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 10:09 AM (Vnr18)

174 No need to grouse about it! Owl try one. . . oh wait, fish?
Posted by: Lizzy

From heron out, no more bird puns.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

175 Indoor pot farm. Grow lamps, ebb and flow tables, rockwool cubes, fish emulsion, etc...
Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living

The hill is fake. It's hollow.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:10 AM (y6oPX)

176 That or he'll give us a visit from the Ottoman Empire. Staffed exclusively by nekkid fat fucks.
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 09, 2025 10:08 AM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Corinthian Leather upholstery at May 09, 2025 10:10 AM (0sNs1)

177 Family Background: The youngest of five children, Jones was born to a Welsh immigrant father, a one-armed house painter, and a German-American mother.

His one legged uncle ran ass kicking contests.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:11 AM (y6oPX)

178
The Gripes of Wrath - a limerick

There once was an Okie named Bogosian
Who tried to till the Land of the Chosen
But the wind just wouldn't stop
Destroying each and every crop
Never downplay the pow'r of wind erosion.

Posted by: muldoon at May 09, 2025 10:11 AM (HOX+I)

179 I wonder what his real name was No early life section. It was scrubbed.

An earlier revision says it was Joseph John Jones.

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 10:11 AM (IxaHo)

180 >>I like Jeanine Pirro, but not sure she has the wits/stones to handle the snakes in the DoJ

She's close friends with Trump (going back decades), it's a temporary appointment, and has no f$#@s to give at this stage in her life.
I hope she mows them all down in DC.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:11 AM (ke82b)

181 You know who else was a painter?
Posted by: Boss Moss

He could paint an entire apartment in an afternoon. Two coats!

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

182 I just noticed that that cloud looks vaguely like an outline of the USSR.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 10:11 AM (yvnLa)

183 182 You know who else was a painter?
Posted by: Boss Moss

He could paint an entire apartment in an afternoon. Two coats!
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

=====

*surprised and impressed, but also suddenly aware of the loud, shouting German man*
-Zero Mostel

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

184 Because for some of them, the Second Amendment stops at duck hunting.
And if it’s not wood-stocked and bolt-action, they want nothing to do with it.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:08 AM

Bolt-action shotguns are pretty niche, it's true, so much so I don't ever recall them being discussed on the Gun Thread.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 10:12 AM (0sNs1)

185
Oh mesa horny
Oh mesa horny
Oh! mesa horny
Me plow you long time

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 09, 2025 10:12 AM (5SvjB)

186 >>From heron out, no more bird puns.

You expect me to towee the line on that rule?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:12 AM (ke82b)

187 You know who else was a painter?
Posted by: Boss Moss

He could paint an entire apartment in an afternoon. Two coats!
Posted by: Bulg

$29.95 No ups! No extras!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:12 AM (y6oPX)

188 All these negative comments. I fear we're about to be directed over to the vibrant Hot Air Art Thread by CBD.

Posted by: Didn't Like It There, Either

That or he'll give us a visit from the Ottoman Empire. Staffed exclusively by nekkid fat fucks.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Well, we get Ed Morrisey either way.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

189 In the Dust Bowl
The mighty Dust Bowl
The walrus sleeps tonight...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 10:13 AM (dDmld)

190 Always preferred Steinbeck to Faulkner. Just a personal belief.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 10:13 AM (vmkyp)

191 Texas farmer: "I can hop in my truck in the morning and drive half a day before I reach the edge of my property."

Maine farmer: "Ayup! I used to have a truck like that.

Posted by: muldoon at May 09, 2025 10:14 AM (HOX+I)

192 Bolt-action shotguns are pretty niche, it's true, so much so I don't ever recall them being discussed on the Gun Thread.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

My first firearm ever was a Mossberg .410 bolt action.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:14 AM (y6oPX)

193 >>Oh mesa horny
Oh mesa horny
Oh! mesa horny
Me plow you long time

I'm dying !

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:14 AM (ke82b)

194 >Republicans just BLOCKED one of the most pro–2A bills we’ve ever seen. Yeah, you read that right!
----

yeah, but they renamed a large expanse of water!

THE WORLD JUST CHANGED

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2025 10:14 AM (AOsQT)

195 On closer look and second thought...

This painting Isn't all that nice. This painting is stupid and it's pissing me off.

Is this artist still alive? Can I hunt him down and show him how a straight razor works when the person holding it is a pissed off farm girl? We used to castrate male piglets around here. Been a minute since we quit raising bacon and ham (1970something) but some things are never forgotten!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 09, 2025 10:15 AM (2J/Lj)

196 *note to self: Do NOT piss off Madame Mayhem*

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:16 AM (ke82b)

197 Jones was born to a Welsh immigrant father, a one-armed house painter. . .

How the f*** did he hold the paint can?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 09, 2025 10:17 AM (cYBz/)

198 You expect me to towee the line on that rule?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:12 AM

I'll parrot the line that's "more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 10:17 AM (0sNs1)

199 I read Cannery Row, that will be one of my re-dos.
East of Eden sounds like a challenge, but I may just go for it. The iconic James Dean character "resignates" in my mind.
Of Mice and Men has been memed so much, I don't know if I'll be able to appreciate it.
Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025

***
East of Eden is a big novel, and the character played by Dean is only in the last third or so. You don't miss him, though, because you get the classic portrait of a female sociopath, Cathy "the monster," who in the Dean film was his real mother the town madam. Audrey Totter did a nice job as the older Cathy, aka "Kate" . . . but I will always picture Jane Seymour in the 1981 TV miniseries.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 10:17 AM (omVj0)

200 Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 09, 2025 10:15 AM (2J/Lj)

Note to self: Never piss off Madame Mayhem (uppity wench).

*posts note on freezer door*

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

201 Muh Gilla gorillas?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 10:07 AM (yvnLa)

When I learned that mogila was Russian for tomb, that Hanna Barberra cartoon took on a darker meaning for me.

Posted by: mishdog at May 09, 2025 10:18 AM (vbVuc)

202 Had this painting been done with lots of happy trees on that hill it would have looked a lot like any number of places in West Virginia.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 10:18 AM (Q4IgG)

203 but I will always picture Jane Seymour in the 1981 TV miniseries.

I used to picture Jane Seymour a lot.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 10:18 AM (s8j++)

204 Did TJM ban the troll on the last thread ??

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 10:18 AM (g47mK)

205 Power painter? His origin story is entirely fabricated.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 10:19 AM (Vnr18)

206 Uncontrolled reentry of Venera lander ---> Msy 10

Yakima MoMe ---> May 10

Mere coincidence?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 09, 2025 10:19 AM (6YdsJ)

207 My first firearm ever was a Mossberg .410 bolt action.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:14 AM

I've been looking for a Savage 220 for some time.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 10:19 AM (0sNs1)

208 Always preferred Steinbeck to Faulkner. Just a personal belief.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025

***
Steinbeck was a California boy, from the middle section around Monterey, and dealt with that area in a lot of his stories. Faulkner was all about the South.

Plus, Faulkner has those long, hard-to-read sentences. Steinbeck is very crisp by comparison -- not like Hemingway, no, but still pretty direct and to the point.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 10:19 AM (omVj0)

209 204 but I will always picture Jane Seymour in the 1981 TV miniseries.

I used to picture Jane Seymour a lot.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 10:18 AM (s8j++)

A man of taste and refinement!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 09, 2025 10:19 AM (UarWD)

210 211 And Prometheus sucked. Its a shit movie.

Posted by: Fast Eddie at May 09, 2025 10:19 AM (1tna+)

So now we're just saying things we can't take back.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 09, 2025 10:20 AM (KbCG3)

211 Haaaaaaaa

Nice one Scogg.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 10:21 AM (yvnLa)

212 One day Josef Stalin was inspecting a collectivst potato farm in the Soviet Union.

He greeted one of the Soviet collectivist farmers:

Comrade! How goes the harvest?

The Soviet collectivist farmer replies “Oh comrade, the potatoes are so bountiful that if we piled them all up they would reach all the way to God!”

Stalin frowned.
"Have you forgotten your communist teachings? There is no God!”

"Well, that's good," said the Soviet collectivist farmer.

"Because there ain't no effin' potatoes either!"

Posted by: It's a classic at May 09, 2025 10:21 AM (dg+HA)

213 And Prometheus sucked. Its a shit movie.
Posted by: Fast Eddie at May 09, 2025 10:19 AM

Well, at least you didn't make a short joke at AtC's expense.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 10:21 AM (0sNs1)

214
Former Supreme David Souter passed, a GHW Bush appointee.

Speaking well of him, he doted on his mother.

Posted by: Auspex at May 09, 2025 10:21 AM (j4U/Z)

215 The ending of The Grapes of Wrath is just too stupid.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

216 193 Bolt-action shotguns are pretty niche, it's true, so much so I don't ever recall them being discussed on the Gun Thread.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
======
Mossberg was the champ in the US of cheap bolt action shotguns. And Germany exported a lot of converted and new Mauser 98 actions worldwide making them into 12 gauge bolt action shotguns during the Weimar period. Then you had India's (and the viceroyalty) conversion of No 1, Mk 3 Enfield actions to become .410 Shotguns for civil disorder and prison guards. I think those were single shots only. I have the barrel and a SMLE action to retrofit but recent health events have not been kind to me or my various gunsmithing projects.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:22 AM (ctrM5)

217 I know it's not the point, but that's a really stupid place to put a windmill. What kind of water table were you going for, buddy?

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2025 10:22 AM (uWKK8)

218 Stalin frowned.
"Have you forgotten your communist teachings? There is no God!”

"Well, that's good," said the Soviet collectivist farmer.

"Because there ain't no effin' potatoes either!"
Posted by: It's a classic at May 09, 2025

***
The coda to that story shows the farmer standing behind the fence in a Siberian labor camp. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 10:22 AM (omVj0)

219 Busier than a one armed painter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 10:23 AM (Vnr18)

220 Former Supreme David Souter passed, a GHW Bush appointee.

Speaking well of him, he doted on his mother.
Posted by: Auspex at May 09, 2025 10:21 AM (j4U/Z)

I despised him. He won't ever be mentioned much in the future, so I want to take my chance to say one last time how much I despised him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2025 10:23 AM (uWKK8)

221 Lyft shares up 20% after CEO says there’s no recession coming, consumers are happy to spend money.

The Tarriff will cause dEprESSiOn narrative has evaporated.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 10:23 AM (ImXfC)

222 205 Did TJM ban the troll on the last thread ??
Posted by: runner
========
Twas Scogg again dispensing his version of wisdom to enlighten us all as to true enlightenment.

And he will undoubtedly be back under a new nic soon.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:24 AM (ctrM5)

223 211 And Prometheus sucked. Its a shit movie.
Posted by: Fast Eddie

Just came back after ALL armed services members were dissed and hated here and stumble on to this knife fight

Posted by: Auspex at May 09, 2025 10:24 AM (j4U/Z)

224 Wasn't Souter the one who wrote the opinion in that awful Kelo case?

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

225 The Bush crime family gave us Souter and Roberts.

Imagine what the country would look like had these 2 been conservative picks.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 10:24 AM (ImXfC)

226 The ending of The Grapes of Wrath is just too stupid.
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025

***
I've completely forgotten it, except I recall something about Tom Joad (Henry Fonda in the film) planning to carry on and become a symbol of the working man everywhere?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 10:24 AM (omVj0)

227 Yeah, we build farms on mountains round these parts.

Dig wells up 'ere too.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 09, 2025 10:24 AM (w6EFb)

228 Anyone seen anything on Jim?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2025 10:24 AM (gbOdA)

229 224 Lyft shares up 20% after CEO says there’s no recession coming, consumers are happy to spend money.

The Tarriff will cause dEprESSiOn narrative has evaporated.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 10:23 AM (ImXfC)

=======

Anyone could see that from the -.3% GDP numbers if they'd read below the top line number.

Stock market players shouldn't need the Lyft CEO to tell them that.

But, whatever. Good for Lyft day traders, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

230 Audrey Totter did a nice job as the older Cathy, aka "Kate" . . . but I will always picture Jane Seymour in the 1981 TV miniseries.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

IIRC it was Jo VanFleet not Audrey Totter.

Posted by: Tuna at May 09, 2025 10:25 AM (lJ0H4)

231 Lyft shares up 20% after CEO says there’s no recession coming

-

Of course there's not. Like "airborne" during COVID, they changed what the definition was. We've been in a recession if not outright depression for a few years.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 10:25 AM (yZCmg)

232 >>Just came back after ALL armed services members were dissed and hated here . . .

Huh, guess I missed something

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:25 AM (ke82b)

233 230 Yeah, we build farms on mountains round these parts.

Dig wells up 'ere too.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 09, 2025 10:24 AM (w6EFb)

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What did the family farm at the beginning of The Searchers right in the middle of Monument Valley?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

234 Green energy!

captive dreamer@siegfriedmuell
Trump: "Buttigieg...drives to work on his bicycle with his husband on the back which is a nice loving relationship"

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Or maybe pink energy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 09, 2025 10:25 AM (L/fGl)

235 Did Souter not wait for a Republican President to retire?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 10:26 AM (Vnr18)

236 The Bush crime family gave us Souter and Roberts.

Imagine what the country would look like had these 2 been conservative picks.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Hi, there, big boy!
-- Harriet Myers

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

237 204 but I will always picture Jane Seymour in the 1981 TV miniseries.

I used to picture Jane Seymour a lot.
Posted by: Archimedes
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So y'all are saying you want to See More of Jane?

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:26 AM (ctrM5)

238 238 Did Souter not wait for a Republican President to retire?
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 10:26 AM (Vnr1

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June of 2009. Replaced by Sotomayor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:26 AM (GBKbO)

239 Anyone could see that from the -.3% GDP numbers if they'd read below the top line number.

Stock market players shouldn't need the Lyft CEO to tell them that.

—

Finance is nothing but herd mentality. They need someone in power to say do X before they do X.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 10:27 AM (ImXfC)

240 The ending of The Grapes of Wrath is just too stupid.
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025

***
I've completely forgotten it, except I recall something about Tom Joad (Henry Fonda in the film) planning to carry on and become a symbol of the working man everywhere?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Sorry, I was referring to the ending of the novel. The breastfeeding scene.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

241 242 Finance is nothing but herd mentality. They need someone in power to say do X before they do X.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 10:27 AM (ImXfC)

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Degenerate gamblers.

Make the line go up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

242 Audrey Totter did a nice job as the older Cathy, aka "Kate" . . . but I will always picture Jane Seymour in the 1981 TV miniseries.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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IIRC it was Jo VanFleet not Audrey Totter.
Posted by: Tuna at May 09, 2025

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You're right. Been a while since I saw the film (and I didn't care for it, as it deals only with the last portion of the novel, and gives Dean too much screen time). Jo embodied the older Cathy/Kate very well, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 10:28 AM (omVj0)

243 Trump should be careful dissing Buttigieg on his family life, he has a Treasury Secretary who is in the same position. No pun intended. But he realized he was going too far with Bessent standing right there and tired a correction.

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)

244 Wasn't Aunt Bea in Grapes Of Wrath?

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2025 10:28 AM (AOsQT)

245 OT: "The Guns of John Moses Browning" is on sale in Kindle edition for $1.99 today.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 10:28 AM (0sNs1)

246 *tried not tired

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)

247 Sorry, I was referring to the ending of the novel. The breastfeeding scene.
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025

***
Now I know why I've forgotten it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 10:29 AM (omVj0)

248 Just came back after ALL armed services members were dissed and hated here and stumble on to this knife fight
Posted by: Auspex
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More like a slap fight with wet noodles.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:29 AM (ctrM5)

249 71% of Democrats Want Elon Musk in Prison

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He's getting to their rice bowl!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 09, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)

250 >>Trump: "Buttigieg...drives to work on his bicycle with his husband on the back which is a nice loving relationship"

It's hysterical how easily he mocks them. He didn't even say anything that wasn't true or mean-spirited, just conjuring up the image of that tool fake riding* his bike to work. . . ha!

*Driven, then dropped off within a mile of the office so he could pedal in for the MSM cameras.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:29 AM (ke82b)

251 That hill's a real beaut!

Posted by: muldoon at May 09, 2025 10:29 AM (HOX+I)

252 Souter must not have been very important.
Nobody refers to him by all three names.

Posted by: SCOTUS Style Guide at May 09, 2025 10:30 AM (dg+HA)

253 Dems want Elon in prison and the ms13 gang banger out of prison.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 10:30 AM (ImXfC)

254 RBG was, for whatever reason (mostly infanticide), the closest thing the judiciary's had to a celebrity since Dan'l Webster. She was mourned deeply by the Left, so she'll be forever beloved in the history books.

I expect Thomas will be similarly mourned on the Right, but that won't matter in 20 years, because it'll be a footnote.

But guys like Souter or Roberts? They should their souls, and when they finally leave the scene, everyone just says "who? Oh, some dork in a black dress bit the dust? Huh. Anyone want pizza? I'm hungry."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 10:30 AM (BI5O2)

255 255 Souter must not have been very important.
Nobody refers to him by all three names.
Posted by: SCOTUS Style Guide at May 09, 2025 10:30 AM (dg+HA)

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This is why serious SCOTUS scholars refer to Clarence Thomas by his full name:

Clarence Fucking Thomas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

256 Somebody downstream got some very damp livestock.

Posted by: DaveA at May 09, 2025 10:31 AM (FhXTo)

257 197 *note to self: Do NOT piss off Madame Mayhem*
Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:16 AM (ke82b)

*furiously taking notes…scratch that…now furiously tattooing that on the palm of my hand*

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 09, 2025 10:31 AM (5SvjB)

258
What did the family farm at the beginning of The Searchers right in the middle of Monument Valley?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025

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It was supposed to be in Texas, in the heart of Comanche country. Of course there are no big bluffs or mountains like that there. There's Palo Duro Canyon, and farther west there are the Guadalupe Mountains, but nothing like Monument Valley.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 10:31 AM (omVj0)

259 "The what? Did you say butte?"

/Judge Chamberlain Haller

Posted by: muldoon at May 09, 2025 10:31 AM (HOX+I)

260 Souter must not have been very important.
Nobody refers to him by all three names.

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Male. He was neither Strong or Independent. Just a man working a job and paying his mortgage and light bill like an adult does.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 10:31 AM (yZCmg)

261 Twas Scogg again dispensing his version of wisdom to enlighten us all as to true enlightenment.

And he will undoubtedly be back under a new nic soon.

so that's his purpose, he is the self-appointed Blog Guru, like Sri Chimnoy?

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 10:32 AM (dCxaZ)

262 243 The ending of The Grapes of Wrath is just too stupid.
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025

In the movie version, it's a ten minute long spoken hymn of praise to Socialism.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2025 10:32 AM (uWKK8)

263
How to show you know nothing about farming without saying you know nothing about farming.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2025 10:32 AM (xG4kz)

264 What did the family farm at the beginning of The Searchers right in the middle of Monument Valley?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025
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John Ford really, really liked Monument Valley.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 09, 2025 10:33 AM (6YdsJ)

265 A Thomas Hart Benton facsimile.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 10:33 AM (VofaG)

266 so that's his purpose, he is the self-appointed Blog Guru, like Sri Chimnoy?
Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 10:32 AM

More like the fly that's just arrived at the picnic buffet, having come from the outhouse.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 10:34 AM (0sNs1)

267 Most westerns were made there. Hilarious.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 10:34 AM (Vnr18)

268
Purportedly this painting was the font of inspiration for the Poop emoji.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2025 10:34 AM (xG4kz)

269 Degenerate gamblers.

Make the line go up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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There is a case to be made for shareholding and corporate structures but the current version of Wall Street makes its money off the vig just like a bookie does.

So they want churning of transactions so as to collect arbitrage risk free and that requires truly massive amounts of money being churned back and forth in order to generate a steady risk free profit.

By the time you get into derivatives and computer oriented trading, the whole purpose becomes shearing the sheep of their wool by churn and manipulation.

With Fed and other central banks essentially depressing interest rates and thus spiking inflation, the crooked Wall Street casino becomes literally the only game in town other than hard assets like real estate, paintings, gold, silver, etc.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:34 AM (ctrM5)

270 267 What did the family farm at the beginning of The Searchers right in the middle of Monument Valley?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025
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John Ford really, really liked Monument Valley.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 09, 2025 10:33 AM (6YdsJ)

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And the local Indian tribe really liked him hiring them for a couple of months every couple of years to woop around on horses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

271 RBG was, for whatever reason (mostly infanticide), the closest thing the judiciary's had to a celebrity since Dan'l Webster. She was mourned deeply by the Left, so she'll be forever beloved in the history books.

I think my AWFL coworker bought the entire inventory of RBG postage stamps.

If I ever received a letter with that ugly mug in the top right corner, Sacred Honor would compel me to immediately burn the witch

lol

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 10:34 AM (dCxaZ)

272 >>That hill's a real beaut!

ISWYDT

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:34 AM (ke82b)

273 Farming is stupid. It should be every American‘s aspiration to work in a factory for 40 years. If you disagree you can and should be arrested.

Stupid farmers.

Posted by: Manufacturing Are The Only Jobs That Matter at May 09, 2025 10:34 AM (aTimx)

274 so that's his purpose, he is the self-appointed Blog Guru, like Sri Chimnoy?
Posted by: kallisto

We possess Scogg. Scogg treasures us.

Posted by: Sri Chinmoy at May 09, 2025 10:35 AM (G5+As)

275 so that's his purpose, he is the self-appointed Blog Guru, like Sri Chimnoy?
Posted by: kallisto
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Pretty much. The cult of the Bad Boomers who are today's manifestation of Kali.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:35 AM (ctrM5)

276 John Ford loved Monument Valley and put a lot of his action there - even though if you've been through there you know there's not any green plants to be seen for miles, and no water either. So the idea of ranching cattle there is idiotic. (That's why they gave the land to the Navajo for a reservation, although surpise! later on big deposits of Uranium and Coal were found there)

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2025 10:35 AM (uWKK8)

277 274 RBG was, for whatever reason (mostly infanticide), the closest thing the judiciary's had to a celebrity since Dan'l Webster. She was mourned deeply by the Left, so she'll be forever beloved in the history books.

I think my AWFL coworker bought the entire inventory of RBG postage stamps.

If I ever received a letter with that ugly mug in the top right corner, Sacred Honor would compel me to immediately burn the witch

lol
Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 10:34 AM (dCxaZ)

Like Mussolini, and RBG, I’m…

Posted by: The Cult of Personality at May 09, 2025 10:35 AM (aTimx)

278 Blockbuster bestseller!

Report: Bidens Consider $30M Tell-All Book Deal — Including Details from Jill’s Diary

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 09, 2025 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

279 Wasn't Aunt Bea in Grapes Of Wrath?
Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2025

***
IMDb doesn't list a "Frances Bavier" in the cast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2025 10:36 AM (omVj0)

280 That land doesn’t look very arable somehow.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 09, 2025 10:36 AM (aTimx)

281
I await Michael Bloomberg's enlightened instruction on how best to farm this particular tract. He is a deep pool of esoteric knowledge about all and sundry matters.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2025 10:36 AM (xG4kz)

282 >>How to show you know nothing about farming without saying you know nothing about farming.

"Or American landscape."
-- Albert Bierstadt

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:36 AM (ke82b)

283 Report: Bidens Consider $30M Tell-All Book Deal — Including Details from Jill’s Diary

I don't understand how one can print a lot of books with feces.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 10:37 AM (s8j++)

284 Anyone seen anything on Jim?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2025 10:24 AM (gbOdA)

I heard that he has passed.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 09, 2025 10:37 AM (w6EFb)

285 Plowing would be a $@#%%.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 10:38 AM (Vnr18)

286 the Great Plains Shelterbelt is a great project during the 30';s that planted a line of a grove of trees starting at the Canadian border to there Texas panhandle trees for the purpose of being a wind breaker. You can still see the results today from aerial/ satellite photos.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 10:38 AM (VofaG)

287 >>How to show you know nothing about farming without saying you know nothing about farming.

"Or American landscape."
-- Albert Bierstadt
Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:36 AM

Madam! We protest!

Posted by: The Hudson Valley School at May 09, 2025 10:38 AM (kgE5c)

288 @281 Day One: Biden's announce tell all book
Day Two : Biden's die in mysterious plane crash.
Day Three: Jill's diary never existed.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 10:38 AM (vmkyp)

289 217
Former Supreme David Souter passed, a GHW Bush appointee.

Speaking well of him, he doted on his mother.
Posted by: Auspex at May 09, 2025 10:21 AM (j4U/Z)

Who?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 09, 2025 10:38 AM (aTimx)

290 Plowing would be a $@#%%.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 10:38 AM (Vnr1

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Perhaps they raise Sidehill Gougers.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 09, 2025 10:39 AM (6YdsJ)

291 >>Report: Bidens Consider $30M Tell-All Book Deal — Including Details from Jill’s Diary

LOL, sure, they're "considering" it.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:39 AM (ke82b)

292 Yeah, we build farms on mountains round these parts.

Dig wells up 'ere too.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
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Same here. When we refer to 'the lower 40', we mean the lower forty.

/sarc

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 09, 2025 10:39 AM (XeU6L)

293 Trump: "Buttigieg...drives to work on his bicycle with his husband on the back which is a nice loving relationship"

It's called "Riding Nuts to Butts" in the fag biker community. Not that I know anything about all of that.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at May 09, 2025 10:39 AM (imQ+3)

294 I heard that he has passed.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 09, 2025 10:37 AM (w6EFb)

Yes, Ben Had posted it the other day. We have many commenters who are no longer with us, but for some reason this loss really hit me.

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2025 10:39 AM (dCxaZ)

295 So, it's the cover art for "The Little House on the Hell Creek Formation:.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at May 09, 2025 10:40 AM (XjTSo)

296 Ma Joad in the movie was Jane Darwell, an actress who appeared in over 170 films and was very well known in her day. Born in 1879, her last famous role in her old age was as the Feed the Birds woman in Mary Poppins.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2025 10:40 AM (uWKK8)

297 Does the Buttigieg bicycle built for two have seats?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 10:40 AM (vmkyp)

298 257 RBG was, for whatever reason (mostly infanticide), the closest thing the judiciary's had to a celebrity since Dan'l Webster. She was mourned deeply by the Left, so she'll be forever beloved in the history books.

I expect Thomas will be similarly mourned on the Right, but that won't matter in 20 years, because it'll be a footnote.

But guys like Souter or Roberts? They should their souls, and when they finally leave the scene, everyone just says "who? Oh, some dork in a black dress bit the dust? Huh. Anyone want pizza? I'm hungry."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Never predict what history will or will not do because it is made by the sum total of people's actions.

It is very likely that no one here knows exactly what the future brings aside from Ace and cobs who have access to the time machine.

However, they are forbidden to speak of it because it can cause paradoxes in the fabric of reality so they stay schtum.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:40 AM (ctrM5)

299 289 the Great Plains Shelterbelt is a great project during the 30';s that planted a line of a grove of trees starting at the Canadian border to there Texas panhandle trees for the purpose of being a wind breaker. You can still see the results today from aerial/ satellite photos.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Those fools! How could they hinder the two greatest forms of energy production in human history?!?!? (Trees make shade, too, haters!!!)

Posted by: Rabid Leftist Watermelon at May 09, 2025 10:41 AM (ycI94)

300 >Souter must not have been very important.
Nobody refers to him by all three names.

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he was a small person

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2025 10:41 AM (AOsQT)

301 300 Does the Buttigieg bicycle built for two have seats?
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Two bananas, one seat. Math problem involving set theory.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:42 AM (ctrM5)

302 >>I heard that he has passed.
Posted by: Miley

Oh no! Jewels and Jim? Dang

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:42 AM (ke82b)

303 Report: Bidens Consider $30M Tell-All Book Deal — Including Details from Jill’s Diary
Posted by: Anonosaurus
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Written by ghost-AI, using an auto pen.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 09, 2025 10:42 AM (XeU6L)

304 281 Blockbuster bestseller!

Report: Bidens Consider $30M Tell-All Book Deal — Including Details from Jill’s Diary
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In other words, it's Doctor Jill's get-even memoir. If she lives to publish it.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at May 09, 2025 10:43 AM (XjTSo)

305 Well, her boobs are getting saggy anyway.

“Wonder Woman” Star Lynda Carter Says DEI Is “Fundamentally American”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 09, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)

306 284
I await Michael Bloomberg's enlightened instruction on how best to farm this particular tract. He is a deep pool of esoteric knowledge about all and sundry matters.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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Something something put a seed in and something something water it, and voila--steaks on a vine.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:43 AM (ctrM5)

307 Former Supreme David Souter passed, a GHW Bush appointee.

Speaking well of him, he doted on his mother.
Posted by: Auspex at May 09, 2025 10:21 AM (j4U/Z)

Could bench press 70 lbs. Multiple reps!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2025 10:43 AM (HsEm8)

308 Serial Killers also go by three names. RBG was no exception. I wonder how she argued her abortion case before God.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 10:44 AM (VofaG)

309 308 Well, her boobs are getting saggy anyway.

“Wonder Woman” Star Lynda Carter Says DEI Is “Fundamentally American”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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She has been a Dem activist for a very long time and not a good actress for even longer.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:44 AM (ctrM5)

310 That is a stupid painting.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 09, 2025 10:44 AM (y2f7I)

311 311 Serial Killers also go by three names. RBG was no exception. I wonder how she argued her abortion case before God.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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He gave her the no standing ruling.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:45 AM (ctrM5)

312 Does the Buttigieg bicycle built for two have seats?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 10:40 AM (vmkyp)

Seats?

Posted by: Pete Buttplug at May 09, 2025 10:45 AM (HsEm8)

313 170 Republicans just BLOCKED one of the most pro–2A bills we’ve ever seen. Yeah, you read that right!
Rep. Andrew Clyde introduced a bill to remove the unconstitutional $200 tax and federal registry requirement for suppressors. A bill that should’ve flown through a Republican-led House like a suppressed round through a paper target. But guess what? Republicans helped kill it.
I break down why this bill matters, what Clyde actually said, and why the $200 suppressor tax is more than just a number—it's a paywall on your rights. Suppressors don’t turn people into assassins. They protect hearing. They save lives. And in most countries with more gun control than we have? Suppressors are encouraged for public safety. So why are our own so-called “pro-gun” lawmakers blocking it? Because for some of them, the Second Amendment stops at duck hunting.
And if it’s not wood-stocked and bolt-action, they want nothing to do with it.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:08 AM (y6oPX)

I believe it is SB 507 (or 506?) in the Roundhouse…if passed and signed into law, NM will end all reciprocity to concealed carry license holders. As I live fairly close to NM this is not good. At all.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 09, 2025 10:46 AM (aTimx)

314
Does the Buttigieg bicycle built for two have seats?
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Do butt plugs qualify as seats? If so, then, "yes".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2025 10:46 AM (xG4kz)

315 That is a stupid painting.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 09, 2025 10:44 AM (y2f7I)

At first I thought it was one of those dogs with too much skin.

The sharpie or whatever.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2025 10:47 AM (HsEm8)

316
That is a stupid painting.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

Finally, the truth is proclaimed!

Thank you!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2025 10:48 AM (xG4kz)

317 235 >>Just came back after ALL armed services members were dissed and hated here . .
Huh, guess I missed something
Posted by: Lizzy

FDA Director a few days ago, calling everybody in the armed services of the U.S. a grifter and how he hated them. Should have been banned but not my call, kindest explanation would be that he was drunk and stupid instead of just stupid.

Posted by: Auspex at May 09, 2025 10:48 AM (j4U/Z)

318 RBG was one of the saints of the Woke Religion. I remember leftists buying votive candles with her image on them - no joke.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2025 10:48 AM (uWKK8)

319 Market Day:

"Get in da choppa!"

Posted by: mrp at May 09, 2025 10:48 AM (rj6Yv)

320 Souter is more remembered than Stevens and White.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 10:48 AM (VofaG)

321 Clarence Thomas is one of the greatest Americans who has ever lived. I would personally put him on Rushmore. Every justice moving forwards should aspire to be like him. If we had that, we would have many fewer troubles.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 10:48 AM (gt60b)

322 288 Plowing would be a $@#%%.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 10:38 AM (Vnr1

I’d terrace and call it good. Still a sucky place to farm.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 09, 2025 10:49 AM (aTimx)

323 On a happier note....
Today is the girl spawn last final of the semester. That means I will be driving down to help bring her stuff home. Next year she will be in an apartment that is part of campus housing. Scholarship covers cost and she will have her own private bedroom and bathroom. I think she will be much happier there. She hates communal bathroom. She already has a job for the summer.
Also... There are a bunch of people working on the boy spawn new house! Hopefully they will get finished soon. My son needs to be home on the farm and my grandson needs to be within 100 yards of my house! He is the mini-me of my son. The only downside to the people working out there is the loud music. At least it's classic rock.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 09, 2025 10:49 AM (2J/Lj)

324 FDA Director a few days ago, calling everybody in the armed services of the U.S. a grifter and how he hated them. Should have been banned but not my call, kindest explanation would be that he was drunk and stupid instead of just stupid.
Posted by: Auspex
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A nic that I find very low in signal and very high in noise.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:49 AM (ctrM5)

325 Horrible depiction of a farm. Must be a yankee thing.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 09, 2025 10:49 AM (g8Ew8)

326 arlier this week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided at least nine restaurants in the nation's capital, requesting proof that the establishments are not flouting the law by employing illegal aliens. Washington, D.C., presents itself as a so-called sanctuary city for illegal aliens, so the mere fact ICE agents targeted a few businesses there is hardly surprising.

What is perhaps more newsworthy is the specific names associated with those raided restaurants. One of those restaurants, Chef Geoff's, is owned by Geoff Tracy, the husband of CBS News anchor and former vice presidential debate co-moderator Norah O'Donnell. Another of the raided restaurants is owned by former Biden White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, and a third is owned by the left-wing activist Spanish restaurateur, José Andrés.

Following the raids, a predictable debate has unfolded: Did the Trump administration "politicize" law enforcement by siccing ICE agents on White House critics and foes?

That's a terrible thing, just terrible!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:49 AM (ke82b)

327 That's got to be at least a 15 yard penalty.

Former Redskins Player Confesses to Killing, Burning Girlfriend’s Body

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 09, 2025 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

328 So why are our own so-called “pro-gun” lawmakers blocking it? Because for some of them, the Second Amendment stops at duck hunting.
And if it’s not wood-stocked and bolt-action, they want nothing to do with it.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:08 AM (y6oPX)

The honeymoon is over. Congresscritters who are going to quit or lose their seats, or have no risk of losing their seats, and just shedding their MAGA hats, and letting their uniparty show.

Why wouldn't they.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2025 10:50 AM (HsEm8)

329
Writer's Block - a limerick

It's enough to make a grown man cry
I cant write a poem though I try
A once daily fixture
Is much like this picture
Now I'm pumping a well that's gone dry

Posted by: muldoon at May 09, 2025 10:51 AM (HOX+I)

330 189 That or he'll give us a visit from the Ottoman Empire. Staffed exclusively by nekkid fat fucks.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Well, we get Ed Morrisey either way.
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

At least the ham planets have humor value.

Ed Morrissey is just a drag.

Posted by: XTC at May 09, 2025 10:51 AM (UnA8+)

331 >>Report: Bidens Consider $30M Tell-All Book Deal — Including Details from Jill’s Diary

LOL, sure, they're "considering" it.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:39 AM (ke82b)

Oh but anonymous sources say they are destitute, unwanted and unloved. Total bs.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 10:51 AM (gt60b)

332 Former Redskins Player Confesses to Killing, Burning Girlfriend’s Body
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 09, 2025 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

Talk about red skin.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2025 10:51 AM (HsEm8)

333 >>FDA Director a few days ago, calling everybody in the armed services of the U.S. a grifter and how he hated them. Should have been banned but not my call, kindest explanation would be that he was drunk and stupid instead of just stupid.

Yikes.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 10:52 AM (ke82b)

334 Former Redskins Player Confesses to Killing, Burning Girlfriend’s Body

*********

Rousseau's no-bull savage!

Posted by: muldoon at May 09, 2025 10:52 AM (HOX+I)

335 And why does the "former redskin player" and his now dead girlfriend look EXACTLY like you'd expect.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (HsEm8)

336 It is very likely that no one here knows exactly what the future brings aside from Ace and cobs who have access to the time machine.

However, they are forbidden to speak of it because it can cause paradoxes in the fabric of reality so they stay schtum.
Posted by: whig

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I fondly remember a short sci-fi piece from my childhood where I learned that the moment a time machine was successfully created to travel into the past then the time machine would no longer exist / work. I hate I didn't save it but Im almost certain the book was borrowed from the library.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (yZCmg)

337 324 Clarence Thomas is one of the greatest Americans who has ever lived. I would personally put him on Rushmore. Every justice moving forwards should aspire to be like him. If we had that, we would have many fewer troubles.
Posted by: ...
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Quintessential story of American work ethic and advancement and as far as his jurisprudence, I actually rate Thomas higher than the flashier Scalia.

Scalia, at times, became too enamored of his own wit and intelligence rather than address the legal questions in cases with good scholarship. He was also silly enough to think he was 'friends' with RBG when all she was doing is buttering him up to win a few cases for her side. She intimated as much after he died that she was glad he was no longer on the Court.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (ctrM5)

338 338 And why does the "former redskin player" and his now dead girlfriend look EXACTLY like you'd expect.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (HsEm

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Amish?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

339 >That's got to be at least a 15 yard penalty.
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very unsportsmanlike

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (AOsQT)

340 This painting reminds me of the movie "There Will Be Blood." An amazing, disturbing movie, IMO.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (bNf8H)

341 Clarence Thomas is one of the greatest Americans who has ever lived. I would personally put him on Rushmore. Every justice moving forwards should aspire to be like him. If we had that, we would have many fewer troubles.
Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 10:48 AM (gt60b)

His autobiography is the prime example by far of "Only in America".

Damn I hate those commie American hating Democrats.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (VofaG)

342 Every justice moving forwards should aspire to be like him. If we had that, we would have many fewer troubles.
Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 10:48 AM (gt60b)

Justice Thomas is a great American.

Posted by: mrp at May 09, 2025 10:54 AM (rj6Yv)

343 I've been looking for a Savage 220 for some time.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

There's a bunch on gunbroker.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:54 AM (y6oPX)

344 331 So why are our own so-called “pro-gun” lawmakers blocking it? Because for some of them, the Second Amendment stops at duck hunting.
And if it’s not wood-stocked and bolt-action, they want nothing to do with it.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:08 AM (y6oPX)

The honeymoon is over. Congresscritters who are going to quit or lose their seats, or have no risk of losing their seats, and just shedding their MAGA hats, and letting their uniparty show.

Why wouldn't they.
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Fudds, man, they have NFA branded into their noggins. Plus they watch too much corpo0rate media news.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at May 09, 2025 10:55 AM (XjTSo)

345 Amish?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

Blonde mish. And angry angus bull.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2025 10:55 AM (HsEm8)

346 338 And why does the "former redskin player" and his now dead girlfriend look EXACTLY like you'd expect.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (HsEm

yep. pretty white girl married big fat drug addicted violent black guy for the money and the fame. Bad Choice.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2025 10:55 AM (uWKK8)

347 That's got to be at least a 15 yard penalty.
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very unsportsmanlike
Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (AOsQT)

Roughing the kisser.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2025 10:56 AM (HsEm8)

348 Report: Bidens Consider $30M Tell-All Book Deal — Including Details from Jill’s Diary

May 30, 2023
Banging Hunter tonight! Can't wait!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 10:56 AM (y6oPX)

349 Does the Buttigieg bicycle built for two have seats?
Posted by: Smell the Glove

No, he sniffs the seat post after his husband dismounts.
I was gonna say after he gets off, but you know…

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 09, 2025 10:56 AM (5SvjB)

350 I shan't believe someone in the NFL is a criminal.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 10:56 AM (gt60b)

351 RBG was one of the saints of the Woke Religion. I remember leftists buying votive candles with her image on them - no joke.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Speaking of graven images, my favorite is the Obama Chia Pet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 09, 2025 10:57 AM (XeU6L)

352 The Netflix version he will look like Trump and she will look like Kamala.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 10:57 AM (gt60b)

353 his painting reminds me of the movie "There Will Be Blood." An amazing, disturbing movie, IMO.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (bNf8H)

The cinematography was great but I really hated that movie. It was two hours of introduction.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 10:57 AM (VofaG)

354 That's got to be at least a 15 yard penalty.
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very unsportsmanlike
Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (AOsQT)

Roughing the kisser.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Definitely an illegal procedure.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 09, 2025 10:57 AM (UBKzV)

355 The cinematography was great but I really hated that movie. It was two hours of introduction.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 10:57 AM (VofaG)

Something else we agree on.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 10:58 AM (gt60b)

356 Picturesque but that is not good farmland

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 10:58 AM (xcxpd)

357 359 Picturesque but that is not good farmland
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 10:58 AM (xcxpd)

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What if they're farming misery?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

358 his painting reminds me of the movie "There Will Be Blood." An amazing, disturbing movie, IMO.
Posted by: Frasier Crane

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I would like for there to be a There Will Be Blood and Lighthouse mashup. Heat them both up, melt them down, mix them together, and watch what came out. I don't know how that would be accomplished, but I'd still like to see it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 10:58 AM (yZCmg)

359 From the movie "How Brown was my Valley", the unsuccessful sequel to "How Green was my Valley".

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 09, 2025 10:58 AM (Dv3i1)

360 I find it interesting that Justice Roberts is getting questions about his retirement.

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 10:59 AM (g47mK)

361 >>The cinematography was great but I really hated that movie. It was two hours of introduction.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 10:57 AM (VofaG)
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I don't like it either, really, but it's still an amazing film.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 09, 2025 10:59 AM (bNf8H)

362 "There Will Be Blood" is a subtle movie, there's a lot to mine there but it rarely spells things out for you.

One of Daniel Day Lewis' masterpieces.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 10:59 AM (xcxpd)

363 Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come follow me

Ah, it's in DC?

Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 10:59 AM (FZn/N)

364 I fondly remember a short sci-fi piece from my childhood where I learned that the moment a time machine was successfully created to travel into the past then the time machine would no longer exist / work. I hate I didn't save it but Im almost certain the book was borrowed from the library.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie
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You have to give Robert Heinlein props in his book Expanded Universe. He had his original predictions of what would happen and then periodically in revised editions of Expanded Universe, mentioned how well or poorly he did with his assertions.

If people had to do that here with their predictions by periodically being forced to revisit their errors and wins shared with the group--there would be a lot less crap in the threads.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:59 AM (ctrM5)

365 >RBG was one of the saints of the Woke Religion. I remember leftists buying votive candles with her image on them - no joke.
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available on Amazon

Fauci, Biden, Hillary too

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2025 10:59 AM (AOsQT)

366 360 359 Picturesque but that is not good farmland
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 10:58 AM (xcxpd)

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What if they're farming misery?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

Too pretty to even pull that off

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 11:00 AM (xcxpd)

367 I think this is supposed to be symbolic or something. But the farmer gets to farm both sides...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 11:00 AM (H26VX)

368 363 I find it interesting that Justice Roberts is getting questions about his retirement.
Posted by: runner
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DC is a dangerous place and as you age, accidents, glitches, etc will happen. Then there is the Deep State.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 11:00 AM (ctrM5)

369 oops
That was for my criticism of popes post elsewhere.

Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come follow me...and not, rob your neighbor, give away his shit because he's a nationalist, keep your stuff for you, virtue signal, and come follow me.

Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 11:01 AM (FZn/N)

370 American Farm, Joe Jones. Painted in 1936 so it seems to be strong & hopeful to me. I'd hang it. hx.

What was the worst year of the Dust Bowl?
Dust Bowl - Wikipedia
Beginning on May 9, 1934, a strong, two-day dust storm removed massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst such storms of the Dust Bowl. The dust clouds blew all the way to Chicago, where they deposited 12 million pounds (5,400 tonnes) of dust.

US Department of Interior, Water Supply Paper 820, Drought of 1936

Facebook dot com: Historical Figures The Forgotten Facts · December 24, 2024 ·
"In 1936, a tenant farmer from Shannon City, Iowa, stands on the eighty-acre farm he worked, symbolizing both his livelihood and the challenges he faced. During this time, tenant farming was common, with individuals cultivating land they did not own in exchange for a share of the crop. For many, including this farmer, the Great Depression deepened the struggle, as falling crop prices, severe weather, and rising debts created an uncertain future.
The farmer’s weathered appearance tells the story of the harsh realities of rural life in Iowa during the 1930s. ..."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 09, 2025 11:01 AM (NFX2v)

371 There Will Be Blood" is a subtle movie, there's a lot to mine there but it rarely spells things out for you.

One of Daniel Day Lewis' masterpieces.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 10:59 AM (xcxpd)

It's a Sinclair Lewis based movie. I got the subtle commie point .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 11:01 AM (VofaG)

372 26 What kind of Farm is this?
Posted by: redridinghood at May 09, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

Looks like one to raise mountain goats.

Posted by: Roy at May 09, 2025 11:01 AM (qwype)

373 368 >RBG was one of the saints of the Woke Religion. I remember leftists buying votive candles with her image on them - no joke.
----
available on Amazon

Fauci, Biden, Hillary too
Posted by: Don Black
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Idols for our modern Molech worshipping Dems.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 11:01 AM (ctrM5)

374 "I thought we were calling it There Will Be Light?"

"No, it's called Bllodhouse!"

"So we've basically been making two completely different movies here?"

"Yup."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 11:02 AM (yvnLa)

375 thx not hx

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 09, 2025 11:02 AM (NFX2v)

376 Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:59 AM (ctrM5)

Meanwhile if you read any random post from me from around 2011 it would feel very contemporary and accurate. At the time I sounded like the lunatic I sound like today.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 11:02 AM (gt60b)

377 My chuckle for the current 24-hour news cycle is Jeanine Pirro being appointed as US Attorney for DC. LOLOL

FAFO, Senator.

Posted by: mrp at May 09, 2025 11:02 AM (rj6Yv)

378 A windmill for threshing grain you couldn't possibly grow.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 11:03 AM (Vnr18)

379 The honeymoon is over. Congresscritters who are going to quit or lose their seats, or have no risk of losing their seats, and just shedding their MAGA hats, and letting their uniparty show.

Why wouldn't they.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2025 10:50 AM (HsEm

Wait til you see the TX HR.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 09, 2025 11:04 AM (aTimx)

380 If people had to do that here with their predictions by periodically being forced to revisit their errors and wins shared with the group--there would be a lot less crap in the threads.
Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 10:59 AM (ctrM5)

Well mine are typically just jokes disguised as predictions, so I'm not playing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 11:04 AM (yvnLa)

381 My chuckle for the current 24-hour news cycle is Jeanine Pirro being appointed as US Attorney for DC. LOLOL

FAFO, Senator.
Posted by: mrp at May 09, 2025 11:02 AM (rj6Yv)

Why is she a FAFO?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 09, 2025 11:04 AM (2J/Lj)

382 As bad as it was, I liked Gangs of New York and Daniel Day Lewis 10x more than There Will Be Blood.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 11:04 AM (VofaG)

383 Popes turned warlords into crowned kings. The survival of Western civilization depended on that.

Posted by: mrp at May 09, 2025 11:05 AM (rj6Yv)

384 385 As bad as it was, I liked Gangs of New York and Daniel Day Lewis 10x more than There Will Be Blood.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 11:04 AM (VofaG)

He didn't even chew the scenery in that.

He slurped it through his teeth until it reverted to being a liquid, like jello.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 11:06 AM (yvnLa)

385 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

386 Why is she a FAFO?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 09, 2025 11:04 AM (2J/Lj)

I was addressing the senator who blocked Mr. Martin's nomination.

Posted by: mrp at May 09, 2025 11:07 AM (rj6Yv)

387 Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 09, 2025 11:04 AM (VofaG)

100%

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 11:07 AM (gt60b)

388 Why is she a FAFO?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 09, 2025 11:04 AM (2J/Lj)

I was addressing the senator who blocked Mr. Martin's nomination.
Posted by: mrp

I got that. But what makes her the FO to Tillis FA?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 09, 2025 11:10 AM (2J/Lj)

389 They still have fish in the desert. There are some monster ones in the Gilla River.
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

Clams, too. Really.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 11:10 AM (H26VX)

390 Meanwhile if you read any random post from me from around 2011 it would feel very contemporary and accurate. At the time I sounded like the lunatic I sound like today.
Posted by: ...
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Possibly. But way too lazy to dig them out. Back when I did empirical big data research, I used to do various time series analyses and at a certain point, you get a secular change so that your model starts predicting horribly at that point onwards.

Then you have to go back and dig out the variable(s) causing the issue and reflect what the causal mechanism was.

Predicting causal relationships are hard enough even in retrospect because it is the summarized action of billions of people with about as many variables involved.

So when you start predicting the future other than in vague Nostradamus terms--e.g. federal debt will go up until it cannot or boomers will rule until they do not ,etc. it gets really hard as you get more and more specific in your prediction.

Better than track odds is about all one can hope for.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 11:10 AM (ctrM5)

391 Well mine are typically just jokes disguised as predictions, so I'm not playing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Good jokes are often temporal in nature. But personally, what is today is more important than what will be tomorrow and we often lose sight of that. Calvin Coolidge once said if you see 10 troubles coming down the road toward you, 9 of them will end up in a ditch before getting to you.

Not my circus, not my monkey is a pretty decent Polish joke that has a ring of truth to it.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 11:13 AM (ctrM5)

392 I got that. But what makes her the FO to Tillis FA?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 09, 2025 11:10 AM (2J/Lj)

FA - Eff around. All of the RINOS that opposed Martin did so because he defended (brilliantly) J6ers. I'm sure they were quite please with derailing his nomination because Orange Man. And the possible run for Tillis' seat by Lara Trump.

FO - Find Out. Donny Two Scoops figured "Okay, if Ed Martin isn't to your liking, how about Jeanine Pirro?"

From what I've seen of Jeanine Pirro, that's a fox in the hen house move, almost as lethal as Kash Patel in the FBI. She's an outspoken defender of the First Amendment and the plight of the imprisoned J6ers.

That's the FAFO explanation. Anything else?

Posted by: mrp at May 09, 2025 11:18 AM (rj6Yv)

393 Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 11:10 AM (ctrM5)

I detailed the rise of "women" while pedowood was still promoting blacks and slavery. And I detailed the subsequent abandoning of women which I said would follow in much shorter order than most would think.

Same will happen as the trannies, gays etc get thrown to the islamic wolves. Gonna happen so much faster than anyone normal thinks.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 11:18 AM (gt60b)

394 (...) I fondly remember a short sci-fi piece from my childhood where I learned that the moment a time machine was successfully created to travel into the past then the time machine would no longer exist / work. I hate I didn't save it but Im almost certain the book was borrowed from the library.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 10:53 AM (yZCmg)

Are you perhaps remembering The Theory and Practice of Time Travel essay by Larry Niven?

Posted by: goozer at May 09, 2025 11:27 AM (V1MWf)

395

Posted by: goozer at May 09, 2025 11:34 AM (V1MWf)

396 Whoa! That's GOTTA make tractorin' a high-pucker-factor exercise ...

Posted by: Dr_No at May 09, 2025 12:34 PM (ayRl+)

397 A very good view of their fields, Livestock and Crops

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 09, 2025 05:40 PM (wGqjj)

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