The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. To be perfectly honest, I am a coffee snob. But, I can choke down a 7/11 cup of java.

Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Wauby)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. And no you can't jump on the furniture.
3) Running with sharp objects is severely restricted.
4) Have a great weekend!

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
4/12 – Ben Had sent an update on Jim SND. He had surgery to implant a feeding tube, and he hopes to go home soon.
5/6 Update – Jim SND passed away. Please pray for God’s comfort for his wife.
4/14 – Grateful – the range bag lady posted: T-Rex’s mother, MommaRex, was rushed to the hospital over the weekend and was diagnosed with Parkinsons. The family is asking for prayers for God’s strength in dealing with the disease and challenging family situation.
5/1 Update – TRex and Grateful thank the Horde for their prayers for Mamma Rex. She is doing better and is entering a lovely assisted living apartment this weekend. They thank God for His loving ways, and the Horde for all of their prayers.
4/16 – TecumsehTea requested prayers for a grandson, age 15. The grandson had been sick with a fever and headache since 4/13, and took a turn for the worse. He was taken to the ER on 4/16.
5/3 Update – Her grandson is feeling much better. It was a particularly bad spell with Lyme disease. Thank you all for the prayers.
4/22 – FenelonSpoke requested prayers for M, who sometimes fills in as the organist. He has to have vein surgery on his feet, and he needs to have his feet work well to play the organ pedals. Also, prayers for J, who is having a stent put in her heart.
5/10 Update – Thanks so much for the prayers. J’s heart surgery was successful and she is now in rehab. M’s surgery on his foot was successful, as well.
4/25 – MkY sent thanks for the prayers for his wife Judy, and asked for continued prayers. She has stage IV renal cancer. The tumors have shrunk, but not significantly. Every ER visit has been related to pain management, and it has not been going well. Please pray for help with the pain, and for MkY – that he can be strong and steady even though he feels helpless.
5/3 Update – Thanks again for all the prayers. Judy’s tumors are shrinking. The oncologist is “encouraged”, so that bleeds over into Judy’s attitude and is encouraging. The palliative care team believes that most of the pain is not cancer-related, so they have prescribed some alternatives. She now rarely takes the oxycodone.
5/3 – D asked for prayers for his wife, Susan, who has been having some issues. They went to the hospital on 5/1, and all the signs are pointing to pancreatic cancer. They meet with other doctors on 5/5. Any prayers would be a blessing.
5/14 Update – Susan is having less pain now. Thank you for the prayers.
5/23 Update – Thank you again for all your prayers. Susan had a PET scan, and they should receive the results on 6/4.
5/8 - Don Draper asked for prayers for his wife. They lost their Kelpie companion on 5/7 due to complications from lymphoma. His wife is devastated.
5/8 – Backwoods Willy requested prayers for a partner church of theirs in Pakistan. One of the initial strikes by India was very close to the church and the pastor’s home. Ongoing shelling is nearby. Please pray for the Lord’s protection for Pastor S, his family, and his church.
5/10 – Cosda asked for prayers for his wife, who recently had a mole removed that came back as melanoma cancer. She is scheduled for surgery next week, and it looks like that should remove it completely.
5/11 – Ciampino sent his thanks for the prayers. He was injured by a cat scratch that caused a lot more bleeding than he realized was happening. He also ended up with sepsis and septic shock, and in critical condition. He was treated with IV antibiotics, 5 units of blood, and steroids. He also got his first helicopter ride, as he was transferred from one hospital to another for care.
5/14 – Ciampino is home.
5/16 – KT is still under the weather but is recovering slowly.
5/17 – neverenoughcaffiene asked for prayers for her sister-in-law, Jackie, who is looking at dialysis. Her kidneys have been failing for several years is she is getting close based on her numbers. Hopefully new meds will help.
5/24 – The new meds have not helped. Her score for kidney function is 16, and the trigger for dialysis is 15.
5/17 – B asked for prayers for the Lord to move a bowel food constriction or “kink” out so that his bowels would function properly.
5/17 – Polliwog the ‘Ette had a physical recently, and some test results indicate a need for major changes in diet. She would appreciate prayers for wisdom and discernment in creating a food plan that works for the entire family’s various needs, and the ability to make health choices on a long-term basis.
5/17 – Brother Tim would deeply appreciate prayers. He had a growth on the side of his face for years, and it is scheduled for removal on 6/20. Depending on the biopsy results, they may also need to remove some lymph nodes. This is on top of his housing issues, other health issues, and not enough income.
5/20 – Stateless could use some prayers.
5/23 – Hrothgar asks for prayers for a dear friend’s son. Tim battled cancer 20 years ago, but has been living with kidney disease for several years. It has progressed to the point that he needs a transplant. In a real blessing, he was approved for the transplant list. Please pray for Tim, that he would receive a donated kidney. There is no cost to the donor, and the donor generally goes on to live a full life with just one kidney, and it would make a huge difference for Tim, versus long-term dialysis.
5/24 – Captain Obvious requested prayers for his friend J, who will be having surgery on 6/9 to try and relieve her chronic pain. She also has concerns because she is on blood thinners and nearly bled out after her hip replacement. Please pray for the best possible outcome and also to relieve her anxiety.
5/24 – L sent an update. Her daughter, Shannon, the Franciscan sister who we prayed for when she had heart surgery, is much improved. There were some setbacks along the way – a problem with defibrillation and a respiratory infection - but she is healed now and will take her final vows soon. L is also much improved, after her knee implant surgery.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 07:45 AM

Comments

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1 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 07:46 AM (ypFCm)

2 My days are wonky, I was thinking it was Sunday already

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 07:47 AM (ypFCm)

3 Good morning!

Posted by: gp at May 31, 2025 07:49 AM (t8CWH)

4
*walks in briskly*
*arranges papers on podium*

Good morning, Hordians. Shall we begin?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 07:49 AM (QnmlO)

5 "Running with sharp objects is severely restricted."

But not prohibited, right?

Posted by: Cheese runner at May 31, 2025 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

6 Wawa has a great selection of creamer options for your coffee. 24 hours a day.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 07:50 AM (dg+HA)

7 I am a coffee snob except when I am desperate

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 07:50 AM (gDlxJ)

8 >>> I was thinking it was Sunday already

You get a free day!

Posted by: fluffy at May 31, 2025 07:51 AM (AN2gy)

9 *checks calendar*
It's Sunday Eve.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 07:52 AM (dg+HA)

10 I have to wait 45 minutes after taking Pepcid until my first cup of coffee can be consumed. Seems like that 45 minutes is hours. 15 minutes to go.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 31, 2025 07:53 AM (2NHgQ)

11 >>> And no you can't jump on the furniture.

Oh, but that look that the couch is giving me ;--)

Posted by: fluffy at May 31, 2025 07:53 AM (AN2gy)

12 On new work schedule I work Sunday evening

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 07:53 AM (ypFCm)

13 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Caffiend at May 31, 2025 07:53 AM (G5+As)

14
When I did road trips pert near 40 years ago, the coffee at 7-11 type places was routinely terrible. As in, boiled down to asphalt. I can report that today the situation is much improved and you can get a good cup of ordinary joe just about anywhere.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 07:54 AM (QnmlO)

15 I am a coffee snob. I ain't ever paying more than a buck for a cup of coffee.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 31, 2025 07:54 AM (NVNRw)

16 *walks in briskly*
*arranges papers on podium*

Good morning, Hordians. Shall we begin?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

*hurriedly sticks gum under desk*

Posted by: Attentive Miklos at May 31, 2025 07:55 AM (K6h4I)

17 I shouldn't be up yet, didn't get to bed until 2am

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 07:55 AM (ypFCm)

18
Ha, ha. In last night's battle of the asshole teams, the Yankees lead 5-2, then their bullpen burned the house down and they lost to the Dodgers 8-5.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 07:56 AM (QnmlO)

19 The coffee currently in your mug is the best coffee.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2025 07:57 AM (Q4IgG)

20 I once was a sincere coffee snob. Now I still drink it but a relatively small amount.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 31, 2025 07:57 AM (kTd/k)

21 Prayers for all the Horde in need.

And thanks be to God for prayers that have been answered with peace and healing.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 07:58 AM (dE3DB)

22 “ Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”

Hebrews 11:1-3

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 07:58 AM (o33NW)

23 Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 07:54 AM (QnmlO)

That's a lot of coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2025 07:59 AM (Oy/m2)

24 G'morning Horde. I'm here, coffee mug in hand. That's good enough for now.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 31, 2025 07:59 AM (O7YUW)

25 17 I shouldn't be up yet, didn't get to bed until 2am
Posted by: Skip

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This is a problem I have. Finally closed my eyes at 1am, spontaneously opened at 6:45am.
It gets tiring day night after night.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 08:00 AM (dE3DB)

26 Prayers up for those who have asked us for them;
Prayers up for those who need them but haven't asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don't know it yet;
Prayers up for those that pray alone in silence whose petitions are known only to God;
And bless all those that have sought Your wisdom, heard Your answers, and are trying to do Your will on this Earth.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:00 AM (hOUT3)

27
I'm happy that Stateless has resurfaced. I hope that the issues he's been having with family are resolved favorably.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 08:01 AM (QnmlO)

28 Blue Origin - New Shepard - NS-32
Launch Site One, Texas - Space Affairs Live
Blue Origin announced its 12th human flight, NS-32, will lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas on May 31, 2025.

The crew includes Aymette Medina Jorge, Dr. Gretchen Green, Jaime Alemán, Jesse Williams, Mark Rocket, and Paul Jeris.

This mission is the 12th human flight for the New Shepard program and the 32nd overall.

The New Shepard launch window opens at 8:30 a.m. CDT, 1330 UTC, 15:30 CEST.

https://www.youtube.com/live/LtgdisJRLYY

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, c'e un Mark Rocket at May 31, 2025 08:01 AM (sPQoU)

29 Some guy won a women's track meet. What an accomplishment.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2025 08:01 AM (vFG9F)

30 @25/vmom: ...It gets tiring day night after night.

Whatever's causing this, I hope it gets better so you can get more sleep at night, and that it's a good and solid sleep with multiple REM cycles.

Skip, that goes for you too!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 31, 2025 08:02 AM (O7YUW)

31 Skip, you have the craziest schedule I have ever seen. I hope you are well paid for it.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2025 08:02 AM (vFG9F)

32 “ Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

One of my memory verses from ol' timey Sunday School. In King James of course. (it was the 60's. When did the NIV come out?)

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 31, 2025 08:02 AM (SfhV1)

33 I've seen the Army Tradoc Band a number of times, but never saw "The President's Own" Marine Band. If I have to go to DC to see them, it's not going to happen.

Posted by: Happy Harry at May 31, 2025 08:02 AM (G5+As)

34 Ha, ha. In last night's battle of the asshole teams, the Yankees lead 5-2, then their bullpen burned the house down and they lost to the Dodgers 8-5.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 07:56 AM (QnmlO)
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If those cheap Steinbrenners had only spent another $40 million per year on Soto, and matched the Dodgers payroll, they might have pulled this game out.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2025 08:03 AM (Gj7Fw)

35 10 I have to wait 45 minutes after taking Pepcid until my first cup of coffee can be consumed. Seems like that 45 minutes is hours. 15 minutes to go.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

I put a tiny bit of hub's collagen powder (hoping it will help joints etc) in my morning cup and I feel like it cuts the acidity.
Though it makes me hafta go iykwim

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 08:03 AM (dE3DB)

36 Colorado gray wolf update:

Colorado Parks and Wildlife kills grey wolf in Pitkin County after attacks on livestock

https://is.gd/RHPtPU

After four separate attacks on cattle in an 8 day span, killing 2 and injuring 4, wildlife officials described these events as "unfortunate and rare", leading some to wonder what definition of 'rare" they are using.

Following the first two attacks a strongly worded letter was placed in the wolf's personnel file. After the third attack the director of VR (Vulpine Resources) had an in-person counseling session with the wolf. After the fourth attack, the decision to take "lethal management action" was made and the ~~employee~~ wolf was terminated

'oo's a bad girl, eh?

Posted by: muldoon at May 31, 2025 08:04 AM (/iMjX)

37 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

I had another fun evening of parking cars at the county fair.

People are idiots.

Due to the rain on Thursday evening, the parking fields were still a big mess and people didn't want to listen to the parking attendants who advised them that they may not be able to get their cars out of the field. Several vehicles got stuck because their drivers ignored this advice.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2025 08:04 AM (GlyvH)

38 Since it's the prayer thread, please squeeze me into your prayers just for better health.
I feel like I am on a downward trend.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 08:05 AM (dE3DB)

39 I will always hate the Dodgers because they lost to the Yankees in the WS.
Beautiful day on The Island

Posted by: Accomack at May 31, 2025 08:06 AM (28cZF)

40 'To be perfectly honest, I am a coffee snob. But, I can choke down a 7/11 cup of java.'

The only coffee that comes close to undrinkable is the swill they brew at work but I can force that down if there's no other choice.

Posted by: Dr.Claw at May 31, 2025 08:06 AM (3wi/L)

41 In related news, writers for the local Denver Fox cable channel cannot decide whether to call them 'grey' wolves or 'gray' wolves, so they alternate throughout the article.

Posted by: muldoon at May 31, 2025 08:06 AM (/iMjX)

42 Vulpine Resources

Hahahaha!

Posted by: pawn at May 31, 2025 08:06 AM (QB+5g)

43 My night work is all ot, the only thing making it worthwhile

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 08:06 AM (ypFCm)

44 Since it's the prayer thread, please squeeze me into your prayers just for better health.
I feel like I am on a downward trend.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 08:05 AM (dE3DB)

Of course. Prayers lifted up for your general health and well-being.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 31, 2025 08:06 AM (SfhV1)

45
People are idiots.

This is an evergreen statement.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 08:06 AM (QnmlO)

46 15 I am a coffee snob. I ain't ever paying more than a buck for a cup of coffee.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 31, 2025 07:54 AM

1. Attain the age of 29+
2. Go to McDonalds and buy a "Senior coffee."
3. Enjoy drinking said coffee.
4. Rinse out the McDonalds Styrofoam cup from said Senior Coffee and store it in your car.
5. Whenever you desire another cup of coffee take it into a McDonalds for a free refill.
6. Not that I routinely do this or anything.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 08:07 AM (dg+HA)

47 I was never a coffee snob, but I appreciated a good cup of coffee. Since covid four years ago, I can't smell or taste. Coffee is one of the things I miss most. I cleaned my percolator and set it aside. It was a sad day. I'd gladly drink a 7-11 coffee if I could taste it.

Posted by: windbag at May 31, 2025 08:07 AM (jiRyL)

48 Apparently, Gaia threw softball sized hail balls at parts of Texas yesterday evening. That can't be fun.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2025 08:08 AM (4nevv)

49 Yes, 7-11 Coffee is much improved these days, but the same Big Bite Hot Dog has been on the rollers since 1978.

Posted by: Woof, Woof! at May 31, 2025 08:08 AM (G5+As)

50 >> One of my memory verses from ol' timey Sunday School. In King James of course. (it was the 60's. When did the NIV come out?)

NIV came out in the late 70’s and has been revised a few times. It is largely my “go to” version, but I prefer the KJV for study. They’ve tried to clean up the NIV but I feel some of the paraphrasing they use is misleading. Especially when you look at some of the original Hebrew and Greek.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:08 AM (o33NW)

51 39
'I will always hate the Dodgers because they lost to the Yankees in the WS.'

You're fuming over the 1978 World Series? Did you lose a bet? Time to move on.

Posted by: Dr.Claw at May 31, 2025 08:08 AM (3wi/L)

52 Prayers up for vmom especially, and all the horde

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2025 08:09 AM (4nevv)

53 Muldoon depends if they are British or American wolves

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 08:09 AM (ypFCm)

54 "My night work is all ot, the only thing making it worthwhile
Posted by: Skip"

Well, you have to make hay when the Sun is shining. Or in your case, not shining.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2025 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

55 I do not care much for coffee. It all taste water trickled over burnt shit (figurative as I do not know for a fact what burnt shit taste like).

Then I met a couple of people who know their coffee. Throwing out various coffee beans because they 'taste like shit' until they get the good stuff. Even one lady who went through three coffee makers in one day because they make coffee that 'taste like shit'.

Have to admit - the coffee they made was quite a bit more paletable than the average cup.

Come to the conclusion that people who really know their coffee really really do not like coffee and will go through extraordinary efforts to make a cup that doesn't taste like shit.

Everybody else knows they just drink it for the caffeine.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 08:10 AM (/lPRQ)

56 It’s Colorado, I’m surprised some group from Boulder hasn’t tried to covert the wolves to veganism.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 31, 2025 08:10 AM (6ydKt)

57 It is largely my “go to” version, but I prefer the KJV for study.

I sometimes read the New King James version. They took out the thee's and thou's and such, but for the most part they've left the rest alone.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 31, 2025 08:11 AM (SfhV1)

58 Update on friend's kidney transplant candidate son, Tim. He did get on the viable candidate waiting list, but there was a condition that he lose 50 pounds during the next ninety days, he is a big guy (250 pounds), and he is thinking that is an impossible task.
Pray that he realizes what a God-given blessing he has been given to reach this point in the transplant and that he makes the right lifestyle choices to lose that weight!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:11 AM (hOUT3)

59 Coffee is good when it's hot. I don't understand the cold-brew coffee in the refrigerated section of the grocery store.

It doesn't make any sense to drink coffee cold.

Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2025 08:11 AM (Oy/m2)

60 "I’m surprised some group from Boulder hasn’t tried to covert the wolves to veganism.
Posted by: SpeakingOf"

We ate them.

Posted by: The wolves at May 31, 2025 08:11 AM (vFG9F)

61 In tangentially related fake local news, the Colorado Rockies baseball club is considering taking a page from Parks & Wildlife and instituting "lethal management action" to bolster on-0the-field productivity.

Posted by: muldoon at May 31, 2025 08:12 AM (/iMjX)

62 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.

--

I love that the first 3 Hail Marys of the rosary are for increasing Faith, Hope, and Charity and when I get to pray it I try to actually think on those three beads instead of rishing through,

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 08:12 AM (gDlxJ)

63 Colorado Parks and Wildlife kills grey wolf in Pitkin County after attacks on livestock
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Somebody still ranches in Pitkin County? Are developers getting lax over there?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2025 08:12 AM (4nevv)

64 "Running with sharp objects is severely restricted."

But not prohibited, right?
Posted by: Cheese runner

As long as you also carry a valid license for "the thing that goes up" you are good.

In blue cities you may have to bribe the police chief and or mayor for the license before you can run amok.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 08:13 AM (/lPRQ)

65 >>Colorado Parks and Wildlife kills grey wolf in Pitkin County after attacks on livestock

They need to get after the pack in NOCAL along the Oregon border. There are a few ranchers getting devastated by that pack. They actually stopped taking elk and deer because they’ve gotten used to taking calves. They’re actually looking for people to ride the range at night. Hmmmm…

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:13 AM (o33NW)

66 My esspresso machine has been on their fritz for a month.

I bought the cheapest 3 cup drip machine on Amazon and have been brewing my regular beans in it. I adjusted the mill to grind the beans a bit courser.

I'm in the process of moving and I work full time and have no one around to help so fixing the espresso machine is way down the list.

I really don't want to get used to this coffee. I miss my espresso. It's pretty much my last indulgence.

Wah!

Posted by: pawn at May 31, 2025 08:14 AM (QB+5g)

67 "When I grow up I want to be the Director of Vulpine Resources."

Posted by: Said no second grader ever at May 31, 2025 08:14 AM (dg+HA)

68 I hope the wolves are careful with pronoun usage.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2025 08:14 AM (4nevv)

69 Running Cheese would be a terrible Indian name.

Posted by: The wolves at May 31, 2025 08:14 AM (vFG9F)

70 I look forward to the Wolf Report on Saturday mornings.

Posted by: Weakly Reader. at May 31, 2025 08:16 AM (G5+As)

71 >>29 Some guy won a women's track meet. What an accomplishment.

People who support such nonsense are weirdos and should have a compulsory mental wellness check.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 08:16 AM (Y1sOo)

72 Muldoon depends if they are British or American wolves
Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 08:09 AM (ypFCm)
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Which one carries the coconuts?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2025 08:16 AM (GlyvH)

73 Update on friend's kidney transplant candidate son, Tim. He did get on the viable candidate waiting list, but there was a condition that he lose 50 pounds during the next ninety days, he is a big guy (250 pounds), and he is thinking that is an impossible task.
Pray that he realizes what a God-given blessing he has been given to reach this point in the transplant and that he makes the right lifestyle choices to lose that weight!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:11 AM (hOUT3)

They can’t just put him on Ozempic for a few months?

I assume that would help, because 50 lbs is a lot to ask for in 90 days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 31, 2025 08:16 AM (6ydKt)

74 There's also a Starlink launch around midday - note time is Pacific:

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 11-18
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: May 31, 2025
Launch Time: 1:01 p.m. PDT, 2001 UTC, 22:01 CEST

https://www.youtube.com/live/89OSFmqA9og

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, un lancio di satelliti at May 31, 2025 08:17 AM (sPQoU)

75 >> I sometimes read the New King James version. They took out the thee's and thou's and such, but for the most part they've left the rest alone.

Biblegateway has just about every version online for free. So you can flip back and forth and even look at the Hebrew or Greek translations. They also have it in many languages.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:17 AM (o33NW)

76 Hail Marys can be fun...if the ball is batted around in the endzone several times before being snatched by a receiver for the winning score.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 08:17 AM (Y1sOo)

77 Biblegateway has just about every version online for free.

I love Biblegateway. So useful.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 31, 2025 08:18 AM (SfhV1)

78 OK, this is rare. It started getting really dark outside.

It's morning that's not supposed to happen.

I checked the weather and there's a big front coming through.

This never happens at this time of day here.

Posted by: pawn at May 31, 2025 08:18 AM (QB+5g)

79 Some guy won a women's track meet. What an accomplishment.
Posted by: fd
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Was it an effeminate little twink that might actually pass for a girl?
Or was it the usual obvious male who 'identifies' as a woman to make it all nice and legal to physically dominate them? You know, the kind of guy who would be a serial rapist-killer in the before times.

It just seems like you never see the fem/twinks pulling these stunts.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 08:18 AM (/lPRQ)

80 depends if they are British or American wolves
Posted by: Skip

************

And there's the rub. The wolves are North American wolves captured in British Columbia and imported to Colorado.

Posted by: muldoon at May 31, 2025 08:18 AM (/iMjX)

81 46 15 I am a coffee snob. I ain't ever paying more than a buck for a cup of coffee.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 31, 2025 07:54 AM

1. Attain the age of 29+
2. Go to McDonalds and buy a "Senior coffee."
3. Enjoy drinking said coffee.
4. Rinse out the McDonalds Styrofoam cup from said Senior Coffee and store it in your car.
5. Whenever you desire another cup of coffee take it into a McDonalds for a free refill.
6. Not that I routinely do this or anything.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 08:07 AM (dg+HA)

I routinely carry a quart Stanley thermos & 20 ounce mug

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian i at May 31, 2025 08:19 AM (QXQ4l)

82 brcc ak47

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 31, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

83 I didn't lose a bet, just love hating the Yankees. I want to root for the Twins but they always lose to the 6ankees.

Posted by: Accomack at May 31, 2025 08:19 AM (RBD82)

84 Everybody knows Jesus used the King James translation.

Posted by: The Pentecostal church across town at May 31, 2025 08:19 AM (dg+HA)

85 61 In tangentially related fake local news, the Colorado Rockies baseball club is considering taking a page from Parks & Wildlife and instituting "lethal management action" to bolster on-0the-field productivity.
Posted by: muldoon

Did you expect them to win their 10th game before June 1?

Posted by: Lowered Expectations at May 31, 2025 08:19 AM (G5+As)

86 Especially when you look at some of the original Hebrew and Greek.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:08 AM (o33NW)

Had a seminary student give an informal talk to a small fire pit group. He said he was learning those languages to be able to read the "original" texts. Someone asked "What is it like reading them in the original language?"

His answer was perfect. He said "It was as if I was seeing a old movie I really liked when I originally saw it in Black and White, but now I was seeing it in Technicolor!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:19 AM (hOUT3)

87 72 Muldoon depends if they are British or American wolves
Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 08:09 AM (ypFCm)
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Which one carries the coconuts?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2025 08:16 AM (GlyvH)
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The one with the season deal with the African Swallows.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i lupi devono mangiare at May 31, 2025 08:20 AM (sPQoU)

88 Everybody knows Jesus used the King James translation.

Posted by: The Pentecostal church across town at May 31, 2025 08:19 AM (dg+HA)

If it was good enough for Paul, it's good enough for me.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 31, 2025 08:20 AM (SfhV1)

89 Pawn, get one of those bialetti style stove top coffee makers. There's cheap ones.
You can still use it as a backup in case of power outages even after your espresso machine gets fixed

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 08:20 AM (dE3DB)

90 84 Everybody knows Jesus used the King James translation.
Posted by: The Pentecostal church across town

This is most certainly true, but everyone knows that Norwegian is the language spoken in Heaven.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors at May 31, 2025 08:21 AM (G5+As)

91 Good morning again dear morons with thanks to annie and mh and you horde for praying

Hiya JT

Special prayer for KT a complete and speedy recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 31, 2025 08:21 AM (PqUrB)

92
Hmmm.

There's probably more "will-not-drinkism" snobbery regarding Starbucks coffee than 7-11 coffee.

I have yet to read a single rant here or elsewhere about 7-11 coffee where there have probably been hundreds of rants against Starbucks coffee on this website alone. Plenty of folks twist themselves into Caffeinated Pretzels of Rage at the mere mention of Starbucks.

I decry your 7-11 Privilege!!! And hope that one day all men and women will liberate their minds with a hot steaming cup of Starbucks coffee!

Be better, morons. Be better.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 08:22 AM (iJfKG)

93 everyone knows that Norwegian is the language spoken in Heaven.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors at May 31, 2025 08:21 AM (G5+As)

Uff da

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 31, 2025 08:22 AM (SfhV1)

94 Nights and days bless the Lord

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 08:22 AM (dE3DB)

95 Come to the conclusion that people who really know their coffee really really do not like coffee and will go through extraordinary efforts to make a cup that doesn't taste like shit.
Everybody else knows they just drink it for the caffeine.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 08:10 AM (/lPRQ)

Correct. Plus coffee hot and neat will put your ass on the shitter.
And let's not forget the Coffee Enema.

Posted by: Vietnamese Civet Coffee Bean Pooper at May 31, 2025 08:22 AM (R/m4+)

96 Looks like Canada is on fire again.

It's so weird that a bunch of fires can break out over a large region in a day or two when there's been no thunderstorms.

I noticed that a good number of them are adjacent to the First Nation Lands or what ever they call them up there.

Posted by: pawn at May 31, 2025 08:22 AM (QB+5g)

97 Longtime lurker here. Good morning!

I can report that the 7-11s in other parts of the world, particularly Japan, are next level. And that includes the coffee. They have a sweetener there called mizuame (water candy) that’s really good.

Posted by: 144 at May 31, 2025 08:22 AM (+YPuJ)

98 good morning MisHum, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 31, 2025 08:23 AM (ftcl+)

99 Coffee consumption is the cornerstone of Italian culture.

Posted by: pawn at May 31, 2025 08:23 AM (QB+5g)

100 Good morning, 144!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 31, 2025 08:23 AM (SfhV1)

101 Would like to ask for prayers for healing for a dear elderly woman , J in the congregation which I serve. She had heart issues, had surgery, and now seems to have dementia.
Also prayers for another J, mother of a congregant who has heart failure. Thanks so much

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2025 08:24 AM (pfeU6)

102 They can’t just put him on Ozempic for a few months?
I assume that would help, because 50 lbs is a lot to ask for in 90 days.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 31, 2025 08:16 AM (6ydKt)

That's one option, but 20% body mass weight loss is non-trivial; however, the alternative of (shorter) lifetime dialysis would seem to be a powerful motivator!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:24 AM (hOUT3)

103 But if you've forgotten your date's name you can take her to Starbucks.

Posted by: Not that I've ever done that at May 31, 2025 08:24 AM (dg+HA)

104 Good morning. Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Getting over two inches of rain overnight and through the afternoon here in the MidHudson. Flood warnings. One of the rainiest May ever

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2025 08:24 AM (9m6M/)

105
I routinely carry a quart Stanley thermos & 20 ounce mug
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Good thing you live in the sticks and can pee in the bushes.

Posted by: Gotta Go! at May 31, 2025 08:24 AM (G5+As)

106 >> His answer was perfect. He said "It was as if I was seeing a old movie I really liked when I originally saw it in Black and White, but now I was seeing it in Technicolor!"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:19 AM (hOUT3)

It really is an eye opener. If you start with simple phrases and then go back to the original Hebrew or Greek it sometimes makes a big difference. There was a lot of criticism of the NIV translations because some felt it wasn’t true to the original text. I thought some of it was nitpicking, but then I went and tried to understand it- and a lot of it was valid IMVHO.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:25 AM (o33NW)

107 Glad I don’t drink coffee.
So much politics involved over boiling water running through crushed beans.

We don’t have these kind of societal breakdowns over Tea…

Earl Gray, Hot.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 31, 2025 08:25 AM (6ydKt)

108 I had to do fasting bloodwork this week but they said I could drink black coffee before I came in. Horrible stuff! I like coffee creamer with a little coffee in it.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 31, 2025 08:25 AM (SfhV1)

109 Coffee is good when it's hot. I don't understand the cold-brew coffee in the refrigerated section of the grocery store.

It doesn't make any sense to drink coffee cold.
Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2025 08:11 AM (Oy/m2)

Well hold on to your hat 'cause, get this, there exists coffee ice cream. Who ruins perfectly good ice cream?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 31, 2025 08:26 AM (Aqu9a)

110 Being Saturday can always nap later, I am going to make breakfast and coffee

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 08:26 AM (ypFCm)

111 "...wolves captured in British Columbia and imported to Colorado."

That's like a whole 'nother country.

Posted by: And stuff at May 31, 2025 08:27 AM (dg+HA)

112 I invested in a super automatic espresso machine because coffee is a cornerstone of our culture. It was spendy but it gets used all day, every day.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:27 AM (o33NW)

113 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:27 AM (ZOv7s)

114 I routinely carry a quart Stanley thermos & 20 ounce mug
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian i at May 31, 2025 08:19 AM (QXQ4l)

And to think I always viewed you as a professional coffee drinker...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:27 AM (hOUT3)

115

I like to pay a hooker to pop the zits on my back and feed me the smegy yuck.

Then I bang her.

Too bad I'm a three pump chump.

He, er, she seems OK with that....

I need pancakes.

Posted by: Hunter Bidet at May 31, 2025 08:28 AM (xWK6x)

116 Good article at American Thinker
There will be more violence, Socialism calls for it

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 08:28 AM (ypFCm)

117 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 31, 2025 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

118 Did you expect them to win their 10th game before June 1?
Posted by: Lowered Expectations

*********

That would require a win today.

The Rox sit at 9-48, having lost six in a row. The good news is they are only 20 games out of fourth place in the NL West. I find it amusing.

Posted by: muldoon at May 31, 2025 08:29 AM (/iMjX)

119 >>> Haribo Recalls Entire Stock of Gummy Candy After Three Packs Found Laced with Drugs

Get them before they are pulled from the shelves...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 08:29 AM (/lPRQ)

120 Sometimes I put chocolate milk in my coffee, otherwise, I like it black no sugar.

Posted by: Accomack at May 31, 2025 08:29 AM (oERdd)

121 On my way to Julie's Celebration of Life.
May you also celebrate life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 31, 2025 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

122
Went to Mass on Thursday, as it was Ascension Thursday, 40 days after Easter, and thus a Holy Day of Obligation. The archdiocese, in its dubious wisdom, transferred the obligation to Sunday. Which makes it Ascension Thursday Sunday, which is a bit silly.

I went to Confession before Mass. We're lucky in our fossilized parish that Confession is available before every Mass, starting 30 minutes before and going through almost to Communion. Most other parishes (sorry, "Catholic communities") have it for as little as 45 minutes a week for far larger congregations.

I've learned that people will usually do the right thing if it's easy to do. If frequent Confession is important - fat chance you'll hear that from the pulpit - facilities should be available for the faithful to do so. As it is, I doubt a significant fraction take Communion without even an examination of conscience.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 08:29 AM (QnmlO)

123 Thank you grammie

Good morning Salty

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 08:30 AM (dE3DB)

124 That's one option, but 20% body mass weight loss is non-trivial; however, the alternative of (shorter) lifetime dialysis would seem to be a powerful motivator!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:24 AM (hOUT3)

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We get used to what we like to eat.
He’s going to have to get used to eating a lot of chicken breast and broccoli if he wants to lose that much weight that fast.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 31, 2025 08:30 AM (6ydKt)

125 Godspeed to Jewels.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 08:31 AM (dg+HA)

126 106
Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:25 AM (o33NW)

One thing I really like about my current pastor is that he will insert translation details like that as part of the sermon, so we congregants recognize the subtlety of the language!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:31 AM (hOUT3)

127 Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 31, 2025 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

May the celebration of Jewells' life be a blessing and comfort to all who attend.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2025 08:32 AM (pfeU6)

128 I put ghee in my coffee.
I'm a gheezer.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 08:33 AM (dg+HA)

129 Good morning, good citizens. Wet rainy plus windy for today wouldn't you know. Had a family outing scheduled at a park for today, looks as if it's a no-go now. I have to find what the rental fee, if any is and kick back our share to older daughter.

But first may I wish for you maximum benefit in all efforts undertaken, with maximal heartburn on the leftwit fungi's part.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 31, 2025 08:33 AM (hKoQL)

130 Prayers for the bishop of the Dioceses of Charlotte, NC, and his congregation. He has apparently decided that Latin is bad, kneeling to receive Communion is bad, priests praying the old traditional prayers while putting on vestments is bad, crucifixes and missal stands on altars is bad, and women lectors wearing chapel veils is bad.

Unsurprisingly, he was promoted to bishop by Pope Francis over the objections of Robert Cardinal Prevost (if the interwebs is to be believed).

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:33 AM (pJWtt)

131 Hadrian, Thursday was still a day of obligation for our diocese

We do need more confession times
They announced last week that a priest will be coming to live in the parish residence as he will be doing something something in the public university; anyway maybe ge can pitch in with offering more confession times.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 08:34 AM (dE3DB)

132 53 Muldoon depends if they are British or American wolves

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 08:09 AM (ypFCm)
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Brit usage: gray for person's name; grey for color.

So Mr Gray is/was a grey wolf.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, Canadesi at May 31, 2025 08:34 AM (sPQoU)

133 121 On my way to Julie's Celebration of Life.
May you also celebrate life.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 31, 2025 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

Safe travels, and good on you for being a Horde Representative. We all know how much she would appreciate your attendance!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:35 AM (hOUT3)

134 My German Mennonite forebears would often take a Mason jar of iced coffee when they were going out--working outside or driving.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 31, 2025 08:35 AM (kTd/k)

135 Btw Hadrian, have you ever listened to lauds & vespers on @SingthrHours on YouTube /Spotify?

I really like it.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 08:35 AM (dE3DB)

136 Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:33 AM (pJWtt)

Pope Leo can't send him to another diocese where they might be more in support of the changes he wants instituted.?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2025 08:36 AM (pfeU6)

137 >> Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:31 AM (hOUT3)

We have one priest who does the same thing. I find it truly intriguing and fulfilling. But I also like to tease him with questions like- “Do you really think Paul was blinded, or is that a metaphor?” He just shakes his head at me. lol.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:36 AM (o33NW)

138 We get used to what we like to eat.
He’s going to have to get used to eating a lot of chicken breast and broccoli if he wants to lose that much weight that fast.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 31, 2025 08:30 AM (6ydKt)

Lasagna for you, broiled chicken and kale for me, no bread.

Posted by: Dominick DiNapoli at May 31, 2025 08:36 AM (R/m4+)

139 I've learned that people will usually do the right thing if it's easy to do. If frequent Confession is important - fat chance you'll hear that from the pulpit - facilities should be available for the faithful to do so. As it is, I doubt a significant fraction take Communion without even an examination of conscience.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 08:29 AM (QnmlO)
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Being a college town parish, we are constantly reminded to receive Reconciliation. Every time I have gone, there has been a considerable line, so the word is getting through here.

I'm pleased to see more women wearing veils (usually younger) and the school kids are receiving the Host while kneeling on the tongue. Mostly Boomers who receive it on the hand. The younger you go, the less you see of that.

The "townie" location used to be geriatric, but now lots of families and kids are running around. Nice to see.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:36 AM (ZOv7s)

140 Retired Buckeye Cop , I saw some reports about thar. Wth

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 08:37 AM (dE3DB)

141 Looks like the Pope Bob Show is coming to Comiskey Park in Chicago.

Tickets that were released at $5 face value have hit the re-sale market for $1,200.

Pope Bob is a big draw.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 08:37 AM (Y1sOo)

142 I have a track record of surviving on less than the ideal coffee. In college I couldn't afford much and we couldn't have hot plates in the dorms. My coffee survival ration was instant coffee, black, made with hot tap water. This was long before Starbucks and similar overpriced crap was on every corner, so that wasn't a factor. When I got my first apartment one of the first things I bought was a Faberware Yosemite stove top percolator and a big bag of A and P 8 O'Clock coffee. It felt luxurious.

Posted by: JTB at May 31, 2025 08:38 AM (yTvNw)

143 Prayers for the bishop of the Dioceses of Charlotte, NC, and his congregation. He has apparently decided that Latin is bad, kneeling to receive Communion is bad, priests praying the old traditional prayers while putting on vestments is bad, crucifixes and missal stands on altars is bad, and women lectors wearing chapel veils is bad.

Unsurprisingly, he was promoted to bishop by Pope Francis over the objections of Robert Cardinal Prevost (if the interwebs is to be believed).
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:33 AM (pJWtt)
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The letter everyone is angry about has been redefined as a "draft," which is a positive sign.

There are also reports that Cardinal Prevost met with him some time ago and counseled him to slow things down, and get to know the parish before making such radical changes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)

144 My coffee survival ration was instant coffee, black, made with hot tap water.

oh gak

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 31, 2025 08:39 AM (SfhV1)

145 Who's the warm up act for the Pope Bob show in Chicago

Posted by: I gotta ask at May 31, 2025 08:39 AM (dg+HA)

146 Who's the warm up act for the Pope Bob show in Chicago
Posted by: I gotta ask at May 31, 2025 08:39 AM (dg+HA)
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He is Pope Leo XIV. I know there were people who refused to treat Francis with honor, but I was not one of them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:40 AM (ZOv7s)

147
I'm pleased to see more women wearing veils (usually younger) and the school kids are receiving the Host while kneeling on the tongue

________

Kneeling on the tongue must be awkward

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 08:41 AM (QnmlO)

148 I’ve told the story how I made coffee in an inhospitable place by crushing the beans with a rock in my sock and then using that sock to filter the coffee in hot water. So I feel like the super automatic maker was earned. lol.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:41 AM (o33NW)

149 >>Who's the warm up act for the Pope Bob show in Chicago

Judas Priest?

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 08:41 AM (Y1sOo)

150 I am a coffee snob except when I am desperate

That’s my secret, Cap. I’m always desperate.

And yes, Itinerant Alley Butcher, I buy expensive (King Harv) coffee because I don’t particularly like coffee. I’ve found a few flavors that “don’t taste like shit”.

Accomack, I also always drink coffee straight, no sugar or milk—unless I add coffee syrup to it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 31, 2025 08:41 AM (EXyHK)

151 Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:33 AM (pJWtt)

Pope Leo can't send him to another diocese where they might be more in support of the changes he wants instituted.?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2025 08:36 AM (pfeU6)

This bishop just tossed this grenade (a letter to his priests, apparently) into the lap of Pope Leo XIV. Bishop Martin is apparently a creature of Cardinal Cupice.

I suspect that this bishop wants to derail the ongoing negotiations with the SSPX (a Latin Mass religious order that is not in full communion with Rome). Bishop Martin would do well to remember that what Pope Francis granted, Pope Leo XIV can rescind.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:42 AM (pJWtt)

152 86
My late wife went back to college for Classical Greek and Hebrew, for that very purpose.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Bibbia at May 31, 2025 08:42 AM (sPQoU)

153 Kneeling on the tongue must be awkward
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 08:41 AM (QnmlO)
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Phrasing! Doesn't anyone do phrasing anymore?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:42 AM (ZOv7s)

154 Marcus you got nothing on a American Civil War soldier

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 08:43 AM (ypFCm)

155 I also always drink coffee straight, no sugar or milk—unless I add coffee syrup to it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 31, 2025 08:41 AM (EXyHK)

I read that as cough syrup.

Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2025 08:44 AM (Oy/m2)

156

Communists 'Priests' should be accidentally garroted. Accidentaly.

Posted by: Just Sayin... at May 31, 2025 08:45 AM (xWK6x)

157 Kneeling on the tongue?
$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Oops. This isn't the art thread at May 31, 2025 08:45 AM (dg+HA)

158 99 Coffee consumption is the cornerstone of Italian culture.

Posted by: pawn at May 31, 2025 08:23 AM (QB+5g)
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THIS ^^^^^

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, un altro caffe? at May 31, 2025 08:45 AM (sPQoU)

159 vnom,
In case you didn't see what I posted last night re: aural migraines, this might help. I have to have a pint of blood drawn every few weeks, and that draw-down gave me aural migraines for the first time. My hematologist said the secret is Hydrate Hydrate Hydrate! Also put a pinch of salt in everything you drink, from water to coffee. It has helped.

Also, prayers up.

Posted by: Wenda at May 31, 2025 08:45 AM (KGfTv)

160 I suspect that this bishop wants to derail the ongoing negotiations with the SSPX (a Latin Mass religious order that is not in full communion with Rome). Bishop Martin would do well to remember that what Pope Francis granted, Pope Leo XIV can rescind.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:42 AM (pJWtt)
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If you dig into the details of the "draft," it's very hard to believe it is sincere and not an attempt to destroy the diocese outright.

Liberal Catholic knows they have lost the war. Francis was their great hope, and Parolin was supposed to seal the deal, but they were outmaneuvered. Now there is only anger, because the demographics are decisively against them from here on out. It won't be a question of selecting liberal bishops or cardinals because they are going extinct.

Instead, the menu is going to be Novus Ordo in traditional setting (with Latin) or TLM.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:45 AM (ZOv7s)

161 I’ve had the opportunity to attend various Catholic Churches in different parts of the country. It’s been my experience that younger parishioners are increasingly more conservative and traditional. I have also seen the veils come back along with some of the older practices such as receiving while kneeling. I believe, or at least I pray that Pope Leo is aware of this and that “modernization” of the church is not the way. Rather a return to the traditional ways which provided familiarity, comfort and were more glorifying to God are the way.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:45 AM (o33NW)

162 I read that as cough syrup.

That sounds oddly compelling.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 31, 2025 08:45 AM (EXyHK)

163 Pinch or two of salt in black coffee.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 31, 2025 08:46 AM (UBKzV)

164 Skip, I think sometimes you just need the cup of coffee no matter what’s going on. It’s home. It’s comforting. It brings clarity.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:47 AM (o33NW)

165 Unsurprisingly, he was promoted to bishop by Pope Francis over the objections of Robert Cardinal Prevost (if the interwebs is to be believed).
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:33 AM (pJWtt)
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The letter everyone is angry about has been redefined as a "draft," which is a positive sign.

There are also reports that Cardinal Prevost met with him some time ago and counseled him to slow things down, and get to know the parish before making such radical changes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)

This letter got leaked. It makes for some bizarre reading. The amount of micro-management is quite astounding.

What is ironic is that in midst of Bishop Martin's "Latin is bad...reee!!!" letter is that, simultaneously, the Dicastery on Sacred Music is promoting a "Sing Along with Pope Leo XIV" on the Tube of Ewes to teach the Latin responses to the Gregorian chants.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:47 AM (pJWtt)

166 >>> Liberal Catholic knows they have lost the war.

They can always become Episcopalian.

Posted by: fluffy at May 31, 2025 08:48 AM (AN2gy)

167 Morning coffee, Thornton Mellon style:

https://youtu.be/icCUrWDSh0k

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 31, 2025 08:48 AM (Aqu9a)

168 I think there's another religious group that prefers their women wear veils.

Posted by: But what do I know at May 31, 2025 08:48 AM (dg+HA)

169 >>>@47 ... Since covid four years ago, I can't smell or taste. Coffee is one of the things I miss most. I cleaned my percolator and set it aside. It was a sad day. I'd gladly drink a 7-11 coffee if I could taste it. Posted by: windbag at May 31, 2025 08:07 AM (jiRyL)
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Greetings, windbag ... Have you tried "olfactory retraining"? ... It's a method for waking up damaged nerves -- sniffing a wide variety of odor-generating elements such as lemons or oranges, flowery perfumes, peanut butter, eucalyptus, rosemary, cinnamon, pine, peppermint, or cloves ... Some people use essential oils but, whatever you use, give it time (a month or two) ... Google "HOW TO RESTORE TASTE AND SMELL AFTER COVID" for other suggestions.

Posted by: Kathy at May 31, 2025 08:50 AM (qpw89)

170 Not to kick off another fun episode of Generational Wars, but the same demographics in the electorate also feature within the Catholic clergy. Gen X is much more theologically conservative than the Boomers. This has not had much public impact because it is only recently that Gen X priests have started taking over parishes and moved up into hierarchy, but it is very much underway.

The bad news for Liberal Catholics (not the same as political liberals, btw) is that while Gen X leans more conservative than younger generations in the public as a whole, the succeeding classes of seminarians were even more conservative. The current crop are pretty much itching to dump Vatican II outright.

Add in the fact that the liberal diocesan seminaries are all but abandoned while the SSPX and FSSP are bulging at the seams and the future of the Church looks very orthodox.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:51 AM (ZOv7s)

171 "Brit usage: gray for person's name; grey for color.

So Mr Gray is/was a grey wolf.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, Canadesi "

Hmm.

Posted by: Tarzan at May 31, 2025 08:52 AM (vFG9F)

172 I think there's another religious group that prefers their women wear veils.
Posted by: But what do I know at May 31, 2025 08:48 AM (dg+HA)

As a Catholic, I believe that it is a matter of personal piety. If a woman chooses to wear a veil during Mass, that's up to her. I'm pretty certain that's the official view of the Church also.

Muslims require woman to be veiled for different reasons.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:52 AM (pJWtt)

173 @47 ... Since covid four years ago, I can't smell or taste. Coffee is one of the things I miss most. I cleaned my percolator and set it aside. It was a sad day. I'd gladly drink a 7-11 coffee if I could taste it. Posted by: windbag at May 31, 2025 08:07 AM (jiRyL)

Have you tried a Limburger and anchovy sandwich?

Posted by: pawn at May 31, 2025 08:53 AM (QB+5g)

174
Instead, the menu is going to be Novus Ordo in traditional setting (with Latin)

The problem is that a Novus Ordo Mass in Latin - even a reverent NO Mass - is still a Novus Ordo Mass, but a Tridentine Mass in vernacular loses little.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 08:53 AM (QnmlO)

175
Latin music is the hot new trend!

https://youtu.be/8PdfrfPC5NY

(Pro tip: just go ahead and give the horse a name.)

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 08:53 AM (dg+HA)

176 I think there's another religious group that prefers their women wear veils.
Posted by: But what do I know at May 31, 2025 08:48 AM (dg+HA)
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So wait, feminine modesty is a bad thing? You know they take them off when the service ends, right?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:54 AM (ZOv7s)

177 Head coverings as a sign of modesty and humbleness before God are a tradition as old as time both in the Jewish and Catholic religions. I dare say That’s not the reasoning used in other places.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:54 AM (o33NW)

178 A friend and I have been discussing his idea that Justice Roberts is deliberately trying to undermine Trump. After yesterday’s pro-Trump ruling, I told him this:
“I think Roberts is doing the dumbest thing possible - he’s going to let Trump win a few, then let the other side win a few, and he’s going to bounce back and forth until everyone on both sides of the divide in this country absolutely hates him and his Court.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 08:56 AM (i5oKA)

179 Significant haze here in the Bluegrass today. More Canadian fires I think. We went through this last year at this time IIRC. The sky is a yellow-brown today.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2025 08:56 AM (Q4IgG)

180
As a Catholic, I believe that it is a matter of personal piety. If a woman chooses to wear a veil during Mass, that's up to her. I'm pretty certain that's the official view of the Church also.

One of the most charming things on Sundays is to see young girls wearing chapel veils.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 08:56 AM (QnmlO)

181 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 31, 2025 08:56 AM (/Ghsb)

182 And on a political note- because it is an open thread -and it made me laugh: I like to do word search puzzles. Today's puzzle topic was on the Congressional Oversight Committee. The leftover word was "solution ". Uhhh, yeah. Sure.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2025 08:56 AM (noQgu)

183 Not to kick off another fun episode of Generational Wars, but the same demographics in the electorate also feature within the Catholic clergy. Gen X is much more theologically conservative than the Boomers. This has not had much public impact because it is only recently that Gen X priests have started taking over parishes and moved up into hierarchy, but it is very much underway.
...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:51 AM (ZOv7s)

We just had a "We don't understand Latin" discussion led by the 70 - 80 year old members of the Worship Commission of my parish. The younger Boomers/Gen X told them, "Uh ... it's literally the same as the prayers in English." Priests want Latin, read the "cheat sheet," discussion is over.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:57 AM (pJWtt)

184 The problem is that a Novus Ordo Mass in Latin - even a reverent NO Mass - is still a Novus Ordo Mass, but a Tridentine Mass in vernacular loses little.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 08:53 AM (QnmlO)
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I'd love to go to a TLM, but in the current situation, it is all I can do to get to my local parish, and more often than not, I barely make it on time. If it becomes more prevalent (or as the grandkids grow up), my options will open up.

There is a huge difference between a traditional NO and the hippie ones they used to do at the campus location, with bongos and guitars. [shudders]

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)

185 I took someone on a tour of various sites in Rome including Saint Peter’s. I made sure she her shoulders were covered and she had a veil in her pack.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:58 AM (o33NW)

186 I picked up a fifties-era grade school Latin textbook and have been slowly going through it, partly to help understand the Latin parts of Mass. During the holidays our church uses Latin for some parts.

I’ve been writing about the meanings of the words (also slowly) and have done the Agnus Dei and the Mysterium Fidei so far. Link in nic.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 31, 2025 08:59 AM (EXyHK)

187 Head coverings as a sign of modesty and humbleness before God are a tradition as old as time both in the Jewish and Catholic religions. I dare say That’s not the reasoning used in other places.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 08:54 AM (o33NW)
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And of course the face is not obscured in any way.

It really is encouraging and gives me hope amidst all the cultural chaos.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)

188 Hurricane season begins tomorrow in the Atlantic basin.

Dr. Rick Knabb at TWC must be giddy as a kid on Christmas Eve right now.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 09:00 AM (Y1sOo)

189
Oh, for those going to Confession when the time is short? Make a proper examination of conscience and be efficient in the confessional. You're a screw-up, not a monster. Did you sin? Say so. Are you sorry? Say so. Are you not going to do it again? Say so. Are you scraping the pan after 30 years or have some long-winded, convoluted problem? Make an appointment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 09:00 AM (QnmlO)

190 https://tinyurl.com/4zmcx73w
Powerline week in pictures

Matt Walsh - Remember, folks. White South Africans don't belong in South Africa after 400 years, White Americans are invaders even after 500 years. But a third world illegal immigrant who got here Tuesday is just as American as anyone else and if you call him invader you're racist

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 09:01 AM (ypFCm)

191 It just amazes me how lazy and selective people are. A lot of these people complaining about Latin can tell you the words of songs from the 60’s and 70’s. Take a few moments and memorize the prayers and mass in Latin. Put them on your iPhone and listen to them when you exercise or have free time. It doesn’t really take that much effort. It just takes the will.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 09:02 AM (o33NW)

192 A friend and I have been discussing his idea that Justice Roberts is deliberately trying to undermine Trump. After yesterday’s pro-Trump ruling, I told him this:
“I think Roberts is doing the dumbest thing possible - he’s going to let Trump win a few, then let the other side win a few, and he’s going to bounce back and forth until everyone on both sides of the divide in this country absolutely hates him and his Court.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 08:56 AM (i5oKA)
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I disagree. I think Roberts held back because he wanted "the process" to work, and figured that the cases would eventually get knocked down and the district judges would cool it.

He was badly mistaken, and now finds himself in a whirlwind of ever more absurd activism with no idea how to stop it. He's not a leader in any sense of the word, and lacks the conviction to stake out a strong position on his own.

I will also say that he probably assumed the Trump would violate the TROs and create a constitutional crisis which he could then adjudicate in the Establishment's favor. That Trump simply used other authorities, or treated the TROs as an individual rather than national ruling completely flummoxed him.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:04 AM (ZOv7s)

193 Nothing wrong with liking a perfect cup of coffee.

You are gay if you turn your nose up at a needed, but substandard cup of coffee just because it offends your effete sense of taste.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 09:04 AM (i24o9)

194 >> And of course the face is not obscured in any way.

It really is encouraging and gives me hope amidst all the cultural chaos.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)

I agree and the fact it is being done willingly is also encouraging. I’ve seen some horrible things done to people who are judged “immodest” in other places.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2025 09:04 AM (o33NW)

195
We just had a "We don't understand Latin" discussion led by the 70 - 80 year old members of the Worship Commission of my parish.

I have a missal and the church has booklets. Even though much of the low TLM is quiet, if not silent, I have never felt anything except fully engaged in the Pascal Mystery.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 09:04 AM (QnmlO)

196 The problem is that a Novus Ordo Mass in Latin - even a reverent NO Mass - is still a Novus Ordo Mass, but a Tridentine Mass in vernacular loses little.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 08:53 AM (QnmlO)
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I'd love to go to a TLM, but in the current situation, it is all I can do to get to my local parish, and more often than not, I barely make it on time. If it becomes more prevalent (or as the grandkids grow up), my options will open up.

There is a huge difference between a traditional NO and the hippie ones they used to do at the campus location, with bongos and guitars. [shudders]
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)

The liturgical abuses immediately after Vatican II has led to the lasting impression that the Novus Ordo is irreverent. It needn't be so.

However, I do agree with Hadrian in that if they had simply translated the Tredentine Latin Mass into the vernacular, the Catholic Church would have avoided a lot of turmoil. However, Modernist liturgists had other agendas.

Add into that mix, the auditory revelation of Pope Leo XIII that Jesus granted Satan 100 years to destroy the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 09:05 AM (pJWtt)

197 The Colorado wolves are quite reasonable in preferring veal over venison. Venison runs much faster and has sharper hoovers for kicking. And venison is gamy while veal scallopini is *chef's kiss*

Posted by: muldoon at May 31, 2025 09:05 AM (/iMjX)

198 Oh, for those going to Confession when the time is short? Make a proper examination of conscience and be efficient in the confessional. You're a screw-up, not a monster. Did you sin? Say so. Are you sorry? Say so. Are you not going to do it again? Say so. Are you scraping the pan after 30 years or have some long-winded, convoluted problem? Make an appointment.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 09:00 AM (QnmlO)
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Our pastor did a homily on how you don't have to confess thoughts you failed to act on. Please. Stop it. He was pretty light-hearted about it and we had a good laugh, but people were getting way to wound up on it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:06 AM (ZOv7s)

199 33 minutes before the Bezos Dildo takes off.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, un dildo at May 31, 2025 09:06 AM (sPQoU)

200 I enjoy bourbon cream as a coffee additive. Buffalo Trace is the best I've tasted. YMMV.

Posted by: Gref at May 31, 2025 09:06 AM (aBgBM)

201 >>> It just amazes me how lazy and selective people are. A lot of these people complaining about Latin can tell you the words of songs from the 60’s and 70’s

Yar

With a little fidelity to one's studies one can recognize some Latin roots in English.

Posted by: fluffy at May 31, 2025 09:06 AM (AN2gy)

202
But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head. But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for it is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved. For if a woman does not cover her head, have her also cut her hair off; however, if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, have her cover her head. For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man; for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.

Posted by: 1 Corinthians 11:3-9 at May 31, 2025 09:07 AM (dg+HA)

203 Out on the boat yesterday in the Gulf of America, my Lowrance told me the water temperature is 84 degrees.

I don't remember it being so warm this early in the season.

I hope that doesn't portend anything as far as hurricane season goes.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 09:07 AM (Y1sOo)

204 Honest question from a non-catholic. How does Latin vs vernacular mass affect salvation of the soul?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 31, 2025 09:07 AM (UBKzV)

205 And a prayer for healing from the pastoral care department of a local hospital :

From the time we rise in the morning until we close our eyes at night , O Lord, we thank you for life. We pray for inner peace, we hope for good health and we pray for healing for all who need it. Stretch our minds and open our hearts to receive your love, but also the faith which nourishes us and links us to others. Amen,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2025 09:07 AM (noQgu)

206 Add into that mix, the auditory revelation of Pope Leo XIII that Jesus granted Satan 100 years to destroy the Catholic Church.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 09:05 AM (pJWtt)
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Add onto that Our Lady of Fatima predicting that the family would fall under intense assault in the next century in 1916 and Obergefell being ruled in 2015.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:08 AM (ZOv7s)

207
Therefore the woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as the woman originated from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God. Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? Does even nature itself not teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him, but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her as a covering. But if anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor have the churches of God.

Posted by: 1 Corinthians 11:10-16 at May 31, 2025 09:08 AM (dg+HA)

208
Our pastor did a homily on how you don't have to confess thoughts you failed to act on. Please. Stop it.

True. If you willfully brought them to mind or persisted in them knowing they were wrong, you've stepped over the line.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 09:08 AM (QnmlO)

209 If it was good enough for Paul, it's good enough for me.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 31, 2025 08:20 AM (SfhV1)

But, was it good enough for Ringo?

Posted by: Biblical Scholar From Strawberry Fields at May 31, 2025 09:09 AM (5xuJ/)

210 True. If you willfully brought them to mind or persisted in them knowing they were wrong, you've stepped over the line.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 09:08 AM (QnmlO)
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"I do not want this thought; it brings me no pleasure, begone from me!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:10 AM (ZOv7s)

211 Matt Walsh - Remember, folks. White South Africans don't belong in South Africa after 400 years, White Americans are invaders even after 500 years. But a third world illegal immigrant who got here Tuesday is just as American as anyone else and if you call him invader you're racist
Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 09:01 AM (ypFCm)

Ah Ha!

Posted by: The Truth at May 31, 2025 09:10 AM (R/m4+)

212 Manatee Coffee is my preferred company now. I buy from them and money goes towards saving manatees.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 09:11 AM (7xrfc)

213 5. Whenever you desire another cup of coffee take it into a McDonalds for a free refill.
6. Not that I routinely do this or anything.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 08:07 AM (dg+HA)

Haha...I'm sure they have no idea you're doing this.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 31, 2025 09:11 AM (h7ZuX)

214 >>>My coffee survival ration was instant coffee, black, made with hot tap water.

I put together some "MREs" for hunting about 15 years ago, including 4 Folgers singles. I recently tested them. 4 for one cup wasn't the worst thing in the mix.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 09:12 AM (i24o9)

215 Someone has been going about the blog spreading rumors that I'm in the hospital again. Pay no attention to the rumors.

Also, hospital food. Is muuchh worse than a year ago. Tell RFKJr!

😉

Thanks for all the good thoughts.
❤️

Posted by: mindful webworker's cell at May 31, 2025 09:12 AM (0bE/L)

216
Honest question from a non-catholic. How does Latin vs vernacular mass affect salvation of the soul?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 31, 2025 09:07 AM (UBKzV)

I'll say this: I don't doubt either the canonical validity of the N.O. Mass or the piety of those hearing it. But when I go to a Traditional Latin Mass, I feel I'm participating in an awesome event. When I go to a N.O. Mass, I feel I'm checking off a box. And that difference conduces to the salvation of my soul.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 09:13 AM (QnmlO)

217 Honest question from a non-catholic. How does Latin vs vernacular mass affect salvation of the soul?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 31, 2025 09:07 AM (UBKzV)
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Using an ancient language can deepen the connection and reflection of prayer, bringing one closer to God in the process.

It's like saying a single Our Father vs a Rosary. Both are forms of prayer, but the latter takes the contemplation to a deeper and more profound level. At least in my experience.

I like to pray my Rosaries with Gregorian Chant in the background.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

218 Day 2 of waking up well before 4 am. Trying to revive myself with coffee and a big breakfast. Going to the radio nerd conference first, then off to check out the Lewis and Clark historical center.

Posted by: PabloD at May 31, 2025 09:13 AM (uwcSi)

219 Add into that mix, the auditory revelation of Pope Leo XIII that Jesus granted Satan 100 years to destroy the Catholic Church.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 09:05 AM (pJWtt)

I ran out of room to fully develop my thought:

I had already come to my own private conclusion that the 100 years dated from 1933. Hitler's Enabling Acts came about around Easter 1933.

I find the symmetry of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of 2033 - marking the 2000th anniversary Crucifixion of Christ - most likely celebrated by Pope Leo XIV - to be pretty interesting.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 09:13 AM (pJWtt)

220 >>>But, was it good enough for Ringo?

Doubtful

Posted by: Thomas the Apostle at May 31, 2025 09:13 AM (Y1sOo)

221 170
Add in the fact that the liberal diocesan seminaries are all but abandoned while the SSPX and FSSP are bulging at the seams and the future of the Church looks very orthodox.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 08:51 AM (ZOv7s)

Looking at the (small) number of men in the seminary in NH, most of them attend St Meinrad Seminary in Indiana. A couple go to Our Lady of Providence in RI. My understanding is St Meinrad takes a much more conservative approach to Catholic teaching.

I honestly am looking forward to a more orthodox church. I have seen so many Vatican II era priests that did more damage than good.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 31, 2025 09:14 AM (7v6oI)

222 Also, good morning, horde. Prayers said for all of you.

I'm enjoying a weekend at home; been staying with Mom during the week since she had a stroke. Not sure how long I'll need to do this, but she's supported me through a myriad of bad decisions, and it's my turn to take care of her.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 31, 2025 09:14 AM (h7ZuX)

223 Manatee Coffee is my preferred company now. I buy from them and money goes towards saving manatees.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 09:11 AM (7xrfc)

I use Indies Coffee Co. Vet owned. Supports vets and indie arts. 28 Roasts Later is my favorite.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 09:17 AM (i24o9)

224 Who's the warm up act for the Pope Bob show in Chicago

Judas Priest?
Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 08:41 AM (Y1sOo)

Black Sabbeth?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:17 AM (g8Ew8)

225 >>> Looking at the (small) number of men in the seminary in NH

Are you a Granitehead? Do you know anything about the recently closed Magdalene College in Warner? I was sad to learn of its closing.

Posted by: fluffy at May 31, 2025 09:17 AM (AN2gy)

226 Looking at the (small) number of men in the seminary in NH, most of them attend St Meinrad Seminary in Indiana. A couple go to Our Lady of Providence in RI. My understanding is St Meinrad takes a much more conservative approach to Catholic teaching.

I honestly am looking forward to a more orthodox church. I have seen so many Vatican II era priests that did more damage than good.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 31, 2025 09:14 AM (7v6oI)
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The seminary in Detroit is producing very dedicated and orthodox priests. It's quite amazing how much the parish and the diocese as a whole has changed for the better over the last decade. Lots more opportunities for devotions, reviving old practices and people love it.

I will say that if you were not raised Catholic and most of your religious experience was Protestant, the NO will seem like an ancient ritual in comparison.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)

227 “I think Roberts is doing the dumbest thing possible - he’s going to let Trump win a few, then let the other side win a few, and he’s going to bounce back and forth until everyone on both sides of the divide in this country absolutely hates him and his Court.”
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I think we are already there. I despise him and his court.
And Trump's Supreme Court picks have been a MAJOR disappointment.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 31, 2025 09:18 AM (Lo97M)

228 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Easter bonnets at the Baptist church at May 31, 2025 09:18 AM (dg+HA)

229 You know you’re retired when you open up aos expecting the art thread only to find out it’s Saturday and you get the weekend coffee thread.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2025 09:18 AM (VofaG)

230 I pray to the Heavenly Father to hear our prayers above, and those in the silence of our hearts known only to Him. Grant healing to afflicted, comfort to those who need it, and most of all forgiveness and mercy to us all.

I thank you Father for hearing our prayers and granting those according to Your Will.

Thank you for helping me get through my chemo and please stay with me through this and heal me.
Amen.

St. Michael the Archangel -- Defend us.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 31, 2025 09:19 AM (7v6oI)

231 This was probably talked about earlier this week, but I just saw it now. Climate change taxes. Brilliant...

Ian Jaeger @IanJaeger29

Governor Josh Green officially signs the first climate change tax for visitors in US history into law.

Tourism in Hawaii is about to decrease massively.

X video: https://bit.ly/3T0SMwx

Via Grok:

The Hawai'i Climate Change tax, also known as the "Green Fee," is a 0.75% surcharge added to the state's existing Transient Accommodations Tax (TAT). Effective January 1, 2026, this increases the total TAT to 11% for visitors staying in hotels, short-term rentals, or cruise ships. Combined with county lodging taxes (3%) and the state’s general excise tax (4.712%), visitors will face a total accommodations tax of nearly 19%. The tax is expected to generate approximately $90–$100 million annually for environmental and climate resiliency projects.

I wonder if they estimated the $90-$100 million based on assumptions of decreasing tourism because of the tax. Or if they estimated based on the assumption tourism would stay the same.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 31, 2025 09:20 AM (P5BPp)

232 I don’t like shit coffee. I’m a coffee snob. Also I whisky snob, cigar snob, car snob, AV snob, and girl snob. But otherwise not a snob.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 31, 2025 09:21 AM (za1b6)

233 Be a blessing to others by giving a supportive word , smile and/or action to someone you know and even someone you don't know today!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2025 09:22 AM (noQgu)

234 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers for all of God's children.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 31, 2025 09:22 AM (rxCpr)

235 >>Black Sabbeth?

Ah, hell, let's throw Exodus up there, too.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 09:22 AM (Y1sOo)

236 Good morning MisHum and Hordelings.

Concur with the message above. It's okay to wax rhapsodic over coffee pooped out of a civet's butt, but there are times you'll have to down a cup of Chock Full O' Crap and be thankful we live in a world where there's an entire aisle of caffeine injection options.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 31, 2025 09:23 AM (kpS4V)

237 Honest question from a non-catholic. How does Latin vs vernacular mass affect salvation of the soul?

It's a reminder that the Universal Church was founded by Christ himself and mass is celebrated the same around the world. Sometimes in the language of the early Church which reminds us we are one in Christ.
Different than say ,a church founded by someone named Ostean in 2001 down on 3rd and elm with no authority from The Lord

Posted by: Victor Tavo at May 31, 2025 09:23 AM (R6Hhu)

238 Honest question from a non-catholic. How does Latin vs vernacular mass affect salvation of the soul?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 31, 2025 09:07 AM (UBKzV)
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Using an ancient language can deepen the connection and reflection of prayer, bringing one closer to God in the process.

It's like saying a single Our Father vs a Rosary. Both are forms of prayer, but the latter takes the contemplation to a deeper and more profound level. At least in my experience.

I like to pray my Rosaries with Gregorian Chant in the background.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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So it's nothing intrinsic to latin? If greek or another ancient language was substituted, would it serve equally? Or for that matter, any foreign language?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 31, 2025 09:23 AM (UBKzV)

239 I’m a coffee snob.

Double decaf oatmilk latte with four pumps of sugar-free toffee, please.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 09:23 AM (yd2/I)

240 If Latin is so important for some in the Catholic Church, then shouldn't Latin only be spoken during confession too?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:25 AM (g8Ew8)

241 I will say that if you were not raised Catholic and most of your religious experience was Protestant, the NO will seem like an ancient ritual in comparison.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025

My parish got encouraging news a couple weeks ago. Weisenburger Is sending us another two-year priest. We've consolidated as much as we can and, during Vigneron's time, we routinely missed the CSA goal.

There are only a couple of Catholic schools in our region; ours is still chugging along.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 31, 2025 09:25 AM (YOP87)

242 Why is it called "mass?" I thought that was a scientific term.

Posted by: And what's the deal with the beads? at May 31, 2025 09:26 AM (dg+HA)

243 Latin is a very elegant and orderly and language, much better on those counts than English. Also, since it is now only learned through instruction, it will not change, ever.
I’ve picked up enough Latin over the years that I can understand most Liturgical Latin without much trouble, it’s not difficult at all to do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 09:26 AM (i5oKA)

244 I can’t be a coffee snob because I use a single serving Keurig machine for my one cup in the morning.

Impossible to get a good cup of coffee.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2025 09:26 AM (VofaG)

245 I use Indies Coffee Co. Vet owned. Supports vets and indie arts. 28 Roasts Later is my favorite.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 09:17 AM (i24o9)

I usually get Crimson Cup from the local shop, but I like to order from Mystic Monk now and then.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 31, 2025 09:27 AM (h7ZuX)

246 >>> Sometimes in the language of the early Church which reminds us we are one in Christ

Not many Aramaic speakers and very few Hebrew speakers attend mass.

Posted by: fluffy at May 31, 2025 09:27 AM (AN2gy)

247 I will also say that he probably assumed the Trump would violate the TROs and create a constitutional crisis which he could then adjudicate in the Establishment's favor. That Trump simply used other authorities, or treated the TROs as an individual rather than national ruling completely flummoxed him.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:04 AM (ZOv7s)

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I agree. Leftists expected to push Trump to the point that he defied the judges.He has wisely avoided that trap. I don't think Roberts and SCOTUS can allow this micromanagent od the Executive to continue.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 31, 2025 09:27 AM (y5Bya)

248 Hawaii was already seeing huge declines in tourism. Adding more taxes for tourists will help!

I’ve been there, it’s beautiful. But it’s very expensive, complicated to get around if you want to see more than one island, and lots of leftwing mucus slithering everywhere. And a long flight from most of the country.

I’d much rather spend my money on a more exotic trip to foreign tropics, like Thailand, Philippines, Maldives, Goa, etc.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 31, 2025 09:28 AM (za1b6)

249 The Chosen.

Posted by: Come and See at May 31, 2025 09:28 AM (dg+HA)

250 Good morning

I am definitely a coffee snob. The only coffee I really like is made in my own kitchen. I blend Trader Joe's brown beans with their French roast beans, grind them for a count of 15 and then brew in my Mr Coffee machine. Have to have light cream. Half and half is a poor substitute. Espresso sometimes works because it is just a shot or a mocha because that is not really coffee.
How is everybody doing today?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 31, 2025 09:28 AM (t/2Uw)

251 I’m not a rituals kind of guy. My worship is free wheeling.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2025 09:28 AM (VofaG)

252 >>>And what's the deal with the beads?

Show us your tits?

No, wait, that's Mardi Gras.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 09:28 AM (Y1sOo)

253 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 31, 2025 09:29 AM (hoCmQ)

254 Honest question from a non-catholic. How does Latin vs vernacular mass affect salvation of the soul?

It's a reminder that the Universal Church was founded by Christ himself and mass is celebrated the same around the world. Sometimes in the language of the early Church which reminds us we are one in Christ.
Different than say ,a church founded by someone named Ostean in 2001 down on 3rd and elm with no authority from The Lord
Posted by: Victor Tavo at May 31, 2025 09:23 AM (R6Hhu)

Then why isn't it Aramaic instead of Latin. Aramaic is the language that Jesus spoke.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:29 AM (g8Ew8)

255 T - 8

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, un dildo at May 31, 2025 09:32 AM (sPQoU)

256 >>> Then why isn't it Aramaic instead of Latin. Aramaic is the language that Jesus spoke.

The Church was also using Coptic and Greek earlier than Latin.

Posted by: fluffy at May 31, 2025 09:33 AM (AN2gy)

257 When Life Imitates ART -- we all know where it ends up.

NOTHING CAN STOP WHAT'S COMING -- Drink Over Priced COFEFE!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ROHh1DJSXRY

No More. Mr. NICE GUY!
https://youtu.be/l_8pHUfZcaE?t=12
https://tinyurl.com/WheresTheH1BSpecial
https://www.tinyurl.com/ctHARRIS-FamousLastWords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNVr0-_Qbtc (the UNparade!)

Confidence that Caine, Gabbard and Hegseth are going to swat down what inevitably happens next.

Remember who did this:
"to leave now we would send a message to terrorists and other potential adversaries around the world that they can change our policies by killing our people. It would be open season on Americans."
-- Bill Clinton '93 just before he pulled out of Somalia.

To abandon this area now -- and to rely only on efforts against alQaeda from a distance -- would significantly hamper our ability to keep the pressure on al Qaeda, and create an UNACCEPTABLE RISK of additional attacks on our homeland and our allies.
-- OBAMA'09 doing PRECISELY THAT

But I always promised the American people that I will be straight with you. (riteo) ... This is not in our national security interest.
-- IceKingJoe, selling us out!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at May 31, 2025 09:34 AM (LhDDh)

258 251 I’m not a rituals kind of guy. My worship is free wheeling.
Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2025 09:28 AM (VofaG)

Me, too. Even my prayers are drive-by. I feel like I should devote a specific time every day to prayer, but I fail at this.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 31, 2025 09:35 AM (h7ZuX)

259 Accomack, I also always drink coffee straight, no sugar or milk—unless I add coffee syrup to it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 31, 2025 08:41 AM (EXyHK)

That sounds a lot like the recentish fad of using agave syrup instead of triple sec in margaritas.

If the syrup and tequila match well together in makes for a significant bump in the depth and deliciousness of the cocktail.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 09:35 AM (iJfKG)

260 Does even nature itself not teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him, but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her as a covering.”
Excerpted from: 1 Corinthians 11:10-16

One of my favorite books of all time remains Mackay’s “Extraordinary Popular Delusions” etc , and in it he has a full chapter on The Length of Men’s Hair. Not only has there been 2000 years of dissension over this, there have been actual wars fought where this was one of the biggest issues! The Catholic Church was long against the idea of long hair, but after one such war and its associated slaughter, the Pope at the time threw in the towel and said that the Church would no longer take an official position on it.
In a typically delightful phrase, Mackay states that “After this, men could be as hairy as bears if they wished, and no longer be in fear for their souls.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 09:36 AM (i5oKA)

261 Aramaic is still spoken today

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 31, 2025 09:36 AM (za1b6)

262 I'd rather sit in my boat thinking about God than sit in church thinking about fishing.

Posted by: Most guys at May 31, 2025 09:37 AM (dg+HA)

263 130 ... "Prayers for the bishop of the Dioceses of Charlotte, NC, and his congregation. He has apparently decided that Latin is bad, kneeling to receive Communion is bad, priests praying the old traditional prayers while putting on vestments is bad, crucifixes and missal stands on altars is bad, and women lectors wearing chapel veils is bad.

Unsurprisingly, he was promoted to bishop by Pope Francis over the objections of Robert Cardinal Prevost (if the interwebs is to be believed)."

This bishop is both stupid and arrogant and reflects the same attitude of the media, the left in general and his unlamented sponsor . He can't be unaware that the increasing interest in Catholicism, worldwide, is being fueled by younger people, especially families, and those attracted to the traditional parts of the mass and church rites. If reports are true, those diocese going back to traditional values and observances are thriving in numbers, donations, and attendance. Claiming it was a draft doesn't matter. It was written and only sort of rescinded under scrutiny and pressure. This bozo in a mitre should be replaced before he does more harm.

Not that I have an opinion on the matter.

Posted by: JTB at May 31, 2025 09:38 AM (yTvNw)

264 >>I'd rather sit in my boat thinking about God than sit in church thinking about fishing

Holy mackerel!

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 09:38 AM (Y1sOo)

265 In a typically delightful phrase, Mackay states that “After this, men could be as hairy as bears if they wished, and no longer be in fear for their souls.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 09:36 AM (i5oKA)

Long hair is for girls. Permitting men to wear long hair led directly to modern day transgenderism.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 09:39 AM (yd2/I)

266 Wore a chapel veil everyday but Saturday grades 1 thru 8 since I attended a Catholic school. I believe it was required and then things changed, Vatican II maybe. I like to see it now, especially on the younger crowd.
First cup of coffee consumed.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 31, 2025 09:39 AM (2NHgQ)

267 What's the difference between the low and high mass?

There is a Catholic church about 15 mins from my place that has both.

Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2025 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)

268 If the syrup and tequila match well together…

I think that’s part of it. Although against my defense, the coffee syrup I’m using is usually related to the coffee I’m drinking only in that it is whatever King Harv bag I had previously opened, which is never the same as the bag I currently have open.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 31, 2025 09:40 AM (EXyHK)

269 Also, prayers up.
Posted by: Wenda

Thank you Wenda

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 09:40 AM (gDlxJ)

270 The Catholic Church was long against the idea of long hair, but after one such war and its associated slaughter, the Pope at the time threw in the towel and said that the Church would no longer take an official position on it.
In a typically delightful phrase, Mackay states that “After this, men could be as hairy as bears if they wished, and no longer be in fear for their souls.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 09:36 AM (i5oKA)
——-

‘Yea baby!’ [Makes Dio ‘horns’ and snorts a bump off a hooker’s ass]

— 80s heavy metal bands

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 31, 2025 09:40 AM (za1b6)

271 Then why isn't it Aramaic instead of Latin. Aramaic is the language that Jesus spoke.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:29 AM (g8Ew

Constantine spoke Latin.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 09:41 AM (i5oKA)

272 *What's the difference between the low and high mass?*

It's got to do with the Periodic Table.

Posted by: Your 11th grade chemistry teacher at May 31, 2025 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

273 The Maverik stores in the area make some damn good coffee, fresh ground in the machine, and piping hot, a wide variety of beans, mild to dark. Much better than Starbag's, and a helluva lot cheaper.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 09:42 AM (0aYVJ)

274 What's the Church's stance on the mullet/hockey hair?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 31, 2025 09:42 AM (kpS4V)

275 WH Censors must read the board! they work quickly!

https://youtu.be/Gm_dta3GZfU?t=51
Where's the H1BSpecial?

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at May 31, 2025 09:43 AM (EpZsS)

276 Worship in the front, party in the back!

Posted by: The 80s at May 31, 2025 09:43 AM (dg+HA)

277 Not a coffee snob -- the morning starts with a k-cup or two. Gevalia Signature Blend for the Keurig, with half-and-half. Thinking of retiring the Keurig, though (the k-cups are kinda pricey), and going with a Melitta one-cup pour over. Unfortunately, that particular Gevalia doesn't seem to come in bags of ground coffee. Will have to shop around for something else that isn't too strong for this kid's aging gut.

Yet another first world problem...

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 31, 2025 09:44 AM (q3u5l)

278 7/11 coffee isn't bad, and I am definitely a coffee snob.

I also like breakfast joint coffee.

Wait...maybe I'm not a coffee snob!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 31, 2025 09:44 AM (mWSu4)

279 Long hair is for girls. Permitting men to wear long hair led directly to modern day transgenderism.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 09:39 AM (yd2/I)

Preach it, brother!

Posted by: John Calvin at May 31, 2025 09:44 AM (i5oKA)

280 High mass is when the thurible is filled with burning weed.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 09:45 AM (Y1sOo)

281 I think there's another religious group that prefers their women wear veils.
Posted by: But what do I know at May 31, 2025 08:48 AM (dg+HA)

As a Catholic, I believe that it is a matter of personal piety. If a woman chooses to wear a veil during Mass, that's up to her. I'm pretty certain that's the official view of the Church also.

Muslims require woman to be veiled for different reasons.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:52 AM (pJWtt)

Yeah, basically mohammed is the koran talks about the "magical power of a woman's hair" to arouse lust and enslave men.

Women stuck in islam cover their "magical hair" so they won't be "justifiably" beaten or raped for the sinful showing of hair.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 09:46 AM (iJfKG)

282 going with a Melitta one-cup pour over. Unfortunately, that particular Gevalia doesn't seem to come in bags of ground coffee.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 31, 2025 09:44 AM (q3u5l)

Check out aforementioned Indies Coffee. They have some sampler packs, which is how I discovered I like 28 Roasts Later, a darker roast than I usually get, but very mild and not burnt.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 09:48 AM (i24o9)

283 And now for the first cup.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 09:49 AM (i24o9)

284 Long hair is for girls. Permitting men to wear long hair led directly to modern day transgenderism.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 09:39 AM (yd2/I)

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Sure, but never underestimate the impact of dogs and cats living together.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2025 09:49 AM (dDmld)

285 The Catholic Church was long against the idea of long hair, but after one such war and its associated slaughter, the Pope at the time threw in the towel and said that the Church would no longer take an official position on it.
In a typically delightful phrase, Mackay states that “After this, men could be as hairy as bears if they wished, and no longer be in fear for their souls.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 09:36 AM (i5oKA

Then why, even with the earliest Christian icons, Jesus is portrayed as having long hair?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:49 AM (g8Ew8)

286 Then why isn't it Aramaic instead of Latin. Aramaic is the language that Jesus spoke.

--
John 19
19 Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross; it read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” 20 Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

There is a tradition that from that day, those three languages were sanctified (not sure if that's the right word).

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 09:51 AM (dE3DB)

287 Then why isn't it Aramaic instead of Latin. Aramaic is the language that Jesus spoke.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:29 AM (g8Ew

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The Chaldean Catholic Church uses Aramaic in its Mass. It's quite profound.

The reason Latin was used rather than Aramaic should be self-evident: the language of the Roman Empire was Latin. Other languages existed and were in use, but if you want to convert the Empire, you use the language of the Empire.

Latin is an elegant language and as others have pointed out, one that is no longer evolving in the way English continues to do.

Also worth noting: There are 23 other Churches in communion with Rome, each with their own liturgy with deep historical roots, and Pope Leo has expressly urged that these not be updated but preserved to enrich the Church. (Francis has been stirring the pot in India.)

Pope Francis had made considerable gains in seeking unity with the Copts and Constantinople, but then fumbled it away with Fiducia Supplicans. Pope Leo may - God willing - be able to close the deal and finally heal the schisms.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)

288 Happy Saturday!
Prayers for the horde.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2025 09:51 AM (F/B4x)

289 Mmmmm.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 09:52 AM (i24o9)

290 >>He has apparently decided that Latin is bad, kneeling to receive Communion is bad, priests praying the old traditional prayers while putting on vestments is bad, crucifixes and missal stands on altars is bad, and women lectors wearing chapel veils is bad.

What about God -- is he OK with God, or is that an outdated relic in need of modernization, too?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2025 09:54 AM (F/B4x)

291 We just had a "We don't understand Latin" discussion led by the 70 - 80 year old members of the Worship Commission of my parish. The younger Boomers/Gen X told them, "Uh ... it's literally the same as the prayers in English." Priests want Latin, read the "cheat sheet," discussion is over.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:57 AM (pJWtt)

I find this interesting, I guess they never went to parochial school as a significant number of Catholic folks of that era did.

In our very middle class parish, we learned simple Latin mostly related to the Mass, and knew what was being said at Mass.

And, IIRC correctly, the missal had English translation in small print below the Latin.

I'm guessing these folk were converts at a later date.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 09:54 AM (iJfKG)

292 Prayers up for all of the Horde and their loved ones.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 31, 2025 09:55 AM (0nHVk)

293 Dude, we Nazarites have long hair.
~ Samson

Posted by: Biblical misconception #321 at May 31, 2025 09:55 AM (dg+HA)

294 What about God -- is he OK with God, or is that an outdated relic in need of modernization, too?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2025 09:54 AM (F/B4x)

He's on notice.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 09:55 AM (i24o9)

295
Another day of the walls closing in on Trump!

The MSM can't sell their narrative anymore and don't know what to do about it.

Posted by: Auspex at May 31, 2025 09:57 AM (j4U/Z)

296 Latin is an elegant language and as others have pointed out, one that is no longer evolving in the way English continues to do.

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Which language is universally understood by most Catholics. I'd say English. It's used more or less everywhere. And shouldn't a common language be used to spread the gospel?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:58 AM (g8Ew8)

297
I love the Latin Mass and the old hymns, incense, etc.

To me, this feels like worshiping God with the magnificence of the Latin Mass.

English services and esp. (God help us) Guitar Masses feel more like telling God-

"Hey Mac, I got something to say to ya."

YMMV.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 09:58 AM (iJfKG)

298 >>> 92
Hmmm.

There's probably more "will-not-drinkism" snobbery regarding Starbucks coffee than 7-11 coffee.

I have yet to read a single rant here or elsewhere about 7-11 coffee where there have probably been hundreds of rants against Starbucks coffee on this website alone. Plenty of folks twist themselves into Caffeinated Pretzels of Rage at the mere mention of Starbucks.

I decry your 7-11 Privilege!!! And hope that one day all men and women will liberate their minds with a hot steaming cup of Starbucks coffee!

Be better, morons. Be better.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 08:22 AM (iJfKG)

I shall use Caffeinated Pretzel of Rage as my pronoun should anyone insist on knowing what it is.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2025 09:58 AM (QRFVs)

299 "What about God -- is he OK with God, or is that an outdated relic in need of modernization, too?"

We're taking the God issue under advisement.

Posted by: Officious sounding spokesperson at May 31, 2025 09:58 AM (dg+HA)

300 In our very middle class parish, we learned simple Latin mostly related to the Mass, and knew what was being said at Mass.

I went to Catholic school from 1st to 8th grade, all in the seventies in a very rural area. There wasn’t a bit of Latin the entire time.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 31, 2025 09:58 AM (EXyHK)

301 There is a tradition that from that day, those three languages were sanctified (not sure if that's the right word).

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 09:51 AM (dE3DB)

That’s an interesting thought, I had not heard that before. I was surprised to learn recently that Aramaic was derived from ancient Assyrian. The Assyrian Empire fell due to its brutality, but their language stuck in the places they had conquered.

From a wiki stub: “The Aramaic alphabet is historically significant since virtually all modern Middle Eastern writing systems can be traced back to it.” (Including written Hebrew)

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 09:59 AM (i5oKA)

302 I find this interesting, I guess they never went to parochial school as a significant number of Catholic folks of that era did.

In our very middle class parish, we learned simple Latin mostly related to the Mass, and knew what was being said at Mass.

And, IIRC correctly, the missal had English translation in small print below the Latin.

I'm guessing these folk were converts at a later date.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 09:54 AM (iJfKG)
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Unlikely. A lot of Boomers are only cultural Catholics, like the Bidens, and don't really care about the teachings.

They resented having to use Latin, and I guess wanted to be cool and laid back like the Protestants.

My mother is one of them, and disliking Latin was another facet of her rebellion against her parents.

This is part of the tension within the Church - the older cultural crowd vs a younger, more orthodox approach.

We have a bunch of old people who applaud the musicians after Mass like it's a concert. Young people used to join in, thinking it was how things went, but increasingly people just stare at them, and they are fewer in number each year.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)

303 I'm guessing these folk were converts at a later date.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 09:54 AM (iJfKG)

I’ve met many older cradle Catholics who are just hostile to anything pre-Vatican II. They are upset young women are veiling and that people are kneeling for the Eucharist. They complain that they fought to get rid of all of that stuff and now the youngsters are bringing it back, while getting rid of the acoustic guitar kumbaya crap.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 10:00 AM (yd2/I)

304 I shall use Caffeinated Pretzel of Rage as my pronoun should anyone insist on knowing what it is.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2025 09:58 AM (QRFVs)
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I saw Caffeinated Pretzel of Rage open for Ministry at Pine Knob in 1992.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)

305 Black Jesus sports a fade, probably.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 10:01 AM (Y1sOo)

306 Always a pleasure to visit the Amish market. There are two within driving distance. Today we visited the closer one.Good selection of meats and prepared foods. The people are nice and the women do not have facial jewelry or weird colored hair. They are very polite. Today it was a pleasure to see a young very handsome Amish fellow- young enough to be my son.😊 I think people being polite encourages other people to be that way.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2025 10:02 AM (cmzZG)

307 Matthew 16:13-23

Posted by: Victor Tavo at May 31, 2025 10:02 AM (R6Hhu)

308 That famous scottish place boasts of “gourmet” coffee. Problem is, they are cheap and make it weak. Arabica coffee is lower in caffeine to begin with. don’t drink coffee on the road for the taste. I either need to get up, or more likely stay up. Give me the old school cheap robusta coffee strong enough to stand a spoon. More evidence of the corrosive, debilitating feminization of our country I suppose. Wankers!

Posted by: Common Tater at May 31, 2025 10:02 AM (Rimwk)

309 And shouldn't a common language be used to spread the gospel?

If you think English is a common language, you haven’t spoken to Brits, let alone the further-flung users of the “language”. There is a lot of variance in what words mean and how different words in conjunction change each others’ meanings. That’s why (per Lloyd) Latin being a no-longer evolving language is helpful.

It’s a lingua franca that crosses time as well as space, or at least better than any current language can.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 31, 2025 10:02 AM (EXyHK)

310 They complain that they fought to get rid of all of that stuff and now the youngsters are bringing it back, while getting rid of the acoustic guitar kumbaya crap.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 10:00 AM (yd2/I)

Really? Unitarians aren't actually Catholics you know.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:03 AM (D7oie)

311 ‘Mah fav mass is in da Ebonics. Jesus ain’t be no honkey cracker Fabio-lookin’ motherfucker!’

— Jasmine Rachett

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 31, 2025 10:03 AM (za1b6)

312 We've moved to the non-denominational protestant church down the street.

Posted by: The acoustic guitar kumbaya crap. at May 31, 2025 10:03 AM (dg+HA)

313 Which language is universally understood by most Catholics. I'd say English. It's used more or less everywhere. And shouldn't a common language be used to spread the gospel?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:58 AM (g8Ew

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Pre-Vatican II, the near-universal use of Latin held the Catholic Church together. Whether you were in the US, or Germany, or Japan - the Mass was the same.

The only English Masses in Germany are the ones on American bases. Putting the Mass in the vernacular removed that unity, diving the Church. At least having Latin as an option is a good thing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)

314 Which language is universally understood by most Catholics. I'd say English. It's used more or less everywhere. And shouldn't a common language be used to spread the gospel?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:58 AM (g8Ew

English is a language of business and trade, much like Koine Greek was 2000 years ago. One could argue that Greek was the more appropriate choice, but the split between Rome and Constantinople ended that argument long ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 10:03 AM (i5oKA)

315 "Hey Mac, I got something to say to ya."

And I got something to say to YOU! You're gonna find your way to Heaven is a rough and rocky one if you don't stop and smell the roses along the way!

Posted by: Zombie Mac Davis at May 31, 2025 10:04 AM (7szT/)

316 Which language is universally understood by most Catholics. I'd say English. It's used more or less everywhere. And shouldn't a common language be used to spread the gospel?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:58 AM (g8Ew

The purpose of the Mass is not to spread the Gospel but to worship Christ and participate in the sacrifice of the lamb of God.

You can spread the Gospel outside of Mass, in whichever language you choose. Personally I prefer the NO vernacular Mass, but I’m glad the Tridentine Mass is still around, too.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 10:04 AM (yd2/I)

317 Somewhat related: On the front page of today's WSJ Review section is a huge picture of a young white boy (14 or 15?), eyes closed, hands raised as a black preacher bows over him, on hand resting on his chest: "A Campaign to Teach Lost Boys How to Be Men."

Always find it interesting that the only Christianity our MSM/entertainment industries find palatable is black Christianity*.

*Provided they aren't pro-life, of course.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2025 10:05 AM (F/B4x)

318 Ixnay on the onglay airhay.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 31, 2025 10:05 AM (Aqu9a)

319 >>> 172 I think there's another religious group that prefers their women wear veils.
Posted by: But what do I know at May 31, 2025 08:48 AM (dg+HA)

As a Catholic, I believe that it is a matter of personal piety. If a woman chooses to wear a veil during Mass, that's up to her. I'm pretty certain that's the official view of the Church also.

Muslims require woman to be veiled for different reasons.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 08:52 AM (pJWtt)

Don't forget me!!!

Posted by: Hefty bag at May 31, 2025 10:06 AM (QRFVs)

320 OK, Comrade Flounder. Just ordered some Indies coffee. I drink a 60/40 combo of caf and decaf (shut up, you guys, I do what I want and I have reasons).

Guatemalan coffee is usually my favorite, and their decaf option is Guatemalan, so it should blend right with the Rolling Valor Guatemalan.

You should get a referral discount, or something.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 31, 2025 10:06 AM (h7ZuX)

321 We have a bunch of old people who applaud the musicians after Mass like it's a concert. Young people used to join in, thinking it was how things went, but increasingly people just stare at them, and they are fewer in number each year.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)

I am very glad to hear that; applause in a church has always chapped me. The practice spread throughout most Protestant churches over the last few decades, and they don’t seem to realize that you do not place glory upon the performer, the Glory belongs to God.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 10:07 AM (i5oKA)

322 “Not a coffee snob - Gevalia Signature Blend”

That does sound pretty gay, though, ya gotta admit.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 31, 2025 10:07 AM (2BdZb)

323 Good morning, 144! I recently delurked, too -- on scampydog's ONT the other night.

Mizuame sounds like something I could use! I've never found coffee I like. Only tried it 3 times, though.

First time was McDonald's coffee in the 70's. Awful stuff! I was in high school, traveling to a speech meet three hours away, in the dead of winter, on a school bus with the heater broken down.

We stopped at a McD's. I was half frozen and wanted something hot to drink, but their hot chocolate machine was broken down, so I bought a coffee.

Yuck! I swore I would never drink coffee again. Well, I did go on to try it again, decades later, with creamer or other such things.

I still haven't found the right blend of coffee and other add-ons -- not that I've tried very hard, lol. It's just easier to drink tea, which I enjoy quite a bit. :-)

Posted by: Official Delurker, tagline unknown at May 31, 2025 10:08 AM (V573c)

324 It’s a lingua franca that crosses time as well as space, or at least better than any current language can.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 31, 2025 10:02 AM (EXyHK)

I think it's because people think it just sounds cool. Most people have no idea what the priest is chanting.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 10:08 AM (g8Ew8)

325 You should get a referral discount, or something.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 31, 2025 10:06 AM (h7ZuX)

Hope you like it. I just like supporting vet owned businesses. And I was really happy to find some to relace my Starbucks-owned Seattle's Best Coffee.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 10:09 AM (i24o9)

326 You evangelize in the language where you are, and part of that was teaching the Latin Mass.

When the missionaries reached China in the 1500s, there arose a sharp division in terms of how to reach the Chinese. Mandarin is not a language that lends itself to innovation, particularly in new concepts, and the Christian conception of God was completely foreign.

The Jesuits urged that the Church should simply adopt the Chinese religious terms, and then try to redefine them. This was rejected by the rest of the Church, and the option they chose was to instruct converts in Latin, and use that to teach them about God.

Later on, when China was opened by the Opium Wars, American missionaries took it upon themselves to translate portions of the Bible in Mandarin, which led to a catastrophic misunderstanding on the part of Hung Hsiu-ch'uan, who declared himself Jesus' Older Brother, and launched the Taiping Rebellion, which ultimately took 50 million lives.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)

327 * I think there's another religious group that prefers their women wear veils.*

Hey, The Handmaid's Tale was just a movie, right?

Posted by: Right? at May 31, 2025 10:09 AM (dg+HA)

328 317
I noticed at the library that the current issue of National Review mag has a Catholic cover with the words Onward: the road to Catholic Renewal

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 10:11 AM (0JWOm)

329 So did Jesus not have long hair?

And they rejected that God provided Samson strength through his long hair? This is why organized religions are confusing to many and rejected by some.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2025 10:11 AM (VofaG)

330 “A Campaign to Teach Lost Boys How to Be Men."

Cut yer pecker off, or at least wear a dress. Learn how to suck cock like a champ.

Our schools today build men without chests, and then they complain nobody has virtue. “Toxic masculinity”. They outlawed the Boy Scouts practically speaking.

This country needs an Enema

Posted by: Common Tater at May 31, 2025 10:12 AM (2BdZb)

331 I am very glad to hear that; applause in a church has always chapped me. The practice spread throughout most Protestant churches over the last few decades, and they don’t seem to realize that you do not place glory upon the performer, the Glory belongs to God.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 10:07 AM (i5oKA)

Agree. The performance art that replaced worship is one of the things that turned me off to religion.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 10:12 AM (g8Ew8)

332 English is a language of business and trade, much like Koine Greek was 2000 years ago. One could argue that Greek was the more appropriate choice, but the split between Rome and Constantinople ended that argument long ago.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 10:03 AM (i5oKA)
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A classic insult in the late Republic was to call an Italian "a hayseed, who knew no Greek.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)

333 If Latin is so important for some in the Catholic Church, then shouldn't Latin only be spoken during confession too?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:25 AM (g8Ew

Confession is a sacrament, not part of the liturgy. A sacrament is essentially a gift from God to help us on our journey to holiness.

Liturgy can be used to help the congregation that they are participating in something over 2000 years old. Even the Novus Ordro Mass incorporates some ancient Greek in the Kyrie.

The opposition to Latin stems from a desire to represent Vatican II as a rupture from the "old-fashioned" Sacred Traditions and replace them with something new. The wisdom of that strategy is demonstrated by the abundance of bad fruit born out of that: a dramatic decrease in vocations and people leaving the Church.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 10:12 AM (pJWtt)

334 McD's has way better coffee and much cheaper than Starbucks' vile bre. Virtually every establishment in the United States offers a variety of disgustingly sweet, borderline poisonous drinks and desserts with enough sugar for industrial scale rum production. I'm very unclear as to how Starbucks is a thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2025 10:13 AM (BI5O2)

335 Formula 1 in Spain this weekend, qualifying on now.

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 10:13 AM (ypFCm)

336 Prayers up this morning for all in need!

Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at May 31, 2025 10:13 AM (G77LY)

337 I noticed at the library that the current issue of National Review mag has a Catholic cover with the words Onward: the road to Catholic Renewal
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 10:11 AM (0JWOm)
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Did they apologize to the Covington Kids yet?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)

338
And they rejected that God provided Samson strength through his long hair? This is why organized religions are confusing to many and rejected by some.
Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2025 10:11 AM (VofaG)
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The hair being Samson's strength is totally misunderstood. Samson was consecrated to God at birth, and one of rules was that he should live by strict (arguably proto-monastic) rules, including crowing his hair out.

He then violated those rules one by one and the last one was cutting his hair. The Essenes and St. John the Forerunner lived by these rules.

They were not for all of society.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)

339 Honest question from a non-catholic. How does Latin vs vernacular mass affect salvation of the soul?

It's a reminder that the Universal Church was founded by Christ himself and mass is celebrated the same around the world. Sometimes in the language of the early Church which reminds us we are one in Christ.
Different than say ,a church founded by someone named Ostean in 2001 down on 3rd and elm with no authority from The Lord
Posted by: Victor Tavo at May 31, 2025 09:23 AM (R6Hhu)

Then why isn't it Aramaic instead of Latin. Aramaic is the language that Jesus spoke.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:29 AM (g8Ew

Aramaic is used in the churches using Eastern rites, such as those using the Maronite Rite. Latin is used (or supposed to be used) in the Roman Rite.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 10:16 AM (pJWtt)

340 I'm very unclear as to how Starbucks is a thing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2025 10:13 AM (BI5O2)

Women who want coffee-flavored sugar milk.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 10:16 AM (yd2/I)

341 The opposition to Latin stems from a desire to represent Vatican II as a rupture from the "old-fashioned" Sacred Traditions and replace them with something new. The wisdom of that strategy is demonstrated by the abundance of bad fruit born out of that: a dramatic decrease in vocations and people leaving the Church.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 10:12 AM (pJWtt)
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I think there was also something more sinister in play. One can't look at the wholesale collapse of state Protestant churches in Europe and the Mainline ones in the US and think "Yeah, that's the path to success, let's try it, too!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)

342 "...essentially a gift from God to help us on our journey to holiness."

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Beer at May 31, 2025 10:17 AM (dg+HA)

343 The Colorado wolves are quite reasonable in preferring veal over venison. Venison runs much faster and has sharper hoovers for kicking. And venison is gamy while veal scallopini is *chef's kiss*
Posted by: muldoon at May 31, 2025 09:05 AM (/iMjX)

The government of the Oregon Territory was formed, sort of by accident at Champoeg due to the need to probate the estate of Ewing Young, one of the richest settlers in the territory. who had died intestate. The probate was structured around the voluntary bounty program for wolves in the Willamette valley, and in its operation it showed a lot of issues that needed to be resolved. In the end it was a single house legislature, a judiciary, a method of setting counties, and elections. I have thought it would be a cruel joke that the State of Oregon would destroy itself by bringing back the wolves, the eradication of which which was the initial function of the government.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:17 AM (D7oie)

344 Everyone worship God any way you wish. As long as you seek him, you will find him, whether you depend on a religion for that or not.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 10:18 AM (g8Ew8)

345 Once in a while I’ll buy Starbucks pike place market roast. I do like the skunky whang coffee. Problem is they sell them in these twee little 12 oz “pounds”. That’s pretty gay, too. Seems every brand now supplies their product in a dizzying array of 11, 12 or 14 oz “pounds”. Makes it tough for comparison shopping.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 31, 2025 10:18 AM (fqXHl)

346 It’s a lingua franca that crosses time as well as space, or at least better than any current language can.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 31, 2025 10:02 AM (EXyHK)

I think it's because people think it just sounds cool. Most people have no idea what the priest is chanting.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 10:08 AM (g8Ew

You nailed it! *eye roll*

I'm assuming you're not Catholic, so why does the existence of a Latin Mass so offend you?

The Secret Catholic Forced Conversion Squad isn't going to kidnap you and force you to attend a Latin Mass....Yet!

Why not give it a rest and worship as you wish and we'll worship as we wish?

YMMV.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 10:19 AM (iJfKG)

347 Drinking battery acid would be a better way to start the day than finding out there are Glenn Greenwald sextapes with him dressed as a schoolgirl.

He's getting what he deserves but I feel like we're being punished too.

Posted by: STV at May 31, 2025 10:19 AM (+opPw)

348 >>> 343
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The government of the Oregon Territory was formed, sort of by accident at Champoeg due to the need to probate the estate of Ewing Young, one of the richest settlers in the territory. who had died intestate. The probate was structured around the voluntary bounty program for wolves in the Willamette valley, and in its operation it showed a lot of issues that needed to be resolved. In the end it was a single house legislature, a judiciary, a method of setting counties, and elections. I have thought it would be a cruel joke that the State of Oregon would destroy itself by bringing back the wolves, the eradication of which which was the initial function of the government.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:17 AM (D7oie)

Would it be wrong to laugh if the OR Governor were to be devoured by some "re-introduced" wolves???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2025 10:20 AM (QRFVs)

349 Much rather a cup from Wawa or McDonald's than anywhere else

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 10:20 AM (ypFCm)

350 Agree. The performance art that replaced worship is one of the things that turned me off to religion.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 10:12 AM (g8Ew

There is a certain mega Baptist church near me, well known to all in the area. We have joked that during July 4th services they would have paratroopers rappelling down from the skylights.
Local, rather disrespectful name for them is 6 Flags over Jesus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 10:20 AM (i5oKA)

351 Makes it tough for comparison shopping.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 31, 2025 10:18 AM (fqXHl)

That galls me. Now I buy 5 actual pounds at a time on subscription. And IIRC, it is roasted when you order it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 10:20 AM (i24o9)

352 He's getting what he deserves but I feel like we're being punished too.
Posted by: STV at May 31, 2025 10:19 AM (+opPw)
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Pretty sure this is only coming out because he has adopted some stances that are Not Of The Body.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:21 AM (6YdsJ)

353 "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology banned the 2025 class president from Friday's graduation commencement ceremony after she delivered a pro-Palestinian speech during an event Thursday.

The university made the announcement on Friday without naming the student, saying that she delivered a speech at Thursday's OneMIT commencement ceremony that was not the one provided in advance.

"While that individual had a scheduled role at today’s Undergraduate Degree Ceremony, she was notified that she would not be permitted at today’s events," said university spokesperson Kimberly Allen. "MIT supports free expression but stands by its decision, which was in response to the individual deliberately and repeatedly misleading Commencement organizers and leading a protest from the stage, disrupting an important Institute ceremony."

Take away her fake degree and diploma, you idiots!

Posted by: runner at May 31, 2025 10:21 AM (g47mK)

354 Re: the coffee meme

7-11 is now the owner of Speedway convenience stores. Their coffee is pretty good

Much rather have that than Starbucks

Posted by: PMRich at May 31, 2025 10:21 AM (Pe+uV)

355 >>> who had died intestate

Like right on the boh-dah?

Posted by: Masshole at May 31, 2025 10:22 AM (AN2gy)

356 >>> 352 He's getting what he deserves but I feel like we're being punished too.
Posted by: STV at May 31, 2025 10:19 AM (+opPw)
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Pretty sure this is only coming out because he has adopted some stances that are Not Of The Body.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:21 AM (6YdsJ)

No way!

Posted by: Bill Cosby at May 31, 2025 10:22 AM (QRFVs)

357 I think we are already there. I despise him and his court.
And Trump's Supreme Court picks have been a MAJOR disappointment.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 31, 2025 09:18 AM (Lo97M)

He pretty much has said that he is done with both the Federalist society and the ABA and has taken pains to let them know this.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:22 AM (D7oie)

358 I went to a Starbucks once. Never again to buy a cup of coffee over $5.

Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2025 10:22 AM (Oy/m2)

359 Would it be wrong to laugh if the OR Governor were to be devoured by some "re-introduced" wolves???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2025 10:20 AM (QRFVs)
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She's awfully stringy. Make tough eating, even for a wolf.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:22 AM (6YdsJ)

360 This "student" is a marxist, you MIT dopes ! part of "Written Revolution" group on campus. A liar and a cheat.

Posted by: runner at May 31, 2025 10:23 AM (g47mK)

361 "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology banned the 2025 class president from Friday's graduation commencement ceremony after she delivered a pro-Palestinian speech during an event Thursday."

Oh, no.
Anyway...

Posted by: Most people at May 31, 2025 10:24 AM (dg+HA)

362 That bitch interned in ..South Africa. Who is sponsoring her education? Iran?

Posted by: runner at May 31, 2025 10:24 AM (g47mK)

363 *sips iced coffee, laffs at Reformation II: Ecclesiastic Boogaloo" on a pleasant Saturday morning thread*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 31, 2025 10:24 AM (kpS4V)

364 Most people have no idea what the priest is chanting.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 10:08 AM (g8Ew

That’s not true. The Mass is very regimented and it’s not hard to learn what the various parts mean, particularly if you go multiple times a week. People going to Latin Mass are also more likely to be devoted to learning and memorizing all of the prayers and sections of the liturgy.

The most important part of the Mass is the Eucharist and the consumption of the body and blood of Christ, which you don’t need to know any particular language to do.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 10:25 AM (yd2/I)

365 On no not the ~~BEES~~ CICADAS!!!
https://shorturl.at/2UJh8

I'm hoping this group is one that will emerge here in ETex, because I want to see what Bluebell the hen thinks of them.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2025 10:26 AM (QRFVs)

366 I should mention that I was raised by my parents to despise organized religion, and my conversion was a lengthy, uneven process.

Like many others before me, I had a specific hatred of the Catholic Church, which I mocked routinely and yet I was inexorably drawn to her.

My wife was raised Southern Baptist, yet she also felt the same pull - and actually was the one who pushed for us to become Catholic.

A move that was not popular with her family.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:26 AM (ZOv7s)

367 If Latin is so important for some in the Catholic Church, then shouldn't Latin only be spoken during confession too?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:25 AM (g8Ew

"Romanes eunt domus" ?

Nope. Fr is not going to hammer at you and threaten to cut your balls off if you don't get it right

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:26 AM (D7oie)

368 Reformation II, Get thee to a nunnery, you go now! All of you!

Posted by: runner at May 31, 2025 10:26 AM (g47mK)

369 Why is it called "mass?" I thought that was a scientific term.
Posted by: And what's the deal with the beads? at May 31, 2025 09:26 AM (dg+HA)

It comes from the Latin term for "bread dough"
It is one of those things.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:27 AM (D7oie)

370 "Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York state."

Phooey!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2025 10:27 AM (QRFVs)

371 321 We have a bunch of old people who applaud the musicians after Mass like it's a concert. Young people used to join in, thinking it was how things went, but increasingly people just stare at them, and they are fewer in number each year.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)

I tend to view the applause as an "amen" to the worship, so it doesn't bother me so much. I've never seen the musicians acknowledge it either, so I'm guessing they have a similar view on it..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 31, 2025 10:28 AM (RMN7W)

372 The opposition to Latin stems from a desire to represent Vatican II as a rupture from the "old-fashioned" Sacred Traditions and replace them with something new. The wisdom of that strategy is demonstrated by the abundance of bad fruit born out of that: a dramatic decrease in vocations and people leaving the Church.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 10:12 AM (pJWtt)
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I think there was also something more sinister in play. One can't look at the wholesale collapse of state Protestant churches in Europe and the Mainline ones in the US and think "Yeah, that's the path to success, let's try it, too!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)

Yes, I do agree on the sinister part: Jesus granted Satan 100 years to destroy the Catholic Church. I don't think it is coincidence that Pope Leo XIII had that auditory revelation, and now we have Pope Leo XIV.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 10:28 AM (pJWtt)

373 That’s not true. The Mass is very regimented and it’s not hard to learn what the various parts mean, particularly if you go multiple times a week. People going to Latin Mass are also more likely to be devoted to learning and memorizing all of the prayers and sections of the liturgy.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 10:25 AM (yd2/I)
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During Lent, "Agnus Dei" replaced "Lamb of God," and no one had any doubt what we were saying.

And it did sound much more profound. Brought me more into the moment.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:28 AM (ZOv7s)

374 He pretty much has said that he is done with both the Federalist society and the ABA and has taken pains to let them know this.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:22 AM (D7oie)

He should help launch a collab between America First Legal and Judicial Watch for such purposes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 10:29 AM (i24o9)

375 > 5/6 Update – Jim SND passed away. Please pray for God’s comfort for his wife.

Ah, crap. I somehow missed that. A valuable member of the community, to be sure.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 31, 2025 10:29 AM (qpyNK)

376 >>> who had died intestate

Like right on the boh-dah?
Posted by: Masshole at May 31, 2025 10:22 AM

Ma'am, your son is illiterate.

That's a lie! We was married before he was born!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 31, 2025 10:30 AM (Wnv9h)

377 Wawa makes a great cup of coffee.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 31, 2025 10:30 AM (dR6yv)

378
If Latin is so important for some in the Catholic Church, then shouldn't Latin only be spoken during confession too?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:25 AM (g8Ew

In the pre-Vatican II rite, the priest's prayer as you enter the Confessional and before you begin and the words of absolution afterwards are in Latin.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 10:30 AM (QnmlO)

379 ...

The Secret Catholic Forced Conversion Squad isn't going to kidnap you and force you to attend a Latin Mass....Yet!
...
Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 10:19 AM (iJfKG)

You must have great connections. As a Papist, I didn't know of this organization. How do I join?

LOL

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 10:32 AM (pJWtt)

380 > People going to Latin Mass are also more likely to be devoted to learning and memorizing all of the prayers and sections of the liturgy.

One of my favorite J.R.R. Tolkien stories is about him absolutely refusing to accept English Mass, roaring out the responses in Latin at the top of his lungs (much to the embarrassment of his family).

If I were Catholic, I think I'd want Latin myself. If you're not going to engage with the centuries-old tradition, why bother?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 31, 2025 10:33 AM (qpyNK)

381
"Jesus granted Satan 100 years to destroy the Catholic Church."

Sez who?

Posted by: Is it in the Bible? at May 31, 2025 10:33 AM (dg+HA)

382 Today is the 109th anniversary of the first and only clash between battleship fleets at Jutland.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:34 AM (6YdsJ)

383 Which language is universally understood by most Catholics. I'd say English. It's used more or less everywhere. And shouldn't a common language be used to spread the gospel?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 09:58 AM (g8Ew

Spanish doesn't get a look-in? but this sort of thing is always beset by "I like this language better because I speak it" problems.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:35 AM (D7oie)

384 I visited St Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC and was awed and humbled until I heard the cash register of the adjoining gift shop.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2025 10:35 AM (VofaG)

385 Whoa, this thread is Popish. Getting out of here, pronto!

Posted by: Luther's Catechism at May 31, 2025 10:36 AM (G5+As)

386
Today is the 109th anniversary of the first and only clash between battleship fleets at Jutland.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:34 AM (6YdsJ)

*Ahem*

Posted by: Battle of Surigao Strait at May 31, 2025 10:36 AM (QnmlO)

387 >>If I were Catholic, I think I'd want Latin myself.

Personally, I'd push for pig-Latin just for the yucks.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 10:36 AM (Y1sOo)

388 Posted by: Battle of Surigao Strait at May 31, 2025 10:36 AM (QnmlO)
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Wasn't the full fleet.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:37 AM (6YdsJ)

389 The advantage of Latin was the universality of the language, especially to Europeans.
All universities taught in Latin & Greek for a very long time.
Therefore no ‘local language’ issues

Posted by: PMRich at May 31, 2025 10:37 AM (Pe+uV)

390 Whoa, this thread is Popish. Getting out of here, pronto!
Posted by: Luther's Catechism at May 31, 2025 10:36 AM

Wait! I was going to make espresso!

Posted by: Torquemada at May 31, 2025 10:37 AM (Wnv9h)

391 > 376 >>> who had died intestate

Like right on the boh-dah?
Posted by: Masshole at May 31, 2025 10:22 AM

Ma'am, your son is illiterate.

That's a lie! We was married before he was born!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 31, 2025 10:30 AM (Wnv9h)

Heh... I remember way back in high school physics class when a classmate pronounced "impedance" as "impa dunce" rather than "impee dance".

The teacher lost his shit in laughter.

Now, it's never right to laugh at a student's mistakes (after all, they're ignorant by definition), but in this case I forgive the teacher.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 31, 2025 10:37 AM (qpyNK)

392 Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
NEW: Josh Hawley says Secret Service whistleblower assigned to Biden told him "Biden used to get lost in his closet in the mornings in the White House"
"The guy, literally stumbling around in the White House residence, couldn't find his way out of his own closet."

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In fairness, there's only one door and it's often hidden behind clothes.⁹

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

393
All right. I've spent time on the treadmill (300 calories worth), Diana has spent time on the treadmill (20 minutes worth) and now I have to give Rosalind her time on the treadmill. Later, folks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 10:38 AM (QnmlO)

394 > Spanish doesn't get a look-in? but this sort of thing is always beset by "I like this language better because I speak it" problems.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:35 AM (D7oie)

I know some Spanish-speaking people (legal immigrants from Argentina) who like to go to Latin Mass because it's easier to understand. Spanish is obviously not Latin, but it's a whole lot closer than English.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 31, 2025 10:39 AM (qpyNK)

395 Now, it's never right to laugh at a student's mistakes (after all, they're ignorant by definition), but in this case I forgive the teacher.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 31, 2025 10:37 AM

Not gonna lie...the one that gets me all the time is hearing a reader or chanter in church mispronounce "condescension" and "condensation". It's on my Holy Week bingo card.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 31, 2025 10:40 AM (Wnv9h)

396 Spanish doesn't get a look-in? but this sort of thing is always beset by "I like this language better because I speak it" problems.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:35 AM (D7oie)
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When Francis promulgated the restrictions on the TLM, one suggesting was to just do it in Spanish.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:41 AM (ZOv7s)

397 Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
NEW: Josh Hawley says Secret Service whistleblower assigned to Biden told him "Biden used to get lost in his closet in the mornings in the White House"
"The guy, literally stumbling around in the White House residence, couldn't find his way out of his own closet

I’m sure he was just visiting Narnia

Posted by: PMRich at May 31, 2025 10:41 AM (Pe+uV)

398 Not gonna lie...the one that gets me all the time is hearing a reader or chanter in church mispronounce "condescension" and "condensation". It's on my Holy Week bingo card.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 31, 2025 10:40 AM (Wnv9h)
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How often does condensation come up in liturgical readings.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:41 AM (6YdsJ)

399 Would it be wrong to laugh if the OR Governor were to be devoured by some "re-introduced" wolves???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2025 10:20 AM (QRFVs)

The wolves would choke on Tina Kotex' wallet chain

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:42 AM (D7oie)

400 Who said : "To interpret the council on the supposition that it (Vatican II) marks a break with the past, when in reality it stands in continuity with the faith of all times, is a definite mistake,”.... “What has been believed by ‘everyone, always and everywhere’ is the authentic newness that enables every era to perceive the light that comes from the word of God’s Revelation in Jesus Christ.” " ?

Posted by: runner at May 31, 2025 10:42 AM (g47mK)

401 Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
NEW: Josh Hawley says Secret Service whistleblower assigned to Biden told him "Biden used to get lost in his closet in the mornings in the White House"
"The guy, literally stumbling around in the White House residence, couldn't find his way out of his own closet."

-
In fairness, there's only one door and it's often hidden behind clothes.⁹
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 10:38 AM

I can sympathize.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at May 31, 2025 10:42 AM (Wnv9h)

402 > I’m sure he was just visiting Narnia
Posted by: PMRich at May 31, 2025 10:41 AM (Pe+uV)

Speaking of Presidents who were in the closet...

Posted by: Barack "Gaylord" Obama at May 31, 2025 10:43 AM (qpyNK)

403 Speaking of Catholics . . .

https://shorturl.at/H4lD8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)

404 How often does condensation come up in liturgical readings.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:41 AM

Sorry...that should have been "as condensation".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 31, 2025 10:43 AM (Wnv9h)

405 Meanwhile, in Blighty...

The See of Canterbury has been vacant for six months, and it's not clear who will be able to fill it. I've seen calls that the C of E pick someone outside of the UK (most of the Anglican Communion is in the Global South), but such a person would necessarily conflict with the Rainbow Agenda in the UK.

I can't see Keir Starmer okaying someone like that. Ah, the perils of a state church.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:43 AM (ZOv7s)

406 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

We've used underwater treadmills with our dogs from time-to-time. Better cardio with less stress on the joints.

Bit of a pain taking them to the facility a few times per week, though.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 10:44 AM (Y1sOo)

407 Sorry...that should have been "as condensation".
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 31, 2025 10:43 AM (Wnv9h)
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I thought I might have missed something about the Holy Condenser of Antioch or some such.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:44 AM (6YdsJ)

408 Leonard Leo is the worst kind of ingrate

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 31, 2025 10:45 AM (i5Vkf)

409 Thank you all for the prayers.

I'm doing much better. I've bèen watching YouTube videos on surrendering to God and trusting God to handle my problems.

I'm surrendering to God and trusting Him to handle things. But I'm on day three. But still.

Posted by: Stateless.. 5% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 31, 2025 10:45 AM (jvJvP)

410 Speaking of Catholics . . .

https://shorturl.at/H4lD8
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)
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DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK UNLESS YOU HAVE EYE BLEACH HANDY.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:45 AM (ZOv7s)

411 379 Don't get your hopes up. Jack Chick promised me a global conspiracy run by professionals. But did I get my secret decoder ring after converting? Nooo!

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 31, 2025 10:45 AM (ftcl+)

412 Yesterday was the feast day of St. Joan of Arc.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)

413 The See of Canterbury has been vacant for six months, and it's not clear who will be able to fill it. I've seen calls that the C of E pick someone outside of the UK (most of the Anglican Communion is in the Global South), but such a person would necessarily conflict with the Rainbow Agenda in the UK.

I can't see Keir Starmer okaying someone like that. Ah, the perils of a state church.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:43 AM

I recall an episode of Yes, Prime Minister where they were trying to fill a vacancy for the Archbishop of Canterbury.

After hearing all of the explanations, the PM remarked "So what I'm looking for is a cross between a socialite and a socialist.

"Yes, Prime Minister..."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 31, 2025 10:47 AM (Wnv9h)

414 Yesterday was the feast day of St. Joan of Arc.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)

She was grounded

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:47 AM (D7oie)

415 I'm surrendering to God and trusting Him to handle things. But I'm on day three. But still.
Posted by: Stateless.. 5% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 31, 2025 10:45 AM (jvJvP)
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It isn't easy at first, but you get used to it. And then life is so much better.

God be with you!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:48 AM (ZOv7s)

416 >>She was grounded

Well done

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 10:48 AM (Y1sOo)

417 Common Tater at 322 --

Yeah, it does, doesn't it? But it doesn't leave me clutching at the antacid bottle, so...

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 31, 2025 10:48 AM (q3u5l)

418 DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK UNLESS YOU HAVE EYE BLEACH HANDY.

Oh wow. They're bashing on Catholics. How edgy and dangerous of them.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 10:48 AM (7xrfc)

419 Yesterday was the feast day of St. Joan of Arc.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)
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Huh. This thread had me reflecting on a production of Anouilh's "The Lark" that I performed in.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:49 AM (6YdsJ)

420 The circle of life.

https://shorturl.at/xR2ty

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 10:49 AM (L/fGl)

421 also to Hadrian the Seventh:

Water resistance does well for developing muscle tone, as well.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 31, 2025 10:50 AM (Y1sOo)

422 Oh wow. They're bashing on Catholics. How edgy and dangerous of them.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 10:48 AM (7xrfc)
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Rosie O'Donnell should only have sex scenes with aquatic wildlife, preferable too deep for light to penetrate the water.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:50 AM (ZOv7s)

423 Mother Superior, we've discovered a case of Chlamydia in the convent.

Oh, thank goodness. I've gotten so tired of the Chardonnay.

Posted by: Couldn't resist at May 31, 2025 10:50 AM (dg+HA)

424 > Joan of Arc

As one website put it, the French Army is only successful when led by someone who is not a Frenchman.

For example, a Corsican, or a 14-year-old girl.

Posted by: Barack at May 31, 2025 10:51 AM (qpyNK)

425 Fine, don't believe me , it's here. Maybe it will help some manage their arrogance.

https://tinyurl.com/53fkufkx

Posted by: runner at May 31, 2025 10:51 AM (g47mK)

426 414 Yesterday was the feast day of St. Joan of Arc.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)

She was grounded
Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:47 AM (D7oie)

She was Noah’s wife.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 10:51 AM (i5oKA)

427 Rosie O'Donnell should only have sex scenes with aquatic wildlife, preferable too deep for light to penetrate the water.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:50 AM (ZOv7s)
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Your implications are plain and I reject them utterly! Good day, sir!

Posted by: The Huge Manatee at May 31, 2025 10:52 AM (6YdsJ)

428 >>“A Campaign to Teach Lost Boys How to Be Men."

Cut yer pecker off, or at least wear a dress. Learn how to suck cock like a champ.

It's about a church that is reaching out to young men specifically, who realize without good role models*, need to learn how to be men before they can become men of faith. Sounds like a good program. What's fascinating is the online comments: almost all of the women, and some men, are absolutely batty about the "gendered" approach - how dare they treat young men differently, teach them skills all girlbosses (implied) should learn, too blah blah blah.

*They mention fatherlessness and masculinity being declared "toxic" without also saying the obvious: feminism/current culture blurring gender roles and telling boys they are worthless

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2025 10:52 AM (F/B4x)

429 Mark Twain's biography of St. Joan is supposed to be excellent. He thought very highly of her.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 31, 2025 10:53 AM (ftcl+)

430 Nope. Fr is not going to hammer at you and threaten to cut your balls off if you don't get it right
Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 10:26 AM (D7oie)

I don't know. It seems like a pretty good motivator.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)

431 Rosie O'Donnell should only have sex scenes with aquatic wildlife, preferable too deep for light to penetrate the water.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:50 AM (ZOv7s)
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Your implications are plain and I reject them utterly! Good day, sir!
Posted by: The Huge Manatee at May 31, 2025 10:52 AM (6YdsJ)

Okay. I laughed.

Who knew manatees were so gentlemanly?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 10:54 AM (iJfKG)

432 They asked Biden about his cancer diagnosis.

Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NOW - Biden: "I'm mentally incompetent, and I can't walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them."

-
Well, I'm glad we got that straight.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 10:55 AM (L/fGl)

433 I'm surrendering to God and trusting Him to handle things. But I'm on day three. But still.
Posted by: Stateless.. 5% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 31, 2025 10:45 AM (jvJvP)

Have you checked out The Chosen? My agnostic husband agreed to watch this with me, and found it moving and inspiring. I think it's changing his life and outlook and even his feelings of self worth. Give it a try.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 31, 2025 10:56 AM (h7ZuX)

434 The Boy Scouts used to be for boys.

Posted by: But those days are gone at May 31, 2025 10:56 AM (dg+HA)

435 The Secret Catholic Forced Conversion Squad isn't going to kidnap you and force you to attend a Latin Mass....Yet!
...
Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 10:19 AM (iJfKG)

You must have great connections. As a Papist, I didn't know of this organization. How do I join?

LOL
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 31, 2025 10:32 AM (pJWtt)
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Nobody expects the Secret Catholic Forced Conversion Squad!

Posted by: The Spanish Inquisition at May 31, 2025 10:56 AM (GlyvH)

436 They asked Biden about his cancer diagnosis.

Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NOW - Biden: "I'm mentally incompetent, and I can't walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them."

-
Well, I'm glad we got that straight.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 10:55 AM (L/fGl)

I'd pay good money to watch Biden fight present dat Steven Segal on PPV.

Make it happen.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 10:58 AM (iJfKG)

437
Papist. That rhymes with...

Posted by: Careful. Could lead to limericks at May 31, 2025 10:59 AM (dg+HA)

438 God be with you!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:48 AM (ZOv7s

Thank you so much.

There was a great show om years ago "Joan of Arcadia." It was really sweet. Especially season 1. It only lasted 2 years.

God would appear to a teenage girl and send her on tasks which would ultimately help people in unexpected ways. It was REALLY good.

I think it's on Roku.

Posted by: Stateless.. 5% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 31, 2025 10:59 AM (jvJvP)

439 I'd pay good money to watch Biden fight present dat Steven Segal on PPV.

Make it happen.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 10:58 AM (iJfKG)
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Only if they can both fight while seated.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:59 AM (6YdsJ)

440 I'd pay good money to watch Biden fight present dat Steven Segal on PPV.

Make it happen.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 10:58 AM (iJfKG)
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Guy was literally sucking on his wife's fingers while she was speaking.

"How could we know that was abnormal???" - Jake Fapper

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)

441 "A Campaign to Teach Lost Boys How to Be Men"

I have my doubts that the article is giving any useful advice. And shocker; a woman wrote the article so my doubts are even more justified.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 10:59 AM (7xrfc)

442 352
Pretty sure this is only coming out because he has adopted some stances that are Not Of The Body.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 10:21 AM (6YdsJ)
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I'm betting it's for the same reason Keir Starmer's house and car were firebombed, he failed to pay off his male prostitute.

Posted by: STV at May 31, 2025 10:59 AM (+opPw)

443 This is always one of my favorite threads (though I rarely post) but today it seems particularly rich. Thank you all.

Posted by: Wenda at May 31, 2025 11:02 AM (KGfTv)

444 437 ... vapist.

* shakes head *

Picking on people just because they don't smoke anymore? What's happening to this blog?

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 31, 2025 11:03 AM (ftcl+)

445 441 "A Campaign to Teach Lost Boys How to Be Men"

I have my doubts that the article is giving any useful advice. And shocker; a woman wrote the article so my doubts are even more justified.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 10:59 AM

Read some John Eldredge.

Wild at Heart
Fathered by God

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 11:04 AM (dg+HA)

446 ... escapist.

Posted by: Let me outta here at May 31, 2025 11:05 AM (dg+HA)

447 Picking on people just because they don't smoke anymore? What's happening to this blog?
Posted by: callsign claymore at May 31, 2025 11:03 AM (ftcl+)
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I thought Papists were more into incense than vaping.

Now when I was in college, the dorms smelled like High Mass what with all the incense in the air.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 11:06 AM (ZOv7s)

448 RIDING HIGH MINISTRIES - DOT - ORG
Peace-inducing videos at this website featuring horses.

Posted by: Kathy at May 31, 2025 11:07 AM (qpw89)

449 Lost power, tried to come on twice immediately but failed. Storms last night but only light breezy now .no idea why.

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2025 11:08 AM (Qfji5)

450 In related news, writers for the local Denver Fox cable channel cannot decide whether to call them 'grey' wolves or 'gray' wolves, so they alternate throughout the article.
Posted by: muldoon at May 31, 2025 08:06 AM (/iMjX)

They should have imported gay wolves. Polis could discipline them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 31, 2025 11:10 AM (3Eyn0)

451 I'm not a coffee snob but I don't like chickfila coffee. It never seems right. At least the one's I've gone to.

This reminds me, I need to buy more coffee.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 31, 2025 11:10 AM (cduTK)

452 Well, time to get going. God be with you all!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 31, 2025 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)

453 I'll take 7-11 over Seattle's Best or Starbuck's any day of the week. WaWa, DD, McDonalds all have better coffee too.

Posted by: No snobbery, just like coffee that tastes good at May 31, 2025 11:11 AM (TbWk/)

454 BRCC Fit Fuel coffee is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.

(don't fret King Harv, I'll get around to you eventually)

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2025 11:12 AM (W/lyH)

455 Read some John Eldredge.

Wild at Heart
Fathered by God

Sound good. Mind you, I have no kids and no nephews to raise but I'm glad that there are people with a clue.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 11:12 AM (7xrfc)

456
*They mention fatherlessness and masculinity being declared "toxic" without also saying the obvious: feminism/current culture blurring gender roles and telling boys they are worthless
Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2025 10:52 AM (F/B4x)

This. I keep saying, look at how boys upt o16 are portrayed in TV commercials. Hint they barely exists. It's always tween girls being featured. As budding muscle car mechanism or moving gravel in there new John deere.

Posted by: Chlamydia Thundershart at May 31, 2025 11:14 AM (8AR3F)

457 Sock off

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 31, 2025 11:14 AM (8AR3F)

458 "A Campaign to Teach Lost Boys How to Be Men"

I have my doubts that the article is giving any useful advice. And shocker; a woman wrote the article so my doubts are even more justified.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 10:59 AM

Be more open with your feelings, simp harder, teach each other not to rape, that sort of thing?

Posted by: MOAR GELDING = MOAR MEN! at May 31, 2025 11:14 AM (TbWk/)

459 They can’t just put him on Ozempic for a few months?

I assume that would help, because 50 lbs is a lot to ask for in 90 days.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 31, 2025 08:16 AM (6ydKt)

Sounds like "we'll put you on the transplant list, but we really don't want to pay for it, so we'll set impossible conditions".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 31, 2025 11:15 AM (3Eyn0)

460 The new King of the Hill.

https://shorturl.at/fRLdu

Speaking of family comedies set in Texas, Young Sheldon is pretty good. Although they make fun of, well, everything, it's good natured and the Coopers are good, if imperfect, people.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 11:16 AM (L/fGl)

461 *walks in briskly*
*arranges papers on podium*

Good morning, Hordians. Shall we begin?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

*hurriedly sticks gum under desk*
Posted by: Attentive Miklos at May 31, 2025 07:55 AM (K6h4I)

Is this gonna be on the test?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2025 11:17 AM (W/lyH)

462 I have my doubts that the article is giving any useful advice. And shocker; a woman wrote the article so my doubts are even more justified.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 10:59 AM

Be more open with your feelings, simp harder, teach each other not to rape, that sort of thing?
Posted by: MOAR GELDING = MOAR MEN! at May 31, 2025 11:14 AM (TbWk/)

Step up be more useful to women and get out of the way when they lean in. Remember you are Mr right now until they want to settle down with a good guy when the clock bell starts ringing. Be sure to have a house for them.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 31, 2025 11:18 AM (8AR3F)

463 *They mention fatherlessness and masculinity being declared "toxic" without also saying the obvious: feminism/current culture blurring gender roles and telling boys they are worthless
Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2025 10:52 AM (F/B4x)

This. I keep saying, look at how boys upt o16 are portrayed in TV commercials. Hint they barely exists. It's always tween girls being featured. As budding muscle car mechanism or moving gravel in there new John deere.
Posted by: Chlamydia Thundershart at May 31, 2025 11:14 AM (8AR3F)

Also the fact that single motherhood is glamorized, subsidized, and rewarded. Through financial controls the government even enforces single motherhood. So gee, what a fucking surprise.

Posted by: It's all by design at May 31, 2025 11:18 AM (TbWk/)

464 Evilbloggerlady.com website has a very lovely portrait of St. Joan of Arc. I don't know if it's taken from a painting or it's an AI thing, but I like it. I'd put a link, but tinyurl is not cooperating.. sorry

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2025 11:18 AM (WzZnf)

465 Be more open with your feelings, simp harder, teach each other not to rape, that sort of thing?

Don't have a subscription to the WSJ so I can't answer that. But in all likelihood there are elements of that.

I have a long drawn out rant on this topic that would get me banned from polite society.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 11:18 AM (7xrfc)

466 Step up be more useful to women and get out of the way when they lean in. Remember you are Mr right now until they want to settle down with a good guy when the clock bell starts ringing. Be sure to have a house for them.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 31, 2025 11:18 AM (8AR3F)

Right, right. Learn not to be insecure about the 338 cocks she's had through her, and be prepared to support and raise children that aren't yours. Step up men! Fulfill your God-given role!

Posted by: Hmmm...no thanks. at May 31, 2025 11:20 AM (TbWk/)

467 Don't have a subscription to the WSJ so I can't answer that. But in all likelihood there are elements of that.

I have a long drawn out rant on this topic that would get me banned from polite society.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 11:18 AM (7xrfc)

I suspect I would find your rant quite interesting.

Posted by: And since when are we polite society around here? at May 31, 2025 11:21 AM (TbWk/)

468 Step up be more useful to women and get out of the way when they lean in. Remember you are Mr right now until they want to settle down with a good guy when the clock bell starts ringing. Be sure to have a house for them.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 31, 2025 11:18 AM (8AR3F)

....and a new luxury car/SUV.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 11:21 AM (g8Ew8)

469 That's one option, but 20% body mass weight loss is non-trivial; however, the alternative of (shorter) lifetime dialysis would seem to be a powerful motivator!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 31, 2025 08:24 AM (hOUT3)

If I were faced with that dilemma, I'd get get my ass to Mexico, and have 50 pounds worth of liposuction done tout de suite, like well before the 90 day deadline.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 31, 2025 11:22 AM (3Eyn0)

470 I'll take 7-11 over Seattle's Best or Starbuck's any day of the week. WaWa, DD, McDonalds all have better coffee too.
Posted by: No snobbery, just like coffee that tastes good at May 31, 2025 11:11 AM (TbWk/)

I would say McDonalds coffee is VERY good.

I'm not sure about most other franchises, I typically won't stop at a fast food place and get coffee, except McDs.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 11:22 AM (lH8E4)

471 Buying coffee at Starbuck's is just puttin' on airs.

Posted by: Paco at May 31, 2025 11:23 AM (mADJX)

472 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at May 31, 2025 11:23 AM (HFx9z)

473 Colleague’s brother has end-stage liver disease (alcoholic), and won’t make the transplant list. Colleague has offered part of her own liver IF Nathan promises to take care of it (NO ALCOHOL!). I don’t know Nathan but I prayed with her for this outcome. Please pray likewise. It’s hard for me to resist being judgemental on this one.

Posted by: Eromero at May 31, 2025 11:23 AM (LHPAg)

474 473 Colleague’s brother has end-stage liver disease (alcoholic), and won’t make the transplant list. Colleague has offered part of her own liver IF Nathan promises to take care of it (NO ALCOHOL!). I don’t know Nathan but I prayed with her for this outcome. Please pray likewise. It’s hard for me to resist being judgemental on this one.
Posted by: Eromero at May 31, 2025 11:23 AM (LHPAg)

Nathan's last name isn't Gallagher is it?

Posted by: That would be a very large "red flag" at May 31, 2025 11:24 AM (TbWk/)

475 If I were faced with that dilemma, I'd get get my ass to Mexico, and have 50 pounds worth of liposuction done tout de suite, like well before the 90 day deadline.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 31, 2025 11:22 AM (3Eyn0)Si.

Come to Juan's Liposuction and Windshield Replacement Emporium.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 11:26 AM (g8Ew8)

476 475 If I were faced with that dilemma, I'd get get my ass to Mexico, and have 50 pounds worth of liposuction done tout de suite, like well before the 90 day deadline.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 31, 2025 11:22 AM (3Eyn0)Si.

Come to Juan's Liposuction and Windshield Replacement Emporium.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 11:26 AM (g8Ew

Suck out the fat and fix the glass in seconds flat!

Posted by: Andale! Arriba! at May 31, 2025 11:27 AM (TbWk/)

477 Nathan's last name isn't Gallagher is it?
Posted by: That would be a very large "red flag" at May 31, 2025 11:24 AM (TbWk/
Don’t know.

Posted by: Eromero at May 31, 2025 11:28 AM (LHPAg)

478 Colleague’s brother has end-stage liver disease (alcoholic), and won’t make the transplant list. Colleague has offered part of her own liver IF Nathan promises to take care of it (NO ALCOHOL!). I don’t know Nathan but I prayed with her for this outcome. Please pray likewise. It’s hard for me to resist being judgemental on this one.
Posted by: Eromero at May 31, 2025 11:23 AM (LHPAg)

What? Not even beer? What's a wife supposed to do then?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 11:29 AM (g8Ew8)

479 No one expects the Secret Catholic Forced Conversion Squad!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)

480 Posted by: Careful. Could lead to limericks at May 31, 2025 10:59 AM (dg+HA)

I will take, "things you are not brave enough to tell a room full of members of the Knights of Columbus" for $1000, Alex.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 11:29 AM (D7oie)

481 Come to Juan's Liposuction and Windshield Replacement Emporium.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025

Juan's Taco Truck out back of his shop has the best Tacos ever! Tender!

Posted by: Dumb American Tourists at May 31, 2025 11:30 AM (R/m4+)

482 best soap ever. Guy named Tyler sells it to me

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 11:32 AM (D7oie)

483 I wonder if they estimated the $90-$100 million based on assumptions of decreasing tourism because of the tax. Or if they estimated based on the assumption tourism would stay the same.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 31, 2025 09:20 AM (P5BPp)

Well, they won't be getting Dime One from me. El Salvador is looking pretty good right now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 31, 2025 11:34 AM (gcq9l)

484 Do I smell another book?

Jake Tapper Realizes That His Party Is the Party of Hate and Division

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Scumbags: How the Left Destroys Everything It Touches

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 11:35 AM (L/fGl)

485 I like Folgers coffee! It's mountain grown! That's the richest kind!

Posted by: Don, the Rebel without a Blog at May 31, 2025 11:37 AM (vq/qW)

486 Gonna be warm here today, and of course we have a picnic to attend. Ah, it'll be fun. It's a gathering of my cow-orkers. Wife will finally be forced to meet them.

It's all good. They are nice people. Land surveyors tend to be very down-to-earth.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 11:39 AM (0aYVJ)

487 Good morning! I have a Starbucks misto with almond milk. I know, I know.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2025 11:40 AM (2N3ca)

488 Hamas Still Reviewing U.S. Proposal for a Ceasefire in Gaza

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They're not sure they can accept the whole not killing Jews thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

489 I know this is willowed but.

It just occurred to me that perhaps men invading women’s spaces is a product of women first invading men’s.

No more Boy Scouts. No more Men’s Groups Women have the “right” to play high school baseball and football with the boys…..

And now women are getting it back in their faces.

Just a thought.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2025 11:40 AM (x9IIA)

490 Sounds like McDonald's coffee has improved since the 70s. :-) We have a McD's going up in town. I might have to try their coffee when it opens.

Almond milk: yummy with chai tea!

Posted by: Official Delurker, tagline unknown at May 31, 2025 11:43 AM (V573c)

491 McDonald's coffee is pretty good. We do not stop there often, but hot coffee and a sausage muffin is excellent road trip food.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 11:47 AM (0aYVJ)

492 Seems everyone is glassing the wire for a Nood. Ain't happened yet. For now, we must risk the threat of being willowed.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 11:49 AM (0aYVJ)

493 How old do you have to be to get the "senior" cup of coffee at McDonalds for a quarter? I must be getting close!

Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2025 11:49 AM (Y4VCL)

494 I know this is willowed but.

It just occurred to me that perhaps men invading women’s spaces is a product of women first invading men’s.

No more Boy Scouts. No more Men’s Groups Women have the “right” to play high school baseball and football with the boys…..

And now women are getting it back in their faces.

Just a thought.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2025 11:40 AM (x9IIA)

Baseball. It is a last refuge for boys and men.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 11:49 AM (i24o9)

495 How old do you have to be to get the "senior" cup of coffee at McDonalds for a quarter? I must be getting close!
Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2025 11:49 AM (Y4VCL)

All I know is, when we were in Californica a couple months ago, the large coffee was about twice what it is anywhere else.

For that reason alone, nobody should live there.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 11:52 AM (IeDI0)

496 And now women are getting it back in their faces.

Just a thought.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2025 11:40 AM (x9IIA)

Baseball. It is a last refuge for boys and men.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 11:49 AM (i24o9)

since moving to Idaho I have seen more boys (li'l guys and teenagers) playing baseball than I ever did in CO. It's very cool.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 11:52 AM (0aYVJ)

497 How old do you have to be to get the "senior" cup of coffee at McDonalds for a quarter? I must be getting close!
Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2025 11:49 AM (Y4VCL)

Dye your hair gray and then walk in with a orthopedic cane and a limp.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 31, 2025 11:52 AM (g8Ew8)

498 Look out! Bonobo is mad!

'I co-founded the ‘One' campaign, which is by design bipartisan,' Bono told Kimmel, 'and we've got a lot of very religious Catholics, evangelicals, conservatives who are very, very, very angry with the person that they voted into office having demolished instruments of mercy and compassion like USAID or PEPFAR which had saved 26 million lives of people who had AIDS around the world.'

'That's the America that we love, that's the America that we all want to be part of and they are not happy, and there will be — there will be trouble,' he warned.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

499 since moving to Idaho I have seen more boys (li'l guys and teenagers) playing baseball than I ever did in CO. It's very cool.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 11:52 AM (0aYVJ)

We are a small town. We have three 12 U, 4 10U, 3 8U, and Tball teams. Our HS team is at State. It is very big here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 11:54 AM (i24o9)

500 Fucking Bono!

I saw U2 in concert in AZ back in '87. I want my money back, ye poncy bog-rat tit!

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 11:55 AM (0aYVJ)

501 'That's the America that we love, that's the America that we all want to be part of and they are not happy, and there will be — there will be trouble,' he warned.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl
Is he threatening me?

Posted by: Eromero at May 31, 2025 11:57 AM (LHPAg)

502 ...PEPFAR which had saved 26 million lives of people who had AIDS around the world.'

'That's the America that we love, that's the America that we all want to be part of and they are not happy, and there will be — there will be trouble,' he warned.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

26 million excess fags. How lovely!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 31, 2025 11:57 AM (HjY3W)

503 Baseball. It is a last refuge for boys and men.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 11:49 AM (i24o9)

Every time I go to a game the Mariners play like a bunch of old women.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2025 11:58 AM (W/lyH)

504 Look out! Bonobo is mad!

'I co-founded the ‘One' campaign, which is by design bipartisan,' Bono told Kimmel, 'and we've got a lot of very religious Catholics, evangelicals, conservatives who are very, very, very angry with the person that they voted into office having demolished instruments of mercy and compassion like USAID or PEPFAR which had saved 26 million lives of people who had AIDS around the world.'

'That's the America that we love, that's the America that we all want to be part of and they are not happy, and there will be — there will be trouble,' he warned.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

Bono,

You and your ilk are multi-millionaires.

If you're so concerned why don't you and your gang of rich folk get together and form your own charity with your own money?

Why do you think you or anyone has the right to rob the American taxpayer for your silly causes?

Do it yourself with your own money or prove that these so-called important issues are not that important to you and you're simply being a hypocrite.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2025 11:59 AM (iJfKG)

505 Hey Bono. It isn't compassion when it's corruption.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2025 12:00 PM (W/lyH)

506 Every time I go to a game the Mariners play like a bunch of old women.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2025 11:58 AM (W/lyH)

Sometimes the townie boys act like a pack of mean girls.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 12:00 PM (i24o9)

507 I will also say that he probably assumed the Trump would violate the TROs and create a constitutional crisis which he could then adjudicate in the Establishment's favor. That Trump simply used other authorities, or treated the TROs as an individual rather than national ruling completely flummoxed him.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I've been saying that Roberts wants his own Dredd Scott decision for some time.

Be famous as a key factor precipitating a real civil war.

No lengthy rational reason, but because I am cynical... and all indicators are the bulk of the Judicial Branch seem hellbent on taking soft coup because... They are.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 12:00 PM (/lPRQ)

508 Every time I go to a game the Mariners play like a bunch of old women.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2025 11:58 AM (W/lyH)

Will the Mariners play the Rockies this season? Because that would be fun to watch. I think the Rockies would lose three of five against the Idaho farm club (whose name escapes me at the moment - I'm new here).

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:00 PM (0aYVJ)

509 But that's on their low class parents.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 31, 2025 12:01 PM (i24o9)

510 Welcome to the neverending coffee break!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 12:01 PM (/lPRQ)

511 Welcome to the neverending coffee break!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 12:01 PM (/lPRQ)

Alright! Break time's over. Back on your heads.

Posted by: Stan at May 31, 2025 12:03 PM (i24o9)

512 Mariners gave up 6 runs in the 10th last night.

How does that even happen? And twice in a row?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2025 12:03 PM (mT+6a)

513 and we've got a lot of very religious Catholics, evangelicals, conservatives who are very, very, very angry with the person that they voted into offic

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Whoa. 3 angrys. We’re in trouble for sure.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 31, 2025 12:05 PM (GFRGc)

514 since moving to Idaho I have seen more boys (li'l guys and teenagers) playing baseball than I ever did in CO. It's very cool.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 11:52 AM (0aYVJ)

Growing up in upstate NY (north of Albany) in a rural town, we'd have an informal game going at least weekly. Oftentimes we'd take over an intersection of a rural road and use that as our infield. Hear someone yell "CAR!!!" everyone moved and when clear, play resumed.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 31, 2025 12:05 PM (7v6oI)

515 Mariners gave up 6 runs in the 10th last night.

How does that even happen? And twice in a row?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2025 12:03 PM (mT+6a)

Must be a contract clause...no playing after nine innings.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2025 12:06 PM (W/lyH)

516 Bono,

You and your ilk are multi-millionaires.

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No multi millionaire. A surgeon with a few years experience is a multi millionaire.

These fuckers are billionaires or close to it. Bono’s net worth is estimated around $750M. He’s the 1% of the 1%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 31, 2025 12:07 PM (GFRGc)

517 and we've got a lot of very religious Catholics, evangelicals, conservatives who are very, very, very angry with the person that they voted into office.

Of course you do. We believe you. Really.

Maybe you can take over and make yourself look better than your music sounds. Just a thought.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 12:09 PM (7xrfc)

518 I keep hearing how all these Trump voters are unhappy with their vote. Oddly, I have yet to meet one of these creatures in real life. I have this weird suspicion the media lies.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 31, 2025 12:11 PM (GFRGc)

519 I was not a very good baseball player, but I loved it anyway. when I was a kid, we had a running baseball game that never ended, started before class, just interrupted when school started. Then we played some more during lunch-hour. Sometimes after school, but a lot of us had chores and such.

In the winter it was tackle football in the snow.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:12 PM (0aYVJ)

520 These fuckers are billionaires or close to it. Bono’s net worth is estimated around $750M. He’s the 1% of the 1%.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Wow. He's the cream of the cream.
Must really known what he is talking about and we must listen and do what he says.

That or a random peasant could take him out with a sling stone and we'll go about our business.

/ Thus ends our biblical analogy of the day

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 12:13 PM (/lPRQ)

521 / Thus ends our biblical analogy of the day

-Or-

Just wanted to write something with 'anal' in it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 12:14 PM (/lPRQ)

522 Just wanted to write something with 'anal' in it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 12:14 PM (/lPRQ)

George Clooney's wife?

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:15 PM (0aYVJ)

523 520 These fuckers are billionaires or close to it. Bono’s net worth is estimated around $750M. He’s the 1% of the 1%.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Wow. He's the cream of the cream.
Must really known what he is talking about and we must listen and do what he says.

That or a random peasant could take him out with a sling stone and we'll go about our business.

/ Thus ends our biblical analogy of the day
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 12:13 PM (/lPRQ)

They're all the rich man who takes the poor man's beloved only lamb to slaughter for dinner for their guest.

Posted by: Their stuff is theirs, your stuff is theirs at May 31, 2025 12:16 PM (TbWk/)

524 Bono is an ass.
It's not charity when it's government money.
Piss off ya wanker.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2025 12:16 PM (W/lyH)

525 To be perfectly honest, I am a coffee snob. But, I can choke down a 7/11 cup of java.

There is an important distinction between can't, and would prefer not too. Of course, if you get to the point of Hunter Biden smoking parmesan cheese, you've probably gone too far.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 31, 2025 12:17 PM (ycI94)

526 Got all these right sidebar stories with red headlines on Trump economy -

All thesew years the experts say the US economy has such inertia that it cannot turn on a dime.

I think they been lying.

Makes me think a person in the right position of power can also tank the economy just for an election. Like happens so often.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 12:18 PM (/lPRQ)

527
Just wanted to write something with 'anal' in it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher a

George Clooney's wife?
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Night Visitors

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 31, 2025 12:18 PM (63Dwl)

528 And this is why I married her, reason #938.

She's talking about the "she blob" that the Democrats are using to help bring young men back to them.

"So they think that Gorlock the Destroyer is a good spokesthing."

"To be fair, hon; Gorlock is a man."

"Fine. Gorlette the Destroyer."

(Google Gorlock the Destroyer if you don't get the reference.)

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 12:20 PM (7xrfc)

529 Bono:
Talks like: a fag
Shit status: all retarded

Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2025 12:21 PM (m0MIc)

530
Bono is too obtuse to realize that what fuels anger at agencies like USAID is that most of the money is skimmed off by "non-profits" and NGOs and very little actually gets to the ostensible recipients.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 12:22 PM (QnmlO)

531 There is an important distinction between can't, and would prefer not too. Of course, if you get to the point of Hunter Biden smoking parmesan cheese, you've probably gone too far.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 31, 2025 12:17 PM (ycI94)

It also depends on the circumstance. If one finds one's self in prison, for example, there are plenty of activities that would be on the "prefer not to" list in civilian world, that one is eager to do whilst in prison.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 12:23 PM (mkRXj)

532 So the party that cannot figure out the difference between a man and a woman is spending $20 Million to attract men back to their party.
Good luck with that.

Odd too that is the amount we were told the dems overspent on the election.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2025 12:23 PM (W/lyH)

533
George Clooney's wife?

Scampy pooper?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 31, 2025 12:24 PM (YSM/8)

534 LOL, Ryan George just dropped a "First guy to ever drink coffee" video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_CK3nwBJwM

Posted by: Oedipus at May 31, 2025 12:24 PM (Z6vKV)

535
The problem with the ordinary joe at SBUX is not only does it taste bad but also that it's twice as expensive as Buc-ee's.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 12:24 PM (QnmlO)

536 The problem with the ordinary joe at SBUX is not only does it taste bad but also that it's twice as expensive as Buc-ee's.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 12:24 PM (QnmlO)

Dang I miss Buc Ees.
May have to drive to Texas just to get some jerky.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2025 12:26 PM (W/lyH)

537 Before I forget:

A while back I had asked for prayers for a co-worker whose wife was having to have labor induced.

Everyone is doing fine but I swear that every picture they have of their daughter, the kid has this look on her face that says "Really? I'm disappointed."

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 12:28 PM (7xrfc)

538 Buc-ees.

the only thing I miss about Colorado. There's a yuge one near where we used to live.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:29 PM (0aYVJ)

539 Is the Buc-ees brisket really as good as I hear?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 31, 2025 12:32 PM (UBKzV)

540 Yesterday's Executive order was:

SEQUESTRATION ORDER FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026
PURSUANT TO SECTION 251A OF THE BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT, AS AMENDED

"By the authority vested in me as President by the laws of the United States of America, and in accordance with section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (the “Act”

, as amended, 2 U.S.C. 901a, I hereby order that, on October 1, 2025, direct spending budgetary resources for fiscal year 2026 in each non-exempt budget account be reduced by the amount calculated by the Office of Management and Budget in its report to the Congress of May 30, 2025."

I need a cigarette

Posted by: Kindltot at May 31, 2025 12:33 PM (D7oie)

541 Diogenes, do it in October.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 31, 2025 12:33 PM (NVNRw)

542 the only thing I miss about Colorado. There's a yuge one near where we used to live.

Buc-ees has a size other than yuge?

Is the Buc-ees brisket really as good as I hear?

Absolutely.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 12:34 PM (7xrfc)

543 Dang I miss Buc Ees.
May have to drive to Texas just to get some jerky.
Posted by: Diogenes

Make friends with some backwoods redneck that makes his own.
They are in every state and two Canadian provences.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 12:35 PM (/lPRQ)

544 Is the Buc-ees brisket really as good as I hear?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 31, 2025 12:32 PM (UBKzV)

Yes, but order it without the sugary sauce. I get a pound or two chopped and just eat it out of the container with a fork.

It’s surprisingly good for gas station BBQ. And honestly has been the best brisket I’ve had in TX.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 12:37 PM (yd2/I)

545 I need a cigarette
Posted by: Kindltot

I wonder if his baby, Space Force, will be exempt?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2025 12:37 PM (/lPRQ)

546 Buc-ees.

the only thing I miss about Colorado. There's a yuge one near where we used to live.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:29 PM (0aYVJ)

What is their corporate structure? Franchise, or all stores company-owned? Seems like I-80 near Boise would be a likely location.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 31, 2025 12:38 PM (HjY3W)

547 Well, time to go meet the day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 31, 2025 12:40 PM (HjY3W)

548 What is their corporate structure? Franchise, or all stores company-owned? Seems like I-80 near Boise would be a likely location.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 31, 2025 12:38 PM (HjY3W)

Not sure. Last I heard, though, via the Missus, is that there were no plans for one in Idaho.

for now. it would make a killing here, though.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:40 PM (0aYVJ)

549 USMC coffee is best. Cold and 3 days stale mmmmm

Posted by: Fen at May 31, 2025 12:41 PM (ciYHQ)

550 It’s surprisingly good for gas station BBQ. And honestly has been the best brisket I’ve had in TX.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
_______

How's the bark? I gotta have some burnt fat at the edge.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 31, 2025 12:42 PM (UBKzV)

551 How's the bark? I gotta have some burnt fat at the edge.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 31, 2025 12:42 PM (UBKzV)

Worse than its bite.

Posted by: Heyoo at May 31, 2025 12:45 PM (TbWk/)

552 Buc-ee's is awesome. The crowds ca be a bit much, though.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, cowhand of the Apocalypse at May 31, 2025 12:45 PM (D0nMN)

553 Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 12:28 PM (7xrfc)

Tiny url is giving me trouble right now. But there is an interesting article on the 'net- Why do babies look worried all the time ? " from an article from a website "Asian Parent. " Not that your co-workers are Asian, butI think the ideas cross ethic groups.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2025 12:46 PM (GgKmg)

554 Buc-ee's is awesome. The crowds ca be a bit much, though.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, cowhand of the Apocalypse at May 31, 2025 12:45 PM (D0nMN)

Yeah, a shit-ton of people, but we never had to wait in line for more than a few minutes. Check-out was really awesome.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:47 PM (0aYVJ)

555 Buccees is great brisket but, IMO, the best in TX is Kreutz Market in Lockhart.

*ducks & covers*

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 31, 2025 12:48 PM (kOluj)

556 Not that your co-workers are Asian

Well, my co-worker is Taiwanese. Not sure about his wife. So this is getting even funnier.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 12:48 PM (7xrfc)

557 Saw a funny meme on the H2

Baby's staring too hard at me for someone who doesn't even know how to fight.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:51 PM (0aYVJ)

558 Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:29 PM (0aYVJ)

The one at Johnson's Corner?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 31, 2025 12:51 PM (lFFaq)

559 And no, she still refuses to look at my DD214 and retract her libel of my military service.

Tinyurl.com/FenDD214

I guess I have to sue.

Posted by: Fen at May 31, 2025 12:51 PM (ciYHQ)

560 Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:29 PM (0aYVJ)

The one at Johnson's Corner?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 31, 2025 12:51 PM (lFFaq)

Yup. The largest Buc-ees in the country. For a few months. But then an even larger one opened somewhere near SA TX.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:53 PM (0aYVJ)

561 Buccees is great brisket but, IMO, the best in TX is Kreutz Market in Lockhart.

*ducks & covers*
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

A solid entry.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 31, 2025 12:53 PM (dR6yv)

562 Are there buccees outside Texas? I thought it was a Texas thing only.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 31, 2025 12:54 PM (GFRGc)

563 "“I think Roberts is doing the dumbest thing possible"

How did someone more concerned with public opinion than the Rule of Law get through our screening process? It never came up?

Posted by: Fen at May 31, 2025 12:54 PM (ciYHQ)

564 Yup. The largest Buc-ees in the country. For a few months. But then an even larger one opened somewhere near SA TX.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 31, 2025 12:53 PM (0aYVJ)

Isn’t that every Buc-ees? Every one is bigger than the last. The one in Sevierville, TN was biggest for a few months, then they opened a bigger one in TX.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 12:57 PM (yd2/I)

565 Are there buccees outside Texas? I thought it was a Texas thing only.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 31, 2025 12:54 PM (GFRGc)

Used to be, but they’ve expanded a lot. I used to go out of my way if I was visiting central TX to drive to a Buc-ees.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 12:58 PM (yd2/I)

566 I like cowboy coffee, like real man make coffee.
You ain't a man unless you have grounds stuck between you teeth.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2025 12:58 PM (/U5Yz)

567 Went to a Buc-Ee's in Florida on my way to the Auto Train station.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 12:59 PM (7xrfc)

568 How did someone more concerned with public opinion than the Rule of Law get through our screening process? It never came up?
Posted by: Fen at May 31, 2025 12:54 PM (ciYHQ)

You have to remember who appointed him. The same guy who thought Harriet miers was a good option.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 31, 2025 12:59 PM (GFRGc)

569 Are there buccees outside Texas? I thought it was a Texas thing only.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 31, 2025 12:54 PM (GFRGc)

Used to be, but they’ve expanded a lot. I used to go out of my way if I was visiting central TX to drive to a Buc-ees.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 12:58 PM (yd2/I)

They're working to get approval to build one south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 31, 2025 01:00 PM (VNX3d)

570 How did someone more concerned with public opinion than the Rule of Law get through our screening process?

~~Federalist~~ Communist society input.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2025 01:00 PM (/U5Yz)

571 Nescafé.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at May 31, 2025 01:01 PM (yFcKl)

572 178
'everyone on both sides of the divide in this country absolutely hates him and his Court.”'

Well, he is there as far as I'm concerned. I'd be open to a radical redefinition of the court's role in this republic. It's absurd to give people with neither the mandate nor the understanding Executive power.

Posted by: Dr.Claw at May 31, 2025 01:02 PM (3wi/L)

573 You ain't a man unless you have grounds stuck between you teeth.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
__________

Beg to differ. You can also get grounds in your teeth from being the next person to use the Keurig at work after the chick with her reusable mesh filter and caramel macchiato blend.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 31, 2025 01:02 PM (UBKzV)

574 > Are there buccees outside Texas? I thought it was a Texas thing only.
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Kentucky got their first one a year or two ago. I think there's 3 now. We actually made a "back roads trip" to visit the first one (Richmond, KY) when it opened.

And, yea, the brisket is good. And they have a serious selection of jerky.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2025 01:03 PM (Q4IgG)

575 >> In a 2-1 decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled—with one judge dissenting—that Trump’s executive order directing agency leaders to carry out mass firings “far exceeds the president’s supervisory powers under the Constitution.”

Ah, yes, the supervisory powers of the Presidency. He’s really more of a figurehead or a middle manager than the head of the Executive..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 01:04 PM (yd2/I)

576 You have to remember who appointed him. The same guy who thought Harriet miers was a good option.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 31, 2025 12:59 PM (GFRGc)

What was wrong with Harriet Miers?

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2025 01:05 PM (VofaG)

577 >> What was wrong with Harriet Miers?

She was a woman. We’re batting 0-6 with those.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 01:06 PM (yd2/I)

578 This is the thread that never ends,
it just goes on and on my friends...

everybody sing!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK8)

579 203
'in the Gulf of America, my Lowrance told me the water temperature is 84 degrees.

I don't remember it being so warm this early in the season.'

Hot weather must be spotty then. It's been unseasonably cool and damp here.

Posted by: Dr.Claw at May 31, 2025 01:08 PM (3wi/L)

580 NYT is running an article wringing their hands that a computer model estimates that cutting off USAID funding has killed over 300,000 children, and saying Trump and Musk must be held responsible.

You'd think the pro-aborts would be having a parade about that.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2025 01:08 PM (QZThv)

581 Bono should worry about his own shitty country and leadership.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2025 01:09 PM (VofaG)

582 The Ninth Circuit has declared itself the H.R. department of FedGov.

“Sorry, Donald, but you didn’t file a TPS Report before you terminated those employees. You’ve got to rehire them. Also, based on some comments that concerned some people, there will be a mandatory sensitivity and diversity training.”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 01:10 PM (yd2/I)

583 Hot weather must be spotty then. It's been unseasonably cool and damp here.

That's the thing with the climate doomers - if it's hot one place, it's going to be cool in another place and everything balances out.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2025 01:11 PM (QZThv)

584 *What was wrong with Harriet Miers?*

She only had two names.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 01:12 PM (dg+HA)

585 227
'And Trump's Supreme Court picks have been a MAJOR disappointment.'

I don't blame Trump. No one outside the establishment will be allowed by the UniParty.

Posted by: Dr.Claw at May 31, 2025 01:13 PM (3wi/L)

586 NYT is running an article wringing their hands that a computer model estimates that cutting off USAID funding has killed over 300,000 children, and saying Trump and Musk must be held responsible.

You'd think the pro-aborts would be having a parade about that.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2025 01:08 PM (QZThv)

Just think of USAID as CIA. Then, look at so-called journalists who are wringing their hands at cutting off USAID.

There's your journalists who also work for CIA.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 01:13 PM (lH8E4)

587 7/11 coffee is medicinal. And, I'm not kidding about that. They rarely clean those percolators properly. As a result, every time you grab a cup at 7/11 or some other convenience store, you are gradually building up your tolerance and immunity towards any cadre of bacteria.

This is not conjecture. There was actually a study done. I'm trying to find it.

Posted by: Orson at May 31, 2025 01:13 PM (dIske)

588 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 11-18
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: May 31, 2025
Launch Time: 1:01 p.m. PDT, 2001 UTC, 22:01 CEST

https://www.youtube.com/live/89OSFmqA9og

Posted by: Ciampino - Space it is at May 31, 2025 01:13 PM (sPQoU)

589 Remember: Trump’s tariffs will cause hyperinflation!

HUGE: INFLATION FALLS TO 0.1%, OR 2.1% FOR THE YEAR -- JUST OVER THE FED'S 2.0% GOAL

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 01:14 PM (L/fGl)

590 69 Running Cheese would be a terrible Indian name.

Skid Mark would be worse.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at May 31, 2025 01:16 PM (huGNl)

591 Remember: Trump’s tariffs will cause hyperinflation!

HUGE: INFLATION FALLS TO 0.1%, OR 2.1% FOR THE YEAR -- JUST OVER THE FED'S 2.0% GOAL

I just laugh every time I see someone performatively freaking out about Trump. His moves just keep working out fine.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2025 01:16 PM (QZThv)

592 And Trump's Supreme Court picks have been a MAJOR disappointment.'

I don't blame Trump. No one outside the establishment will be allowed by the UniParty.
Posted by: Dr.Claw at May 31, 2025 01:13 PM (3wi/L)

I don’t really blame or give credit to any Republican President for their SC picks. They get recommendations and don’t personally know the potential picks except for some subsequent sit downs . The only exception is I give Bush credit for not abandoning Clarence Thomas and giving him his full backing.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2025 01:17 PM (VofaG)

593 Harriet Miers gave us John Roberts. And she was very underqualified on Constitutional issues. If we’d gotten her, we wouldn’t have gotten Alito, one of the only two decent SCOTUS justices.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 01:18 PM (yd2/I)

594 NYT is running an article wringing their hands that a computer model estimates that cutting off USAID funding has killed over 300,000 children, and saying Trump and Musk must be held responsible.
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Now do Fauci, Biden, Neocons, and the Propaganda Press

*makes yanking motion*

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2025 01:19 PM (kkJCD)

595 The only exception is I give Bush credit for not abandoning Clarence Thomas and giving him his full backing.

Thomas must've greatly disappointed HW's buddies at the CIA, LOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2025 01:20 PM (QZThv)

596 Now do Fauci, Biden, Neocons, and the Propaganda Press

*makes yanking motion*

Not to mention every death in the Uke/Russia war is USAID/CIA's fault.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2025 01:20 PM (QZThv)

597 I suspect I would find your rant quite interesting.
Posted by: And since when are we polite society around here?

I try to be interesting when I write things up. The problem comes from knowing when to filter things a bit. But seeing men constantly getting denigrated and people clutching their pearls when we punch back gets annoying.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 01:21 PM (7xrfc)

598 489 I know this is willowed but.

It just occurred to me that perhaps men invading women’s spaces is a product of women first invading men’s.

No more Boy Scouts. No more Men’s Groups Women have the “right” to play high school baseball and football with the boys…..

And now women are getting it back in their faces.

Just a thought.
Posted by: nurse ratched

This is a very interesting thought.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 31, 2025 01:22 PM (fQ31Z)

599 Wolf problems? Add donkeys to your herd. They're fierce livestock guardians.

Posted by: Beverly at May 31, 2025 01:23 PM (Epeb0)

600 I don’t really blame or give credit to any Republican President for their SC picks. They get recommendations and don’t personally know the potential picks except for some subsequent sit downs . The only exception is I give Bush credit for not abandoning Clarence Thomas and giving him his full backing.
Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2025 01:17 PM (VofaG)

So instead we have a system where Senators who are bought, go to thinktanks who are bought, and they conspire to recommend picks the President hasn't done any homework about, to know whether he's getting a decent pick or not.

Seems to me we elect Presidents to NOT let themselves be rolled by institutional Washington, to make picks that are often diametrically opposed to their personal beliefs.

Sounds crazy, I know.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 01:24 PM (lH8E4)

601 >> It just occurred to me that perhaps men invading women’s spaces is a product of women first invading men’s.

Nancy Mace, call your office!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 31, 2025 01:24 PM (yd2/I)

602 Old man Bush appointed Clarence Thomas . He also appointed David Souter
Bush the Younger appointed Samuel Alito. But also John Roberts.
Earl Warren and John Brennan were appointed by Ike
Trump gave us Gorsuch , Kavanaugh and ACB
Republicans get it right once in a while , Dems don't make mistakes in their SC appointments

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2025 01:24 PM (9m6M/)

603 530
Bono is too obtuse to realize that what fuels anger at agencies like USAID is that most of the money is skimmed off by "non-profits" and NGOs and very little actually gets to the ostensible recipients.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2025 12:22 PM (QnmlO)
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No, what fuels my anger is that things like USAID exist to illegally take money from us and give it to others, particularly foreigners. The amounts of money says we probably wouldn't be paying taxes ......

Posted by: Ciampino - not my largesse at May 31, 2025 01:24 PM (sPQoU)

604 A joke from about 40 years ago:
There was a men's-only fitness club. Some local women complained that this deprived them of networking opportunities. The club, under some duress, added women's changing areas and allowed them membership. The women then complained that some of the men watched them working out and demanded a separated space. The club provided it, and the male members donated the first piece of equipment.
A washing machine.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 31, 2025 01:26 PM (NcvvS)

605 Running Cheese would be a terrible Indian name.

Skid Mark would be worse.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at May 31, 2025 01:16 PM (huGNl)
---------
"Why do you ask, Two Dogs Humping?"
----------just the punchline

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 01:26 PM (6YdsJ)

606 Last man on Earth.

https://shorturl.at/DF7Qa

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 01:27 PM (L/fGl)

607 @602 William Brennan, whom Ike didn't live long enough to know was a worse pick than Warren.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 31, 2025 01:27 PM (NcvvS)

608 No, what fuels my anger is that things like USAID exist to illegally take money from us and give it to others, particularly foreigners. The amounts of money says we probably wouldn't be paying taxes ......

And then this NYT article says the US taxpayer is obligated to help people in countries incapable of helping themselves.

I saw an interesting thing on YouTube yesterday claiming most African languages don't have a word for "maintenance", and some don't even have the future as a concept. That honestly explains a *lot*.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2025 01:28 PM (QZThv)

609 The Telegraph has an interesting article today on the defense of Taiwan, fought with drones (air, surface vessels, and undersea), robot "dogs" (armed), and missiles by "the metric shit-ton" (quote from Ft. Bragg officer interviewed)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2025 01:28 PM (DJGRv)

610 Did they apologize to the Covington Kids yet?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

No idea. I never read that rag

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 31, 2025 01:28 PM (Wx316)

611 Computer estimated kids are the best kids.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 01:28 PM (L/fGl)

612 @607 thx for the correction. . John Brennan was the CIA commie, William Brennan was the SC justice

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2025 01:29 PM (9m6M/)

613 I guess I have to sue.

Posted by: Fen at May 31, 2025 12:51 PM (ciYHQ)

Go for it. That should make for an interesting Youtube video.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 31, 2025 01:31 PM (/HDaX)

614 Metric shit ton /π = The View

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 01:31 PM (L/fGl)

615 I have publicly stated that there are no "Democrat" or "Republican" judges, but rather judges dedicated to upholding the law.

I crack myself up...Hahahaha!

Posted by: Chief Asshead Roberts at May 31, 2025 01:31 PM (R/m4+)

616 Old man Bush appointed Clarence Thomas . He also appointed David Souter
Bush the Younger appointed Samuel Alito. But also John Roberts.
Earl Warren and John Brennan were appointed by Ike
Trump gave us Gorsuch , Kavanaugh and ACB
Republicans get it right once in a while , Dems don't make mistakes in their SC appointments
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2025 01:24 PM (9m6M/)

Thomas was appointed as a favor to Jack Danforth, who was still somewhat influential within the party, after he retired from the Senate, because he was a minister of some sort.

I believe Thomas was on his staff at some point. So it was almost accidental that he was appointed, as it was outside the usual circles from which these picks come.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 01:33 PM (lH8E4)

617 Nerdrotic does a pretty good summary on the end of Hollywood.

TL

R They have met the enemy, and it is them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P4Z68blYZg

Posted by: Archimedes at May 31, 2025 01:33 PM (s8j++)

618 Republicans get it right once in a while , Dems don't make mistakes in their SC appointments
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2025 01:24 PM (9m6M/)
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I suppose some Repub nominees just hide their lefty tendencies until safely confirmed, and Presidents may not be tough enough on ideological assessments. Some GOP Presidents are themselves McVain lefties.

The solution,IMO, is to ask Thomas and Alito who they want in the court.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2025 01:34 PM (rDiMt)

619 605 Running Cheese would be a terrible Indian name.

Skid Mark would be worse.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at May 31, 2025 01:16 PM (huGNl)
---------
"Why do you ask, Two Dogs Humping?"
----------just the punchline

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2025 01:26 PM (6YdsJ)
----
My favorite:
"Why are you crying Wagonwheel?"
"Wait till you go to school and find out, Chickenshit."

Posted by: Ciampino - first names at May 31, 2025 01:34 PM (sPQoU)

620 Metric shit ton /π = The View
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 31, 2025 01:31 PM (L/fGl)
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Moar pie!

Posted by: Ana Navarro at May 31, 2025 01:37 PM (rDiMt)

621 I believe Thomas was on his staff at some point. So it was almost accidental that he was appointed, as it was outside the usual circles from which these picks come.

So he's a further indictment of the usual circles.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2025 01:37 PM (QZThv)

622 @612 No worries, everyone knew who you meant.

Posted by: Barely sufferable pedant at May 31, 2025 01:37 PM (NcvvS)

623 >>>Good morning boys and girls and everything in between.

wut

Posted by: m at May 31, 2025 01:37 PM (CQE5S)

624
You can also get grounds in your teeth from being the next person to use the Keurig at work after the chick with her reusable mesh filter and caramel macchiato blend.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

The coffee that killed 300,000 children.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 31, 2025 01:39 PM (63Dwl)

625 I believe Thomas was on his staff at some point. So it was almost accidental that he was appointed, as it was outside the usual circles from which these picks come.
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So he's a further indictment of the usual circles.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2025 01:37 PM (QZThv)

Exactly. It's a "mistake" when someone who is not beholden to the uniparty and DC corruption gets through.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 01:40 PM (lH8E4)

626 Good morning boys and girls and everything in between.
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wut
Posted by: m at May 31, 2025 01:37 PM (CQE5S)

Maybe that just means it's morning some places, and some places not.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 01:43 PM (lH8E4)

627 -605 Running Cheese would be a terrible Indian name.

Skid Mark would be worse.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at May 31, 2025 01:16 PM (huGNl)
---------
"Why do you ask, Two Dogs Humping?"
----------just the punchline

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Half Mohawk half Norwegian.

Posted by: Running Dumb at May 31, 2025 01:43 PM (/U5Yz)

628 The solution,IMO, is to ask Thomas and Alito who they want in the court.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
===
I strongly agree with this. If only their picks could be approved by the senate. The stupid rinos will approve pretty much anyone the dems pick.
But the dems always stick together to block conservative picks. And the rinos will go along with them.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 31, 2025 01:44 PM (Lo97M)

629 629

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 01:44 PM (dg+HA)

630 498
'the ‘One' campaign, which is by design bipartisan,' Bono told Kimmel'

Either Bono doesn't know what bipartisan means or he's gaslighting.
Either way I'm delighted at the reason he's upset

Posted by: Dr.Claw at May 31, 2025 01:44 PM (3wi/L)

631 Not sure we're getting a new thread any time soon, and I won't be around when the pet thread is posted, so I'll leave this here:

I'm trying to acquire a new cat (my sweet boy died last week), using the Petfinder app. It beats going to the local shelters, because they're on the site anyway, and I can contact them through Petfinder before venturing out.

Except I'm sending inquiries, and no one is getting back to me. What the F, people. I'm sure you are mostly volunteers, but you have cats, several of them, waiting to be adopted. I'm ready.

Get your shit together.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 01:45 PM (lH8E4)

632 A thousand apologies for disappearing without my phone. I am in the hospital but am being discharged..

Posted by: KT at May 31, 2025 01:46 PM (QLiZY)

633 502
'26 million excess fags. How lovely!'

26 million potential PMs of Canada!

Posted by: Justin Turdeau at May 31, 2025 01:46 PM (3wi/L)

634 505
'Hey Bono. It isn't compassion when it's corruption.'

That's where you're wrong. It's always compassion to throw money down a rathole if you claim you're doing it to help the poor.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 31, 2025 01:48 PM (3wi/L)

635 is the blog stuck? almost noon here

Posted by: Don Black at May 31, 2025 01:48 PM (AOsQT)

636 Very happy news, KT!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 31, 2025 01:48 PM (NcvvS)

637 NO PET THREAD? NO PEACE!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 31, 2025 01:49 PM (Umrme)

638 A thousand apologies for disappearing without my phone. I am in the hospital but am being discharged..
Posted by: KT at May 31, 2025 01:46 PM (QLiZY)

No apologies necessary. We'll babble on, like it's Babylon.

Get well!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 01:50 PM (lH8E4)

639 Always seemed like a hothead...

MILO@Nero

Dan Bongino literally morphing into a goblin as he spews establishment lies about Epstein was, in fact, on my bingo card for 2025.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at May 31, 2025 01:51 PM (TGPs7)

640 There’s never been a Dem version of Souter or Roberts. You’ll get someone like Kagan who occasionally votes the right way like yesterday. But that’s about as far off as they veer.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 31, 2025 01:51 PM (GFRGc)

641 Someone say Babylon?
https://youtu.be/ByuHhGCBcnc

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2025 01:52 PM (7xrfc)

642 #632 no worries KT . Prayers for your wellness

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2025 01:54 PM (9m6M/)

643 acquire a new cat

See if the local PetSmart has any in their parolee cages.

Posted by: DaveA at May 31, 2025 01:58 PM (FhXTo)

644 631
'Except I'm sending inquiries, and no one is getting back to me.'

Drive down the shelter and tell them to give you a cat. Am I oversimplifying it?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 31, 2025 01:59 PM (3wi/L)

645 Prayers KT.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 31, 2025 02:03 PM (dg+HA)

646 MILO@Nero

Dan Bongino literally morphing into a goblin as he spews establishment lies about Epstein was, in fact, on my bingo card for 2025.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at May 31, 2025 01:51 PM (TGPs7)

Here are our options:

1. Epstein did indeed kill himself, and was not coerced to do so.
2. He was coerced into killing himself.
3. He didn't kill himself, and Bongino is lying.
4. He didn't, and Bongino is parsing words to basically say the FILE shows he did... but that's just based on what's in the file.
5. Whether he did or didn't kill himself, what really happened is considered classified, and Bongino is not allowed to tell the truth.
6. Epstein's not dead. And all best are off.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 02:03 PM (lH8E4)

647 Dang. I stopped awhile back and took Mrs D to the store and now I see you guys are still banging away on this thread.
Prayers to KT.
You all should see my taters! Threw a few into a plant box and damned if they didn't sprout up.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2025 02:03 PM (W/lyH)

648 NOODITY

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 31, 2025 02:04 PM (uqyLy)

649 Drive down the shelter and tell them to give you a cat. Am I oversimplifying it?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 31, 2025 01:59 PM (3wi/L)

Yes, because I'm looking for specifics, and I'm too vulnerable to be sure I won't walk out of there with the wrong cat.

And I'm not sure there's anyone there, it's more likely the cats on their lists are being fostered elsewhere.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 02:05 PM (lH8E4)

650 I told myself I would get outside to do my weed pulling, once the gardening thread was up.

Dammit.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2025 02:06 PM (lH8E4)

651
Someone say Babylon?

https://youtu.be/MBby2Mn8VbA

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 31, 2025 02:06 PM (63Dwl)

652 Seems to me Usha Vance could be brought into the judge-choosing discussion. I believe she's clerked for two of the justices.

Posted by: Wenda at May 31, 2025 02:07 PM (KGfTv)

653 649
'Yes, because I'm looking for specifics, and I'm too vulnerable to be sure I won't walk out of there with the wrong cat.'

There's a wrong cat? I guarantee that any cat you feed will be the right cat.
It just seems like getting a cat should be about as difficult as getting a WalMart bag.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 31, 2025 02:08 PM (3wi/L)

654 Psychedelic rock pioneer James Lowe, of The Electric Prunes, has died at age 82.

Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2025 03:34 PM (GITLP)

655 Greetings, windbag ... Have you tried "olfactory retraining"? ... It's a method for waking up damaged nerves -- sniffing a wide variety of odor-generating elements such as lemons or oranges, flowery perfumes, peanut butter, eucalyptus, rosemary, cinnamon, pine, peppermint, or cloves ... Some people use essential oils but, whatever you use, give it time (a month or two) ... Google "HOW TO RESTORE TASTE AND SMELL AFTER COVID" for other suggestions.
Posted by: Kathy at May 31, 2025 08:50 AM (qpw89)

Yes, I've been doing that since the start of it. I still do it. Nothing.

Posted by: windbag at May 31, 2025 05:38 PM (jiRyL)

656 *Snort at Ben Had's earlier comment, funny bro!
Being an actual coffee snob and having a mincy lisp go together like red hair and freckles.

Posted by: Baronov GrayMatter at June 01, 2025 06:30 AM (BQNyf)

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