Fourth of July Cafe

760B Washington Crossing the Delaware - Emanuel Leutze 1851- American Wing New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg

Washington Crossing the Delaware (of course)
Emanuel Leutze, 1851

A baby and a dog are manning the lemonade stand.
She rescued a paralyzed dog from the shelter -- where it was about to be euthanized, because no one wanted to take a chance on it -- and then a miracle happened.

Orphaned baby ducks are put into a duck pond. How long will it take for another duck to adopt them?

Rescue dogs are very grateful.

Owl and parakeet become friends.

Funny Amazon review for a Medusa head.

Elephant asks for treats.

The important thing is that he tried.

Lion and tiger BATTLE over who gets to be the little spoon.

Olga Korbut's perfect (well, 9. parallel bars performance at the 1972 Olympics. The "dead loop" maneuver which was later banned for safety reasons is when she comes to a dead stop on the high bar and then stands on it.

A desperate intervention for JackStraw.

So now that I look at this more closely, this seems to be an Italian team, but just pretend that green is blue. Pavrati is singing Nessun Dorma, which is one of Trump's favorites. He plays it at all of his events. So this is almost a Fourth of July display.

dudes will see this and say hell yea pic.twitter.com/ArEEi2uNHF
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) June 30, 2025

In no way, shape, or form can the European mind comprehend this. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Coh55IxBb8
— BKactual (@BravoKiloActual) June 27, 2025

Feed an eagle today:

This man makes a perfect throw to a bird and provides it dinner 🤯 pic.twitter.com/ohL3ayFaX2
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) June 27, 2025

A 1999 ad for Google, promising this new search tool would not have any sponsors or post ad-links in their search results.

LOL.

Posted by: Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 [ automated first ]

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 07:31 PM (jc0TO)

2 *automated first*

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 07:31 PM (jc0TO)

3 Happy Independent Day you crazy kids, hope you are all having a good one.

Posted by: ... at July 04, 2025 07:32 PM (E0p3T)

4 First?

Posted by: From about That Time at July 04, 2025 07:32 PM (n4GiU)

5 No, but well centered.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 04, 2025 07:32 PM (n4GiU)

6 Climate Chaos today

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 07:34 PM (jc0TO)

7 How long can the center hold?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 04, 2025 07:35 PM (Wnv9h)

8 Washington crossing the Guadalupe?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2025 07:35 PM (wVcYX)

9 I (old) pool NOODled.

Google, heh. When I first heard their slogan (We're not evil or whatever), I thought "Yep, you are evil". So true.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 07:35 PM (144I4)

10 Centerville!
A
Great
Place
To
Raise
Your
Kids!

Posted by: Centerville! at July 04, 2025 07:35 PM (vFG9F)

11 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 07:36 PM (+qU29)

12 The vocal agitators with their Mr. Microphones have started at the LA ICE protests.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2025 07:37 PM (wVcYX)

13 The centering is a result of being caught up in the exuberance of the moment.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 04, 2025 07:37 PM (0sNs1)

14 Love the Medusa head review.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 04, 2025 07:37 PM (Wnv9h)

15 Very centered.

I did not know that Mexico had an air force.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 04, 2025 07:37 PM (t0Out)

16 Willowed:

Is that the one in the Philippines?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 07:31 PM (wHp1L)

Isle Royale in Lake Superior. I was told it's pronounced
"Royal", not "Roy Al". And if you pronounce the first word as "Is La", they won't let you on the island.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 07:38 PM (144I4)

17 Washington Crossing the Delaware
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One of the pictures hanging in our elementary school cafeteria.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 07:38 PM (wHp1L)

18 Many thanks to King George III for making Independence Day possible.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 04, 2025 07:38 PM (t0Out)

19 We'll cross an ice-filled river in the middle of the night, march over 4 miles, and kill you in your sleep on Christmas.

Posted by: Washington and the Mean MFs at July 04, 2025 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

20
Speaking of the "dead loop" maneuver.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
4h
BREAKING:

Andrei Badalov, one of Russia top oil executive has died.

The 62-year-old is Vice President of Transneft, the largest oil pipeline company in the world, transporting 80% of Russia’s oil.

He died after falling out from a 17th-floor window in Moscow

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These Russians really need to address their window situation. It's the only country in the world where the leading cause of death among men over 60 is falling out a window, not heart disease or cancer.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 04, 2025 07:40 PM (Rrsaq)

21 ( - )

Inverted

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2025 07:40 PM (wVcYX)

22 Washington Crossing the Delaware is a huge painting, something like 10 ft. x 20 ft. It's in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and absolutely worth seeing in person if you're in New York City (I know, I know). I'm a little surprised it hasn't been vandalized, not yet anyway.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 04, 2025 07:40 PM (8hxDK)

23 That's the Frecce Tricolori flight team of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian air force).

Cool name, but something like Angeli Azzurra would have been cooler.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at July 04, 2025 07:41 PM (5YmYl)

24 Centralia, PA

Posted by: andycanuck at July 04, 2025 07:41 PM (2yoRf)

25 15 Very centered.

I did not know that Mexico had an air force.
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 04, 2025 07:37 PM (t0Out)

Space force too, MASA. Sent a whale to the moon iirc.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 04, 2025 07:42 PM (8hxDK)

26 Google - the first three pages of 'hits' are paid ads, three quarters of which have nothing to do with what you search for.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 04, 2025 07:42 PM (/lPRQ)

27 King George is a Fink

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 07:42 PM (+qU29)

28 Central Party's over.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 04, 2025 07:43 PM (2yoRf)

29 A desperate intervention for JackStraw.
---------------

Just Say No was Nancy Reagan's program to stop drug abuse.
The single most successful government anti-drug program.
Just Say No.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 07:43 PM (wHp1L)

30 I hope you all had a great Independence Day.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 04, 2025 07:43 PM (jvJvP)

31 Google - the first three pages of 'hits' are paid ads, three quarters of which have nothing to do with what you search for.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 04, 2025 07:42 PM

That whole "Don't be evil." thing went out the window after Big Penguin infiltrated, for some reason.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 04, 2025 07:44 PM (0sNs1)

32 ( | )

Posted by: andycanuck at July 04, 2025 07:44 PM (2yoRf)

33 Shift left!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2025 07:44 PM (wVcYX)

34 So now that I look at this more closely, this seems to be an Italian team, but just pretend that green is blue

If that was in America, the whole crowd would be yelling fuck yeah and the like. That Italian crowd was way too quiet. Oh wait, I wasn't scrolled down enough, now I see them waving their hands.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 07:45 PM (144I4)

35 How in the world did they keep those horses on those little boats?

Posted by: fd at July 04, 2025 07:45 PM (vFG9F)

36 These Russians really need to address their window situation. It's the only country in the world where the leading cause of death among men over 60 is falling out a window, not heart disease or cancer.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 04, 2025 07:40 PM (Rrsaq)

And probably still categorized as natural causes.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 07:47 PM (144I4)

37 I can’t fault Google for making money. Why else would it exist? Let’s not play the “corporations are bad because they make money” leftist game.

We should very much hate them for being leftists. But not for being profit driven.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 04, 2025 07:47 PM (KrOdt)

38 19 We'll cross an ice-filled river in the middle of the night, march over 4 miles, and kill you in your sleep on Christmas.
Posted by: Washington and the Mean MFs at July 04, 2025 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

And we will brag about it nonstop while pointing at you and laughing.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 04, 2025 07:48 PM (1Gsou)

39 Oh ffs

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 04, 2025 07:48 PM (mT+6a)

40 Got you tube sidetracked on an earlier thread, and found a twenty minute reporting on a throw down between Harrison Ford and Joy Behar on The View after Joy tried an ambush interview. Within the past few days apparently. I've never seen the woman, or the show, but of course have heard of both.
Damn that woman is ugly.
Is she an equal to the other panel members, or elevated above them? She kept calling it her show, her studio.
Ford acquitted himself very well before walking ogg.
Why hadn't I heard of this sooner.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 04, 2025 07:49 PM (n4GiU)

41 30 I hope you all had a great Independence Day.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 04, 2025 07:43 PM (jvJvP)

Sweetie, we're just getting started.

Brats and italians, baked potatoes, baked beans, homemade strawberry ice cream....

As soon as DH and his buddies get back from the golf course.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 04, 2025 07:49 PM (1Gsou)

42 Lies. All lies

Posted by: Rando del Ashalle at July 04, 2025 07:50 PM (r3rRK)

43 I remember when the IT guys like the Google nerds were older fellas. Kindly, discreet, unattractive, not gay at all. We didn't know anything about their private lives. We didn't want to know anything about their private lives.

Posted by: Lt. Bookman at July 04, 2025 07:50 PM (R/m4+)

44 ------
These Russians really need to address their window situation. It's the only country in the world where the leading cause of death among men over 60 is falling out a window, not heart disease or cancer.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Perhaps we could send emissaries, such as Mayorkas, Brennan, Powell and Tapper to speak to Putin about that window problem. Maybe he could work something out for them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 07:50 PM (wHp1L)

45 19 We'll cross an ice-filled river in the middle of the night, march over 4 miles, and kill you in your sleep on Christmas.
Posted by: Washington and the Mean MFs at July 04, 2025 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

We've done it before.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 04, 2025 07:51 PM (t0Out)

46 "Be kind to your web footed friends,
for a duck may be somebody's mother...."

Really loud, while marching and annoying everyone in the neighborhood.

There were some serious perks being a kid back in the day.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 04, 2025 07:51 PM (1Gsou)

47 Was reliably informed this week that this is the End Times & Trump is the Antichrist. Leftism is a mental illness & these people are broken

Posted by: Rando del Ashalle at July 04, 2025 07:52 PM (r3rRK)

48 Dogs don't like the boomers. No, no, not the generation. They're either practice booms or someone in the area lighting off their own.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 07:53 PM (144I4)

49 Note that there are no penguins to mephitically fowl the water, and spoil the dachshund's wonderful pool party.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 04, 2025 07:53 PM (0sNs1)

50 Reddit is at its Redditest. Snarking why didn’t god save the kids at Christian camp.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 04, 2025 07:54 PM (KrOdt)

51 47 Was reliably informed this week that this is the End Times & Trump is the Antichrist. Leftism is a mental illness & these people are broken
Posted by: Rando del Ashalle at July 04, 2025 07:52 PM (r3rRK)

I also heard that we are kidnapping people and deporting them without cause. We are just evil that way I guess.

These people need a swift application of the clue bat.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 04, 2025 07:54 PM (1Gsou)

52 50 Reddit is at its Redditest. Snarking why didn’t god save the kids at Christian camp.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 04, 2025 07:54 PM (KrOdt)

They seem nice.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 04, 2025 07:55 PM (1Gsou)

53 poor Jack Straw. when you've lost Mr. T....

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 04, 2025 07:56 PM (t0Out)

54 Google??? Shiiiiiit - that's new fangled voodoo. I'm still using Alta Vista on Netscape Navigator

Posted by: Doof at July 04, 2025 07:56 PM (gpbGF)

55 I put my dogs in our closet, in their crates. And turned on the TV loudly. Room with no windows and the TV noise drowns out most of the fireworks noise.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 04, 2025 07:57 PM (KrOdt)

56 I am sure this is the first time I ever saw From Hete to Eternity

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 07:57 PM (+qU29)

57 Those jets drew a pride flag in the sky.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 04, 2025 07:58 PM (63Dwl)

58 Google??? Shiiiiiit - that's new fangled voodoo. I'm still using Alta Vista on Netscape Navigator
Posted by: Doof at July 04, 2025 07:56 PM

Do we need to send you another 3 1/2" diskette?

Posted by: AOL at July 04, 2025 07:58 PM (0sNs1)

59
Google??? Shiiiiiit - that's new fangled voodoo. I'm still using Alta Vista on Netscape Navigator
Posted by: Doof

Just ask Jeeves.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 04, 2025 07:59 PM (63Dwl)

60 I pity the foo.

Posted by: Mr T at July 04, 2025 07:59 PM (i0F8b)

61 This town allows fireworks from July 1-5, from 3-10pm, and from 10am to midnight on the 4th. You would think that would be enough to satisfy anyone. But they've been going since the 29th and typically to 10:30. I am in favor of fireworks but the dog gets hysterical. I'll be glad when it's over. I'm sure I'll be on the ONT

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 04, 2025 07:59 PM (AcTAo)

62 You can always tell a foreign air force's acrobatic team. They will fly some smallish jet that is a souped up trainer or some such, usually some rinky dink plane no one has heard of, but not a real combat machine. But not the United States Of America. Whether the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds, real combat proven airplanes every time.

Posted by: Old Iron Pants at July 04, 2025 08:00 PM (R/m4+)

63
The Spanish company that was providing funding for the Houston-Dallas bullet train has closed its US office and is giving up on the project. 19th century technology at 21st century costs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 08:01 PM (/HVsR)

64 But not the United States Of America. Whether the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds, real combat proven airplanes every time.
Posted by: Old Iron Pants at July 04, 2025 08:00 PM

It's all fun and games, until you try to barrel roll Fat Albert.

Posted by: The Blue Angels at July 04, 2025 08:03 PM (0sNs1)

65 That's the Frecce Tricolori flight team of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian air force).

Cool name, but something like Angeli Azzurra would have been cooler.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at July 04, 2025 07:41 PM (5YmYl)

I saw preform at an air show in Billings back in the mid 80s. They did their practice runs over the city for a few days prior to the show. So the whole city got to watch them.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 04, 2025 08:03 PM (8wKVG)

66 The Spanish company that was providing funding for the Houston-Dallas bullet train has closed its US office and is giving up on the project. 19th century technology at 21st century costs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 08:01 PM (/HVsR)

Easy come, easy goya.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2025 08:03 PM (wVcYX)

67 But not the United States Of America. Whether the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds, real combat proven airplanes every time.
Posted by: Old Iron Pants at July 04, 2025 08:00 PM

We have the best military ever in history.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 04, 2025 08:05 PM (t0Out)

68 Sweetie, we're just getting started.

Brats and italians, baked potatoes, baked beans, homemade strawberry ice cream....

As soon as DH and his buddies get back from the golf course.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 04, 2025 07:49 PM (1Gsou)

Fantastic!
Have fun!

And I know you will.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 04, 2025 08:06 PM (jvJvP)

69 It's my turn to pick the movie tonight so I picked Jaws.
Poor Crissy just met Bruce, the shark.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 04, 2025 08:08 PM (t0Out)

70 We have the best military ever in history.
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 04, 2025 08:05 PM (t0Out)

Well, except maybe the khans'

Posted by: gKWVE can't argue results at July 04, 2025 08:09 PM (SziHa)

71 >>Orphaned baby ducks are put into a duck pond. How long will it take for another duck to adopt them?

Needs Brady Bunch background music.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 04, 2025 08:09 PM (98SFo)

72 That air show video. Oh great the Italian acrobatic team is once again trying to kill the viewing public.

Ramstein 1988 ring any bells?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:09 PM (SVYQM)

73 Shane Gillis | George Washington's Surprising Christmas Day Battle

https://tinyurl.com/4pf2bme5

Posted by: Orson at July 04, 2025 08:10 PM (dIske)

74 Reddit is at its Redditest. Snarking why didn’t god save the kids at Christian camp.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 04, 2025 07:54 PM (KrOdt)

Someone should ask these geniuses why didn't God save his own Son.

Posted by: ... at July 04, 2025 08:10 PM (E0p3T)

75 The gooble touched me in my 'no-no' place.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:10 PM (LHPAg)

76 But not the United States Of America. Whether the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds, real combat proven airplanes every time.

The US Air Force Thunderbirds in their T-38 Talons fly overhead.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:11 PM (SVYQM)

77 Is Reddit still up? They are worse than 4chan /pol/. I would have thought the constant calls to violence would have done for it

Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 08:11 PM (SziHa)

78 After WWII, for four years, this nation was the SOLE possessor of the most powerful weapon in man’s history. What did we do with that power and dominance? We KEPT the peace.

The government should have nuked Moscow. Thoroughly.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 04, 2025 08:13 PM (XLMS3)

79 Someone should ask these geniuses why didn't God save his own Son.
Posted by: ... at July 04, 2025 08:10 PM (E0p3T)

Jesus was the perfect sacrifice for sin.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 04, 2025 08:13 PM (t0Out)

80 >>Orphaned baby ducks are put into a duck pond. How long will it take for another duck to adopt them?

Needs Brady Bunch background music.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 04, 2025 08:09 PM (98SFo)

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How muck duck can a duck adopt, if an adopting duck could adopt duck.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 08:13 PM (144I4)

81 Re Goolag: good user experience is like a train. When you get to the destination, you get off.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 08:14 PM (SziHa)

82 CHEMTRAILS!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 04, 2025 08:14 PM (D7oie)

83 And probably still categorized as natural causes.
Posted by: haffhowershower

Are you saying gravity is unnatural?

Posted by: mikeski andropov at July 04, 2025 08:14 PM (DgGvY)

84 Obligatory for everyone who attended the Freedom Festival, when this was blared on the simulcast:

https://tinyurl.com/594ar6mn

WARNING: Neil Diamond.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:14 PM (ZOv7s)

85 Orphaned baby ducks are put into a duck pond. How long will it take for another duck to adopt them?

Wonder how much extra in food stamps she got for all those youngins.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 04, 2025 08:14 PM (t0Out)

86 Are you saying gravity is unnatural?

"You bet it is!" - Stacy Abrams weighing in.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:15 PM (SVYQM)

87 80 >>Orphaned baby ducks are put into a duck pond. How long will it take for another duck to adopt them?

Needs Brady Bunch background music.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 04, 2025 08:09 PM (98SFo)

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How muck duck can a duck adopt, if an adopting duck could adopt duck.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 08:13 PM (144I4)
Depends. Are there outstanding bills to be satisfied?

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:15 PM (LHPAg)

88 >Orphaned baby ducks
Offspring of Biggus Duckus?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 08:16 PM (SziHa)

89 The gooble touched me in my 'no-no' place.
Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:10 PM

You need to use this incantation for efficacious results:

https://tinyurl.com/2yrzjssw

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 04, 2025 08:16 PM (0sNs1)

90 Don't Be Evil.

They failed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 04, 2025 08:16 PM (RIvkX)

91 Depends. Are there outstanding bills to be satisfied?
Posted by: Eromero

Just the doctor bill, but he was a quack.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 08:17 PM (144I4)

92 Someone's having a shitty Fourth

@GAFollowers 3m
BREAKING: Someone’s boat caught on fire on Lake Lanier a few mins ago. 👀😳

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 04, 2025 08:17 PM (mlg/3)

93 Well, except maybe the khans'
Posted by: gKWVE can't argue results at July 04, 2025 08:09 PM

Pf. Ffff. Ft.

Posted by: James T. Kirk at July 04, 2025 08:18 PM (0sNs1)

94 The US Air Force Thunderbirds in their T-38 Talons fly overhead.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:11 PM (SVYQM)
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They're flying F-16s and have been for a while. I'm seeing them Sunday.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:19 PM (ZOv7s)

95 The gooble touched me in my 'no-no' place.
Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:10 PM

You need to use this incantation for efficacious results:

https://tinyurl.com/2yrzjssw
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 04, 2025 08:16 PM (0sNs1)

I'll see your no-no square and raise ya:

https://tinyurl.com/3w5zkrj2

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 08:20 PM (144I4)

96 Our 25 year old a/c went tango uniform yesterday in our 75 year old house. We happened to have a portable and hooked it up in the bedroom.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:22 PM (LHPAg)

97 Lloyd

I think you are missing my point. The T-38 never saw combat, its fighter derivative the F-5 did.

But after the gas guzzling F-4s which also had the nimbleness of an elephant, the 1970s saw the Thunderbirds transition to far more fuel efficient and nimble T-38 until the received F-16s.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:22 PM (SVYQM)

98 Eromero, that blows
As it were

Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 08:23 PM (SziHa)

99 That air show video. Oh great the Italian acrobatic team is once again trying to kill the viewing public.

Ramstein 1988 ring any bells?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:09 PM (SVYQM)
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Thank you for clarifying because that did not look right.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 04, 2025 08:23 PM (RIvkX)

100 96 Our 25 year old a/c went tango uniform yesterday in our 75 year old house. We happened to have a portable and hooked it up in the bedroom.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:22 PM (LHPAg)

That sucks.

And holy crap, this is my 5th day as a homeowner.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 04, 2025 08:24 PM (jvJvP)

101 Orphaned baby ducks are put into a duck pond. How long will it take for another duck to adopt them?

Needs Brady Bunch background music.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 04, 2025 08:09 PM (98SFo)

I'll take care of them.

Posted by: Bull Shark what can live in fresh water at July 04, 2025 08:25 PM (5/4jQ)

102 63
The Spanish company that was providing funding for the Houston-Dallas bullet train has closed its US office and is giving up on the project. 19th century technology at 21st century costs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Saw a map of that bullet train's route. Circuitous to say the least. Read that farmers and homeowners were none too happy. Lotta graft in that train Especially considering there's existing track in a straight line from Houston to Dallas that's been there for a century.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 08:25 PM (wHp1L)

103 But after the gas guzzling F-4s which also had the nimbleness of an elephant
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:22 PM

How many elephants (or loxodonts, should you prefer them) have a thrust/weight ratio greater than 1, and can stand on their tail and go straight up?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 04, 2025 08:25 PM (0sNs1)

104 Happy Treason Day, Peasants!

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 08:25 PM (77rzZ)

105 Also, if necessary, including though not limited to Berkley, Ann Arbor, Madison, Iowa City. And Columbia. (the university, not the country) … though it would probably have been a good idea, on general principles. Keep everyone on their toes.

Once the genie was out of the bottle the USA had no choice but to forge ahead with nuclear development and research. But there is per se nothing to stop anyone else from doing the same. As we have seen. The Soviets were never our allies, while we had a common enemy it was a fairy tale of epic stupidity wrapped in folly. If anything in some ways the international socialists made the national socialists look like amateurs. That’s what the fight was about, “Socialism in one country” was a big no-no. Choosing sides was idiotic. Nuke ‘em till they glow, and shoot the survivors. Woukd have saved much strife and grief around the world.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 04, 2025 08:27 PM (eEPa7)

106 90 degrees and overcast today so Mrs. E spent a couple hours in Hobby Lobby with Gracie choosing stuffed animals.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:27 PM (LHPAg)

107 Don't Be Evil.

They failed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 04, 2025 08:16 PM (RIvkX)
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The slogan came from a catch phrase in high school where someone was throwing shade and the response was "Dude, don't be eeevil."

Larry Page used it quite often, and when people said "there was a gillion of them," would ask "But was there a google?"

When Google emerged as a company, I thought it a curious coincidence until I saw that Larry was a co-founder.

He hasn't kept up with his high school chums, in case anyone was wondering.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:27 PM (ZOv7s)

108 Stateless don't worry, any day something will break

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 08:27 PM (+qU29)

109 But not the United States Of America. Whether the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds, real combat proven airplanes every time.
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The US Air Force Thunderbirds in their T-38 Talons fly overhead.

Does the F-5, basically a T-38 with weapons, not count?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 04, 2025 08:28 PM (/y8xj)

110 On the beach in Venice, FL awaiting fireworks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 04, 2025 08:28 PM (w8T9a)

111 But after the gas guzzling F-4s which also had the nimbleness of an elephant, the 1970s saw the Thunderbirds transition to far more fuel efficient and nimble T-38 until the received F-16s.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:22 PM (SVYQM)
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You're ignoring the coolness factor of the F-4, whose maintainers complained mightily about it, but loved them all the same.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:29 PM (ZOv7s)

112 100 96 Our 25 year old a/c went tango uniform yesterday in our 75 year old house. We happened to have a portable and hooked it up in the bedroom.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:22 PM (LHPAg)

That sucks.

And holy crap, this is my 5th day as a homeowner.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 04, 2025 08:24 PM (jvJvP
Hopefully your story will be happier, Stateless.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:29 PM (LHPAg)

113 Also, as I recall, the switch to the T-38 was supposed to be some kind of eco-conscious choice as it during the oil crisis of the mid-70s.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 04, 2025 08:29 PM (/y8xj)

114 Wimp foreign air force with their totally gay colors. People on the beach be like oooooohhhh.
Shiiiittttt.
Give me a platoon of tanks and I'll clear that beach and force all those people to surrender.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2025 08:30 PM (1bdKO)

115 I notice that the owl isn't saying anything; probably knows that the parakeet would blab it all over the place.

Posted by: Paco at July 04, 2025 08:30 PM (mADJX)

116 But after the gas guzzling F-4s which also had the nimbleness of an elephant

But they look damn good and they sound even better. The only plane that looks like it’s gonna kick your ass just sitting in the chocks. A real man’s airplane if ever one was built. Amen…

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 04, 2025 08:30 PM (3Ope8)

117 108 Stateless don't worry, any day something will break
Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 08:27 PM (+qU29)

Most things are renovated, so hopefully not.

FoxNews. They are at the Statue of Liberty. Cool.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 04, 2025 08:31 PM (jvJvP)

118 Bunch of insurrectionists.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 04, 2025 08:31 PM (63Dwl)

119 You're ignoring the coolness factor of the F-4, whose maintainers complained mightily about it, but loved them all the same.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:29 PM (ZOv7s)
The Navy retro'd to A4 Skyhawks for awhile.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:31 PM (LHPAg)

120 But after the gas guzzling F-4s which also had the nimbleness of an elephant,

In fact the T-birds F-4s always made me think of the ballet dancing hippos in Fantasia. It was part of the charm.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 04, 2025 08:31 PM (/y8xj)

121 GENERAL FLYNN: Paul Ryan and Mike Pence Were Behind Pu$$y Tape in 2016 – Tried to Take Down Trump

Posted by: SMOD at July 04, 2025 08:32 PM (GITLP)

122 The Navy retro'd to A4 Skyhawks for awhile.
Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:31 PM (LHPAg)
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Ask Argentina and John McCain how that worked out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)

123 Hopefully your story will be happier, Stateless.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:29 PM (LHPAg)

Thank you.
They are.

Went to Costco Canada with my friend.

And I'm leaving the house overnight Monday! We're going to a trailer.

Things will continue to improve.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 04, 2025 08:34 PM (jvJvP)

124 The F-4 Phantom II never had unity of thrust with the J-79 engines. Not even with the Kurnass 2000 or the Terminator 2020 was the engines replaced.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:34 PM (SVYQM)

125 My back has been grumping at me for the past three weeks. WTH?

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 08:34 PM (77rzZ)

126 The F-4 was the spiritual successor to the P-47. Strength through, well, strength. The embodiment of the uniquely American philosophy "You need a bigger hammer."

Posted by: Oddbob at July 04, 2025 08:35 PM (/y8xj)

127 121 GENERAL FLYNN: Paul Ryan and Mike Pence Were Behind Pu$$y Tape in 2016 – Tried to Take Down Trump
Posted by: SMOD at July 04, 2025 08:32 PM (GITLP)
They need to pay the price for that.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:35 PM (LHPAg)

128 The US Navy's Blue Angels flew the A-4F Super Fox for 13 years until the season they lost two planes.

Since then, they have been stuck with Bugs and Super Bugs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:36 PM (SVYQM)

129 The F-4 Phantom II never had unity of thrust with the J-79 engines. Not even with the Kurnass 2000 or the Terminator 2020 was the engines replaced.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:34 PM (SVYQM)
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The guys I talked to at Selfridge said that those engines were absolute beasts, who laughed off bird strikes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:36 PM (ZOv7s)

130 Can’t believe what the poutine packs must be like at Costco Canada.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 08:37 PM (77rzZ)

131 Spiritual successor to the P-47?

Republic's F-84, F-105, and A-10 beg to differ.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:37 PM (SVYQM)

132 Snarking why didn’t god save the kids at Christian camp.
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I was just praying for them (kids) and their families: that God would be near to them, whatever their circumstances, that they would be aware of the Love of God and be comforted.

I guess the same prayer would be appropriate for the redditors as well, the Love of God may be, actually is, their only hope for true comfort.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 04, 2025 08:37 PM (PcTds)

133 122 The Navy retro'd to A4 Skyhawks for awhile.
Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:31 PM (LHPAg)
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Ask Argentina and John McCain how that worked out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Hey now, mccain was a reverse ace.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:37 PM (LHPAg)

134 Sure, and this lovely Irish lass has the Greens' number.

https://tinyurl.com/3pvus8k4

It's good to know that at least some of the people back in the auld sod still have their heads screwed on straight.

Posted by: Paco at July 04, 2025 08:37 PM (mADJX)

135 GENERAL FLYNN: Paul Ryan and Mike Pence Were Behind Pu$$y Tape in 2016 – Tried to Take Down Trump
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They need to pay the price for that.

Being forgotten by history seems appropriate. And they're about 90% of the way there now.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 04, 2025 08:38 PM (/y8xj)

136 There are Tim Horton’s restaurants in Ohio and Michigan.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 08:38 PM (77rzZ)

137 I cannot imagine what today (7/4/2025) would be like if Hooker Harris had won.

Today would be "Night of the Living Dead" on how evil and bad the USA is ..

Thank GOD for Donald Trump !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at July 04, 2025 08:38 PM (BltCC)

138 GENERAL FLYNN: Paul Ryan and Mike Pence Were Behind Pu$$y Tape in 2016 – Tried to Take Down Trump
Posted by: SMOD at July 04, 2025 08:32 PM (GITLP)

Why do they keep saying I won't believe it? I believe it! I believe it.

Posted by: Triz Trzcinski at July 04, 2025 08:40 PM (R/m4+)

139 I don't remember the last time I saw Larry. It was probably '95 or '96, when I spent a weekend playing DOOM was some of my friends from high school. They had a house in Ann Arbor. By that point we were hated rivals - I was a Spartan, they were Wolverines.

He was a decent guy, nerdy but normal. But that was long ago...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:42 PM (ZOv7s)

140 Driving into work this evening, I drove under, what I call, the Bridge of Sadness. It's where the protestors hang up signs of #OUTRAGEYOUTRAGE that is currently in vogue around here in Babylon DC. Today, they had a huge sign saying, 'DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC'.

LOL!! Oh! So NOW its patriotic. What changed? LOL!!

This is I-395, so a major road going in and out of DC.

Did see some cool aircraft flying around. A couple of B-2 bombers with escorts and some F-15s. Those B-2's are very impressive.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 04, 2025 08:43 PM (+J/Au)

141 Our 25 year old a/c went tango uniform yesterday in our 75 year old house. We happened to have a portable and hooked it up in the bedroom.
Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:22 PM (LHPAg)
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That sucks, but glad you have at least a small space that is cool. About 5 years ago my A/C died (was blowing hot air) so I called and someone came out and diagnosed it as a leak in the evaporator coil. Said it was too old to find a replacement that would fit.

So I did without A/C until this year (which has sucked). I called five places to come out and give me a quote for a new system. The 4th guy that came was an old timer and he wasn't even interested in quoting. He started asking me what was wrong and troubleshooting. He couldn't find a leak in the coils and figured it was a slow leak through the valves on the outside unit. He pumped in refrigerant and put on better caps on the valves. Needed a new capacitor too. About a half hour and $130 later I got my A/C back.

I reckon my A/C is about 30ish years old.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 08:43 PM (144I4)

142 I believe Ryan had a hand.
Unsure about Pence. I think he wanted to win and to be President. Look how he spanked Kaine

Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 08:43 PM (SziHa)

143 137 King George III invented the Venn Diagram!!! SQEEE!!!

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 08:44 PM (77rzZ)

144 GENERAL FLYNN: Paul Ryan and Mike Pence Were Behind Pu$$y Tape in 2016 – Tried to Take Down Trump
Posted by: SMOD at July 04, 2025 08:32 PM (GITLP)
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According to Trump, Pence said "mother won't like this."

Ryan immediately tried to throw the election, so it's quite credible.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:44 PM (ZOv7s)

145 GENERAL FLYNN: Paul Ryan and Mike Pence Were Behind Pu$$y Tape in 2016 – Tried to Take Down Trump
Posted by: SMOD

Flynn is just saying that because Pence took him down.

... and Romney / Ryan threw the election to Obama...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 04, 2025 08:44 PM (/lPRQ)

146 No interventions for me or Jack Straw. We's higher than Cooter Brown and like it that way.

Posted by: Rum Dum at July 04, 2025 08:46 PM (OXFtY)

147 Correction: it would have been '92 or '93.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:46 PM (ZOv7s)

148 Flynn says a lot of stuff.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 08:46 PM (SziHa)

149 The 4th guy that came was an old timer and he wasn't even interested in quoting. He started asking me what was wrong and troubleshooting. He couldn't find a leak in the coils and figured it was a slow leak through the valves on the outside unit. He pumped in refrigerant and put on better caps on the valves. Needed a new capacitor too. About a half hour and $130 later I got my A/C back.
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I love this. My grandpa had this mentality and could fix anything. What an admirable mind and skill set.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 04, 2025 08:47 PM (PcTds)

150 The Douglas A4D Skyhawk - the most successful 1950's military jet of all time.

As of this writing they are still using the Scooter in an adversary role. Either the A-4K with an F-16 radar or an A-4N also fitted with an F-16 radar.

Quite amazing to see A-4Ns taxiing for a mission with Dutch F-35s in 2025.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:47 PM (SVYQM)

151 144 GENERAL FLYNN: Paul Ryan and Mike Pence Were Behind Pu$$y Tape in 2016 – Tried to Take Down Trump
Posted by: SMOD at July 04, 2025 08:32 PM (GITLP)
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According to Trump, Pence said "mother won't like this."

Ryan immediately tried to throw the election, so it's quite credible.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:44 PM (ZOv7s)
And that's how we got forty-seven.

Posted by: Eromero at July 04, 2025 08:47 PM (LHPAg)

152 GENERAL FLYNN: Paul Ryan and Mike Pence Were Behind Pu$$y Tape in 2016 – Tried to Take Down Trump
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They need to pay the price for that.

Being forgotten by history seems appropriate. And they're about 90% of the way there now.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 04, 2025 08:38 PM (/y8xj)

Flynn got railroaded but I don’t trust him anymore than those other two.

He’s always been a Dem who was ostracized by the Dems so he joined the Trump team. Also a big Erdogan advocate. I’ll give him the the benefit of the doubt and say it was for the money.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 08:47 PM (VofaG)

153 There are Tim Horton’s restaurants in Ohio and Michigan.
Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 08:38 PM (77rzZ)

And they, too, started by saying "don't be evil". Now look at 'em!

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 08:48 PM (144I4)

154 Flynn is just saying that because Pence took him down.

... and Romney / Ryan threw the election to Obama...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 04, 2025 08:44 PM (/lPRQ)
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No, I think they legitimately failed. Romney was the most beta of beta males, and crumbled on his own.

Ryan was likewise totally unprepared for Biden's bluster. Typical GOP establishment born losers, thinking that debates were supposed to be square, moderated, clean. Zero street-fighting experience. First illegal punch and they went crying to the refs, who laughed at them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:49 PM (ZOv7s)

155 Grilling Kobe Ribeyes while watching a giant Tarantula terrorize Mara Corday and Arizona.

Posted by: DBCooper at July 04, 2025 08:51 PM (LjJNv)

156 I remember Korbut doing that routine and thinking Damn! And I didn't know shit about gymnastics.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2025 08:51 PM (1bdKO)

157 Quite amazing to see A-4Ns taxiing for a mission with Dutch F-35s in 2025.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:47 PM (SVYQM)
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It also says something about the quality of the aggressors.

Interesting to see what intel we got from the ChiCom platforms.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)

158 Lloyd is right. Romney and Ryan wanted to win 2012 and be the Republicans for amnesty and common sense for gun ownership. And war in Syria.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 08:51 PM (SziHa)

159
There are Tim Horton’s restaurants in Ohio and Michigan.
Posted by: Bulg

There was one on the far west side of Indianapolis.
It lasted about ten weeks before it closed.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 04, 2025 08:51 PM (63Dwl)

160 That air show video. Oh great the Italian acrobatic team is once again trying to kill the viewing public.

Ramstein 1988 ring any bells?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:09 PM (SVYQM)
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Thank you for posting that. My husband was stationed there then. We were living on base at the time and he was called up for traffic duty. Everyone was called up. I'll never forget the number of sirens. Over 100 civilians on the ground killed. The word later was that the Italian pilots partied the night before. Not a fan of the Eye Tye AF.

Posted by: fly gal at July 04, 2025 08:52 PM (qDyMg)

161 Sometimes Dems don't cheat. Sometimes the Republicans just suck.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 08:52 PM (SziHa)

162 GENERAL FLYNN: Paul Ryan and Mike Pence Were Behind Pu$$y Tape in 2016 – Tried to Take Down Trump
Posted by: SMOD

As time goes by how shit really went down becomes more clear.

Guy I work with, not dumb but not the brightest, was telling me "We didn't know any better then, but it looks like COVID was an op' (to simplify). Told him I knew then. He says "No, nobody did". So says I, "Listen to me, I knew it then, always knew it, almost got fired for it, and others got snuffed, it was know"...
.. didn't get into how it was planeed to fuck Trump.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 04, 2025 08:53 PM (/lPRQ)

163 >>>I love this. My grandpa had this mentality and could fix anything. What an admirable mind and skill set.

That's such a great memory and legacy, guys like your grandpa.

When I think of that generation, I picture them wearing those gray/green/blue work pants and work shirts with a white tee shirt underneath. And they had a small workbench in the basement or garage. And yeah, they could fix or rig up just about anything.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 08:53 PM (144I4)

164 Romney and Ryan wanted to win 2012 and be the Republicans for amnesty and common sense for gun ownership. And war in Syria.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 08:51 PM (SziHa)

Romney’s illegal immigration plan which included self deportation was called cruel by Trump.

He’s got enough to bash him about but his illegal immigration plan wasn’t one of them.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 08:53 PM (VofaG)

165 Remember: 2012 was the last election when Drudge was pro-GOP. They actually thought they could win.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:54 PM (ZOv7s)

166 I just replaced both of my HVAC units. Sump pump with electric backup. I am saving over 75% of what the old units cost me in electric bills. They work wonderful too.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 04, 2025 08:55 PM (ycs3a)

167
Romney held back in the last debate. Also, that fat cuck chris christie practically endorsed obama at the end of October.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 04, 2025 08:55 PM (zbir/)

168 Saw the Rottie video earlier. I think I would almost be ready for another dog except I hope to be traveling a fair bit in the near future. Maybe when I get a place close to my son, he would dog sit for me. He has the sweetest little pitbull, I guess I could just enjoy her if/when I live close to my son.

Yes, I'm rambling - good day for it.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 04, 2025 08:55 PM (PcTds)

169 Flynn got railroaded but I don’t trust him anymore than those other two.

He’s always been a Dem who was ostracized by the Dems so he joined the Trump team. Also a big Erdogan advocate. I’ll give him the the benefit of the doubt and say it was for the money.
Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 08:47 PM (VofaG)
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As I said before, I've known Mike Flynn for years. As a young captain he worked for me. I'd trust him with my life and the lives of my family. You will not find a man of greater moral courage and integrity.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2025 08:56 PM (1bdKO)

170 While in the '88 rabbit hole discovered Italy has four Boeing KC-767s (refueling) and three KC-130 Hercules (refueling) in service.
Projection?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 08:56 PM (wHp1L)

171 Romney held back in the last debate. Also, that fat cuck chris christie practically endorsed obama at the end of October.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 04, 2025 08:55 PM (zbir/)
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After Romney let the chick shut him down he was dead man walking.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 08:57 PM (ZOv7s)

172 Defenestration seems unusually common in Moscow! I do remember seeing office widows near the top of the Empire State Building that could be fully opened, no bars, nothing. Some were opened that way: for cross-ventilation I suppose! They don’t make them that way anymore, do they?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 08:58 PM (SEFV4)

173 Evenin' Horde. I celebrated today by mowing my little half acre. Now sitting in my swing enjoying the fireflies and neighbors' fireworks. 'Merica!

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 04, 2025 08:58 PM (DnMuk)

174 There are Tim Horton’s restaurants in Ohio and Michigan.
Posted by: Bulg

There was one on the far west side of Indianapolis.
It lasted about ten weeks before it closed.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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Too far south, too hot for them. Suitable for a sub-arctic zone.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 08:58 PM (144I4)

175
You think "Jane D'oh" is still alive?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 04, 2025 08:58 PM (zbir/)

176 As I said before, I've known Mike Flynn for years. As a young captain he worked for me. I'd trust him with my life and the lives of my family. You will not find a man of greater moral courage and integrity.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2025 08:56 PM (1bdKO

I can’t argue against your personal experience. But why do you think he was a Dem and why would he lobby for Erdogan?

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 08:59 PM (VofaG)

177 Also, that fat cuck chris christie practically endorsed obama at the end of October.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 04, 2025 08:55 PM (zbir/)

I love Chirs! I frotted him live on MNF and he loved it! Call me Chris!

Posted by: Jerry Jones, Old, nasty pervert at July 04, 2025 08:59 PM (R/m4+)

178 Democrats stole the election from Romney. Trump's loss to them was not their first steal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 08:59 PM (wHp1L)

179 Romney’s illegal immigration plan which included self deportation was called cruel by Trump.

l kinda feel like Mitt was right about a few things but he didn't seem willing to fight for them and he could never quite close the sale with the voting public.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 04, 2025 09:00 PM (/y8xj)

180 In the day while fishing with Pop and my Bros in Barnegat Bay seagulls would follow us on our return trip cutting bait . Rather than just throw used bait overboard we tossed it up to the birds. One 4th of July we mixed in lit fire crackers with the cut bait. Seagulls are smarter than pigeons..

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 04, 2025 09:00 PM (DwKKA)

181 The repukes have had some terrible "it's his turn" picks for president. I regret voting for all of them. I am a Trumpublican. It's his party now and I hope he has plans for his party going far into the future

Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 04, 2025 09:00 PM (ycs3a)

182 And they had a small workbench in the basement or garage.
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Yes. I can picture that work bench in my Grandpa's basement.

When he was older, some of the grandkids were putting a new roof on his house. He made them start over because it wasn't perfect. It was annoying at the time, but what a great lesson.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 04, 2025 09:00 PM (PcTds)

183 l kinda feel like Mitt was right about a few things but he didn't seem willing to fight for them and he could never quite close the sale with the voting public.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 04, 2025 09:00 PM (/y8xj)
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TL;DR version: he was a pussy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 09:00 PM (ZOv7s)

184 Soothsayer, X every day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 09:01 PM (wHp1L)

185 Politics is all Kabuki theater
-Michelle Malkin circa 2005

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 04, 2025 09:02 PM (DwKKA)

186 Fair enough, I'll look it up.
But why hasn't Romney endorsed Trump's immigration policies since?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 09:02 PM (SziHa)

187 Really, just look at what Ryan did as Speaker and Romney did as a senator.

Total cucks. They betrayed their own platforms.

So even if they won, they'd have cuck'd the GOP.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 09:03 PM (ZOv7s)

188 Politics is all Kabuki theater
-Michelle Malkin circa 2005
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 04, 2025 09:02 PM (DwKKA)
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What is she up to now? Seems she set up conservative web sites and sold them to eunuchs. Is she even active?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 09:04 PM (ZOv7s)

189 Romney threw his election bid for the presidency: not the right man, at all!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 09:05 PM (SEFV4)

190 158 Lloyd is right. Romney and Ryan wanted to win 2012 and be the Republicans for amnesty and common sense for gun ownership. And war in Syria.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 08:51 PM (SziHa)

I think so, and I can't help but wonder why the cartel took out Romneys in Mexico.

Posted by: night lifted at July 04, 2025 09:06 PM (FZn/N)

191 185 Politics is all Kabuki theater
-Michelle Malkin circa 2005
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Talk about pulling up, pulling out and totally fed up. She more or less disappeared herself.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 09:06 PM (wHp1L)

192 right /wrong?? nobody did jack but talk shit and rob the treasury of BILLIONS of dollars
Anyone in office between Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump were complete ASSHOLES. When a President (FDR) can serve as a crippled invalid and have the country not know then there is a def miscommunication wait what?? but Biden was a complete empty skull motel harboring ghetto rats

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 04, 2025 09:08 PM (DwKKA)

193 186 Fair enough, I'll look it up.
But why hasn't Romney endorsed Trump's immigration policies since?
Posted by: gKWVE
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Since the time that Romney lost the election China has become a much bigger player in American politics. China is highly influential in many ways.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 09:08 PM (wHp1L)

194 I can’t argue against your personal experience. But why do you think he was a Dem and why would he lobby for Erdogan?
Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 08:59 PM (VofaG)

Can't speak to his personal.politics, although I have some ideas for why the "dem" slant. I'll save for a later post. I'd also say, as someone who was stationed in Turkey, that in spite of the Erdogan faction, the Turks were, at the time, pretty good people and pretty good allies. I think that since then, they have shifted a bit, but I suspect they will fall back in line, especially vis-a-vis Israel. At least I hope so.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2025 09:09 PM (1bdKO)

195 Anyway the good news is that we've been #winning in the last couple weeks, or fortnight if you are a Tory.
Next steps need to be to push Trump / agriculture / tech on H1Bs and screw worms (beef imports)

Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2025 09:09 PM (SziHa)

196 Since the time that Romney lost the election China has become a much bigger player in American politics. China is highly influential in many ways.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 09:08 PM (wHp1L)

And Romney assisted with outsourcing to China.

Posted by: night lifted at July 04, 2025 09:10 PM (FZn/N)

197 Now have outgoing artillery

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 09:11 PM (+qU29)

198 Now have outgoing artillery
Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 09:11 PM (+qU29)

Beats the shit outta incoming artillery.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2025 09:12 PM (1bdKO)

199 It sounds like Verdun outside. The dog is unhappy.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2025 09:13 PM (Riz8t)

200 remember webcrawler?

Remember Netscape?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 09:15 PM (bss/y)

201 Give me a platoon of tanks and I'll clear that beach and force all those people to surrender.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2025 08:30 PM (1bdKO)

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If the beach was about 500km to the west, you'd probably only need one tank. And you wouldn't have to force anyone!

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 09:15 PM (144I4)

202
199 It sounds like Verdun outside. The dog is unhappy.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2025 09:13 PM (Riz8t)

The whippets just bark at it, get some water, and go rest on the sofa.

Posted by: night lifted at July 04, 2025 09:16 PM (FZn/N)

203 remember webcrawler?

Remember Netscape?

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

Remember Bluelight?

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 09:17 PM (144I4)

204 Remember Bluelight?
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 09:17 PM (144I4)

Stonewall Jackson?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 09:17 PM (bss/y)

205 Whippets? Whippets good.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 04, 2025 09:17 PM (144I4)

206 Erdogan is a unique figure in the Middle East; there are plenty of bad things about him, some good things, and there’s no question that’s he’s useful, powerful, and sits on top of incredibly strategic territory. I can see why some would choose to work with him.
People forget that in terms of personnel and equipment, he’s got the 2nd largest army in NATO.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 04, 2025 09:18 PM (0DdMG)

207 Reef does not appear to be paying too much attention to the fireworks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 09:18 PM (bss/y)

208 Don't forget: Romney's dad also tanked his own presidential campaign.

It's a family tradition!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 09:18 PM (ZOv7s)

209
Don't Be Evil.

They failed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 04, 2025 08:16 PM (RIvkX)

_________

No, they just turned it into "Don't. Be evil."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 09:19 PM (/HVsR)

210 Heh. Just watched the scene in 'Lonesome Dove' where Tommy Lee Jones 'explains', “I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.”

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 04, 2025 09:20 PM (XeU6L)

211 Melania has this whole "stand on the balcony and look absolutely fabulous" thing down pat. Mission accomplished.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 04, 2025 09:21 PM (w6EFb)

212 People forget that in terms of personnel and equipment, he’s got the 2nd largest army in NATO.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 04, 2025 09:18 PM (0DdMG)
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Half of Washington violates FARA, which is notoriously unevenly enforced.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 09:21 PM (ZOv7s)

213 Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2025 09:09 PM (1bdKO)

Fair enough. I’ll say again I think he got a raw deal and admittedly the fact that unlikable people on both sides of the aisle seem to have it out for him points to positive things about him that I’d like to know more about.

I do like that he didn’t cave to pressure from the Dems and continued to support a colleague’s harassment case. That goes to what you described.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 09:25 PM (VofaG)

214 211 Melania has this whole "stand on the balcony and look absolutely fabulous" thing down pat. Mission accomplished.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 04, 2025 09:21 PM (w6EFb)

:-) I'm watching the fireworks too! Love seeing DJT and Melania!

Posted by: Iris at July 04, 2025 09:26 PM (bOJ2I)

215 What is she up to now? Seems she set up conservative web sites and sold them to eunuchs. Is she even active?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 04, 2025 09:04 PM (ZOv7s)

I think her daughter has some kind of chronic disease, plus the cousin going missing seems to have taken a lot out of her. Also, a lot of her "friends" seem to have turned on her. Why not bow out with the money she has?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 04, 2025 09:26 PM (0eaVi)

216 There is nothing good about Erdogan imo.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 09:27 PM (VofaG)

217
People in this thread are talking about Air Conditioning, the 2012 election, dogs, fireworks, birds, communism, Independence Day, and aviation.

Some people are celebrating donuts, while others are complaining about google.

Posted by: AoS AI bot at July 04, 2025 09:28 PM (zbir/)

218 I want the 1999 Google!

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 04, 2025 09:28 PM (b3qjt)

219 Hah. Melania did a little bit of the Trump dance with him. Just a little.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 04, 2025 09:29 PM (w6EFb)

220 People in this thread are talking about Air Conditioning, the 2012 election, dogs, fireworks, birds, communism, Independence Day, and aviation.

Some people are celebrating donuts, while others are complaining about google.
Posted by: AoS AI bot at July 04, 2025 09:28 PM (zbir/)

Let me see if I can close the gaps...

https://tinyurl.com/4dncybjz

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 09:30 PM (bss/y)

221 I can remember when Google was remotely worth a damn.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 04, 2025 09:30 PM (LL6Kc)

222 The neighbors have been setting off a lot of big bada-booms and ka-pows. Fortunately, Daisy the magnificent Malinois doesn't seem to notice.

Later, some moth will flutter against the front door window and she'll bark up a storm. She's like that.

Posted by: mindful webworker - celebrating independence independently at July 04, 2025 09:31 PM (OZEHh)

223 Happy Independence Day, fellow Americans!

Posted by: Official Delurker at July 04, 2025 09:32 PM (+BTNg)

224 You have to love the internet:

https://tinyurl.com/5ybzbux2

Are nukes real?

Although he is wrong about the fallout in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 09:32 PM (bss/y)

225 216 There is nothing good about Erdogan imo.
Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 09:27 PM (VofaG)

Agreed. He is a tin pot wanna be god emperor. He is just smarter than most.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 09:33 PM (bss/y)

226 We have no works to fire this year. But we can enjoy what the neighbors set off.

Posted by: mindful webworker - celebrating independence independently at July 04, 2025 09:33 PM (OZEHh)

227 218 I want the 1999 Google!
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 04, 2025 09:28 PM (b3qjt)

This site would be futuristic in 1999.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 04, 2025 09:34 PM (bss/y)

228 Erdogan is a young turd.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 04, 2025 09:36 PM (LL6Kc)

229 163 "And they had a small workbench in the basement or garage."

This reminds me of my grandmother. She often tinkered with things at the workbench in her garage, repairing rather than throwing out items that could be fixed.

Posted by: Official Delurker at July 04, 2025 09:36 PM (+BTNg)

230 I want the 1999 Google!
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 04, 2025 09:28 PM (b3qjt)

This site would be futuristic in 1999.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Other than the YuoTube links, it is.
And I like it that way.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 04, 2025 09:36 PM (/lPRQ)

231 173 SiD, you should’ve gone hiking, instead.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:38 PM (77rzZ)

232 SiD, you should’ve gone hiking, instead.
Posted by: Bulg
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Now I can do that tomorrow, with a clear conscience!

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 04, 2025 09:40 PM (DnMuk)

233 I’m watching the fireworks show in NYC .

Holy crap.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 09:41 PM (VofaG)

234 I think that’s an Osprey that the man threw a fish too. Not a lot of markings visible but the size is right, and they’re usually found around water.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 04, 2025 09:41 PM (0DdMG)

235 Some people are celebrating donuts, while others are complaining about google.
Posted by: AoS AI bot
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Netscape was my favorite until Google bought it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 09:41 PM (wHp1L)

236 Happy Independence Day to Ace, and the Moron Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2025 09:42 PM (cVDqY)

237 173 Evenin' Horde. I celebrated today by mowing my little half acre. Now sitting in my swing enjoying the fireflies and neighbors' fireworks. 'Merica!
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 04, 2025 08:58 PM (DnMuk)

Hi! SiD!!

Posted by: Iris at July 04, 2025 09:42 PM (bOJ2I)

238 The vocal agitators with their Mr. Microphones have started at the LA ICE protests.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2025 07:37 PM (wVcYX)

Remember: shoot the guy who is telling the jerk with the bullhorn what to say.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2025 09:43 PM (cVDqY)

239 Sore throat starting all day, not good time

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 09:43 PM (+qU29)

240 237 173 Evenin' Horde. I celebrated today by mowing my little half acre. Now sitting in my swing enjoying the fireflies and neighbors' fireworks. 'Merica!
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 04, 2025 08:58 PM (DnMuk

Good for you!

I'm destressing with edibles and beer.

But Sunday, we find out if home ownership improves the quality of my lawncare.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 04, 2025 09:44 PM (jvJvP)

241 I gotta mow my front yard tomorrow. Feh.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:45 PM (77rzZ)

242 Vaping protects you from the coof.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 04, 2025 09:45 PM (LL6Kc)

243 Iris!!! I hate that I missed NoVa but I will see you in Corsicana!

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 04, 2025 09:46 PM (DnMuk)

244 I don’t have a conscience about my lawn.

That’s what the HOA is for.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:48 PM (77rzZ)

245 241 I gotta mow my front yard tomorrow. Feh.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:45 PM (77rzZ

I know. I used to not mind yardwork.

But the yard is pretty huge. And foresty...

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 04, 2025 09:48 PM (jvJvP)

246 alk about pulling up, pulling out and totally fed up. She more or less disappeared herself.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 09:06 PM (wHp1L)

yeah that and her niece went mysteriously missing in Oregon? Michelle has her hubby and kids to thinks about.
Plus she made a bundle selling hot air and Twitchy.
I like Michelle and met her and Brian a HA contributor in DC at the Gathering of Eagles effort to protect the Vietnam Memorial wall from promised vandalism from the then fledgling in your face phone pushers. I worked a neutral observer. I called out a flag draped coffin pusher who later had his ass handed to him by a Gold Star Dad. Capital Police questioned me and I just told the YES that dude started the whole ruckus deserved an ass whoopin...

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 04, 2025 09:50 PM (DwKKA)

247 That NYC firework show has to be close to seven figures.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 09:50 PM (VofaG)

248 Are they using any thing big enough in New York to do any good?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 04, 2025 09:51 PM (LL6Kc)

249 So I watched the "Blacks vs Vampires" movies tonight. As far as I could, at least. "Sinners".

Pretty good watch, at the beginning. But as much as I liked the music, and the hot ass actresses and such, the message was clear.

White Culture steam-rolls you, if you're not White Culture, all things being equal. Which, frankly, is true.

They made it so obvious as the vampires playing the fiddle and singing Irish folk tunes. Before they tried to eat the black folks.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 04, 2025 09:54 PM (r2SH2)

250
yeah that and her niece went mysteriously missing in Oregon? Michelle has her hubby and kids to thinks about.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic

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And her daughter got sick. Some mysterious chronic illness.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 04, 2025 09:54 PM (Rrsaq)

251 Good lord.enough already. Like eating a 72 oz steak and you get it for free.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 09:54 PM (VofaG)

252 I nominate Trump for Mt. Rushmore. !!

Posted by: Mike Hunt at July 04, 2025 09:56 PM (p+utQ)

253 219 Hah. Melania did a little bit of the Trump dance with him. Just a little.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 04, 2025 09:29 PM (w6EFb)

Trump calls his wiener The Fuhrer. Melania will be saluting lil Adolf tonight for sure

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 04, 2025 09:56 PM (DwKKA)

254 The noise from fireworks somewhere woke me up
So I listed to army dads singing a song by Ohil Collins , You'll be I.n My heart.

https://tinyurl.com/38j974ua

My honest keyboard is refusing to type certain letters . Don't know what that is all about- the letter after o being one of them .Sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 04, 2025 09:58 PM (2GCMq)

255 But Sunday, we find out if home ownership improves the quality of my lawncare.
Posted by: Stateless
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I'd been renting for about 20 years until buying this house for my mother and me (she is now in assisted living). It surprised me how much I like working in the yard. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I am capable of working my ass off. When I drive up to the house and the yard looks tidy, that makes me happy.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 04, 2025 09:59 PM (DnMuk)

256 Spiritual successor to the P-47?

Republic's F-84, F-105, and A-10 beg to differ.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2025 08:37 PM

When I first started working at Republic, back in 1977, we were building 12 A-10s a month.

Posted by: Darles Chickens at July 04, 2025 09:59 PM (vOKvj)

257 I built a cat pen off the back of the house. With the coyotes in the hood the wife insists the cat stay indoors. He is less than happy. So I took some old scafolding and some wire fence and went to town. About 3/4 done. He'll have a multi layered outdoor area with about 200 square ft on the ground safe from those vermin.
Hope he likes it.
Happy Independence Day everyone.
If the winds don't die down here there won't be any fireworks.
A fire right now would be devastating. Very dry.
Probably won't stop the idiots here from doing their own shit tjough.

Posted by: Reforger at July 04, 2025 10:00 PM (SJnNf)

258
ONT

Posted by: four seasons at July 04, 2025 10:01 PM (3ek7K)

259 234 I think that’s an Osprey that the man threw a fish too. Not a lot of markings visible but the size is right, and they’re usually found around water.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 04, 2025 09:41 PM (0DdMG)

Had a pair of them nesting behind my previous home (the original Casa Sin Problemas...le sigh..)

Anyway, they provided great entertainment, hovering over the open space, the gracefully descending on an unsuspecting lizard or ground squirrel. Even the red tail hawks recognized their badassery, and kept a respectable distance..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 04, 2025 10:01 PM (bA75n)

260 My honest keyboard is refusing to type certain letters . Don't know what that is all about- the letter after o being one of them .Sorry.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 04, 2025 09:58 PM (2GCMq)

Well, it typed a "p" in "type", didn't it? I recommend an exorcism.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2025 10:01 PM (D59F4)

261 Lots of big booms in my hood tonight. I don't remember the 4th being this exuberant last year, but I may be wrong.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 04, 2025 10:01 PM (DnMuk)

262 Nood - Weird Dave ONT

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 04, 2025 10:03 PM (SEFV4)

263 When I first started working at Republic, back in 1977, we were building 12 A-10s a month.

Hence the problem.

We, as a culture, have NEVER won a damn thing with "super weapons". That was the Hail Mary way the Germans tried to win.

We've won with shit like the 105mm ... and enough shells where we could time on target any time we wanted. The Sherman was an abomination that only Leslie McNair could keep alive ... but the rest of the gear was not "top notch" ... yet good enough and plenty of it.

We're going to lose the next one - just because we'll lose the F-35 or whatever else they want to throw out there. We'll run out of numbers. And those margins are stupidly small.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 04, 2025 10:03 PM (r2SH2)

264 In the day while fishing with Pop and my Bros in Barnegat Bay seagulls would follow us on our return trip cutting bait . Rather than just throw used bait overboard we tossed it up to the birds. One 4th of July we mixed in lit fire crackers with the cut bait. Seagulls are smarter than pigeons..
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 04, 2025 09:00 PM (DwKKA)

Even for me that's pretty fucking cruel.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 04, 2025 10:10 PM (g8Ew8)

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