A Man, A Plan, A Canal, ONT

Hello everybody. Boy, what a week. Thank God we avoided those kings.

You've Won An All Expense Paid Trip To Tahiti. Pick Up Your Voucher At The Bunker

Israeli secret services ‘used fake phone call’ to lure Iran’s air force elite to their deaths

Israel secret services used a fake phone call to trick the top commanders of Iran’s air force into gathering at a single location before taking them out in a targeted strike, an Israeli Channel 12 commentator has said.
In a statement confirmed to the JC by Israeli sources, Amit Segal told the Call Me Back podcast on Monday: “What Israel did was create a fake phone call for 20 members of the air force senior staff an calling them to a specific bunker in Tehran.”
This meant there was no one to give the order to fire the initial salvo of 1,000 ballistic missiles as Iran had previously threatened to do, he added.
According to sources familiar with the operation, Mossad initiated a targeted disinformation effort days before the strike.
Using falsified communications through Iranian channels, they triggered what appeared to be an emergency meeting.
The ruse successfully drew the entire senior leadership of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, including Commander General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, his deputies, and key technical personnel, into a fortified bunker outside Tehran.
Moments before the strike began, that bunker was hit in a precision airstrike, eliminating Iran’s top missile command.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Cosplay For Leftards

The Genius of The Handmaid’s Tale

In her defining manifesto of second-wave feminism, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan compared being a 1960s housewife to living in a “comfortable concentration camp.” She actually put that in the title of a whole chapter. “The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive,” Friedan wrote, kind of like the millions of Jews who littered the mass graves of Auschwitz and Dachau.
Kind of, except it’s not like that at all. When Friedan published this vacuous comparison, Margaret Atwood was 23. This is the kind of feminism that shaped her outlook as a young woman. It is marked by dizzying leaps of analogical fancy from the most ghastly atrocities in world history to the privileged condition of airheaded suburbanites.
The Handmaid’s Tale improved upon this formula by summoning a fictional nightmare scenario to replace the real-life Holocaust as the all-purpose allegory for Every Bad Thing. This was, it must be said, a stroke of genius on Atwood’s part. It meant that the wealthiest and best-fed people ever to draw breath could go on casting themselves as the wretched of the earth without ever having to get specific about particulars.

Have you ever seen any of the women wearing these outfits interviewed? They're practically panting when talking about being held down and “bred” by the patriarchy. It's their fetish. They're horny af.

Adios!

We Voted to Deport Every Single One of Them

’s strange how I keep being told by the regime media and Democrat political flunkies, to the limited extent that those are different things, about how I didn’t vote for what Donald Trump is doing to illegal aliens. I keep hearing about how I don’t want ICE raiding Home Depots, factories, and non-Beatles strawberry fields or sending away 30-year illegal aliens or illegal alien honor students. I’m told that Donald Trump only promised to deport criminal aliens – in the sense that they committed other crimes besides the crime they committed by being illegal aliens – and that Trump can’t actually send criminal aliens away either.
I find that odd because I voted to send every single one of them back.
And by “every single one of them,” I mean every single one of them. No exceptions. No quarter. No carveouts for farm or hospitality workers – the people trying to convince Trump to let up on that simply want to keep their serfs. Send them all back.

My wife is a legal immigrant. She's rabid about deporting all illegals. Most legal immigrants are.

History Lesson

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 20, 2025

Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

The Genetic Mystery of Why Cats Purr May Finally Be Solved

A study from Japan has identified potential genes behind cat purrs, and the discovery could help us understand why our furry companions make these contented rumblings.
Despite humanity's long relationship with domestic cats (Felis catus), the purr remains mysterious, and its purpose is still up for debate. So is whether similar vocal vibrations in big cats also count as purrs, or if the phenomenon is unique to the smaller members of the cat family.
The new information may eventually help solve some of these outstanding questions.

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur/ Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr

On Dads

Father’s Day by the Baloonatic

My colleague, who would declare that she is independent when it comes to politics, also suffers horribly from TDS. Shortly after the election she started talking about the need to stock up on years worth of food and was refusing to leave her house to the point of having groceries delivered because she was scared to leave.
It makes me wonder how much of that, too, is the impact of not having a father? How much is lost when you grow up without that steady presence, that protector? When there isn’t someone who picks you up from the car and carries you to bed even when you are faking being asleep? When there isn’t someone to discipline you when you need it, or to make you spend what feels like hours picking dandelions for wine and taking you out for ice cream or doughnuts? Who shares his secret stash of chocolate bars when you stay awake during the long road trips and keep him company? Is this why there are so many women who have become so unbalanced?

The destruction of the nuclear family in the west is not an accident, it's by design. If women don't have men in their lives, particularly if they have kids, who or what steps into the support role? Government.

A Cunning Plan

The LA Riots Were Supposed to Make Newsom President

Here’s how it was supposed to work. A Hispanic version of BLM operating out of California, funded by government money, would kickstart a national movement and catapult Newsom into the White House. But the plan isn’t working because the public isn’t invested in the riots.
The BLM riots formed a movement, but illegal aliens waving Mexican flags and Antifa setting Waymos on fire isn’t resonating with Americans the way George Floyd’s golden coffin did.
“I can’t breathe” market tests better than “I can’t illegally cross the border and commit crimes.”

Too bad, so sad.

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Comments

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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2025 10:00 PM (mT+6a)

2 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)

3 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at June 19, 2025 10:00 PM (1/lgR)

4 I see sportsball team Dodgers took a stand against ICE(supposedly) What is ICE doing wrong again? Bold take LA

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 19, 2025 10:02 PM (+I6Y/)

5 Everything in order? Good. I can take a nap.

Posted by: mindful webworker - after the content at June 19, 2025 10:04 PM (63lGh)

6 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

The Donald is a MASTER grilled 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 19, 2025 10:04 PM (SRRAx)

7 Still no power.

Posted by: Mick at June 19, 2025 10:05 PM (7W1xd)

8 That history lesson is outstanding. At first, I thought he was the British aide de camp from The Patriot.

Posted by: Platypi at June 19, 2025 10:05 PM (Riz8t)

9 I've never demanded that women be baby factories. (Biology seems to have a different opinion, though.)

Women are awesome, and it's not just because of the tits. I mean, it is partly, sure, but not all. Trust me on this. I love talking to women and getting their perspective on life and such. It's very refreshing and very interesting. I mean, since I'm a space alien and all that.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 19, 2025 10:05 PM (CHHv1)

10 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2025 10:05 PM (77rzZ)

11 Good evening morons y gracias wd

Re: President Trump.

We do not deserve him.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 10:07 PM (RIvkX)

12 Walked into my oral surgeon's for only a consult this morning. Situation worse than any of us realized so surgery was called for. Dr. asked if I have eaten breakfast yet. Nope - says I.

If you have time we can do it right now. Okay, let's go. Since I was put under with a general, I couldn't drive home by myself. One of the office staff took me home instead - and stopped at the pharmacy to pick up my meds.

This small town culture is fantastic. I'm never leaving.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)

13 Evening.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 10:07 PM (0e/QT)

14 Sorry I'm late, I was trying to get the Emancipation Proclamation translated to Mandarin for the Uighers.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2025 10:07 PM (WnJea)

15 Women are awesome, and it's not just because of the tits. I mean, it is partly, sure, but not all. Trust me on this. I love talking to women and getting their perspective on life and such. It's very refreshing and very interesting. I mean, since I'm a space alien and all that.
Posted by: Beckonin

does somebody have a gun to your head or are you trying to get laid?

Posted by: n at June 19, 2025 10:08 PM (Qn8se)

16 Deport all the illegals in the country.

Wait, wait, I worry that what you just heard was "deport a lot of illegals." What I said was "deport ALL. the. illegals. in. the. country." Do you understand?

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 19, 2025 10:08 PM (ERYKL)

17 Unfortunately, that was not actually made by Trump, but I am sure he approves of the sentiment.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2025 10:08 PM (WnJea)

18 >>> I mean, since I'm a space alien and all that.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 19, 2025 10:05 PM (CHHv1)

Are you the giant space Bugle corn snack from star trek's TOS Doomsday Machine episode?

Posted by: banana Dream at June 19, 2025 10:10 PM (cduTK)

19 I once saw a tortilla that had Richard Nixon's face on it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 10:10 PM (RIvkX)

20 NoKommies

Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2025 10:11 PM (77rzZ)

21 I see sportsball team Dodgers took a stand against ICE(supposedly) What is ICE doing wrong again? Bold take LA
Posted by: a dude in MI at June 19, 2025 10:02 PM (+I6Y/)

Be funny as Hell if one of their star players was illegal, or a visa overstay, and ICE came on the field and arrested him as he came up to the plate.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2025 10:12 PM (8WSr5)

22 Young Dick, President Dick or Old Dick?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2025 10:12 PM (D7oie)

23 My Texas Chilli tasted like Doritos the other day. I think it got too much Paprika.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 10:12 PM (0e/QT)

24 Tough kitty,
Cold kitty,
Big machine of doom.
Deadly kitty,
Panzer kitty,
Boom, boom, boom.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2025 10:14 PM (S/Y4j)

25 Troller, not grilled.... 🙄🙄🙄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 19, 2025 10:14 PM (SRRAx)

26 This small town culture is fantastic. I'm never leaving.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)

Hee hee.

Posted by: Guy with Scythe at June 19, 2025 10:14 PM (0eaVi)

27 Betty Friedan compared being a 1960s housewife to living in a “comfortable concentration camp.”

My mother was a fifties and sixties housewife. It was really rough. She did leisurely shopping in the morning, took naps, and watched soap operas. There aren't as many soap operas anymore because the ladies aren't home to watch them.
And it was the women who controlled the money. Some of the women went to the husband's workplace at noon on Friday, so they could get a headstart on spending the paycheck. My mom used to laugh about the fact that she would sign my dad's name to his paycheck right in front of the bank teller.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 19, 2025 10:14 PM (0Htd1)

28 My Texas Chilli tasted like Doritos the other day. I think it got too much Paprika.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 10:12 PM (0e/QT)

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not get hasty.

Posted by: Hungrians: Paprika Is Its Own Food Group at June 19, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)

29 This small town culture is fantastic. I'm never leaving.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)
====

But can you get Thai food at 2 am??
/obligatory

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

30 Be funny as Hell if one of their star players was illegal, or a visa overstay, and ICE came on the field and arrested him as he came up to the plate.
-
Does Draftkings have a category for that?

Posted by: Methos at June 19, 2025 10:16 PM (Dnobf)

31 There were sitcoms, like I Love Lucy, where the wife was given an "allowance". I could never understand that because in all the families I knew, the wife controlled the spending, probably because they had the time for bill paying.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 19, 2025 10:16 PM (0Htd1)

32 I was off the blog almost entirely today. So…

…BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2025 10:17 PM (77rzZ)

33 There's a lot of twisted psychology behind the ugly crones who fantasize about being forced to bear the children of the Patriarchy.

They loathe it to their very core, and up to three times a day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2025 10:18 PM (hY4dx)

34 Is this raimondo clown still around?

Posted by: caf at June 19, 2025 10:18 PM (/+mVZ)

35 23 Young Dick, President Dick or Old Dick?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2025 10:12 PM (D7oie)

Is that a trick question?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2025 10:18 PM (WnJea)

36 Previous thread.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 10:18 PM (0e/QT)

37 Yay, National FreeBSD Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 19, 2025 10:18 PM (lUFok)

38 Has anyone ever seen those critics who try to insult President Trump for not serving in the military post links to their service records for all to see?

No? I wonder why it matters, then?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)

39 33 I was off the blog almost entirely today. So…

…BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2025 10:17 PM (77rzZ)

Thank you for that reminder.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2025 10:19 PM (WnJea)

40 Has anyone ever seen those critics who try to insult President Trump for not serving in the military post links to their service records for all to see?

No? I wonder why it matters, then?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)

Heh.
He has four years as Commander in Chief.

Posted by: Mr Trematoda at June 19, 2025 10:20 PM (W/lyH)

41 Women are awesome

Gave up on talking to women as if they were human.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 19, 2025 10:20 PM (HVqcf)

42 To celebrate Joonteef me and the spousal adjunct found a great new Mexican restaurant by the beach, drank Margaritas, and bought a new boat.

Wheeeeeeee!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2025 10:20 PM (hY4dx)

43 I read the Handmaid's Tale when it first came out. It was boring. What I did find somewhat interesting is that the enforcement of rules, etc, was usually carried out by the women themselves.

Posted by: Lirio100 at June 19, 2025 10:21 PM (zS4/f)

44 Trump has been married to two immigrants. I'm assuming Ivana and Melania came here legally.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 19, 2025 10:21 PM (0Htd1)

45 Vid, History Lesson
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You're welcome

Posted by: Ethan Allen, Francis Marion, et al at June 19, 2025 10:22 PM (XeU6L)

46 Does Draftkings have a category for that?
Posted by: Methos at June 19, 2025 10:16 PM (Dnobf)

If they don't, they should. Add in the 180 day deported list.

Pinch-hitting for (deported) Manny Gonzales, we have Zombie Fidel Castro. Being a zombie, he needs no visa.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2025 10:22 PM (8WSr5)

47 32 Nerdygirl, my parents owned farmland. My Mom ran the household finances, my Dad ran the farm finances, and they would discuss the combination of the two when necessary and at tax time.

Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2025 10:22 PM (77rzZ)

48 You've Won An All Expense Paid Trip To Tahiti. Pick Up Your Voucher At The Bunker

- "Mailgram for Mongo!"

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 19, 2025 10:23 PM (EvAdG)

49 Are you the giant space Bugle corn snack from star trek's TOS Doomsday Machine episode?

Space wizard's sleeve.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 19, 2025 10:24 PM (PvM3F)

50 You've Won An All Expense Paid Trip To Tahiti. Pick Up Your Voucher At The Bunker

- "Mailgram for Mongo!"
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 19, 2025 10:23 PM (EvAdG)

Goat for General Greybeard!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2025 10:24 PM (S/Y4j)

51 Hahaha. I kept refreshing the page and there were no new comments.

Then I realized I was on the cafe.

I realized the ONT was probably not over 200 comments yet.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Whoops. Whoopsie. at June 19, 2025 10:24 PM (63lGh)

52 Maybe ICE can revoke Ohtani's work visa and deport him....

Posted by: steevy at June 19, 2025 10:24 PM (YwEeS)

53 Why do cats purr?

Subterfuge.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2025 10:25 PM (WnJea)

54 Good evening, good people, from the Adirondacks, where we're doing our depiction of tropical humidity.

You can keep it, all the while reaping maximum benefit from your effort whilst the leftwit fungi reap maximum heartburn in all things.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 19, 2025 10:25 PM (hKoQL)

55 I was off the blog almost entirely today. So…

…BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2025 10:17 PM (77rzZ)

Trying to avoid the wrath of Mamaw?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 10:25 PM (0eaVi)

56 I'm not looking forward to tomorrow. The day after Joonteef is such an emotional letdown.

And then there's all the decorations that need to go back in the attic.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2025 10:26 PM (hY4dx)

57 Have you ever seen any of the women wearing these outfits interviewed? They're practically panting when talking about being held down and “bred” by the patriarchy. It's their fetish. They're horny af.

Rule.
Number.
One.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2025 10:26 PM (DgGvY)

58 This idea that a woman who stopped working to stay home and raise a family "wasted" their life is pushed hard by the left.

Posted by: steevy at June 19, 2025 10:27 PM (YwEeS)

59 45 Melania legally applied for asylum after swimming here in her bikini across Rio Hawtness.

Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2025 10:28 PM (77rzZ)

60 Rule.
Number.
One.
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2025 10:26 PM (DgGvY)

Somebody.
Else's.
Name.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2025 10:28 PM (8WSr5)

61 Time to return all of my Juneteenth gifts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 10:28 PM (0e/QT)

62 WeirdDave, thank you for that Baloonatic piece. It was a spot on description of the things my own dad did, including the candy bars, the doughnuts, and going out for ice cream. We had a small fruit farm, and I would ride with him when he delivered cherries to a canning company.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 19, 2025 10:28 PM (0Htd1)

63 Time to return all of my Juneteenth gifts.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 10:28 PM (0e/QT)

You got work boots too??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 10:29 PM (0eaVi)

64 Has anyone ever seen those critics who try to insult President Trump for not serving in the military post links to their service records for all to see?

Has anyone seen Barry Soetoro's Selective Service Card?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 19, 2025 10:29 PM (a4flb)

65 Rule.
Number.
One.
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2025 10:26 PM (DgGvY)

Burner phones for dating.

Posted by: RickZ at June 19, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

66 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 19, 2025 10:30 PM (EweRc)

67 Donald Trump tweet
LOL!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2025 10:30 PM (ynpvh)

68 Juneteenth wasn't the end of slavery in America, though. There was still slavery until 1886, by the Tlingit tribe in Alaska.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2025 10:30 PM (S/Y4j)

69 Has anyone seen Barry Soetoro's Selective Service Card?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 19, 2025 10:29 PM (a4flb)

I'm waiting for someone to post his Man Country ID card.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 10:30 PM (0eaVi)

70 According to sources familiar with the operation, Mossad initiated a targeted disinformation effort days before the strike.

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Putin, you magnificent bastard, is there NOTHING you can't do?

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 19, 2025 10:30 PM (nXhai)

71 The backyard here in KY is lit up with thousands of fireflies.

Lighting bugs if you're so inclined.

A potential bonus for 6 weeks of rainy weather. 🐞

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2025 10:31 PM (Q4IgG)

72 Is this raimondo clown still around?
Posted by: caf

Comment #5? He usually shows up much later. I guess they get Juneteenth off at the glory hole.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2025 10:31 PM (DgGvY)

73 American "feminists" would rather act outraged about a fictional novel that describes a society that subjugates women to 2nd class status than actually protest on behalf of the literally millions of Muslim women who actually live in that horrific existence.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at June 19, 2025 10:31 PM (Ovc06)

74 Stilly waiting for Barky's real birth certificate....

Posted by: steevy at June 19, 2025 10:31 PM (YwEeS)

75 My new job is at a 400 RV site KOA resort in Tucson. I am the concierge who leads arriving guests to their site. Today I had some Germans (well, they were Austrians but they spoke German). I said to one of the women, what is the German word for guide (I knew the answer).
She told me the answer which is "Fuhrer." So I said "then I am Das Fuhrer." and she broke out laughing.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:32 PM (HUS34)

76 Moments before the strike began, that bunker was hit in a precision airstrike, eliminating Iran’s top missile command.

Man, the IRG are bad at playing Missile Command...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh)

77 The most annoying thing about handmaids tale is the central premise, which is “what would it be like if Christian societies act the way Muslim societies have always acted?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 10:34 PM (EVFZ5)

78 Why bot depliy a light grenade?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 10:34 PM (0e/QT)

79 I read the Handmaid's Tale when it first came out

As did I. I was a bit more liberal 40 years ago.

The only plot point that that I've carried since reading it is this: Prior to the Evil Patriarchy (EP) Takeover (I ain't gonna look up what Atwood called it), the society had gone all cashless, which made it super easy, barely an inconvenience, for the EP to seize all the money from the women and remove them from the workforce.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 19, 2025 10:34 PM (D0HYP)

80 58 Have you ever seen any of the women wearing these outfits interviewed?
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Random IDF clip

https://tinyurl.com/49rrx2xe

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 10:34 PM (M78y+)

81 Wait. Someone said there was a party here with hawt chicks.

Posted by: Col. Mohammed Mohammed bin Mohammed at June 19, 2025 10:35 PM (hY4dx)

82 Hour of the Wolf,
That sounds like a description of a cat we had when I was a child. It killed our parakeet. That was a nice parakeet. He's sit on your head.
"BAD CAT!"

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 19, 2025 10:36 PM (0Htd1)

83 They lured the IRGC command with promises of " Hot goats in your area"

Posted by: steevy at June 19, 2025 10:36 PM (YwEeS)

84 69 Juneteenth wasn't the end of slavery in America, though. There was still slavery until 1886, by the Tlingit tribe in Alaska.

Slavery never ended, it just morphed from Kunta Kinte into other forms.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 19, 2025 10:36 PM (ERYKL)

85 >>>she broke out laughing.
Posted by: Ruthless
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Tucson area used to be nice, hope it still is.
Good to see you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 10:37 PM (M78y+)

86 Thanks Mr. WDave. You rock. You roll.

I want this. I want this so bad. I've got a Grant in my wallet I will donate to get this done.

tiny.cc/78gn001

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 19, 2025 10:37 PM (F31MH)

87 Cats are like scorpions, it is their nature to kill anything small enough. And scare the shit our of things that are bigger.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:37 PM (HUS34)

88 Wait. Someone said there was a party here with hawt chicks.
Posted by: Col. Mohammed Mohammed bin Mohammed

There should be 72 virgins arriving any second, now.

Posted by: B. Buster at June 19, 2025 10:37 PM (DgGvY)

89 LMAO at the "map of ancient Grease."

Thanks for the ONT, WD.

Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2025 10:37 PM (doQhm)

90 69 Juneteenth wasn't the end of slavery in America, though. There was still slavery until 1886, by the Tlingit tribe in Alaska.
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Juneteenth has nothing to do with any other state than TX.
For the rest it's Kwanza krap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 10:38 PM (M78y+)

91 Has anyone seen Barry Soetoro's Selective Service Card?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 19, 2025 10:29 PM (a4flb)

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Is that the one where he's expected to service selected members of the bathhouse on days that end in "Y".

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 19, 2025 10:38 PM (nXhai)

92 We'll see about Tucson. I spent 13 years in Moab and was done with it. Plus I get to live at the resort for $50 a week and get paid $15 an hour to meet and greet people. Pretty nice gig.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:39 PM (HUS34)

93
Didn't James Carville say the Trump Administration was going to collapse a couple of months ago?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2025 10:39 PM (QnmlO)

94 Thinking ahead…

Copilot Search

Mileage, Incheon, S. Korea to Peking, China
578 miles

Range, cruise missile:
500 to 1,000 miles depending on the configuration
Supersonic cruise missiles mostly have a range of a few hundred miles, but some intercontinental versions can travel several thousand miles,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 10:40 PM (M78y+)

95 Today I had some Germans (well, they were Austrians but they spoke German). I said to one of the women, what is the German word for guide (I knew the answer).
She told me the answer which is "Fuhrer." So I said "then I am Das Fuhrer." and she broke out laughing.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:32 PM (HUS34)

Years ago I was changing a roll of paper on an office machine and had to read the instructions. They were in English on one side, and German on the other. The instructions read "insert the leader into the...." I looked for that word on the German side, and by golly it said fuhrer. You'd think they'd come up with some other word after the war....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 10:40 PM (0eaVi)

96 Actually Robert Jeffries told me it was rolled up tinfoil then painted.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 19, 2025 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

97
Friend of mine described muslims as a patriarchal murder cult--I think he nailed it.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 19, 2025 10:41 PM (hKoQL)

98 Chores to do. Back in an hour or so.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2025 10:42 PM (8WSr5)

99
T - 24 hours to solstice, occurring tomorrow night at 10:42 PM EDT. Astronomical summer begins in 1 day.

Since it occurs closer to midnight than noon for us here in NA, the 21st will be turn out to be the longest day, sunrise to sunset.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 19, 2025 10:42 PM (w6EFb)

100 Bulg,
When they had the farm my parents had a lawyer do their taxes. There are all kinds of things that are business expenses. And they used to talk about depreciation of equipment, or something.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 19, 2025 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

101
In her defining manifesto of second-wave feminism, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan compared being a 1960s housewife to living in a “comfortable concentration camp.”

__________

Guess someone wasn't taken to Florida 'bout then.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2025 10:42 PM (QnmlO)

102 map of ancient grease

Even has Auzzieland...accident or purposefully done?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2025 10:42 PM (ynpvh)

103 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. The Ukrainian Parliament passed a law stripping citizenship from any Ukrainian who has a Russian passport, which is pretty much everyone in the captured/liberated areas. Short term, it will prevent Russian-leaning Ukrainians from participating in Ukrainian elections, if any are ever held again. Long term? I think this solidifies Russia's claims to captured territory, since now no Ukrainian citizens live there anymore. Whoops! Whoopsie!
2. No good news for Ukraine on the ground, as pockets of troops continue to be cut off and surrounded.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 19, 2025 10:42 PM (BIn+J)

104 We'll see about Tucson. I spent 13 years in Moab and was done with it. Plus I get to live at the resort for $50 a week and get paid $15 an hour to meet and greet people. Pretty nice gig.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:39 PM (HUS34)

If you make it to Old Tucson, say "hi" to Santee for me.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 10:42 PM (0eaVi)

105 44
' What I did find somewhat interesting is that the enforcement of rules, etc, was usually carried out by the women themselves.'

The only authentic part of the book.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 19, 2025 10:43 PM (3wi/L)

106 Today I had some Germans (well, they were Austrians but they spoke German). I said to one of the women, what is the German word for guide (I knew the answer).
She told me the answer which is "Fuhrer." So I said "then I am Das Fuhrer." and she broke out laughing.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:32 PM (HUS34)

In other news KOA has absorbed Thousand Trails into their borders as they have demanded more Trailer Space.

Posted by: Mr Trematoda at June 19, 2025 10:43 PM (W/lyH)

107 Been to Old Tucson years ago and no interest in a revisit. I'm like the song, I've Been Everywhere and just want to hunker down and write novels. I've got a good one going now.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:45 PM (HUS34)

108 82 Wait. Someone said there was a party here with hawt chicks.
Posted by: Col. Mohammed Mohammed bin Mohammed at June 19, 2025 10:35 PM (hY4dx)

For a hot time 🔥.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)

109
How many copies of The Handmaid's Tale sit on a shelf next to one of 50 Shades of Gray?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2025 10:45 PM (QnmlO)

110 Been to Old Tucson years ago and no interest in a revisit. I'm like the song, I've Been Everywhere and just want to hunker down and write novels. I've got a good one going now.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:45 PM (HUS34)

And you're a member of A Literary Horde, right?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 10:46 PM (0eaVi)

111 The hot chicks were going to come but they were called up by the IDF. May be here next week. Hafta make do with the cold chicks.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:47 PM (HUS34)

112 Women are awesome, and it's not just because of the tits. I mean, it is partly, sure, but not all. Trust me on this. I love talking to women and getting their perspective on life and such. It's very refreshing and very interesting. I mean, since I'm a space alien and all that.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Thank you for that.

I have made an honest effort to celebrate men and boys recently. They deserve spaces where women are not allowed. When women started demanding entrance into men’s’ spaces, they forfeit their right to their own. And we are seeing it play out now with men in women’s bathrooms and boys in girls’ sports.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2025 10:48 PM (mT+6a)

113 Years ago I was changing a roll of paper on an office machine and had to read the instructions. They were in English on one side, and German on the other. The instructions read "insert the leader into the...." I looked for that word on the German side, and by golly it said fuhrer. You'd think they'd come up with some other word after the war....
Posted by: OrangeEnt
------------------------------

Worked at a machine shop that had two drill presses mfg in Germany
The manual and schematics, all information was in German.
The mechanic had to take them to his mother to read them to him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 10:48 PM (M78y+)

114 Not a member of Literary Horde. Tried it and was attacked immediately so fuck it. I'm a professional writer/editor.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:48 PM (HUS34)

115 92 There’s no way the US Armed Forces would’ve accepted that wimp for anything.

Heck, I was a wimp and I still made it into the military, as a Russian linguist. But I could’ve still kicked Obummers ass.

Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2025 10:48 PM (77rzZ)

116 were

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 10:48 PM (M78y+)

117 76 My new job is at a 400 RV site KOA resort in Tucson. I am the concierge who leads arriving guests to their site. Today I had some Germans (well, they were Austrians but they spoke German). I said to one of the women, what is the German word for guide (I knew the answer).
She told me the answer which is "Fuhrer." So I said "then I am Das Fuhrer." and she broke out laughing.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:32 PM (HUS34)

LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)

118
There’s no way the US Armed Forces would’ve accepted that wimp for anything.

__________

Remember "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"? You didn't have to ask him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2025 10:50 PM (QnmlO)

119 Not a member of Literary Horde. Tried it and was attacked immediately so fuck it. I'm a professional writer/editor.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:48 PM (HUS34)

Sorry.

It's pretty much dead anyway. No one seems to post any more.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 10:51 PM (0eaVi)

120 It was 113 in Tucson today

No, thanks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 10:52 PM (RIvkX)

121 There should be 72 virgins arriving any second, now.
Posted by: B. Buster

Yeah, that ship sailed a long time ago.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 19, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

122 Also sorry about the literary horde. It only takes one asshoe to ruin anything.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:52 PM (HUS34)

123 At some point the AC can't keep up.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 10:53 PM (0e/QT)

124
88 here in SW Wyoming today. So looking forward to Saturday and Sunday. Mornings will be in the 30s and highs in the 60s.

Posted by: fourseasons at June 19, 2025 10:55 PM (3ek7K)

125
We're gonna get a bit of a heat dome early next week. High pressure settles in, preventing convection. It will be clear, hot, and humid. High temp around 98F, with heat index over a 100F. It will only last a few days.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 19, 2025 10:55 PM (w6EFb)

126 Not a member of Literary Horde. Tried it and was attacked immediately so fuck it. I'm a professional writer/editor.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:48 PM (HUS34)
====

We forgive you!

Posted by: Grammar Nazis at June 19, 2025 10:56 PM (RIvkX)

127 It was 114 in Tucson where I am, but it missed the all-time record for this date by one degree. It is an extreme heat wave that affected the entire Southwest, UT, NM. It will be back to normal in a couple days which is in the 100 degree range, which is quite tolerable with low humidity. Anyway, I got a thing called an air conditioner on top of my trailer and it makes it like a refrigerator in here.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:56 PM (HUS34)

128 Goodnight, Folks. Off on the road to Michigan tomorrow.

Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2025 10:56 PM (77rzZ)

129 And Betty Freidan was demonstrating her elitism. My mother was a nurse. She was a stay at home wife for a couple of years but started part time, full time when my grandmother lived with us, and when we were all in school she worked full time. Father Knows best was TV, not real life for a great many families.

Posted by: Lirio100 at June 19, 2025 10:56 PM (zS4/f)

130 My wife is a legal immigrant. She's rabid about deporting all illegals. Most legal immigrants are.

—-

It takes years and tens of thousands of dollars to do it legally. I’d be pissed too if I did it the right way and then Jose just walks across the rio grande, no questions asked.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 19, 2025 10:58 PM (/CkK4)

131 Another civilian target

6m
Iran’s missile strike on Israel didn’t just target military sites, it obliterated decades of scientific research at the Weizmann Institute.

Heart tissue, DNA samples, entire neurobiology labs gone in seconds.

While thankfully no lives were lost, the destruction has devastated at least 45 labs, erasing decades of research and costing tens of millions to rebuild. A $100M+ loss to global science

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 10:58 PM (M78y+)

132 How about his grades? For all we know, that fucker failed Lunch.

He’s a painfully obvious spook cutout with somebody’s hand up his puppet ass. Biden was similar.

I always figured Biden was blackmailed into running. They had to have somebody.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2025 10:58 PM (I/Icm)

133 I sold my 38 foot fifth wheel and bought an 18 footer that I can tow with my Jeep. The AC works great in such a small trailer. I just finished a martini and some hot wings from the microwave and am thinking about a second course for dinner.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:58 PM (HUS34)

134
Tuscon airport observations over the past 3 days:

https://tinyurl.com/22wdbbph

It's a dry heat, as they say. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 19, 2025 10:58 PM (w6EFb)

135
While thankfully no lives were lost, the destruction has devastated at least 45 labs, erasing decades of research and costing tens of millions to rebuild. A $100M+ loss to global science
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

__________

Meanwhile, Trump is destroying American science!!!1!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2025 10:59 PM (QnmlO)

136 I have the windows open and there’s a lovely cool salty breeze blowing in off the Sound.

Might have to put some socks on.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2025 10:59 PM (mT+6a)

137 I currently live in an area where we get triple digit temperatures off-and-on throughout the late spring to early fall. If I ever get to retire, I'd like to live in a place that never got above about 80. I would be completely happy with a year-round 60.

Posted by: PabloD at June 19, 2025 11:00 PM (TgNVd)

138 It was 113 in Tucson today

But it's a dry heat. Of course, it's still 113 f**king degrees. I did spend some vacation time in Arizona. It is so beautiful that you can put up with the heat.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 19, 2025 11:00 PM (0Htd1)

139 It was 114 in Tucson where I am, but it missed the all-time record for this date by one degree. It is an extreme heat wave that affected the entire Southwest, UT, NM. It will be back to normal in a couple days which is in the 100 degree range, which is quite tolerable with low humidity. Anyway, I got a thing called an air conditioner on top of my trailer and it makes it like a refrigerator in here.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:56 PM (HUS34)

Helps keep the bodies from decomposing too fast, too, keeping the smell down.

I think I've seen this horror movie before. A Trailer In The Woods.

Posted by: RickZ at June 19, 2025 11:01 PM (gKDq2)

140 The History Lesson is funny, but I noticed that when the French showed up at Yorktown their ships were flying the Tricolore. Hold on, I thought: that’s Revolutionary France not l’ancien régime! So, I thought, what was the naval ensign of the Kingdom of France? I looked it up: it was a white flag! Yes, a completely white flag! Occasionally they used a white flag strewn with gold fleur-de-lis (white a semy of fleury-de-lis or), but usually just a white flag. Make of that what you will!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2025 11:01 PM (qgNn3)

141 How do you destroy years of research? Like didn’t someone write down the results of the experiments?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 19, 2025 11:01 PM (/CkK4)

142 Back in Moab where I lived before it was 106 today. My friend in NM said it was 110 in his back yard. It ain't just Tucson.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:01 PM (HUS34)

143 Also sorry about the literary horde. It only takes one asshoe to ruin anything.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 10:52 PM (HUS34)

Unfortunately.

BTW, what do you charge for editing?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:02 PM (0eaVi)

144 USAF C-5M Super Galaxy landing at Prince Sultan Air Base this morning, with a large amount of cargo in tow.
Via @flightradar24
Based on declared fuel via ACARS, this C-5 is landing with up to 200,000 lbs of cargo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 11:02 PM (M78y+)

145 Yes breezy and cool here too today.

Posted by: Grammar Nazis at June 19, 2025 11:02 PM (RIvkX)

146 t was 113 in Tucson today

No, thanks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

At some point the AC can't keep up.
Posted by: Boss Moss

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

My understanding is that a lot of houses in the SW don't have basements. Why not? Cost? Seems like it would be cooler down there in the summer.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 19, 2025 11:04 PM (144I4)

147
NWS has a red flag fire weather alert out there as well I just noticed. All of NV, most of Utah, and NE AX, and the western parts of CO and NM.

Extreme heat for South AZ and then another one over Death Valley area.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 19, 2025 11:04 PM (w6EFb)

148 OrangeEnt -- I'm reasonable. Check out my website at www.david-writes.com.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:05 PM (HUS34)

149 How do you destroy years of research? Like didn’t someone write down the results of the experiments?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

If the results are something that can be written down, and they didn't have an offsite backup, then it's data they didn't want to keep. You don't need a war to wreck that, just a lightning strike.

If the results of the "research" were cell cultures or DNA or something, you can't really write it to tape and send it to the salt mines.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2025 11:06 PM (DgGvY)

150 Include the hyphen in my URL.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:06 PM (HUS34)

151 142 How do you destroy years of research? Like didn’t someone write down the results of the experiments?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Or back them up?

After DOGE shut down some BS KWIMATE CHANGE crap, the people who ran it were whining about all there 'data' being lost forever. Why? Did they not back it up. If it's important, back it up. Unless...

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 19, 2025 11:06 PM (EweRc)

152 The dry heat thing is legit though. I live in a pretty dry place, at least dry in summer. It could be 90 outside and most people have their windows down while driving instead of the a/c. It feels nice.

Back east the a/c comes on if it’s 75 because it’s muggy and gross.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 19, 2025 11:06 PM (/CkK4)

153 /fascist sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 11:07 PM (RIvkX)

154 My understanding is that a lot of houses in the SW don't have basements. Why not? Cost? Seems like it would be cooler down there in the summer.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 19, 2025 11:04 PM (144I4)

Two words: Caliche.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:07 PM (0eaVi)

155
From that Tuscon airport, notice the dew point is so low, the Heat index is less than the actual temp. Still hot as hell, thought. Swamp cooler would work like a charm.

And no wonder the NWS has the red flag fire weather warning. Hot, dry air, with high gusts. That makes for a tinderbox.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 19, 2025 11:08 PM (w6EFb)

156 My understanding is that a lot of houses in the SW don't have basements. Why not? Cost? Seems like it would be cooler down there in the summer.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 19, 2025 11:04 PM (144I4)

Expensive to dig since the ground is so hard.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 19, 2025 11:08 PM (/CkK4)

157 My wife is a legal immigrant. She's rabid about deporting all illegals. Most legal immigrants are.

>>> I saw a black woman on TikTok ranting about how legal Hispanic voters were to blame for "their people" being deported. She used the phrase "voting against their interests" and it finally hit me why I hate that phrase so much. Because it assumes that because of my demographic, I have to vote a certain way to protect that demographic. And I refuse to be reduced to my skin color/sex/location. I am going to vote according to my beliefs, not my immutable characteristics.

So screw you, random lady on TikTok. (An evergreen expression until that brain-rotting app gets nuked.)

Posted by: pookysgirl, giving a sector of the internet the Double Deuce at June 19, 2025 11:08 PM (Wt5PA)

158 When it's the normal 100 degree high here in Tucson it's quite pleasant. And the highs in Dec-Feb average 65 degrees. Beats my years in Chicago and Rochester NY by a lightyear.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:08 PM (HUS34)

159 Friend of mine described muslims as a patriarchal murder cult--I think he nailed it.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA
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The paranoid remnants of a decayed society.

Posted by: National Lampoon at June 19, 2025 11:08 PM (XeU6L)

160 150:If the results of the "research" were cell cultures or DNA or something, you can't really write it to tape and send it to the salt mines.

This is true. Hadn't thought of that.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 19, 2025 11:09 PM (EweRc)

161 Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:05 PM (HUS34)

You mostly do non-fiction?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:09 PM (0eaVi)

162 89 Wait. Someone said there was a party here with hawt chicks.
Posted by: Col. Mohammed Mohammed bin Mohammed

There should be 72 virgins arriving any second, now.

Posted by: B. Buster at June 19, 2025 10:37 PM (DgGvY)
----
2 and 70 virgins came down from Inverness,
and when the day was over there were 2 and 70 less .....
singing ....

Posted by: Ciampino - now that's a ballad at June 19, 2025 11:09 PM (sPQoU)

163 How do you destroy years of research? Like didn’t someone write down the results of the experiments?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 19, 2025 11:01 PM

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Yeah, the loss of physical sample material is unfortunate but I highly doubt the data wasn't in electronic torm and backed up off-site.

Posted by: Bigsmith at June 19, 2025 11:10 PM (1Au9i)

164 Best. Troll. President. Ever.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 19, 2025 11:10 PM (xcxpd)

165 >>Back east the a/c comes on if it’s 75 because it’s muggy and gross.

Might be. If it weren't for that giant fucking ocean we get to jump into.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2025 11:10 PM (viF8m)

166 Based on declared fuel via ACARS, this C-5 is landing with up to 200,000 lbs of cargo.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Probably not bacon.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2025 11:11 PM (XeU6L)

167 Storm front moving into Idaho. Tomorrow will be 20 degrees cooler than today. Highest elevations might even get a little snow this weekend.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 19, 2025 11:11 PM (BIn+J)

168 According to my weather station, dew point is at a perfect 43 right now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 19, 2025 11:11 PM (/CkK4)

169 Forgot to fill up my wit tank today. About on empty. I'll see if a few hours sack time will bring it back up to at least half.

Here, have a closing meme.
https://bit.ly/44ovlUn

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - gonna unplug myself and plug myself back in at June 19, 2025 11:11 PM (63lGh)

170 The backyard here in KY is lit up with thousands of fireflies.
Lighting bugs if you're so inclined.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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We moved west of the Mississippi 56 years ago, and I don't regret it, but I do miss fireflies on summer evenings.
My kids got to collect them in a glass jar, like we did as kids when they visited grandparents and they still will talk about it. Then the grandparents retired to AZ, and the grandkids and great grandkids have missed out.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 19, 2025 11:12 PM (mGabY)

171 Storm front moving into Idaho. Tomorrow will be 20 degrees cooler than today. Highest elevations might even get a little snow this weekend.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 19, 2025 11:11 PM (BIn+J)

Climate change is real bro!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 19, 2025 11:12 PM (/CkK4)

172 Amusing Tuscon trivia: as the oldest and largest city in the Arizona Territory, it should obviously have been the Capitol. But it had sided with the Confederacy, and was always more Mexican than Anglo, so they ended up building a completely new city from scratch 100 miles north, called it Phoenix, and made it the Capitol instead.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 11:12 PM (EVFZ5)

173 I've done a lot of non fiction although I write novels for fun (six so far). My degree is in magazine writing and editing from #1 ranked U. of MO J-Skool.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:12 PM (HUS34)

174 Probably not bacon.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2025 11:11 PM (XeU6L)

Stacey Abrams and Lizzo came to entertain the troops?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:12 PM (0eaVi)

175 My understanding is that a lot of houses in the SW don't have basements. Why not? Cost? Seems like it would be cooler down there in the summer.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 19, 2025 11:04 PM (144I4)

Two words: Caliche.

One word, cheap. Concrete slab is cheaper than a basement. Caliche is easy enough to deal with, soak the ground before digging. But if you can just use a tractor to scrape out a spot for a pad it'll take less time and cost less to prep the site.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 19, 2025 11:13 PM (lUFok)

176 The lake effect winter is brutal. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Ithica, Binghamton. All a hellish snowscape for 5 months a year.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 11:13 PM (RIvkX)

177 Juneteenth wasn't the end of slavery in America, though. There was still slavery until 1886, by the Tlingit tribe in Alaska.
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Juneteenth has nothing to do with any other state than TX.
For the rest it's Kwanza krap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 10:38 PM (M78y+)

Exactly. Sometimes I fall out of sarcastic mode into pedant mode.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2025 11:14 PM (S/Y4j)

178 Dewpoint in central Illinois is 63 tonight...muggy. And my AC is on the fritz. Tech coming tomorrow, hopefully he gets it fixed before the 90s hit on Saturday.

Posted by: Bigsmith at June 19, 2025 11:14 PM (1Au9i)

179
Dew point here finally dropped below 70F around 10:30. It's been over 70 all day, average 71.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 19, 2025 11:14 PM (w6EFb)

180 Ruthless, where are you at? The mesa top got a little too toasty for me, I should have scouted out a shady area. At the temps, I’m not sure it would have mattered. In the desert at 6k feet the Sun is like a hammer. Currently installed at 10k feet much, much nicer.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2025 11:14 PM (I/Icm)

181 I've done a lot of non fiction although I write novels for fun (six so far). My degree is in magazine writing and editing from #1 ranked U. of MO J-Skool.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:12 PM (HUS34)

I have about four novels needing an editor, just don't have the money.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:15 PM (0eaVi)

182 Went to Easter Mass at the Cathedral in Tucson about 15 years ago.

Full Mariachi band. It was HUGE. Mass was in Spanish. It was awesome.

My boys loved it. So did I.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2025 11:16 PM (aH/pT)

183 Buffalo, NY is the where the Strategic Snow Repository is located, right?

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2025 11:16 PM (I/Icm)

184 Tater, I am now in Tucson, AZ. Lived in Moab 13 years. If you want miserable summers, try TX for the high H2O. I don't know how people stand summers there. There's a reason the TxMoMe is in October. BTW, I plan to be there again this year. It's a hoot.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:17 PM (HUS34)

185 Maybe I'm just slower than usual today and not reading the comments right, but did the Literary Horde get killed off? I don't post there nearly enough, but hadn't noticed anything that seemed to call for its cancellation.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 19, 2025 11:17 PM (q3u5l)

186 Probably not bacon.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2025 11:11 PM (XeU6L)

Stacey Abrams and Lizzo came to entertain the troops?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:12 PM (0eaVi)

Preparations are being made to use them as the initial strike on Iran's nuclear facility. The concussion effects should make later strikes more effective.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2025 11:18 PM (S/Y4j)

187 My understanding is that a lot of houses in the SW don't have basements. Why not? Cost? Seems like it would be cooler down there in the summer.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 19, 2025 11:04 PM (144I4)

Two words: Caliche.

One word, cheap. Concrete slab is cheaper than a basement. Caliche is easy enough to deal with, soak the ground before digging. But if you can just use a tractor to scrape out a spot for a pad it'll take less time and cost less to prep the site.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Basements, to hell with basements! We have no basements. In fact, we don't need basements. I don't have to show you any stinking basements!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 19, 2025 11:18 PM (NXz8h)

188 HIFi32 is a 767.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 11:20 PM (0e/QT)

189 Another reason for no basements, especially in the south

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 11:20 PM (EVFZ5)

190 Lobster Backs you say?

Clip from the movie April Morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsB6e2sTFy4

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2025 11:20 PM (DIg/e)

191 OrangeEnt -- At this stage in life I mostly do stuff for fun. I'd be glad to take a look at one of your MS and we could talk. My website is unfortunately overrun by people wanting to sell me things I have no interest in so I have the troll fence set to kill. Let me know if you're interested and we'll figure out how to connect.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:21 PM (HUS34)

192 The lake effect winter is brutal. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Ithica, Binghamton. All a hellish snowscape for 5 months a year.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 11:13 PM (RIvkX)

I had a view of the weather indicator in Syracuse. Always wanted the white light.

Aw crap! Gave away my nic explanation.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:21 PM (0eaVi)

193 Contd; pier and beam construction, where the house sits in wooden or concrete piers, and there is a crawl space under the house, open to the outside. In areas where it was too cold, this would make the house very difficult to keep warm, but it probably makes it easier to cool.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 11:22 PM (EVFZ5)

194 >>> 22 I see sportsball team Dodgers took a stand against ICE(supposedly) What is ICE doing wrong again? Bold take LA
Posted by: a dude in MI at June 19, 2025 10:02 PM (+I6Y/)

Be funny as Hell if one of their star players was illegal, or a visa overstay, and ICE came on the field and arrested him as he came up to the plate.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2025 10:12 PM (8WSr5)

Deport the entire team, coaching staff, and owners.

Out An Abundance Of Caution and all that stuff.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 19, 2025 11:24 PM (ULPxl)

195 >>Aw crap!

The Aw Crap map is for San Francisco.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2025 11:24 PM (viF8m)

196 One word, cheap.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

That's what I figured. Especially those developments/subdivisions where they throw up hundreds of houses.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 19, 2025 11:25 PM (144I4)

197 Yeah, I thought about the La Sals, but figured the pressure would be too high being so close to Moab. Too many people. I want to check out the Henry mountains, but there isn’t much other than Hanksville for resupply.

I saw Lin Ottinger died a couple months ago. His Rock Shop was a tourist staple for many years. I guess he had a whole fleet of early VW bus that he used for tours, and resisted ever increasingly frantic requests to sell. They’ve gotten stupid expensive. I suppose his heirs will dispose of them now.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2025 11:26 PM (I/Icm)

198 I spent one winter in Syracuse and it almost shattered my sanity.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 11:27 PM (RIvkX)

199
Why is a mess hall called that?

What is a "messer room?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 19, 2025 11:27 PM (w1oHF)

200 Messer is German for knife.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:28 PM (HUS34)

201 Dewpoint in central Illinois is 63 tonight...muggy. And my AC is on the fritz. Tech coming tomorrow, hopefully he gets it fixed before the 90s hit on Saturday.
Posted by: Bigsmith at June 19, 2025 11:14 PM (1Au9i)

If you are mechanically inclined, look up "HVAC starter capacitor" on EweTube. Starter capacitors are what give the "kick" to get fans and compressors going. They do wear out, after several years, and are easily replaced.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 19, 2025 11:28 PM (BIn+J)

202 Expensive to dig since the ground is so hard.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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And it moves

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 11:28 PM (M78y+)

203 Why would you want a basement in the SW? It would just fill up with rattlers and scorpions!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2025 11:29 PM (qgNn3)

204 >>> 79 I read the Handmaid's Tale when it first came out
==
As did I. I was a bit more liberal 40 years ago.

The only plot point that that I've carried since reading it is this: Prior to the Evil Patriarchy (EP) Takeover (I ain't gonna look up what Atwood called it), the society had gone all cashless, which made it super easy, barely an inconvenience, for the EP to seize all the money from the women and remove them from the workforce.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 19, 2025 10:34 PM (D0HYP)

If only the Stronk, Independent Whammen had possessed AR-15s,and knew how to use them.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 19, 2025 11:29 PM (ULPxl)

205 The Aw Crap map is for San Francisco.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2025 11:24 PM (viF8m)
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Only two piles of poo on this morning's walk!

Thing's are looking up! *whistles*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 11:29 PM (RIvkX)

206 Maybe I'm just slower than usual today and not reading the comments right, but did the Literary Horde get killed off? I don't post there nearly enough, but hadn't noticed anything that seemed to call for its cancellation.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 19, 2025 11:17 PM (q3u5l)

JSG, it's still up, but nobody seems to have any interest in it any more. I posted a couple things, and a couple of new people asked for help, but no one else seems to go there now. I'm not closing it, but I wish more people would show up.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:30 PM (0eaVi)

207 After about 35 years living in the SW, I have yet to see a scorpion. I may have seen four rattlers, and they were no threat. Two of them had been run over on the highway.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:30 PM (HUS34)

208 Just shows how some people trust the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders way too much

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 19, 2025 11:30 PM (FLiOE)

209 Why is a mess hall called that?
What is a "messer room?"
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Messer is German for knife.
Posted by: Ruthless

Night of the long knives.

Posted by: Arya Stark - at June 19, 2025 11:30 PM (MsrgL)

210 And the video of the Brits? Wow ... Time Tunnel, as the supposed French Ships flew flags from... oh... Napoleon... 40 years too early.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2025 11:32 PM (mP0Kj)

211 Why would you want a basement in the SW? It would just fill up with rattlers and scorpions!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

I would not want that. But the scorpions find their way into houses above grade anyway. I lived in Texas as a kid for a couple of years, and learned to turn the light on in the bathroom when I got up in the middle of the night so I didn't step on any.

They also like to hang out on the walls because we had really rough textured walls.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 19, 2025 11:32 PM (144I4)

212 A federal appeals court has indefinitely blocked Judge Breyer’s order to put Gavin Newsom back in control of the National Guard.

"HA-HA" - Nelson Muntz.

Posted by: 13times at June 19, 2025 11:32 PM (GD6tX)

213 Las Cruces is at about 4,300 ft which is about 2,000 more than Tucson. This translates to roughly 10° cooler year-round. Humidity wise we're about equal ranging between 20% to 50%. The low humidity during the summer makes 100° not too bad If you're in the shade; you definitely wouldn't want to be on a road crew laying down asphalt. The peak enjoyable seasons are in the spring and the fall. June, July, and August, well nothing's perfect and it sure beats shoveling snow 5 months at the year. And for you all that live up on the Northern border, especially Minnesota, including sour cream and black olives when making "Spanish dishes" is a crime against humanity.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 19, 2025 11:32 PM (NXz8h)

214 I grew up in Iowa. 90F and 90 percent humidity isn’t unusual. I’ve heard Mississippi and Alabama get hot too, but I don’t see how it gets any worse. Air will only hold so much moisture. On the flip side, it never gets to 25 below zero in places like Mississippi. There are at least one or even two months when the weather is great.

I’ve enormous respect for our ancestors. No air conditioning and all the creature comforts we enjoy today.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2025 11:33 PM (I/Icm)

215 Clip from the movie April Morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsB6e2sTFy4
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2025 11:20 PM (DIg/e)

I had to search for it on the correct April Morning on YT. Can't seem to find 1776 on YT now, without pay, that is. I like that one, even that old commie as Ben Franklin. Howard Da Silva. Also, who knew the White Shadow could sing??!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:33 PM (0eaVi)

216 Romeo13

See if you like my clip up at #190.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2025 11:34 PM (DIg/e)

217 OrangeEnt -- At this stage in life I mostly do stuff for fun. I'd be glad to take a look at one of your MS and we could talk. My website is unfortunately overrun by people wanting to sell me things I have no interest in so I have the troll fence set to kill. Let me know if you're interested and we'll figure out how to connect.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:21 PM (HUS34)

Sidebar link goes to email.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:34 PM (0eaVi)

218 Anwar Sadat, Muammar Gaddafi and Manuel Noriega walk into a cantina, and the bartender says...

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 19, 2025 11:34 PM (fY84s)

219 >>>Multiple U.S. Air Force KC-46A “Pegasus” Aerial-Refueling Tankers, going by the callsigns: HIFI31, HIFI32, HIFI33, and HIFI34
— departed over the last few hours from Travis Air Force Base in California, heading west over the Pacific.

“HIFI” has previously been used as a callsign by tankers tasked with refueling B-52, B-1, and B-2 Long-Range Strategic Bombers. It’s possible these tankers are being pre-positioned in Australia or somewhere else in the Pacific, in preparation for the deployment of additional bombers to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which is roughly 2,000 miles from Iran.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 11:34 PM (M78y+)

220 218 Anwar Sadat, Muammar Gaddafi and Manuel Noriega walk into a cantina, and the bartender says...
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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What are you two doing with that bum?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2025 11:36 PM (M78y+)

221 Why cuts to Muni service are happening

We know how important Muni is to San Francisco, and we never want to reduce service. But this summer, we’re facing a big financial challenge — and that means we have to make some tough choices.

We had to reduce service because of a $50 million shortfall in our July 2025 - June 2026 budget. Our funding from parking, fares and the city’s General Fund is lower than expected. That’s mostly because of the long-lasting effects of the pandemic. We’ve already tried to fix this by cutting costs, slowing hiring and improving fare enforcement. But it’s not enough.
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Yesiree! No doom spiral to see here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 11:36 PM (RIvkX)

222 I’ve enormous respect for our ancestors. No air conditioning and all the creature comforts we enjoy today.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2025 11:33 PM (I/Icm)

It is NORMAL to get 115 temps here... yet my DAD, who grew up here... stayed in the area... with only a swamp cooler on the house when he could finally afford one.

I now live in that house.. but with Central Air and a swimming pool out back...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2025 11:36 PM (mP0Kj)

223 Romeo13 -

Nobody reads my posts! See my post at 140!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2025 11:36 PM (qgNn3)

224 Yesiree! No doom spiral to see here.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Funny there's no mention of all the handouts or tax-paying citizens moving out as possible causes.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 19, 2025 11:38 PM (144I4)

225 HIFI31 and HiFI32 are Boeing 767s. Hawaii.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 11:39 PM (0e/QT)

226 Orange Ent, you mean find the whole movie?

I just typed April Morning and bam first hit was the full movie. 1776 is an excellent movie on a certain event but also a teaching lesson on how to get a compromise from a bunch stiff necked people.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2025 11:39 PM (DIg/e)

227 Every time I ride Muni I feel defiled somehow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 11:40 PM (RIvkX)

228 The Aw Crap map is for San Francisco.
Posted by: JackStraw

Only two piles of poo on this morning's walk!
Thing's are looking up! *whistles*
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Still, keep looking down.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2025 11:40 PM (DgGvY)

229 Start, and Run AC capacitors. Tough to get good ‘uns these days, because they are all made you know where, at a price point, and so they do.

While you’re at it, replace the “contactor”. This is a kind of switch, you can hear it click in the outside unit when switching to AC on the T-stat. Bugs and spiders like to setup shop in them for some reason too.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2025 11:41 PM (I/Icm)

230 Tater, I am now in Tucson, AZ. Lived in Moab 13 years. If you want miserable summers, try TX for the high H2O. I don't know how people stand summers there. There's a reason the TxMoMe is in October. BTW, I plan to be there again this year. It's a hoot.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 19, 2025 11:17 PM (HUS34)

It's 82 degrees and 90% humidity right now where I'm at in Texas. We will be in the 90's next 5 days.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2025 11:42 PM (VofaG)

231 OrangeEnt --

I'd posted a story draft recently (after not getting anything done at all since the late Cretaceous). Skimming the comments this evening and noticing the references to the Lit Horde, for a minute there I was afraid I'd done something even more annoying than usual.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 19, 2025 11:42 PM (q3u5l)

232 I just typed April Morning and bam first hit was the full movie. 1776 is an excellent movie on a certain event but also a teaching lesson on how to get a compromise from a bunch stiff necked people.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2025 11:39 PM (DIg/e)

No, I found April Morning and watched it on April Morning. Can't seem to find the whole movie of 1776 on YT anymore. Always like to watch it on the Fourth. I should probably get a DVD of it. Richard Henry Lee is a hoot.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:43 PM (0eaVi)

233 >>I spent one winter in Syracuse and it almost shattered my sanity.

The Buffalo Bills are my arch enemy but I gotta admit I love their fans. They laugh at people who cringe at their weather. Better, they relish it. You see snow, they see a party.

I've lived in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. I love the winter. Bring on the cold and snow.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2025 11:43 PM (viF8m)

234 Our current house is a single story ranch built in 1965, deep soffits and shallow pitch roof. For a builder house it's solid and square, they still do homes, good reputation locally. The later developments feature wide streets for easier snow removal. Believe me, that is a smart move, in the older sections of town, the houses are jammed together, making snow removal or accumulation a nightmare.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 19, 2025 11:44 PM (hKoQL)

235 I'd posted a story draft recently (after not getting anything done at all since the late Cretaceous). Skimming the comments this evening and noticing the references to the Lit Horde, for a minute there I was afraid I'd done something even more annoying than usual.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 19, 2025 11:42 PM (q3u5l)

Nope, you're OK. I'm apparently the only one who looked and commented on your story.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:44 PM (0eaVi)

236 I grew up in South Louisiana and only had an attic fan in our house for a few years. Schools just had ceiling fans.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2025 11:45 PM (VofaG)

237 HIFI33 and HIFI34 are indeed Pegasi.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 11:46 PM (0e/QT)

238 1776 is an excellent movie on a certain event but also a teaching lesson on how to get a compromise from a bunch stiff necked people.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2025 11:39 PM (DIg/e)

The one scene I remember is when John Adams and Ben Franklin go to see Tom Jefferson on a Sunday in the loft apartment where he is writing the Declaration. Tom's wife had come for a visit. John kept talking away and Ben said something like, 'Let's go, John, and leave them alone.' John was astonished: 'On a Sunday?'

Other than that, it was a musical where no music should have gone.

Posted by: RickZ at June 19, 2025 11:46 PM (gKDq2)

239 Every time I ride Muni I feel defiled somehow.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 11:40 PM (RIvkX)

I can't remember if I ever rode a Muni bus when in SF for high school field trips.

We rode Muni to GGP a couple years ago, and it seemed safe. Maybe it was the area?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:50 PM (0eaVi)

240 One time I flew out of Yuma and sat next to a nice lady of about 29 years who grew up there. She said when she was a kid, they slept outside on really hot nights. They would get wrapped in wet sheets and then sleep on cots.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 19, 2025 11:50 PM (144I4)

241 For your musical edification

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRzbCpVMRY8

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2025 11:50 PM (DIg/e)

242 I have about four novels needing an editor, just don't have the money.

On what subject?

Posted by: Weirddave at June 19, 2025 11:51 PM (df/te)

243 It can be lunch time
Will have to put in Air conditioner tomorrow, wife has no temperature range, heat when it's 70, air conditioning when it's 80

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2025 11:51 PM (b93AZ)

244 Four novels?

Genres? word count? Got a start, a middle, and an end to each? Have you gone through revising them?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2025 11:52 PM (DIg/e)

245 On what subject?
Posted by: Weirddave at June 19, 2025 11:51 PM (df/te)

Two westerns, WD, and two scifi. Sarah Hoyt has told me about her editor, so once I get the money together, I'll probably have her give me a dev edit on the latest.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:53 PM (0eaVi)

246 Will have to put in Air conditioner tomorrow, wife has no temperature range, heat when it's 70, air conditioning when it's 80 Posted by: Skip

And your point is exactly?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 19, 2025 11:54 PM (NXz8h)

247 “The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive,” Friedan wrote, kind of like the millions of Jews who littered the mass graves of Auschwitz and Dachau.

Its funny, I seem to recall that when conservatives compared being cancelled for opposing woke crap, or imprisoned for opposing COVID crap, to NAZI Germany we were told it was offensive because in neither case was it the Holocaust. Ok. And being a hausfrau is?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 11:54 PM (t0Rmr)

248 Mossad may have been caught with their pants down on October 7, but they have done yeoman work since then. The beeper attack was sheer brilliance. And all the advance work they did prior to last Friday has been nothing but genius. And I think they are still operation side Iran, confusing the hell out of the Iranians, building Israeli air attacks, and making every higher up suspect every member of his staff.

Also, I think Trump is playing the Iranian leadership like a violin. His two week chance to talk must be giving them terminal heart burn. If they don't accept Trump's terms, what fresh hell might the Israelis rain down on them? Even worse for them is the possibility Trump might begin to assist Israel in a more overt manner.

Finally, taking Trump at his word, I don't believe he's interested in anything other than dismantling Iran nuclear facilities. He has plainly said that the Iranians themselves will have to decide what comes next.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at June 19, 2025 11:54 PM (2XtqA)

249 The Handmaid’s Tale improved upon this formula by summoning a fictional nightmare scenario to replace the real-life Holocaust as the all-purpose allegory for Every Bad Thing

She used...Islam. Which is a real thing. And those same feminists that will tell you Vance wants to turn them into a Handmaid will also tell you that you have no right to judge Muslims.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 11:55 PM (t0Rmr)

250 For your musical edification

Here's another:

https://tinyurl.com/bkbvfyhn

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:56 PM (0eaVi)

251 Have you ever seen any of the women wearing these outfits interviewed? They're practically panting when talking about being held down and “bred” by the patriarchy. It's their fetish. They're horny af.

This aligns with the common feminist complaint of "why do all the men that I am sexually attracted to have politics I hate?"

But...rejection of biology, and the real world in general, are the core parts of leftist beliefs.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 11:57 PM (t0Rmr)

252 I find that odd because I voted to send every single one of them back.

He was pretty clear about it on the campaign trail. Perhaps he won't deliver on it...but that is what most Americans want and why Trump won three presidential elections in a row.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 11:58 PM (t0Rmr)

253 OrangeEnt at 235.

Yep. And thanks again.

Wouldn't worry too much about the long silences -- God knows it's easy enough to get sidetracked, especially as summer comes on. And there's probably enough energy tied up in AOS comment threads daily to account for 3 or 4 unwritten novels. It'll pick up again sooner or later.

Have a good one.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 19, 2025 11:58 PM (q3u5l)

254 >>Also, I think Trump is playing the Iranian leadership like a violin.

Not just the Iranians. It's been fun to watch.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2025 11:59 PM (viF8m)

255 I posted my thoughts on Iran on Twitter yesterday:

I'm not non-interventionalist, I'm non-nation building. I think Israel is doing what must be done, and if they need help, say with taking out the last enrichment sight and we have weapons they don't, we should bounce the rubble. But after that...that's Iran's problem.

No boots on the ground trying to build a "stable democracy" or any of that garbage. If a regime change happens and a pro-western government comes to power, hell I'm all for a Marshall Plan to support it. But other than that, let the Persians take care of themselves.

Posted by: Weirddave at June 19, 2025 11:59 PM (df/te)

256 Post Cold War feminism has sold many women snake oil so now they are hearing their biological alarm clock ringing like mad and wondering if all their 'success' is worth being a potential Elenor Rigby.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2025 12:00 AM (DIg/e)

257 She used...Islam. Which is a real thing. And those same feminists that will tell you Vance wants to turn them into a Handmaid will also tell you that you have no right to judge Muslims.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 11:55 PM (t0Rmr)

Muslim women cover themselves up because they want to be modest. Yeah, right. They don't want to get raped then stoned to death.

The oppression of women in the islamic world in the one issue where Western feminists simply fall flat and prove their ideology is fever-swamp crap. They're okay with fighting the Patriarchy at home where there is none but refuse to fight real a Patriarchy led by mullahs.

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 12:01 AM (gKDq2)

258 History Lesson

pic.twitter.com/veCVamjYVn

While guerilla warfare was part of the success of the colonials, it is overstated somewhat I think. We won several set piece battles, most notably Yorktown, and absent those I suspect that the guerilla warfare would have been for naught.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 20, 2025 12:01 AM (t0Rmr)

259 I H8 musicals

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2025 12:01 AM (b93AZ)

260 When did Atwood switch out Islam for a Christian theocracy? Never read her clap-trap

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2025 12:02 AM (DIg/e)

261 Shortly after the election she started talking about the need to stock up on years worth of food and was refusing to leave her house to the point of having groceries delivered because she was scared to leave.

Having emergency food and water reserves is just common sense and anyone with the space to do so should have some.

But, I am also darkly amused that leftists who view themselves as the common men/women of the world have no problem finding the money to pay someone else to do their chores for them, and at a time where, apparently, it is dangerous to do so.

Nothing says I'm a brave egalitarian more then paying some working class shlub to take a bullet for you right?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 20, 2025 12:03 AM (t0Rmr)

262 You forget Saratoga and Cowpens. Nyah.

And Yorktown had some help courtesy of the French fleet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2025 12:03 AM (DIg/e)

263 Genres? word count? Got a start, a middle, and an end to each? Have you gone through revising them?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2025 11:52 PM (DIg/e)

AP, these are complete. I've done a self edit on them all and a bit of rewrites. Trying to decide where to go from here.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 12:04 AM (0eaVi)

264 The BLM riots formed a movement, but illegal aliens waving Mexican flags and Antifa setting Waymos on fire isn’t resonating with Americans the way George Floyd’s golden coffin did.

I suspect that the BLM antics helped Trump in 2020. But the tens of millions of fake votes for Biden overwhelmed his narrower win percentage.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 20, 2025 12:04 AM (t0Rmr)

265 207

I ran over one on the Interstate in AZ.

I still feel bad about it. I didn't have enough time to prevent it. The driver hits the brakes. The animal speeds up. It almost seems as if they dive under the wheels!

Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2025 12:05 AM (kd60y)

266 The Left when a Republican is in office, "Don't die for the Man!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2025 12:06 AM (DIg/e)

267 You forget Saratoga and Cowpens. Nyah.

Ach, and don't forget zee little Christmas time scrap at Trenton

Posted by: Some Hessian at June 20, 2025 12:06 AM (t0Rmr)

268 To remember when mad magazine parodied The Feminine Mystique as The Feminine Mistake.

Posted by: Happy at June 20, 2025 12:07 AM (8wFql)

269 I H8 musicals
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2025 12:01 AM (b93AZ)

'Cat Ballou'.

A singing Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin. What's to H8?

Musicals are fine on the stage. I just don't think they translate all that well onto film, even if 'the hills are alive with the sound of music.'

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 12:07 AM (gKDq2)

270 Ach, and don't forget zee little Christmas time scrap at Trenton

I thought George was being right neighborly there. If he was a Serb and you were a Croat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2025 12:07 AM (DIg/e)

271 Amusing Tuscon trivia: as the oldest and largest city in the Arizona Territory, it should obviously have been the Capitol. But it had sided with the Confederacy, and was always more Mexican than Anglo, so they ended up building a completely new city from scratch 100 miles north, called it Phoenix, and made it the Capitol instead.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 11:12 PM (EVFZ5)

Prescott was the Territorial Capital, too, for a time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 12:09 AM (gcq9l)

272 I still feel bad about it. I didn't have enough time to prevent it. The driver hits the brakes. The animal speeds up. It almost seems as if they dive under the wheels!
Posted by: mnw
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I have had discussions with fellow motorcylists about avoiding squirrels in the road. The consensus is; Aim for the squirrel, because wherever you *think* it is going to be, that is not *where* it is going to be.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2025 12:10 AM (XeU6L)

273 While guerilla warfare was part of the success of the colonials, it is overstated somewhat I think. We won several set piece battles, most notably Yorktown, and absent those I suspect that the guerilla warfare would have been for naught.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 20, 2025 12:01 AM (t0Rmr)

Cowpens was a rather good battle by Morgan. He shattered Tarleton's legion and made them scatter. Washington's spies probably did a great load of work too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 12:10 AM (0eaVi)

274 Cat Ballou'.

A singing Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin. What's to H8?

Musicals are fine on the stage. I just don't think they translate all that well onto film, even if 'the hills are alive with the sound of music.'
Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 12:07 AM (gKDq2)

Clint and Lee were in Paint Your Wagon.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2025 12:12 AM (BIn+J)

275 269 -- Eastwood and Marvin were in Paint Your wagon. Sam Cook and some other guy sang the Ballad of Cat Ballou. Marvin was in Cat Gallon -- just not singing.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at June 20, 2025 12:12 AM (2XtqA)

276 There is something about musicals being seen in public. I had front row orchestra seats for Fiddler on the Roof in NYC and it was a real experience. As a film if was probably eh. Although not a musical, a real emotional night was again front row for Wagner's Tristan & Isolde at the Chicago Opera. Wow! A highlight of my life.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 20, 2025 12:12 AM (HUS34)

277 Good luck Orange Ent with all those books.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2025 12:12 AM (DIg/e)

278 ...Finally, taking Trump at his word, I don't believe he's interested in anything other than dismantling Iran nuclear facilities. He has plainly said that the Iranians themselves will have to decide what comes next.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
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Another country heard from. Good to see you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 12:12 AM (wwlZ/)

279 I'm not non-interventionalist, I'm non-nation building. I think Israel is doing what must be done, and if they need help, say with taking out the last enrichment sight and we have weapons they don't, we should bounce the rubble. But after that...that's Iran's problem. No boots on the ground trying to build a "stable democracy" or any of that garbage. Posted by: Weirddave

This is where I land. Right now is the a decisive moment to take down the decades long Iranian nuclear weapons program. The Israelis made all this happen and the longer this action is delayed the more the door opens for the Europeans or the Chicoms to muck up the clarity. Trump is no greenhorn anymore and he thoroughly understands the Iranians have to be stopped. With that in mind, it seems he's bringing all the assets to the right place and most likely working to minimize the diplomatic fallout. I hope he's playing this right since the stakes here are sky high.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 12:13 AM (NXz8h)

280 Clint and Lee were in Paint Your Wagon.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2025 12:12 AM (BIn+J)

Thank you. Sorry. Brain fart.

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 12:14 AM (gKDq2)

281 I lived in Prescott for eight years about mumblety mumble years ago. It was a little town then, but I understand it's undergone urban bloat like everywhere else.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 20, 2025 12:14 AM (HUS34)

282 Good luck Orange Ent with all those books.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2025 12:12 AM (DIg/e)

Thanks. We'll see.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 12:15 AM (0eaVi)

283 264 The BLM riots formed a movement, but illegal aliens waving Mexican flags and Antifa setting Waymos on fire isn’t resonating with Americans the way George Floyd’s golden coffin did.

I suspect that the BLM antics helped Trump in 2020. But the tens of millions of fake votes for Biden overwhelmed his narrower win percentage.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 20, 2025 12:04 AM (t0Rmr

2020 (and the entire surrounding Covid era) was so fake and gay that we have no idea what actually happened and we never will. But I'd wager there's no demographic in America that a majority of Americans are more tired of than blacks. If it involves a groundswell of support for black anything, it's almost certainly astroturf. And if the GOP has the good sense to legislatively enforce DOGE's cuts, I think we'll see that when the money to conjure up astroturf disappears.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 20, 2025 12:15 AM (55kM1)

284
Musicals are fine on the stage. I just don't think they translate all that well onto film, even if 'the hills are alive with the sound of music.'
Posted by: RickZ
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All That Jazz
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

HollyWood used an awkward way of transitioning from the play to song. Some directors 'got it' and did it well.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 12:17 AM (wwlZ/)

285 Basements, to hell with basements! We have no basements. In fact, we don't need basements. I don't have to show you any stinking basements!

Now this guy thinks like a developer putting in tract homes in the southwest.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 20, 2025 12:17 AM (lUFok)

286
Past midnight, so weather station data for the day is complete. Jun. 19, High 87.3, low 71.8, avg 78.5 Dew point average was 71F.

Yep, it's summer. Averages for June so far, temp 75.5F, dew point 68F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2025 12:17 AM (w6EFb)

287 Yuma:

I used to interact with local police officers every day, pretty much, for 30 years.

"I wanna be a federal LEO."

Me: "Apply to the Border Patrol. You'll get on. They're printing 'Border Patrol Now Hiring!' on the back of our paychecks. Then, after two or three years, transfer to whatever you really want to do-- USM or whatever."

"I don't want to chase aliens across the burning sands for 2 years, and have to live in Yuma."

Me: "Then you don't want it enough."

Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2025 12:18 AM (kd60y)

288 I lived in Prescott for eight years about mumblety mumble years ago. It was a little town then, but I understand it's undergone urban bloat like everywhere else.
Posted by: Ruthless

It has turned into the place where recovering Californians go. So far they seem to have brought their traffic and bid up house prices pretty high. I was looking at moving there a few years ago and a meth house was going for $300k plus.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 12:18 AM (NXz8h)

289 Originally a young Margaret Atwood was concerned about how Islam often treated women as 2nd class citizens and little more than breeding mares.

But attacking Islam for the above is not only "not cool" but can get you canceled by your fellow Progressives or even killed by members of the Religion Of Peace.

If you want to peddle a Best Seller to the NYT readership and others who hate America much MUCH better to change the VIN numbers from "Islam" to "Christian" on your vehicle so you can ride that sucker to fame and fortune.

Posted by: BobM at June 20, 2025 12:19 AM (XafWT)

290
On what subject?
Posted by: Weirddave

Why, on the travails of a prolix author who has written fours novels while lacking the resources to hire an editor to review them, of course!

Stop him or her before they begin a fifth novel on the same subject, please!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 20, 2025 12:19 AM (Tv15w)

291 A military commentator that I enjoy on EweTube is based in Belarus. English is not his first language. He has started commenting on the Iran-Israeli War.

He calls the two sides the Iranians and the Israelians.

I think it's charming.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2025 12:19 AM (BIn+J)

292 I lived in Prescott for eight years about mumblety mumble years ago. It was a little town then, but I understand it's undergone urban bloat like everywhere else.

Yeah, it used to be comparable with Payson, which is currently around 15K people. Prescott is now north of 100K and climbing.
Probably because they actually have some buildable land.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 20, 2025 12:20 AM (lUFok)

293 >>Trump is no greenhorn anymore and he thoroughly understands the Iranians have to be stopped

Trump was never a greenhorn other than understanding the depravity of DC. He's been saying this for decades. He's also been saying China needs to be dealt with for decades. That's why they have been trying to take him out, with lawfare and when that failed with bullets.

It's easy to forget how different his first term was. Trump was the hunted before he even took office. Now he's the hunter. Look at what he's accomplished in 6 months. Everything has changed. Literally everything.

And the party is just getting started.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 12:20 AM (viF8m)

294 I remember in the late 90s it was a staple of feminist thought that the only reason the US didn't intervene to get rid of the Taliban was misogyny.

Then shortly after the US military showed up the same "leaders" opined the US was only fighting in 'Stan because it was horribly patriarchal and needed to show the world how macho it was.

And then, of course, after Biden's bug out the argument again became that the US allowed the Taliban to take over the country because of...misogyny

Posted by: Some Hessian at June 20, 2025 12:21 AM (t0Rmr)

295 And the party is just getting started.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 12:20 AM (viF8m)

Well, not for one Party.

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 12:22 AM (gKDq2)

296 This is where I land. Right now is the a decisive moment to take down the decades long Iranian nuclear weapons program. The Israelis made all this happen and the longer this action is delayed the more the door opens for the Europeans or the Chicoms to muck up the clarity. Trump is no greenhorn anymore and he thoroughly understands the Iranians have to be stopped. With that in mind, it seems he's bringing all the assets to the right place and most likely working to minimize the diplomatic fallout. I hope he's playing this right since the stakes here are sky high.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 12:13 AM (NXz8h)

Regarding my AXS issues. No longer a problem. Talked directly to the casino. They verified I had indeed bought tickets, although their order number does not jive with the AXS number. I show up before the show, with my ID, and the casino's order number, and they will print tickets for me. The gal I talked to at the casino really knew her shit, and was a sweetheart to deal with. Veteran, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 12:23 AM (gcq9l)

297 Bedime for Bonzo, er, Ruthless. Night all.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 20, 2025 12:23 AM (HUS34)

298 Orange Ent- you can always self-publish on Amazon. That said, marketing is critical. This advice comes from someone who self-published and hasn't made any money (my regularly published book was modestly successful), so the advice is worth what you paid for it.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at June 20, 2025 12:24 AM (6nQni)

299 "I don't want to chase aliens across the burning sands for 2 years, and have to live in Yuma."

Me: "Then you don't want it enough."

Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2025 12:18 AM (kd60y)

Nothing wrong with Yuma. So it gets hot. Deal with it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 12:25 AM (gcq9l)

300
Good evening, all!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:25 AM (HuRzZ)

301 Clint Eastwood singing - someone told me “watch his eyes when he sings, he always looks like he’s scanning the horizon for enemy aircraft “. I saw the movie again after that, and damn if it isnt true ! And once you see it, it can’t be unseen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2025 12:25 AM (EVFZ5)

302 Clint Eastwood singing - someone told me “watch his eyes when he sings, he always looks like he’s scanning the horizon for enemy aircraft “. I saw the movie again after that, and damn if it isnt true ! And once you see it, it can’t be unseen.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2025 12:25 AM (EVFZ5)

I wonder if if the had the lyrics on a screen, with a :follow the bouncing ball"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 12:26 AM (gcq9l)

303 299

CPB guys say Nogie is even worse.

I've been to rural Peru and to an Indian rez near Nogie.

Peru is better.

Deal with it.

Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2025 12:28 AM (kd60y)

304 >>>it seems he's bringing all the assets to the right place and most likely working to minimize the diplomatic fallout. I hope he's playing this right since the stakes here are sky high.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions.
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Yes. He's putting enough assets on the periphery to deter any third party intervention. I read that he's open to Putin negotiating the Israel / Iran settlement. I think that's brilliant. My buddy, who can make no distinction between present Russia and the Soviet thinks the idea horrible.

I see a realignment in the M.E. with the major powers over there taking responsibility and putting a thumb on the bad actors like Pakistan while at the same time leaving a declining China to fend for itself with diminished capability to interfere in foreign affairs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 12:28 AM (wwlZ/)

305 278 --Braenyard-- Thanks. It's nice to be around. I usually lurk, figuring that anything I might contribute has already been said a couple times, at least. But I am really emotionally invested in this Israeli-Iran conflict. No, I'm not a member of the Tribe, but I grew up with Jewish neighbors and had a Jewish stepfather. I majored in history in college, and I am so sick and tired of the Israelis being cast as colonial invaders. There's a reason al Quds is built on top of the ruins of the Second Temple.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at June 20, 2025 12:31 AM (2XtqA)

306 They don't call Yuma & Nogie "Occupied Mexico" for nothing.

Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2025 12:31 AM (kd60y)

307 All That Jazz

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 12:17 AM (wwlZ/)

I'm not sure anybody but Roy Scheider could have pulled that role off. He was just enough psycho. And drugs.

I always enjoyed Roy Scheider cop/mob movies. They were gritty. But then it was the early '70s in NYC.

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 12:31 AM (gKDq2)

308 It's easy to forget how different his first term was. Trump was the hunted before he even took office. Now he's the hunter. Look at what he's accomplished in 6 months. Everything has changed. Literally everything.

And the party is just getting started.
Posted by: JackStraw

You are spot on. US Trump has become the definitive modern president and a master at yielding power on a global basis. I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime or in my reading about American presidents. I'm leaning to thinking when the history books are written he's going to one of our greatest presidents and given limited time that he has one of the most important world leaders in the last hundred and fifty years. In 6 months he's reordered the world economy, put the Europeans in their place, has the Chicoms on notice who's in charge, repaired ties with the Sunni Arabs, revitalized American manufacturing, killed off inflation, killed off looney green energy, drove the Dems to failure and is about aid the Israelis in ending the Iranian problem.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 12:32 AM (NXz8h)

309 Regarding my AXS issues. No longer a problem. Talked directly to the casino. They verified I had indeed bought tickets, although their order number does not jive with the AXS number. I show up before the show, with my ID, and the casino's order number, and they will print tickets for me. The gal I talked to at the casino really knew her shit, and was a sweetheart to deal with. Veteran, too. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I prefer being able to print out a PDF of my ticket but given the amount of fraud in the ticket world I get why these big agencies are gun shy about all that. Still, not making this is an option. completely clear from the beginning is a area of improvement. I'm glad this worked out for you and I actually learned something about how they handle this stuff. Good job!.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 12:35 AM (NXz8h)

310 Stop him or her before they begin a fifth novel on the same subject, please!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 20, 2025 12:19 AM (Tv15w)

Too late!

Two others currently in progress.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 12:35 AM (0eaVi)

311 Met a pretty redhead in El Paso who was in the Border Patrol. I kept thinking that she needs to transfer to the Canadian/US border, where the sun won't fry her pretty redhead self. Unfortunately, no Penthouse Letters thing happened. Just some small talk near Ft. Bliss (which isn't all that blissful).

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2025 12:35 AM (EweRc)

312 297 Bedime for Bonzo, er, Ruthless. Night all.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 20, 2025 12:23 AM (HUS34)

300
Good evening, all!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:25 AM (HuRzZ)

One poster leaves...another takes their place.......

66 F with humility of 80% and DP of 60...at the beach

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 12:36 AM (QGaXH)

313 One word, cheap. Concrete slab is cheaper than a basement. Caliche is easy enough to deal with, soak the ground before digging. But if you can just use a tractor to scrape out a spot for a pad it'll take less time and cost less to prep the site.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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In my area, basements are rare because of rocks. Little ones, big ones... lots of rocks. APS just put in some underground power in my area. A four foot deep trench was dug by a backhoe, but a stinger on the front loader had a jackhammer on it, and it was used every 5-10 feet to bust up the big rocks so that the backhoe could get through.
To build a decent size basement here would require something like a CAT 335. So, you're right. Rental on one of those babies is about 5 grand a week. Plus delivery costs.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 20, 2025 12:36 AM (mGabY)

314
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 11:12 PM (EVFZ5)

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It seems lots of cities that "should" be the capital aren't.

Omaha, NE
Philadelphia, PA
Sacramento, CA
Albany, NY
Tulsa, OK
Houston, TX (or Dallas)
Albuquerque, NM
Las Vegas, NV

Those are the biggest, most famous cities in those states but they're not the capitals.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:38 AM (HuRzZ)

315 "Ayatollah Khamenei May Fall, But Alternative Could Be Worse"

I'll take Door #2 anyway & take my chances.

Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2025 12:38 AM (kd60y)

316 So, you're right.

Don't mention that to anyone, they'll never believe you.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 20, 2025 12:39 AM (lUFok)

317
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:38 AM (HuRzZ)

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Oh dammit I mixed up my concept halfway down.

I meant to list cities that AREN'T capitals, then switched at Sacramento and Albany, then... I think I switched back again. Now I'm confused.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:39 AM (HuRzZ)

318 My buddy, who can make no distinction between present Russia and the Soviet thinks the idea horrible.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 12:28 AM (wwlZ/)

Does your buddy work on policy in D.C.?

Yeah, I never got that. Once the USSR 'fell', things changed. There was a real opportunity for some positive real politik, a rapprochement. But NATO fucked all that up. Not that Putin's a saint. But Russia has always had a strong man ruling it. The one time there wasn't a strong man, the Tsar abdicated and Kerensky's government fell to commies.

I honestly don't think Russians and Americans hate each other. I know I don't. But some politicos on our side are decaying Cold Warriors. I guess they are comfortable with that black and white world. Welcome to color, motherfuckers.

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 12:40 AM (gKDq2)

319

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 12:40 AM (gKDq2)

320 Whew!

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 12:40 AM (gKDq2)

321
66 F with humility
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

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During Pride month?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:41 AM (HuRzZ)

322 I thought Albany and Sacramento were the capitols of their respective States?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 12:42 AM (gcq9l)

323 FYI: Sacramento is California's capital.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 12:42 AM (NXz8h)

324 >>You are spot on. US Trump has become the definitive modern president and a master at yielding power on a global basis. I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime or in my reading about American presidents.

Me neither. None of us have because it's never happened.

We are living in revolutionary times even if it doesn't seem like what we've read about in history books.

We talk about things like the deep state like it is some mythical beast but it is very real. Trump is shattering it from the inside while working with allies to destroy the Iranian theocracy that has dominated much of geopolitics for the last 40+ years while also winding down the idiotic war in Ukraine.

It's an audacious platform even if he gets little credit.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 12:43 AM (viF8m)

325 Orange Ent- you can always self-publish on Amazon. That said, marketing is critical. This advice comes from someone who self-published and hasn't made any money (my regularly published book was modestly successful), so the advice is worth what you paid for it.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at June 20, 2025 12:24 AM (6nQni)

Oh, I've looked into that. It's still not free. There are programs to format the books, and choose trim sizes, and design book covers, but they're not usually free. You also need to have at least a modicum of talent. I suppose I'd have to just copy whatever cover designs are current in the genres.

Being older, of course the bias is toward trad pub. But, that takes an agent and....

So, who knows.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 12:44 AM (0eaVi)

326 If you bought a knife in California's Capitol, and then took it out of State, would it be an ex-Sacto knife?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 12:44 AM (gcq9l)

327 314
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 11:12 PM (EVFZ5)

===============

It seems lots of cities that "should" be the capital aren't.

Omaha, NE
Philadelphia, PA
Sacramento, CA
Albany, NY
Tulsa, OK
Houston, TX (or Dallas)
Albuquerque, NM
Las Vegas, NV

Those are the biggest, most famous cities in those states but they're not the capitals.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:38 AM (HuRzZ)

For some of them you have to look at how the state was populated at the time of statehood. I'll bet Carson City with it's mint and silver mines might have been bigger than L.V. in 18XX

In Florida, you'd think the capital would be further south, Miami or Tampa, until you realize there wasn't any air conditioning in 1843(?) The only two cities of any consequence were Jacksonville and Pensacola so Tallahassee was a compromise between the two.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 12:44 AM (QGaXH)

328
Today is last day of Spring.

I miss Winter.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 20, 2025 12:45 AM (au4p0)

329 321
66 F with humility
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

===============

During Pride month?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:41 AM (HuRzZ)

I'm a humble guy...unless you get me bragging about my kids....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 12:46 AM (QGaXH)

330 For some of them you have to look at how the state was populated at the time of statehood. I'll bet Carson City with it's mint and silver mines might have been bigger than L.V. in 18XX

Sacramento was CA's third choice. The started in San Jose, then moved it to Benicia, then finally some dirty politicking got it to Sacramento.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 20, 2025 12:47 AM (lUFok)

331 It's an audacious platform even if he gets little credit.
Posted by: JackStraw

Often what I'm talking about US Trump I find myself describing him as audacious. To date, that is the best word to describe what he's doing and I think audacious will continue to be the most appropriate term to define what he's doing. That and brass balls.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 12:47 AM (NXz8h)

332 Albany is also the capital.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 20, 2025 12:48 AM (0e/QT)

333 330 For some of them you have to look at how the state was populated at the time of statehood. I'll bet Carson City with it's mint and silver mines might have been bigger than L.V. in 18XX

Sacramento was CA's third choice. The started in San Jose, then moved it to Benicia, then finally some dirty politicking got it to Sacramento.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 20, 2025 12:47 AM (lUFok)

Good Point! I meant to include there was usually some politicking involved.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 12:49 AM (QGaXH)

334 Sacramento was CA's third choice. The started in San Jose, then moved it to Benicia, then finally some dirty politicking got it to Sacramento.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 20, 2025 12:47 AM (lUFok)

Don't forget Capitola!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 12:49 AM (0eaVi)

335 On what subject?
Posted by: Weirddave

Why, on the travails of a prolix author who has written fours novels while lacking the resources to hire an editor to review them, of course!

Stop him or her before they begin a fifth novel on the same subject, please!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

They do say "write what you know."

Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2025 12:49 AM (DgGvY)

336 321
66 F with humility
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

===============

During Pride month?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

LOL!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2025 12:51 AM (EweRc)

337 317 Mort

During the Battle of the Bulge, the German infiltrated a handful of English speaking troops through American lines.

GIs were instructed to "get the guy in the backseat talking":

Where you from?"

"Illinois"

"What's the capital of Illinois?"

"Springfield"

"No, it's Chicago"

"No, it's NOT Chicago!"

"Listen, it has to be Chicago. That's the only place in Illinois I ever heard of."

Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2025 12:51 AM (kd60y)

338 For some of them you have to look at how the state was populated at the time of statehood. I'll bet Carson City with it's mint and silver mines might have been bigger than L.V. in 18XX

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 12:44 AM (QGaXH)

Well, considering LV wasn't LV until 1905....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 12:51 AM (0eaVi)

339
That bastard Walter Giardina in the FBI who tried to prosecute Trump for recording the Pledge of Allegiance for J6 prisoners is still sitting pretty on LinkedIn. Why does that guy still have a job with the FBI?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:51 AM (HuRzZ)

340 Omaha, NE
Philadelphia, PA
Sacramento, CA
Albany, NY
Tulsa, OK
Houston, TX (or Dallas)
Albuquerque, NM
Las Vegas, NV

Those are the biggest, most famous cities in those states but they're not the capitals.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
====
One of these is not like the others.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 20, 2025 12:51 AM (n4GiU)

341 Well, considering LV wasn't LV until 1905....
Posted by: OrangeEn

Well considering Santa Fe was Santa Fe in 1610...

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 12:52 AM (NXz8h)

342
Albany is also the capital.
Posted by: Boss Moss

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See my #317. I meant to list:

Los Angeles, CA
New York, NY

But I accidentally twisted my concept.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:53 AM (HuRzZ)

343
322 I thought Albany and Sacramento were the capitols of their respective States?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 12:42 AM (gcq9l)

323 FYI: Sacramento is California's capital.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions

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See # 317

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:54 AM (HuRzZ)

344 But I accidentally twisted my concept.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:53 AM (HuRzZ)

Please, no more talk about twisted things.

Posted by: Guy Who Twisted His.... at June 20, 2025 12:55 AM (0eaVi)

345
One of these is not like the others.
Posted by: From about That Time

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2 of them aren't. See #317

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:55 AM (HuRzZ)

346 Amusing that when I first posted about the Trump Kings day post...

Someone here said it was fake ....

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 20, 2025 12:56 AM (mP0Kj)

347 Don't forget Capitola!

I always forget Capitola, because it was never the state capitol. It wasn't even named until 1874, at which point Sacramento had been the state capitol for over a decade.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 20, 2025 12:56 AM (lUFok)

348 When the Country was set up, making D.C. the capital was perfect. Back then in the summer, it was a fetid swamp. Unfortunately, with the advent of air conditioning, D.C. is now a fetid swamp WinterSpringSummerFall.

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 12:56 AM (gKDq2)

349 339

At least transfer him to Guam.

Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2025 12:57 AM (kd60y)

350 Nevada became a state on Oct. 31, 1864.

Florida was admitted to the union on March 3, 1845.

Much of mainland Florida below a line drawn from Jacksonville to Pensacola was uninhabitable by sane people until the advent of air conditioning and effective mosquito control.

One of my goals is to visit the air conditioning museum in Apalachicola.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 12:57 AM (QGaXH)

351 Salem was chosen as the capital (in competition with Corvallis and Eola) based on its central location in the Willamette valley and the farming areas, and its location on the river which was the main transport corridor for the state.
Eugene was not reachable by river part of the year, and Corvallis served a smaller population area around Mary's River. Champoeg had been a central area that would have carried both French Prairie and the Tualitan plains, but it had been washed out in a flood.
Portland and Oregon City were a bit larger, but Portland was considered difficult to get to, being both on the wrong side of the falls at Oregon City, and Oregon City was considered to be too entrenched and held by the transportation companies to be a good representation for the state

Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2025 12:58 AM (D7oie)

352 2 of them aren't. See #317
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Further proof that the easiest way to get the correct answer to a question on the Internet is not to post the question, but to post the wrong answer.

Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2025 12:58 AM (DgGvY)

353
Well, considering LV wasn't LV until 1905....
Posted by: OrangeEn

Well considering Santa Fe was Santa Fe in 1610...
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

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Jes' looking at where we are now. Most people would yell "Las Vegas!" if you asked them what the capital of NV was.

It happens with whole countries, too.

Istanbul, Turkey
Sydney, Australia
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jerusalem, Geneva, Lagos, Casablanca...

NOT capitals, this time I'm keeping it straight.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:59 AM (HuRzZ)

354
Further proof that the easiest way to get the correct answer to a question on the Internet is not to post the question, but to post the wrong answer.
Posted by: mikeski

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Hey, come to think of it... I did it on purpose!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:59 AM (HuRzZ)

355 338 For some of them you have to look at how the state was populated at the time of statehood. I'll bet Carson City with it's mint and silver mines might have been bigger than L.V. in 18XX

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 12:44 AM (QGaXH)

Well, considering LV wasn't LV until 1905....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 12:51 AM (0eaVi)

There you go!

I did not know that.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 12:59 AM (QGaXH)

356 Further proof that the easiest way to get the correct answer to a question on the Internet is not to post the question, but to post the wrong answer. Posted by: mikeski

For the win!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 12:59 AM (NXz8h)

357 Further proof that the easiest way to get the correct answer to a question on the Internet is not to post the question, but to post the wrong answer.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2025 12:58 AM (DgGvY)

Sure. Everybody' a fault-finding critic.

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 12:59 AM (gKDq2)

358 Sure. Everybody' a fault-finding critic.

I thought we were just pedantic assholes.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 20, 2025 01:00 AM (lUFok)

359 They do say "write what you know."
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2025 12:49 AM (DgGvY)

Yup. H. P. Lovecraft said, "write what you know"

Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2025 01:02 AM (D7oie)

360 https://tinyurl.com/bdhdd4j7

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 01:02 AM (viF8m)

361 356 Further proof that the easiest way to get the correct answer to a question on the Internet is not to post the question, but to post the wrong answer. Posted by: mikeski

For the win!
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 12:59 AM (NXz8h)
Yeah, funny that folks upthread are talking about now Sacramento is the capital of Calif...

But... a quick search on the Net, does now show HISTORY I know... that it only won by a couple of votes. over a Gold Mine town...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 20, 2025 01:03 AM (mP0Kj)

362
But it's a dry heat. Of course, it's still 113 f**king degrees. I did spend some vacation time in Arizona. It is so beautiful that you can put up with the heat.

I grew up on the Frozen Tundra. Cold and cloudy the majority of the time to where a sunny summer weekend would be the lead story on the local news. Wet feet all day more than half the year from slush, and the necessity to replace your car in 10 years unless you could put it in a garage from Sep til May. Been in AZ for more than 20 years. Drive 25 year old cars with zero rust. Yeah, your AC has to work. But your car is going to start and your feet are dry. Easier to deal with hot than extreme cold and all of us can't afford to live where it's always room temperature

Posted by: azjaeger at June 20, 2025 01:03 AM (3/XaG)

363 Yup. H. P. Lovecraft said, "write what you know"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2025 01:02 AM (D7oie)

I guess that's true. Stephen King is a horror.

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 01:04 AM (gKDq2)

364 I had a great uncle who had TB and his mom had the family travel through the Southwest to try to get his health back. It didn't work, but my other surviving great uncle said they went through Las Vegas before WWI and he figured he could have bought the place for $100

Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2025 01:05 AM (D7oie)

365 Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2025 12:58 AM (D7oie)

Kindltot,
Do you have a copy of Willamette Landings by Howard McKinley Corning?

Published in1947, it covers the history of the many settlements along the Willamette River.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2025 01:06 AM (BIn+J)

366 I guess that's true. Stephen King is a horror.
Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 01:04 AM (gKDq2)

Stephen King writes Mary Sue's which I think is the reason he hated The Shining movie

Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2025 01:06 AM (D7oie)

367 Obscure aside - The State of Franklin's capital was Jonesborough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Franklin

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2025 01:07 AM (XeU6L)

368 >>Yup. H. P. Lovecraft said, "write what you know"

Shocking how many of you still don't know what Lovecraft knew by living in Rhode Island.

Come visit. If you have the balls.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 01:07 AM (viF8m)

369 Do you have a copy of Willamette Landings by Howard McKinley Corning?

Published in1947, it covers the history of the many settlements along the Willamette River.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2025 01:06 AM (BIn+J)

Why yes, I finished it month ago. It was one of my Dad's books I got when he died.

I went to high school in Independence

Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2025 01:07 AM (D7oie)

370 Jes' looking at where we are now. Most people would yell "Las Vegas!" if you asked them what the capital of NV was.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 12:59 AM (HuRzZ)

That's just 'cause they don't listen to Morgan & Morgan!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 01:08 AM (0eaVi)

371 Easier to deal with hot than extreme cold and all of us can't afford to live where it's always room temperature
Posted by: azjaeger at June 20, 2025 01:03 AM (3/XaG)

This is very true. Those of us who do live in mild climes pay for it....boy do we pay for it...

Gas is 4.50/gal and word on the street there's a 65c/gal tax increase coming July 1. And more after that....

But the weather is nice....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 01:08 AM (QGaXH)

372 It is a dry heat though.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 20, 2025 01:09 AM (0e/QT)

373 368 >>Yup. H. P. Lovecraft said, "write what you know"

Shocking how many of you still don't know what Lovecraft knew by living in Rhode Island.

Come visit. If you have the balls.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 01:07 AM (viF8m)

Yeah... if'n Cthulhu is your HOA Rep?

I'll probably not visit...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 20, 2025 01:09 AM (mP0Kj)

374 https://tinyurl.com/bdhdd4j7
Posted by: JackStraw

Sweet.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 01:09 AM (NXz8h)

375 I always forget Capitola, because it was never the state capitol. It wasn't even named until 1874, at which point Sacramento had been the state capitol for over a decade.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 20, 2025 12:56 AM (lUFok)

I believe the people there lobbied to be the capital, that's why it was planned to be named that. Some history YTer had a vid about it a few years ago.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 01:10 AM (0eaVi)

376 Come visit. If you have the balls.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 01:07 AM (viF8m)

Wilmington, Chappaqua, and Kalorama are home to eldritch horrors, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 01:11 AM (gcq9l)

377 Yeah... if'n Cthulhu is your HOA Rep?

I'll probably not visit...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 20, 2025 01:09 AM (mP0Kj)

Its the ghouls digging up your garden overnights, and the Church of Dagon missionaries ringing your doorbells asking for your immortal soul

Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2025 01:11 AM (D7oie)

378 375 I always forget Capitola, because it was never the state capitol. It wasn't even named until 1874, at which point Sacramento had been the state capitol for over a decade.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 20, 2025 12:56 AM (lUFok)

I believe the people there lobbied to be the capital, that's why it was planned to be named that. Some history YTer had a vid about it a few years ago.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 01:10 AM (0eaVi)

But even then they knew it would be forever mockingly referred to as 'Crapitola' so the idea was dropped....mercifully....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 01:12 AM (QGaXH)

379 Juneteenth wasn't the end of slavery in America, though. There was still slavery until 1886, by the Tlingit tribe in Alaska.
-------------

There is slavery now.

Posted by: ... at June 20, 2025 01:13 AM (E0p3T)

380
I had a great uncle who had TB and his mom had the family travel through the Southwest to try to get his health back. It didn't work, but my other surviving great uncle said they went through Las Vegas before WWI and he figured he could have bought the place for $100
Posted by: Kindltot

================

The movie Bugsy was all about that. Little stove of a town that was able to bloom thanks to the Hoover Dam.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 01:13 AM (HuRzZ)

381 >>Yeah... if'n Cthulhu is your HOA Rep?

>>I'll probably not visit...

One state, only one, has an official appetizer. It's Rhode Island and our official appetizer is squid.

This is not an accident. It's an homage.

He lurks. And he hungers for apostates. I can only warn you.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 01:13 AM (viF8m)

382 News flash from the land of Zion: currently 85 degrees with 7% humidity. Night all.

Posted by: Pod Hamp at June 20, 2025 01:13 AM (d03ka)

383 "No, it's NOT Chicago!"

"Listen, it has to be Chicago. That's the only place in Illinois I ever heard of."
Posted by: mnw
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WWII, classmate's father story.
He was blond, blue eyes, read,wrote, spoke high German.
Captured more than once as a simple soldier. Put in camp.
He would kill a guard and put on his uniform and walk out.
Then he would kill and officer and tell the driver to take him
somewhere that was in the allied direction. Kill the driver and
make his way to safety. It happened more than once.
He was a nice guy. You'd never know.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 01:14 AM (wwlZ/)

384 Yeah... if'n Cthulhu is your HOA Rep?
I'll probably not visit...
Posted by: Romeo13

Its the ghouls digging up your garden overnights, and the Church of Dagon missionaries ringing your doorbells asking for your immortal soul
Posted by: Kindltot

On the plus side, the non-Euclidean geometries mean you can put a seven-bed, five-bath on a tenth of an acre.

Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2025 01:14 AM (DgGvY)

385 380 The movie Bugsy was all about that. Little stove of a town that was able to bloom thanks to the Hoover Dam.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 01:13 AM (HuRzZ)

Dam..Hoover Dam....Hoover makes vacuum cleaners and other household appliances.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 01:15 AM (QGaXH)

386
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 01:14 AM (wwlZ/)

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Did anyone ever make a serious effort to write that story? It's freakin' awesome.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 01:15 AM (HuRzZ)

387 Its funny, I seem to recall that when conservatives compared being cancelled for opposing woke crap, or imprisoned for opposing COVID crap, to NAZI Germany we were told it was offensive because in neither case was it the Holocaust. Ok. And being a hausfrau is?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 11:54 PM (t0Rmr)

Come on, you know the "rules" only apply when the rulemakers say they apply. Didn't they all laugh about r**ing Sarah Palin and make fun of her Downs child?

You know before Mean Trump came along and made the Left so "crazy"?

Posted by: ... at June 20, 2025 01:16 AM (E0p3T)

388 238 1776 is an excellent movie on a certain event but also a teaching lesson on how to get a compromise from a bunch stiff necked people.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2025 11:39 PM (DIg/e)

The one scene I remember is when John Adams and Ben Franklin go to see Tom Jefferson on a Sunday in the loft apartment where he is writing the Declaration. Tom's wife had come for a visit. John kept talking away and Ben said something like, 'Let's go, John, and leave them alone.' John was astonished: 'On a Sunday?'

Other than that, it was a musical where no music should have gone.
Posted by: RickZ at June 19, 2025 11:46 PM (gKDq2)

A great musical! Actually the line about Ben telling John to leave so Jefferson can be alone with his wife (so they can make love) revolves around John Adams' astonishment that they are going to do so in the middle of the afternoon.

Adams: "You mean right now? In the middle of the afternoon? Incredible!"

Franklin: "Not everyone's from Boston, John! (pauses) You know maybe I should have written it [the Declaration) after all. At my age there's no doubt that the pen is mightier than the sword."

Played Adams in a production of 1776 way back when

Posted by: Publius Redux at June 20, 2025 01:17 AM (/aZwr)

389 Well, considering LV wasn't LV until 1905....
Posted by: OrangeEnt

You know what else happened in 1905? California amended Code of Civil Procedure sec. 340(3) to include personal injury and wrongful death, shortening the period from 2 years to 1 year where it remained until 2002 (and then it was moved to the new CCP sec. 335.1 and put back to 2 years).

Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 20, 2025 01:19 AM (KAi1n)

390 384 Yeah... if'n Cthulhu is your HOA Rep?
I'll probably not visit...
Posted by: Romeo13

Its the ghouls digging up your garden overnights, and the Church of Dagon missionaries ringing your doorbells asking for your immortal soul
Posted by: Kindltot

On the plus side, the non-Euclidean geometries mean you can put a seven-bed, five-bath on a tenth of an acre.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2025 01:14 AM (DgGvY)

In our downtown they're called 'tall and skinnys'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 01:20 AM (QGaXH)

391 > Israel secret services used a fake phone call to trick the top commanders of Iran’s air force into gathering at a single location

"Rager at Abdul's tonight. He has a new goat and she's SMOKIN' hot. Pass it on!"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 20, 2025 01:21 AM (qpyNK)

392 But the weather is nice....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Except the handful of times a year it gets down to the mid-upper 30's at night. Today was great though. I think it hit the mid-60's.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 20, 2025 01:22 AM (KAi1n)

393
Guess which state of the Union has the highest average relative humidity.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2025 01:22 AM (w6EFb)

394
Wilmington, Chappaqua, and Kalorama are home to eldritch horrors, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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You said "Chappaqua"! Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch...

And I vomit hatred all over Hillary!

She's been bitching and sniping on X as usual, but interestingly, she doesn't say much about foreign policy. Trans kids, Alex Padilla, muh democracy, the usual utterly trivial leftist games of jacks. I think she's ashamed of the contrast between her time as Sec State and what's going on now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 01:23 AM (HuRzZ)

395 WWII, classmate's father story.
He was blond, blue eyes, read,wrote, spoke high German.
Captured more than once as a simple soldier. Put in camp.
He would kill a guard and put on his uniform and walk out.
Then he would kill and officer and tell the driver to take him
somewhere that was in the allied direction. Kill the driver and
make his way to safety. It happened more than once.
He was a nice guy. You'd never know.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 01:14 AM (wwlZ/)

I am guessing that once he killed the guard, and donned his uniform, he could be shot as a spy by the Germans?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 01:23 AM (gcq9l)

396 This summer is the 50th anniversary of Jaws.

How many of you saw it when if first came out?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 01:23 AM (viF8m)

397
Louisiana is #2.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2025 01:23 AM (w6EFb)

398
If you haven't seen it and all this Iran stuff has you intrigued, watch "Kandahar," starring Gerard Butler.

Not a bad movie.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 20, 2025 01:24 AM (au4p0)

399 392 But the weather is nice....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Except the handful of times a year it gets down to the mid-upper 30's at night. Today was great though. I think it hit the mid-60's.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 20, 2025 01:22 AM (KAi1n)

You must be further north than me.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 01:24 AM (QGaXH)

400 Sure. Everybody' a fault-finding critic.

I thought we were just pedantic assholes.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 20, 2025 01:00 AM (lUFok)

Here I embrace the power of “and”! 😁

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 20, 2025 01:24 AM (a/V7i)

401
remember JAWS 3D?

Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at June 20, 2025 01:24 AM (au4p0)

402
I've never seen a 3D movie, nor been to a Drive In.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 20, 2025 01:25 AM (au4p0)

403
I am guessing that once he killed the guard, and donned his uniform, he could be shot as a spy by the Germans?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------------------------------

Think so. He was on assignment.
Meet him and you'd never know it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 01:26 AM (wwlZ/)

404 395 I am guessing that once he killed the guard, and donned his uniform, he could be shot as a spy by the Germans?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 01:23 AM (gcq9l)

If the movie Stalag 17 was accurate, simply being outside the barracks would get you shot...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 01:26 AM (QGaXH)

405 Guess which state of the Union has the highest average relative humidity.
Posted by: publius

Louisiana is #2.
Posted by: publius

Then I'll guess "Alaska," since 14 water molecules in the whole state is 95% at their wintertime temps.

Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2025 01:26 AM (DgGvY)

406 Watched Jaws for free. Well, watched just about any movie for free a long time ago.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2025 01:26 AM (0eaVi)

407
Oh, Newsom just lost the fight over the National Guard to Trump. Not sure how old that news is.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 01:27 AM (HuRzZ)

408 Guess which state of the Union has the highest average relative humidity.

Probably a state on an ocean, that gets lots of rain, and because of that it has lots of rivers. I'd say Washington but half the state's a desert so that kills that. I'd say Vancouver BC but it's part of China. That sort of leaves Alaska and the Gulf states. After that I got nothing. Want to go out for beers?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 01:28 AM (NXz8h)

409 There was a period of time the were allowed "exercise" to move about in the yard.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 01:28 AM (wwlZ/)

410 408 Guess which state of the Union has the highest average relative humidity.

Probably a state on an ocean, that gets lots of rain, and because of that it has lots of rivers. I'd say Washington but half the state's a desert so that kills that. I'd say Vancouver BC but it's part of China. That sort of leaves Alaska and the Gulf states. After that I got nothing. Want to go out for beers?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 01:28 AM (NXz8h)

Florida or Hawaii? Or an east coast state? Or some frozen state where the RH is 100% 9 months out of the year....?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 01:29 AM (QGaXH)

411 >>There was a period of time the were allowed "exercise" to move about in the yard.

What were you in for?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 01:30 AM (viF8m)

412 I am guessing that once he killed the guard, and donned his uniform, he could be shot as a spy by the Germans?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 01:23 AM (gcq9l)

Without question.

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2025 01:30 AM (gKDq2)

413 >> Then I'll guess "Alaska,"

Bingo.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2025 01:30 AM (w6EFb)

414 409 There was a period of time the were allowed "exercise" to move about in the yard.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 01:28 AM (wwlZ/)

I think being caught outside at night was a death sentence......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 01:31 AM (QGaXH)

415 Good Night everybody.....

Forecast for tomorrow is another day of Trumpy-goodness!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 20, 2025 01:33 AM (QGaXH)

416 https://tinyurl.com/4j464kpf

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 01:34 AM (viF8m)

417 273 While guerilla warfare was part of the success of the colonials, it is overstated somewhat I think. We won several set piece battles, most notably Yorktown, and absent those I suspect that the guerilla warfare would have been for naught.
Posted by: 18-1

The fallacy that the Revolution was won with purely guerilla tactics is the lie that the Brits tell themselves to deal with losing the war. There was quite a bit of that, to be sure, but the Continental Army was a true standing army of the time, drilled and disciplined by the likes of Von Steuben. The battles of Saratoga and especially Cowpens (also mentioned above) are examples of this. Even battles such as Monmouth although a draw, are examples of our ability to fight a traditional linear battle. Yorktown is a textbook siege operation of the time with some linear battles included. As Son of Publius Redux stated to his British Teacher whilst at school in Bermuda (Ca. 200

"Mr ___, you are just upset that George Washington and a bunch of farmers in funny wigs beat the entire British Army in the Revolution." Heh. Good one son.

Posted by: Publius Redux at June 20, 2025 01:35 AM (/aZwr)

418 The latest group delusion over at Daily Kos is that Trump wears diapers, doesn't change them, and is showing full-blown dementia. It's pretty amusing stuff.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 01:36 AM (NXz8h)

419 The latest group delusion over at Daily Kos is that Trump wears diapers, doesn't change them, and is showing full-blown dementia. It's pretty amusing stuff.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 20, 2025 01:36 AM (NXz8h)

Heh. That's exactly what we said about Biden, but the facts on the ground showed it to be true.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 01:38 AM (gcq9l)

420

lol @ newscum thinking the California National Guard is his state's private army.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 20, 2025 01:38 AM (au4p0)

421 I've never seen a 3D movie, nor been to a Drive In.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 20, 2025 01:25 AM (au4p0)

But do you like Pina Coladas? And taking walks in the rain?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2025 01:39 AM (BIn+J)

422 Gorilla Warfare > Guerrilla Warfare

Posted by: The Gorilla Channel
at June 20, 2025 01:41 AM (55kM1)

423
How many of you saw it when if first came out?

Posted by: JackStraw

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I didn't see it until years after it came out, but I knew the theme song well. So well that it had no effect on me when I saw the movie. It was like a jingle for Coco-Puffs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 01:41 AM (HuRzZ)

424
I think being caught outside at night was a death sentence......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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I received my information from show and tell at school (jr. high,history class). There were not gritty details as to time of day or the yard or the outhouse or how he went abou the deed.
Just the overall details. As far as being shot as a spy he would have been shot for killing a guard. He racked up a score before getting home.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 01:41 AM (wwlZ/)

425
Arrrghgghh, I have to go to the store and it's 10:42 at night. Gaaaa.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2025 01:42 AM (HuRzZ)

426 Got to #402 and decided it's nap time. Maybe will awaken for Pixy.

Posted by: Ciampino - now napping at June 20, 2025 01:42 AM (sPQoU)

427 Have you ever seen any of the women wearing these outfits interviewed? They're practically panting when talking about being held down and “bred” by the patriarchy. It's their fetish. They're horny af.

There's an excellent meme about this, but danged if I can find it just now.

Posted by: PeregrineJohn at June 20, 2025 01:44 AM (XuwoT)

428 Just the overall details. As far as being shot as a spy he would have been shot for killing a guard. He racked up a score before getting home.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 01:41 AM (wwlZ/)

So here is a question: so the guy gets across the lines, rejoins his unit, returns to the front, and gets captured again. The Krauts know who he is, and what he did. Can they shoot him out of hand, or does his successful escape "reset the clock" on what the Krauts would view as war crimes?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 01:45 AM (gcq9l)

429 Von Steuben was responsible for shaping up the army.
Read that he was instrumental in shaping the winning army.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2025 01:46 AM (wwlZ/)

430 Remember kids-

For every kilogramme of tofu consumed, one hundred soi-bois must be harvested.

Posted by: Greta Scoldberg at June 20, 2025 01:48 AM (U/0Sg)

431 A Man, A Plan, A Canal, ONT

canal

dignity

Uncle Palp, a Man with a Plan

Posted by: Miklosov, Friend of All Noble Palpatine Peoples at June 20, 2025 01:51 AM (U/0Sg)

432 >>I didn't see it until years after it came out, but I knew the theme song well. So well that it had no effect on me when I saw the movie. It was like a jingle for Coco-Puffs.

Good. Far to many saw the movie and decided to never go swimming in the ocean.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2025 01:52 AM (viF8m)

433 Well, getting close to midnight here, and I am sleepy. Busy day tomorrow. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2025 01:53 AM (gcq9l)

434 I've never seen a 3D movie, nor been to a Drive In.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 20, 2025 01:25 AM (au4p0)

It's like 2D. But one more D, which is something of a personal philosophy of mine.

Posted by: Barak Hussein Obama
One More D at June 20, 2025 01:54 AM (55kM1)

435 It takes a strong and self confident man to say-

Yes, I like Pina Coladas

The ladies like Daquiris too

Posted by: Miklos, planning a visit to the Villages at June 20, 2025 01:59 AM (U/0Sg)

436 Von Steuben was responsible for shaping up the army.
Read that he was instrumental in shaping the winning army.

Posted by: Braenyard

Von Steuben was a pimp

He never coulda taken Kosciuszko

Posted by: Mikloszczewszczski at June 20, 2025 02:03 AM (U/0Sg)

437 BREAKING

Oregon District judge orders nationwide prohibition on ONT comments

Posted by: Offshore Miklos at June 20, 2025 02:08 AM (U/0Sg)

438 I finally figured out why I thought the bushbaby scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey was a deleted scene: I read a book about the making of the movie, probably in the 70s. In it, the telescreen call is described and a picture of the bushbaby appears in the book, this from a deleted scene where someone goes to a pet shop to buy the little girl her birthday present. That scene was deleted, and I got that mixed up with the whole sequence! Mea culpa!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2025 02:08 AM (qgNn3)

439 Let’s tar and feather that Oregon judge! Let me at him!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2025 02:10 AM (qgNn3)

440 Oregon District judge orders nationwide prohibition on ONT comments
Posted by: Offshore Miklos
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So, the secession talks begin now, no?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2025 02:11 AM (XeU6L)

441 Carson City's mint is fully functional still today. Probably one of the best maintained pieces of machinery I have ever seen.
Also of note is that Virginia City has as much gold and silver laying on the ground in tailings as they extracted during the rush.
They still pull thousands of pounds per year out of Mt. Davidson which is between Gold Hill and Silver City. Maybe 4 miles down the road from VC.
There is (maybe was) an old man who still mines silver in his mine under D street. I have 5 ounces from it.
And finally VC was the richest place on earth for somewhere around 20 years. There are a couple of imported castles and the Hearst family got it's start up there. The family still owns a mansion in an isolated valley west of VC. San Francisco owes it's existence to VC. It had a very nice home for disabled civil war soldiers and any of you Catholics who haven't visited St Mary's in the Mountains are robbing yourselves.

I love Viginia City. Go as often as I can. It should be on everyones bucket list.

Posted by: Reforger at June 20, 2025 02:13 AM (LgDgc)

442 Stacey Abrams and Lizzo came to entertain the troops?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2025 11:12 PM (0eaVi)

Preparations are being made to use them as the initial strike on Iran's nuclear facility. The concussion effects should make later strikes more effective.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Tungsten rods pale. Devestating kinetic weapons.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2025 02:14 AM (XeU6L)

443 I want all criminal illegal aliens deported as well.

What do ya know? You commit a crime by strolling into the country or by overstaying your visa. Neat, huh?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2025 02:20 AM (4IClK)

444 If you are mechanically inclined, look up "HVAC starter capacitor" on EweTube. Starter capacitors are what give the "kick" to get fans and compressors going. They do wear out, after several years, and are easily replaced.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 19, 2025 11:28 PM (BIn+J)

It should be pretty easy to install, I've even done it and didn't electrocute myself. According to a couple of hvac folks I've spoken too, it's one of (if not the) most common fail points of those large AC units.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at June 20, 2025 02:21 AM (8hxDK)

445 I have seen 3D movies with the polarized glasses and the anaglyphic (red and green) glasses. The anaglyphic glasses are murder on your eyes! You want to tear them off after 15 minutes and watch the rest of the movie in blurry 2D! The polarized glasses are better: they dim the movie by 50% since each lens blocks half the light. One of my colleagues in the physics department collected some of the glasses from a movie theater after a 3D show and was able to show that they worked by right and left circular polarization. Also using polarization for 3D allows a color film to be shown.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2025 02:22 AM (qgNn3)

446 I actually read The Handmaid’s Tale. Feminists would not like my conclusions from it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2025 02:22 AM (4IClK)

447 On what subject?
Posted by: Weirddave at June 19, 2025 11:51 PM (df/te)

Two westerns, WD, and two scifi. Sarah Hoyt has told me about her editor, so once I get the money together, I'll probably have her give me a dev edit on the latest.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

With just a copy of your demo type and $10k I can make you a star!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2025 02:24 AM (/lPRQ)

448
By timing the strike of Lizzo and Tank just right, the quadrupole moment of those two inspiraling should generate enough gravitational radiation to collapse structures for a 50 mile radius.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2025 02:27 AM (w6EFb)

449 She used...Islam. Which is a real thing. And those same feminists that will tell you Vance wants to turn them into a Handmaid will also tell you that you have no right to judge Muslims.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 11:55 PM (t0Rmr)

Muslim women cover themselves up because they want to be modest. Yeah, right. They don't want to get raped then stoned to death.

The oppression of women in the islamic world in the one issue where Western feminists simply fall flat and prove their ideology is fever-swamp crap. They're okay with fighting the Patriarchy at home where there is none but refuse to fight real a Patriarchy led by mullahs.
Posted by: RickZ

>>> Muslim women cover themselves up because they want to be modest. Yeah, right. They don't want to get raped then stoned to death.

They do not want to be ass-raped by their own brother then stoned by him while the whole town knows he raped her... and stones her too.

Being covered no one knows who to stone.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2025 02:34 AM (/lPRQ)

450
1 hour nap, bit short ....

Posted by: Ciampino - now unapping at June 20, 2025 02:40 AM (sPQoU)

451 Cat purrs only when he's very relaxed, almost asleep. His is a very muffled, quiet rumble. More vibration than sound.

Sometimes he'll start "talking" to me while purring (begging in the kitchen) You know-- the prrrowww sounds. Funny animal.

My girl kittehs purred louder and more frequently. The last one almost never stopped purring, and was quite loud about it. She was something else, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2025 02:47 AM (rdVOm)

452 Iz-lame is degrading to women. It pains me that today's " " " feminists " " " won't call it out.

They've failed the rest of us, by not doing so.

Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2025 02:53 AM (rdVOm)

453 Wife of Colorado terror suspect makes plea from ICE detention

https://mol.im/a/14830677

Posted by: Ciampino - now deporting at June 20, 2025 03:00 AM (sPQoU)

454 20-year-old arrested in Nebraska for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at a DHS building, writing “kiII ICE” on the windows, and slashing tires of government vehicles

https://tinyurl.com/4s4eshj4

I love the 'allegedly' - there's probably video of the various incidents.

Posted by: Ciampino - now deporting in 3..2..1 at June 20, 2025 03:03 AM (sPQoU)

455 Dine-and-dashers' appallingly smug act as they run away without paying

https://mol.im/a/14825345

Posted by: Ciampino - now detaining in 3..2..1 at June 20, 2025 03:08 AM (sPQoU)

456 Dine & dash-- guilty. But, not because I was such an arrogant jerk! Rather, I was homeless and broke. It was out of sheer desperation. Never again.

Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2025 03:15 AM (rdVOm)

457 At another blog, I am trying to correct an isolationist idiot who keeps saying the Israel is not our ally and that Iran couldn't possibly do anything to damage the US, so we should never consider putting ourselves into that fight in any way shape or form.

What do you do with invincible ignorance?

I did ask her what she thinks the term "Death to America" means, and also why Iran should want ICBMs. So far, crickets.

Can I borrow the clue-bat for a bit?

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 20, 2025 03:17 AM (a4NoL)

458
From NZ we have a launch: New T-Zero: 19:33 NZDT, 0733 UTC, 09:33 CES, 03:33 EDT.

https://www.youtube.com/live/4TyqhAhoBJI

You're going to have to check on your own for a latest T-Zero

Posted by: Ciampino - now counting down at June 20, 2025 03:20 AM (sPQoU)

459 Tcn, I have a spare clue-by-four that you can use!

Some people just don't *want to* believe what their eyes are seeing.

You really can't fix stupid. You can smack it around for a while... but it will remain stupid. Sorry.

Fk eye-ran. Fk iz-lame.

Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2025 03:20 AM (rdVOm)

460 Hullo JQ, how are you holding up?

Posted by: Ciampino - every day is a gift at June 20, 2025 03:23 AM (sPQoU)

461 Democrat mayor SMIRKS as he defends 'doxing' ICE agents

https://mol.im/a/14828721

Wait till he gets Swatted. When he's no longer mayor.

Posted by: Ciampino - need to suffer too at June 20, 2025 03:26 AM (sPQoU)

462 Being covered no one knows who to stone.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2025 02:34 AM (/lPRQ)

"Let's not bicker about who stoned whom!"

also:

"Jehovah!"

Posted by: Publius Redux at June 20, 2025 03:30 AM (/aZwr)

463
After logging-out of Yahoo Mail, this:

Appeals court lets Trump keep control of National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles

Associated Press Thu, June 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM PDT

https://www.yahoo.com/news/appeals-court-lets -trump-keep-024021943.html

Looks like Gratuitous Nuisance is continuing his impressive list of failures.

Posted by: Arbalest at June 20, 2025 03:31 AM (FlRtG)

464 Howdy, Ciampino!

Today was another good day!

Thanks for asking.

How are YOU?

Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2025 03:35 AM (rdVOm)

465 From UKZN (old Natal U.)

"Young Masculinities and Sexual Health in Southern Africa."

Posted by: Ciampino - need to decipher that at June 20, 2025 03:35 AM (sPQoU)

466 Hubby & I split an avocado while waiting for his care-home lunch today. Yum. He was happy; we both enjoyed it!

Will bring seedless red grapes tomorrow-- he likes those too.

Mostly, I feel so helpless. All I can do, is try to enhance his meals and spend some time with him. Too bad I have so many other things to do, that require my time and take me away from him! Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2025 03:44 AM (rdVOm)

467 BREAKING - The individual who doxxed the hotel location of federal ICE officers in an attempt to incite violence on them has been identified as Vanessa Angélica Villarreal.

https://tinyurl.com/3dc7335p

Posted by: Ciampino - let the games begin at June 20, 2025 03:44 AM (sPQoU)

468 Got some gardening done here at the house today, so I feel really good about that! Been gonna & been gonna, but finally *did* stuff. LOL.

Late now and I need sleep.

G'night, horde. <3

Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2025 03:47 AM (rdVOm)

469 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2025 03:49 AM (+qU29)

470 Now T - 26mins

Posted by: Ciampino - let the games begin at June 20, 2025 03:56 AM (sPQoU)

471
Good morning Skip. Woken up or going to sleep? Coffee ready?

Posted by: Ciampino - let the doxxing games begin at June 20, 2025 04:01 AM (sPQoU)

472
Juneteenth, ha! More like Pruneteenth! Right?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 20, 2025 04:02 AM (Tv15w)

473 How can we come up with such retarded names and consider ourselves serious people?

Juneteenth!

Posted by: Ciampino - wait it is later at June 20, 2025 04:05 AM (sPQoU)

474
New T-Zero -30 mins.

They've got problems.

Posted by: Ciampino - wait it is later! at June 20, 2025 04:07 AM (sPQoU)

475
Round two of the KvCs versus the marsh grass in our garden beds down in Sussex has been won by us. And it's already not looking good for the grassy invader for round three as I cut away this year's new growth ahead of excavating the root masses next week.

What a dreary slog the whole thing is!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 20, 2025 04:09 AM (Tv15w)

476
The New Zealand link for the possible launch

https://www.youtube.com/live/4TyqhAhoBJI

Posted by: Ciampino - wait it is later! at June 20, 2025 04:11 AM (sPQoU)

477 Just getting home, cleaned up and getting ready for bed

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2025 04:11 AM (+qU29)

478 475
Does Roundup not work for that?

Posted by: Ciampino - wait it is later now at June 20, 2025 04:14 AM (sPQoU)

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