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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - July 16, 2025 [TRex]
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
This is the Wednesday night ONT. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
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The character's screen-matched primary dueling lightsaber that was used in the films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi is set for auction from Propstore this September in Los Angeles. The item was held on-screen by Star Wars actor David Prowse and stunt double Bob Anderson and has a pre-sale value estimate ranging from $1 million to $3 million. This lightsaber is said to be the only hero lightsaber from the original Star Wars trilogy to ever hit an auction.The same auction will be selling Indiana Jones' Bullwhip, Whip Holster, and Belt,
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989 (Estimate: $250,000 - $500,000), a neuralyzer from Men in Black, and Sauron's helmet for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Scottie Scheffler just gave one of the best (and deepest) press conference answers ever heard. pic.twitter.com/SUIRKuLwgb
— Golf Digest (@GolfDigest) July 15, 2025
The giant beaver's journey to becoming Minnesota's state fossil has been a long and winding one. The saga dates back to at least 1988, when a group of third graders first proposed making the massive mammal the official state fossil, according to Minnesota Star Tribune columnist Jennifer Brooks. Since then, the proposal has come up again and again. Each time, lawmakers have said no - but that changed this year.I'm torn between making beaver jokes and noting that the State of Minnesota must have solved all their other problems if they're worrying about state fossil designations. Why pick? Both are viable.
While Gordon orbited in Yankee Clipper 60 miles above the surface of the moon, Conrad and Bean moved gingerly in their bulky space suits over the Ocean of Storms. Bending to pick up rock samples. Flipping their cuff checklists for the next instruction. Setting up the solar wind spectrometer. Check the list. Securing the seismometer. Checking the list. And... whoa! Tossing her head and smiling was the stunning bare-breasted Angela Dorian, with the caption, "Seen any interesting hills and valleys?" "It was about two and a half hours into extravehicular activity," says Bean. "I flipped the page over and there she was. I hopped over to where Pete was and showed him mine, and he showed me his." Conrad had been joined by the charming and equally nude Reagan Wilson, her hair tousled, reclining against a bale of hay with the caption, "Preferred Tether Partner." Just how did these lunar lovelies get by NASA? Easily. "It was part of the game," says Conrad. "Guys doing joke things. It probably goes back to Mercury. The pad leader, Guenter Wendt, always had some gag thing. So did the crews. I think Dave Scott was the first to think of doing something on the cuff checklist." "It was a family thing," confirms Scott, backup commander for the Apollo 12 mission. "We spent a lot of time going through the checklist to see where we could insert something humorous. We got that centerfold off the newsstand. Then we had to get it printed on fire-proof plastic-coated paper."For historical and academic purposes, full story and black and white photos here.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: 496 at July 16, 2025 10:00 PM (t+VLa)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 10:00 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 16, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at July 16, 2025 10:01 PM (LE9s8)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 10:01 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Thalidomide Baby at July 16, 2025 10:02 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 16, 2025 10:02 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: QED Texan at July 16, 2025 10:02 PM (fveCG)
If you're not careful how you ride that thing, you could wind up with a serious case of pickleball.
Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2025 10:02 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: George Costanza, Hand Model at July 16, 2025 10:04 PM (+xk6Q)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2025 10:06 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: davidt at July 16, 2025 10:06 PM (i0F8b)
I've been listening to a lot of Randall Carlson's podcasts, and I learned about the giant beavers that roamed NA in the before time, which was just before the Younger Dryas, a mere 12,000 years ago roughly.
IIRC, they were big in the Southeast. So, around here 15,000 years ago, there would have been giant beavers.
The "megafauna" here in NA before that Younger Dryas extinction event was something. We had lions, big cats, elephants, even wolly rhinos. Not to mention the Dire wolves.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 10:07 PM (w6EFb)
Uhm, phrasing?
Posted by: RickZ at July 16, 2025 10:07 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 10:08 PM (D7OgD)
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 10:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Roseanne Barr at July 16, 2025 10:10 PM (i0F8b)
I thought Lileks was the Minnie state fossil? At least, that's the feeling I get from him getting asked to leave from his local paper.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 10:10 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 10:07 PM (w6EFb)
I would settle for slightly-menacing wolves.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 10:10 PM (D7OgD)
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 10:11 PM (77rzZ)
We have no problems here.
Posted by: Tim Walz, certified knucklehead at July 16, 2025 10:11 PM (DgGvY)
We took Purrcy back to the vet today. Boy did it cost us a lot. I have done an update to our cat fund with all the details.
[Link to cat fund: https://t.co/iS8XTjbmSR]
We brought Dad's ashes home today. His box is now with Mom's in their room. They took a $10 down payment until we are able to raise the full $3500. We're happy to have him home.
[Link to Ciampino's fund: https://t.co/NfEjq7HEkV]
Posted by: Joyenz at July 16, 2025 10:11 PM (sPQoU)
Nope. For the original rodent fossil I would have gone Hubert H. Humphrey. Or if you are into the Iron Range subspecies, Rudy Perpich.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 10:12 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 10:12 PM (HZi96)
The city of Winona, MN, needs to put one on display.
Painted brown, of course.
Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2025 10:13 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: TRex at July 16, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 10:13 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2025 10:13 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Priscilla Presley at July 16, 2025 10:13 PM (i0F8b)
That's quite the story about the lotto ticket. We used to drive by mansions in one county that were built by recent lottery winners. After a few years, the mansion is all the winnings those folks had left.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 16, 2025 10:14 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: TRex at July 16, 2025 10:14 PM (IQ6Gq)
No one. Except for my boys, will ever hear from me again.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 10:13 PM (mT+6a)
Was it something I said???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 10:14 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 10:14 PM (XV/Pl)
Lots of guys would be willing to try. We're stupid like that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 16, 2025 10:15 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 16, 2025 10:15 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 16, 2025 10:14 PM
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You're quite welcome. Glad you're here.
Posted by: TRex at July 16, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)
No one would ever know, until the funeral...and a rather raucous video file explaining everything.
Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2025 10:15 PM (dIske)
No one. Except for my boys, will ever hear from me again.
I was hoping you'd at least drive by in your limo and flip me off.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 16, 2025 10:16 PM (lUFok)
Nice ONT!
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at July 16, 2025 10:16 PM (ha1wR)
Posted by: One vote only for citizens at July 16, 2025 10:16 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 10:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 16, 2025 10:16 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Happy Harry at July 16, 2025 10:17 PM (G5+As)
Truly it is tragic that the lives of so many lottery winners are ruined by their windfall. Instead, the money should go to someone dedicated to gracious but restrained living and quiet philanthropy. I recommend me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 10:17 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 10:01 PM (0eaVi)
Tumbling tumbleweeds!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 16, 2025 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 16, 2025 10:17 PM (ycs3a)
Posted by: Happy Harry at July 16, 2025 10:17 PM
***
I appreciate a good Pennysaver reference.
Posted by: TRex - bargain shopper at July 16, 2025 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 10:18 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: QED Texan at July 16, 2025 10:19 PM (fveCG)
No one would ever know, until the funeral...and a rather raucous video file explaining everything.
Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2025 10:15 PM (dIske)
I don't know how much this has changed but some states used to *require* winners of prizes over a certain amount to appear in commercials.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 10:19 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2025 10:19 PM (pZEOD)
Late tonight. I was mugged by Mark Dice and Paul Joseph Watson.
"Wonders will never cease."
—Sir Henry Bate Dudley
Posted by: mindful webworker - wonderfully at July 16, 2025 10:19 PM (8zuD/)
No one would ever know, until the funeral...and a rather raucous video file explaining everything.
Posted by: Orson
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Amen.
Posted by: The Grateful at July 16, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)
You know, I've been pondering this, thanks to listening to Randall Carlson's stuff. The current geological epoch is dubbed the Holocene, which translates sort of as "whole new". It's only about 12,000 years old, a twinkling of the eye in geologic time.
That's how much the earth changed from the end of the Ice Age and the Younger Dryas. It's a whole new world, and one that is very climatologically stable. It was an entirely different world when the mammoths, giant beavers, and dire wolves roamed NA. And the Clovis culture, which got wiped around the Younger Dryas, along with all those megafauna species.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 10:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 10:20 PM (77rzZ)
>>I appreciate a good Pennysaver reference.
Before Craigslist, The Pennysaver was a good source of haunted futons.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 10:20 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2025 10:15 PM (dIske)
... and the ten 20 year old women in mourning miniskirts hired for the event?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 16, 2025 10:20 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: QED Texan at July 16, 2025 10:19 PM
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Sounds like a pretty big dill!
Posted by: TRex - If I didn't, someone else would have at July 16, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 16, 2025 10:21 PM (xSYff)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 16, 2025 10:21 PM (uGaBv)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 10:21 PM (XV/Pl)
The natives, whose culture was built on their reverence and stewardship of this most valuable beaver-bear resource, were doomed to live in run-down hogans and operate glitzy casinos, never to know the peaceful ways of their ancestors.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2025 10:21 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2025 10:19 PM
***
Good evening to you and your menagerie.
Posted by: TRex - animal mayhem at July 16, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
Choctaw Bingo
James McMurtry
https://youtu.be/Nggqe-L9ZQ8
Or if you prefer ballads...
Choctaw Bingo
Ray Wylie Hubbard
https://youtu.be/4KB4dVMQfRE
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 10:22 PM (NXz8h)
And here's the thing, in the record they're finding things the climate idiots don't like to talk about. Erf's climate can change fast. Rapid changes during the previous interglacial periods. Our current Holocene is a stable period.
This shows that human influence on the climate is nothing compared to what natural processes, not well understood, on this Erf can do. This business that we're in a period of unprecedented global warming is just flat out bullshit. We're in a very stable period.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 10:22 PM (w6EFb)
Lol. $2m. If you've got the kind of scratch to piss away $2m on a bauble, and *that's* the bauble you buy? Of all the baubles in the world?
Wow.
$2m could buy an entire supercar, or any number of precious works of art, or a golden toilet, or... anything besides a plastic and pot-metal dildo for hypernerd fan boys.
If a family member of mine paid $2m for that, I'd kick him square in the nuts just on GPs.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2025 10:22 PM (BI5O2)
He wrote a Strib commentary two days ago about being carjacked.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 16, 2025 10:23 PM (xSYff)
Wow.
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The banana taped to the wall was already sold.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2025 10:24 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 16, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: PabloD at July 16, 2025 10:24 PM (KSYMi)
Looks to me like "Tex" has a lot of experience riding "pickles", if you know what I mean.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 16, 2025 10:24 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 10:08 PM (D7OgD)
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I've been searching on and off for a weeding tool I used as a kid when I walked beans. Since errant corn was one of the weeds, I used corn hook as a search keyword. I used a lot of other keywords but could never find what I was looking for. I would even look at the tools in farm stores, but with no luck.
Well, just tonight I tried again. And I'm talking using stupid long phrase to try and find it, like "long handled hand tool to cut weeds close to the ground" etc...
I found it, but only because I finally put "walking beans" in the search, which I stupidly hadn't done before.
It's called...duh duh duh...a bean hook. Wow, all this time and it's that simple.
So now that I found what it's called and where to buy them, I think I'll try to make my own.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 16, 2025 10:24 PM (144I4)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 16, 2025 10:25 PM (17wcv)
Posted by: TRex - If I didn't, someone else would have
Haha! Thanks for the laugh.
Posted by: QED Texan at July 16, 2025 10:25 PM (fveCG)
Posted by: Test Pattern at July 16, 2025 10:25 PM (G5+As)
After I make anonymous contributions to my boys’ high school and secretly pay off the mortgages of three friends, nope. I’m outta here.
Buy some property by the salty sea and build a log cabin and be happy as a clam.
I’d check in with y’all. But under a different nic.
And occasionally, fly friends in for a visit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 10:26 PM (mT+6a)
Choctaw Bingo
James McMurtry
https://youtu.be/Nggqe-L9ZQ8
Or if you prefer ballads...
Choctaw Bingo
Ray Wylie Hubbard
https://youtu.be/4KB4dVMQfRE
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions.
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Only Hubbard could followup McMurty.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2025 10:26 PM (wHp1L)
Apparently the process has been speeded up considerably.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 16, 2025 10:27 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
In TN at least, a winner's name and city of residence must be disclosed.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2025 10:27 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 16, 2025 10:17 PM (ycs3a)
That's the short story. After a year that saw him stripped of his column, assigned to the fluff and filler beat, and sent to a veal pen cubicle far from a window, he finally got a clue and accepted the "Voluntary Separation Package."
The next step would have been to send him to the boiler room and take his red stapler, but fortunately it did not come to that.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 16, 2025 10:28 PM (dWhQJ)
It was the first time in many years that I went into to Portland for entertainment.
Posted by: Beartooth at July 16, 2025 10:28 PM (8wKVG)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 16, 2025 10:28 PM (sPQoU)
>>If you've got the kind of scratch to piss away $2m on a bauble, and *that's* the bauble you buy? Of all the baubles in the world?
People will pay ridiculous sums for ridiculous objects.
People have spent 100s of millions of dollars on Picasso's, who I regard as terrible painter with no redeeming merit.
At least with Darth Vaders saber, you can wield it and make the funny saber noises to amuse yourself and your friends.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 10:28 PM (XV/Pl)
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Only a Philistine would build a log cabin on the seashore.
You build a kitschy little Cape Cod number with a wraparound porch and a Widow's walk.
*sniff*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2025 10:28 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 10:28 PM (E2cCq)
She would literally steal the juice out of the jar in the fridge to drink - her mom initially couldn't figure out why the pickles were getting dried out and what was happening.
Posted by: BobM at July 16, 2025 10:29 PM (y0oi5)
You can do that as well as be the best family man.
Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 10:29 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2025 10:30 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius,
Dire Wolf is a wonderful Grateful Dead song. A Hunter/Garcia classic. I think Robert Hunter was one of the best poet/ lyricists of the last half of the 20th Century.
Posted by: Born Robert Burns at July 16, 2025 10:30 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2025 10:30 PM (BI5O2)
You build a kitschy little Cape Cod number with a wraparound porch and a Widow's walk.
*sniff*
Posted by: Cicero
Heh. This is the PNW. We don’t do cape cod bs.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 10:31 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 10:31 PM (77rzZ)
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I've never heard of a "Widow's Walk" -- will have to look that up.
Why does that remind me of the classic old movie (and subsequent TV series) "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"?
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 10:31 PM (E2cCq)
Won't you help?
Posted by: Sally Struthers at July 16, 2025 10:31 PM (dDmld)
"A widow's walk is a railed rooftop platform, often featuring an inner cupola or turret, commonly found on 19th-century North American coastal houses.
The term is believed to have originated from the wives of mariners who would watch for their husbands' return from the sea, often in vain, as the ocean claimed many lives.
In some coastal communities, these platforms were also called captain’s walks, as they were used by ship owners and captains to search the horizon for ships arriving in port."
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 10:33 PM (E2cCq)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 16, 2025 10:33 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at July 16, 2025 10:33 PM (W1w2y)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2025 10:30 PM (BI5O2)
I wouldn't be surprised if those asshoes changed it recently.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 10:33 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Idaho requires winners to sign a release, authorizing the use of "winner's likeness for promotional purposes" or something like that... No rule says you can't wear heavy makeup and a wig for the photo-shoots LOL
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2025 10:34 PM (rdVOm)
Any results from your test the other day?
Posted by: javems at July 16, 2025 10:34 PM (8I4hW)
Won't you help?
Posted by: Sally Struthers
* daintily wipes her mouth with her napkin *
* takes another monstrous bite *
* from a BBQed giraffe haunch *
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 16, 2025 10:34 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 10:34 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 10:35 PM (77rzZ)
We don’t do cape cod bs.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 10:31 PM (mT+6a)
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Cape Cod. Woof. Topsiders. G&Ts. Planned Parenthood Republicans. Upper-class adultery.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 10:35 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 10:35 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Braenyard
I saw Hubbard in Fredericksburg, TX a couple of years ago. If I saw him at an intersection I would be prone to giving him a few bucks so he could go buy some 1 oz Fireballs at a gas station store. He son was dishing out some very fine lead guitar. What I didn't expect is boy spawn appeared to be, umm, rather gender fluid as all the cool Communists like to say. Great set though.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 10:35 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 10:36 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 16, 2025 10:28 PM (dWhQJ)
I just experienced the exact opposite today. We are making room for a new hire, and my boss asked me if I wanted the space with the window. I have been here for six months. Just that he asked was amazingly cool. Wife told me to take it. Sunlight is scarce in western Idaho in the winter.
My final few years at my previous job were bleak and lame. I love my new employers, and I have learned a ton of cool stuff. They keep making me do stuff.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 16, 2025 10:36 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2025 10:36 PM (BI5O2)
Coincided with the elaborate rebranding from Minneapolis to Minnesota Star Tribune too. Local creative agencies and font designers were well compensated for their work.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 16, 2025 10:37 PM (xSYff)
Won't you help?
Posted by: Sally Struthers
Only if you agree to stop snacking on them when nobody's looking.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 10:37 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2025 10:27 PM (cYBz/)
You kind of have to have that, to prevent shenanigans where prize winners are friends and family of the lotto staff.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 10:38 PM (gXbsA)
Posted by: Josephine The Plumber at July 16, 2025 10:38 PM (G5+As)
Coincided with the elaborate rebranding from Minneapolis to Minnesota Star Tribune too. Local creative agencies and font designers were well compensated for their work.
Posted by: Walter Freeman
Please tell me that the new design includes an etching of the perpetually confused and dazed Gubner Timpon in the masthead. Lie if you must.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 16, 2025 10:39 PM (xG4kz)
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That's clever industrial design.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2025 10:39 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis
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I want Han Solo's blaster.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2025 10:40 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 16, 2025 10:40 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 16, 2025 10:36 PM
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Outstanding!
Posted by: TRex likes cool stuff at July 16, 2025 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
For those who missed it, during his last week of work Lileks was at his house, next to his running car, when a yoot of unspecified ethnicity ran up, jumped in the car, and drove off with it. Lileks got slightly banged up while trying to stop him.
Surprisingly, the car was later recovered, almost undamaged.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 16, 2025 10:41 PM (dWhQJ)
Given who runs that state today, those fossiles are doomed to the same fate as the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2025 10:42 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Struggling Food Bank at July 16, 2025 10:42 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: javems at July 16, 2025 10:34 PM (8I4hW)
Cardiologist says results of cardiac perfusion scan and echocardiogram are "inconclusive". No sign of anything immediately life-threatening. They are going to book me for an angiogram, and I am going in Friday to get a Holter monitor glommed onto me to wear for 48 hours.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 10:42 PM (gXbsA)
Won't you help?
Posted by: Sally Struthers
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Only if you agree to stop snacking on them when nobody's looking.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 10:37 PM (NXz8h)
Gotta stop readin' the comments when I take a swallow of iced coffee. Barely kept that last sip in my mouth and not on the keyboard.
Posted by: RickZ at July 16, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2025 10:40 PM
***
Sold for $1m at auction in 2022.
Posted by: TRex - who shot first? at July 16, 2025 10:43 PM (IQ6Gq)
... during his last week of work Lileks was at his house, next to his running car, ...
Was his car doing laps or practicing sprints?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 16, 2025 10:43 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2025 10:46 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Unless you were Paul Allen, former Microsoft co-founder, who not only was non-stop collector of Sci-Fi movie memorabilia, but also bought Seattle's Cinerama theater so he could show his stuff off. Before he passed on he went through the Cinerama from top to bottom. The result was it was a mind blow to catch the annual Cinerama film festival as it was one of two theaters on the West Coast that had the screen and projectors to show them as intended. Seeing Elizabeth Taylor as a 20ft tall Cleopatra was something to behold.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 10:46 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2025 10:34 PM (rdVOm)
Show up in blackface and do a Butterfly McQueen impression. "I don't know nothing bout winning no lottery!"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 16, 2025 10:46 PM (dWhQJ)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at July 16, 2025 10:46 PM (ha1wR)
Also clear fields of fire with good defilade. And plenty of Claymores.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 16, 2025 10:47 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 10:49 PM (NXz8h)
We should acknowledge the recent Pickelsburgh festivities. Last weekend's events marked the 10th anniversary! Did anyone attend?
Daughter was there with her boyfriend.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 16, 2025 10:49 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2025 10:50 PM (XeU6L)
Life size pod.
And a Star Trek TOS conference room table.
Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 10:50 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 10:01 PM (0eaVi)
No loess, really.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 10:51 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2025 10:51 PM (BI5O2)
Was his car doing laps or practicing sprints?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
Running car: the Fred Flintstone model?
Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2025 10:52 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
That is the only reason to have a job. That and all the office supplies you can steal.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 10:52 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: OTR FAN at July 16, 2025 10:53 PM (MaHge)
Life size pod.
And a Star Trek TOS conference room table.
Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 10:50 PM (fV+MH)
***
I'd get a new driver. And maybe a new sand wedge.
No. Screw that.
I'd buy a golf course, fill in the sand traps and throw my wedge into the river.
Fu*kin' sand traps.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2025 10:54 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 16, 2025 10:54 PM (71Ze6)
Also clear fields of fire with good defilade. And plenty of Claymores.
Posted by: Pug Mahon"
Watch out for the Graboids.
Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 10:54 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 16, 2025 10:55 PM (71Ze6)
Posted by: 15 Octane, Or So at July 16, 2025 10:56 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 10:54 PM (fV+MH)
And the a** blasters
Posted by: Joyenz at July 16, 2025 10:56 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 10:42 PM (gXbsA)
Well no news is hopefully good news. Angiograms aren't too bad a long as they keep you asleep. They woke me up to point out the blockages. It hurt. Did not appreciate that. That was in 2006. I had an echocardiogram yesterday and the Holter monitor is coming off tomorrow.
Posted by: javems at July 16, 2025 10:56 PM (8I4hW)
Watching the IERS data of the saga of Erf's rotation. It sped up pretty good the last few days, but has now slowed back down. While the excess length of day figure is a day behind, the DUT1 values look like it slowed down today, the 16th, to a smidge of microseconds longer than 24 hours, and will be a little longer tomorrow.
Then it's predicted to go another tear, peaking around the 22nd. And a final speed up tear around Aug. 5th.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 10:58 PM (w6EFb)
Fu*kin' sand traps.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2025 10:54 PM (W/lyH)
Replace the sand traps with boiling mud pits.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 10:58 PM (gXbsA)
Yeah it would be nice to win the Powerball in a few minutes.
Come on Miracle!
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 16, 2025 10:55 PM (71Ze6)
Mama needs a new pair of shoes!
And a dress to match.
Along with a hat to match.
And a house to match.
And a car to match the house.
And a vacation to match you.
You always want a matched set.
Posted by: RickZ at July 16, 2025 10:58 PM (gKDq2)
And then, with the large majority of the winnings, I'd bankroll a wave of high profile assassinations. Give the bastards something to sweat about.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2025 10:59 PM (BI5O2)
I think John Young holds the record for the lowest heart rate during space missions. When he blasted off to the Moon, his heart rate barely got above 70.
He did get a bit excited when landing the LM on the Moon, though. His heart rate got up to 90.
He was a cool customer.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 11:00 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I had an echocardiogram yesterday and the Holter monitor is coming off tomorrow.
Posted by: javems
I didn't even know I had a holter, much less that it needed monitoring.
Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2025 11:00 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 11:01 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 16, 2025 11:01 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Doof at July 16, 2025 11:01 PM (iXcUx)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2025 10:59 PM (BI5O2)
I would ask if you have a newsletter but don't think I want to be on that mailing list.
Posted by: RickZ at July 16, 2025 11:01 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2025 10:59 PM (BI5O2)
SAW for Ivy Leaguers. I like it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 16, 2025 11:02 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: mikeski
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See? Canadian healthcare is better.
Bacon is another issue.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2025 11:02 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 10:58 PM (gXbsA)
Hmmmm...
This idea has merit.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2025 11:03 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: mikeski
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See? Canadian healthcare is better.
Bacon is another issue.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2025 11:02 PM (XeU6L)
***
When we were dating, Mrs D wore a holter top. I monitored it quite closely.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2025 11:05 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Dark Litigator
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Beware, beware the Bight of the Benin, for few come out though many go in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2025 11:05 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 16, 2025 11:05 PM (CHHv1)
Imagine my surprise after watching a short documentary about it today and finding out that my memories of it were not inflated in the least. What the crew did to pull off that film was nothing short of a miracle and it still holds up perfectly today. Greatest racing film ever? YMWV, it deserves to be stand there with Ford v. Ferrari and F1.
The Documentary
https://youtu.be/8nX7rQR6L-Q
Full Film
https://youtu.be/r-VUWGF5Cpo
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 11:05 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 10:58 PM (gXbsA)"
That's Klingon Golf.
Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 11:05 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 11:07 PM (JvZF+)
Fu*kin' sand traps.
Posted by: Diogenes
I found an ingenious strategy to avoid sand traps. Hit is so far to the right that you miss the greens and fairways. Nobody builds sand traps in the woods! Make sure you have plenty of golf balls to employ this strategy.
Posted by: Puddleglum, golfin' in Amish Country at July 16, 2025 11:07 PM (uGaBv)
Posted by: Dark Litigator
I am pretty sure I once heard Al Sharpton claim that because of Trump's slavery operation that all the West African locals filled in the harbors using Chicom Belt and Road bulldozers. I was so moved I ending up crying.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 11:08 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2025 11:08 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 16, 2025 11:09 PM (ImXfC)
John Young, in a famous hot mike incident, told Charlie Duke he had the farts again while walking on the Moon. He also said "fucking", broadcast live, during that moon walking farts episode.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 11:09 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: P. Diddy at July 16, 2025 11:10 PM (NXz8h)
***
I read somewhere that there were multiple pairs made for different parts of the movie but most were lost. There is a pair at the Smithsonian and another pair was in a private collection.
Posted by: Megthered at July 16, 2025 11:10 PM (GOJbT)
Posted by: Truss The Science at July 16, 2025 11:11 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 10:42 PM (gXbsA)
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Hmmm. mm hmm.
/concernedly
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 11:11 PM (JvZF+)
From what you've said and his interactions here, you had a loving father. It's just so hard to think that you're talking about a regular here.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 16, 2025 11:11 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Puddleglum, golfin' in Amish Country at July 16, 2025 11:07 PM (uGaBv)
Won't work. I rarely slice. Usually hit straight and to the left. (outside-in swing). But get near the traps and my balls go rolling in the sand.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2025 11:11 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 11:12 PM (PhMTi)
Is the original set of the Star Trek bridge available? I'd buy that. I'd like to have the walls with the blinky things and the transporters and all that. Also, I'd like a communication device and a costume.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 11:12 PM (HL/Ld)
Aside from the log cabin part, really good advice.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2025 11:12 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Diogenes
Dude.
Salty balls>>>sandy balls.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 11:13 PM (PhMTi)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 11:13 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Doof at July 16, 2025 11:01 PM
***
Disco!! Good evening.
Any pickleball recently? Would fit the theme.
Posted by: TRex needs to restock pickles in Club ONT at July 16, 2025 11:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
A 19-year-old man was arrested over the weekend after throwing a Molotov cocktail, which failed to ignite, at the Dickinson County Republican Party office “to send a message against the corruption.”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2025 11:14 PM (wHp1L)
Brian Stelter@brianstelter
PBS and NPR stations are on the verge of losing the federal funding that has helped keep them on the air for decades. Here's what will happen if lawmakers zero out the $$$
...
If the Senate adopts the rescission bill, some big-city PBS and NPR outlets will launch fundraising campaigns immediately. Smaller stations will have a much harder time doing that.
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The Donks yesterday. The taxpayer money spent on public TV and radio is completely insignificant.
The Donks today. If public TV and radio funds are, millions will die!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 11:14 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2025 11:14 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 11:12 PM (HL/Ld)
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I had a set of walkie-talkies like communicators.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 11:15 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 11:12 PM (HL/Ld)
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You'd have to take George Takei too. It's like a package deal,
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2025 11:15 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Seed money for a Million Dollar Dead Pool.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 16, 2025 11:15 PM (/lPRQ)
No. Screw that.
I'd buy a golf course, fill in the sand traps and throw my wedge into the river.
Fu*kin' sand traps.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2025 10:54 PM (W/lyH)
While back I was getting ready to play the 17th hole at the club, a long par three with bunkers on three sides, when I saw a convoy of about a 20 or so carts headed down the 18th fairway.
Turns out they were part of a funeral. Guy wanted his ashes to be spread in the left hand trap, as that was where his tee shot always ended up anyway
Posted by: javems at July 16, 2025 11:15 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Now you're talking.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2025 11:16 PM (wHp1L)
I had a set of walkie-talkies like communicators.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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I know someone who had some of that stuff! Communicators (I think they were walkie-talkies) and a costume. She used to go to conventions and had a lot of fun.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 11:16 PM (HL/Ld)
Any pickleball recently? Would fit the theme.
Posted by: TRex needs to restock pickles in Club ONT at July 16, 2025 11:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
Played for 2 hours last night here in [undisclosed location].
I did expect at least a mention of pickleball in that pickle festival section. I am disappoint.
Posted by: Doof at July 16, 2025 11:16 PM (iXcUx)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at July 16, 2025 11:16 PM (a5rix)
I'd like a communication device and a costume.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Now you're talking.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Also a ray gun, come to think of it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 11:17 PM (HL/Ld)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2025 11:15 PM (dDmld)
Sorry, not interested in George's package.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 11:18 PM (0eaVi)
No AC/DC? WTF? Clearly the current Aussie PM is a homo and a Communist. He reminds of Tim Walz a lot.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 11:18 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 16, 2025 11:18 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at July 16, 2025 11:16 PM
***
You're welcome!
Posted by: TRex always up for a larf at July 16, 2025 11:19 PM (IQ6Gq)
https://toastourfriend.com/coop
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2025 11:19 PM (L5An7)
I guess if you can't win with quality, go with quantity.
The guy has mastered the art of tard-posting.
Posted by: Hard to Keep Up at July 16, 2025 11:19 PM (3cNdM)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2025 11:20 PM (wHp1L)
According to the Internet, most of the TOS sets and stuff were dismantled after it was cancelled. Only a few small items remain, and they are all in private hands, no telling what they'd sell for.
But there are some faithful recreations they've built, including one that has tours.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 11:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: TRex - hic at July 16, 2025 11:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: BigG at July 16, 2025 11:21 PM (9tuKL)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 11:20 PM (w6EFb)
Somewhere in upstate NY, I believe. Shatner's been there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 11:22 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 11:13 PM (PhMTi)
Hostess Snow Balls>>Salty balls>>>sandy balls.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2025 11:22 PM (W/lyH)
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OK, there's one stupider thing I can think of to spend $$$ on than a stupid toy from Star Wars. And that's donating money to keep the soporific, bien pensant Marxist midwits of NPR shitting in high cotton after they can't fleece taxpayers anymore.
I suspect these fundraisers will be less than successful. People with money to piss away on unprofitable media companies are already pissing it away on outfits like the WaPo and CNN. Small as their audience may be, it's at least bigger than "nobody."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2025 11:23 PM (BI5O2)
How are the kitties?
Posted by: nurse ratched
I'm in my fallow commenting period. PG is lying on my legs while i'm lying on the couch. I might have a mild touch of the cove. Spicy indian food helped. The little bitch brought a large mouse or small rat in the other night. I opened the back door and since i have not heard any commotion since, i think it's gone. PG can be feisty/stubborn, but she is affectionate. Creamy, the big feral, had been coming around but he's off on one of his camping trips. I worry about the coyotes getting him. They need to be relocated. I follow the lost cat posts on ND. I'm glad that PG knows where she lives and will always return. She barely leaves the yard now and only to go to the neighbor's.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 16, 2025 11:23 PM (KAi1n)
But there are some faithful recreations they've built, including one that has tours.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Most of that stuff was fished out of the dumpster out back and made 'futuristic' with some neon paint and glitter. When the shoot was done they'd put it back where they found it. The dumpster.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 16, 2025 11:23 PM (/lPRQ)
I am but that link says it is private and won't open for me.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2025 11:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 11:01 PM (0eaVi)
Steak&Shake uses beef tallow for their fries and they are so guuuud!
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 16, 2025 11:23 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: lurk at July 16, 2025 11:23 PM (7IOVT)
>>No AC/DC? WTF? Clearly the current Aussie PM is a homo and a Communist. He reminds of Tim Walz a lot.
AC/DC always felt like an American band, they were more popular in the US than anywhere.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 11:24 PM (XV/Pl)
A 19-year-old man was arrested over the weekend after throwing a Molotov cocktail, which failed to ignite, at the Dickinson County Republican Party office “to send a message against the corruption.”
Posted by: Braenyard
I guess genderfluid isn't flammable.
Posted by: mikeski hums "message in a bottle" at July 16, 2025 11:24 PM (DgGvY)
You'd have to take George Takei too. It's like a package deal,
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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I would take Mr. Sulu, because he has nothing to do with George Takei. He would probably have a rather low opinion of George.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 11:25 PM (HL/Ld)
Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2025 11:00 PM (DgGvY)
It reads and records ones heart rate for 48 hours. Used to a contraption you had to carry around with you with about 8 or so leads stuck to your bod. Now it they are about the size of an apple watch and are stuck to your chest.
Posted by: javems at July 16, 2025 11:26 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 11:25 PM (HL/Ld)
I remember when those Star Trek "behind the scenes" type books came out in the 70s. The featured players seemed to have good lives after the show. Never read any complaints from them. I guess once the conventions started, they got so much attention that they thought they were more important to the show than they were.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 11:28 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: BigG at July 16, 2025 11:21 PM
***
Good evening! Hoisting a virtual cold Iron in your general direction.
Posted by: TRex - we are family at July 16, 2025 11:28 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 11:28 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Kumala - Queen of The Word Salad at July 16, 2025 11:29 PM (cYBz/)
Here's a photo gallery page of that Star Trek TOS set recreation tour:
https://tinyurl.com/yoocnvpt
It's in Ticonderoga, NY.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 11:29 PM (w6EFb)
During the filming of "A Hard Day's Night", the cute cap that Ringo wore when he was going "AWOL"caught his fancy and he wanted to wear it "home" at the end of the days filming. Studio said-Nope!
Posted by: Best Boy at July 16, 2025 11:29 PM (G5+As)
The video had scenes, I'm presuming, from the Twister remake? Been close to several whirlwinds, including the one in Tulsa that confirmed for me that it sounds like a train rolling over your house. Lots of stories from that wild night.
My favorite, though, was shortly after we moved back to Oklahoma three decades ago, when a small dust devil was slowly going down the drive, and our 9 year old son got right in the middle of it, grinning and spinning.
Posted by: mindful webworker - green sky means trouble at July 16, 2025 11:30 PM (8zuD/)
I'm not wearing the halter.
You're having an episode.
I'm not and I'm not wearing the halter.
Well, you were having an episode when you were wearing it.
...dial tone
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2025 11:30 PM (wHp1L)
I think I remember that Dr. McCoy's little hand-held scanner thing for his medical tricorder was just a salt shaker painted up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 11:30 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 11:30 PM (mT+6a)
Don't kid yourself. I did a business trip to Perth and on the weekend I took a boat ride to Freemantle which is a beautiful oceanside community full of music and other artists.
We passed under a bridge overpass on the way down the river and the bank under the bridge there was a huge mural in tile of Bon Scott. They remember.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2025 11:32 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 16, 2025 11:32 PM (144I4)
/iconic
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 11:32 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 11:28 PM (0eaVi)
IIRC, that's what happened with Marina Sirtis and ST: TNG conventions. Apparently, Worf told her to shut it at one convention.
Just looked up an image of her and holeee crap! She's had so much work done she's no longer recognizable. Why do some women do that?
Posted by: RickZ at July 16, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: javems at July 16, 2025 11:26 PM (8I4hW)
The ones used here have 4 leads, I think, and they are small, have a loop so they can hang on your belt. Not much of an impediment to doing stuff.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 11:33 PM (Hyyh7)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 11:30 PM (w6EFb)
Desilu didn't have much money. Shows had to use whatever they could find.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 11:33 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 11:33 PM (Hyyh7)
about the size of an onion?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 11:35 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 11:29 PM (w6EFb)
If I ever get to upstate NY, I will pencil it in to my itinerary.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 11:35 PM (Hyyh7)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 11:35 PM (D7oie)
Yeah, but not as fashionable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2025 11:36 PM (Hyyh7)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 16, 2025 11:11 PM (KAi1n)
We miss our parents a lot. For me it is not the same watching rocket launches without Dad. It was something we did together.
Does anyone know if Ciampino be added to the Absent Friends list?
Posted by: Joyenz at July 16, 2025 11:37 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 16, 2025 11:37 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2025 11:38 PM (wHp1L)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 16, 2025 11:38 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 16, 2025 11:39 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 16, 2025 11:39 PM (j8z0M)
Have I said I H8 my co-workers lately?
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2025 11:40 PM (5clMv)
Posted by: RickZ at July 16, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2)
Vanity. Vanity. All is vanity someone said.
I don't know. Sirtis looked real good at one time. Maybe they just do too much?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 11:40 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Final Arbiter ( sorry, no reality left) at July 16, 2025 11:40 PM (1UudH)
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2025 11:41 PM (5clMv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 11:41 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 16, 2025 11:42 PM (KAi1n)
Yahoo Finance:
“After a hectic first half of the year, second quarter results from some of the country's biggest banks showed Tuesday that the US consumer largely managed to hold steady as market volatility and an uncertain wave of tariff-related sticker shock rippled through American households.”
Turns out nobody gives a fuck about tariffs except hyperventilating economists and “journalists”. Normies just kinda shrug and keep doing their thing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 16, 2025 11:42 PM (ImXfC)
Yes, I think selling the arms to Europe to then send to Ukraine is better than US just handing them a blank check for hookers and blow.
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 16, 2025 11:45 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 16, 2025 11:37 PM
I am certain it will happen
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2025 11:45 PM (5clMv)
There are maps of this I've seen in various places. I'll look. It's amazing what the coasts looked like.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 11:47 PM (w6EFb)
https://tinyurl.com/43b2fvy9
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 16, 2025 11:47 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Final Arbiter ( sorry, no reality left) at July 16, 2025 11:40
RI? Jack is that you?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 16, 2025 11:48 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: PabloD at July 16, 2025 11:48 PM (KSYMi)
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2025 11:45 PM (5clMv)
Thanks, I wasn't sure if I had to contact someone or not.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 16, 2025 11:49 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Home Depot Co-Founder Langone Flips On Trump, Calls Him ‘One Of Our Best Presidents’ ... ‘Turnaround’ On Views About Trump, Tariffs
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2025 11:49 PM (wHp1L)
Posted by: Toad-0 at July 16, 2025 11:52 PM (oBqJA)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2025 11:52 PM (viF8m)
Yes, I think selling the arms to Europe to then send to Ukraine is better than US just handing them a blank check for hookers and blow.
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It's time to wean our industrial complex and let Ukraine and Europe fight its own wars. Maybe getting their ass kicked will knock some sense into them.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2025 11:52 PM (wHp1L)
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2025 11:53 PM (5clMv)
I still say Minnesota is screwed.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 16, 2025 11:54 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Texican ette at July 16, 2025 11:54 PM (SNf74)
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2025 11:55 PM (5clMv)
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2025 11:53 PM (5clMv)
Thank you.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 16, 2025 11:57 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2025 11:58 PM (wHp1L)
Here's a 20,000 year ago map:
https://tinyurl.com/ynfa8ln4
Click on it and you can zoom in. Note the Persian Gulf didn't exist, and the Red sea was cut off, also the Mediterranean. Note how much bigger Florida was, as well as the whole east coast.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 12:03 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Toad-0 at July 17, 2025 12:04 AM (oBqJA)
Me: Well, one of them is funny.
Posted by: Texican ette
And the other is an Irishman.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at July 17, 2025 12:07 AM (NXz8h)
Note that Britain was joined to Europe, but a big ol' ice sheet covered most of it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 12:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at July 17, 2025 12:08 AM (NXz8h)
https://tinyurl.com/ys3shpaw
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2025 11:38 PM (wHp1L)
Flynn was in the Obama administration. Did he write a letter to Obama?
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 12:09 AM (VofaG)
8h House Speaker has demanded the DOJ release the Epstein files
5h It is now more likely that Epstein is still alive (3% chance) than it is that Jesus returns (2% chance)
3h House of Representatives to vote on forcing release of the Epstein Files
3h President Trump asks the FBI to investigate the “Jeffrey Epstein hoax” files
If it's a hoax why is Ghislaine in jail?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:10 AM (wHp1L)
This guy hosts a show where the officially top scoring "woman" is in fact a man.
This ass isn't worth the Trebekian shoes he's supposed to fill. But he purged the Jewish woman and the guy that actually built the show up with Trebek so I guess its his lebensraum now?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2025 12:10 AM (t0Rmr)
Here's a photo gallery page of that Star Trek TOS set recreation tour:
https://tinyurl.com/yoocnvpt
It's in Ticonderoga, NY.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Awesome!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2025 12:11 AM (HL/Ld)
Posted by: polynikes
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So, you think we should not be concerned about the way Trump has handled the Epstein case?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:12 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:10 AM (wHp1L)
Because she recruited an under aged girl for Epstein.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 12:12 AM (VofaG)
It's not just the winning moment, but every moment you worked and sacrificed and prepared for it.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 17, 2025 12:13 AM (N1QBR)
Of course those same girls claim they were pimped out to others.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2025 12:14 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Oh hell no. They were a world band of the first order. This is from Donington, UK 1991. Seems to be that at least 3 fans there.
https://youtu.be/Af0P6XEkI7Y
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at July 17, 2025 12:15 AM (NXz8h)
Hey, horde
I just clicked the link at the Jay Guevara site to ask for the password. I'll let you know what I hear.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2025 12:15 AM (HL/Ld)
Especially interesting what folks would do with their lottery winnings!
You know, a million dollars don't go as far as it useta.
https://youtu.be/aynCgnbbgbM
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - but not a real fur coat, that's cruel at July 17, 2025 12:18 AM (8zuD/)
Hey, horde
I just clicked the link at the Jay Guevara site to ask for the password. I'll let you know what I hear.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Thank you.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at July 17, 2025 12:18 AM (NXz8h)
Only 65% of the money is paid out to winners, and then you have to pay taxes on it...
So in reality, only about 30-35% of what people pay for tickets, are actual winnings...
The rest goes to the Government.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2025 12:19 AM (mP0Kj)
Because she was found guilty of trafficking underage girls to Jeffrey Epstein. There was a trial with victims and evidence and everything. Even made the news.
This is seriously the dumbest thing "influencers" keep getting people to say. Read the trial transcripts.
Maxwell was convicted of trafficking underage girls to Jeffrey Epstein. Nobody else. That is a crime. That's why she is in prison. She didn't produce any evidence at her trial that anyone else was involved and hasn't since. Are there others, maybe. But there is no evidence of it.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 12:19 AM (viF8m)
Here's a 20,000 year ago map:
https://tinyurl.com/ynfa8ln4
Click on it and you can zoom in. Note the Persian Gulf didn't exist, and the Red sea was cut off, also the Mediterranean. Note how much bigger Florida was, as well as the whole east coast.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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It looks as if everything was covered with ice.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:20 AM (wHp1L)
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But it was a hoax. If it was a hoax, as the president said, then none of it is true. That's what a hoax is.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:21 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 17, 2025 12:22 AM (KAi1n)
Maxwell was convicted of trafficking underage girls to Jeffrey Epstein. Nobody else. That is a crime. That's why she is in prison. She didn't produce any evidence at her trial that anyone else was involved and hasn't since. Are there others, maybe. But there is no evidence of it.
To be clear it would not be in her interest to do so. Arguing that she pimped kids to Epstein AND Bill Clinton, for example, doesn't help her legal case.
And there is plenty of evidence - some of the girls have come forward with abusers outside of Epstein and we have the flight logs.
Also of note - no one running the island has been arrested. Even if Maxwell and Epstein were only flying in girls for themselves the people participating in that on the island were also engaged in crimes...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2025 12:23 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Oh hell no. They were a world band of the first order. This is from Donington, UK 1991. Seems to be that at least 3 fans there.
https://youtu.be/Af0P6XEkI7Y
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
Spain 1996
https://youtu.be/rov5qTvTNO8
Argentina in 2009
https://youtu.be/n_GFN3a0yj0
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at July 17, 2025 12:24 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 17, 2025 12:25 AM (cfm/A)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 12:08 AM (w6EFb
The map shows a few of the huge lakes in the interior western states. At one time the Missouri River flowed to Hudson's bay before the ice sheets forced it south.
Posted by: Beartooth at July 17, 2025 12:25 AM (8wKVG)
Posted by: scampydog at July 17, 2025 12:26 AM (lJQsg)
Also of note - no one running the island has been arrested. Even if Maxwell and Epstein were only flying in girls for themselves the people participating in that on the island were also engaged in crimes...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2025 12:23 AM (t0Rmr)
I believe the statute of limitations has been exceeded for most of those crimes. About all that could be done is to name and shame the Johns and Janes that bought the merchandise.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2025 12:27 AM (2WRlI)
And there is plenty of evidence - some of the girls have come forward with abusers outside of Epstein and we have the flight logs.
...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2025 12:23 AM (t0Rmr)
Yeah, and onf of Epstein's victims falsley accused Trump, among other innocent famous people. How does anyone ferret out the false and bogus accusations at this point?
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 17, 2025 12:27 AM (MwpR9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:12 AM (wHp1L)
I think you and others are taking a 20 year old case and trying to damage Trump. It’s been in the courts three different times with full trials. Lots of lies from the accusers and a lot of names given that had nothing to do with being Johns. But go ahead and join the Left and claim this is a Trump scandal.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 12:27 AM (VofaG)
Of course it would be. She's in federal prison.
That is exactly what happens when someone is obviously going down for a crime. Offer evidence that there was something bigger going on to lessen thier sentence.
She didn't then and hasn't since. That's just a fact.
Was there something bigger going on? Maybe. Seems propable. But so far there is ZERO evidence and without evidence there is no case. That's how it works.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 12:29 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Beartooth at July 17, 2025 12:25 AM (8wKVG)
I expect that would be due to the weight of the Laurentide ice sheet depressing the northern part of the continent so much that the N-S Continental divide fell south of the Missouri River.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2025 12:30 AM (2WRlI)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Our Dot Indian Overlords bitched about beef tallow in McD's fires and ruined them forever when it was removed. Now they are taking over the government.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at July 17, 2025 12:31 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 17, 2025 12:31 AM (sPQoU)
I found it, but only because I finally put "walking beans" in the search, which I stupidly hadn't done before.
It's called...duh duh duh...a bean hook. Wow, all this time and it's that simple.
So now that I found what it's called and where to buy them, I think I'll try to make my own.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 16, 2025 10:24 PM (144I4)
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I use.this tool to pull (not cut) weeds without bending:
Fiskars Deluxe 4 Claw with Eject Long-handle Tool Weeder 339950-1001 at Lowes.com https://share.google/fxxC4HY730qXqOHlj
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 17, 2025 12:31 AM (N1QBR)
I’m a heat whimp. Gah.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Right there with ya. Easier to grab a blanket (or a buddy!) than to remove your own outer layers...
Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2025 12:33 AM (rdVOm)
She didn't then and hasn't since. That's just a fact.
Was there something bigger going on? Maybe. Seems propable. But so far there is ZERO evidence and without evidence there is no case. That's how it works.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 12:29 AM (viF8m)
Well, she trafficked underage girls to Epstein, and he trafficked them to his "guests", no doubt after having had his way with them. Epstein was already dead when Ghislaine went to trial, so there was no value to her in trying to implicate him. And I am sure Epstein's runners had already told her to take the rap, and keep her mouth shut, or she would get what Epstein got.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2025 12:35 AM (2WRlI)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at July 17, 2025 12:35 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 12:37 AM (VofaG)
And note Indonesia and Thailand and all that. All joined together in a large subcontinent dubbed Sundaland. Australia was joined with Papa New Guinea.
You could almost walk to Australia via that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 12:38 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: polynikes
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We were promised everything. We were promised many things that have not come to fruition BUT Bondi made a production of the file release. All eyes were on Bondi and the release of the Epstein files and she blew it. The DOJ has continued to blow it.
Bongino's ready to leave because he doesn't want to lose credibility. Trump is handling this in the clumsiest manner since he was elected the first time.
If Bondi had Epstein alone it would be on the back burner with a half dozen other things. They brought this on themselves. If you had read Flynn's letter you would know that he is not trying to burn Trump but help him understand the mess and a way out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:40 AM (wHp1L)
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If you seriously think any of the regulars around here are only interested in a topic that has been of interest for longer than "President Trump" was a thing, you may want to take a step back and get some perspective.
The world does not revolve around him.
Posted by: Methos at July 17, 2025 12:40 AM (zLwRl)
🚨#BREAKING: A mass casualty incident has been declared after 15 people were injured and one person was killed by a lightning strike at an archery range.
📌#Jackson | #NewJersey
At this time a mass casualty incident has been declared in Jackson, New Jersey, after a lightning strike hit an outdoor archery range, leaving 15 people injured and killing one. The incident occurred during a scheduled youth archery event, drawing families and participants from across the area. Officials say the victims range in age from 7 to 61 years old. Emergency responders rushed to the scene and began immediate triage, with several victims transported to nearby hospitals in serious condition. Police confirmed that a 61-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 17, 2025 12:41 AM (2yoRf)
Lake Bonneville produced some biblical floods as well. The scale of those events is just beyond comprehension.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 12:43 AM (w6EFb)
We used one of these, when I was younger. Mom called it the Idiot Stick:
tinyurl.com/2pbux2zy (goes to Amz)
Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2025 12:43 AM (rdVOm)
Now, I set the alarm to catch the morning breeze.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:44 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: PlumDuff North America's Newest Cryptid at July 17, 2025 12:46 AM (0E2MO)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 17, 2025 12:49 AM (0nHVk)
Do you have proof of that? I don't dispute it happened but if you want justice show the proof.
It's not enough to know stuff, in the US we require proof to go to trial. So where's the proof and show names.
Do you really thing Kash and Bongino are lying when they say they have none?
Do you think Trump, after his DOJ has been taking down child predators by the dozens and after he offered to testify against Epstein 20 years ago in FL is now covering fior him for some reason nobody can explain is lying?
This isn't Canada or some 3rd world country. We convict people on facts. Kash, Bongino, Bondi and Trump all say there is no evidence after 4 years of a corrupt Biden administation. Does anyone really believe they are all lying?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 12:49 AM (viF8m)
tinyurl.com/2pbux2zy (goes to Amz)
Posted by: JQ
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I call it the back breaker.
I'm looking for a disc to pull behind the garden tractor to wedge and cut/trim between the curb and yard.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:49 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 12:43 AM (w6EFb
Glacial lake Great Falls in Montana was a huge lake that ran along of the southern edge of the ice sheets.
Posted by: Beartooth at July 17, 2025 12:49 AM (8wKVG)
Oh yes, the "idiot box" was what my parents & grandparents called the tv. They were right!
Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
Mom passed in 2002-- she'd be absolutely and completely disgusted by "prime time" tv today.
Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2025 12:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Bongino's walking to save his integrity.
Virginia Giuffre is a proven liar, her testimony is invalid.
Trump says the whole thing is a hoax.
HOAX Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of HOAX is to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:53 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: andycanuck at July 17, 2025 12:56 AM (2yoRf)
Here's another sort of overview map of glacial maximum:
https://tinyurl.com/2x8vnlrp
The Sahara was dry then. Green Sahara happened sometime in between there and now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 12:57 AM (w6EFb)
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If you seriously think any of the regulars around here are only interested in a topic that has been of interest for longer than "President Trump" was a thing, you may want to take a step back and get some perspective.
The world does not revolve around him.
Posted by: Methos at July 17, 2025 12:40 AM (zLwRl)
I’m not the one that needs perspective. It’s not about Trump. It’s about President Trump and far more important issues he is trying to accomplish.
Joining the Left in trying to make this a scandal is the stupidest thing I’ve seen some on the Right do.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 12:57 AM (VofaG)
Drone attacks have targeted oilfields, ...
The attacks came from areas controlled by Iran-backed militias.
Several oilfields operated by foreign companies in Kurdistan have halted production.
ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM INDUSTRY OF IRAQ'S KURDISTAN (APIKUR): MOST MEMBER COMPANIES HALT PRODUCTION
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:58 AM (wHp1L)
The Epstein story stinks.
But there is probably more to Trump's latest than meets the eye because there ALWAYS IS.
Like I said, if Trump really wanted the story defused, he could do it. He knows how to defuse, and he knows how to roil. He threw gas on it today. If people want to believe that's accidental or that for some crazy inexplicable reason, Trump is totally out of control, then more fool them.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 12:59 AM (E0p3T)
He did get a bit excited when landing the LM on the Moon, though. His heart rate got up to 90.
He was a cool customer.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 11:00 PM (w6EFb)
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It is amazing that they astronauts be that cool (especially Gayle King). Tom Wolfe wrote about the First Seven, and he described Gordo Cooper as being particularly cool under pressure. All these guys were amazing
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 17, 2025 12:59 AM (N1QBR)
Suck more dicks, dickhead that lives in a country that locks the bank accounts of truckers who protest.
Who do you think knows more about what happened you do dumb fuck, you who spends his entire life copying tweets or someone who has actually seem the evidence and has delivered for a country you sad fuck don't even live in?
Idiot.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:00 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 17, 2025 01:00 AM (KAi1n)
Girl's got to know her limitations. Heat + age + heavy physical labor = no bueno.
Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2025 01:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2025 01:01 AM (A2uPQ)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 17, 2025 01:02 AM (KAi1n)
JackStraw
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Let those who weren't Yuge Luxurious Romney 4 Ever Supporters cast the first stone.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:02 AM (E0p3T)
Last straight white male at the place (besides the owner probably). Also, he wrote in normal English and whoever still reads the paper couldn't understand him.
Posted by: azjaeger at July 17, 2025 01:02 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 12:58 AM (wHp1L)
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I hear all of our military branches are working hard on solutions to the threat of drones -- here on US soil.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 17, 2025 01:02 AM (N1QBR)
Posted by: polynikes
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It's not the left. The hardest critics were/are his most ardent supporters.
He's digging a hole. This is his first and he's doing a hell of a job.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 01:02 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 17, 2025 01:02 AM (KAi1n)
I that was gordo cooper
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 17, 2025 01:03 AM (N1QBR)
Get back to me when you cunts elect someone who pardons the truck drivers your fascist government does the same.
cunt
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:03 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:02 AM (E0p3T)
Did you vote for Obama?
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 01:03 AM (VofaG)
Tariffs ended Trump with the Right
Iran ended Trump with the Right
The BBB ended Trump with the Right.
Epstein is about to end Trump with the Right.
According to the media and the hysterical, the Right is done with Trump over something brand new about once every two weeks. It's getting to be so much like an op it's hard to see it any other way.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:05 AM (E0p3T)
He's digging a hole. This is his first and he's doing a hell of a job.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 01:02 AM (wHp1L)
You’re clueless.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 01:06 AM (VofaG)
Green Sahara started about ~14,500 ya, and ended maybe 6000 ya.
Milankovitch cycles explain most of that, but there has to be some feedback mechanism that makes it happen very quickly, otherwise it would be too slow a change. It appears to snap back and forth.
IIRC, Green Sahara happens when perihelion occurs during Northern hemisphere summer. That is, earth is closest to the sun when the north pole is tilted toward the sun. As it is now, perihelion occurs in winter, around Jan. 4 give or take a day or two.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 01:06 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 17, 2025 01:06 AM (MwpR9)
I wonder what evidence of human civlization is buried under the seafloor under 100' of water.
Posted by: Dark Litigator
Maybe Alien civilization!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 01:07 AM (63Dwl)
What are you going to change your name to next?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:09 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at July
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Forcing the issue by causing others to apply the force?
Whatever, you logic is plausible.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 01:10 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 12:59 AM (E0p3T)
I think, perhaps, Trump's wants to use this opportunity to sever ties with the Infowars wing of the coalition. Kinda like what Buckley and Reagan did with the John Birch society.
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 17, 2025 01:10 AM (MwpR9)
You’re clueless.
Posted by: polynikes
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It's statements like this that move the conversation forward.
Continue please.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 01:11 AM (wHp1L)
It's not enough to know stuff, in the US we require proof to go to trial. So where's the proof and show names.
Do you really thing Kash and Bongino are lying when they say they have none?
Do you think Trump, after his DOJ has been taking down child predators by the dozens and after he offered to testify against Epstein 20 years ago in FL is now covering fior him for some reason nobody can explain is lying?
This isn't Canada or some 3rd world country. We convict people on facts. Kash, Bongino, Bondi and Trump all say there is no evidence after 4 years of a corrupt Biden administation. Does anyone really believe they are all lying?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 12:49 AM (viF8m)
Crap, I am agreeing with you! It's pretty damned obvious what Maxwell and Epstein were doing, but being able to prove that in a court of law, at this late date, with the major principal dead? Fuggedaboudit. And, yes, I am sure that Biden's cronies/Deep State drones in the 3-letters destroyed as much evidence as they could.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2025 01:11 AM (2WRlI)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 01:03 AM (VofaG)
Did he run as a Republican that year?
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:12 AM (E0p3T)
There was a period peaking about 8000 ya known as the Holocene Climate optimum. It was warmer then than now.
The Global Warmunists, with their hockey sticks try to make us now warmer than that, as part of the alarmism. It was not, and they're lying and they know they're lying.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 01:12 AM (w6EFb)
Continue please.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 01:11 AM (wHp1L)
Statements that say it’s not the Left also pushing this are clueless and doesn’t deserve anymore conversation.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 01:15 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 17, 2025 01:15 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:09 AM (viF8m)
Probably Michelle Fields. You keep inexplicably accusing me of being a nic changer but I think even polynikes knows that I've had this one since around 2017.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:15 AM (E0p3T)
Whatever, you logic is plausible.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 01:10 AM (wHp1L)
Depends who he wants to apply the pressure to.
Certainly getting a country's worth of Democrats screaming about Epstein would be *something* after all this time, no?
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:18 AM (E0p3T)
Girl's got to know her limitations. Heat + age + heavy physical labor = no bueno.
Posted by: JQ
I am right there with you. I once thought nothing of climbing a 30' ladder to strip, prime, and paint my house, build rock walls and fences. I am 71 and I still take a run a this stuff in the NM heat, it kicks my ass every time now. Chaps my ass but I hire people now for these things. I am fortunate my retirement money allows me this luxury. Being honest, I would rather go to the pub these days.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 01:19 AM (NXz8h)
John Young and Charlie Duke were two cool cats as well. When they are driving the lunar rover, you half expect the conversation to go like this
“Charlie, we got any beer left in the cooler?”
“I don’t know, John, let me check. You been hittin’ ‘em pretty hard”
Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2025 01:21 AM (A2uPQ)
I’m a little younger than you but that’s my philosophy now also.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 01:22 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 17, 2025 01:10 AM (MwpR9)
I don't think so. Trump knows who got him here and he knows the only way forward is to put these lizard commies down for two generations.
He is about bringing people in, and at the moment, it seems *everyone* is coming together to demand answers about Epstein.
If Trump was "attacking his base" over abortion or the border, that would be one thing. But he's not. He's busy trying to defund PP, restrict abortion, and close the border. Something else is going on.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:22 AM (E0p3T)
Of course it is. But the retards who claim to be on our side keep pretending that if Trump keeps pushing this somehow he can get a DC court, the one that has been so good to him, to pretend the law doesn't exist even if the evidence still exists which it likely doesn't, can convict people we don't even know exist.
Super.
Meanwhile, those who claim they care about the children ignore that Trump and Bondi are arresting child predators by the truckload every single day because they aren't named Epstein. But those kids don't matter cause there's no virtue signalling invovled.
Epstein is dead. Maxwell is in prison. Life isn't fair and sometimes bad people get away.
And that's the turth.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:22 AM (viF8m)
What name are you going to change to when you get butt hurt tomorrow?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:23 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:22 AM (viF8m)
I thought you might have been drinking tonight 😀
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 01:24 AM (VofaG)
Tariffs ended Trump with the Right
Iran ended Trump with the Right
The BBB ended Trump with the Right.
Epstein is about to end Trump with the Right.
According to the media and the hysterical, the Right is done with Trump over something brand new about once every two weeks. It's getting to be so much like an op it's hard to see it any other way.
Posted by: ...
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The Right doesn't care if Trump is on the flight manifest.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 01:24 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 17, 2025 01:25 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2025 01:27 AM (A2uPQ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 12:38 AM (w6EFb)
That’s when a walk about was a walk about!
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 17, 2025 01:28 AM (vC80E)
And that's the turth.
Posted by: JackStraw
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And your argument is full of non sequiturs.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 01:28 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:29 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:23 AM (viF8m)
I beg you - announce tomorrow to the whole forum that you believe *I'm* a "nic changer". Me. You can even put my "current" handle in scare quotes when you do it.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:29 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2025 01:31 AM (rdVOm)
Everyone knows you are.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:31 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 01:33 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:31 AM (viF8m)
Can't wait to see the results. Make sure it's a nice busy thread when "everyone" is here.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:33 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 17, 2025 01:34 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:34 AM (viF8m)
Everyone knows you are.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:31 AM (viF8m)
I can't even figure out what the "nic changer" accusation is here. Ellipses has been a regular most, if not all, the time I've been here.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2025 01:35 AM (4/BuS)
———
JBS was correct, about everything. (Even Flouride in drinking water, apparently).
Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2025 01:35 AM (A2uPQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 01:35 AM (wHp1L)
See Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. Still very controversial, even considered woo-woo by a lot of them. If you're interested in this, cue up Randall Carlson's podcasts:
https://tinyurl.com/yshsro75
There is a bunch of stuff there. I've been listening to various of those for the past several weeks.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 01:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:39 AM (viF8m)
I can't imagine why you would think I care.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I think on about two weeks ago you deserted logic and pursued non equator and ad hominem attacks, you went off the deep end and have not recovered. It's out of character. Maybe the scotch?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 01:41 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2025 01:35 AM (4/BuS)
Thank you, me.
Jack you've leapt off the fucking deep end. Dial it back a few notches.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:42 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:43 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:44 AM (E0p3T)
https://youtu.be/aYDfwUJzYQg?si=FQip8TvyyRtb_Olb
Posted by: Wynona at July 17, 2025 01:44 AM (szqEY)
May I suggest an critical take on Randall Carlson just to balance things out.
What Randall Carlson Gets WRONG about Ancient Remains
https://youtu.be/WCpPg4FHP1Q
Randall Carlson’s RIDICULOUS Great Pyramid Hypothesis
https://youtu.be/VltvNUA9Mb0
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 01:44 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 17, 2025 01:45 AM (0nHVk)
The Younger Dryas Impact was probably a comet. A big comet that fragmented in several pieces, and produced a series of air burst impacts, maybe over several years (could be part of the Beta Taurid stream, which comes at us from the sun -- it would make it very hard to spot it coming at us).
Low density comet material (dirty snowballs, or maybe snowy dirtballs) don't make it to the ground. They make huge airbursts -- think Tsar Bombas going off, a shit ton of them, and don't produce craters.
There is evidence of this right here in SC, as well as Louisiana.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)
Cause some guy who calls himself bear balls?
Don't pick a fight you aren't willing to go all in.
What was your name before you decided to change it. I mean the last time.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:47 AM (viF8m)
There is evidence of this right here in SC, as well as Louisiana.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)
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Those airbursts are interesting. Velocity, pressure, heat.
Posted by: scampydog at July 17, 2025 01:51 AM (41CYW)
Don't pick a fight you aren't willing to go all in.
What was your name before you decided to change it. I mean the last time.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:47 AM (viF8m)
Make sure you bring this up with "everyone" tomorrow. That'll settle it. You already said so. Don't forget the scare quotes around my current nic.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:51 AM (E0p3T)
I'm bringing it up with you right now. No scare quotes.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:52 AM (viF8m)
This is an unsettled are of research. Can't say myself if it is true or not. But it is interesting. An alternate perspective once again to balance out the discussion.
https://youtu.be/i0Nrq_3DCl0
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 01:53 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:52 AM (viF8m)
No you already said "everyone" knows. So let me find out what it is that everyone knows. Together.
It's a date.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:55 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Nic Changer, Bartender at July 17, 2025 01:57 AM (6nQni)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 02:01 AM (viF8m)
I was looking for a map I remember showing what the impact track was. North America likely got the brunt of it. I think it was track going NW to SE and going out in the Atlantic. Imagine a series of these thing, fragments airbursting with moocho MTs of blast all across the United States.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 02:02 AM (w6EFb)
Y'all have a good one.
Posted by: whig's phone at July 17, 2025 02:11 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 02:12 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 02:02 AM (w6EFb)
I believe the Carolina Bays are considered by some to be evidence of comet impacts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2025 02:12 AM (2WRlI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2025 02:15 AM (2WRlI)
Bondi should resign, she knows she fucked this whole thing up. Trump isn't helping himself by excommunicating supporters who want answers. He's obviously trying to lose the mid terms, he just told half his supporters to FO.
Posted by: TC at July 17, 2025 02:18 AM (szqEY)
Atta boy.
Was it Fred Thompson or Rick Perry?
Don't be embarassed. Which one of those retards?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 02:21 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Arbalest at July 17, 2025 02:41 AM (FlRtG)
Don't be embarassed. Which one of those retards?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 02:21 AM (viF8m)
Romney. Thompson was a walking sleeping pill. Perry was a dope. There was no one. I just wasn't as enthusiastic as you. If you go back to my initial comment in 332 you'll see it didn't warrant much back beyond a giggle or a mea culpa. But you were hot at andy so I get it.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 02:42 AM (E0p3T)
....
Posted by: TC at July 17, 2025 02:18 AM (szqEY)
No, she was refering to the case files, which she adminted in the same breath she had not yet had a chance to review. Her exact words were "it's sitting on my desk right now for review". Further, when asked a followup if she'd seen anything that would make her say "O, my gosh!" she responded "Not yet."
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 17, 2025 02:48 AM (MwpR9)
Yes I think I've been here before.
Used to do em on Fridays.
Back in the days of yore.
Everybody switched their nics
Went after friends like total pricks.
Why is it don't we do it now?
Read upthread, they should take a bow.
Out.
Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2025 02:54 AM (lPvx2)
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2
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Well, Jack's before 332 is gone. No telling what will be gone tomorrow. This place will look like Mary Poppins.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 02:59 AM (wHp1L)
Then shut fuck up. You don't get claim moral superiority by doing nothing.
My candidate at least won the nomination. He sucked but you're a liare if you preted you didn't suppor another candidate who was worsre and then changed your nic. Pussies like you just pretend there was a better way if we did nothing and that was somehow virtuous enought to change your name. You're now hero.
Fuck you.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 03:00 AM (viF8m)
No, she was refering to the case files, which she adminted in the same breath she had not yet had a chance to review. Her exact words were "it's sitting on my desk right now for review". Further, when asked a followup if she'd seen anything that would make her say "O, my gosh!" she responded "Not yet."
Posted by: Serious Cat
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Depends on whether you believe what you witnessed or
what they tell you you witnessed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 03:02 AM (wHp1L)
My candidate at least won the nomination. He sucked but you're a liare if you preted you didn't suppor another candidate who was worsre and then changed your nic. Pussies like you just pretend there was a better way if we did nothing and that was somehow virtuous enought to change your name. You're now hero.
Fuck you.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 03:00 AM (viF8m)
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Such eloquence. Please, more.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 03:05 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2025 03:06 AM (5clMv)
Dooby doo, down down
Comey, Comey down
Dooby doo, down down
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https://tinyurl.com/25anzz5h
Still, the music is too slow for me. Faster! Faster!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2025 03:07 AM (Ti0Hb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 03:08 AM (j8z0M)
Remember, Jack - it's "..."
The guy "everyone" knows just hops from handle to handle.
Don't forget the scare quotes when you make your big announcement.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 03:09 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2025 03:09 AM (Ti0Hb)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2025 03:13 AM (5clMv)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2025 03:13 AM (5clMv)
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https://x.com/AKearthquake
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2025 03:15 AM (Ti0Hb)
It gets old.
And whomever Jack has a bug up his butt about, don't rise to his occasion. This is a forum for adults. I feel for all of you. I pray for all of you. I'm not going to be run off by bad behavior. It isn't your blog, and it isn't my blog, but it is a sanctuary for some folks, so please respect that.
Or don't.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2025 03:19 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 17, 2025 03:20 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 03:20 AM (j8z0M)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2025 03:21 AM (5clMv)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2025 03:13 AM (5clMv)
Not a big deal. Lots of aftershocks near Sand Point, which is pretty much nowhere in the Aleutians. Most folks out there are used to it, and anything that could be destroyed has been years ago.
No tsunami, so no long term issues.
All is well.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2025 03:21 AM (1Gsou)
People may not realize it, but that earthquake was over 900 miles from Anchorage. It didn't threaten much of anyone. I certainly didn't feel it, but it was probably fun in Sand Point.
Alaska is a very big place.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2025 03:23 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 03:20 AM (j8z0M)
They blew up an H-bomb on Amchitka back in the day. No polar bears that far south. The Aleutian Islands are a chain of volcanoes. They rock and roll all the time.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2025 03:25 AM (1Gsou)
Got a early jump off work so going to try and get a hour more sleep.
Have a great night everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2025 03:25 AM (5clMv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 03:27 AM (j8z0M)
Posted by: Boss Moss
I'm going to take a guess that you are thinking of the 1964 9.3 Good Friday earthquake whose epicenter was near Anchorage. Caused all kinds of damage with 139 people losing their lives.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 03:27 AM (NXz8h)
Or don't.
Posted by: tcn in AK
We are guests. Except for you, your almost Russian, it is suspicious.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 03:33 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 03:34 AM (j8z0M)
In addition to the 66th Marine Brigade, further elements of the Air Force, Marine Corps, Military Police, as well as the airport security service and the Taipei Police took part in the exercise at Songshan Airport
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 03:38 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 03:41 AM (j8z0M)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 03:42 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Here in the southwest, primarily New Mexico and Arizona, the rodents around here carry the plague and hantavirus. The good news is you almost have to be living with them to come down these diseases. When the plague pops up it makes for a killer headline and whoever has it, sucks to be them.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 03:46 AM (NXz8h)
We also provide fast-attack boats, including both “assault boats” and rigid-hulled inflatable boats, to be constructed by the American-owned company, ReconCraft. https://reconcraft.com/
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 03:55 AM (wHp1L)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 03:41 AM (j8z0M)
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Proper dental hygiene is a life saver!
What's that?
Plague?
Not... plaque?
.
.
.
.
.
NEVERMIND!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2025 04:17 AM (Ti0Hb)
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